Posters Submitted - 2011 Forum

Below is a listing of the posters to be submitted at the 49th Annual Medical Student Research Forum, January 18, 2011.

Poster Number  First Name Last Name Mentor Title
1 Anandita  Agarwala Joachim Herz ApoE4, a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, modulates flux through NMDA receptors
2 Anandita  Agarwala Joachim Herz Alternative splicing of ApoER2 is important in mediating activity- dependent synaptic plasticity
3 Jorge  Alvarado Martha E Shenton Stochastic Tractography Study of Inferior Frontal Gyrus Anatomical Connectivity in Schizophrenia
4 Viswatej  Avutu Kathlynn Brown Peptide H2009.1 Uptake by αvβ6 in ¬Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells
5 Alexis  Barina Rashmi Shetgiri/Glenn Flores Raising Bilingual Children: A Qualitative Study of Parental Attitudes & Beliefs
6 Stephanie  Bezner Laura Klesse Utility of long term neuro-imaging in patients with cerebellar pilocytic astrocytomas
7 Elisabeth Brown Celette Skinner Rates of Prophylactic Breast Surgery and Surveillance among Ethnically Diverse Women Seen for Breast/Ovarian Cancer Genetic Counseling.
8 Juhee Choi Alice Chang Cardiac Output during Exercise is Inversely Associated with Left Ventricular Mass in Women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome 
9 Hannah Chung Michael White Cataloguing Tumor Suppressive Single-Nucleotide Variants (SNVs) From a Matched Pair of NSCLC and Normal Bronchial Epithelial Cell lines Using Massively Parallel Sequencing of the Exome 
10 Doan Dao William Lee Prevalence of Hepatitis B Virus Infection (HBV), HBV-related Liver Diseases and the Need for Education of HBV in High Risk Communities of Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex
11 Doan Dao William Lee Alpha-Fetoprotein (AFP) Levels Determine Prognosis in Acute Liver Failure Secondary to Hepatitis B Infection (HBV-ALF).
12 Samir Derisavifard Susan Iannaccone Juvenile Myasthenia Gravis: a Twenty Year Experience 
13 Kenton Devine William Lee Serum miR-122 and Human Genomic DNA in Patients with Drug-induced Acute Liver Failure or with Chronic Hepatitis C  
14 Tommy (Yining) Fu Samir Gupta Size-specific prevalence of colorectal adenomas with high grade dysplasia: results from a nationally representative sample, with implications for CT colonography practice. 
15 Shauna  Goldman Andrew Pieper In vivo Identification of Pharmacologic Agents for Treatment of Rett Syndrome
16 Mohit Gupta Ron Peshock Using MRI to detect early cognitive impairment in the Dallas Heart Study: Are we doing enough?
17 Darrah  Haffner  Arnold Schecter Bisphenol A in an American Market Basket Survey
18 Salman Hirani Eric B. Schneider Global Surgical Package” Reimbursement and the Acute Care Surgeon: a Threat to Optimal Care
19 MinhTu Hoang Sherwood Brown Association between Low Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Depression in a Large Sample of Healthy Adults
20 Karlee Lau Dan Sucato Does Traction Improve the Likelihood of Obtaining a Successful Closed Reduction for DDH?
21 Megha Mehta Christy Turer/ Glenn Flores What Parents of Overweight Children Want: A Qualitative Study of Parental Expectations Regarding Weight Management in Overweight Children 
22 Elisabeth  Merrill Manjula Julka/Nora Gimpel Community Assessments of an Intervention for HIV Positive People in Dallas, TX: The Healthy Relationships Intervention
23 Neil Murthy Nora Gimpel The Perceptions of Shared Medical Appointments among Health Care Workers at Parkland Hospital’s Community Oriented Primary Care Clinics
24 Nikhil Narang Darren McGuire Substantial error in estimation versus measurement of oxygen consumption: implications for clinical hemodynamic assessment
25 Samuel Park Jeffrey Cadeddu/Sarah Best Patient-Reported Cosmesis Outcomes Following Urologic Surgery; LESS vs. Laparoscopic vs. Open Surgery.
26 Patricia Rawicki Greg Jackson PROM is considered a significant risk factor for neonatal sepsis. Previous studies have not always accounted for CH in attributing risk to PROM.
27 Daniel Robbins Jeffrey Kenkel A Histological Comparison of Ablative Laser Treatment in Human Facial and Abdominal Skin
28 Kristin  Rojas Juan G. Barrera Synchronous Carotid Artery Stenting and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft in High-risk Patients
29 Lindsey  Rutland P. Greilich Can High-Quality Interventional Trials be Performed in Cardiac Surgery Patients with Excessive Bleeding Despite Conventional Blood Transfusion Therapy?
30 Joseph Scales Yair Lotan Positive margin and biochemical recurrence after robotic prostatectomy: predictors and relation to learning curve
31 Max Seiter Shuxin Li Novel inhibitor of PTP-family proteins induces axon growth in CNS
32 Emily Smitherman Nora Gimpel/ Mark DeHaven Evaluating the Efficacy of a Student-Run Childhood Obesity Intervention Program 
33 Moriah Thompson Janice Huff, USRA/NASA-JSC Effects of Cytokines on Esophageal Cancer Development and Progression Following Ionizing Radiation Exposure
34 Kelly Tornow John Teiber Paraoxonase 2 protection of microglia from oxidative and endoplasmic reticulum stress.
35 Tharani Vadivelu Patti Pagels/ Tiffany Billmeier The impact of a health-literacy intervention for homeless mothers
36 Khoan Vu Kim Orth Analysis of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Pathogenicity in a Germ-Free Mouse Model
37 Megan Wachsmann Ellen Vitette Characterization of Human Pancreatic Cell Lines for Targeted Therapy in a Xenograft Model of Human Pancreatic Cancer
38 Jia Wang A. Adesanya Perioperative Continuation versus Interruption of Oral Hypoglycemic Agents in Type 2 Diabetic Patients Undergoing Ambulatory Surgery.
39 Owen Yeh Yair Lotan Robotic prostatectomy: functional outcomes and learning curve
40 Joseph (Hao Chi) Zhang Samir Gupta Potential interventions for patients who do not complete referrals for colon cancer screening with colonoscopy
41 Matthew Campbell James Amatruda The metabolic profile of early zebrafish development
42 Catherine  Oldenkamp Ramon Diaz-Arrastia Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Methods for Detection of Traumatic Axonal Injury (TAI) in the Acute Phase after Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
43 Joseph  Muhlestein Ted Mau Phonation threshold pressure and flow in excised human larynges
44 Jules Bergmann Charles Rosenfeld Relationship Between Childhood Obesity, Maternal Weight Gain in Pregnancy and Fetal Growth
45 Rebecca Brown Lu Le Identifying the Culprit:
Which Cell Type Generates Dermal Neurofibromas in NF1?
46 Raj Gondalia Joseph Hill Unloading-Induced Cardiac Atrophy: Role of Forkhead Transcription Factors
47 Joel Ingrim Kurt Kleinschmidt Hypertensive Crisis in the ER Follow-Up
48 Peter Ririe W. Matthew Petroll A novel model for studying fibroblast migration through fibrin matrices
49 Isaac Hernandez Dr. Francisco Lopez, Mayo Clinic "Association Between Body Volume Indices and metabolic Parameters in Non-Obese Individuals"
50 Danielle Chu Roy Aaron Design of a Biaxial Loading Device for Cartilage Tissue Engineering
51 Sandeep Mehta Andriy Nemchenko/ Joseph Hill AMPK suppresses autophagy in redox-stressed cardiomyocytes
52 Kathryn  Bowman RA Koup Boosting of HIV-specific CTL Responses Following Therapeutic Vaccination of HIV-Infected Individuals
53 Tori  Sutherland Suellen Miller Use of the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG) in Egypt and Zambia: cost-effectiveness, morbidity and mortality reductions. 
54 David  Hong John Minna Aldehyde dehydrogenase and radioresistance in non-small cell lung cancer
55 William  Teeter Dr. Drazner Trial of Medical Therapy Before ICD In Heart Failure: Is it Safe?
56 Jonathan  Boyle David Podeszwa Twenty Year Radiographic and Functional Outcomes of Pavlik Harness Use for Developmentlal Dysplasia of the Hip
57 Matthew Weaver W. Matthew Petroll In Vivo Corneal Imaging using a Modified Confocal Microscope
58 Arden B.  Holbein Jane Wigginton Cardiac Inflammatory Response to Sevre Burn Injury after Administration of 17β-Estradiol
59 Katy Wiggington