Our current fellows and their current research projects are:

James Earl Jones, DO -Third Year 2007-2010
DO, Nova Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine
Ped Residency,Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC
Research Interests- Quality improvement project evaluating the current practices of obtaining blood cultures to diagnose and treat neonatal sepsis.

jamjones@wfubmc.edu

Stephen B. Wade, MD -Third Year 2007-2010
MD, University of Texas Houston Medical School
Ped Residency, Wake Forest Univ Baptist Medical Center
Research Interests- Quality improvement project evaluating a protocol defining routine screening for pulmonary hypertension in infants with chronic lung disease. Also, evaluating cardiac echocardiogram interreader reliability when screening for neonatal pulmonary hypertension.
swade@wfubmc.edu

Julie R. Gooding, MD - Second Year 2008-2011
MD, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA
Ped Residency, Greenville Hospital System Medical Center, Children's Hospital
Research Interests- Quality improvement project evaluating the impact of providing banked donor breast milk to preterm VLBW infants on growth and risk for late onset neonatal sepsis.

jgooding@wfubmc.edu


Rebecca Raczynski, MD - Second Year 2008-2011
MD, UMDNJ, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Ped Residency, Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, Norfolk, VA
Research Interests- Study of the effect of sepsis on amplitude-integrated EEG in extremely low gestational age newborns.

rracsyns@wfubmc.edu


Kristen Boswell, MD -First Year 2009-2012
MD, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Ped Residency, University of NC Chapel Hill
Research Interests- Project TBD

kboswell@wfubmc.edu

Marie Caroline Hetu, MD - First Year 2009-2012
MD, Univ. Iberoamericana, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Ped Residency, Univ of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
Research Interests- Project TBD


mhetu@wfubmc.edu


Other opportunities for scholarly projects include participation in ongoing research studies as follows:

• Blood pressure during adolescence in very low birth weight children at 14 years of age
• Heart rate characteristics monitoring for early diagnosis of sepsis: a randomized controlled trial
• Maternally administered interventions for very low birth weight infants: a randomized trial
• Case control study of the genetic determinants of intraventricular hemorrhage

Previous Fellows

• Mohamed Hassan (Completed June 2002) Providence Health System in Portland, Oregon
• Olu Adesanya (Completed December 2002) University of New Mexico Health Sciences System
• Beatrice Stefanescu (Completed June 2004) WFUSM Faculty 
• Karen Binns Loveman (Completed June 2004) Carilion Health System in Roanoke, Virginia
• Marta (Mavi) Thakkar (Completed June 2005) Aurora Health Care Group in Franklin, Wisconsin
• Brady Kerr (Completed June 2005) Nebraska Methodist Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska
• Eric Coates (Completed June 2006) Palmetto Health Baptist Group in Columbia, South Carolina 
• Kevin Addison (Completed June 2006) Lake Norman Regional Medical Center, Lake Norman, North Carolina
• Heather Furlong (Completed June 2006) WFUSM Faculty
• Jennifer Helderman (Completed June 2007) WFUSM Faculty
• Hiren Patel (Completed June 2008) Carilion Health System in Roanoke, Virginia
• Semsa Gogcu (Completed July 2008) Pediatrics in New York, New York
• Tony Ray Hampton, MD (Completed June 2009), Pensacola, Florida
• Ray D. Hayes, DO (Completed June 2009), Pennsylvania