Join us for the second annual Hybrid Gary W. Goldstein Research Symposium!

An Institute-wide celebration of the research activities of faculty members, staff members and trainees, this exciting event will provide employees and trainees with the opportunity to present preliminary and completed research projects, as well as make connections with their research colleagues.

We developed Research Day as way to foster collaborations and provide a way to highlight the many research activities that take place throughout the Institute. Share and be recognized for your work!
 

Sessions will be held to highlight:
•    Trainees
•    Investigators
•    Goldstein Research Innovation Fund awardees (including announcing new awardees!)


If you have any trouble joining the Virtual portion of this event, please email ConferenceReservations@KennedyKrieger.org

Schedule

8:45 a.m.               
Opening/Welcome
 

Trainees Session I 

9:00 – 9:05 a.m.                     
Formalizing Clinical Workflow for Social Work Service in the Infant Neurodevelopment Center
Ruth Getachew

9:05 – 9:10 a.m.                     
Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Neonates with Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy: Role of Socioeconomic Vulnerability
Srishti Jayakumar

9:10 – 9:15 a.m.                     
Presymptomatic Treatment in Children with Sturge-Weber Syndrome
Chelsea Valery

9:15 – 9:20 a.m.                     
R183Q GNAQ Leptomeningeal and Cerebrovascular Mouse Model of Sturge-Weber syndrome
Meghan McCann

9:20 – 9:25 a.m.                     
Toward Improving Caregiver Engagement in Behavioral Parent Training Programs
Josh Mellott

9:25 – 9:30 a.m.                     
Exercise Capacity and Physical Fitness in Children and Adolescents After Kawasaki Disease
Kristen McCormick

9:30 – 9:50 a.m.                     
Q & A Session

Trainee Session II 

10:00 – 10:05 a.m.                 
Service Initiation For Developmental Disabilities Declines With Age In A Nationally Representative Sample
Benjamin Schindel

10:05 – 10:10 a.m.                 
Ultra-high field imaging of the cerebellar dentate nucleus reveals region-specific patterns of functional connectivity
Laura Rice

10:10 – 10:15 a.m.                 
Components of Cognitive Control are Differentially Impaired in Girls and Boys with ADHD
Beatrice Ojuri

10:15 – 10:20 a.m.                 
The Effectiveness of Intrathecal Baclofen Pump Therapy for Patients with Cerebral Palsy or Brain Injury in Relation to Function, Quality of Life and Goal Achievement Measures
Kara Towles

10:20 – 10:25 a.m.                 
Fatigue Reflects an Affective Response to Dyshomeostasos and is Part of an Allostatic Strategy
Agostina Casamento-Moran

10:25 – 10:30 a.m.                 
TBD

10:30 – 10:50 a.m.                 
Q & A Session

11:00- 11:50 a.m...                 
Goldstein innovation Awards
Eboni Lance, MD

New Awardees Announced Immediately following

12:45 – 1:00 p.m.                   
Research Administration
Jeremy Corsmo
 

Faculty and Staff Session III

1:00 – 1:15 p.m.                     
Neurobiological evidence for the role of executive functions in reading fluency among children with dyslexia
Tzipi Horowitz, PhD

1:15 – 1:20 p.m.                     
Q & A Session

1:20 – 1:35 p.m.                     
Treating Black Racial Trauma: A Culturally Tailored Behavioral Intervention Presented to Englanders of Black Ancestry
Jennifer Payne, PhD, LCSW-C

1:35 – 1:50 p.m.                     
Q & A Session

1:50 – 2:05 p.m.                     
Responsivity as a Novel Potential Outcome for Severe-to-Profoundly Impacted Individuals with SCN2A-Related Disorders
Natasha Ludwig, PhD

2:05 – 2:10 p.m.                     
Q & A Session
 

Faculty and Staff Session IV 

2:10 – 2:25 p.m.                     
Expanding the Cognitive Phenotype of KAT6A Syndrome: Nonverbal and Social Skills in Late vs. Early Truncating Variants
Rowena Ng, PhD

2:25 – 2:30 p.m.                     
Q & A Session

2:30 – 2:45 p.m.                     
FMR1 gene premutation: frequencies of multispecialty disorders and psychotropic drugs and non-drug treatments in patients at KKI
Dejan Budimirovic, MD

2:45 – 2:50 p.m.                     
Q & A Session

2:50 – 3:05 p.m.                     
Clinical gait analysis using video-based pose estimation: multiple perspectives, clinical populations, and measuring change
Ryan Roemmich, PhD

3:05 – 3:10 p.m.                     
Q & A Session

3:15 p.m.                                
Closing