53rd Annual Duke School of Medicine Student Research Symposium

7:00 am - 7:45 am 

Breakfast

  TSCHE Great Hall Atrium

8:00-8:45 am  •  Keynote Address 

Kanecia Zimmerman, MD, MPH
Using Research to Navigate Global Pandemic with K-12 Schools
TSCHE Great Hall

8:45-11:00 am 

Platform Presentations
  TSCHE Great Hall

11:00 - 1:15 pm

Poster Presentations
  TSCHE 6^th Floor

12:00 pm 

Lunch

  Pick up in TSCHE Learning Hall

1:30 - 2:15 pm      

Updates on Patient FIRST Curriculum and New Medical Education Initiatives
TSCHE Great Hall

Ed Buckley, MD, Vice Dean for Medical Education
Aditee Narayan, MD, MPH, Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs

2:15 - 2:45 pm 

Student address

2:45 - 3:00 pm

Awards and closing remarks

Kanecia Zimmerman, MD, MPH

Dr. Zimmerman is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Critical Care Medicine at Duke University and a faculty member at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Dr. Zimmerman leads the day-to-day activities of the Pediatric Trials Network (PTN), a $96 million contract awarded from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to Duke University to study off-patent drugs in children and update pediatric drug labels, and chairs the PTN Steering Committee. Dr. Zimmerman is the Principal Investigator and IND holder for multiple multisite trials. She also leads an FDA-funded program on the identification and validation of clinical outcome assessments for evaluating pain in infants and young children. In addition, Dr. Zimmerman developed and leads the PTN’s program of patient and family engagement. Moreover, she has a sincere commitment to educating future scientists through leadership of the NICHD-funded Unified Program for Therapeutics in Children (UPTiC) T32 program and co-PI for the Duke Summer Training in Academic Research (STAR) Program.  Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Zimmerman and colleague, Dr. Danny Benjamin, created the ABC Science Collaborative to support safe reopening of K-12 schools and currently lead an NIH-funded program to investigate COVID-19 testing and mitigation strategies in K-12 schools. Dr. Zimmerman received her MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006 and MD from Duke University Medical Center in 2007. She completed residency training in Internal medicine and Pediatrics at Duke, followed by Chief residency in Pediatrics and fellowship in critical care medicine and clinical research at the Duke School of Medicine and Duke Clinical Research Institute, respectively. She is currently pursuing her PhD in epidemiology from UNC .