Current Fellows
Fourth-Year Fellow
Education: BS, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 1997
MD and PhD, Unviersity of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, 2005
Postdoctoral Training: University of Arkansas for the Medical Sciences, Pediatric Residency, 2005-08
Research Project: Myocardial function and inflammatory response in community-acquired MRSA sepsis - role of caspases 1, 3, and 8
Third-Year Fellows
Lane T. Lanier, MD
Education: BA, Abilene Christian University, TX, 2001
MD, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, 2005
Postdoctoral Training: Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Pediatric Residency, 2005-2009
Humberto A. Liriano-Fanduiz, MD
Education: BA, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 1997
MA, Fordham University, New York, NY, 1999
MD, St. Christopher’s College of Medicine, Luton, England, 2003
Postdoctoral Training: Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children at Orlando Regional Medical Center, Pediatric Internship, 2006-2007
Albert Einstein College of Medicine/New York University School of Medicine, Pediatric Residency, 2007-2009
Research Project: IRAK-1 and IRAK-2 deletions and its disruption in Toll/IL-1 signaling
Shai Manzuri, MD
Education: MD, Universidad Maimonides, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2005
Postdoctoral Training: Long Island College Hospital/Beth Israel Medical Center, Pediatric Residency, 2005-2009
Research Project: Regulation of nutrient homeostasis under conditions of inflammation and critical illness
Elizabeth A. Persad. MD
Education: MD, University of the West Indies, Trinidad, 2001
Postdoctoral Training: Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune, NJ, Pediatric Residency, 2006-2009
Research Project: Role of alpha 5 integrin in lung repair/fibrillogenesis after acute lung injury
Hariprem Rajasekhar, MD
Education: BS, University of California Los Angeles, 2002
MD, St. Georges University, Grenada, West Indies, 2006
Postdoctoral Training: Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, Pediatric Residency, 2006-2009
Research Project: Initial lumen formation in vasculogenesis
Second-Year Fellows
Manish Bajracharya, MD
Education: MD, Nepal Medical College, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2003
Postdoctoral Training: Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY, Pediatric Residency, 2007-2010
Research Project: Lung recruitment maneuver in pediatrics using CPAP of 40 over 40 seconds
Eugene Chung, DO
Education: BA, UT Austin, 1999
DO, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2003
Postdoctoral Training: San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, TX, Pediatric Residency, 2003-2006
Research Project: Clock dysyncrhony with continuous feedings during sepsis
Kamna Jaiswal, MD
Education: MBBS, BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 2003
Postdoctoral Training: Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, Pediatric Residency, 2007-2010
Research Project: Identify and characterize NLRs in the heart and their abundance and activity in response to thermal injury and thermal injury complicated by sepsis
First-Year Fellows
Priya Bhaskar, MD
Education: MBBS, Chengalpattu Medical College, India, 1999
Postdoctoral Training: Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children, Falls Church, VA, Pediatric Residency, 2008-2011
Chidiebere Ezetendu, MD
Education: MBBS, University of Benin, Nigeria, 2002
Postdoctoral Training: Children’s Hospital of New Jersey, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Pediatric Residency, 2008-2011
Mustafa Nimir, MD
Education: MBBS, University of Khartoum, Sudan, 2000
Postdoctoral Training: Midland Regional Hospital at Mullingar, Ireland, Pediatric Residency, 2006-2007
Children’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, Chief Resident, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, 2007-2008
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Pediatric Resident, 2008-2011
Robyn Puente, MD
Education: BS, Regis University, magna cum laude, 2004
MD, Washington University School of Medicine, 2008
Postdoctoral Training: Washington University School of Medicine, Pediatric Residency, 2008-11