This session will be based on the TV show Shark Tank, where investors pitch their product ideas to venture capitalists, who in turn provide feedback – and sometimes funding to get a project off the ground and into the marketplace.

Selected early career and trainee researchers who represent diverse/minority groups will be invited to come to pitch their ideas on how to enhance diversity in research to a panel of judges.

Goal: To create an environment that encouraged creativity and sharing toward enhancing diversity in the research workforce.

Prize: $500 and complimentary registration to PAS

Moderators:	Patricia M. Vuguin, MD Vivien Yap
Sponsors:	Suhasini Kaushal Sirpriya Sundararajan

Sponsors: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
American Academy of Pediatrics – Section on Neonatology
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Moderators:

Munmun Rawat Nicole Spillane

Elucidating Social and Chemical Environmental Determinants of Health Disparities: Promise of the Exposome
Rosalind J. Wright, MD, MPH
Dean of Translational Research, Mount Sinai, New York, NY

Sponsor: Reckitt/Mead Johnson

Sponsored by AFMR
Introductions: Lora Kasselman
Andrea L. Hahn

	Olanrewaju (Lanre) Falusi, MD Dr. Falusi is Associate Program Director of the Pediatric Residency Program at Children’s National Hospital, Director of the Leadership in Advocacy, Under - resourced Communities and Health equity (LAUnCH) Track, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington DC.
	Enrique Escalante, MD, MSHS Dr. Escalante is Assistant Program Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the Pediatric Residency Program at Children’s National Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington DC.
Panelists:
	Peter G. Asante, MD Dr. Asante is a general pediatrician, Medical Director of the Teen Health Clinic at Yakima Pediatrics, Community Health of Central Washington, and Chair of Pediatrics at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital in Yakima, Washington.
	Abena Knight Dr. Knight is Associate Vice Chair of Education, Associate Clerkship Director of Inpatient Pediatrics, and Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine/Seattle Children’s Hospital in Seattle, WA.
	Donna de Levante Raphael, PhD Donna is the Director of the National Memory Screening Program at the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. Donna de Levante Raphael has over 12 years of experience in developing, implementing, and managing meaningful high - impact programs that improves quality, relevance, and sustainability of diverse and inclusive initiatives. Ten years of recognizing the need for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia education for professional staff and diverse communities. Donna also facilitates the Medical, Scientific & Memory Screening Board. She is a member of The Gerontological Society of America, TAU Upsilon Alpha (National Human Services Honor Society), International Federation on Aging and American Public Health Association. She is also DOEA approved ADRD trainer with an approved ADRD curriculum and works closely with Long term Care facilities who require training in ADRD Level 1 & 2. Donna is also a doctoral candidate of Human and Social Services majoring in Social Gerontology.
	Orla O'Donoghue, PhD Orla O'Donoghue received her PhD in Neuroscience from University College Cork, Ireland. She is director of Problem based learning (PBL) and director of Neuroanatomical sciences at NYU Long Island school of Medicine, in New York. She has an immense interest in active learning and medical education research, and has taught over ten thousand medical students across the world in multiple venues, from cruise ships, to hotels, to in the dark.

Sponsors: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Yale University School of Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine-Infectious Disease
Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital
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