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2024 CRSHE Reproductive Health and Science Research Fellows

Ariel Hart

Graduate Student

Black midwives and birthing people participating in out of hospital births

Elsie Jacobson

Clinical Fellow

X chromosome inactivation and upregulation in placental development and disease

Lior Kashani Ligumsky

Clinical Fellow

Placenta Accreta Spectrum disorders and the defect in decidual biology at the site of the uterine cesarean scar

Sisi Peng

Graduate Student

Menstrual stigma on social media

Aditiya Pimplaskar

Graduate Student

EHR-linked biobanks to understand the clinical and genetic basis of psychiatric illness

Gabrielle Rinne

Graduate Student

Perinatal biopsychosocial processes influencing maternal and child health

Isaias Roberson

Graduate Student

Transgenic stem cells and mouse fetal tissue to engineer ovaries in the lab

Alexandra Smick

Clinical Fellow

Association of fallopian tube features in BRCA1 mutation carriers with carcinogenic pathways and targetable drivers of cancer progression

Qiu Ya Wu

Graduate Student

Development of the ovary and the building of in-vitro models for non-hormonal contraceptives

Shirley Zhang

Graduate Student

Ancestry-associated germline mutations, fertility, and prostate development

2023 CRSHE Reproductive Health and Science Research Fellows

Charlotte Abel

Graduate Student

Study of pregnant women with psychiatric diagnoses

Ashley Appleton

Medical Student

Semen microbiome and fertility status

Joni Brown

Graduate Student

Sexual socialization in adolescent Black girls

Tommy Jiang

Medical Student

Less invasive predictive factors for male infertility screening

Max Levenson

Graduate Student

Ethanol consumption on the germline epigenome

Sisi Peng

Graduate Student

Menstrual stigma on social media

Neema Pithia

Clinical Fellow

Anti-inflammatory factors, maternal-fetal morbidity, and pre-term birth

Sonia Raghuram

Medical Student

Hormones and muscle strength in female athletes

Isaias Roberson

Graduate Student

Uses stem cells to build ovarian tissue in the lab

Joanne Sarsam

Undergrad Student

Creates 3-D models to better understand congenital heart disease

Olivia Scott

Medical Student

Early diagnosis of Placental Accreta Spectrum Disorders

Chelsea Stewart

Clinical Fellow

Genetic counseling and fertility preservation for women with ovarian cancer-causing mutation

Alec Szlachta-McGinn

Clinical Fellow

Interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome and role of fungal burden

Vida Zhang

Clinical Fellow

Iron disorders during pregnancy

Volunteers and Work Study Students

Colette Shvager

Social Media and Content Development Coordinator

Megan Sparrow

Volunteer

Isabel Angres

Volunteer

Zenaida Chapman

Volunteer

Sadhana Jeyakumar

Volunteer

Lea Baskin Monk

Volunteer

Katrina Mae Reyes

Volunteer