Awards and Honors
Renaisa Anthony
Renaisa Anthony, a fourth year medical student, had her abstract on Utilizationof a Multimedia Educational Intervention: A Pilot Study for Increasing HPV, PapSmear, and Cervical Cancer Knowledge selected for poster presentation at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology. The meeting will be held in March in Palm Springs, California. Renaisa’s research was conducted as part of her Master’s of Public Health training at Harvard University while on leave of absence from the Pritzker School of Medicine.
Jessica Buck
Second year medical student Jessica Buck was first author on an October 2005 publication in Aids and Behavior. The article on Barrier Method Preferences andPerceptions Among Zimbabwean Women and Their Partners emanated from work that Jessica conducted at the University of California at San Francisco on issues of HIV and women’s health prior to matriculating at the Pritzker School of Medicine.
Chad Ritch
Chad Ritch, a fourth year medical student also obtaining an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, was invited to present his abstract at the Podium Session of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Urological Assocation to take place this May in Atlanta. Chad’s abstract is entitled Increased Erythrocyte Membrane (EM) Linoleic Acid Levels Correlate with Increased Tumor Volume and Gleason Score.
Sam Seiden
Fourth year medical student, Sam Seiden is first author of a paper to be published later this spring in the Archives of Surgery . The paper is entitled Wrongside,Wrong Procedure, and Wrong Patient Errors. Are they preventable? Sam began his research focus on patient safety and medical errors as a first year medical student and has presented extensively on this subject at a number of national symposia.
Katie Sharff
Earlier this year, third year medical student, Katie Sharff was awarded the Alpha Omega Alpha Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship for her proposed research on The Role of the Hey 1 Gene in the BMP-9 Mediated Osteogenic Signaling Pathway. Katie will be working her mentor, Dr. Tong-Chuan He from the Department of Surgery to complete this research.
Julie Silverman
First year medical student Julie Silverman is first author on a poster accepted for presentation at the national Society for General Internal Medicine conference this spring. The poster describes her work on per pupil investment in primary and secondary education and its influence on obesity in young adults. Also contributing to the abstract are faculty from the Section of General Internal Medicine, including John Schumann, MD, Christopher Masi, MD, PhD, and Anirban Basu, PhD.
