Poster Presentations by Students
The following poster presentations were created by medical students who participated in the Medical Student Summer Research Program. Posters are created primarily for the Medical Student Summer Research Symposium held annually in February.
| Departments Where Students Undertook Their Projects | |
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Anatomy & Neurobiology
| title: | Maturation of Adult Generated Neurons in the Dentate Gyrus of Aging Rhesus Monkeys |
| student: | Yamin Shwe (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Douglas Rosene, Ph.D. |
Cardiothoracic Surgery
| title: | Characterizing the Early Outcome of Radial Artery Bypass Grafts Using Multidetector Computed Tomography |
| student: | Nannan Thirumavalavan and Dinesh Kurian (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Robert Poston, M.D. |
| title: | Randomized Clinical Trial Investigating the Relationship between Aprotinin and Hypercoagulability in Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (OPCAB) |
| student: | Dinesh Kurian and Nannan Thirumavalavan (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Robert Poston, MD |
Emergency Medicine
| title: | Analgesia Disparities Among English and Non-English Speaking Patients |
| student: | Levon Khojayan (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Joseph Kahn, MD |
| title: | Declining Proportion of Shockable Rhythms in Out-of Hospital Cardiac Arrests in an Urban EMS System |
| student: | Ryan Hunt (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Joseph Kahn, MD |
| title: | Point-of-Care Urine Albumin:Creatinine Ratio as a Predictor of Outcome in Emergency Department Patients with Sepsis: A Pilot Study |
| student: | Byron Drumheller (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Joseph Kahn, MD |
Medicine
Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training (CERT) Unit
| title: | The Prevalence of Spinal Stenosis and Association with Symptoms: The Framingham Study |
| student: | Robert Cole (class of 2010) |
| preceptor: | David Hunter, MD, Ph.D. |
| title: | The Relation of Plasma Homocysteine and Osteoarthritis: A Framingham Study |
| student: | Maya Fayfman (class of 2010) |
| preceptor: | David Hunter, MD, Ph.D. |
Section of Cardiovascular Medicine
| title: | Aldosterone Receptor Inhibition Effects on Apoptotic Protein Expression in Murine Cardiomyocytes |
| student: | Christoph Hutchinson (class of 2010) |
| preceptor: | Flora Sam, MD |
Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition, and Weight Management
| title: | Prostate Cancer and Vitamin D Therapy: Randomized Clinical Trial to Determine the Effect of Vitamin D3 from UVB Radiation and Supplements on Decreasing PSA Levels |
| student: | Andrew Mohr (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Michael Holick, Ph.D., MD |
| title: | Measuring Vitamin D in Adipose Tissue in Subjects Undergoing Gastric Bypass Surgery |
| student: | Peter Luo (class of 2010) |
| preceptor: | Michael Holick, Ph.D., MD |
| title: | Quality of Life in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
| student: | Janeen Daniels (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | H. Christian Weber, M.D. |
Section of General Internal Medicine
| title: | Methadone maintenance: Do gender or pregnancy status predict compliance with urine drug testing or maintaining “take home” status? |
| student: | Tiffany Filippell (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Alex Walley, M.D., M.Sc. |
Section of Hematology and Oncology
| title: | Analysis of co-expression of microRNAs and their host genes in histologically normal breast and carcinoma in situ |
| student: | Jason Ye (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Carol Rosenburg, M.D. |
Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Allergy Medicine
| title: | Evaluation of Lung Mechanics During Weaning |
| student: | Peter Keenan (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Christine Reardon, M.D. |
Neurology
| title: | Defining the Definitions: Diagnostic Criteria for Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) |
| student: | Jami Johnsen (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Robert Stern, Ph.D. |
| title: | Comparison of vascular and genetic risk factors for memory progression in mild cognitive impairment |
| student: | Ravi Kahlon (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Angela Jefferson, Ph.D. |
Neurosurgery
| title: | Effects of Prominin-1 Silencing on Neural Stem Cells |
| student: | Shane Hawksworth (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Zhigang Xie, Ph.D. |
Orthopaedic Surgery
| title: | Enhanced Chondrogenesis And Osteogenesis In PTH-Treated Fractures |
| student: | Eric Carniol (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Louis Gerstenfeld, Ph.D. |
| title: | The Expression of Nanog and Sox-9 During Fracture Repair |
| student: | Joshua Smith (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Louis Gerstenfeld, Ph.D. |
Otolaryngology
| title: | Histological evaluation of laser lipolysis comparing pulsed and CW lasers in an in vivo pig model |
| student: | Anna Veerappan (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Jeffrey Spiegel, M.D. |
Pediatrics
| title: | Assessing the Psychosocial Needs of Very Low Birth Weight Infants and their Families |
| student: | Jennifer De Sousa (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | C. Jason Wang, M.D., Ph.D. |
| title: | Dietary Effects of Nitrates and Nitrites on Illness Severity in Children with Sickle Cell Disease |
| student: | Diana Cardona-Grau (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Philippa Sprinz, M.D. |
| title: | Learning From Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| student: | Megan Chen (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | C. Jason Wang, M.D., Ph.D. |
| title: | Sedation Training: Stressful but Useful |
| student: | Lisa Mahoney (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Jennifer Lightdale, M.D. M.P.H. |
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Section of Molecular Genetics
| title: | Microarray Analysis of Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Gene Expression During the Natural Course of Infection in a Chinchilla Model of Acute Otitis Media |
| student: | Pamela Carlton (class of 2010) |
| preceptor: | Richard Goldstein, Ph.D. |
Pharamacology and Experimental Therapeutics
and Psychiatry
| title: | The Effects of Zolpidem on Ethanol Consumption and Ethanol Induced Behaviors |
| student: | Meghan Campo, Victoria (Kerestes) Derevianko, Alexandra Stillman (class of 2010) |
| preceptor: | Kimberly Leite-Morris, Ph.D. |
Radiology
| title: | Breast cancer close to the nipple: Does this carry a higher risk of axillary node metastases upon diagnosis? |
| student: | Erin Lewis (class of 2010) |
| preceptor: | Priscilla Slanetz, M.D. |
Surgery
| title: | microRNA expression profiling of thyroid cancer: role of miR222 in papillary thyroid cancer |
| student: | Shethal Bearelly (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Jennifer E. Rosen, M.D. |
| title: | A Neurokinin-1 Receptor Antagonist (NK-1RA) That Reduces Intraabdominal Adhesion Formation Upregulates Thrombospondid-1 (TSP-1) Protein Expression in Early Adhesiogenesis in a Rat Model |
| student: | Jonathan Morrill (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Arthur Stucchi, Ph.D. |
| title: | 2D Immune Display to Analyze Autoimmune Response in Prostate Cancer Patients after Cryotherapy |
| student: | Ja Sun Kang (class of 2011) |
| preceptor: | Jinghua Yang, M.D. |
