2012 Benjamin H. Kean Traveling Fellowship in Tropical Medicine

This fellowship is designed to support medical students, house staff and fellows involved in clinical or research electives in tropical areas. Congratulations to the 2012 Kean Fellows:

[photo coming soon] Jasmine Beria, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
A prospective study using electrocardiograms as a potential screening tool for the detection of chronic Chagas' Disease in an endemic population

Geoffrey Buckle, University of Massachusetts Medical School
A knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) survey to understand health-seeking behavior of parents and guardians and barriers to prompt diagnosis and treatment for children with endemic Burkitt's lymphoma (eBL) in western Kenya

 

 

Jeffrey Campbell, Harvard Medical School
Comparison of sel-freported and electronically-assessed adherence to insecticide treated bed nets in Mbarara, Uganda

 

 

 

Jamie Carter, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Investigating risk factors for and genetic diversity of calcivirus infection in Nicaragua: A study to inform future pediatric diarrhea control efforts

 

 

 

 

Shama Cash-Goldwasser, McGill University
Clinical elective in pediatric infectious disease Kilifi, Kenya, with a focus on clinical research on malaria treatment

 

 

 

Jennifer Emberger, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Measuring socio-economic status in a malaria cross-sectional study

 

 

 

 

 

William Garneau, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Improving inpatient hospital care

 

 

Mariah Kincaid, Tufts University School of Medicine
Reducing maternal stress due to infection, malnutrition and psychosocial conditions of poverty: A new paradigm for tackling infant stunting

 

 

 

 

Christian Larsen, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Evaluating treatment failures in P. falciparum treated with artemisinin combination therapy in Myanmar

 

 

 

[photo coming soon] Elyse LeeVan, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Disease determinants of urban leftospirosis

Blair Murphy, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Assessment of cord blood vitamin D levels and serological evidence of maternal influenza infection in rural Honduras

 

 

 

Karen Ocwieja, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Phylogeography and molecular epidemiology of an epidemic strain of dengue in Sri Lanka

 

 

 

Juliana Odetunde, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Study of sclerostin P as a possible marker of insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes mellitus and chronic hepatitis C virus

 

 

 

Samuel Porter, Mayo Medical School
Echocardiography in infantile beriberi

 

 

 

 

Duncan Reid, Yale University
Macrophage migration inhibitory factor polymorphisms and disease susceptibility in tuberculosis patients in South Africa

 

 

Jared Rowe, University of Minnesota
Immune inflammatory syndromes associated with meningitis and encephalomyelitis: Antigen stimulation and immune function sub-project

 

 

 

Sarah Schaffer DeRoo, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Population genomics of artemisinin-resistant malaria in Southeast Asia

 

 

 

Tarak Trivedi, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Measuring the effects of treatment for parasites on nutritional status in Ecuadorian children

 

 

 

 

Eric Wohlford, SUNY Update Medical University
The effects of acute malaria on B cell phenotype and infection of B cells by Epstein Barr virus

 

 

 

 

 

Sandra Zaeh, Emory University School of Medicine
Enhanced active TB case finding among HIV-infected patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, through implementation of a WHO-recommended algorithm