Professional Development

Awards, Grants and Contributions to Science

Awards

2010: Awarded Membership to the Gold Humanism Honor Society

2012: Resident of the Year Award, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX (peer elected)

2016: American Academy of Pediatrics International Medicine Travel
grant recipient, 2016

2020: Texas Children’s Hospital Shining Star Award – Quarterly award provided to recognize staff/ providers who exemplify TCH’s core values of leading tirelessly, embracing freedom, living compassionately, and amplifying unity.

Grants

Houston Foundation Grant

2019: Recipient of $50,000 grant from the Houston Family Foundation. Purpose: Funds were used to support the development of new resources/supports for the NICU patient population that our SOAR (High Risk Neonatal Follow Up) Program served within the local community at Texas Children’s Hospital, The Woodlands.

Montgomery Foundation Grant

2022: Recipient of $5,000 grant from the Montgomery Foundation. Purpose: Funds were used to support the continued provision of clinical services to the NICU patient population that our SOAR (High Risk Neonatal Follow Up) Program served within the local community at Texas Children’s Hospital, The Woodlands.

Contributions to Science

1. Nyp SS, Allen C, Fehr KK. Challenging case: Maintaining Safety and Planning for the Future; in Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics in 2019; Publication October 2019; Volume 40 – Issue 8.

2. Voigt RG, Franklin A, Mensah-Bonsu N, Ostermaier K, Allen C, Pham L, Godwin D, Smith J, Cervantes J, Topham J, Katusic M, Villarreal V. Survival of the fittest: a call to action for developmental-behavioral educators to prevent extinction of the species. Education Workshop at the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 2018 Annual Meeting. Anaheim, CA, September 14th, 2018.

3. Allen-Jara C, Soden S. Retrospective review of new disease genes in the Pediatric Genome Center Repository. Poster presented at the Children’s Mercy Genome Medicine 2016. Conference in Kansas City, MO.

4. Allen-Jara C. Book review of Yeager M, Yeager D. Executive Function and Child Development; WW Norton & Co. 2013; in Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 2015; 36: 276.

5. Zhang L, Allen-Jara C, Garrison C, Repnikova E, Cooley LD. The smallest reported distal 11q25 deletion in Jacobsen syndrome (JBS): two patients with variable phenotype.” Poster presented at Cancer Genomics Consortium (CGC) and the Cytogenomics Array Group (CAGdb) 2015 Annual Conference, May 2015.

6. Allen-Jara C, Soden S. Children’s Mercy Hospital Clinical Practice Guidelines summary statement of the new AAP Guidelines for the “Comprehensive Evaluation of the Child with Intellectual Disability or Global Developmental Delays.” December 2014.

7. Allen-Jara C, Auslander BA. Assessing the relationships between maternal body weight/shape concerns and breastfeeding attitudes/intentions. Poster presented at Pediatrics by the Gulf 62nd Annual Conference on Advances in Pediatrics. Galveston, TX 2013.

8. Allen C. Pediatric malnutrition in modern Ethiopia. Poster presented at Texas Tech School of Medicine, International Medicine Rotation Conference, May 2010.

9. Allen C.The patient-physician relationship. Undergraduate Honors Thesis for Minor in Medical Humanities, Baylor University, December 2004.

Participation in Scientific & Professional Activities

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

“Retrospective Review of New Disease Genes in the Pediatric Genome Center Repository.” Principal Investigator, under the supervision of Sarah Soden, MD. Children’s Mercy Hospital.

“Pediatric Malnutrition in Modern Ethiopia” – Texas Tech School of Medicine, May 2010
Completed as part of my international medicine rotation at Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekelle, Ethiopia.

“The Patient-Physician Relationship” – Baylor University, December 2004
Undergraduate Honors Thesis for Minor in Medical Humanities.

CASE PRESENTATION:

March 2015: “The smallest reported distal 11q25 deletion in Jacobsen syndrome (JBS): two patients with variable phenotype.” Lei Zhang, Candice Allen-Jara, Carol Garrison, Elena Repnikova, Linda D. Cooley. Submitted March 2015 for the Cancer Genomics Consortium (CGC) and the Cytogenomics Array Group (CAGdb) 2015 Annual Conference.

OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES:

Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics National Conference 2018. Co-leader/Facilitator for Workshop “Survival of the Fittest: A call to action for Developmental-Behavioral Educators to prevent extinction of the species.” September 14th, 2018.

EDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS:

AD HOC MANUSCRIPT REVIEW:
April 2015: Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics.
January 2014: Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics.

CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR: September 2019: Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics: Challenging Case.

BOOK REVIEW: Review of Executive Function and Child Development by Marcie & Daniel Yeager. WW Norton & Co. 2013 (Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics 36(4):276. May 2015).

CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE: December 2014: co-author of the Children’s Mercy Hospital Clinical Practice Guidelines summary statement of the new AAP Guidelines for the “Comprehensive Evaluation of the Child with Intellectual Disability or Global Developmental Delays.” Completed under the supervision of Sarah Soden, MD.

NATIONAL POSTER PRESENTATIONS:
Poster Presentation C Allen, MD, R Caylor, PhD, C Saunders, PhD, S Soden, MD.
Retrospective Review of New Disease Genes in the Pediatric Genome Center
Repository. Presented at the Children’s Mercy Genome Medicine 2016 Conference in Kansas City, MO.

Poster Presentation C Allen-Jara, MD, C Stough, MA, CB Nadler, PhD, SS Nyp, MD, RS Romine, PhD, ML Dreyer Gillette, PhD. Autism Spectrum Disorder and Parental Health and Wellbeing. Presented at the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 2014 Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN.

Poster Symposium C Allen-Jara, MD, BA Auslander, PhD. Assessing the Relationships between Maternal Body Weight/Shape Concerns and Breastfeeding Attitudes/Intentions. University of Texas Medical Branch, General Pediatric Residency. Pediatrics by the Gulf 62nd Annual Conference on Advances in Pediatrics. Galveston, TX 2013.