Junior Investigator Session

Thursday, March 18th
Goal: 

To encourage and support multidisciplinary research by investigators in or recently graduated from training programs dealing with cleft and craniofacial evaluation and treatment.

Objective: 

Attendees will be able to identify and discuss three research questions related to cleft and craniofacial care.

Session Chair: 

Sidney B. Eisig, DDS

Session Co-Chair: 

Gregory E. Lakin, MD

Schedule

47
8:00am

ASSESSING THE EFFICACY OF INTERVAL CRANIOPLASTY FLAPS IN VIVO AND IN VITRO
Sultan, Schachar, Davidson, Butala, Knobel, Witek, Ricci, Saadeh, Warren

48
8:10am

SERIAL HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE AND NEURODEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING AFTER SURGICAL CORRECTION FOR SINGLE- AND MULTIPLE-SUTURE CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS
Carlisle, Sykes, Mehta, Singhal

49
8:20am

ASSOCIATED FACTORS FOR HYPONATREMIA IN SURGICAL CORRECTION OF CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS IN CHILDREN
Bykowski, Naran, Grunwaldt, Schmitt, Moritz, Pollack, Losee, Cladis

8:30am

DISCUSSION

50
8:40am

DOES SIDE OF CLEFT MATTER? PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE FOR THE DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF LEFT AND RIGHT CLEFTS ON BRAIN STRUCTURE AND RELATED BEHAVIOR
van der Plas, Nopoulos

51
8:50am

THREE-DIMENSIONAL UPPER AIRWAY SPACIAL CHANGES FOLLOWING ORTHOGNATHIC SURGERY FOR PATIENTS WITH CLASS III MALOCCLUSION
Groh, Zhao, O'Gara, Curtis, Monahan, Morris, Patel

52
9:00am

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CONSECUTIVE UNILATERAL CLEFT LIP REPAIRS: DETERMINING IDEAL SAMPLE SIZE
Power, Matic

9:10am

DISCUSSION

53
9:20am

MESODERMAL ROLE IN MANDIBULAR DEVELOPMENT
Carpenter, Aggarwal, Morrow

54
9:30am

IRF6 AS A DOWNSTREAM EFFECTOR OF β SIGNALING IN PALATOGENESIS: IN UTERO SOMATIC DELIVERY OF AD-IRF6 RESCUES THE PALATAL FUSION DEFECT IN β KO MICE
Wu, Yang, Salhab, Kirschner, Nah

55
9:40am

IN VITRO ASSESSMENT OF OSTEOBLAST BEHAVIOR IN INFANTS WITH CRANIOSYNOSTOSIS
Cypel, Leong, Pang, Dirks, Forrest

9:50am

DISCUSSION

10:00am

COFFEE BREAK AND JUNIOR INVESTIGATOR AWARD PANEL MEETING