2017-2018
Medical Students
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Student Name |
Mentor |
Project Title |
| 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
|
Student Name |
Mentor |
Project Title |
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
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Student Name |
Mentor |
Project Title |
| Amina Larbah | Sheila Gahagan, MD |
Assessing FGM/C Knowledge, Awareness, Attitudes, And Practices Among Southern California Medical Students |
| Ross Mudgway | Daniel Simpson, MD
|
Complications of pelvic radiation therapy in inflammatory bowel disease patients with rectal cancer |
Long-term Trainees 2017-2018
Student Name |
Mentor |
Project Title |
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
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Student Name |
Mentor |
Project Title |
| 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
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Student Name |
Mentor |
Project Title |
| 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
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Student Name |
Mentor |
Project Title |
| 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
| TBD |
| 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