Residency Scholarship

2026

• Burns, J. Using Storytelling to Improve Plant-Forward Habits in Child-Caregiver Pairs (2026 AMWA and PA AAP poster presentation) 
• Diaz – Mejia, R and Olivares, K. Lingual Frenotomy for Ankyloglossia with Feeding Difficulty in Bottle-Fed Infants: A case series (PA AAP 2026 poster presentation) 
• Onyenaka, A. Efficacy of Oral Glucose Gel in Preventing NICU admissions for neonatal hypoglycemia and supporting exclusive breastfeeding (Poster Presentation PA AAP 2026 and resident research day quick shot presentation) 
• Pitts, A. “Impact of Prophylaxis on Illness Severity and Hospitalization in Infants and Children with RSV bronchiolitis” (Poster presentation, PA AAP, 2026 and resident research day presentation – 2^nd place) 
• Weaner, R. Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension in a Case of Neuroborreliosis in a Pediatric Patient (Quick shot presentation, Resident Research Day 2026) 

2025

• Joseph, A. “Implementing Standardized Family-Centered Rounds to Improve Satisfaction in Communication and Perceived Quality of Care” (St. Luke’s Research Symposium 2025 – 3rd Place and Network Quality Awards Honorable Mention 2025) 
• Joseph, A. "Rapid Enlargement of Choledochal Cyst in Infant with ATP143 Gene Mutation“ (Poster Presentation NASPGHAN 2025) 
• Joseph, A. "Collagenous Gastritis: A Rare Cause of Iron Deficiency Anemia and Elevated Fecal Calprotectin" (Poster presentation NASPGHAN 2025) 
• Okouneva, Y. “Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome or Orofacial Crohn’s Disease” (Poster Presentation NASPGHAN 2025) 
• Varghese, R. “A Quality Improvement Initiative on Implementing and Guiding Hyperbilirubinemia Management Using EMR Integration with a Unit Focus” (Poster presentation, AAP NCE, 2025 and Resident Research day 2025 podium presentation) 
• Youssef, C. The Salmonella Chronicles: A Case Series of Bacteremia, Osteomyelitis and Enterocolitis (Poster presentation at the PA AAP 2025) 

2024

• Joseph, A. “Associations of Gastric/Esophageal Sarcina ventriculi Infection in Pediatrics”  (Poster presentation NASPGHAN 2024) 
• Joseph, A. and Okouneva , Y “Gastric Polyps as Endoscopic Presentation of Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis” (Poster presentation NASPGHAN 2024) 
• Payne, P. Evaluation of congenital syphilis trends in the Lehigh Valley  (Poster presentation, PA AAP conference, 2024)