Children’s Research Institute Seminar Series “Aspiration Risk in Children with Pneumonia in Low- and Middle-Income Countries”

Dr. Nadia Hoekstra is a pediatric pulmonary fellow at UNC. Nadia grew up in Chapel Hill but spent much of her childhood in Trinidad and Tobago where her mother’s family lives. Nadia attended Boston College where she graduated with a Master of Arts in Sociology and a minor in Hispanic Studies. Following her undergraduate studies Nadia spent two years at the Yale School of Medicine conducting translational research on the mechanisms of acute diarrheal illness, a leading cause of childhood death worldwide. She then went on to graduate from medical school at UNC in 2018. Following medical school, Nadia completed pediatric residency at the University of Colorado where she was a member of the Global Health Track and conducted research on screening practices for pediatric latent tuberculosis infection. Nadia started pediatric pulmonary fellowship at UNC in 2021, and following her first year, she spent one year in Malawi conducting clinical research on severe pneumonia in infants as an NIH Fogarty Global Health Fellow. Nadia plans to pursue an academic career with a focus on improving the health of children with respiratory disease in the United States and globally, with an emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa.

Please contact childrensresearch@med.unc.edu for Zoom details.

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