poster presentation

2026 Iowa LEND Research Poster Symposium

The 2026 Iowa LEND Research Poster Symposium took place May 5 in the Rembolt Conference Room at the Center for Disabilities and Development in Iowa City. Graduating LEND trainees presented their research posters. They were joined by pediatric dentistry trainees from the 2025 LEND trainee cohort. 

2025-2026 Trainees

2025 Iowa LEND trainees - group photo taken outside CDD during orientation

Standing top level (Left to Right): Cait Miller, Skylar Hoffman, Natalia Portal Figueroa, Devyn Just, Megan Fear, Elizabeth Freiburger, Anna Cates, Alejandra Castillo, Lyndi Hunter, Alyssa Rosaro, Maddie Berry, Garry Emmons, Dalin Tollestrup.

Standing lower level (Left to Right): Mark Thomas, Andy Fallon, Teya Kerns, Hattie Dukes, Rachael Kilpatrick, Collin Glazek, Molly Cousin, Marie Ugorek, May Ross, Monee Turner, Danielle Washington, Lillian Duffield, Samantha Anderson, Joy Edeh, Nagla Abdelrahman.

Trainees not in this group photo: Gilbert Catala Benitez, Monica Olson, Sascia Rector.

Research Posters

Click on the thumbnail images below to open a full-page pdf of each poster.

Poster Symposium Schedule

Group 1 / 3:00-3:30 Project presentations

Lillian Duffield, Elizabeth Freiburger, Sascia Rector, Marie Ugorek

Project Summary

LEND research poster - Duffield et al

 

Makenzi Worsfold

Project Summary

Makenzi Worsfold LEND poster

 

Anna Cates, Joy Edeh, Rachael Kilpatrick, Monica Olson

Project Summary

LEND poster - Cates et al

 

Kylie Scott

Project Summary

Kylie Scott LEND poster

 

Andy Fallon, Devyn Just, Teya Kerns, Monee’ Turner

Project Summary

LEND Research Poster - Fallon et al

 

Maggie Rohrbeck

Project Summary

Maggie Rohrbeck poster

 

Group 2 / 4:05-4:30 Project presentations

Nima Odowa

Project Summary

Nima Odowa LEND poster

 

Nagla Abdelrahman, Hattie Dukes, Natalia Portal Figueroa, Mark Thomas

Project Summary

Profound Autism LEND research poster

 

Molly Cousin

Project Summary

Molly Cousin

 

Alejandra Castillo, Gilbert Catala Benitez, Megan Fear, Skylar Hoffman, Danielle Washington

Project Summary

AAC LEND research poster

 

Sara Escudero 

Project Summary

Sara Escudero LEND poster

 

Collin Glazek and May Ross

Project Summary

Glazek and Ross - LEND Research Poster - FINAL

 

 

Check out previous research presented by ILEND Trainees: