Andrea Conroy, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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1044 W. Walnut Street
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Indianapolis, IN 46202 - PubMed:
Bio
Dr. Conroy's research centers on understanding the impact of infections on global women’s and children’s health. Her goal is to develop new tools to identify patients at risk of adverse clinical outcomes who may benefit from targeted therapies. She received her training at the University of Toronto in a translational global health research environment focusing on malaria pathogenesis and the development of new therapeutics for severe malaria. Dr. Conroy has been leading research projects in Uganda since 2011 and is the Director of the Indiana University-affiliated CHILD lab in Kampala, Uganda, which is a translational biomedical research laboratory.
The Conroy lab conducts focuses on the defining the prevalence, etiology, and pathophysiology of acute kidney injury in hospitalized children with specific interests on the impact of acute kidney injury on survival, progression to chronic kidney disease, and neurodevelopmental outcomes across the lifespan. The lab has ongoing collaborations with several investigators across Uganda and leverages samples collected during hospitalization and recovery to define mechanisms of maladaptive kidney repair following injury and understand genetic risk modifiers of kidney disease progression. The lab also focuses on improving the diagnosis of children with acute kidney injury through the evaluation of novel point-of-care diagnostics that can facilitate early identification of children with acute kidney injury and improve clinical management and survival.
Key Publications
Batte A, Berrens ZJ, Sarangam M, Mufumba I, Murphy KJ, Hawkes MT, Conroy AL. Malaria-associated acute kidney injury in African children: prevalence, pathophysiology, impact and management challenges. Intl J Nephrol and Renovasc Dis. 2021. 2021;14:235-253.
Batte A, Starr M, Schwaderer A, Opoka RO, Namazzi R, Phelps Nishiguchi ES, Ssenkusu JM, John CC, Conroy AL. Methods to estimate baseline creatinine and define acute kidney injury in lean Ugandan children with severe malaria: a prospective cohort study. BMC Nephrol 2020. 21:417.
Ouma BJ, Ssenkusu J, Shabani E, Opoka RO, Bangirana P, Idro R, Park GS, Joloba ML, Kain KC, John CC, Conroy AL. Endothelial activation is associated with disease severity, acute kidney injury, and cognitive impairment in pediatric severe malaria. Crit Care Med. 2020 Jun 30.
Conroy AL, Opoka RO, Bangirana P, Idro R, Ssenkusu J, Datta D, Morgan C, John CC. Acute kidney injury, cognition and chronic kidney disease in severe malaria. BMC Med. 2019 May 21;17(1):98.
Conroy AL, Hawkes M, Morgan C, Elphinstone RE, Barker K, Namasopo S, John CC, Liles WC, Opoka RO, Kain KC. Acute kidney injury is common in pediatric severe malaria and associated with increased mortality. OFID. 2016 Feb. 26;3(2):ofw046.
Year | Degree | Institution |
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2015 | Postdoctoral Training | University of Toronto |
2011 | PhD | University of Toronto |
2006 | HBSC | University of Guelph |
Global health; pediatric infectious disease; pathogenesis of severe malaria; acute kidney injury diagnosis; identifying and validating biomarkers to risk stratify patients; the epidemiology of acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease; the impact of acute kidney injury on developmental outcomes.
Weckman AM; Conroy AL; Madanitsa M; Gnaneswaran B; McDonald CR; Kalilani-Phiri L; Chandna J; Ali D; Mwapasa V; Khairallah C; Thwai KL; Meshnick SR; Taylor SM; Ter Kuile FO; Kain KC; Gladstone M; PLoS medicine 2021 Sep 28
Tran V; Weckman AM; Crowley VM; Cahill LS; Zhong K; Cabrera A; Elphinstone RE; Pearce V; Madanitsa M; Kalilani-Phiri L; Mwapasa V; Khairallah C; Conroy AL; Ter Kuile FO; Sled JG; Kain KC; EBioMedicine 2021 Nov 7
Batte A; Murphy KJ; Namazzi R; Co K; Opoka RO; Ssenkusu JM; John CC; Conroy AL; BMC nephrology 2021 Nov 6
Leligdowicz A; Conroy AL; Hawkes M; Richard-Greenblatt M; Zhong K; Opoka RO; Namasopo S; Bell D; Liles WC; da Costa BR; Jüni P; Kain KC; Nature communications 2021 Nov 25
Huang Y; Mian Q; Conradi N; Opoka RO; Conroy AL; Namasopo S; Hawkes MT; JAMA network open 2021 Jun 1
Batte A; Berrens Z; Murphy K; Mufumba I; Sarangam ML; Hawkes MT; Conroy AL; International journal of nephrology and renovascular disease 2021 Jul 8
Conroy AL; Opoka RO; Bangirana P; Namazzi R; Okullo AE; Georgieff MK; Cusick S; Idro R; Ssenkusu JM; John CC; BMC medicine 2021 Jul 28
Ouma BJ; Bangirana P; Ssenkusu JM; Datta D; Opoka RO; Idro R; Kain KC; John CC; Conroy AL; Malaria journal 2021 Jan 6
Datta D; Bangirana P; Opoka RO; Conroy AL; Co K; Bond C; Zhao Y; Kawata K; Saykin AJ; John CC; JAMA network open 2021 Dec 1
Batte A; Starr MC; Schwaderer AL; Opoka RO; Namazzi R; Phelps Nishiguchi ES; Ssenkusu JM; John CC; Conroy AL; BMC nephrology 2020 Sep 29
Ouma BJ; Ssenkusu JM; Shabani E; Datta D; Opoka RO; Idro R; Bangirana P; Park G; Joloba ML; Kain KC; John CC; Conroy AL; Critical care medicine 2020 Sep
Datta D; Conroy AL; Castelluccio PF; Ssenkusu JM; Park GS; Opoka RO; Bangirana P; Idro R; Saykin AJ; John CC; Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2020 Mar 3
Rivera-Correa J; Conroy AL; Opoka RO; Batte A; Namazzi R; Ouma B; Bangirana P; Idro R; Schwaderer AL; John CC; Rodriguez A; Scientific reports 2019 Oct 17
Elphinstone RE; Weckman AM; McDonald CR; Tran V; Zhong K; Madanitsa M; Kalilani-Phiri L; Khairallah C; Taylor SM; Meshnick SR; Mwapasa V; Ter Kuile FO; Conroy AL; Kain KC; PLoS medicine 2019 Oct 1
Conroy AL; Opoka RO; Bangirana P; Idro R; Ssenkusu JM; Datta D; Hodges JS; Morgan C; John CC; BMC medicine 2019 May 21
Hickson MR; Conroy AL; Bangirana P; Opoka RO; Idro R; Ssenkusu JM; John CC; PloS one 2019 Dec 17
McDonald CR; Cahill LS; Gamble JL; Elphinstone R; Gazdzinski LM; Zhong KJY; Philson AC; Madanitsa M; Kalilani-Phiri L; Mwapasa V; Ter Kuile FO; Sled JG; Conroy AL; Kain KC; Science translational medicine 2018 Mar 7
Conroy AL; Hawkes MT; Elphinstone R; Opoka RO; Namasopo S; Miller C; John CC; Kain KC; Malaria journal 2018 Feb 15
Conroy AL; McDonald CR; Gamble JL; Olwoch P; Natureeba P; Cohan D; Kamya MR; Havlir DV; Dorsey G; Kain KC; American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2017 Oct 12
Conroy AL; Hawkes M; Elphinstone RE; Morgan C; Hermann L; Barker KR; Namasopo S; Opoka RO; John CC; Liles WC; Kain KC; Open forum infectious diseases 2016 Feb 26
Hawkes M; Conroy AL; Kain KC; The New England journal of medicine 2014 Nov 13
Conroy AL; Silver KL; Zhong K; Rennie M; Ward P; Sarma JV; Molyneux ME; Sled J; Fletcher JF; Rogerson S; Kain KC; Cell host & microbe 2013 Feb 13
Conroy AL; McDonald CR; Kain KC; Expert review of anti-infective therapy 2012 Nov
Conroy AL; Glover SJ; Hawkes M; Erdman LK; Seydel KB; Taylor TE; Molyneux ME; Kain KC; Critical care medicine 2012 Mar
Desc: Post-PhD Fellowship
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Desc: Outstanding Research by a Junior Investigator in Fetal Medicine and Placental Function
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Desc: Young Investigators Award
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