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Keishla Colon Montanez

Keishla N. Colon Montanez, BA, CCMA

Clinical Research Coordinator I

Locations

  • Pediatric Emergency Medicine
  • Children's Corporate Center
    999 N. 92nd St.
    Milwaukee, WI 53226

Contact Information

Education

BA, Biological Sciences & BA, Global Studies, The University of Chicago, Chicago IL, 2024
Certified Clinical Medical Assistant, National Healthcare Association (NHA), 2025

Biography

Keishla N. Colon Montanez is clinical research coordinator at the Medical College of Wisconsin, with a background spanning immunology, toxicology, and global health research. She holds a BA in Biological Sciences and a BA in Global Studies from the University of Chicago (2024), with study abroad at Hebrew University and the University of Chicago Paris Campus.

Her research has examined sex differences in ozone-induced lung inflammation in asthmatic mice, genetic associations between surfactant protein variants and retinopathy of prematurity, and toxoplasmosis prevalence in forensic populations in Colombia. This work has resulted in three publications, including papers in the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine and Pediatric Research, and eleven conference presentations at venues such as the American Physiological Society Summit and SACNAS.

She has been recognized with the APS Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award, the Barbara A. Horwitz & John M. Horowitz Outstanding Abstract Award (2022, 2024), and the Society of Toxicology Undergraduate Research Award. She is also a first-generation, low-income scholar and former UChicago Odyssey Scholar, and a Certified Clinical Medical Assistant.

Honors and Awards

2024 Barbara A. Horwitz & John M. Horowitz Excellence in Undergraduate Research

Research Interests

  • Health equity in global and underserved populations
  • Vaccine formulation and uptake
  • Clinical trial design and coordination
  • Sex-based differences in immune and inflammatory responses

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