The Next Generation

Established in 2017, The Summer Plus Fellowship is a partnership with Rhodes College to provide internships in neuroscience for undergraduates with an interest in a career in pediatric neuroscience. For two summers, fellows work full time in the Le Bonheur Neuroscience Institute, shadowing physicians and conducting research. Fellows also work eight to 10 hours a week during the intervening school year.

“It is an honor to work with this highly ranked group of Rhodes neuroscience students, who not only share their passion and energy for their chosen career path, but who have the potential to be future leaders in the field,” said Tracee Ridley-Pryor, DNP, APRN, PMHNP-BC, CCRC, the program’s coordinator and a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in Le Bonheur’s Neuroscience Institute. “Providing Rhodes students access to handson, real-world learning experiences, while modeling innovative, highquality care for patients is a privilege.”

Part of the program requirements are to complete a formal research paper with at least one presentation of their research or program project. Summer Plus Fellows have had their research published in national journals and conferences.

Summer Plus Fellows Publications:

• Gaudio E, Gienapp AJ, Wheless J. Perampanel Pharmacokinetics in Children: Correlation of Dose With Serum Concentrations. J Child Neurol. 2019;34(8):427–431. doi:10.1177/0883073819837465
• Lee RP, Xu R, Dave P, et al. Taking the next step in publication productivity analysis in pediatric neurosurgery. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2018;21(6):655–665. doi:10.3171/2018.1.PEDS17535
• Ryan K, Rezaie R, Choudri A, Salinas F, Shay N, Holder, C, Tidwell, T, Bhattarai, P, Narayana S. Pervasive Motor Deficits Beyond Lesioned Hemisphere in Pediatric Arterial Ischemic Stroke.