2023, Accepted to AAMC Early Career Women Faculty Leadership Development Seminar
2022, Became Member of Reviewer Board for Advances in Drug & Alcohol Research, Frontiers Publishing Partnerships
2022, Received Tufts CTSI Blue Star Investigator Certificate
2022, Eastern Society for Pediatric Research Council member
2022, Tufts University School of Medicine Standing Academic Research Awards Committee
2022, Leadership Development Program for Physicians in partnership with Boston University Questrom School of Business
2021, International Behavioural & Neural Genetics Society: 2022 Genes, Brain, & Behavior Meeting Planning Committee
2021, WiMS Mentorship Seed Award 2021 Recipient
2021, International Behavioural & Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS) Outstanding Young Investigator Awardee
2021, Eastern Society for Pediatric Research (ESPR) Mead Johnson Young Investigator Awardee
2020, Sydney Gellis Young Physician Award - awarded to an early career faculty who seeks to improve treatments, outcomes, and the quality of life of sick children.
2020, Member, Eastern Society for Pediatric Research Planning Committee.
2020, Abstract reviewer, 2020 annual Pediatric Academic Society and Eastern Society for Pediatric Research meetings.
2020, Manuscript reviewer for Journal of Pediatrics, Pediatric Research, Clinical Therapeutics, Respiratory Research
2018-2020, Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) Young Investigator Coaching Program
2020, Selected participant, American Pediatric Society/Society for Pediatric Research Journeys & Frontiers in Pediatric Research at the 2020 PAS Meeting
2019, Selected participant at the NICHD/NIH-funded 50th Anniversary of the Perinatal Research Society Young Investigator Grant Writing Workshop
2019, Newborn Medicine Excellent in Teaching Award
2018, Saltonstall Travel Award to attend Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Conference
2018, National Institute of Drug Abuse scholarship to attend “Short Course on the Genetics of Addiction” at JAX (Jackson Laboratory).
2017, Selected participant at the 29th Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD Young Investigator Conference on Maternal-Fetal-Neonatal-Reproductive Medicine
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SELECTED NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS:
Brew E, Castro G, Singh K, Yen E. Disproportionate Growth and Body Composition in Opioid-Exposed Neonates. Accepted for a poster poster walk presentation at the New England Perinatal Society (NEPS) conference, and platform presentation at the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research (ESPR) conference, March, 2023.
Sasaki M, Castro G, Madan N, Graham A, Moore L, Yen E*, Tarui T*. The Impact of Prenatal Opioid Exposure on Regional Brain Volumes within the Dopaminergic Pathways . (* senior authors) Accepted for a poster presentation at the ESPR conference, March, 2023.
Kwon J, Sibley C, Capra L, Diop H, Kernan G, Yen E. Single-Center Early Intervention Pathway for Infants with Prenatal Opioid Exposure. Accepted for a platform presentation at the NEPS conference, March, 2023
(Jean Kwon is a TUSM student whose project receives support from the Tufts Physician Organization Women in Medicine and Science Committee Mentorship Seed Award).
Yen E, Madan N, Tarui T, Kaneko-Tarui T, Breeze J, Davis JM, Maron JL. Inflammation may modulate white matter injury in opioid-exposed neonates. Poster presentation at the 2022 Annual Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) Meeting, Abstract #25
Gildawie K, Isgate S, Budge K, Jackson L, Vassoler F, Yen E, Byrnes, E. Neural mechanisms of feeding dysregulation following prenatal opioid exposure in male and female rats.
• Poster presentation at the 2022 Boston Area Neuroscience Group Fall Symposium
• Selected for pre-conference oral poster pitch at the 2022 International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Annual Meeting
• Poster presentation at the 2022 Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference
Yen E, Madan N, Sikka P, Tarui T, Singh K, Kaneko-Tarui T, Davis JM, Maron JL. A pilot study to understand the role of inflammation in white matter injury in opioid-exposed neonates.
Poster presentation at 2022 Pediatric Academic Societies
Baik J, Maron JL, Yen E. Pilot study of transcriptomic evidence of the effects of prenatal opioids in preterm neonates.
Platform presentation at 2022 Eastern Society Pediatric Research.
Pooja S, Madan N, Yen E. Early white matter changes in neonates with prenatal opioid exposure: a pilot study.
Platform presentation at 2022 Eastern Society Pediatric Research.
Herman CA, Yoo S, Yen E. Assessing vision health in children with history of prenatal opioid exposure: a single-center pilot study.
Poster presentation at 2022 Eastern Society Pediatric Research
Yen E, Kaneko-Tarui T, Graham AM, Carpenter S, Madan N, Tarui T, Davis JM, Maron JL. Sex-specific inflammatory impact of prenatal opioid exposure.
Poster presentation at 2021 Annual BIRCWH Meeting (Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health)
Yen E, Kaneko-Tarui T, Graham AM, Carpenter S, Madan N, Tarui T, Davis J, Maron JL. Evaluation of the sex-dependent impact of prenatal opioid exposure on the developing brain.
• Platform presentation at 2021 Eastern Society for Pediatric Research (ESPR)
• Poster presentation at 2020 Annual BIRCWH Meeting (Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health)
Yen E, Kaneko-Tarui T, Madan N, Carpenter S, Graham A, Tarui T, Davis J, Maron JL. The role of sex and inflammation on the developing brain in neonatal abstinence syndrome.
• Poster presentation at 2021 NIDA Genetics and Epigenetics Cross-Cutting Research Team Meeting
• Highlighted E-Poster at 2021 Pediatric Academic Societies
Yen E, Kaneko-Tarui T, Madan N, Carpenter S, Graham A, Tarui T, Davis J, Maron JL. Sex-specific inflammatory impact of prenatal opioid exposure on the developing brain
• Platform presentation at 2021 New England Perinatal Society
Yen E, Kaneko-Tarui T, Madan N, Carpenter S, Graham A, Tarui T, Davis J, Maron JL. Sex-specific reward modulation and inflammatory impact of prenatal opioid exposure on the developing brain.
• Symposium speaker at 2021 Genes, Brain, and Behavior Annual Meeting