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Richard Bole, PhD

• Presentation:
  • Boles, RE. (2024, November 2-6). Family-Based Behavioral Interventions for Obesity Treatment as part of Holistic Pediatric Obesity Care, invited Panel discussion. Sub-track; Pediatrics, Track 5: Clinical/Professional Practice. Obesity Week/ The Obesity Society, San Antonio, TX, United States. 
• Peer-reviewed papers:
  • Boles RE, Moore JM. Psychosocial outcomes after adolescent metabolic and bariatric surgery: a narrative review of the literature. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2024 Sep 14:S1550-7289(24)00808-6. PMID: 39379258.
  • Fleming, M., Jenkins, T. M., Inge, T., Fenchel, M., Boles, R.E., Courcoulas, A., Michalsky, M. P. Weight Loss and Health Status Ten Years after Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band Insertion in Adolescents: A Follow-Up Report from Teen-LABS. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2024 (Accepted).
  • Burke E, Jenkins T, Boles RE, Mitchell JE, Inge T, Gunstad J; Teen-LABS Consortium. Cognitive function 10 years after adolescent bariatric surgery. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2024 Jul;20(7):614-620. PMID: 38413319.
  • Eygnor A, Angulo A, Cobian M, Wilson R, Coan E, Reynolds A, Friedman S, Boles RE. Assessing Community Needs for Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Review of Rural/Frontier Needs Through Community Outreach With Developmental Pediatrics. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2024 Nov;63(11):1568-1572.  PMID: 38379157.
  • Pratt KJ, Boles RE, Michalsky MP, Inge TH, Jenkins TM. Associations between marital status and weight loss trajectories entering into early adulthood: a Teen-LABS study. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2024 Apr;20(4):376-382.: 38267352.
  • Reaven J, Pickard K, Meyer AT, Hayutin L, Middleton C, Reyes NM, Tanda T, Stahmer A, Blakeley-Smith A, Boles RE. Implementing school-based cognitive behavior therapy for anxiety in students with autism or suspected autism via a train-the-trainer approach: Results from a clustered randomized trial. Autism. 2024 Feb;28(2):484-497. PMID: 37208894.

Kristen Boyle, PhD, received the following grant

• Sanford Center for Pediatric Research COBRE Award (Baack, M) 10/01/2024 – 09/30/2025, InvitroWOMB: A human, precision-based model to test developmental microenvironment-mediated metabolic disease susceptibility.  The goal of this study is to advance the development of a model designed to use umbilical cord tissue and blood samples, which would typically be discarded after birth, to predict a baby’s risk of future disease and then guide personalized interventions that improve their health over their lifetime.  Role: Co-investigator

Stephanie Gilley, MD, PhD, and Nancy Krebs, MD

• published a editorial about zinc in preterm infants, called “Rethinking Zinc – Do We Need Catch-up Evidence or Just Catch-up Care?”  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2161831324001546?via%3Dihub
• Dr. Stephanie Gilley was featured in U.S. News & World Report last week! You can find the story here: Scurvy: Symptoms, Causes and Treatments
• Stephanie gave an invited talk on 10/25/2024 at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine called “Should We Feed Babies Differently Based on Maternal Nutrition Status during Pregnancy.”

Noel Mueller, PhD

• Bohn B, Mueller NT. Associations of gut microbiota features and circulating metabolites with systemic inflammation in children. BMJ Open Gastroenterology. 2024; in press.
• Wagner P, Mueller NT. Intra-tumoral lymphocyte scoring in colorectal cancer: improving prognostic utility and correlation with underlying cancer biology. Frontiers in Gastroenterology. 2024; in press
• Gribsholt SB, Szépligeti SK, Sørensen HT, Mueller NT, Karagas MK, Ehrenstein V.  Prenatal and early-life anti-infectives and obesity at age 7 years. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2024; in press.

Darleen Sandoval, PhD

• Presentations given
  • Navigating the career path of a gut-brain axis researcher; California Polytechnical Institute NIH T34 program, San Luis Opisbo, CA, October 2024
  • Biological Sex Differences in Gut-Brain Axis Regulation of Metabolism, Women’s Health Center Research Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 2024
• Invitations to speak
  • Gut/Brain Axis Keystone meeting 2026
  • Obesity Therapeutics Keystone meeting 2026