This summer 21 medical students joined us for short-term mentored research experiences with faculty members under the Shapiro Summer Research Program, T32 grants, and T35 grants. Learn what they studied below.
Andre Obua (Mentor: David Al-Adra, MD, PhD)
Project: Exploring the Effects of Cytokine Administration on Liver Allografts During Normothermic Ex-Vivo Liver Perfusion (NEVLP)
Jayne-Norah Ntambi (Mentor: William Burlingham, PhD)
Project: Responses to Non-Inherited Maternal Antigens (NIMA): A Comparison of Immune Responses in Families from Mukono, Uganda To Those in the Midwest US
Joanie Figueroa (Mentor: Nadine Connor, PhD)
Project: Quantification of Lingual Muscle Plasticity
Vik Patel (Mentors: Catharine Garland, MD, Delora Mount, MD)
Project: Feeding Outcomes Following Mandibular Distraction Osteogenesis in Pierre Robin Sequence
Meghan Cusak (Mentor: Luke Funk, MD, MPH)
Project: Differences in 30-day Outcomes Following Intraoperative Provocative Testing in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy or Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
Tetyana Osadchuk (Mentor: Brett Michelotti, MD)
Project: To Operate or Not: An Assessment of Operative Indication After Distal Radius Fracture Using X-rays and CT Scan in the Same Patient
Christopher Glover (Mentor: Angela Gibson, MD, PhD)
Project: Molecular Signatures of Cellular Injury and Regeneration in Burn Tissue
Kush Patel (Mentors: Hee Soo Jung, MD, Sarah Sullivan, PhD)
Project: A Gap Analysis of Simulation Training in Medical Education for Students with Physical Disabilities
Ainsley Timmel (Mentors: Jonathan Kohler, MD, and Brooks Rademacher, MD)
Project: The Effect of Clinical Case Management on Quality of Care, Patient Outcomes and Adherence to Follow Up on a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Service
Sarah Beilke (Mentor: Amy Liepert, MD)
Project: Barriers and Facilitators of Physician Engagement in Health Policy and Advocacy
Kyle Williams (Mentor: Amy Liepert, MD)
Project: Outcomes in Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis
Deena El-Gabri (Mentor: Kristin Long, MD)
Project: Assessing the Utility and Effectiveness of Stop the Bleed Training in Rural Kenya
Phuoc Pham (Mentor: Jon Odorico, MD)
Project: Investigating Effects of BMI and Pre-op Insulin Requirement on the Outcomes of Pancreas Transplant
Catherine Jensen (Mentor: Susan Pitt, MD, MPHS)
Project: The Emotional and Informational Needs of Thyroid Cancer Patients: An Analysis of Online Patient Forums
Stephen Chen (Mentor: David Schneider, MD, MS)
Project: Optimizing Levothyroxine Dose Adjustment After Thyroidectomy with a Decision Tree
Sophie Shogren (Mentor: Gretchen Schwarze, MD, MPP)
Project: Surgeon Reflections on the Use of a Question Prompt List by Patients Considering High-risk Operations
Samuel Koebe (Mentor: Amber Shada, MD)
Project: Current Practice Patterns for Primary Umbilical Hernia Repair in the United States
Yoseph Semma (Mentor: Girma Tefera, MD)
Project: Evaluation of Vascular Surgery Procedures and Clinical Outcomes at Black Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Alexandra Mechler-Hickson (Mentor: Susan Thibeault, PhD, CCC-SLP)
Project: Characterization of Toll-like Receptors in Human Vocal Fold Tissue and Human Epithelial Cells
Cristina Fischer (Mentor: Emily Winslow, MD)
Project: Evaluation of a Newly Developed Consultation Process and its Effect on Patient Experience
Nadeem Bandealy (Mentor: Emily Winslow, MD)
Project: Patient Satisfaction Across Specialty and Primary Care Clinics