Noelene K. Jeffers, PhD, CNM, IBCLC
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Dr. Jeffers’ research aims to develop and test interventions to promote racial equity in maternal and reproductive health. She utilizes reproductive justice and Black feminist thought frameworks to create culturally specific interventions grounded in the needs and strengths of the Black community. Her current work focuses on using human-centered design to develop a midwifery-led intervention to improve the postpartum cardiometabolic health of Black women and birthing people with hypertensive disorders.
Primary mentor: Kelly Bower, MD
Jennifer Schramm, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Division of Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr. Schramm’s research focuses on the use of machine learning in pediatric cardiac critical care with her major project focused on predicting the development of necrotizing enterocolitis in neonates with congenital heart disease using data from PC4. Her future work will be utilizing precision medicine and physiologic wave forms to detect NEC before clinical symptoms develop and to study biomarkers of the disease. She is currently a PhD candidate in the GTPCI program at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Primary mentor: Allen Everett, MD
Daniel Belz, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr. Belz’ research focuses on the impact of socioeconomic disparities on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. His current work examines issues related to diet quality as potentially modifiable risk factors for hospital readmission following an acute exacerbation of COPD.
Primary mentor: Nadia Hansel, MD, MPH
The Clinical Research Scholars Program (K12, formerly KL2) is the collaborative effort of the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and is associated with the Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation and the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research. Funding for the Clinical Research Scholars Program is provided by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) through a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) administered by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).
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