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2026 NASCARR and eXtraordinarY Kids Summer EXPO: Wednesday July 29,2026 (9:30-4:00pm MST)

Please join us to celebrate and learn from all of our 2026 NASCARR and eXtraordinarY Kids Summer Interns.

AGENDA (MST)

9:30 - 9:45 - Introduction and welcome by Shanlee Davis, MD, PhD

9:45 - 10:00 - Karis Cotter, BS (Program Funded Intern)- "The Prefit Battery for Assessing Physical Fitness: A Pilot Study in Children with Sex Chromosome Variations"

10:00 - 10:15 - Taylor Czarnecki (AXYS funded Intern) - "Analyzing Physical Fitness in 6 Year Olds with XXY: Utilizing the Prefit Battery"

10:15 - 10:30 - Samantha Bothwell, MS - "A Functional Data Analysis of At-Home Activity and Sleep in Klinefelter Syndrome Patients Versus Age- and BMI-Matched Controls"

10:30 - 10:45 - Break

10:45 - 11:00 - Ria Trivedi, BS (NASCARR funded Intern) - "Comparing The 45,X And Isochromosome Karyotypes In Turner Syndrome"

11:00 - 11:30 - Rachel Mina (NASCARR funded Intern) and Alan Liang (CHCO funded Intern)- "Fetal Growth and Study Enrollment in Pregnancies with Prenatally Identified Sex Chromosome Variations"

11:30 - 11:45 - Hollis Muir (NASCARR funded Intern)- "Exploring Progesterone Experiences in Adolescents with Turner Syndrome and POI"

11:45 - 12:30 - Lunch

12:30 - 12:45 - Addison Baldwin (Program Funded Intern)- "Caregivers’ Experiences with Growth Attenuation Therapy: A Qualitative Study"

12:45 - 1:15 - Ami Diatta (Boettcher Foundation funded Intern) and Siya Shah - "Sleep Phenotypes in Children with Sex Chromosome Variations: A Retrospective EHR Study"

1:15 - 1:30 - Mary Giblin (Program Funded Intern)- "Motor Movement in Fragile X Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder"

1:30 - 1:45 - Break

1:45 - 2:00 - Leyna Biggs (NASCARR funded Intern) - "Correlations Between Prepubertal Anti-Müllerian Hormone Levels and Preserved Ovarian Function in Girls with Turner Syndrome"

2:00 - 2:15 - Arjun Mitra (CHCO funded Intern)- "Venous thromboembolism occurrence in pediatric 45X/46Xidic(Y)(q11.23) mosaic patient"

2:15 - 2:30 - Ukari Verner, BS (XXYY Project funded Intern)- "Medical and Developmental Characteristics of Individuals with XXYY Syndrome"

2:30 - 2:45 - Rachel Marpaung, BS, MS (Program Funded Intern)- "Atopic Conditions Recurrence with Sex Chromosome Trisomy in Toddlers and Pre-K"

2:45 - 3:00 - Break

3:00 - 3:15 - Vivian Bates (Program Funded Intern)- "Caregiver-Reported Perceptions of Their Preschoolers with Sex Chromosome Trisomies"

3:15 - 3:45 - Presentation of Awards by Karli Swenson, PhD

3:45 - 4:00 - Closing words by Shanlee Davis, MD, PhD