Mays Basha Joins Emory University
August 2025: Basha heads to Emory University as a post-doctoral trainee under Dr. Jingbing Bai.
August 2025: Basha heads to Emory University as a post-doctoral trainee under Dr. Jingbing Bai.
June 2025: Basha successfully defends her dissertation successfully defended her dissertation entitled: Symptom Burden Profiles and Associated Biopsychosocial Factors in Pediatric Patients Diagnosed with Cancer.
February 2025: Montgomery and Basha both win awards from the Midwest Nursing Research Society. Montgomery won the 2025 Pediatric RIIG Early Career Investigator Award and Basha won the Palliative and End of Life Care (PEOLC) RIIG Graduate Student Award.
May 2024: Alshakhshir was accepted into the 2025 Midwest Nursing Research Society Leadership Academy.
September 2024: Basha presents the results of her systematic review at the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses annual conference.
September 2024: Montgomery wins the Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nursing Writing Award at the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses annual conference.
November 2024: Basha was awarded a University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing Student Research and Scholarship Award to support her dissertation study. She seeks to investigate biopsychosocial factors associated with symptom profiles among children undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation or chimeric antigen T-cell therapy for malignant and non-malignant conditions.
November 2024: Montgomery was awarded a one-year Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation (MMCF) Research Grant funded by the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses to support the study Risk-Stratified Approaches to Symptom Management for Children with Advanced Cancer. The primary goal of the project is to address the challenge of persistent symptom suffering in children with advanced …