2018-2019
Medical Students
| Alicia Asturias | Eric Edmonds, MD | Posterior Shoulder Instability in a Young Population: A Comprehensive Analysis of Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Outcome Measurements |
| Hee Eun Park | Loren Mell, MD | Identifying Head and Neck Cancer Patients Likely to Benefit from Treatment Intensification: Analysis of the U.S. Veterans Affairs Database |
| Edmund Qiao | James Murphy, MD | Evaluation of Non-Operative Management Among Patients with Rectal Cancer |
| Benjamin Rosellini | Adriana Tremoulet, MD | Validating a Kawasaki Disease Natural Language Processing Algorithm |
Pharmacy Students
| Michelle Lai | Rabia Atayee, PharmD, BCPS and Ila Saunders, PharmD, BCOP | Clinical Utility and Impact of Pharmacogenomics Testing on Opioid Use in Surgical Oncology Patients |
| Tanya Tatavets | Irina Gutman, PharmD and Craig Stevens, PharmD | Derivation and Validation of a Heparin Dosing Equation Adjusted for Age and BMI |
UC Riverside Medical Students
| Rebecca Ocher | Pamela Taub, MD
| Optimizing Circadian Rhythms by Regulating Eating Patterns to Reduce Cardiometabolic Disease Risk among Firefighters; and a Study of Time-restricted Eating (TRE) for Weight Loss and Cardiometabolic Health in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome |
Jennifer Yoo (Boo Yoo)
| Matthew Allison, MD, MPH | Statistical Analysis
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Long-Term Trainees 2018-2019
| Kumar Abhishek | James Murphy, MD, MS | Predicting Early Stage Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) using Deep Machine Learning of Large Electronic Health Record Datasets |
| Jonathan Barboza | Matthew Allison, MD, MPH
| Neighborhood Walkability and Its Association with Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD) through the Ankle-brachial Index (ABI), in Latinos. A SOLCASAS Research Study |
| Danielle Gillard | Rick A. Friedman, MD, PhD | Investigation of the Role of Genetic Variants in Cisplatin Associated Hearing Loss |
| Trenton Gluck | John Lamberti, MD | Long-Term Results Using Cryopreserved Pericardial Homografts in Congenital Heart Disease |
| Cody Hansen | Eric W Edmonds, MD, FAOA | Outcomes of Surgical Repair of SLAP Lesions in Adolescents With and Without Concomitant Shoulder Pathology |
Samuel Kung
| Jane C. Burns, MD | The Effects of IgG Fc-Derived Peptides and Regulatory T Cells on the Development of Coronary Artery Abnormalities in Kawasaki Disease |
Paul Riviere
| James D. Murphy, MD, MS | The Effect of HIV and Immunodeficiencies on Disease Recurrence among Cancer Patients |
| Evelyn Ross | Kellog Parsons, MD | Dietary interventions and Prostate Cancer Outcomes in Men of Color |
| Sarek Shen | Joseph A. Califano, III, MD | Validation of a Non-integrated, HPV16 E2/E4/E5 Driven Model of Carcinogenesis in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma |
| Michelle Tibbs | Jona A. Hattangadi-Gluth, MD | Brain Radiation Therapy and Post-treatment Neurocognitive Decline - a Normal Tissue Complication Probability Analysis of a Prospective Cohort Study |
2017-2018
Medical Students
| Nader Badri | Cheryl Rock, PhD | Walnut Consumption in a Weight Loss Intervention: Effects on Blood Glucose and Insulin Resistance |
| Jessica Kriksciun | Doris Trauner, MD | Longitudinal analysis of Hemispatial Neglect progression in Children with Perinatal Brain Lesions |
| Jacob Rozich | Robert Sah, MD, ScD | Mechanics and MechanoBiology of Impact Insertion of Native Osteochondral Grafts: Protection of Chondrocytes |
| George Villatoro | Linda Zangwill, PhD | Impact of Induced Pupil Dilation on Ocular Vasculature in Healthy Eyes Using Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography |
Pharmacy Students
Thi Nguyen
| Anjan Debnath, PhD |
Targeting Mevalonate Pathway for the Treatment of Amebiasis |
| Jessie Wang | Edmund Capparelli, PharmD |
Pharmacology Assessment of Pomalidomide in Multiple Myeloma Therapy |
UC Riverside Medical Students
| Amina Larbah | Sheila Gahagan, MD |
Assessing FGM/C Knowledge, Awareness, Attitudes, And Practices Among Southern California Medical Students |
| Ross Mudgway | Daniel Simpson, MD
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Complications of pelvic radiation therapy in inflammatory bowel disease patients with rectal cancer |
Long-Term Trainees 2017-2018
| Peter Abraham | Alexander Khalessi, MD | Assessing Changes in Cognition and Biomarkers of Neuroinflammation Following Carotid Artery Stenting in Patients with Flow-Limiting Carotid Stenosis: A Prospective Study |
| Michael Brandel | Alexander Khalessi, MD | The Burden of Serum Biomarkers of Neuroinflammation in Lumbar versus External Ventricular CSF Drainage after Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Randomized Prospective Clinical Trial |
| Brittany Burton | Ulrich Schmidt, MD | The Association of Preoperative HbA1c with Mortality, Postoperative Complications, and Readmission in Diabetic Patients Following Elective Non-cardiac Surgery |
| Jenny Hu | Natalie Afshari, MD | Cross-linking corneas with UVA and riboflavin will reduce neovascularization and release of inflammatory cytokines in response to trauma |
| Ayan Kusari | James Murphy, MD | Optimizing simulation-based education to combat disparities in contouring |
| Timothy Lin | Susan Little, MD | Development of a novel symptom-based score sensitive and specific for acute retroviral syndrome in men who have sex with men presenting for community-based HIV testing |
| Kanenori Okamoto | Claude Sirlin, MD | Evaluation of a Lesion Characterization Computational Algorithm for Interpreting Images with a High Probability of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Based on LI-RADS Criteria |
| Jennifer Padwal | Jonathan Hsu, MD | Outcomes in Electrophysiology Procedures at UCSD for Left Atrial Ablation |
| Reith Sarkar | James Murphy, MD | Do payments to cancer physicians from drug and device companies affect the care they provide patients? |
| Griffin Tyree | David Grelotti, MD | Syndemic Psychosocial Conditions and HIV Risk Among Persons Addicted to Whoonga in South Africa |
2016-2017
Medical Students
| Aaron Bradshaw | David Krummen, MD | The Role of Conduction Slowing in Ventricular Fibrillation Maintenance |
| Sangwoo (Shawn) Kim | Andrew Sharabi, MD, PhD | Analysis of immune responses generated by anti-PD-1 checkpoint blockade with stereotactic radiotherapy |
| Keenan Onodera | Samuel Ward, PT, PhD | Intervertebral Disc Kinematics in Active Duty Marines with and without Lumbar Spine Pathology |
| Paul Riviere | Razelle Kurzrock, MD | Exploring the Applications of ctDNA Liquid Biopsies to Clinical Prognostics in Gastrointestinal Cancers |
| Lu Wu | Tatum Simonson, PhD | Understanding the Role of EGLN1 Genetic Variation and Methylation in High Altitude Adaption of an Andean Highland Population |
| Victoria Wu | Sheila Gahagan, MD | The across-time relationship between maternal depressive symptoms and child cognition in a 16-year longitudinal study of Chilean youth |
Pharmacy Students
| Sama Alpatty | Sally Rafie, PharmD | Pharmacist Perspectives on Promoting Preconception Health |
| Sirena Louie | Felix Yam, PharmD | Impact of Bumetanide to Torsemide Conversion in Veterans with Heart Failure |
Long-Term Trainees 2016-2017
| Alex Bryant | James Murphy, MD | Stereotactic body radiation therapy versus surgery for early non-small cell lung cancer |
| Kate Carroll | Navaz Karanjia, MD | Mental Health in Brain-Injured Patients: Prevalence of Depression and PTSD in Neurocritical Care Patients at UCSD |
| Chulhyun (Charlie) Park | Claude Sirlin, MD | Construction of an atlas of liver observations based on LI-RADS characterization of hepatocellular carcinoma |
| Nadine Patton | TBD
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| Viridiana Tapia | Preetham Suresh, MD | Airway simulation training in endotracheal intubation |
| Kathryn Tringale | Jona Hattangadi-Gluth, MD | Quantitative Neuroimaging and Neurocognitive Assessment to Measure Radiation Effects on Memory and Executive Functioning in Brain Tumor Patients |
| Jeremy Udkoff | Lawrence Eichenfield, MD | Validation of the AAD Consensus Criteria for the Diagnosis of Atopic Dermatitis and Comparison to the Hanifin-Rajka and the UK Working Party Diagnostic Criteria |
| Devesh Vashishtha | Daniel Werb, PhD | The impact of methadone maintenance therapy enrollment on decisions to initiate others into injecting among people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, California |
| Arvin Wali | Alexander Khalessi, MD | Lumbar Drainage Compared with Extraventricular Drainage of Cerebral Spinal Fluid in Treatment of Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage – a Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial |
| Lilianna Yuen | Laura Godat, MD | Access to Surgical Care and Patients' Perceptions of the Value of Care in the Era of the Affordable Care Act |
Previous ACTRI TL1 Trainees, Projects and Faculty Mentors