Past Lectures
| Month | Title | Speaker |
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| June 2024 | “Correlates of natural immunity to Chlamydia trachomatis female genital tract infections in a highly exposed human cohort” | Kacy Yount, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Pediatric Infectious Diseases |
| May 2024 | "Environmental impacts on pediatric kidney health" & "Progress in Research: Transition from PhD to Residency" | Anisha Gerber, MD Fellow, Pediatric Nephrology Maria Ansar, MD, PhD Resident, Pediatrics |
| April 2024 | “Developing a pipeline for the discovery of anti-enterovirus cross-reactive monoclonal antibodies” | Timothy Thoner, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Pediatric Infectious Diseases |
| March 2024 | “Centering Adolescents in the Provision of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare” | Bianca Allison, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine |
| February 2024 | "Cultivating health: Leveraging microbial ecology for women's health innovation" | Indriati Hood Pishchany, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| January 2024 | “Epigenetic modulation of the cancer antigen GD2 to improve immunotherapy in pediatric solid tumors” | Justin Sperlazza, MD, PhD Fellow, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology |
| December 2023 | "A Lung Three Pointer: Integrin Regulation of Branching, Cilia, and the Basement Membrane" | Erin J. Plosa, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Neonatology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| November 2023 | "Context-and Cell Type Specific Genetic Variation Shaping the Human Brain" | Jason Stein, PhD Associate Professor of Genetics |
| October 2023 | "Centering Anti-Racism and Cultural Wealth in Developmental Science: Ensuring Optimal Development and Human Dignity for Black Children" | Iheoma Iruka, PhD Professor of Public Policy |
| September 2023 | "Early life chemical exposures and children’s health: emerging toxicants and targets" | Jessie Buckley, PhD, MPH Associate Professor of Epidemiology |
| June 2023 | "From Risk to Resilience: Improving Mental Health Among Children and Families Exposed to Adversity" | Danielle Roubinov, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychiatry |
| May 2023 | "Environmental Health Disparities in Maternal and Child Health" | Stephanie Eick, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor of Environmental Health, Emory University |
| April 2023 | “Abnormal airway repair in chemical inhalation exposures” | Matthew McGraw, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Rochester |
| March 2023 | “Surprises from Modeling Childhood Lung Diseases” | Xin Sun, PhD Professor of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, UC San Diego |
| February 2023 | "Blurred lines: developing a framework to treat children with rare and ultra-rare disease at the intersection of clinical care and research" | Elizabeth Jalazo, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Genetics and Metabolism |
| January 2023 | "Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement in Primary Care (PriCARE): Supporting Parents and Children" | Samantha Schilling, MD, MSHP Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine |
| November 2022 | "Can we build respiratory resiliency through diet?" | Emily Brigham, MD, MS Assistant Professor, Respiratory Division, University of British Columbia |
| October 2022 | "Informing Post-Operative Clinical Practice For Children With Crohn’s Disease Using Real-World Data" | Matthew D. Egberg, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology |
| September 2022 | "Applications of Adeno-associated Virus Vector Mediated Gene Delivery in Pediatrics" | Chengwen Li, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology-Oncology |
| June 2022 | "A Bench to Bedside Approach to Necrotizing Enterocolitis" | Misty Good, MD, MS Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine |
| May 2022 | “Genetics and functional mechanisms of the SPTBN1 syndrome” | Damaris Lorenzo, PhD Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology |
| April 2022 | "SARS-CoV-2: Viral and Cell shedding Attenuated by an Allergic Inflammatory Mediator" | Camille Ehre, PhD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonology |
| March 2022 | CRI Grant Initiative Research Panel | Peyton Thompson, MD, MSCR Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases Zachary Willis, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases Emily Vander Schaaf, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine |
| February 2022 | "The Placental Origins of Positive Child Health Outcomes" | Hudson Santos, PhD, RN Associate Professor and the Beerstecher-Blackwell Distinguished Term Scholar, UNC School of Nursing |
| January 2022 | "Metabolic mechanisms in nutritional immunology" | Nancie J. MacIver, MD, PhD Division Chief, Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics |
| December 2021 | "Food allergy prevention: The rubber hits the road" | Corinne Keet, MD, PhD Vice Chair, Clinical and Translational Research, Department of Pediatrics Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy and Immunology |
| November 2021 | "Engaging stakeholders in decisions about hypospadias" | Katherine Chan, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Urology |
| October 2021 | "COVID-19 and IBD: What Have We Learned Over the Last Year? A New Paradigm for Rapid-Cycle Research During a Pandemic” | Michael Kappelman, MD, MPH Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology |
| September 2021 | "The master epigenetic repressor SMCHD1 and human congenital arhinia" | Natalie Shaw, MD, MMSc Lasker Clinical Research Scholar National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
| June 2021 | "Innovative Strategies to Improve Intrapartum-Related Mortality in Low- and Lower Middle-Income Countries" | Jackie Patterson, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine |
| May 2021 | "Developing and evaluating an adolescent-centred intervention to promote adolescents’ communication and engagement in diabetes clinic encounters” | Imelda Coyne, PhD Professor in Children’s Nursing and Co-Director of the Trinity Research in Childhood Center, Trinity College |
| April 2021 | “Early life origins of health disparities: the role of neighborhood environments” | Chantel Martin, PhD Assistant Professor of Epidemiology |
| March 2021 | "Approaching Research Through a DEI Lens" | E. Nate Thomas III, PhD Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion |
| February 2021 | "Identification and functional characterization of somatic variants in pediatric epilepsies" | Erin Heinzen, PharmD, PhD Associate Professor of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics |
| January 2021 | "Synergizing Translational and Clinical Research to Improve Asthma Management: The Intersection of Biology and Behavior" | Michelle Hernandez, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy and Immunology Allison Burbank, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy and Immunology |
| December 2020 | "The UNC Chlamydia Vaccine Initiative - It Takes A Village" "How Enterovirus D68 Drew a Physician-Scientist to UNC" | Toni Darville, MD Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology Matthew Vogt, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology |
| November 2020 | "Updates on COVID-19 Research in Pediatrics" | Stephanie Schwartz, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine Tracie Walker, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine Zachary Willis, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases Eveline Wu, MD, MSCR Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Rheumatology |
| October 2020 | "The impact of an asthma question prompt list intervention on adolescent involvement and outcomes" | Betsy Sleath, PhD Professor and Chair, Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy |
| September 2020 | "A push for early life vaccination to protect against HIV and SARS-CoV-2 infection" | Kristina De Paris, PhD Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology |
| August 2020 | "Accelerated aging in childhood and young adult cancer survivors" | Andrew Smitherman, MD, MS Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology-Oncology |
| June 2020 | "Mechanisms of Sexual Disparities in Cardiac Development and Disease" | Frank L. Conlon, PhD Professor of Biology and Genetics |
| May 2020 | "The Role of the Indoor Exposome in Food Allergy Development" | Timothy Moran, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology |
| March 2020 | "Using novel genetic approaches to study infectious diseases" | Mark Heise, PhD Professor of Genetics and Microbiology & Immunology |
| February 2020 | "Neutrophil Elastase and Macrophage Function in CF" | Judith A. Voynow, MD Edwin L. Kendig Jr. Professor of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU |
| February 2020 | "Unmasking the Face of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia" | Stephanie D. Davis, MD Chair, Department of Pediatrics Physician-in-Chief, N.C. Children’s Hospital Charles Everett and Katherine M. Brewer Professor of Pediatrics |
| January 2020 | "Insight into tumor-stroma interactions in medulloblastoma from scRNA-seq analysis" | Timothy R. Gershon, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Neurology |
| December 2019 | "Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure in Pregnancy in Association with Ultrasound and Delivery Measures of Fetal Growth" | Kelly K. Ferguson, PhD, MPH Investigator, Perinatal and Early Life Epidemiology Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
| November 2019 | "The Contemporary Crisis in Academic Journal Publishing -- We are All in This Together!" | Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, PhD Professor of Pediatrics |
| October 2019 | "Air Pollution Exposure Modeling and Non-Invasive Biomarker Analysis for Clinical Studies" | Mike Breen, PhD Research Physical Scientist, Environmental Protection Agency National Exposure Laboratory Meghan E. Rebuli, PhD Post-Doctorate Research Associate, Curriculum in Toxicology |
| October 2019 | "What is the Organ of Origin of Pediatric Sarcomatosis? Focus on a Rare Form of Pediatric Sarcomatosis" | Andrea Hayes-Jordan, MD Chief, Division of General Pediatric Surgery Professor of Surgery |
| September 2019 | "Rapid Precision Medicine for Infants in ICUs" | Stephen Kingsmore, MD, DSc President and CEO, Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine |
| June 2019 | "Acute Leukemia Genomics Across the Translational Spectrum" | Thomas Alexander, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology-Oncology |
| May 2019 | "Epigenetics, Neurodevelopment and Health of Children Born Extremely Preterm" | Michael O'Shea, MD, MPH Division Chief, Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine, and C. Richard Morris Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics Rebecca Fry, PhD Carol Remner Angle Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Strategic Initiatives, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering |
| April 2019 | “Building a Learning Health Care Culture: Lessons from Pediatric Oncology” | Steven Joffe, MD, MPH Founders Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania |
| March 2019 | "Intestinal Stem Cells: New Opportunities for Tissue Regeneration and Personalized Medicine Applications" | Scott Magness, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, Biomedical Engineering and Cell Biology & Physiology |
| February 2019 | "22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome in Children: Beyond Schizophrenia" | Stephen Hooper, PhD Associate Dean and Chair, Department of Allied Health Sciences; Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, Pediatrics, and Education |
| January 2019 | "MAPping the Future for Respiratory Research" | James S. Hagood, MD Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonology |
| November 2018 | "Toward a Molecular Understanding of NF-kB Related Autoinflammatory Diseases" | Eric P. Hanson, MD Head, Immunodeficiency and Inflammation Unit, National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease |
| October 2018 | "Kids Matter! Research to Action in Children’s Environmental Health" | This symposium was co-sponsored by the CRI and the Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility |
| September 2018 | "Cross-blood-brain-barrier Gene Delivery for Treating Neuropathic Lysosomal Storage Diseases" | Haiyan Fu, PhD Research Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Genetics and Metabolism |
| August 2018 | "The Building Blocks of Precision Oral Health in Early Childhood” | Kimon Divaris, DDS, PhD Associate Professor of Pediatric Dentistry, UNC School of Dentistry |
| June 2018 | "Sildenafil in Premature Infants" | Matthew Laughon, MD, MPH Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine |
| May 2018 | "Vaping: Perspectives of an Inhalation Toxicologist Who Is Also a Mother of Teenagers" | Ilona Jaspers, PhD Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology |
| April 2018 | "Imaging Infant Brain Development in Autism" | Joseph Piven, MD Thomas E. Castelloe Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology |
| March 2018 | "Dengue as a Pediatric Infectious Disease and the Current Status of Vaccine Development" | Aravinda de Silva, PhD, MPH Professor of Microbiology and Immunology |
| February 2018 | "Epigenomics as a Strategy to Explore Human Cancers" | Ian Davis, MD, PhD Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology- Oncology |
| January 2018 | "Treatment of Mucopolysaccharidoses: Current Status and Future Challenges" | Joseph Muenzer, MD, PhD Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Genetics and Metabolism |
| December 2017 | David Peden, MD, MS Division Chief, Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Director, Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology |
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| October 2017 | "A Career of Successful Collaboration" | Wesley Burks, MD Dean, UNC School of Medicine Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs, UNC-Chapel Hill Executive Director and Principal Investigator, UNC Food Allergy Initiative Curnen Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics |