Recent Trainees
Past Pediatric Subspecialty Trainees
In the past decade, fifty Pediatrics subspecialty fellows have completed training in the Department of Pediatrics programs listed above. For 24 fellows starting training in the years 1989 - 1993, 8 hold positions at an academic institution, whereas of 26 fellows trained during 1994 - 2001, 19 hold positions at an academic or government institution. Hence, concomitant with the Department's ongoing development of clinical and basic research programs, there has been an increasing trend towards attracting candidates who pursue an academic career post-fellowship.
Some recent fellowship trainees who are pursuing careers in clinical or basic research:
Haneline, Laura, MD Medical School- Indiana University School of Medicine. (Neonatology/Perinatal Medicine Fellow 1994 - 1997)
Dr. Haneline is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at IUSM in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and an investigator in the Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research. Her area of research focuses around genetic and developmental control of hematopoiesis. As a Fellow in Wade Clapp's Laboratory within theWells Center, she focused on understanding the role of the Fanconi Anemia Type C gene in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell control. Fanconi Anemia is a heterogeneous genetic disorder, composed of at least seven genes, whose cellular and biochemical functions are largely unknown. Dr. Haneline was the recipient of the Basic Science Award in the Fellow category by the Society for Pediatric Research. Since becoming a faculty member at Indiana University, she has continued independent studies evaluating the biochemical and cellular function of Fanconi Anemia protein. Dr. Haneline currently has a KO8 award from NHLBI, is the recipient of the New Investigator Award sponsored by a component of a Center Of Excellence in Molecular Hematology Award to Indiana University from NIDDK, and has received a grant from the Showalter Research Trust Fund.
Poindexter, Brenda, MD Medical School- University of Cincinnati. (Neonatology/Perinatal Medicine Fellow 1994 - 1997)
Dr.
Poindexter is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics
at IUSM in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. She entered the Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship training program in 1994. Under the mentorship of Dr. Scott Denne she examined the effect of exogenous insulin on protein metabolism in extremely premature neonates using stable isotope techniques. Upon completing the studies the work was presented at the national Society for Pediatric Research meeting where she won the Fellow's Clinical Research Award. For subsequent work she won the Frederick M. Kenny Memorial Trainee Investigator Award from the Midwest Society for Pediatric Research. Dr. Poindexter was awarded a National Research Service Award from the NIH to conduct the above studies. Upon completing her fellowship in 1997, Dr. Poindexter was awarded a Clinical Associate Physician (CAP) award from the NIH and she joined the faculty as a Lecturer in Pediatrics. One year later, Dr. Poindexter was appointed as an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics and her NIH CAP award was renewed for an additional two years. She is currently leading a national collaborative study to examine the role of glutamine supplementation with early parenteral nutrition in decreasing the risk of death or late-onset sepsis in extremely low birthweight infants. The Neonatal Research Network composed of 14 academic institutions and the National Institute of Child Health and Development is conducting this study
DiMeglio, Linda, MD (Endocrinology Fellow 1996 - 1999)
Dr.
DiMeglio is an Assistant Professor at IUSM in the Department of Pediatrics in
the Division of Endocrinology, in her second year in a faculty position at IUSM. After her fellowship training under the mentorship of Dr. Ora Pescovitz, Dr. DiMeglio is currently actively engaged in the investigation of pediatric bone disease. She has focused on a novel trial of bisphosphonate treatment of children with osteogenesis imperfecta. In addition, Dr. DiMeglio has initiated the first large-scale clinical trial of insulin pump therapy in toddlers. This highly successful study is currently in its second year. Dr. DiMeglio is the recipient of a K23 award, a Genentech Fellowship and was also awarded a Career Development Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
Ragg, Susanne, MD, PhD (Hematology/Oncology Fellow 1996 - 1999)
Dr. Ragg is
a Lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology) at IUSM and
also currently doing a fellowship at the Regenstrief Institute. Working with Dr. David Williams during her fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology, Dr. Ragg used a mouse model to test strategies for improving chemoresistance of bone marrow stem cells by retroviral-mediated gene transfer of DNA repair enzymes. Dr. Ragg received three grants during and immediately following her fellowship, a William Kennedy Research Fellowship from the National Childhood Cancer Foundation, an American Society of Hematology Fellowship grant, and a grant from the Clarian Health Partners Values Fund for Research. Dr. Ragg's scientific interest in cancer chemoresistance has now shifted to a genomics approach, and in 2000 she began a fellowship in Medical Informatics/Bioinformatics at the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, working with Dr. Clem McDonald (Regenstrief) and Dr. Howard Edenberg (Biochemistry) on the integration of clinical and microarray data in childhood leukemia. She has just received a pilot grant from the American Cancer Society to continue this work, which she will pursue as a faculty member in the Section of Hematology/Oncology.
Past Pediatric Subspecialty Trainees in Collaborative Programs
Swigonski, Nancy, MD, MPH, (Fellow 1993-1996)
Dr. Swigonski is an associate professor of pediatrics at Indiana University
in the Section of Health Services Research, Department of Pediatrics
and currently the principal investigator on a study of the impact of
Medicaid on children with special health care needs (R01 ARHQ) and
an evaluation of the Indiana Medical Home Project (HRSA/MCHB). She
has been principal investigator on a project to evaluate the impact
of the Oregon Health Care Program on children (ARHQ) and was an investigator
on an HRSA/MCHB project to evaluate the Indianapolis Healthy Start
program.
Rosenman, Marc, MD
Dr. Rosenman is currently a third year fellow in pediatric health services
research and is board eligible in internal medicine and pediatrics. Dr.
Rosenman works closely with members of the Adolescent Medicine faculty: Drs
Mahon, Swigonski, and Fortenberry. He participated on an epidemiologic
study of the risk of pyloric stenosis in newborns who received erythromycin
that was recently published in Pediatrics. Dr. Rosenman is currently
working on a claims-based analysis of continuity of care and quality
of care in Medicaid and SCHIP populations and a cost-benefit analysis
of treating newborns with asymptomatic infections with C. trachomatis. He
received the Indiana University Fellows Research Award in 2001.
