Paula Dias Maia, MD, fellow in neonatal-perinatal medicine in the Department of Pediatrics, has received the PROSPER Diversity Award from the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR). The PRomotion of FellOwS‘ PEdiatric Research (PROSPER) Diversity Award provides material support and mentoring for a one-year pediatric research project that will facilitate an academic research-focused career trajectory for fellows from under-represented in medicine background(s). Her current research at the Colorado Pulmonary Heart Lung Center focuses on understanding the effects of antenatal inflammation on pulmonary endothelial cell diversity and cardiopulmonary sequelae.
Michael Cookson, MD, MHS, fellow in neonatal-perinatal medicine in the Department of Pediatrics, has received one of SPR's abstract related Basic Research Award for Fellows, sponsored by the Junior SPR Members' Section. These awards are designed to encourage pediatricians in training to pursue careers in academic pediatrics. Cookson's work within the Pediatric Heart Lung Center at Children's Hospital Colorado has been to better understand how the adverse intrauterine environment of preeclampsia contributes to the chronic lung disease of prematurity, bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD).
