The CCTSI is pleased to announce the KL2 (K12) Research Scholar Awards. Awardees will receive up to three years of Mentored Career Development funding in clinical translational research. These positions are funded by the NIH/NCRR grant to the CCTSI and a few additional positions are *funded by Children's Hospital Colorado.
Awardee Name | Department | Start Date | End Date | Mentors |
Erin Englund, PhD | Radiology | 11/1/2021 | Current | Jane Reusch, MD and Alex Barker, PhD |
Jillian Cotter, MD, MSCS | Pediatrics/Hospital Medicine | 12/1/2021 | Current | Samuel Dominguez, MD, PhD and Lilliam Ambroggio, PhD |
Demetria McNeal, PhD (Special KL2 Supplement Award) | Physician and Patient Surveys about Peripheral Artery Disease: Perspectives on Disease Awareness, Treatment, and Communication in the Clinical Setting | 06/4/2021 | Current | Pamela Peterson, MD and Stacie Daugherty, MD |
Silvania da Silva Teixeira, PhD | Pediatrics/Nutrition Section, Division of Endocrinology, and Diabetes | 04/1/2021 | Current | Darleen Sandoval, PhD and Rebecca Scalzo, PhD |
Marisa Stahl, MD (Special KL2 Supplement Award) | Pediatrics/Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition | 7/22/2020 | Current | Joaquin Espinosa, PhD, Ron Sokol, MD, Edwin Liu, MD, and Jill Norris, PhD |
Wei Perng, PhD, MPH | Epidemiology | 2/1/2020 | 1/31/2023 | Dana Dabelea, MD, PhD and Deborah Glueck, PhD |
Bradley Haverkos, MD, MPH | Medicine/Hematology | 12/1/2019 | 11/30/2022 | Eduardo Davila, PhD and Craig Jordan, PhD |
Caroline Hall, MD, PhD | Pediatrics/Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition | 12/1/2019 | 11/30/2022 | Sean Colgan, PhD and Edwin de Zoeten, MD,PhD |
Anastacia Garcia, PhD | Pediatrics/Cardiology | 12/15/2019 | 8/31/2021 | Shelley Miyamoto, MD and Carmen Sucharov, PhD |
Michelle H. Leppert, MD | Neurology/Neurohospitalist-Stroke | 12/1/2019 | 2/28/2023 | P. Michael Ho, MD, PhD and Cathy Bradley, PhD |
Elizabeth Thomas, MD | Medicine/Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes | 1/1/2019 | 12/31/2021 | Marc Cornier, MD and Vicki Catenacci, MD |
Kimberley Bruce, PhD | Medicine/Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes | 11/1/2018 | 10/31/2021 | Robert Eckel, MD and Wendy Macklin, PhD |
Amy G. Feldman, MD MSCS | Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition | 11/1/2018 | 7/31/2019 | Ronald J. Sokol, MD and Allison Kempe, MD |
Vanessa Sherk, PhD | Medicine/Endocrinology, Metabolism & Diabetes | 12/1/2017 | 11/30/2020 | Paul MacLean, PhD and Philip Zeitler, MD, PhD |
Elizabeth Wellberg, PhD | Pathology | 12/1/2017 | 1/31/2020 | Paul MacLean, PhD and Peter Kabos, MD |
Elena Shagisultanova, MD, PhD | Medicine/Medical Oncology | 2/1/2017 | 7/31/2019 | Virginia Borges, MD and Peter Kabos, MD |
Yael Aschner, MD | Medicine/Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine | 12/1/2016 | 7/31/2019 | Gregory Downey, MD and Ellen Burnham, MD |
Nicholas G. Cost, M.D. | Department of Surgery, Divisions of Urology and Pediatric Urology | 12/1/2016 | 11/30/2019 | Duncan T. Wilcox, MD and Anna Malykhina, PhD |
James A. Feinstein, MD MPH | Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics | 12/1/2016 | 7/31/2017 | Allison Kempe, MD, MPH and Robert J. Valuck, PhD |
Mehdi Fini, MD | Department of Medicine/Pulmonary | 10/1/2014 | 9/30/2017 | Kurt Stenmark, MD and Richard Johnson, MD |
Brian Berman, MD | Department of Medicine/Neurology | 10/1/2014 | 9/30/2017 | Jason Tregellas, PhD and Maureen Leehey, MD |
Mark Jeong, MD | Department of Medicine/Cardiology | 10/1/2014 | 9/30/2017 | Peter Buttrick, MD and Timothy McKinsey, PhD |
Traci Lyons, PhD | Medicine/Medical Oncology | 2/1/2014 | 1/31/2017 | Pepper Schedin, PhD and Virgina Borges, MD, MMSc |
Todd Hankinson, MD, MBA | Pediatric Neurosurgery | 12/1/2013 | 11/30/2016 | Lia Gore, MD and Nicholas Foreman, MB, ChB |
Roberta Capp, MD, MHS | Emergency Medicine | 12/1/2013 | 7/30/2016 | David West, PhD and Adit Ginde, MD, MPH |
Emily DeBoer, MD | Medicine/Pediatric Pulmonary | 12/1/2013 | 11/30/2016 | Robin Deterding, MD and David Lynch, MD |
Amy Huebschmann, MD | General Internal Medicine | 10/1/2011 | 9/25/2014 | Judith G. Regensteiner, PhD and Andrea Dunn, PhD |
Shaodong Dai, PhD | Immunology | 10/1/2011 | 4/30/2014 | Andrew Fontenot, MD and John Kappler, PhD |
Magdalena Gorska, MD, PhD | Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 10/1/2011 | 9/30/2014 | Rafeul Alam, MD, PhD and Richard Martin, MD |
Sophie Fillon, PhD* | Pediatrics/Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition | 9/1/2010 | 8/31/2013 | Glenn T. Furuta, MD and Norman Pace, PhD |
Benzi Kluger, MD, MS | General Internal Medicine | 9/1/2010 | 8/31/2013 | Donald Rojas, PhD and Maureen Leehey, MD |
Katherine Lee, PhD* | Pediatrics/ Infectious Diseases | 9/1/2010 | 8/31/2013 | Myron Levin, MD and Wenbo Zhou, PhD |
David Nichols, MD | Pediatrics, Medicine, Pediatric Pulmonology | 9/1/2010 | 8/31/2013 | Carl White, MD and Jerry Nick, MD |
Karin Hoth, PhD | Psychosocial Medicine | 7/1/2009 | 6/30/2010 | Fred Wamboldt, MD and James Crapo, MD |
Timothy J. Bernard, MD, MPH* | Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Neurology | 1/1/2009 | 12/31/2011 | Marilyn Manco-Johnson, MD and Neil Goldenberg, MD, PhD |
Wei Tan, PhD* | Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics and the Center for Bioengineering | 1/1/2009 | 12/31/2011 | Robin Shandas, PhD and Kurt Stenmark, MD |
Adit A. Ginde, MD, MPH | Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine | 10/1/2008 | 9/30/2011 | E. Rand Sutherland, MD, MPH and Richard J. Martin, MD |
Katrina S. Maluf, PT, PhD | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation in the Division of Physical Therapy | 10/1/2008 | 7/31/2010 | Wendy Kohrt, PhD and Robert Spencer, PhD |
Shama Ahmad, PhD | Pediatrics, Pulmonary Division | 10/1/2008 | 9/30/2011 | Carl W. White, MD and Susan D. Reynolds, PhD |
Nichole E. Carlson, PhD | Biostatistics and Informatics | 10/1/2008 | 9/30/2011 | Wendy Kohrt, PhD and Gary Grunwald, PhD |