Yale Pediatrics Poster Presenters at PAS 2026

Find our list of panelists, presenters, and workshops from Yale Pediatrics.

Friday, April 24: 5:30-8:00 p.m.

• James Nugent, MD, MPH: "Accuracy and Acceptability of Nocturnal Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Versus Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Youth: A Mixed Methods Study", "Adherence to Guideline-Recommended Diagnostic Testing in Youth with Hypertension", "Development and Validation of a Cuff Size Prediction Model for Pediatric Blood Pressure Measurement Outside the Office", and "An Innovation for the Automated Collection and Analysis of Multicenter Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Data at Scale: The SUPERHERO ABPM Phase"
• Kiersten Flodman, MD: "Association Between the Child Opportunity Index 3.0 and Critical Asthma in Children"
• Josh Daniel, MD: "Comparison of Neonatal Tracheal Intubation Adverse Events and Severe Desaturations between Level III and Level IV NICUs in infants < 1500g: A Multicenter Analysis from the NEAR4NEOS Network"
• Samuel Gentle, MD: "Early Prediction of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia–Associated Pulmonary Hypertension in Extremely Preterm Infants"
• Victoria Cueto: "Evaluating Patient Perceptions of the Accuracy of Different Blood Pressure Modalities"
• Marc Auerbach, MD: "Implementation Determinants of Pediatric Readiness in Community Emergency Departments: A CFIR-Guided Evaluation of a Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinator Mentorship Model", and "Usability and Acceptability of a Novel Frontline Pediatric Readiness Simulation Bundle in Critical Access Hospital Emergency Departments"
• Jillian Warejko-Rossi, MD: "Pediatric Residents' Knowledge of Physician Productivity Measurement: A Baseline Survey"
• Christopher Myers, MD: "Trajectory-based Respiratory Models Improve Prediction of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Preterm Infants"
• Kiersten Flodman, MD: "Association Between the Child Opportunity Index 3.0 and Critical Asthma in Children"
• Nashid H. Chaudhury, MD; PhD, Maione S., Mielke B., Daniela Hochreiter, MD; Marc Auerbach, MD, FAAP, MSc: "Practice the PIVOT (Pediatric Inpatient Vigilance Improves Outcomes & Training): Low-cost simulation to improve inpatient pediatric unit response to the acutely deteriorating child."

Saturday, April 25: 3:30-5:45 p.m.

• Gunjan Tiyyagura, MD, MHS: "External Validation of a Natural Language Screener for High-Risk Injuries in Infant Emergency Department Encounters"
• Paul Aronson, MD, MHS: "Perspectives of Clinicians and Parents on an Intervention to Increase Parental Confidence in Respiratory Syncytial Virus Immunoprophylaxis in the Well Newborn Unit"
• Thomas Binns: "Quantifying Neonatal and Infant Cumulative-Longitudinal Exposure to RBC Storage Solution Constituents in a Multi-Institutional Cohort"
• Chantel Johnson; Kirsten Bechtel, MD: "Recovery of Foreign DNA Profiles in Pediatric Sexual Assault Victims"
• Alexa Allotta: Trainee Ongoing Projects (TOP) Poster, "Reducing Weight Loss in Infants with Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome: An Inter-Institutional QI Initiative"
• Antonio Riera, MD: "Sizing Up Septic Arthritis: Diagnostic Utility of Ultrasound Measurements of Pediatric Hip Effusions"
• Alexandra Lewis, Gunjan Tiyyagura, MD, MHS; Brianna Oakley; Sundes Kazmir, MD: "Supporting Implementation of Universal IPV Education in Pediatric Primary Care: A Mixed-Methods Quality Improvement Study of the CUES Model"
• Josh Daniel, MD: "From Discovery to Delivery: The Evolution of Surfactant and Neonatal Respiratory Care"
• K. Peterec, Rakesh Mistry, MD, MS; Emily Powers, MD, MHS: "Adherence to Antibiotic Prescribing Guideline Recommendations for Febrile Young Children in the Pediatric Emergency Department (ED)"
• Leslie Hueschen: "Cold Clues: Clinical characteristics and mortality among hypothermic infants with herpes simplex virus infection"
• Rakesh Mistry, MD, MS: "Development and Internal Validation of a Model to Predict Hospitalization for Children with Asthma Exacerbations in the Emergency Department", "Airway endotypes define severity and treatment responses in pediatric acute asthma exacerbations in the emergency department", "Development and Internal Validation of a Model to Predict Hospitalization for Children with Asthma Exacerbations in the Emergency Department"
• Lucille Kohlenberg, MD; Sundes Kazmir, MD; Minsoo Choi: "Characteristics of Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Referred to a Child Advocacy Center"
• Nashid H. Chaudhury, MD, PhD; Frances Cheng, MD, PhD; Matthew Grossman, MD: "National trends in NOWs management and outcomes before and after publication of Eat, Sleep, Console (ESC) approach: A 2004-2024 PHIS Cohort Study"
• Jordan Silberg, MD; Patricia Basciano; Matthew Grossman, MD: "Reducing unnecessary oxygen use in the community setting"

Sunday, April 26: 9:30-11:30 a.m.

• Julia Rosenberg, MD, MHS, FAAP: "Co-Design and Pilot Feasibility Trial of a Multi-Level Asthma Advocacy Pathway and Home Visiting Intervention: BREATHE (Building Resilience, Education, and Training for Health and Environment)"
• Megha Dasani, MD: "Does Extubation Mediate the Relationship Between Dexamethasone and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia?"
• Shruti Gupta, MD: "Enhancing NICU Discharge Processes: A Quality Improvement Approach to Earlier Discharges by 11 a.m."
• Kirsten Bechtel, MD: "Impact of a Hospital-Wide Safe Sleep Education Quality Improvement Project on SUID Rates Using Linked Child Fatality Review Data"
• Julie Leviter, MD: "Navigating Parenthood During Fellowship: A National Survey of Pregnancy and Parental Leave Policies in Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Programs"
• Elizabeth Znamierowski, APRN, MSN: "Opening the conversation: A rapid qualitative analysis of patient-provider text messages from the Yale Mother-Infant Program"
• Júlia Ganem: "Parental Acceptance of Nirsevimab for RSV Immunoprophylaxis: Single-Center Survey and Comprehensive Meta-Analysis"
• Meaghan Molloy: "Patterns of Free Amino Acids in Early Human Milk Relate to Growth at Discharge in Term and Preterm Infants"
• Aanchal Wats: "Real-World Adherence and Toxicity of Valganciclovir for Congenital Cytomegalovirus"
• Deanna Nardella, MD, MHS: "Research Priorities in Human Milk and Lactation Science: Perspectives from 50 Clinicians who Practice Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine Around the World"
• Ruthfirst E. A. Ayande, PhD, MSc, RD: "The Association between Maternal Dietary Patterns and Early Preterm Milk Macronutrient Composition: A Secondary Analysis of the POGO Project Cohort"
• Lisa DelSignore, MD; Gary K. Soffer; Brooke Redmond, MD; Uma Phatak, MD; Farzana Pashankar, MD; Alexander Koral, MD; Ruchika Karnik, MD; Lindsay Johnston, MD; Robert Elder, MD; Laura Chen, MD; Christie Bruno, MD; Adam Berkwitt, MD; Melissa Langhan, MD: "Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Pediatric Residency Personal Statements"
• Kelly Peterec; Rakesh Mistry, MD, MS; Emily Powers, MD, MHS: "Performance of Urinary Tract Infection Screening Methods for Febrile Young Children Using Updated American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Definitions"
• Brigitta Gehl; Veronika Shabanova, PhD; Ruthfirst Ayande, PhD, MSc, RD; Sarah Taylor, MD, MSCR: "Intensity of Social Determinants of Health Adversity Predicts Maternal Milk Intake Patterns through the First Postnatal Month Among Very Preterm Infants in the NICU"

Monday, April 27: 8–10:00 a.m.

• Dhatri Abeyaratne, medical student: "Cash Assistance for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence"
• Victor Oboli, MBBS: "Evidence-Based Conversations: AI Chatbots to Improve Provider Communication on RSV Immunoprophylaxis"
• Gloria Kang: "Exploring the role of glycolysis in the pathogenesis of pediatric Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) in Different Ethnic Groups"
• Shirley Zhao, MD: "Impact of a nationwide blood culture bottle shortage on antibiotic use among hospitalized pediatric patients with fever"
• Emily Benjamin Finn, MPH: "Parents’ Perspectives on Weight Discussions in Pediatric Primary Care: Non-Stigmatizing but Room for Improvement"
• Ciara O'Connell; Gunjan Tiyyagura, MD, MHS; Rakesh Mistry, MD, MS; Veronika Shabanova, PhD; Gauthami Soma, MD, MHS: "TOP 21 - Emergency Department Utilization Patterns Among Resettled Refugee Children: A Comparative Analysis and Exploration of Social Determinants"
• Karen Joanie Campoverde Reyes, Zachary Kravetz, Amanda Quijano: "Pediatric Trainees’ Perceptions and Documentation of the use of Shared Decision-Making: If you didn’t document it, did it even happen?"