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Izmarie Poventud-Fuentes

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Contact InformationChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Room 5113, Main Building
Philadelphia, PA, 19104

Education

B.S. (Industrial Biotechnology), University or Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, 2013
Ph.D. (Pharmacology), University of Pennsylvania, 2020

Specialty Certification

National Registry of Certified Chemists, 2022
American Board of Clinical Chemistry, 2024

Postgraduate Training

Fellowship, Clinical Chemistry, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's' Hospital, Houston, 2020-2022

Awards and Honors

Southwestern Industrial Association (SWIA) Scholarship, 2008-2013
Dean’s List, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Puerto Rico, 2009-2013
FASEB MARC Summer Internship Funding, 2011
βββ National Biological Honor Society, 2011-2013
Best Poster Presentation Award, ABRCMS, 2011
FASEB MARC Travel Award, Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), 2011
John C. Johnson Award for Excellence in Student Research, 2012
βββ Biological Honor Society Caribbean Regional Convention, 2013
John O’Brien Award for Best Poster, Pharmacology Graduate Group Annual Student Symposium, 2017
Best Oral Presentation, Med intro Grad Symposium: Harnessing Cellular Therapies, 2019
Best Oral Presentation, Trainee Research Symposium, Baylor College of Medicine, 2021
AACC Student Poster Competition Award, Honorable Mention, 2021
AACC Academy’s Distinguished Abstract, AACC Annual Scientific Meeting, 2021
AACC Texas Meeting Abstract Award, 2022

Memberships and Professional Organizations

Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), 2015 - 2020
Penn Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Chapter, 2016 - 2020
Scientist Mentoring and Diversity Program - Medical Technology Scholar, 2019 - 2020
Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine, 2020 - Present

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Selected Publications

A-127 Stability of Ionized Calcium in Blood Gas Specimens

Julie Reust, Izmarie Poventud-Fuentes, Khushbu Patel, Clinical Chemistry, 2024

A-085 Comparing CO2 stability in patient samples and proficiency testing material

Kaitlyn Bolte, Julia Matthews, Khushbu Patel, Izmarie Poventud-Fuentes, Clinical Chemistry, 2024

B-300 Fentanyl and Xylazine Positivity Patterns at a Northeast U.S. Children’s Hospital

Izmarie Poventud-Fuentes, Daisy M Unsihuay Vila, Kevin Osterhoudt, Khushbu Patel, Clinical Chemistry, 2024

Reticulocyte Hemoglobin Equivalent as a Marker to Assess Iron Deficiency: A Large Pediatric Tertiary Care Hospital Study

Poventud-Fuentes I, Chong TH, Dowlin M, Devaraj S, Curry CV, Int J Lab Hematol 46(1): 148-155, 2024, PMID:37850393

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A-328 Urine Toxicology Screening: Tetrahydrocannabinol Positivity Patterns at an U.S. Urban Tertiary Care Children's Hospital

Unsihuay D, Poventud-Fuentes I, Osterhoudt K, Patel K, Clinical Chemistry 69(): , 2023

Pediatric Vitamin D: Pseudo-hypervitaminosis

Olayinka L, Poventud-Fuentes I, Garnett E, Devaraj S, J Clin Lab Anal 37(13-14): e24950., 2023, PMID:37526221

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Unique Hemoglobinopathy Pattern Following Treatment with Voxelotor

Poventud-Fuentes I, Platero Portillo T, Marcogliese AN, Tubman VN, Devaraj S, Ann Clin Lab Sci 53(4): , 2023, PMID:37625829

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Comparison of Cystatin C and Creatinine-Based Equations with Measured Glomerular Filtration Rate in a Diverse Pediatric Population

Poventud-Fuentes I, Garnett E, Akcan-Arikan A, Devaraj S., J Appl Lab Med 7(): 1016-1024, 2022, PMID:35671191

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Validation of Atovaquone Plasma Levels by Liquid Chromatography-tandem Mass Spectrometry for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Pediatric Patients

Horvath TD, Poventud-Fuentes I, Olayinka L, James A, Haidacher SJ, Hoch KM, Stevens AM, Haag AM, Devaraj S, J Mass Spectrom Adv Clin Lab 26(): 23-27, 2022, PMID:36388060

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True Hyponatremia in the Setting of Pegasparagase-induced Hypertriglyceridemia: A Case Report

Olayinka L, Poventud-Fuentes I, Rahman Ansari S, Garnett E, Devaraj S., Clin Chim Acta 531(): 68-70, 2022, PMID:35283095

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