2023 Student Research Grants and Awards
We are very pleased to announce the winners of our 2023 Student Research Grants and Awards. These winners were selected out of a pool of impressive applicants. The future of pediatric psychology is very bright!
Lizette Peterson-Homer Injury Prevention Grant Award
Francesca Penner
- Project Title: Preventing Abusive Head Trauma in Infancy: Predictive Utility of Prenatal Emotion Regulation
- Institution: Yale University Child Study Center
Drotar-Crawford Postdoctoral Fellowship Research Grant in Pediatric Psychology
Kemar Prussein
- Project Title: Transition Readiness, Outcomes, and Discrimination in Sickle Cell Disease
- Mentor: Lisa Schwartz, PhD
- Institution: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Emily Moscato
- Project Title: Community-Engaged Transcreation of a Usable Digital Health Parenting Intervention for Caregivers of Young Childhood Cancer Survivors
- Mentor: Cynthia Gerhardt, PhD
- Institution: Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Marion and Donald Routh Student Research Grant
Natalie Koskela-Staples
- Project Title: Association between parent-child communication patterns and pediatric asthma outcomes: A mixed methods study
- Mentor: David Fedele, PhD
- Institution: The University of Florida
Rachel Fisher (runner up)
- Project Title: Parental Healthcare Advocacy in Families of Children with Cancer: A Mixed Methods Approach
- Mentor: Larry Mullins, PhD
- Institution: Oklahoma State University
Mary Jo Kupst Trainee Grant for Research in Resilience
Kara West
- Project: Youth and Family Functioning and Resilience Across the First Six-Months Post-Solid Organ Transplant
- Mentors: Debra Lefkowitz, PhD and Jill Plevinsky, PhD
- Institution: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Student Research Award
Hayoung Kim
- Paper Title: Understanding somatic symptoms associated with South Korean adolescent suicidal ideation, depression, and social anxiety
- Mentor: Scott Solberg, PhD
- Institution: Boston University