ACTRI-supported trainee Paul Riviere (left) discusses his poster with ACTRI Education Director Colin Depp, PhD.
Twelve medical and pharmacy students supported through the UC San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (ACTRI) TL1 2016-2017 program presented their research in January during an annual Summer Research Poster Session at the Medical Education and Telemedicine Building. They joined more than 60 other research trainees at the event. This year, the ACTRI trainees included both summer and long-term TL1s. The TL1 program supports training in clinical research for students enrolled in health sciences doctoral programs at UC San Diego.
The ACTRI-supported trainees with their posters are below. Click on image for larger view.
School of Medicine Students
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Students
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Sama Alpatty
Project Title: Pharmacist Perspectives on Promoting Preconception Health
Mentor: Sally Rafie, PharmD
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Sirena Louie
Project Title: Impact of Bumetanide to Torsemide Conversion in Veterans with Heart Failure
Mentor: Felix Yam, PharmD |
Long-term Trainees
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Charlie Park
Project Title: Magnetic Resonance Elastography vs Transient Elastography in Detection of Fibrosis and Noninvasive Measurement of Steatosis in Patients with Biopsy-proven Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Mentor: Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc |
Kathryn Tringale
Project Title: Quantitative Neuroimaging and Neurocognitive Assessment to Measure Radiation-Induced Injury: Implications for Cognitive Preservation
Mentor: Jona Hattangadi-Gluth, MD |
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Devesh Vashistha
Project Title: Public Injection and Providing Injection Initiation Assistance Among People Who Inject Drugs in Two North American Countries
Mentor: Daniel Werb, PhD |
Arvin Wali
Project Title: The Antihypertensive Effect of Carotid Stenting is Dependent on the Circle of Willis
Mentor: Alexander Khalessi, MD |
About UC San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute:
UC San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (ACTRI) is part of a national Clinical and Translational Science Award consortium, led by the National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Science. Established in 2010, ACTRI provides infrastructure and support for basic, translational and clinical research throughout the San Diego region to bring discoveries from the laboratory to the bedside, and facilitates training and education of the next generation of researchers. ACTRI carries out its activities in collaboration with institutional and corporate partners and currently has more than 1,500 members.
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