Welcome to the University of Colorado School of Medicine on the Anschutz Medical Campus. We are a Top Ten Medical School in primary care, pediatrics, family medicine and rural medicine, and offer physical therapy and physician assistant programs.

Jennifer Armstrong-Wells, MD, MPH – Assistant Professor Pediatrics, Neurology

Project Title: Biomarkers of inflammation and hypercoagulability in Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes (PPROM) as risk factors in perinatal brain injury

Research Areas: Cardiovascular; pregnancy; fetal brain injury; neonatology; neurology

Megan Moriarty Kelsey, MD, MS - Assistant Professor, Pediatric Endocrinology

Project Title: Health Influences of Puberty (HIP) Study

Research Areas: Obesity and insulin resistance in children and adolescents

Hong Wang, PhD - Assistant Professor Medicine, Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes

Project Title: The Role of Circadian Rhythm and Behavior Abnormality in the Gender Difference Observed in Obesity Development

Research Areas: Molecular metabolism including the pursuit of mechanisms underlying obesity and disorders of lipid metabolism.

Kristen Boyle, PhD - Department of Pediatrics

Project Title:  Maternal Programming of Fetal Stem Cells

Research Areas: Effects of obesity during pregnancy on the fetal development.

Colleen Julian, PhD - Research Instructor

Project Title: Hypoxia-associated impairment of fetal growth: epigenomic perspectives

Research Areas: To understand the mechanisms by which hypoxia impairs maternal adaptation to pregnancy and fetal growth, and to evaluate whether the detrimental consequences of these effects for immediate and long-term health of the child are sexspecific.

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