2018 Award Winners

Student Prize Paper Award:   Keewan Kim, Ph.D.

Epidemiology Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and  Human Development

Title: Shorter time to pregnancy with increasing preconception carotene concentrations among women with 1 to 2 previous pregnancy losses

Mentor: Sunni Mumford, Ph.D.

 

 

 

 

Heinz-Berendes International Travel Award: Ayoub Mitha, M.D.

Neonatal Unit Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre, Lille, France

Title: Unit policies and breastfeeding at discharge of very preterm infants: The EPIPAGE-2.

 

 

 

 

Rising Star AwardJonathan Snowden, Ph.D.

School of Public Health, Oregon Health & Sciences University

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mentoring Award:  Pierre Buekens, M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health &

Tropical Medicine, Tulane University.

 

 

 

 

 

President’s AwardDanelle Lobdell, Ph.D.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

 

 

 

 

 


Trainee Poster Awards

 Winners:

 Elizabeth DeVilbiss, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

  • Title: High pre-conceptional homocysteine is associated with elevated risk of pregnancy loss among fertile folate-replete women with prior history of loss
  • Coauthors: Sunni Mumford, Lindsey Sjaarda, Matthew Connell, Keewan Kim, James Mills, Enrique Schisterman

Carrie Nobles, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

  • Title: Preconception blood pressure levels and vascular-related pregnancy complications
  • Co-authors: Pauline Mendola, Sunni Mumford, Robert Silver, Keewan Kim, Matthew Connell, Lindsey Sjaarda, Neil Perkins, Enrique Schisterman

Honorable Mentions:

Andrew Williams, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

  • Title: Asian/Pacific Islanders experience higher risk for gestational diabetes than other U.S. women exposed to volatile organic compounds in ambient air
  • CoAuthors: Carrie Nobles, Katherine Grantz, Cuilin Zhang, Seth Sherman, Pauline Mendola

Laura Schummers, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

  • Title: Does the relationship between short interpregnancy interval and adverse pregnancy outcomes vary by maternal age?
  • Co-Authors: Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, Jennifer Hutcheon, Paige Williams, Michele Hacker, Tyler VanderWeele, Wendy Norman