Date Topic
September 21, 2017 Laura Payne, PhD Adjunct Assistant Professor & Research Director Pediatric Pain & Palliative Care Program, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology 
Topic: Brain & Behavior
“From mechanisms to intervention: Central pain processes in primary dysmenorrhea"
19-Oct-17 Harley Kornblum, MD, PhD, Professor, Psychiatry, Pharmacology & Pediatric Neurology 
Topic: Brain & Behavior
“Work in progress: Studies on the brain tumor microenvironment"
16-Nov-17 Annabelle de St. Maurice, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Disease 
Topic: Infection, Inflammation & Immunity
“Applied epidemiology in local and global settings”
14-Dec-17 Andreas Schwingshackl, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Critical Care
Topic: Infection, Inflammation & Immunity
“The role of stretch-activated potassium channels in ventilator-induced lung injury”
18-Jan-18 Suhas Kallapur, MD, Professor & Division Chief, Pediatric Neonatology
Topic: Infection, Inflammation & Immunity 
“The preterm birth enigma: Intrauterine inflammation” 
15-Feb-18 Joyce Y. Wu, MD, Associate Professor, Pediatric Neurology
Topic: Brain & Behavior
“Pediatric epilepsy: Challenges, biomarkers,…and prevention?”
15-Mar-18 Grace Aldrovandi, MD, Professor & Division Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Topic: Neonatal Health & Development
“Building healthy babies”
19-Apr-18 Steven Mittelman, MD, PhD, Associate Professor & Division Chief, Pediatric Endocrinology
Topic: Nutrition, Metabolism & Growth
"Fat cell protection of acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells"
17-May-18
Jeffrey A. Whitsett, MD, Professor & Chief, Neonatology; University of Cincinnati
Topics: Neonatal Health & Development
“Building the pulmonary alveoli: Cell by cell”
21-Jun-18 Lonnie Zeltzer, MD, Professor & Director Pediatric Pain & Palliative Care Program, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
Topic: Brain & Behavior
“Neurobiology and mind-body interventions”