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
Postdoctoral 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
