Meet Our TL1 Trainees

Emily Ahrens
UW School of Nursing
Examining Health Disparities in ICU Delirium Prevention and Management for Linguistically Diverse Patients

Karlin Blackwell
MSU Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology/College of Agriculture
Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri: Germ Free Worms and the Hygiene Hypothesis

Morgan Chamberlin
MSU Department of Health and Human Development
Impact of Acute and Chronic Lentil Consumption on Bile Acids, Metabolism, and Inflammation

Rachel Cunningham
UW School of Medicine
Engineering Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells for Rapid Viral Response

Allison Engstrom
UW School of Social Work
Addressing the Impact of Firearm Injury on Families

Ryan Francis
UW Department of Chemical Engineering
4D intra- and extracellular protein activation for user-programmable tissue engineering

Isabella Jennings
UW Department of Bioengineering
Development of a kidney organoid clinical trial on a plate

Tae Jones
UW School of Computer Science & Engineering
Multi-Stakeholder Engagement in Technology-Enhanced Collaborative Care

Mackenna Landis
MSU Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Magnetically actuated large scale differentiation gradients for tissue engineering

Abby Luu
MSU Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology
TLR dependent enhancement of S. aureus clearance in macrophages via TNFR2

Nam Phuong Nguyen
UW Department of Molecular Engineering
Novel barcode and quantum dot labeling of brain extracellular vesicles to inform disease pathology

Malory K. Peterson
MSU Department of Health and Human Development
Provider-Identified Barriers to Coordinating Syphilis Screening, Treatment, and Partner Services in a Northern Plains American Indian Reservation Community

Maria Predtechenskaya
MSU Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology
Lung Surfactant Protects Against Bacterial Infection by Modulating Staphylococcus aureus Virulence

Cami Rencken
UW Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
School Shootings and Mental Health in the United States

Jodie C. Tokihiro
UW Department of Chemistry
A droplet-based microfluidic approach for the preparation and automation of fertility workflows

Thomas Vincent
UW Department of Bioengineering
Developing Methods to Improve Kidney Organoid Engraftment Beneath the Murine Kidney Capsule

Aprajita S Yadav
UW Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy
Determining the Effects of Obesity, Associated Comorbidities, and Sex on Vitamin A Disposition

Hiwot Zewdie
UW Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
Urban environments and physical activity in Bogotá, Colombia

Christopher M. Arian
UW Department of Pharmaceutics
Developing in vitro models to predict oral drug disposition

Jeremy A. Bigalke
MSU Department of Health and Human Development
Influence of Acute Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Withdrawal on Sympathetic Regulation of Blood Pressure in Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Cait E. Brown
UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
Speech-Language Pathology Outcomes in Skilled Nursing Facilities: a Health Services Research Perspective

Esther Choo
UW Depts of Global Health and Implementation Science
Evaluating unhealthy food consumption and a behavior change strategy to improve diets in Nepal

Kelsey M. Conrick
UW School of Social Work
Equipping Social Workers to Prevent Firearm-Related Harm

Cosette Craig
UW Department of Mechanical Engineering
REverSe Transcriptase Chain Termination (RESTRICT) assay

Gary P. Dunn
MSU Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology
Determining the influence of producing cell-type on HSV-1 protein composition and subsequent viral replication

Kayla Fasano
UW Department of Immunology
Elucidating the mechanisms of the dysregulated innate immune response in severe COVID-19

Bryan Tegner Jacobson
MSU Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology
Determining the immunosuppressive effects and mechanisms of respiratory Mycoplasma in a large animal model

Manal S. Jmaileh
UW School of Medicine
Prehospital trauma care for explosive ordnance-related injuries in low-resource settings: a systematic review

Connor D. Krolak
UW Department of Bioengineering
Evaluation and early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma with quantitative contrast-enhanced ultrasound

Nandita Kumar
UW Department of Pathology
Investigating the Role of EBV-specific T cell Responses in combined anti-PD-1/anti-CTLA-4 Immune Checkpoint Blockade therapy for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Katrina N. Lyon
MSU Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology
Human organoid models for gastric pH homeostasis and disease

Coleman Martin
UW Department of Chemical Engineering
COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Amplification Self Test

Hannah E. Scheuer
UW School of Social Work
Supporting Families After Pediatric Traumatic Injury

Dale Summers
UW Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Development and usability of an electronic cognitive aid for persons with dementia

Justin M. Whitten
MSU Department of Health and Human Development
The Feasibility and Acceptability of Reactive Balance Training for Older Adults in Rural Communities

Trevor Zahl
MSU Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology
Biological Roles and Applications of Short Prokaryotic Argonautes

Ryan A. Canfield
UW School of Medicine
Bioengineering, Neurobiology (general)

Christi Cho
UW School of Pharmacy
Role of CYP2J2 EETs in renal angiogenesis and clear cell renal cell carcinoma drug resistance

Karl Cristie F. Figuracion
UW School of Nursing
Environmental Enrichment and Cerebral Atrophy Among Brain Tumor Survivors

Jeremy R. Filteau
UW College of Education
Utilizing a novel method of spatiotemporally resolved proteomics to elucidate protein changes in response to hypoxic-ischemic injury in neonates

Lauren J. Gonsalves
UW School of Medicine
Adaptive response(s) of Staphylococcus aureus to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole-mediated thymineless death

Aditya R. Kumar
UW School of Pharmacy
Application of PBPK Modeling and Simulations to Inform Fetal Risks from Maternal Marijuana Consumption

Jessica L. Lapham
UW School of Social Work
Welfare Participation, Stigma and Mental Health Among Low Income Mothers

Elise LeBovidge
UW College of Arts & Sciences
Pre-speech auditory modulation as a state biomarker in stuttering

Angela Malorni
UW School of Social Work
Social Media and Youth Sociopolitical Development: An Activity Systems Approach

Sarah E. Nick
UW School of Medicine
UW College of Engineering
Development of a Polyurethane Foam with Anti-α-Sheet Inhibitor Peptides for Burn Biofilm Treatment

William S. Nutt
UW School of Medicine
Regulation of Protein Synthesis in Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer

Nicole B. Potchen
UW School of Medicine
UW School of Public Health
The role of Antigen-Specific Regulatory T cells and the Gut Microbiome in Altering Systemic Vaccination

Rachel A. Prusynski
UW School of Medicine
Multiparticipant Therapy and Outcomes in Skilled Nursing Facilities in the Context of Shifting Policy

Robert B. Serafin
UW College of Engineering
Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment via 3D Microscopy

Austin D. Sun
UW School of Pharmacy
Role of Organic Anion Transporting Polypeptides in the Transport of Large Organic Anion Drugs across the Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid-Barrier

Ruchi Tiwari
UW School of Public Health
The role of maternal height in pregnancy outcomes and complications

Ayoade Nathan Alade
UW School of Pharmacy
The Modifying Effect of CYP4F2*3 on the Association Between Diet and Hepatic Vitamin K Biomarkers Following Short-Term Vitamin K Supplementation in Healthy Adults.

Ashley R. Bardon
UW School of Public Health
New strategies for delivery of antiretroviral therapy and medication adherence monitoring for improving HIV outcomes in South Africa

Anna Constantino-Pettit
UW School of Public Health
UW School of Social Work
Toward higher retention in necessary intervention for young mothers with unmet behavioral health needs

Louisa M. Helms
UW School of Medicine
Myosin Activation as a Therapeutic Strategy to Treat Polycystic Kidney Disease

Liam Hovey
UW School of Medicine
Genetic Variation and Pharmacologic Blockade of CaMKII and CK2 in Chronic Heart Failure

Elijah Kuska
UW College of Engineering
Impacts of Impaired Neuromuscular and Musculoskeletal System on Mobility

Amy Li
UW School of Pharmacy
Investigation of the diagnosis, pathogenesis, and therapies of Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome.

Sheila Ojeaburu
UW School of Medicine
A Cross-sectional Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence and HIV-health Outcomes of Women Engaged in HIV-Care in Durban, South Africa

Sara Park Perrins
UW School of Environmental & Forest Sciences
The health benefits of nature contact: Effects of terpenes on stress and mood

Ragan Pitner
UW School of Medicine
Engineering Regulatory B Cells to Promote Antigen-Specific Tolerance

Emily E. Rowlinson
UW School of Public Health
A wavelet spatio-temporal model for gonorrhea dissemination in WA State and the U.S.

Michelle B. Shin
UW School of Nursing
Cervical cancer elimination in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)

Benjamin P. Sullivan
UW College of Engineering
Developing Point-of-Care HIV Viral Load Test for Home Testing

Shawn Swanson
UW College of Engineering
UnTape

Deanna K. Tollefson
UW School of Public Health
Strengthening delivery of HIV prevention and treatment through a health facility-based youth internship program in South Africa

Rachel D. Van Gelder
UW School of Medicine
Identification of long noncoding RNAs restricting influenza A virus through modulation of innate immune signaling pathways

Lola Arakaki
UW School of Public Health
Effect of prior influenza vaccination on subsequent influenza vaccine effectiveness

Nathan Dressman
UW School of Nursing
Virtual Reality for Acute Post-Operative Pain Management in Living Kidney Donors

Chelsea Fortin
UW School of Medicine
Stimulating growth of implantable engineered human liver tissue

Ian Johnson
UW School of Social Work
Characterizing the Effects of Hostile Architecture on the Health Goals of Older Adults Experiencing Houselessness

Chethan Jujjavarapu
UW School of Medicine
Applying Machine Learning Methods to EHR Data to Better Characterize Lower Back Pain Patients

Sarah Kinter
UW School of Public Health
Predictors and Correlates of Velopharyngeal Insufficiency as a Post-Operative Complication of Maxillary Advancement

Bradley Kramer
UW School of Public Health
Dynamic influences on population health management by Asthma Community Health Worker programs: An Agent Based Modeling approach

Margaret Lind
UW School of Public Health
A Machine Learning Approach to Sepsis Diagnosis in a High-Risk Immunocompromised Population

Antonio López Quiñones
UW School of Pharmacy
Role of organic cation transporter 3 in tissue-specific uptake, accumulation, and toxicity of mIBG

Katherine Manbeck
UW Department of Psychology
Is there a doctor in the house? Addressing racial health disparities with an evidence-based bias reduction intervention

Nicholas Maurice
UW School of Medicine
Investigating the role of dysregulated regulatory T cell function at the placenta in preeclampsia

Allen Roberts
UW School of Public Health
Modeling the cost-effectiveness of integrating pre-exposure prophylaxis into maternal and child health clinics in Kenya

Alyssa Spomer
UW College of Engineering
Evaluating Motor Control Plasticity to Inform the Development of Biofeedback Technologies for Use in Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation

Hayley Waterman
UW School of Medicine
Elucidating the effect of IgA isotype anti-nuclear antibodies (ANAs) in the context of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

Yan Ting Zhao
UW School of Dentistry
Generation of high-affinity Tie2 agonists to promote blood vessel formations

Warren Anderson
UW School of Medicine
Gene Editing in Primary Human T cells for the Study of Autoimmunity Risk in PTPN22 Variant R620W

Tigran Avoundjian
UW School of Public Health
Improving HIV care engagement through the use of real-time health information exchange between health departments and emergency departments

Mackenzie Bergagnini-Kolev
UW School of Pharmacy
Understanding Vitamin D3 Metabolism in Pregnancy

Ana Chang
UW School of Dentistry
The role of Migration Inhibitory Factor in mouse oral tissue derived neutrophil half-life, bacterial killing efficiency and chemotaxis

Miles Freeman
UW School of Medicine
Cardiomyocyte Dedifferentiation and Proliferation via Partial Reprogramming

Erin Harrop
UW School of Social Work
Examining patient perceptions of patient-provider interactions: A mixed-methods study of women’s experiences in treatment for Atypical Anorexia

Charlotte James
UW School of Medicine
Glycolipid-specific T-cell Responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection

Sara Keller
UW School of Engineering
Image-Guided, Ultrasound-Mediated Drug Delivery for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment

Rachel Kubiak
UW School of Public Health
Diabetes prevalence and impact on treatment outcomes in an urban HIV-infected South African cohort

August Longino
UW School of Medicine
Chronic Inflammation and the Metabolic Syndrome in HIV patients

Vivian Lyons
UW School of Public Health
Subsequent Injury Among Gunshot Wound Patients

Benjamin Maldonato
UW School of Pharmacy
The Role of Human METTL7B in Captopril Methylation

Megan Mayer
UW School of Medicine
Men Who Have Sex with Men and Cis-Gendered Women (MSMW): an understudied sub-population who may play an important role in HIV transmission

Kathryn Peebles
UW School of Public Health
Sources of efficacy dilution in the clinical trial and implementation of a dapivirine-containing vaginal ring for HIV-1 prevention: Insights from mathematical models

Rebecca Rebbe
UW School of Social Work
Child Welfare Outcomes and Mortality of Substance Exposed Infants

Sara Shum
UW School of Pharmacy
Predicting maternal and fetal disposition of hydrocodone and oxycodone during pregnancy

2017-2018 Cohort

Laura Chambers
UW School of Public Health
Patterns and Predictors of Sexual Risk Behavior Among Men Who Have Sex With Men

Arianna Miles-Jay
UW School of Public Health
Genomic epidemiology of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole resistance among Escherichia coli ST131-H30 isolates from US children

Maria Pyra
UW School of Public Health
HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis During Pregnancy: The Effect on Drug Concentrations

Martha Aby
UW School of Social Work
Cultural and Ethnic Minority Infrastructure Program Evaluation

Erin Harrop
UW School of Social Work
Examining patient conceptualizations of eating disorder and remission processes: A mixed-methods study of women’s experiences with Atypical Anorexia

Tiffany Jones
UW School of Social Work
Enhancing Data Driven Decision Making for School Improvement at Seattle Public Schools

Ana Chang
UW School of Dentistry
Understanding Oral Health: Contribution of Commensal Oral Bacteria into the Regulation and Maintenance of Oral Health

Juandalyn Burke
UW School of Medicine
Using Pharmacogenomic Data to Predict Levels of Drug Resistance in Heterosexual Populations in sub-Saharan Africa

Charles Roco
UW School of Medicine
Personalized Cancer Predictions Through Scalable Single Cell RNA Sequencing

Mikel Ruterbusch
UW School of Medicine
Der p 2-specific B cells in house dust mite-induced asthma

Emily Scott
UW School of Medicine
Differential Immune Response to Infection in Infants and Adults Acutely Infected with RSV

Kerri Thomas
UW School of Medicine
Interleukin-7 receptor signaling in Philadelphia chromosome-like acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Makayla Cordoza
UW School of Nursing
Clinical Impact of Shivering and Energy Expenditure in Adults Undergoing Targeted Temperature Management After Cardiac Arrest

Chad Curtis
UW School of Engineering
Quantitative, high throughput method for characterization of therapeutic nanoparticle behavior in a physiologically relevant model of the brain

Nisa Penland
UW School of Engineering
Engineering 3D Human Cardiac Tissues with Helical Architecture for Modeling Dystrophic Cardiomyopathies

Lyrialle Han
UW School of Pharmacy
Investigating the placental-fetal disposition of bupropion during pregnancy using in vitro models and physiologically-based pharmacokinetic models

Jake Kraft
UW School of Pharmacy
Nanoparticle Design Principles for Subcutaneous Long-Acting Drug Combination Formulations

Faith Stevison
UW School of Pharmacy
Translation of observed in vitro CYP2D6 downregulation by 13-cis retinoic acid to clinical drug-drug interactions

2016-2017 Cohort

Andrew Bender
UW School of Engineering
Developing Point-of-Care Diagnostic for Chlamydia for Clinical Use

Ryann Milne-Price
UW School of Medicine
Association Between Depot-Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Use and the Concentration of Gardnerella Vaginalis and Other Key Bacterial Species in the Vaginal Microbiota of HIV-1 Seronegative Women

Kerri Thomas
UW School of Medicine
Targeting of a Novel Signaling Program in Philadelphia Chromosome-Like (Ph-like) Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)

Claire Richards
UW School of Nursing
Clinician-Family Communication in Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units

Ashley Scherman
UW School of Nursing
Maternal Hair Cortisol and Offspring Lung Function

Gabriela Patilea-Vrana
UW School of Pharmacy
Disposition Studies of ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to Predict Drug Exposure During Pregnancy

Phillip Hwang
UW School of Public Health
A 15-Year Retrospective Cohort Study Examining the Association between Sleep Medications and Alzheimer’s Disease Among Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Colin Malone
UW School of Public Health
Cost-Effectiveness of HPV Self-Screening and Determinants of Cervical Cancer Underscreening Among Members of a Large, Integrated Health Care System in the U.S.

Arianna Miles-Jay
UW School of Public Health
Molecular Epidemiology of the Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli ST131-H30 Subclone in U.S. Children

Kerry Thomson
UW School of Public Health
HIV Risk and Prevention Strategies During Periconception, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Periods

Tiffany Jones
UW School of Social Work
Assessment Strategies for Social and Emotional Learning in the Seattle Public School District

Claire Willey
UW School of Social Work
Observing the Observer: Examining the Production of Domestic Violence in the Development Literature on Nepal