2023 SPReSS and PeRCS Programs

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