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
