We are pleased to announce the appointment of Marianne Nellis, M.D. M.S., as Director of Fellows’ Research in Pediatrics. In this role, together with the Vice-Chair of Education in Pediatrics, Dr. Nellis will oversee the quality of fellow research training and academic scholarly work within the department. She will collaborate with the Director of Clinical Research Mentoring and the Department’s Vice Chairs of Research to facilitate and oversee the development of fellows’ scholarly activity, the scholarship oversight committee and research-in-progress processes and mentor-mentee relationships. She will also lead the Fellows’ Research Curriculum, developing and maintaining a core content of educational activities to facilitate the fellows’ scholarly activity success.
Dr. Nellis is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care. She completed a Masters of Clinical Investigation at Weill Cornell CTSC during her critical care fellowship. She has served as the director of fellows’ research in the division for the past seven years. She has also worked with residents, fellows in other divisions and medical students to individually mentor them through meaningful scholarly activity. Her mentorship of trainees and students has resulted in 17 abstracts presented by her mentees at national meetings and 9 peer reviewed manuscripts, a testament to her success as a mentor. She also is the recipient of the faculty award for Excellence in Housestaff Research Mentoring.