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 2009 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.

Dzifaa Lotsu, mentor Daniel Ganger
A retrospective study on factors that predict response to HRS Cocktail: midodrine, octreotide, and albumin

 

Carmen Rosario, mentor Gokhan Mutlu
Ambient particulate matter induced lung inflammation and thrombosis is mediated via particulate matter induced catecholamine release

 

Jeffrey Griffin, mentor Donald Lloyd-Jones
Associations between traditional risk factors and cardiovascular disease death by age across 0-10, 10-20, and 20-30 years of follow-up in men

 

Jason Mathias, mentors Aashish Didwania, David Baker, and Stephen Persell
Building an electronic alert and order set to improve adherence to smoking cessation guidelines in an internal medicine practice

 

Joshua Ruch, mentor Hau Kwaan
Catastrophic multiple organ ischemia due to an anti-Pr cold agglutinin developing in a patient with mixed cryoglobulinemia after treatment with rituximab

 

Laura Zimmermann, mentor Mary McDermott
Cognitive impairment is associated with greater functional impairment and elevated inflammatory markers in subjects with PAD

 

Hillary Loomis King, mentor Richard Wunderink
Community acquired pneumonia:  prognosis in patients with lobar consolidation

 

Rashmee Shah, mentor William Cotts
Development of metabolic syndrome is associated with transplant vasculopathy during the first year after heart transplantation

 

Kelley Wachsberg, mentor Mark Williams
Does continuity of care during inpatient hospitalization affect patient outcomes?

 

Amir Marouni, mentor Mark Williams
Effect of time of hospital admission on patient outcomes

 

Jane Wilcox, mentor Sanjiv Shah
Electrocardiographic predictors of diastolic dysfunction:  the importance of the QTc interval

 

Carol Garrean, mentor Ikuo Hirano
Epidemiologic implications of symptom onset in adults with eosinophilic esophagitis:  when did the disease begin?

 

Nisreen Husain, mentor Alan Buchman
The use of urine neopterin to determine disease activity and severity of Crohn’s Disease and ulcerative colitis

 

Julia Sanger Minocha, mentor Bethanee Schlosser

Use of a medical simulation to evaluate and enhance the proficiency of dermatology residents in skin biopsy technique

 

Sarah Tofilon, mentor Virginia Kaklamani
Weight gain in women diagnosed with breast cancer

 

Dina sparano, mentor Gulati M.

STILETTO: Syndrome X Trial: Identifying UnderLying Endothelial Dysfunction and Testing Treatment Outcomes in Women

Clara Schroedl, mentor Scott Budinger,
Daniella Urich, Navdeep Chandel
Endotracheally delivered interleukin-1ß (IL-1ß) in a mouse model leads to decreased survival with little evidence of acute lung injury

 

Margaret (Meg) Fitzpatrick, mentor Michael Ison
Findings of an expanded infectious diseases screening program for Hispanic transplant candidates

Raymond (Pogie) Pongonis, mentor Paul Bryce
Gene expression profiling in eosinophilic esophagitis

 

Toral Kamdar, mentors Paul Bryce and Anne Ditto
IgE mediated reactivity to aeroallegens and food allergens in eosinophilic esophagitis

 

Anjeni Keswani, mentor Robert Schleimer
Interleukin 32 as a proinflammatory cytokine in chronic rhinosinus

 

Jane Wilcox, mentor William Cotts
Long-term effects of sildenafil on pulmonary hypertension and right heart function in heart transplant patients

 

Kevin Myrie, mentor Daniel Batlle
Mechanisms of nocturnal hypertension in Type I diabetes

 

Alexander Uihlein, mentor Mark Molitch
MR features of sellar masses

 

Jane Wilcox, mentor Rod Passman
MRI compared with TEE:  do patients need both prior to atrial fibrillation ablation? 

 

Lee-Jah Chang, mentor DaoCheng Zhu
Novel peanut fusion protein blocks IgE-mediated peanut allergy

 

Emily Diederich, mentor Richard Wunderink
Predicting clinical deterioration with serum procalcitonin

 

K. Raju Ganesh, mentor Paul Nikolaidis
Radiographic findings of members of the perivascular epithelioid cell (PEComa) family of tumors

 

Imad Elkhatib, mentor Alan Buchman
Serum B12 is often elevated in patients on parenteral nutrition but is not a marker of PNALD

 

Michael Keller, mentor Jacob Sznajder
ß2-adrenergic agonists increase intracellular calcium via store operated channels in alveolar epithelial cells

 

Andrew Ertel, Mentor Rod Passman
Predictors of mortality in patients age 80 and over receiving implantable defibrillators

 

Dan Schimmel, Mentor Thomas Holly
Myocardial Ischemia Threshold by SPECT for Revascularization Survival Benefit

 

Andrew Ertel, Mentor Rod Passman
Predictors of mortality in patients age 80 and over receiving implantable defibrillators