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2022 medical student research symposium award winners announced.

Eighty medical students from the Wayne State University School of Medicine participated in the annual Medical Student Research Symposium, organized and hosted virtually by the Office of Medical Student Research Programs on Jan. 28.

The students presented 74 research projects combined, many working collaboratively in categories that included basic science and clinical research, as well as specialized categories such as women’s health research, medical education research, global health, and public health and community engagement.

“As in previous years, the research presented by the students was very impressive and demonstrated their increased involvement in research projects,” said Joseph Dunbar, Ph.D., director of Medical Student Research and Innovation, and professor of Physiology. “Student participation in scholarly activities has been and will continue to be very important in their training. Participation in these activities enhances their ability to explore new questions and provide new insight to improve health care moving forward. Participating in scholarly activities greatly enhances the students’ academic and scholarly development.”

The symposium gives students an opportunity to discuss and deliberate research and accompanying results with fellow students and faculty, and strengthens the message that clinicians can also have fulfilling research careers. All WSU medical students were eligible to submit abstracts on a research project to which they made a significant contribution in their undergraduate or graduate years.

Awards for first, second and third place were given in Basic Science Research, Clinical Research, Medical Education Research, Women’s Health, and Public Health and Community Engagement.

Winners included:

Basic Science Research

1st Place: Anthony Chifor Intrabody-mediated Postsynaptic Recruitment of CaMKIIα Improves Memory 

2nd Place (Tie): Cole Goodman Functional Attenuation Coefficient Imaging of Rod Inner Segment: The Shape of Things to Come

2nd Place (Tie): Harry Ramos The Role of Connective Tissue Growth Factor in Maintaining the Epithelial Phenotype of Ovarian Cancer Cells During Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition

3rd Place (Tie): El Hussain Shamsa The Short-term Effects of Fine Airborne Particulate Matter and Climate on COVID-19 Disease Dynamics

3rd Place (Tie): Serena Simpson Norepinephrine Regulation of Spatial Memory Using the Barnes Maze in Male and Female Rats

Clinical Research

1st Place (Tie): Mara Darian Blood Pressure Response in Children with Heart Disease

1st Place (Tie): Dominic Alessio-Billowus Predictive Factors for Length of Hospital Stay in Pediatric Dog Bite Patients

2nd Place (Tie): Sopie Wittenberg and Nicole Xu Reduction in Healthcare Resource Utilization Associated with a Rapid Rule-Out Protocol for Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome

2nd Place (Tie): Hannah Milad A Prospective Study Investigating the Relationship Between Diagnostic Lumbar Medial Branch Blocks and the Use of Sedation

3rd Place (Tie): Ivan Rakic Evaluation of the Utility of Lymph-Vascular Invasion as an Independent Prognostic Predictor of Overall Survival for Patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma That Undergo Nephrectomy

3rd Place (Tie): May Chammaa The Impact of Trauma Subtypes on PTSD Severity in Syrian Child and Adolescent Refugees

3rd Place (Tie): Susan Wager Recovery Time Following Operative Versus Nonoperative Humeral Shaft Fracture Treatment

Women’s Health Research

1st Place: Erin Leestma Language Preference Impact on the Outcomes of Those Lost to Follow-up After a Diagnosis of Pregnancy of Unknown Location

2nd Place (Tie):  Emily Lau The Role of Vigorous and High Intensity Interval Training Physical Activity Counseling in Prenatal Care

2nd Place (Tie): Gurbani Bedi Discharged Against Medical Advice in the Postpartum Period: Why Should We Care?

Medical Education Research

1st Place: Joseph Files Ultrasound Education Curriculum Increases First-Year Student Visualization Ability Three-Fold

Public Health and Community Engagement

1st Place (Tie):  Karla Escobar, Julia Yee, Miles Bowman, Myles Hardeman, Emile Tadros, Omar Mahmood and Kiernan Bloye  Social Determinants, Health Care Access and Utilization in Detroit, Michigan LatinX Community

1st Place (Tie): Bushra Fathima The Effect of Socioeconomic Status on Patient Outcomes Following Rotator Cuff Repair at Two Hospital Campuses

2nd Place (Tie): Varag Abed and Alex Duvall Social Determinants of Health Influence Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review

2nd Place (Tie): Sahar Elmenini The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emerging Adults with Type 1 Diabetes

3rd Place (Tie): Sikander Chohan Utilizing Primary Care to Engage Patients on Opioids in a Psychological Intervention for Chronic Pain

3rd Place (Tie): Margaret Wasvary Perspectives on Telemedicine From a National Study of Youth in the United States

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2nd Annual Penn Medical Communication Research Institute Symposium

Medical Communication in Women’s Reproductive Health: The Message and the Messenger

Program: , introductions.

Anne R. Cappola, MD, ScM , Director, Penn Medical Communication Research Institute, Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine

Courtney Schreiber, MD , MPH , Stuart and Emily B.H. Mudd Professor of Human Behavior and Reproduction in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chief of the Division of Family Planning, Executive Director of FOCUS on Health and Leadership for Women, Perelman School of Medicine

Session 1: Special Considerations in Medical Communication in Women’s Reproductive Health

1:10 PM 

Lisa Harris, MD, PhD, F. Wallace and Janet Jeffries Collegiate Professor of Reproductive Health, and Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan

"Communicating about abortion: The evidence that doctors' voices matter"

Jessa Lingel, PhD, Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

“Information at the margins: Privacy concerns and personal health information”

Betsy Rymes, PhD, Professor and Chair, Educational Linguistics Division, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania

" Pregnant people, pregnant pauses: Words and reproductive health"

Danielle Cosme, PhD, Research Director, Communication Neuroscience Lab, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

"What motivates people to share content?"

3:00 PM   BREAK

Session 2: Reproductive Health: Crafting Messages to Reach Desired Audiences

3:15 PM   

Ellen Peters, PhD, MS, Philip H. Knight Chair, Director of the Center for Science Communication Research, Professor of Journalism and Communication and the Psychology, University of Oregon

"Numeracy and facilitating decisions with data"

Chioma Ndubisi, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

"Body language and bias in contraception counseling"

Sarah Banet-Weiser, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Director, Center for Collaborative Communication at the Annenberg Schools 

"Reproducing women: A brief history of media representations"

Clarisa R Gracia, MD, MSCE, Nancy and Richard Wolfson Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chief, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania 

"Reproduction and fertility in the 21 st  century"

Concluding Remarks and Next Steps

4:55 PM   

Read more about the speakers below. 

Sponsored by: 

Anne R. Cappola, MD, ScM

Director, PMCRI and Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Anne R. Cappola, MD, ScM, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism and Director of the Penn Medical Communication Research Institute. Dr. Cappola directs an NIH-funded research program focused on the hormonal alterations that occur with aging and the clinical impact of these changes. Dr. Cappola is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the Interurban Clinical Club and an Associate Editor for JAMA. She has received the Abbott Thyroid Research Mentor Award from the Endocrine Society, the American Thyroid Association’s Van Meter Award, and the American Statistical Association Outstanding Statistical Application Award. She is a graduate of Harvard College, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Courtney A. Schreiber MD, MPH

Stuart and Emily B.H. Mudd Professor of Human Behavior and Reproduction and Chief of the Division of Family Planning, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania

Courtney A. Schreiber MD, MPH, is the Stuart and Emily B.H. Mudd Professor of Human Behavior and Reproduction in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chief of the Division of Family Planning. Her research focuses on overcoming barriers to reproductive health care and access and closing sex and race disparity gaps. Dr. Schreiber is the Founding Director of PEACE, the Pregnancy Early Access Center at Penn Medicine, which is a national model for the integration of family planning and early pregnancy care. She serves as Program Director of the Fellowship in Complex Family Planning at Penn and as Executive Director of the Perelman School of Medicine’s FOCUS on Health and Leadership for Women (FOCUS).

Ellen Peters, PhD, MS

Philip H. Knight Chair and Director, Center for Science Communication Research, and Professor, School of Journalism and Communication and Department of Psychology, University of Oregon

Ellen Peters, PhD, MS, is an academic expert in decision making and the science of science communication. Her primary research interests concern how people judge and decide, and how evidence-based communication can boost comprehension and improve decisions in health, financial, and environmental contexts. She is especially interested in the basic building blocks of human judgment and decision making—such as emotions and number abilities—and their links to effective communication techniques. These processes are also central to the effects of adult aging on decision making as well as to public policy issues, such as how to communicate about the health effects of smoking or about the pros and cons of cancer screenings and treatments. She is also interested in methods to increase number ability, also know as numeracy, to improve decision making and, in turn, health and financial outcomes. As Philip H. Knight Chair, Director of the Center for Science Communication Research (SCR), and Professor in both the School of Journalism and Communication and the Psychology Department at the University of Oregon, she explores how policymakers, physicians, and other experts can enhance public understanding of science and technology by advancing the science of science communication. Her book, Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers, was published by Oxford University Press.

Lisa Harris, MD, PhD

F. Wallace and Janet Jeffries Collegiate Professor of Reproductive Health, and Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Department of Women's and Gender Studies, University of Michigan

Lisa Harris, MD, PhD, is the F. Wallace and Janet Jeffries Collegiate Professor of Reproductive Health, and Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. She is Associate Chair for Faculty Development and Faculty Life in Ob-Gyn and directs the University of Michigan's Fellowship in Family Planning. After college and medical school at Harvard University, she completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco. Because so many issues in reproductive health have to do as much with culture and politics as with biomedical sciences, she went on to earn a PhD in American Culture at the University of Michigan. She is now an active clinician, teacher, and researcher. Her clinical work includes most aspects of general obstetrics and gynecology care, with a focus on miscarriage and family planning. She teaches across disciplines at the University of Michigan and has co-taught Women’s and Gender Studies 400 (Women’s Reproductive Health) for the past 15 years. In addition to undergraduate teaching, she teaches in the Medical School, Law School, and School of Public Health. Her research is similarly interdisciplinary, focusing on medical history and sociology. In particular, her work explores abortion stigma, the experiences of abortion care providers, race and social class stratification of reproduction, strategies for providing healthcare within a reproductive justice framework, and the role of healthcare provider voices in reducing social polarization on contested issues. She is the recipient of a variety of awards for her research and advocacy, including the Association of Reproductive Health Professional's "Preserving Core Values in Science Award,” and the Outstanding Researcher Award from the Society of Family Planning.

Betsy Rymes, PhD

Professor and Chair, Educational Linguistics Division, and Director of the Master’s Program in Intercultural Commmunication, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania

Betsy Rymes, PhD, is Professor and Chair, Educational Linguistics Division, and Director of the Master’s Program in Intercultural Commmunication in the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. She studies how language, social interaction, institutions, and the Internet influence what students learn in schools and how people get work done together. Dr. Rymes is the author of several books, including, Conversational Borderlands: Language and Identity in an Alternative Urban High School (Teachers College Press, 2001); Classroom Discourse Analysis: A Tool for Critical Reflection (Routledge, 2015); How We Talk About Language: Exploring Citizen Sociolinguistics; (Cambridge, 2021); and Studying Language in Interaction: A Practical Guide to Communicative Repertoire and Sociolinguistic Diversity (Routledge, in press). Dr. Rymes’ university teaching focuses on integrating discourse analysis and concepts from linguistic anthropology with a study of the conditions of multilingualism in school contexts and beyond.

Sarah Banet-Weiser, PhD

Distinguished Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California

Sarah Banet-Weiser, PhD, is Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Professor of Communication at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She is the founding director of the Center for Collaborative Communication at the Annenberg Schools (CCAS). Her teaching and research interests include gender in the media, identity, citizenship, and cultural politics, consumer culture and popular media, race and the media, and intersectional feminism. Committed to intellectual and activist conversations that explore how global media politics are exercised, expressed, and perpetuated in different cultural contexts, she has authored or edited eight books, including the award-winning AuthenticTM: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture (NYU Press, 2012) and Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny (Duke, 2018), and dozens of peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and essays. In 2019-2020, she had a regular column on popular feminism in the Los Angeles Review of Books. She has just completed a co-authored book (with Kathryn Claire Higgins), Believability: Sexual Violence, Media and the Politics of Doubt (Polity Press, forthcoming 2023).

Clarisa R Gracia, MD, MSCE

Nancy and Richard Wolfson Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Clinical Investigator, Center for Research on Reproduction and Women’s Health, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Clarisa Gracia, MD, MSCE is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gracia is medical director of Penn Fertility Care and was the previous director of third party reproduction and fertility preservation. She cares for patients with a broad range of reproductive concerns including infertility. She has over 160 publications in the field of reproduction and has been actively involved in several national and international organizations. She currently serves as a member of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology REI Division and is Chair of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine Practice Committee. Dr. Gracia has received several awards including The Emily Hartshorne Mudd Award, given for significant contributions to the field of family health, and the Ira and Ester Rosenwaks New Investigator Award.

Danielle Cosme, PhD, MS

Research Director, Communication Neuroscience Lab, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Danielle Cosme, PhD, is the Research Director of the Communication Neuroscience Lab at the Annenberg School for Communication. Broadly, her research focuses on understanding social, cognitive, and motivational factors that promote goal pursuit and behavior change. The overarching goal of her research is to use neuroscience to design and evaluate translational interventions that facilitate behavior change and improve health and well-being during adolescence and adulthood. She received her B.S. from Chapman University, her M.S. from Stockholm University (Sweden), and her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Oregon.

Jessa Lingel, PhD

Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Jessa Lingel, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and core faculty in Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies digital culture, looking for the ways that relationships to technology can show us gaps in power or possibilities for social change. Dr. Lingel’s research focuses on three key areas: alterity and appropriation, and investigations of how information and technology is altered, tinkered with, subverted, and articulated by marginalized groups; politics of infrastructure, where systems of categorization, organization, and design can reveal underlying ideologies and logics; and technological activism as a way of exploring how socio-technical practices can contribute to projects of social justice. In her activist work, Dr. Lingel concentrates on prison abolition, libraries as vehicles for DIY education, and local access to mental health resources.

Chioma Ndubisi, MD, MSc, FACOG

Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania

Chioma Ndubisi, MD, MSc, FACOG, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a board-certified OB/GYN specializing in sexual and reproductive health at the University of Pennsylvania. She worked for four years as an OB/GYN generalist at a Federally Qualified Health Center in Washington, DC where she had the unique opportunity to care for some of DC's most complex patients. Dr. Ndubisi attended Indiana University for undergraduate studies and earned a BS in biology before completing medical school, with a distinction in community service, at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. In 2018, she completed a two-year fellowship in Complex Family Planning at Columbia University Medical Center while earning a Master of Science in Epidemiology concurrently at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Medical Student Research Symposium 2022

March 25, 2022

March 25, 2022, noon to 5:45 p.m.

The oral presentations will be held in-person in the M203 auditorium

The poster presentations will be held in-person at

• Riverside 4 G101 and G102
• Riverside 2 Atrium

Contact info

Leslie LaConte [email protected]

Seven members of the class of 2022 will give oral presentations as a culmination of their four-year research projects. In addition, poster sessions will be held for all members of the class.

Attendees may watch the livestream below for the research mentor award, oral presentations, and student awards at the times indicated in the below schedule .  

The Research Mentor Award, Oral Presentations, and Student Awards will be presented via Livestream. If you have any questions during a student presentation, please post them in the comments section on YouTube.

Posters will also be shared on the livestream.

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• 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Poster Presentations
• 1:10 - 1:30 p.m. Research Mentor Awards - Samy Lamouille (M203)
• Use of Intraoperative Ketorolac in Outpatient Breast Surgery: A Double-Blinded Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial Joowon Choi (Mentor: James Thompson, MD)
• Visualizing the Golgi Apparatus in Adult Hippocampal Dendrites In Vivo Dinesh Lal (Mentor: Shannon Farris, PhD)
• A Prospective Clinical Trial Comparing General Anesthesia with Interscalene Nerve Block vs. TIVA-P Sedation with Interscalene Nerve Block in Outpatient Shoulder Arthroscopies Kory Cablay (Mentor: John Tuttle, MD)
• 2:40 - 3:40 p.m. Poster Presentations
• Investigating the Pathogenesis of Mouse Adenovirus Type 3 Acute Viral Myocarditis Michael North (Mentor: James Smyth, PhD)
• Delay Discounting is Associated with Smoking Cessation following Diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Kenan Michaels (Mentor: Jeff Stein, PhD and Jen Vaughn, MD)
• BMP Induced Cx43 Interaction with β- Catenin in Glioma Stem Cells Natalia Sutherland (Mentor: Samy Lamouille, PhD)
• Modeled WALANT Does Not Impair Driving Fitness: An Experimental On-Road Noninferiority Study Ariel Badger (Mentor: Peter Apel, MD, PhD)
• 5:10 - 5:45 p.m. Awards and Closing (M203)

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[Chris Childers]: The project that I'm working on is a focused ultrasound to basically treat biofilms off of catheter based medical devices. Anytime we put these devices inside the human body, they can grow biofilms, and that bacteria can harbor there and cause infection in the body. So what we want to do is be able to remove and kill those biofilms on those medical devices non-invasively by using ultrasound.

We didn't have a whole lot of literature on whether or not this was actually feasible. And so kind of the first part of my project was really kind of that proof of concept of determining is this feasible? Is it possible? Can we get a cavitation cloud or an ultrasound histotripsy cloud inside the lumen of a catheter? Can we remove a biofilm and can we, you know, kill bacteria? The kind of the three just general big questions that we had at the beginning of the project.

[Eli Vlaisavjevich]: Chris really started this entire project, which was a completely new direction for our lab. So histotripsy is the core technology that our group works on is a focused ultrasound technology that we're currently developing for a lot of applications, but mostly in oncology. So noninvasive treatment of tumors, liver tumors. We have some work on pancreatic cancer. So Chris came in and was very interested in developing the technology, a version of this that we could actually use for the treatment of biomaterial associated infections.

[Chris Childers]: What we found in my project was that, one, we could use focused ultrasound to treat the inside of a catheter. We also found that focused ultrasound when we applied to this catheter will remove a biofilm from the catheter. And lastly, we found focused ultrasound will also kill bacteria in suspension. The future of medicine is starting to do things through smaller incisions, through completely potentially, in our case, noninvasive procedures. And if we could do that with this technology, you know, it means the world to the patient because then they don't have to have, you know, a needle stick. They don't have to go under the scalpel or anything. It's just an ultrasound device. Like you would go and have your baby ultrasound.

I originally wanted to go into emergency medicine. But this project exposed me to radiology and interventional radiology, kind of learning about the minimally invasive and noninvasive ablation methods. And from that, I started to become more interested in it, did more research, and now I've just applied to interventional and diagnostic radiology for my residency choice.

[Eli Vlaisavjevich]:  I work with a lot of the leading interventional radiologists in the world, and I think Chris is the next in line to take over for that. He has that same attitude and that's not only caring about the patients, but is thinking ahead to what's next and how can we have more noninvasive technologies that can, you know, not only improve the outcomes of patients, but the quality of life going through these therapies. He really has that approach.

[Chris Childers]: If this becomes the next technology that we use to make sure that we keep medical devices sterile and keep patients from becoming septic from a implanted medical device, I mean, that's that's massive.

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[Ariel Badger]: When I came to medical school, I knew I wanted a clinical research project, one that I could see the effects somewhat immediately, of course, relatively speaking. So when I met with Dr. Apel and I saw he was answering this question that patients really want to know the answer to, I immediately wanted to come on board.

[Peter Apel]: It's unknown after different types of surgery, whether it be on the wrist or the shoulder or the knee when a patient's safe to go back to driving. And these are everyday common questions from patients. Ariel's study was intended to answer a question of when can I go back to driving after having my carpal tunnel surgery?

[Ariel Badger]: We didn't know if we could really even measure driving fitness. And so when we began this it was really kind of see what happens. Let's see if it's possible. We came up VTTI, we looked at their instrument vehicles, They collect all sorts of information from different camera views to all the kinematic metrics. Yaw, acceleration, speed. It will have GPS coordinates. It looks at even steering wheel angle. After we found that we could effectively and objectively measure driving fitness, it was great to be able to take kind of this proof of concept that was done on just healthy volunteers into an actual patient population.

In the enclave, That's where we take the data collected in the from the hard drives in the car, which include, again, all the kinematic metrics as well as the camera views. And what we got to do was go through each video and determine the timestamps at which certain maneuvers were occurring. So I would kind of go frame by frame write down the start point and end point of those maneuvers so that we could ultimately extract the kinematic data.

[Peter Apel]: We want to do this in bigger surgeries. This project started out asking simply a question about carpal tunnel release. And with our methods and the skills that we gained, we're able to answer the same question about rotator cuff release. So what we found out, surprisingly, was that patients can drive pretty soon after surgery. She found in her research that the traditional way of looking at this problem by simply measuring patients in a simulator doesn't capture who they are with their adaptive abilities. And in that way, she's changed the way that we think about this problem.

[Ariel Badger]: I think the research curriculum is very important. It's a wonderful feeling to be able to really answer the question patients want to know the answer to. I feel like that's something that has been said quite often for this project. It has far exceeded my expectations. So it's truly been such an enjoyable experience, and I'm really glad to have been a part of it. 

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REGISTER TODAY! The 2024 Symposium will be held on Monday, April 29th at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center.

We are thrilled to announce Anthony S. Fauci, MD, Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine and the McCourt School of Public Policy, as this year's keynote speaker.

See below for additional details . Mark your calendars now to join us!

Hosted by the MedStar Health Research Institute, MedStar Health Academic Affairs, and Georgetown University Medical Center , the MedStar Health-Georgetown University Research and Education Symposium is open to all members of the research and education community interested in learning more about scholarship at MedStar Health and Georgetown. The symposium brings together the MedStar Health and Georgetown University communities to celebrate the breadth of our academic pursuits. The event offers the opportunity to connect with researchers, educators, residents, executive leaders, and collaborative partners from across the region and our system to build meaningful relationships to further advance the health of our community.

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We are thrilled to host the 2024 MedStar Health – Georgetown University Research & Education Symposium on April 29, 2024. We look forward to bringing together investigators, educators, executive leaders, associates, and collaborative partners from across our academic health system to share their research and build meaningful relationships to further advance health for our community.

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We are pleased to announce our keynote speaker for the 2024 MedStar Health-Georgetown University Research Symposium will be Anthony S. Fauci, MD .

Dr. Fauci is Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine and the McCourt School of Public Policy. A renowned physician, leading immunologist and infectious disease researcher, and advisor to seven U.S. presidents, Dr. Fauci served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for 38 years until his retirement in 2022.

Important Information for Researchers:

All MedStar Health and Georgetown physicians, nurses, researchers, staff, residents, and fellows are encouraged to submit abstracts. Only selected abstracts will be presented as posters during the event. Poster selection will be determined by the Scientific Review Committee.   For more information and guidelines for submitting an abstract for consideration, please visit the event portal .

Abstract submission opens – January 10, 2024 Abstract submission closes – February 5 2024 Registration opens – March 4, 2024 Presenter selection announcements – Week of March 19, 2024

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2023 Symposium: Our largest event yet!

More than 1,000 members of our academic community attended the 2023 MedStar Health–Georgetown University Research & Education Symposium on May 8, 2023 – our first in-person Symposium in four years! The event featured 350+ juried poster presentations, plus numerous oral presentations and academic workshops. This year’s theme was health equity.

Highlights included a keynote address by Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, MD , Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the National Institutes of Health. Other main stage speakers were Stephen R.T. Evans, MD , executive vice president for Medical Affairs and chief medical officer for MedStar Health, Neil J. Weissman, MD , president of MedStar Health Research Institute and chief scientific officer for MedStar Health, and Jamie S. Padmore, DM , vice president of Academic Affairs at MedStar Health.

The day began with Georgetown University’s Center for Innovation and Leadership in Education (CENTILE) Colloquium for Educators in Health Professions , with more than 215 scholars in attendance. In the afternoon, more attendees joined for professional workshops on academic topics including research statistics, institutional review board, and curriculum design. This was followed by resident and fellow oral presentations, presentations from two MedStar Health Research Scholars , Victoria Lai, MD, MS, FACS , and Leila Shobab, MD , and a showcase of peer-reviewed abstract presentations in the main ballroom. The Symposium closed with a reception hosted by MedStar Health Philanthropy.

Awards & Recognitions

Numerous awards were presented at the Symposium. Nine residents and fellows were recognized for outstanding research in oral and poster presentations:

First Place:

“Statewide Data on Surgical Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: The Data Provide a Path Forward” Jin Kook Kang, MD (PGY-3, Surgery)

“Admission BNP Level and Postpartum Blood Pressure Prior to Discharge” Rebecca Chornock, MD (PGY-7, Maternal-Fetal Medicine)

“EEG Correlates of Motor Function Recovery During the Critical Period Window Post Stroke” Syed Qadri, MD (PGY-2, Physical Medicine &Rehabilitation)

Second Place:

“Use of COVID-19 prevention therapy Evusheld in patients with multiple sclerosis: A retrospective observational study” Amy Safadi, MD (PGY-5, Neurology)

“Factors Associated with Delays in Definitive Resection for Colon Cancer” Timothy Holleran, MD (PGY-4, Surgery)

“The Impact of COVID-19 and Vaccination Status on Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer Patients” James Johns, MD (PGY-3, ENT)

Third Place:

“Can We Stop the Bleed? A Pilot Study Using a Geographic Information System to Train Violence Intervention Specialists in Washington, DC.” James Wallace, MD (PGY-7, Trauma)

“Exploring Genetic Causes of Paratubal Cyst Formation in the Setting of PCOS” Nishita Patel, MD (PGY-4, Obstetrics and Gynecology)

“The digital divide in the use of social media among cancer survivors” Joseph Atarere, MD (PGY-1, Internal Medicine)

Krista White, PhD, RN, CCRN-K, CNE, Lisa Ruth-Sahd, MSN, EdD, and Peggy Slota, MN, DNP , from the Georgetown University School of Nursing, received the 2023 CENTILE Colloquium Best Oral Abstract Award.

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The event was a success, thanks to the dedicated planning committee and chairs.

2023 Symposium Chairs were Carlo Tornatore, MD , and Stephanie Detterline, MD . Aarthi Shenoy, MD , was chair of the Scientific Review Committee. Aviad Haramati, PhD , was chair of the Education Committee.

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Since 2019, the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation as awarded over $635m to organizations in NYS. In this presentation, we'll discuss the process for submitting to Mother Cabrini and share general comments from the program officers of what they look for in successful submissions

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Leigh Allen, Ph.D., became a program officer with CRB in 2022. Prior to joining NICHD, Dr. Allen spent 6 years at the University of Minnesota in the College of Pharmacy’s Department of Medicinal Chemistry. She was the research program manager for a portfolio of more than 15 different contraception-related projects and the administrative core of a Contraception Development Research Center grant (U54/P50). She managed the submission of more than $125 million in grants and contracts and administered the pre- and post-award grants. She also served on an executive committee of university governance and handled the operations of a 130-person academic department and its affiliated Institute for Therapeutics Discovery & Development. Dr. Allen earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from Duke University, where she was a trainee in their T32-funded pharmacological sciences training program. She performed postdoctoral studies in structural biology at both Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute in Buffalo, New York, and North Carolina State University. Her primary focus was the study of the mechanisms underpinning antibiotic resistance and bacterial biofilms, solving the structure of several enzymes involved in various key bacterial pathways, synthesizing substrates, and developing novel biochemical assays. During this time, she also was a contract scientific editor for journal articles covering nearly all fields of science.

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Jessica Thomas, DrPH, is responsible for directing HEDIS, QARR, NCQA, and Medicare Stars initiatives at Independent Health, which include collaboration among population health, risk, medical management, care management and network providers to drive innovative initiatives to improve quality outcomes and ensure member satisfaction.

Please join us for a Q&A session with Jessica Thomas, DrPH, and learn more about the resources and databases available to you through your research.

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UEFA Medical Symposium: Heading in the right direction

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

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The impact of football on the brain and specific considerations for female players were among the topics on the second day of the UEFA Medical Symposium held at the headquarters of the German Football Association (DFB) in Frankfurt.

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In the first session of the day, Edwin Goedhart, chief medical officer at the Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB), reviewed the key steps in evaluating head impacts and identifying the signs and symptoms of concussion, stressing that each concussion is unique and should be treated on an individual basis. He also detailed the protocols for players who receive a concussion to resume and gradually intensify training before returning to match action, with checks and controls for each step.

Claus Reinsberger from the Medical Committee of the German Football Association (DFB) then addressed the question of how heading the ball may affect the brain. He explored the difficulties in making any direct correlation between heading and neurodegenerative disorders, while stressing the importance of applying guidelines for heading technique and practice frequency.

Focus on women's football

In a change of focus for the second session, the symposium heard Rita Tomás from the Portuguese Football Association (FPF) explain how the menstrual cycle has historically limited the inclusion of female subjects in medical studies and how guidelines on injury risk, nutrition and related topics have been based on male-dominated research. While studies have been conducted to understand how the various stages of the menstrual cycle affect performance factors such as endurance, muscular strength and balance, Tomás emphasised that research needs to be undertaken on a larger scale before any definitive conclusions can be reached.

She was followed by Dr Eva Ferrer from FC Barcelona who addressed how recommendations on physical activity for pregnant women should be applied to a contact sport like football, particularly at elite level. Football-specific exercise is advised and beneficial, however participation in matches is strictly prohibited due to the potential risks to mother and foetus. A special phased return to play programme should then be applied post-pregnancy, based on gradual reconditioning and restrengthening. Likewise female players who have recently given birth need to pay special attention to the issue of relative energy deficiency and the resulting impact on breast-feeding.

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SRU recognized several students for research, academic leadership and more at 2024 Celebration of Achievement

From left, Kelli Galbraith was recognized for being Slippery Rock University's  finalist for Syed Ali-Zaidi Award for Academic Excellence by Michael Zieg, SRU’s provost.

April 3, 2024

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. — Slippery Rock University recognized several students at its annual Celebration of Achievement awards ceremony, April 2, in the Smith Student Center Ballroom, highlighted by the announcement of SRU's nominee for the Syed Ali-Zaidi Award for Academic Excellence.

Kelli Galbraith, a senior mathematics major from Gibsonia, is SRU's finalist for the Ali-Zaidi award, which is given to a graduating senior in Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education who exemplifies academic excellence and involvement. A selection committee appointed by the State System chancellor reviews all nominees' accomplishments and selects a winner. The winner will receive $1,000 and will be announced later this month. The award was established by Syed Ali-Zaidi, a charter member of the PASSHE Board of Governors.

Galbraith has a 4.0 grade-point average who presented two research projects in three states earlier this year, including a presentation on fractal dimension applied to human iris recognition, presented at the 2024 Joint Mathematical Meeting, and a case study for support vector machines, decision tree and random forest, presented at the 2023 North American Power Symposium. Last summer, she was an intern with the U.S. Department of Energy Omni Technology Alliance at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

Galbraith is also involved with the SRU Honors College and the Math Club and Delight Christian Ministries at SRU.

She plans to pursue her master's degree at SRU in secondary education and enter a teaching career in education at the secondary or college levels.

Other awards presented at the Celebration of Achievement included:

The Outstanding Students in Research , Scholarship or Creative Activity. These awards recognize students from each of SRU's five colleges -- College of Business, College of Education, College of Engineering and Science, College of Health Professions and College of Liberal Arts -- based on their involvement in a variety of research, scholarly and creative projects:

• Jessica Stroh, a graduate student majoring in business administration from Monroeville. Stroh authored a research paper titled "Breaking Through Barriers: Women in Finance" which she presented as a poster during the Spring 2023 Student Research Symposium. This paper explored the lack of female representation in the upper echelons of the finance industry. Stroh furthered her research by looking into careers in the financial services industry over the following summer and through Fall 2023.
• Mitchell McCleary, a senior physical and health education major from Slippery Rock. McCleary has been the most active and accomplished physical and health education undergraduate student in both grant acquisition and scientific research for the last three years. During the 2022 spring semester, he won a $1,500 SRU Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Grant to research "The Effects of Muscular Power versus Muscular Strength for Upper Body Strength of College Aged Students." He followed that with another grant in the Spring of 2023: the Summer Collaborative Research Experience grant for Community Strength Training: Muscular Power versus Muscular Strength Upper Body Training, for more than $4,000. Mitchell's research has been presented at the SRU's research symposium and nationally at the SHAPE America convention.
• Olivia Kaminski, a junior biology major from New Castle. Kaminski started an extracurricular research project with Stacey Hrizo, professor of biology, in March of 2022, in which they examined if a commonly used pesticide activates stress responses in three different human cell lines. They received an SRU SCORE grant that enabled them to work in the lab during the summer of 2022. Kaminski presented her research at a national meeting, Discover Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, in Seattle, Washington, in March of 2023, and at the SRU Research Symposium in April 2023. During the summer of 2023, Kaminski completed a summer undergraduate research experience with the cardiac program at Washington University of St. Louis Medical School, completing 10 weeks of research on ultrasound data collection for a cardiac research program at the medical school. She then presented her research results at an international cardiac research meeting in Seattle in October 2023.
• Riley Page, a junior recreational therapy major from Windber. Page has assisted in the SRU faculty-student research project comparing the effectiveness of education and seated yoga for fall prevention. His research poster won the 2023 Best Research Poster at the American Therapeutic Recreation Association annual meeting and he is working with SRU faculty members on a full-length research article for the Therapeutic Recreation Journal. Last summer, Page worked in an undergraduate research fellowship at the University of Utah where he was paired into biking buddies to complete shared rides using a side-by-side adaptive bike. He presented a poster at the University of Utah student symposium, and published his research, in an Undergraduate Research Journal.
• Michael LaBella, a senior music education major from Glenshaw. LaBella has received more than $10,000 in grant money while at SRU, including a $1,500 SRU Student Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Grant for the implementation of SRU Bassoon Day that addressed gaps in teachers' knowledge. During the summer of 2022, LaBella secured a $5,000 SRU SCORE grant for a project titled "Music Education in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Schools," in which he conducted Zoom interviews with music educators, and he presented his research at the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association conference in April 2023. He also did research through a SRU Faculty-Student Research grant, worth $5,000, for a field experience immersion in music project in New Mexico. He is currently working on a book about the history of the Shaler Area School District Band Program.

The Outstanding Student Academic Leaders . These awards recognize students from each of SRU's five colleges based on their outstanding leadership within an academic department or college:

• Bhodie Cummings, a junior dual finance and economics major from Warren. Cummings is co-president of the Finance and Economics Club at SRU. He and other executive board members have revived the club, holding bi-weekly meetings, coordinating field trips, and organizing activities including guest speaker events and Google certificate signups.
• Heaven Jacoway, a junior elementary education/early childhood major from Sharon. Jacoway has demonstrated leadership in the Jump Start Program, as a peer leader for the FYRST seminar, and a RockTeach Ambassador who actively goes to schools, presents research, and leads groups of students on campus. 
• Daniel Miller, a senior mathematics major from Pittsburgh. Miller is the president of the Pre-Service Teachers of Mathematics Club at SRU. As president, Miller has both continued the success of the Math Family Nights and organized new outreach opportunities for the club. Miller and several other club members led three mini-mathematics lessons for students at Slippery Rock Elementary School. He has also served as a FYRST Seminar peer leader, tutor in the Mathematics and Statistics Assistance Center and worked as a supplemental instruction tutor.
• Leanne Digman, a junior recreational therapy major from Denver. Digman is the secretary of the Recreational Therapy Club at SRU and has served as a FYRST seminar peer leader for two years. Leanne is the founder and inaugural president of the Interprofessional Education Club, and she ensures the Brain Injury Support Program runs smoothly for participants and their families, as well as the student volunteers. In the RT Research Lab, she has helped organize and facilitate the research process for the falls prevention for older adults research grant. Her research poster won the Best Research Poster Award at the ATRA conference.
• Ericka Morton, a senior dance major from Pittsburgh. Mortan has served as student leader of the Palenque, the SRU Dance Department's outreach and touring company. She currently leads rehearsals, participates in the production of the company's many performances throughout the academic year, and she helps coordinate the touring aspects of the company and serves as the main liaison between the students and the artistic director. She is one of two student directors for the SRU Dance Theatre company, and she served as the student rehearsal director for Martha Graham's historic work "Steps in the Street," and she is currently serving as a student rehearsal director for guest artist Nathan Trice's "Their Speech is Silver, Their Silence is Gold."

The Global Leader Awards. These awards are presented to students who have demonstrated the desire to pursue a truly global education, through committed involvement in the opportunities provided by SRU for global learning, global experiences and meaningful engagement with people from other countries and cultures. The recipients include:

• Kaylee Villanueva Santos, a graduate student in the TESOL program from Kissimmee, Florida. Villanueva Santos participated in a short-term program abroad to Sweden with the College of Education in May 2023 and then took part in a summer 2023 language and culture program in South Korea. She also completed her studies at SRU by student teaching in Madrid, Spain.
• Hailie Moggee, a senior accounting major from Spanish Fort, Alabama. Moggee, who was born and raised in South Africa until age 7, has participated in campus and community initiatives, highlighting her commitment to fostering diversity, inclusion, and mutual respect among her peers. Moggee has served as an International Club Executive Board member at SRU, an international orientation student worker, and a contributor to the Office for Global Engagement.

SRU President's Award recipients , consisting mostly of SRU employees, were also recognized at the Celebration of Achievement.

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Student Art & Research Symposium 

April 10, 2024 | 6:30 pm PT

We are proud to announce this year’s annual Medicine & the Muse Student Symposium, a celebration of the many artistic, literary, musical and other creative scholarly talents at the Stanford School of Medicine. This year, we are incredibly excited to be able to hold the symposium at the Bing Concert Hall, where we will feature the Stanford School of Medicine Orchestra. The theme, inspired by the orchestra, is “ Pulling at Heartstrings ”. 

The symposium will be composed of 3 parts: a gallery show in the Bing lobby with art and project findings, a live performance segment and last but not least, a performance by our very own orchestra. 

For art and music-appreciators, entry to the event is free for all Stanford students if you show your ID at the door!  Purchase tickets  here . 

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Hana Dao | Video demo, multimedia

Modern Motherhood

Hana Dao is an undergraduate majoring in Science, Technology, and Society. Her studies in art focus on speculative narratives of the future. 

The interactive video demo seen here is the from the piece,  Modern Motherhood , a feminist commentary on the social complexities of reproductive technology. The interactive video essay highlights visual references to egg freezing and IVF as well as ethical dilemmas raised by the technologies.

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MEDICINE & THE MUSE SYMPOSIUM 2024 IS SPONSORED BY: STANFORD MEDICINE & THE MUSE PROGRAM, CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL ETHICS, STANFORD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, BIOMEDICAL ETHICS & MEDICAL HUMANITIES SCHOLARLY CONCENTRATION, THE MARMOR FOUNDATION, THE DRS. BEN & A. JESS SHENSON FUNDS