Jun 5, 2023
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