Twenty-one BA/MD students and six graduate students from the School of Medicine’s Master of Science in Bioinformatics program took part in the Health Sciences Student Research Summit on April 17 at the UMKC Student Union.
Jacob Voelkel, MS 4, won the School of Medicine’s first prize for BA/MD students with his poster on “FGF and Notch Signaling Hierarchy in Sensory Neurogenesis.” Tim Fendler, M.D., was the winner of the School’s graduate student division with his presentation on “Provider Variability and Characteristics Associated with Bivalirudin Use for Bleeding Avoidance in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention after Implementation of a Decision Support Tool.”
Eleven faculty judges from the School of Medicine evaluated the med student poster presentations and two additional judges from the School evaluated posters presented by the graduate students.
Second prize in the BA/MD division went to Jeet Mehta, MS 5, with a presentation on “Comparison of Echocardiographic Methods to Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Survivors of Pediatric Cancer.” Two presentations tied for third place: Keliang Xiao, MS 4, and a joint presentation by Apurva Bhatt, MS 4, and Peter Lazarz, MS 2, tied for third place. Xiao presented “Do Outcomes of Surgical Treatment for Achalasia Depend on the Manometric Subtype?” Bhatt and Lazarz presented a poster on “An Evaluation of the Control of Diabetes at the Sojourner Free Health Clinic.”
Anna Grodzinsky, M.D was the second-prize recipient in the graduate student division with her presentation on “Relationship between Prescription of Diabetes Friendly Beta-Blockers and Glucose Control after an Acute Myocardial Infarction.”
It was the second year that students from the School of Medicine have joined those from the schools of Biological Sciences, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy for a joint research summit. This year’s event included 27 poster presentations from the School of Medicine.
UMKC Health Sciences Student Research Summit
School of Medicine Poster Presentations
Rohan J. Bandara, MSB, “Understanding the Relationship between Barriers to Timely Primary Care and Emergency Department Utilization across Insurance Categories – Report from the 1999-2011 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)”
* Apurva Bhatt, MS 4, Peter Lazarz, MS 2, “MAKING THE CHANGE! An Evaluation of the control of diabetes at the Sojourner Free Health Clinic” (Tie-Third place — BA/MD Students)
Brandon Carney, MS 5, “Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 Directly Increases Intracellular Calcium in Adult Cardiomyocytes“
Caroline Doo, MS 5, Sahar Safavi, MS 4, “Pathological Changes in the Lungs of Cux1 Transgenic Mice”
* Timothy Fendler, MD, “Provider Variability and Characteristics Associated with Bivalirudin Use for Bleeding Avoidance in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention after Implementation of a Decision Support Tool” (First place — Gaduate Students)
Ashley Fletcher, MS 5, “Pyoderma gangrenosum: the hazards of polypharmacy in patients with impaired clearance mechanisms”
* Anna Grodzinksky, MD, “Relationship Between Prescription of Diabetes Friendly Beta-Blockers and Glucose Control after an Acute Myocardial Infarction” (Second place — Graduate Students)
Vritti Gupta, MS 5, “Viewing blood pressure through the eyes of a patient: a mixed-method study at a student-run safety-net clinic”
Susamita Kesh, MS 3, “The pulmonary vessel adventitia: role in pathology of fat embolism”
Stephanie Koch, MSB, “A Qualitative Investigation of Patients’ Transitional States of Engagement in HIV-Related Medical Care”
Shreya Lankala, MS 5, “Cytokines in Asthma: Effects on Human Pulmonary Fibroblasts”
McKenzie Lutz, MS 4, “The Effect of Intention and Desirability on Preterm Birth”
* Jeet Mehta, MS 5, “Comparison of Echocardiographic Methods to Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Survivors of Pediatric Cancer” (Second place — BA/MD Students)
Nishika Muddasani, MS 5, “Localization of ATP sources in the mammalian retina”
Amit Nanda, MS 3, “The Influence of Radial vs. Femoral Access on Acute Blood Loss in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention”
Janessa Pennington, MS 4, “Examining the carcinogenic potential of pancreatic inflammation in obese mice with maspin staining”
Niharika Rath, MS 6, “The Period of PURPLE Crying: Assessment of Parental Knowledge of Infant Crying Before and After Education in the NICU”
Janet Ross, MSB, “Depo Provera and Weight Gain: A cross-sectional study of the association of DMPA use on in reproductive-aged Non-Hispanic White and Non-Hispanic Black women”
Furqaan Sadiq, MS 5, “Do we understand our data? Evaluating comprehension and usefulness of statistical methods for continuous outcomes in meta-analyses”
Vidhi Shah, MS 4, “Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia as a result of medications and supplements”
Katherine Shortt, MSB, “Identification of Three Novel SNPs Associated With ARDS by Exome-Seq”
Jasmine Singh, MS 4, “Vitamin D Does Not Correlate With Inflammation or Vascular Markers in High-risk, 9-11 Year Old Children”
Andrew Thome, Jr., MS 5, “The Safety and Effectiveness of Convex Anterior and Posterior Hemiepiphysiodesis for the Treatment of Congenital Scoliosis”
* Jacob Voelkel, MS 4, “FGF and Notch signaling hierarchy in sensory neurogenesis” (First place — BA/MD Students)
* Keliang Xiao, MS 4, “Do outcomes of surgical treatment for Achalasia depend on the manometric subtype?” (Tie-Third place — BA/MD Students)
Keliang Xiao, MS 4, “Pulmonary Function after Laparoscopic Anti-Reflux Surgery in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis”
Laalasa Varanasi, MS 5, “Relationship Between Asthma and IgG Response to Helicobacter pylori”
