Member Newsletter – December 2025
2025 Annual Meeting Highlights
Meeting Photos: View photo highlights from the annual meeting. Please note: Link available until February 1; use of any photo must be accompanied by photo: Corey Nason Reese.
Council Elections
Thank you to outgoing council members
- Irina Buhimschi – Past President, Obstetrics Track
- Krithika Lingappan – Pediatrics Track
- Karin Fox – Obstetrics Track
- Kristen Boyle – Basic Sciences Track
Welcome to the new incoming council members
- Laura Goetzl – President-elect, Obstetrics Track
- Anna Palatnik – Obstetrics Track
- Tina Findley – Pediatrics Track
- Craig Bierle – Basic Sciences Track
NIH–Mead Johnson Nutrition Workshop Attendees
Congratulations to the Young Investigators who were selected to participate.
| Obstetrics | Pediatrics | Basic Sciences |
|---|---|---|
| Emily B. Rosenfeld | Maxwell Mathias | Emmanuel Amabebe |
| Emily Hamburg-Shields | Nikita Kalluri | Robin Roychaudhuri |
| Nina K. Ayala | Michael Cookson | Mariana Sponchiado |
| Sydney Dautel | Matt Douglass | Lisa Matz |
| Adam Crosland | Eric B. McClellan | Paula Magnelli Mangiavacchi |
| Minhazur Sarker | Rachel Leon | Anthony Wang |
Young Investigator Presidential Cassady Award Winner
- Congratulations to Rachel Leon
Associate Member Paper Prize Winners
- Dorothy K. Sojka | Basic Science
Tissue-Resident Natural Killer Cells Derived from Conventional Natural Killer Cells are Regulated by Progesterone in the Uterus
PubMed Link - Nathan Blue | Obstetrics
AI-based analysis of fetal growth restriction in a prospective obstetric cohort quantifies compound risks for perinatal morbidity and mortality and identifies previously unrecognized high risk clinical scenarios
PubMed Link - Ashraf Kharrat | Pediatrics
Cardiopulmonary Physiology of Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure Among Preterm Infants with Septic Shock
PubMed Link
PRS Team Building Event at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
- Congratulations to the “Bears” on winning Zoo Trivia
Secretary’s Corner | Stephanie Wesolowski
- We are trying something new with this inaugural newsletter. We hope to send out quarterly newsletters next year with important reminders, details about the upcoming annual meeting, and member highlights within each track. Special thanks to council members Sarah Cilvik and Sarah Wernimont for their help launching this, along with Diane Hitchcock and Corey Reese.
- As a reminder, to maintain active membership status as an Associate or Full member, you must pay your dues annually and attend at least one annual meeting every three years. If you received an email this month to pay your 2025 dues, please do so by the end of December.
- 2026 membership dues can be paid here for full and associate members.
- If you have information you would like shared with the membership, please send to: staff@perinatalresearchsociety.org
2026 Meeting – Save the Date!
September 18–20, 2026
Banff, Alberta, Canada