Research, Education & Innovation Week 2025

March 31, 2025

Empowering the Future in Pediatric Research and Innovation with Equity, Technology and a Global Reach

Poster session during REI Week 2024. — **REI Week 2025 will have poster sessions, lectures and workshops**405 participants submitted abstracts for this year's event.

Celebrating 15 years of scholarly achievements of our faculty, staff and trainees from March 31-April 4, 2025. REI Week is a cornerstone event showcasing the exceptional research, education, and innovation efforts at Children's National and across the broader academic and clinical communities. It serves as an inspiring platform to share knowledge, foster collaboration, and highlight groundbreaking work in pediatric healthcare.

REI Week began in 2000 as a Research Day in order to showcase the breadth of translational, clinical, and community research and educational projects performed in our hospital. The inaugural Research Day hosted approximately 100 research projects.

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Guidelines: Abstracts | Posters | CE Credit | Responsible Conduct of Research Training

Recordings for select lectures are available below.

**Posters at the REI Week 2025 Monday, March 31 poster session**

**Catherine Bollard, MD, MBChB, listens to a presenter during the REI Week 2025 Monday, March 21 poster session**

**Posters during the REI Week 2025 Tuesday, April 1 poster session**

**Ambroise Wonkman poses for a picture with Children’s National staff**

**Nathan Kuppermann, MD, listens to a presenter during the REI Week 2025 Tuesday, April 1, poster session**

**Global Health Initiative community engagement event during REI Week 2025**

**Michelle Riley-Brown, MHA, FACHE, Nathan Kuppermann, MD, Catherine Bollard, MD, MBChB, and Naomi Luban, MD, on stage during the REI Week 2025 awards ceremony**

**Brandy Salmon presents on innovation programs at Virginia Tech during the REI Week 2025 Innovation Day**

**Panelists discuss innovation during REI Week 2025**

**Tanzeem Choudhury presenting during REI Week 2025**

**Chris Rees presents his REI Week 2025 lecture**

Schedule

8-9 a.m. | Auditorium, 2nd Floor Main, Main Hospital | Virtual

"Children: Uniquely vulnerable to climate related threats"

Lynn R. Goldman, MD, MS, MPH
Michael and Lori Milken Dean and Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University

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10-11 a.m. | Auditorium, 2nd Floor Main, Main Hospital | Virtual

"MOOVE: Massive Open Online Validation and Evaluation of clinical LLMs"

Mary-Anne “Annie” Hartley, MD, PhD, MPH
Director, LiGHT: Laboratory for Intelligent Global Health and Humanitarian Response Technologies

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12-1 p.m. | Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Main Hospital | Virtual

“Zinc and childhood diarrhea”

Christopher Duggan, MD, MPH
Meltzer Professor, Pediatrics and Director, Division of Nutrition, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Departments of Nutrition and Global Health and Population. Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

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1-3 p.m. | Costco Wholesale Atrium, 1st Floor, Main Hospital

Poster Session

Presenting authors will stand with their posters during their poster session and will be available for questions and discussions regarding their projects.

Poster themes:
- Adolescent Medicine
- Allergy and Immunology
- Cancer, Immunology, Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT)
- Community Research
- Critical Care
- Global Health
- Health Disparities
- Health Services
- Infectious Disease and HIV
- Oncology
- Rheumatology
8-9 a.m. | Auditorium, 2nd Floor Main, Main Hospital | Virtual

Global Health Keynote Lecture | "Harnessing our common African genomes to improve health and equity globally"

Ambroise Wonkam, MD, PhD
Professor, genetic medicine; Director, McKusick-Nathans Institute and Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Geico Cares Atrium, 5th Floor Main, Main Hospital

Global Health Initiative | Local and global community engagement at CNH

Join us to learn about CNH teams engaged in local and global community health and find out how you can make an impact. Light refreshments will be served.

1-3 p.m. | Costco Wholesale Atrium, 1st Floor, Main Hospital

Poster Session

Presenting authors will stand with their posters during their poster session and will be available for questions and discussions regarding their projects.

Poster themes:
- Asthma and Respiratory
- Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities
- Diabetes
- Emergency Medicine and Trauma
- Endocrinology and Metabolic Disorders
- Genetics, Genetic Predisposition and Genetic Susceptibility
- Imaging
- Informatics and Technology
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Nutrition, Obesity and Gastroenterology
- Psychology
3-4 p.m. | Virtual

GCAF Faculty Seminar | "Demystifying global health research at CNRI"

Presented by the Office of Grants, Contracts and Finance
8-9 a.m. | Auditorium, 2nd Floor Main, Main Hospital | Virtual

Grand Rounds Keynote Lecture | "Shouldn't teachers be more collaborative with their learners?"

Larrie Greenberg, MD
Professor Emeritus, Pediatrics, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Children's National Hospital

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9:30-11 a.m. | Board Room, 5th Floor West Wing, Main Hospital

CAPE Workshop | “Case-based teaching: Are we effective in what we do?"

Presenter: Larrie Greenberg, MD

10-11 a.m. | Auditorium, 2nd Floor Main, Main Hospital | Virtual

Nursing Sponsored Keynote Lecture | "Redesigning the U.S. broken health system: Reimagining pediatric and family clinical and social care"

Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, MPH, LCSW, ANP-BC, PMHNP-BC, FAAN
Executive Director, Institute for Policy Solutions and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

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12-1 p.m. | Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Main Hospital | Virtual

Jill Joseph Grand Rounds Lecture | “Health equity: A scream to a whisper?”

Deena J. Chisolm, PhD
Nationwide Foundation Endowed Chair in Health Equity Research, Director, Center for Child Health Equity, Vice-President Health Services Research, The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital; Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health, The Ohio State University

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1-3 p.m. | Costco Wholesale Atrium, 1st Floor, Main Hospital

Poster Session

Presenting authors will stand with their posters during their poster session and will be available for questions and discussions regarding their projects.

Poster themes:
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery
- Dentistry
- Dermatology
- Fetal Medicine
- General Pediatrics
- Medical Education
- Neonatology
- Nephrology
- Neurology, Epilepsy and Sleep Medicine
- Neuroscience and Neuroprotection
- Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes
- Pain and Perioperative Medicine
- Palliative Care
- Pharmacology
- Quality Improvement
- Safety and Risk Management
- Sports Medicine and Orthopedics
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
- Urology
4-5 p.m. | Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Main Hospital | Virtual

Awards Ceremony
- Abstracts Awards
- Mentorship Awards
- Elda Arce Teaching Scholar Award
- Suzanne Feetham Nursing Research Support Award
- Global Health Initiative Explorations in Global Health Pilot Awards
10 a.m.-1 p.m. | Collaboratory, 3rd Floor, Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus

Innovation Day | Impact of Innovation on Scientific Research

Brandy Salmon, PhD
Associate Vice President, Innovation and Partnerships, Virginia Tech

11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Collaboratory, 3rd Floor, Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus

Panel Discussion with:
- Nehal Mehta, MD, MSCE
- Julia Finkel, MD
- Kevin Clearly, PhD
- Ioannis Koutroulis, MD, PhD, MBA
- Francesca Joseph, MD
- Patrick Hankey, PhD
- Moderated by Nathan Kuppermann, MD, MPH, and Catherine Bollard, MBChB, MD
12-1 p.m. | Collaboratory, 3rd Floor, Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus

Lunch & Networking

12-1 p.m. | Virtual

CAPE Workshop | Med Education Pathway Showcase

Presenters: Ian Chua, MD and Jeremy Kern, MD
8-9 a.m. | Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Main Hospital | Virtual

Join Virginia Tech-Children's National Hospital Lecture | “Sensory Interventions: Real-time integration of passive sensing and adaptive passive interventions”

Tanzeem Choudhury, PhD
Professor, Computing and Information Science, Cornell Tech; Director, The Health Tech Hub, Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute

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12-1 p.m. | Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Main Hospital | Virtual

“Advancing approaches to identify children at risk for mortality”

Chris A. Rees, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Emory University

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1-2:30 p.m. | Virtual

CAPE Workshop | “Embracing failure: A key to success in academic medicine”

Presenters: Ian Chua, MD, Neha Shah, MD and Margarita Ramos, MD

All keynote lectures will be available via Zoom, offering Continuing Education (CE) credit.
Children’s National Hospital is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
On-demand video will be available on ChildrensRNCast.

Research, Education & Innovation Week 2025

Schedule

Monday March 31

Tuesday April 1

Wednesday April 2

Thursday April 3

Friday April 4

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