2020 Research Papers

POSTERS A

  1. Learning to Ask Medical Questions using Reinforcement Learning
    Uri Shaham (Yale University); Tom Zahavy (DeepMind); Daisy Massey (Yale University); Shiwani Mahajan (Yale University); Cesar Caraballo (Yale University); Harlan Krumholz (Yale University)

  2. ScanMap: Supervised Confounding Aware Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Polygenic Risk Modeling
    Yuan Luo (Northwestern University); Chengsheng Mao (Northwestern University)

  3. An Evaluation of the Doctor-Interpretability of Generalized Additive Models with Interactions
    Stefan Hegselmann (University of Münster); Thomas Volkert (University Hospital Münster); Hendrik Ohlenburg (University Hospital Münster); Antje Gottschalk (University Hospital Münster); Martin Dugas (University of Münster); Christian Ertmer (University Hospital Münster)

  4. Towards Early Diagnosis of Epilepsy from EEG Data
    Diyuan Lu (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies); Sebastian Bauer (Neurology and Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, University Hospital Goethe-University); Valentin Neubert (Universitätsmedizin Rostock, Oscar-Langendorff-Institut für Physiologie, Rostock); Lara Costard (Tissue Engineering Research Group, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland); Felix Rosenow (Neurology and Epilepsy Center Frankfurt Rhine-Main, University Hospital Goethe-University); Jochen Triesch (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies)

  5. Developing Personalized Models of Blood Pressure Estimation from Wearable Sensors Data Using Minimally-trained Domain Adversarial Neural Networks
    Lida Zhang (Texas A&M University); Nathan Hurley (Texas A&M University); Bassem Ibrahim (Texas A&M University); Erica Spatz (Yale University); Harlan Krumholz ( Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation / Yale University); Roozbeh Jafari (Texas A&M University); Bobak J Mortazavi (Texas A&M University)

  6. Optimizing Influenza Vaccine Composition: A Machine Learning Approach
    Hari Bandi (MIT); Dimitris Bertsimas (MIT)

  7. Towards data-driven stroke rehabilitation via wearable sensors and deep learning
    Aakash Kaku (NYU Center for Data Science); Avinash Parnandi (NYU School of Medicine); Anita Venkatesan (NYU School of Medicine); Natasha Pandit (NYU School of Medicine); Heidi Schambra (NYU School of Medicine); Carlos Fernandez-Granda (NYU)

  8. Learning Insulin-Glucose Dynamics in the Wild
    Andy Miller (Apple); Nicholas Foti (Apple); Emily Fox (Apple)

  9. Knowledge-Base Completion for Constructing Problem-Oriented Medical Records
    James Mullenbach (ASAPP); Jordan Swartz; Greg McKelvey (ASAPP); Hui Dai (ASAPP); David Sontag (ASAPP)

  10. Neural Conditional Event Time Models
    Matthew Engelhard (Duke University); Samuel Berchuck (Duke University); Joshua D'Arcy (Duke University); Ricardo Henao (Duke University)

  11. Dynamically Extracting Outcome-Specific Problem Lists from Clinical Notes with Guided Multi-Headed Attention
    Justin Lovelace (Texas A&M University); Nathan Hurley (Texas A&M University); Adrian Haimovich (Yale University); Bobak J Mortazavi (Texas A&M University)

  12. Differentially Private Survival Function Estimation
    Lovedeep Singh Gondara (Simon Fraser University); Ke Wang (Simon Fraser University)

  13. Rotator Cuff Tears Diagnosis Using Weighted Linear Combination and Deep Learning
    Mijung Kim (Ghent University); Ho-min Park (Ghent University); Jae Yoon Kim (Chung-Ang University Hospital); Seong Hwan Kim (Chung-Ang University Hospital); Sofie Van Hoeke (Ghent University); Wesley De Neve (Ghent University)

  14. Personalized input-output hidden Markov models for disease progression modeling
    Kristen Severson (IBM Research); Lana Chahine (University of Pittsburgh); Luba Smolensky (Michael J. Fox Foundation); Kenney Ng (IBM Research); Jianying Hu (IBM); Soumya Ghosh (IBM Research)

  15. Phenotyping with Prior Knowledge
    Asif Rahman (Philips Research North America); Yale Chang (Philips Research North America); Bryan Conroy (Philips Research North America); Minnan Xu-Wilson ( Philips Research North America)

  16. Addressing Sample Size Challenges in Linked Data Through Data Fusion
    Srikesh Arunajadai (Kantar Inc.); Lulu Lee (Kantar Inc.); Tom Haskell (Kantar Inc.)

  17. A Causally Formulated Hazard Ratio Estimation through Backdoor Adjustment on Structural Causal Model
    Riddhiman Adib (Marquette University); Paul Griffin (Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering); Sheikh Ahamed (Marquette University); Mohammad Adibuzzaman (Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering)

  18. Comparisons Between Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and Maximum A Posteriori For A Bayesian Model For Apixaban Induction Dose & Dose Personalization
    Demetri Pananos (Western University); Daniel Lizotte (UWO)

  19. Evaluating and interpreting caption prediction for histopathology images
    Renyu Zhang (University of Chicago); Robert Grossman (University of Chicago); Christopher Weber (University of Chicago); Aly Khan ( Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago);

  20. Students Need More Attention: BERT-based Attention Model for Small Data with Application to Automatic Patient Message Triage
    Shijing Si (Duke University); Rui Wang (Duke University); Jedrek Wosik (Duke SOM); Hao Zhang (Duke University); David Dov (Duke University); Guoyin Wang (Duke University); Ricardo Henao (Duke University); Lawrence Carin Duke (CS)

  21. Attentive Adversarial Network for Large-Scale Sleep Staging
    Samaneh Nasiri Ghosheh Bolagh (Emory University); Gari Clifford (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory School of Medicine)

  22. Using deep networks for scientific discovery in physiological signals
    Uri Shalit (Technion); Danny Eytan (Technion); Bar Eini Porat (Technion, Israel institute of technology); Tom Beer (Technion)

POSTERS B

  1. Attention-based network for weak labels in neonatal seizure detection
    Dmitry Yu Isaev (Duke University); Dmitry Tchapyjnikov (Duke University); MIchael Cotten (Duke University); David Tanaka (Duke University); Natalia L Martinez (Duke University); Martin A Bertran (Duke University); Guillermo Sapiro (Duke University); David Carlson (Duke University)

  2. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Closed-Loop Blood Glucose Control
    Ian Fox (University of Michigan); Joyce Lee (University of Michigan); Rodica Busui (University of Michigan); Jenna Wiens (University of Michigan)

  3. Deep Kernel Survival Analysis and Subject-Specific Survival Time Prediction Intervals
    George H Chen (Carnegie Mellon University)

  4. Time-Aware Transformer-based Network for Clinical Notes Series Prediction
    Dongyu Zhang (Worcester Polytechnic Institute); Jidapa Thadajarassiri (Worcester Polytechnic Institute); Cansu Sen (WPI); Elke Rundensteiner (WPI)

  5. Transfer Learning from Well-Curated to Less-Resourced Populations with HIV
    Sonali Parbhoo (Harvard University); Mario Wieser (University of Basel); Volker Roth (University of Basel); Finale Doshi-Velez (Harvard)

  6. Towards an Automated SOAP Note: Classifying Utterances from Medical Conversations
    Benjamin J Schloss (Abridge AI); Sandeep Konam (Abridge AI)

  7. Query-Focused EHR Summarization to Aid Imaging Diagnosis
    Denis J McInerney (Northeastern); Borna Dabiri (Brigham and Women's Hospital); Anne-Sophie Touret (Brigham and Women's Hospital); Geoffrey Young (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School); Jan-Willem van de Meent (Northeastern University); Byron Wallace (Northeastern)

  8. Predicting Drug Sensitivity of Cancer Cell Lines via Collaborative Filtering with Contextual Attention
    Yifeng Tao (Carnegie Mellon University); Shuangxia Ren (University of Pittsburgh); Michael Ding (University of Pittsburgh); Russell Schwartz (Carnegie Mellon University); Xinghua Lu (University of Pittsburgh)

  9. Hidden Risks of Machine Learning Applied to Healthcare: Unintended Feedback Loops Between Models and Future Data Causing Model Degradation
    George A Adam (University of Toronto); Chun-Hao Chang (University of Toronto); Benjamin Haibe-Kains (University Health Network); Anna Goldenberg (University of Toronto)

  10. Self-Supervised Pretraining with DICOM metadata in Ultrasound Imaging
    Szu-Yeu Hu (Massachusetts General Hospital); Shuhang Wang (Massachusetts General Hospital); Wei-Hung Weng (MIT); Jingchao Wang (Massachusetts General Hospital); Xiaohong Wang (Massachusetts General Hospital); Arinc Ozturk (Massachusetts General Hospital); Qian Li (Massachusetts General Hospital); Viksit Kumar (Massachusetts General Hospital); Anthony Samir (MGH/MIT Center for Ultrasound Research & Translation)

  11. Deep Learning Applied to Chest X-Rays: Exploiting and Preventing Shortcuts
    Sarah Jabbour (University of Michigan); David Fouhey (University of Michigan); Ella Kazerooni (University of Michigan ); Michael Sjoding (University of Michigan); Jenna Wiens (University of Michigan)

  12. Clinical Collabsheets: 53 Questions to Guide a Clinical Collaboration
    Shems Saleh (Vector Institute); Willie Boag (MIT); Lauren Erdman (SickKids Hospital, Vector Institute, University of Toronto); Tristan Naumann (Microsoft Research Redmond, US)

  13. Non-invasive Classification of Alzheimer's Disease Using Eye Tracking and Language
    Hyeju Jang (University of British Columbia); Oswald Barral (The University of British Columbia); Giuseppe Carenini (University of British Columbia); Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia); Thalia Field (University of British Columbia); Thomas Soroski (University of British Columbia); Sheetal Shajan (University of British Columbia); Sally Newton-Mason (University of British Columbia)

  14. Fast, Structured Clinical Documentation via Contextual Autocomplete
    Divya Gopinath (MIT); Monica N Agrawal (MIT); Luke Murray (MIT); Steven Horng (BIDMC); David Karger (MIT); David Sontag (MIT)

  15. Comparing Machine Learning Techniques for Blood Glucose Forecasting Using Free-living and Patient Generated Data
    Hadia Hameed (Stevens Institute of Technology); Samantha Kleinberg (Stevens Institute of Technology)

  16. UPSTAGE: Unsupervised Context Augmentation for Utterance Classification in Patient-Provider Communication
    Do June Min (University of Michigan); Veronica Perez-Rosas (UMich); Stanley Kuo (University of Michigan); William Herman (University of Michigan); Rada Mihalcea (University of Michigan)

  17. ChexBERT: Approximating the CheXpert labeler for Speed, Differentiability, and Probabilistic Output
    Matthew BA McDermott (MIT); Tzu-Ming H Hsu (MIT); Wei-Hung Weng (MIT); Marzyeh Ghassemi (University of Toronto, Vector Institute); Peter Szolovits (MIT)

  18. Robust Benchmarking for Machine Learning of Clinical Entity Extraction
    Monica N Agrawal (MIT); Chloe O'Connell (Partners HealthCare); Ariel Levy (MIT); Yasmin Fatemi (Partners HealthCare); David Sontag (MIT)

  19. Preparing a Clinical Support Model for Silent Mode in General Internal Medicine
    Bret Nestor* (University of Toronto); Liam G. McCoy* (University of Toronto); Amol Verma (SMH); Chloe Pou-Prom (SMH); Joshua Murray (SMH), Sebnem Kuzulugil (SMH), David Dai (SMH), Muhammad Mamdani (SMH), Anna Goldenberg (University of Toronto, Vector Institute, SickKids); Marzyeh Ghassemi (University of Toronto, Vector Institute)

    *denotes equal contribution


  1. The Importance of Baseline Models in Sepsis Prediction

    Christopher Snyder (The University of Texas at Austin); Jared Ucherek (The University of Texas at Austin); Sriram Vishwanath(The University of Texas at Austin)

  2. Cross-Institutional Evaluation of SuperAlarm Algorithm for Predicting In-Hospital Code Blue Events

    Randall Lee, MD, PhD (University of California San Francisco); Ran Xiao, PhD (Duke University); Duc Do, MD (University of California Los Angeles), Cheng Ding, MS (Duke University); and Xiao Hu, PhD (Duke University)

  3. Deep learning approach for autonomous medical diagnosis in spanish language

    GJ. Daquarti​ (UMA); AE. Alfonso​ (UMA); F. Nanni​ (UMA); H. Ferrero​ (UMA); F. Murzone​ (UMA); AM. Groisman​ (UMA); F. Arias​ (UMA); J. Estevez​ (UMA)

  4. Neurovascular Coupling in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke

    Yuehua Pu​ (Beijing Tiantan Hospital); Kais Gadhoumi​ (​Duke University); Xiuyun Liu​ (Johns Hopkins University); Zhe Zhang​ (Beijing Tiantan Hospital); Liping Liu​ (Beijing Tiantan Hospital); Xiao Hu​ (​Duke University)

  5. Using Internet search terms to forecast opioid-related deaths in Connecticut

    Sumit Mukherjee* (Microsoft)​; William B. Weeks* (Microsoft)​; Nicholas Becker (Microsoft)​; Juan L. Ferres (Microsoft)​

  6. Semantic Nutrition: Estimating Nutrition with Mobile Assistants

    Joshua D’Arcy (​Duke University); Sabrina Qi (​Duke University); Dori Steinberg (​Duke University); Jessilyn Dunn (​Duke University)

  7. Predicting antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with genomic machine learning

    Chang Ho Yoon (Havard University); Anna G. Green (Havard University); Michael L. Chen (Havard University); Luca Freschi (Havard University); Isaac Kohane (Havard University); Andrew Beam (Havard University); Maha Farhat (Massachusetts General Hospital)

  8. Topic Modeling of Patient Portal and Telephone Encounter Messages: Insights from a Cardiology Practice

    Jedrek Wosik (​Duke University); Shijing Si (​Duke University); Ricardo Henao (​Duke University); Mark Sendak (Duke Institute of Health Innovation); William Ratliff (Duke Institute of Health Innovation); Suresh Balu (Duke Institute of Health Innovation); Deepthi Krishnamaneni(Duke Health Technology Solutions)​; Ryan Craig​(Duke Health Technology Solutions); Eric Poon (Duke Health Technology Solutions); Lawrence Carin(​Duke University); Manesh Patel (​Duke University)

  9. Development of phenotype algorithms for common acute conditions using SHapley Additive exPlanation values

    Konan Hara (The University of Tokyo, TXP Medical Co. Ltd.); Ryoya Yoshihara (The University of Tokyo, TXP Medical Co. Ltd.)​; Tomohiro Sonoo (The University of Tokyo, TXP Medical Co. Ltd.)​; Toru Shirakawa (Osaka University, TXP Medical Co. Ltd.)​; Tadahiro Goto (The University of Tokyo, TXP Medical Co. Ltd.); Kensuke Nakamura (Hitachi General Hospital)

  10. TL-Lite: Temporal Visualization for Clinical Supervised Learning

    Jeremy C. Weiss (Carnegie Mellon University)

  11. Development and Validation of Machine Learning Models to Predict Admission from the Emergency Department to Inpatient and Intensive Care Units

    Alexander Fenn (​Duke University)​; Connor Davis (Duke Institute of Health Innovation)​; Neel Kapadia​  (Duke University)​; Daniel Buckland​  (​Duke University)​; Marshall Nichols (Duke Institute of Health Innovation); Michael Gao  (​Duke University)​; William Knechtle  (​Duke University)​​; Suresh Balu  (​Duke University)​​; Mark Sendak  (​Duke University)​​; B. Jason Theiling​ (Duke Institute of Health Innovation)

  12. Predicting Cardiac Decompensation and Cardiogenic Shock Phenotypes for Duke University Hospital Patients

    Harvey Shi* (Duke University, Duke Institute of Health Innovation)​​; Will Ratliff* (Duke Institute of Health Innovation)​; Mark Sendak (Duke Institute of Health Innovation); Michael Gao (Duke Institute of Health Innovation); Marshall Nichols (Duke Institute of Health Innovation); Mike Revoir (Duke Institute of Health Innovation);​ Suresh Balu (Duke Institute of Health Innovation); Sicong Zhao (Duke Institute of Health Innovation, Duke Social Science Research Institute); Michael Pencina (Duke University); Kelly Kester (Duke Heart Center and Department of Medicine); W. Schuyler Jones (Duke Heart Center and Department of Medicine); Chetan B. Patel (Duke Heart Center and Department of Medicine); Jason Katz (Duke Heart Center and Department of Medicine); Aman Kansal (Duke Heart Center and Department of Medicine); Ajar Kochar (Brigham and Women’s Health); Zachary Wegermann (Duke Heart Center and Department of Medicine); Manesh Patel (Duke Heart Center and Department of Medicine)

  13. ICUnity: A software tool to harmonise the MIMIC-III and AmsterdamUMCdb databases

    Emma Rocheteau (University of Cambridge)​; Jacob Deasy (University of Cambridge)​; Luca Filipe Roggeveen (​Amsterdam University Medical Centre)​; Ari Ercole​ (University of Cambridge)

  14. Development of Machine Learning Model to Predict Risk of Inpatient Deterioration

    Stephanie Skove (Duke Institute of Health Innovation)​; Harvey Shi (Duke Institute of Health Innovation)​; Ziyuan Shen (Duke University); Michael Gao (Duke Institute of Health Innovation)​; Mengxuan Cui (Duke University);​ Marshall Nichols (Duke Institute of Health Innovation)​; Suresh Balu (Duke Institute of Health Innovation)​; Armando Bedoya (Duke University); Dustin Tart (Duke University); Benjamin A Goldstein (Duke University); William Ratliff (Duke Institute of Health Innovation)​; Mark Sendak (Duke Institute of Health Innovation)​; Cara O’Brien​ (Duke University)

  15. Prediction of Critical Pediatric Perioperative Adverse Events using the APRICOT Dataset

    Hannah Lonsdale (Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital);​ Ali Jalali (Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital);​ Hannah M. Yates (Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital);​ Luis M. Ahumada (Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital);​ Mohamed A. Rehman (Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital);​ Walid Habre (University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland);​ Nicola Disma​ (IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini)

  16. A Heart Rate Algorithm to Predict High Risk Children Presenting to the Pediatric Emergency Department

    James C. O’Neill (Wake Forest Baptist Health); E. Hunter Brooks (Wake Forest Baptist Health); Rebekah Jewell (Wake Forest Baptist Health); and David Cline (Wake Forest Baptist Health)

  17. Machine Learning to Automate Clinician Designed Empirical Manual for Congenital Heart Disease Identification in Large Claims Database

    Ariane J. Marelli (McGill Adult Unit for Congenital Heart Disease Excellence);​ Chao Li (McGill Adult Unit for Congenital Heart Disease Excellence);​ Aihua Liu (McGill Adult Unit for Congenital Heart Disease Excellence);​ Hanh Nguyen (McGill Adult Unit for Congenital Heart Disease Excellence);​ James M Brophy (McGill University);​ Liming Guo (McGill Adult Unit for Congenital Heart Disease Excellence);​ David L Buckeridge (McGill University);​ Jian Tang (Université de Montréal);​ Joelle Pineau (McGill University);​ Yi Yang (McGill University);​ Yue Li (McGill University)

  18. Deep Learning Airway Structure Identification for Video Intubation

    Ben Barone (Johns Hopkins University); Griffin Milsap (Johns Hopkins University); Nicholas M Dalesio (Johns Hopkins University)

  19. Denoising stimulated Raman histology using weak supervision to improve label-free optical microscopy of human brain tumors

    Esteban Urias (University of Michigan); Christopher Freudiger (Invenio Imaging Inc.); Daniel Orringer (New York University);​ Honglak Lee (University of Michigan); Todd Hollon (University of Michigan)

  20. Engendering Trust and Usability in Clinical Prediction of Unplanned Admissions: The CLinically Explainable Actionable Risk (CLEAR) Model

    Ruijun Chen (Columbia University, Weill Cornell Medical College); Victor Rodriguez (Columbia University); Lisa Grossman Liu (Columbia University); Elliot G Mitchell (Columbia University); Amelia Averitt (Columbia University); Oliver Bear Don't Walk IV (Columbia University); Shreyas Bhave (Columbia University); Tony Sun (Columbia University); Phyllis Thangaraj (Columbia University); Columbia DBMI CMS AI Challenge Team​ (Columbia University)

  21. Effects of Mislabeled Race Categorizations on Prediction of Inpatient Hyperglycemia

    Morgan Simons* (Duke School of Medicine, Duke Institute for Health Innovation)​; Kristin Corey* (Duke School of Medicine, Duke Institute for Health Innovation)​; Marshall Nicols (Duke Institute for Health Innovation)​; Michael Gao (Duke Institute for Health Innovation)​; Suresh Balu (Duke Institute for Health Innovation)​; Mark Sendak* (Duke Institute for Health Innovation)​; Joseph Futoma (Harvard University, Duke Statistical Science)

  22. Development of Machine Learning Models for Early Prediction of Clinical Deterioration in Pediatric Inpatients

    Zohaib Shaikh  (Duke School of Medicine, Duke Institute for Health Innovation)​; Daniel Witt (Duke Institute for Health Innovation, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine); Tong Shen (Duke University); William Ratliff (Duke Institute for Health Innovation); Harvey Shi (Duke Institute for Health Innovation)​;​ Michael Gao (Duke Institute for Health Innovation)​; Marshall Nichols (Duke Institute for Health Innovation); Mark Sendak (Duke Institute for Health Innovation); Suresh Balu (Duke Institute for Health Innovation); Karen Osborne (Duke University Health System); Karan Kumar (Duke University); Kimberly Jackson (Duke University); Andrew McCrary (Duke University); Jennifer Li (Duke University)

  23. The use of natural language processing to improve identification of patients with peripheral artery disease

    E. Hope Weissler (Duke University Medical School);​ Jikai Zhang (Duke University Medical School);​ Steven Lippmann (Duke University Medical School);​ Shelley Rusincovitch;​ Ricardo Henao (Duke University Medical School); W. Schuyler Jones (Duke University Medical School)

  24. Unsupervised identification of atypical medication orders: A GANomaly-based approach

    Maxime Thibault (CHU Sainte-Justine); Pierre Snell (Université Laval); Audrey Durand (Université Laval, Mila – Quebec AI Institute)

  25. Novel Machine Learning Alert Model to Predict Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit Readmission or Mortality After Cardiothoracic Surgery

    George A. Cortina (Duke Institute for Health Innovation, University of Virginia School of Medicine); Shujin Zhong (Duke Institute for Health Innovation); Marshall Nichols (Duke Institute for Health Innovation); Michael Gao (Duke Institute for Health Innovation); Will Ratliff (Duke Institute for Health Innovation); William Knechtle (Duke Institute for Health Innovation); Suresh Balu (Duke Institute for Health Innovation); Kelly Kester (Duke University Health System); Mary Lindsay (Duke University Health System); Jill Engel (Duke University Health System); Ashok Bhatta (Duke University Health System); Jacob Schroder (Duke University Health System)​; Ricardo Henao (Duke University); Mark Sendak (Duke Institute for Health Innovation); Mihai Podgoreanu (University of Virginia School of Medicine)

  26. Phenotyping Patients with Asthma: Preprocessing, and Clustering Algorithms

    Richard Peters* (The University of Texas at Austin); Ali Lotfi Rezaabad* (The University of Texas at Austin); Matthew Sither (The University of Texas at Austin); Abhishek Shende (BrilliantMD, Inc.); Sriram Vishwanath (The University of Texas at Austin)

  27. Adoption of a Deep Learning “Risk Scale” Predictive Model to Reduce 7-day Readmission of Respiratory Patients at a Pediatric Center

    John Morrison (Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital); Ali Jalali (Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital); Hannah Lonsdale (Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital); Paola Dees (Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital); Brittany Casey (Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital); Mohamed Rehman (Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital); Luis Ahumada (Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital)

2020 Clinical Abstracts


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