On Friday, April 19, undergraduate student Ashley Watkins and doctoral student Kara Marlatt (pictured on right) presented at the 27th Annual Pediatric Research Education and Scholarship Symposium held at the University of Minnesota.
Marlatt presented her paper titled, “Impact of pubertal development on endothelial function and arterial elasticity,” and Watkins was awarded the Best Undergraduate Abstract for her paper titled, “Quality of Life in Severely Obese Pediatric Patients Seeking Medical Weight Management.”

Chelsey Thul (Ph.D., ’12) presented her work titled, “Disparaties in physical activity among minnesota adolescents of somali and other non-hispanic black and white race.” Thul is an Interdisciplinary Research Training postdoctoral fellow in Child and Adolescent Primary Care in the Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota.