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47TH ANNUAL MEDICAL STUDENT RESEARCH FORUM

POSTER & ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS

11/21/08

	Last Name	First Name	Last Name	Frist Name	Mentor	Title	Research Category Indicated	Electronic Submission Complete	Student Signature Submitted	Mentor Signature Submitted	Project Authors or (Your name & Mentor)
1	Adhikari	Emily			Adinoff	Optimizing a Barber-Based Intervention for Hypertension in Black Men	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
2	Bachim	Brent			Twickler and McColl	Fetal Corpus Callosum Resolution Improved by Combined MR Post-Processing Techniq	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
3	Barnes	Laura			Mayo	Limbic Central Nervous System Activity in Itching Due to Liver Disease	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
4	Bhavsar	Premal			Ramon Diaz-Arrastia,	Observational Cohort Study of the Impact of Anemia and Transfusion on Outcome after Traumatic Brain Injury.	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
5	Blanco	Valerie			Ikemba	Oxygen supplementation in echocardiographic detection of anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
6	Burrus	Clint			Brown	Histopathological comparison of acute skin injury following treatment with the Active and Deep FX fractional short-pulse CO2	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
7	Cano	Jason			Idris	Chest Compression Ventilation During Out-of-Hospital CPR	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
8	Chang	Shurong	Van	Antoine	Delaney	Bedside Emergency Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Renal Colic	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
9	Chow	Geoffrey			Cannada & Trussler	Bilateral vs Unilateral Tibial Shaft Fractures: A Comparative analysis	Clinical Research	X			X
10	Dao	Dona			Lee	Host Responses and Virologic Profiles in Patients with Acute Liver Failure Secondary to Acute Hepatitis B Virus Infection (HBV) or Acute Exacerbation on Chronic HBV.	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
11	Divanji	Punag				The Hispanic Paradox –Presentation, History, and Prior Treatment of Hispanic CAD Patients	Clinical Research	X
12	Eng	Matthew			White		Clinical Research	X
13	Frediani	Jamie			Flynn	Cefepime is Not Associated with Increased Mortality in Pediatric Cancer Patients	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
14	Gou	Eric	Simmons	Caleb	Roppolo	Call to Shock Evaluation for Inpatient Cardiac Arrests.	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
15	Ho	Philip			Scott	Completely Transvaginal NOTES Cholecystectomy in a Porcine Model Using Novel Endoscopic Instrumentation	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
16	Ho	Philip			Scott	Hybrid Transvaginal NOTES Sleeve Gastrectomy in a Porcine Model Using A Magnetically Anchored Camera and Novel Instrumentation	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
17	Hong	Yu			Ogunnaike	Effect of Obesity on Post-Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation Using Transthoracic Defibrillation	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
18	Hoyer	Aimee			Jackson	Measurement of the anterior fontanel in term and late preterm Hispanic neonates: description of normal measurements and an alternative measurement method.	Clinical Research	X			X
19	Jones	Michael			Devous	Volumetric Analysis of Structural MRI in Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Using Voxel-Based Morphometry.	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
20	Joseph	J. Arun			Kooner	Is Secondary Glaucoma a Surgical Disease?: Results from the DGR	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
21	Khanani	Sadia			Brown	Attenuation of Amygdala Atrophy with Lamotrigine in Patients Receiving Corticosteroid Therapy	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
22	Lal	Anjali			Toto	The Role of Dietary Sodium Intake on Serum Potassium Level in Patients with Diabetic Nephropathy (DN).	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
23	Legendre	Jaime			Lingvay	Insulin for Newly Diagnosed Patients With Type 2 Diabetes	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
24	Legendre	Jaime			Lingvay	Role of Pancreatic Triglyceride in Beta Cell Dysfunction	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
25	Mathews	Michael			Bolesta	Treatment of Spinal Fractures in Ankylosing Spondylitis	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
26	MeElroy	John			Idris	Dallas Paramedics use an Excessive Ventilation Rate During CPR	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
27	Ouyang	Da			Rohrich	The Peri-umbilical Perforator Flap in Breast Reconstruction: 3D and 4D vascular anatomy and clinical results.	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
28	Pan	Victoria			Diaz-Arrastia	Subtypes of Traumatic Brain Injury in Children: Usefulness of CT Measures	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
29	Prather	Heidi			Olsen.	Longitudinal Analysis of Gene Expression and Autoantibody Profiles in SLE	Clinical Research	X	X	X
30	Patyrak	Shae			PATYRAK	EVALUATION OF A NON-CONTACT INFRARED THERMOMETER IN AN ADULT EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT	Clinical Research	X	X	X
31	Reinhart	Henry			Huerta	Tumor Response to neoadjuvant ionizing radiation for the management of rectal cancer at a County Hospital.	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
32	Rifkin	Lucas			Brown	Effectiveness of Human Adipose-Derived Therapies on Surgical Wound Healing and Radiation Injury: Comparison in an Athymic Rat Model	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
33	Sandoval	Jose			Gimpel	A profile of patients seeking urgent care at Martin Luther King Jr. Family Clinic	Clinical Research	X			X
34	Shar	Adam			Kooner	Glaucoma Suspect Results from the Dallas Glaucoma Registry	Clinical Research	X	X	X
35	Singh	Kanwar			Markham	Desensitization Therapy is Associated with Improved Survival to Transplant in Sensitized Patients Bridged with a Left Ventricular Assist Device	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
36	Soliman	Sameer			Thornton	The Rationale for Direct Linear Closure of Facial Mohs Defects	Clinical Research	X	X		X
37	Storm	Joy S.			Victor	Is Perceived Racial Discrimination a Barrier to Hypertension Treatment and Control in Urban African-American Men?	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
38	Sum-Ping	Oliver			Gruntmanis	Comparison of Alendronate and Zoledronic Acid in Treatment of Osteoporotic Men	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
39	Uribe	Leandra	Teoh	Tricia	Diaz-Arrastia	Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Traumatic Axonal Injury: Evolution of Fractional Anisotropy Measures over the First Six Months after Injury.	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
40	Vrcek	Ivan			Yu-Guang He	The link Between Malondialdehyde Production and Age-Related Macular Degeneration	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
41	Xia	Michelle			Idris	Measurement of Ventilation Rate Using Thoracic Bioimpedance During Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
42	Zhang	Kathy			Saint-Cyr	Breast Reconstruction with Latissimus Dorsi Flap: Women’s Preference for Placement of Donor-Site Scar	Clinical Research	X	X	X	X
43	Agarwala	Anadita			Herz	Balance of Apoer2 and Vldlr expression levels is a key regulator of the startle response in mice	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X		X
44	Agarwal	Shivum K.			Adinoff	Exploring Limbic System Function: Amygdalar and Hippocampal rCBF Activation Associated with Cortisol Response in Healthy Subjects	Basic Research/Disease Models	X			X
45	Bell	Marcus			Minna	Defining Tumor mRNA Expression Signatures Predicting Response of Lung Cancers to Radiation Therapy	Basic Research/Disease Models	X			X
46	Brown	Tim			Amatruda	VE-CADHERIN IS NECESSARY FOR NORMAL CARDIAC DEVELOPMENT BUT NOT VASCULOGENESIS IN ZEBRAFISH	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X	X
47	Chen	Derrick			Huerta	Roles of the NFkB, mitochondrial, cell cycle, and hypoxia-mediated pathways In Rectal cancer resistance to ionizing radiation	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X	X
48	Copeland-Hummel	Heather			Cao	HDAC Inhibition and Autophagy in in vitro Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy Model	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X	X
49	Das	Shinjita			Hill	Autophagic processing of polyubiquitinated protein aggregates during unloading-induced cardiac atrophy	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X	X
50	Edelman	Lauren			Mummert	Detection of hyaluronidase activity in vitro using FRET-HA	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X	X
51	Hwang	Joo			Ira	The distinct Srs2 helicase functions in DNA repair are determined by the type of DNA damage and the way of its recruitment to the site of damage.	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X	X
52	Kalangara	Jerry			Cavanagh	Tissue Engineered Universal Artificial Corneal Epithelium	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X	X
53	Khan	Saiqa			Nwariaku	Response of Anaplastic Thyroid Tumors to VEGF-Trap, an Anti-Angiogenic Agent	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X	X
54	Ligon	John			Olsen.	Differential gene expression in autoimmune disease patients	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X	X
55	Lin	Tiffany			Russell	The Effects of Teprenone and Phytol on Hippocampal Long-term Potentiation in Mice	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X	X
56	Malone	Chris			Nwariaku	Identifying the Role of Estrogen in Thyroid Carcinogenesis	Basic Research/Disease Models	X			X
57	Malone	Chris			Amatruda	Development of a Transgenic In-Vivo Zebrafish Model of Medullary Thyroid Cancer	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X	X
58	Mathias	Melissa				Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Prevents Intra-Venous HIV-1 Transmission	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X
59	Mosier	Elizabeth			Eberhart	Extracellular matrix expression of human prolapsed vaginal wall	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X	X
60	Moye	Danielle			Amatruda	CHEMICAL GENETIC DISSECTION OF PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL MIGRATION	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X		X
61	Nadji	E.J.			Butovich	Effects of Free Fatty Acids and Temperature on Meibum	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X	X
62	Salinas	Victor			Sharpe	PD-L1 regulates the development, maintenance and function of induced-regulatory T cells	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X	X
63	Zhang	David			Amatruda	CHARACTERIZATION OF RADIATION-ARREST DEFECTIVE ZEBRAFISH MUTANT R612	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X		X
64	Zuo	Weilan			Mummert	CD44v4: A previously unrecognized regulatory molecule in the cell cycle	Basic Research/Disease Models	X	X	X	X
65	Cano	Chris			Rockey	Occult gastrointestinal bleedining in patients with cirrhosis caused by portal hypertensive gastropathy	Research Design & Methods	X	X	X	X
66	Cano	Chris			Rockey	Prevalence and characterization of iron-deficiency anemia in patients with cirrhosis.	Research Design & Methods	X	X	X	X
67	Malone	Chris			Nwariaku	Development of a Transgenic In-Vivo Zebrafish Model of Medullary Thyroid Cancer	Research Design & Methods	X	X		X
68	Narang	Akhil			Agarwal	Functional characterization of genes differentially expressed in metabolically active versus mechanical human adipose tissue	Research Design & Methods	X	X	X	X
69	Parker	Denise	Derousseau	Shayla	Roppolo & Kleinschmidt	The Evaluation and Management of Acute, Undifferentiated Agitation in the Emergency Department-An Observational Study	Research Design & Methods	X	X	X	X
70	Rifkin	Lucas			Brown	Effectiveness of Human Adipose-Derived Therapies on Surgical Wound Healing and Radiation Injury: Comparison in an Athymic Rat Model	Research Design & Methods	X	X	X	X
71	Srinivasa	Rajiv			Hsia	Assessing true diffusing capacity of the lung: Reference relationships among carbon monoxide, nitric oxide, and oxygen	Research Design & Methods	X	X	X	X
72	Vigneswaran	Krishanthan			Kim	Biomechanical, Biochemical, and Histological Characterization of Canine Lumbar Facet Joint Cartilage	Research Design & Methods	X	X	X	X
73	Watkins	Jeffrey			Brown	Assessment and Guidelines for Determining Skin Biomechanical Properties of the Face Using the BTC-2000	Research Design & Methods	X	X	X	X
74	Wu	Isabel			Devous	Semi-Automated Quantitation of Leukoariosis in Alzheimer’s Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Normal Controls.	Research Design & Methods	X	X	X	X
75	Young	Blake					Clinical Research	X	X