The Penn State CTSI Education and Training Internal Advisory Panel (ETIAC) and Executive Committee are pleased to announce the recipients of the CTSI KL2 career development awards. From among the 19 submitted applications, 5 awardees have been selected. The selection process followed an NIH-style review first by the ETIAC. The top tier of applications was then submitted to the Executive Committee for selection based both on merit and programmatic considerations. Final approval was received from the NIH.
We’d like to congratulate the following junior faculty as they join our first cohort of CTSI KL2 scholars:
John Hustad, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences
Mentors: Drs. Rob Turrisi and Michael Hecht
Project: “Biological Personalized Feedback Intervention for Hazardous Alcohol Use”
Jennifer Kraschnewski, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences
Mentors: Drs. Christopher N. Sciamanna and Barbara J. Rolls
Project: “Impact of a Volunteer Peer‐led Intervention in Weight Control in Primary Care”
Kari Kugler, PhD, MPH
Research Associate, Methodology Center, College of Health and Human Development
Mentors: Drs. Linda M. Collins and Leann L. Birch
Project: “Building an Effective and Efficient Pediatric Obesity Preventive Intervention”
Gregory Lewis, PhD
Assistant Professor of Orthopedics
Mentors: Drs. Henry J. Donahue and April D. Armstrong
Project: “Development and Validation of Mechanobiological Computer Models Enabling Personalized Surgical Approaches”
Erica Saunders, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Mentors: Drs. Alan J. Gelenberg and Stanley I. Rapoport
Project: “Are inflammatory and HPA axis markers abnormal in patients with bipolar disorder who are manic, and are they modulated by treatment?”
