Young Investigators Research Forum

2023 YIRF Young Investigators

Sydney Aten, PhD1      
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School

Lauren Barber, PhD, MSc
Emory University

Anthony Briggs, PhD
NYU Langone Health

Leandro Brito, PhD1      
Oregon Health and Science University

Yi Cai, MD
University of Pennsylvania

Christopher Cano, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital

Katie Cederberg, PhD
Stanford University

Rebecca Cox, PhD
University of Colorado

Johanna Elumn, PhD
Yale University

Sarah Ferraro, PhD
Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Desiree Garcia Anton, MD
University of Miami

Chenlu Gao, PhD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital

Luciana Giorgio Cosenzo, PhD, MSW1      
University of Alabama School of Social Work

Suzanne Gorovoy, PhD
University of Arizona

Ian Greenlund, PhD1      
Mayo Clinic

Nicole Gumport, PhD
Stanford University

Amy Hartman, PhD, OTR/L1      
University of Pittsburgh

Melissa Horger, PhD
Temple University

Asuka Ishihara, PhD
National Institute of Health

Sullafa Kadura, MD, MBA
University of Rochester Medical Center

Jess Meyer, PhD, MS, MA
University of Kansas Medical Center

Alyssa Minnick, PhD
University of Pennsylvania

Ogechukwu Obiano, MD
University of Iowa

Shameka Phillips, PhD, MSN
University of Washington

Sachin Shah, MD, MS
Indiana University School of Medicine

Oleksii Shandra, PhD
Florida International University

Cynthia Tchio, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Zhikui Wei, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Chia-Lun Yang, PhD
University of Michigan

Westley Youngren, PhD
Canandaigua VA Center of Excellence for Suicide Research

1Supported by the Sleep Research Society Foundation

Kiran Maski, MD, MPH (Chair) Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital
James Timothy McKenna, PhD (Vice Chair) Harvard Medical School
Ruth M. Benca, MD, PhD Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Philip Cheng, PhD Henry Ford Health System
Raj Dedhia, MD University of Pennsylvania
Chandra Jackson, PhD National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Reena Mehra, MD, MS Cleveland Clinic
Sairam Parthasarathy, MD University of Arizona
Jared Saletin, PhD Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Katie Lee Stone, PhD, MA California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute
Andrew W. Varga, MD, PhD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Sigrid Veasey, MD University of Pennsylvania
Kenneth Wright, Jr., PhD University of Colorado