The Leong Centre is pleased to support fourteen students from the Social Paediatrics Research Summer Studentship (SPReSS) and Paediatric Research and Clinical Summer (PeRCS) Programs at the University of Toronto. These students will spend the summer engaging in exciting research related to the field of social paediatrics.
Please join us in congratulating the following students!
Marium Kwan Project:COVID and early childhood development, school and health outcomes. TargetKids Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Birken
Amrit Brar Project:Cohort study of RFs, etiologies of neonatal hypoglycemia related posterior pathological brain injury Supervisor: Dr. Emily Tam
Eden Har-Gil Project: Canadian care structures and processes in Pediatric Rheumatology; access to care Supervisor: Dr. Deborah Levy
Aleah Kirsh Project: Characterization of phenotype and biomarker development of endemic arrythmias and CDMs Supervisor: Dr. Robert Hamilton
Winnie Yu Project: DI in children hospitalized with severe orbital infection Supervisor: Dr. Peter Gill
Jonathan Fortini Project: Clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalized children with acute respiratory infection Supervisors: Drs. Peter Gill and Shaun Morris
Muhammadhasan Nasser Project: Steroid treatment and outcome in hospitalized children with croup; LOS and other outcomes Supervisor: Dr. Sanjay Mahant
Grace Hu Project: Predicting clinical outcomes in optic neuritis using VEP and other visual metrics with AI Supervisor: Dr. Ann Yeh
Shadia Adekunte Project: AIS outcomes and lesion volume by neighborhood, to guide equitable allocation of resources to vulnerable population Supervisor: Dr. Nomazulu Dlamini
Meera Mehta Project: eGFR trajectory in adolescents w/ T1D related to SES, ethnicity; SDOH as RF for chronic disease Supervisor: Dr. Farid Mahmud
Natasha Richmond Project: Social media and parenting- needs and impacts for the adolescent parenting population Supervisor: Dr. Ashley Vandermorris
Serena Perera Project: Co-design MFP and determine referral pathways; student subpilot of NNFU clinic families Supervisor: Dr. Meta Van Den Heuvel
Siddhartha Sood Project: Economic impact of Epidermolysis Bullosa - identify sources of economic strain Supervisor: Dr. Irene Lara-Corrales
Chethana Ellewela Project: Outcomes for school age children born premature: the teachers' perspective Supervisor: Dr. Rudaina Banihani
