Research for Residents

The program strongly encourages each resident to participate in research projects under the supervision of a faculty mentor. Each spring the department sponsors a poster abstract presentation of current projects. A panel of senior faculty members judges the abstracts for scientific merit and clarity - the winners are awarded a trip to a scientific meeting of their choice. In the spring of 2007 there were more than 30 abstracts presented, many will also be presented at national meetings and published in leading journals. The majority of residents who participate in research activities have the opportunity to travel to regional and national meetings to present their work.

In addition to the Resident Research Symposium, residents have published articles in several highly regarded journals. For a list of recent publications, click here.


Research Symposium

16th Annual Resident Research Symposium
April 15, 2007


Research Prize Winners Yan Shi MD and Brad Sabin MD with judges Peter Sporn MD, Andrew Evans DO, William Lowe Jr. MD, Interim Chair, Department of Medicine and Xunrong Luo MD PhD

Rohinee Beri - Role of activated B-catenin in mouse lung
Mentor: Cara Gottardi MD

Amarpal Chana - Using ACC/ECC guidelines to safely reduce telemetry admissions
Mentor: Mihai Gheorghiade MD

Joan Chen - Evaluation of motility and eosinophilic esophagitis patients using high resolution manometry
Mentor: Ikuo Hirano MD

Natalie Evans - Examination of longitudinal changes in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in a bi-racial cohort
Mentor:

Jennifer Gong - Betacellulin mediates its effects on beta-cell proliferation via CDK4 and cyclin D1
Mentor: Bill Lowe MD PhD

David Green - Epithelial mesenchymal transition in chronic airway remodeling:  does hypercapnia play a role?
Mentor: Peter Sporn MD

David Kim - Detection of stent fractures: a comparison of 64-slice MSCT, conventional cine-angiography and intravascular ultrasonography
Mentor: Charles Davidson MD

Bijal Jain - Retrospective analysis for determining the need for combined liver/kidney transplant
Mentor: Shubha Ahya MD

Nilesh Lodhia - High-resolution manometry in determining bolus transit through the esophagogastric junction:  a validation study using fluoroscopy
Mentor: John Pandolfino MD

Elizabeth Masterson - Proxy assessment of quality of life in patients with heart failure
Mentor: Alan Kadish MD

M. Andy Morse - 1) Evaluation of diastolic function with volumetric analysis and mitral inflow velocities following acute myocardial infarction, and 2) A novel method to assess diastolic dysfunction following myocardial infarction based on cine cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
Mentor: Charles Davidson MD

William Mosley - Predictive utility of pulse pressure and other blood pressure measures for stroke, CHD, and heart failure; the CHA Study
Mentor: Donald Lloyd-Jones MD

John Norvell - Herpes simplex virus hepatitis:  clinical presentation and factors associated with poor survival
Mentor: Andres Blei MD

Taylor Ortiz - G-CSF is not necessary to maintain over 99% dose-intensity with ABVD in the treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma: low toxicity and excellent outcomes in a 10-year analysis
Mentor: Martin Tallman MD

Neehar Parikh - Morbidity and mortality of TIPS placement in the elderly is no different than in younger age groups
Mentor: Steven Flamm MD

Kavita Phatak - Fast ventricular tachycardia at programmed electrical stimulation as a risk factor for spontaneous ventricular arrhythmias in ICD patients
Mentor: Rod Passman MD

Bradley Sabin - CXCR3 ligand gene expression in rhinovirus infection
Mentor: Pedro Avila MD

Tara Sanft - Pemetrexed and carboplatin plus bevacizumab as first-line therapy for advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer: preliminary results
Mentor: Jyoti Patel MD

Yan Shi - Association of coagulation Factor VII Arg/Gln353 polymorphism with hypotension and thrombocytopenia in patients with severe sepsis
Mentor: Richard Wunderink MD

M. Shadab Siddiqui - Feeding mice a high-fat diet activates unfolded protein response in mice hepatocytes
Mentor: Rich Green MD

Roxana Siles - Finding prognostic factors for stem cell transplant patients in the MICU
Mentor: Manu Jain MD

Betty Tran - Markers of systemic inflammation in early adulthood are associated with reduced lung function later in life: the CARDIA study
Mentors: Lew Smith MD and Ravi Kalhan MD

Amisha Wallia - Hyperglycemia in liver transplantation: effects of glucose control in post-transplantation outcomes
Mentor: Mark Molitch MD

Joseph Weber - Evaluation of oxidative stress due to airborne particulate matter and catecholamines in alveolar epithelial cells
Mentor: Gokhan Mutlu MD

Robert Woodrick - Regulation of Mc1-1 by CEBP/b
Mentor: Richard Pope MD

Robert Yenchek - Cardiovascular outcomes in Type 1 diabetics following PTA or SPK
Mentor: John Friedewald MD

Margaret Yu - Mortality in patients receiving continuous renal replacement therapy
Mentor: Cybele Ghossein MD