Honors and Publications
Rashad Belin, PhD
Rashad Belin, PhD, a first-year student, presented an oral presentation entitled “Molecular Mechanism of Atrial Autonomic Remodeling in a Canine Ventricular Tachypacing Model of Congestive Heart Failure” at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Florida this November. This study was part of his postdoctoral research conducted at Northwestern and stems from across-departmental collaboration between the Departments of Cardiology and Preventive Medicine. The project is translational in nature as the end-goal is to find novel pathologic signaling mechanisms that may contribute to atrial fibrillation in patients with structural heart disease (i.e. congestive heart failure). Rashad received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in Physiology and Biophysics in 2006.
Algernon Cargill, Jr.
Algernon Cargill, Jr., a third-year student, presented a poster entitled “Racial/Ethnic Differences in Active Involvement in Shared Decision-Making Among Patients” at the 2007 Society of General Internal Medicine Midwest Regional Meeting. Algernon’s submitted abstract stemmed from research he conducted during the 2006 Summer Research Program with his mentor, Marshall Chin, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine. Algernon was also second author on a publication entitled “Diabetes Health Disparities: A Systematic Review of Health Care Interventions,” which appeared in the October 2007 supplement of Medical Care Research and Reviews.
Sonya Chawla
Fourth-year student Sonya Chawla served as first author of an abstract that was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Cutaneous Pathology. Her research on apocrine osteoma in a patient with hyperparathyroidism was presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Dermatopathology. Dr. Vesna Rosic-Petronic served as her research mentor. Sonya also serves as first author on a case study entitled, “Ring Around the Nevus,” which will appear in an upcoming edition of Contemporary Pediatrics.
Nicole Cipriani
Daniel Clayburgh
Fourth-year student Nicole Cipriani, MS, was a co-author for an article that appeared in the September edition of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Nicole, who has her Master of Science in Biomedical Visualization, contributed medical illustrations of a breast reconstruction surgery to the piece. Nicole also contributed medical illustrations to a case study on the congenital absence of the inferior vena cava, which was presented at the Society of General Internal Medicine Midwest Regional Meeting. Fourth-year student Daniel Clayburgh, PhD was first author of the presentation.
David Dickerson
David Dickerson, a fourth-year student, was first author of a poster presentation at the 2007 Society for Airway Management National Meeting in Houston, Texas. David conducted a web-based survey of anesthesiologists’ experience with different airway devices under the mentorship of Dr. Allan Klock.
Nicholas Elisseou
Nicholas Elisseou, a fourth-year student, was coauthor of two publications that recently appeared in Surgery and the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery. Nicholas’s research looks at the clinical outcomes and functional effects of surgical treatments for ulcerative colitis. His research grew from his participation in the 2005 Summer Research Program under the mentorship of Dr. Alessandro Fichera.
Jon Hron
Fourth-year student Jon Hron will serve as coauthor of an upcoming publication in the Journal of Pediatrics. The article, “Just In Time: Ethical Implications of Serial Predictions of Mortality and Morbidity for Ventilated Premature Infants,” emanated from Jon’s participation in the 2005 University of Chicago Summer Research Program with his mentor, Dr. William Meadow.
Anupam Bapu Jena, PhD
Anupam Bapu Jena, PhD, a third-year MSTP student, won the 2007 Eugene Garfield Economic Impact of Medical and Health Research Award. The award serves to recognize those whose work illustrates the economic and health impacts derived from medical and health research. With his research mentor Tomas J. Philipson, PhD, Bapu and Dr. Philipson were recognized for their study on “Who Benefits from New Medical Technologies? Estimates of Consumer and Producer Surpluses for HIV/AIDS Drugs,” published in Forum for Health Economics and Policy. Bapu’s research has focused on the economic value of medical innovation, implications of cost-effectiveness policies for technological growth, and the economics of fertility.
Martha Johnson and Jared Olson
Fourth-year students Martha Johnson and Jared Olson are co-authors on the paper “Using Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders Quality Indicators to Measure Quality of Hospital Care for Vulnerable Elders.” The article appeared in the November issue of Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Faculty authors are Drs. Vineet Arora, Paula Podrazik, Stacie Levine, Catherine Dubeau, and David Meltzer.
Steve Kahn
Steve Kahn, a second-year student, is the first author of a manuscript that was recently accepted for publication in Cancer Cytopathology. The article, “Quantitative Methylation—Specific PCR for the Detection of Aberrant DNA Methylation in Liquid-Based Pap Tests,” stems from research he conducted within the Department of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine prior to his matriculation to Pritzker.
Julia Kao
Julia Kao, a third-year student, is co-author on a paper that was published in the December issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine entitled “Medication Discrepancies in Resident Sign-Outs and Their Potential to Harm.” The article examines the benefits of utilizing electronic medical records, and the importance of vigilance in hospitals without such technology. Drs. Vineet Arora, David Lovinger, David Meltzer, and alumnus Sam Seiden, MD ‘06 also contributed to the publication.
Bahareh Khatibi
Fourth-year student Bahareh Khatibi was the second author on “Higher Incidence of Abnormal Pap Smears in Women With Inflammatory Bowel Disease,” which was published in the October issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology. The publication is based on research Bahareh began conducting during the Summer Research Program under the mentorship of Dr. Sunanda Kane. Their study examined the relationship between immunomodulator use and the presence of abnormal cervical histology in women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Caitlin Schaninger
Caitlin Schaninger, a second-year student, presented the poster “Improving Inpatients’ Identification of Their Doctors: The FACE Project” at the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Meeting in Chicago this September, a project done as part of the 2007 Summer Research Program. Under the mentorship of Dr. Vineet Arora, Caitlin was also the recipient of the Gold Foundation Summer Research Fellowship.
Adam Suchar
Adam Suchar, a fourth-year student, was the first author of the abstract “Shunt Infection Rate After Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication in Children with Indwelling Ventriculoperitoneal Shunts,” which was presented at the World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgeons in Buenos Aires this fall. Third-year students Kelly Snider and Alexandra Briggs served as co-authors.
Elizabeth Sullivan
Fourth-year student Elizabeth Sullivan recently had a case report accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. Dr. Maria T. Caserta serves as co-author of the article, “Late Onset Huntington’s Disease Masquerading as Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus.”
Josh Wallbrecht
Through his continuing work with Dr. Benjamin Abella and as a follow up to his Summer Research Project, third-year student Josh Wallbrecht recently presented an oral abstract entitled “Audio Analysis of Pauses During CPR Delivered by Hospital Providers” at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions on November 5th in Orlando, Florida.
