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MSSRP Alumni & Abstracts

2023

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Lindsey Bachmann	Trisha Wise-Draper, MD, PhD UC – Internal Medicine (Hematology/Oncology)	Investigating the Role of CXCR2 in Head & Neck Cancer (PDF)
Charles Backman	Vladimir Bogdanov, PhD UC – Internal Medicine (Hematology/Oncology)	Identification of the Subcelluar Localization of Alternatively Spliced Tissue Factor in Hepatocytes in Health and in Disease (PDF)
Katelin Chappel	Lee A. Denson, MD CCHMC – Gastroenterology Hepatology & Nutrition	Evaluating Cytokine and Pro-Fibrotic Extracellular Signaling in DUOX2 Genetic Variant Human Intestinal Organoids with Mirobiota Metabolite Exposures (PDF)
Saagar Chokshi	Jason Blackard, PhD UC – Internal Medicine (Digestive Diseases)	Viral Predictors of BK Polyomavirus Associated Hemorrhagic Cystitis (PDF)
Bissem Gill	Kevin Haworth, PhD UC – Internal Medicine (Cardiovascular Health & Disease)	2D ROC Analysis for Passive Cavitation Imaging of Ultrasound-mediated Histotrypsy (PDF)
Alexa Horrell	Phillip Minar, MD CCHMC – Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition	Predictive Factors for for Histologic Healing,Transmural Healing and and Endoscopic Remission in Children Receiving Anti-TNF for Crohn’s Disease (PDF)
Taylor Lentz	Yvonne M. Ulrich-Lai, PhD UC – Pharmacology & Systems Physiology	Sucrose-Induced Modification of Peri-Neural Nets May Potentiate Stress-Related Chronic Obesity (PDF)
Andrew Poulos	Takahisa Nakamura, PhD CCHMC – Pediatric Endocrinology	Extracellular Vesicle Mediated Inflammation Under Obese Conditions (PDF)
Katherine Reckamp	Emily DeFranco, DO UC – Obstetrics & Gynecology	Risk of Severe Maternal Morbidity among Pregnancies complicated by Pregestational Diabetes (PDF)
Clifford Ukarajit	Amoah Yeboah-Korang, MD, MPH UC – Internal Medicine (Digestive Diseases)	Statin Use is Not Associated with the Incidence of Post-Liver Transplant Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes (PDF)
Patrick Wilkerson	David Hildeman, PhD CCHMC – Immunobiology	Localization of Clonally Expanded CD8+ T Cells in Rejecting Kidney Allografts(PDF) (PDF)
Jaide Woods-Dawson	Aaron Zorn, PhD CCHMC – Developmental	Mitchell-Riley Syndrome: Investigating the Molecular Basis of RFX6-Dependent Morphogenetic Events using the amphibian Xenopus (PDF)

2022

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Marielle Diaz	Oluwole Awosika, MD, MSCR UC – Neurology & Rehabilitation Medicine	Investigating the Neuromodulatory Effects of Transcutaneous Spinal Direct Current Stimulation on Manual Dexterity and Cerebral Excitability (PDF)
Nicole Dougan	Jessica Woo, PhD CCHMC – Biostatistics & Epidemiology	Exploring the Factors Important in Determining Breastfeeding Longevity in a Cohort of Black and White Adolescent Mothers (PDF)
Benjamin Dreskin	Lee (Ted) Denson, MD CCHMC – GI	A Model System for Studying Inflammatory Pathways and Small Molecular Inhibitors in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Co-Culturing Human Intestinal Organoids and Macrophages (PDF)
Christina Kuhrau	Emily DeFranco, DO UC – Obstetrics & Gynecology	Social Determinants of Health Associated with Intimate Partner Violence in an Urban Obstetric Population (PDF)
Joonsue Lee	W. Robert DeFoor, Jr., MD, MPH CCHMC – Pediatric Urology	Examining the Effects of Dietary Modifications on Nephrolithiasis Risk in Medically Complex Children (PDF)
Nicolas Noriega	Pranav Shivakumar, PhD CCHMC – GI	Spatial heterogeneity of macrophage activation in the biliary epithelium (PDF)
Hemchandra Patel	Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD CCHMC – Allergy & Immunology	Functional Consequences of CAPN14 Mediated Proteolysis of Catenins in the Esophageal Epithelium in Eosinophilic Esophagitis (PDF)
Kathryn Purk	Vladimir Bogdanov, PhD UC – Internal Medicine/Hematology	Novel asTF-specific Humanized Antibody hRabMab1 May Help Treat Metastatic PDAC (PDF)
Rashmi Rege	Marialena Mouzaki, MD, MSc CCHMC – GI	The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Access to Care for Pediatric Patients with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (PDF)
Julia Thomas	Michael Helmrath, MD CCHMC – GI	Improving Pediatric Intestinal Failure Outcomes through Remote Patient Monitoring (PDF)
Sean White	Donald Gilbert, MD CCHMC – Neurology	Evaluating Functional Impairment in Tourette Syndrome (PDF)
Eric Wong	Trisha Wise-Draper, MD, PhD UC – Internal Medicine	The Role of B7-H3 in Tumorigenesis and Tumor Cell Growth in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (PDF)

2021

2020

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Leah Beck	Jessica Woo, PhD CCHMC – Biostatistics and Epidemiology	The Contribution of Dietary Composition over 25 Years to Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Childhood and Adulthood: The Princeton Lipid Research Study (PDF)
Katherine Bernardo	Laurie Nommsen-Rivers, PhD UC – Nutritional Services	Hormone Sensitive Gene Signatures in the Lactating Mammary Epithelial Cells (MEC) of Women with Persistent Low Milk Production (PDF)
Sonia Bhati	Laura Conforti, PhD UC – Internal Medicine	Analysis of Kv1.3 Channel Gene Signature in T Lymphocytes (PDF)
John Bonamer	Bryan Mackenzie, PhD UC – Pharmacology and Systems Physiology	Oligomerization of Ferroportin and the Mechanism of Autosomal Dominance in Ferroportin Disease (PDF)
Max Chou	Vanessa Olbrecht, MD, MBA CCHMC – Pain Management	Preliminary Results of Functional Response to Immersive Virtual Reality in Pediatric Patients with Ruptured Appendix (PDF)
Andrew (Scottie) Emmert	Francesco T. Mangano, DO FACS, FAAP, FACOS CCHMC – Neurosurgery	Evaluation of Systemic Application of Adeno-associated Virus in Neonatal Rodents for the Development of Gene Therapy in Neonatal Hydrocephalus (PDF)
Mario Escoriza Gonzalez	Jason Blackard, PhD UC – Pharmacology & Systems Physiology	BK Virus Diversity and its Association with Hemorrhagic Cystitis (PDF)
Sarah Han	Lee (Ted) Denson, MD CCHMC – GI	Regulation of Human Ileal Biopsy and Intestinal Organoid ROS Production and Gene Expression by DUOX2 Genetic Variation and Microbial Metabolites (PDF)
Alexandra Kinzer	Ardythe Morrow, PhD UC – Environmental Health Epidemiology	Infant Breastfeeding Exclusivity and Mode Differs by Family Socio-Economic Environment (PDF)
Jacob Leung	Takanori Takebe, MD, PhD CCHMC – GI	The Genetic Link between NAFLD and Type 2 Diabetes Comparing Disease Signatures (PDF)
Stefan Marasligiller	James Geller, MD CCHMC – Oncology	Selective Analysis of Ocular Salvage in Selective Oththalmic Artery Infusion Chemotherapy (SOAIC) (PDF)
Susie Min	Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD CCHMC – Allergy & Immunology	Molecular Diagnosis of Eosinophilic Esophagitis from a Single Esophageal Biopsy (PDF)
Rahul Sandella	Vincent Mukkada, MD CCHMC – GI	The Effects of Adiposity on Disease and Symptom Severity in Eosinophilic Esophagitis (PDF)
Giselle Scarano	Christina Gross, PhD	The Role of MicroRNA-324-5p in Dendritic Spine Density and Morphology in Mouse Hippocampal Neurons (PDF)
Frederick Schozer	Patrick Tso, PhD UC - Pathology	Chronic Elevation of Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Suppresses Lactation via Downregulation of Lipoprotein Lipase (PDF)

2019

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Katie Chang	Ardythe L. Morrow, PhD UC – Environmental Health, Epidemiology	Gut Microbial Composition and Stunted Length Growth of the Preterm Baby (PDF)
Grace Elbert	Christina Valentine, MD UC – Obstetrics & Gynecology	Expression of Inflammation Associated Genes in Extracellular RNA of Mammary Origin in Lactating Women According to Plasma Triglyceride Status (PDF)
Sai Gudla	Marc Rothenberg, MD CCHMC – Allergy & Immunology	The Effects of a Single Food Elimination Diet on the Concentration and Distribution of Immunoglobulins in Children with Eosinophilic Esophagitis (PDF)
Leah Hershberger	Yvonne M. Ulrich-Lai, PhD UC – Pharmacology and Systems Physiology	Does Obesity Drive Greater Pleasurable Food Intake to Achieve Stress Relief? A Rodent Model of Human Comfort Feeding Behaviors (PDF)
Ashton Huey	David Haslam, MD CCHMC – Infectious Diseases	The Association Between Antibiotics, the Intestinal Microbiome, and Risk for Type-2 Diabetes (PDF)
Patrick LeFevre	Jane Khoury, PhD CCHMC – Biostatistics and Epidemiology	Contributions of Dietary Fat to Carbohydrate Ratio and Vitamin D Intake and Status on Metabolic Health in Adults with in utero Exposure to Type 1 Diabetes (PDF)
Meredith Meyer	Michael Rosen, MD CCHMC – Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition	Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells Do Not Release Amphiregulin in Culture (PDF)
Julie Reeves	Stephen C. Benoit, PhD UC – Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience	Brief CBT for Binge Eating Disorder in Individuals with Insulin Resistance (PDF)
Abigail Roebker	Marialena Mouzaki, MD CCHMC – Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition	Assessment of the Impact of a High Dose, Fat-Soluble Vitamin Supplementation Protocol to Treat Vitamin Deficiencies in Children with Chronic Liver Diseases (PDF)
Kirby Sullivan	Emily DeFranco, DO UC – Obstetrics & Gynecology	Food Insecurity in an Urban Pregnancy Cohort (PDF)
Joseph Zimmerman	Jason Blackard, PhD UC – Digestive Diseases	Role of Fentanyl in Hepatocyte Apoptosis and HCV Infection (PDF)
Kayla Zydeck	Phillip Minar, MD CCHMC – Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition	Oncostatin M as a Predictor for Non-Response to Anti-TNFα Therapy (PDF)

2018

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Krista (Morford) Burridge	Christina Valentine, MD CCHMC – Neonatal-Perinatal	New Insights Regarding the Iron Intake of Global Infants can Target Complementary Food Recommendations (PDF)
Riley Cutler	Carl Fichtenbaum, MD UC – Infectious Diseases	Outcomes of HIV Encephalopathy (PDF)
Lakmal Ekanayake	Pranav Shivakumar, PhD CCHMC – Gastroenterology	Complement C5a receptor-dependent macrophage polarizations regulate pathogenesis in human and experimental mouse models of biliary atresia and fibrosis (PDF)
Elizabeth Hellmann	Daniel Schauer, MD UC – Internal Medicine	The Effect of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy vs. Intensive Medical Weight Loss Training program on Patient Outcomes and Satisfaction (PDF)
Zachary Higgins	Jun-Ming Zang, MD, MSc UC - Anesthesiology	Nerve Regeneration, Inflammation and Effects of High Fat Diet and Alcohol Ablation on Pain Responses following Spared Nerve Injury (PDF)
Michael Hong	Donald Gilbert, MD CCHMC – Neurology	Gaze Aversion Detection Software in Fragile X Syndrome (PDF)
Christina Lehn	Phillip Minar, MD CCHMC – Gastroenterology	Utilizing Plasma Proteomics to Predict Anti-TNF Treatment Response in Children with Crohn’s Disease (PDF)
Lauren McKenzie	Trisha Wise-Draper, MD, PhD UC – Hematology/Oncology	Combination Treatment of PD-1 Inhibition and Metaformin May Stimulate an Anti-Tumorigenic Immune Response in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (PDF)
Suraj Muddasani	Shelley Kirk, PhD, RD, LD CCHMC – Healthworks!	Impact of a Family Weekend Camp for Youth with Obesity and their Families Participating in a Multi-Component Pediatric Weight Management Program (PDF)
McKenzie Nelson	Amit Bhattacharya, PhD UC – Environmental Health	Validation of Bone Shock Absorption in the Pediatric Population – A Pilot Study (PDF)
Keith O’Conor	Mark Baccei, PhD UC – Anesthesiology	Modulation of Mechanical Pain by Dynorphin Neurons in the Developing Spinal Dorsal Horn (PDF)
Arun Raghavan	Ravi N. Samy, MD, FACS UC – Otolaryngology	Improving Speech Perception in Noise via Neural Network-Based Visual Speech Recognition (PDF)
Benjamin Ramser	Laura Ngwenya, MD, PhD UC – Neurological Surgery	Alterations of Nerogenesis-associated Signaling Pathways in Dentate Gyrus Following Traumatic Brain Injury (PDF)
Anna Saltman	Gregory Myer, PhD CCHMC – Sports Medicine	Altered Brain Activity Underlies Knee Motor Control for Those with Patellofemoral Pain (PDF)
Alex Schoenberger	Jamie K. Capal, MD CCHMC – Neurology	Early Biomarkers of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Infants with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (PDF)
Megan Turner	Zalfa Abdel-Malek, PhD UC – Dermatology	Developing LK 514, a MC1R-Selective Tripeptide Analog of α-Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone, in a Topical Application for Increasing Pigmentation of Human Skin (PDF)
Chantal Woodson	Yana Zavros, PhD UC – Pharmacology and Systems Physiology	An Organoid-Based Model for Optimal Treatment of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDF)
Meagan Zulfer	Michael Rosen, MD CCHMC – Gastroenterology	IL-33 Induces Genes Involved in Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Intestinal Epithelial Cells (PDF)

2017

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Michael Arnold	Laura Conforti, PhD UC – Nephrology	Nanoparticles Targeting the Adenosine A2A Receptor as a Potential Immunotherapy in Renal Cell Carcinoma (PDF)
Hiley Cammock	David Hui, PhD UC – Pathology	Effect of Intestinal Phospholipid Metabolism Intermediates on Cardiometabolic Syndrome and Gut Microbiota in Phospholipase A2 Deficient Mice (PDF)
Margaret Cinibulk	Emily DeFranco, DO UC – Obstetrics & Gynecology	Neonatal Cholesterol Provided by Breastmilk and the Gap in Nutrition Support Solutions (PDF)
Madison Epperson	Donald Gilbert, MD CCHMC – Neurology	Motor Cortex Physiology of Movement Preparation in ADHD Children (PDF)
Jacob Fondriest	Andrew Dauber, MD CCHMC – Endocrinology	Understanding CDKN1C and its Implications in Enocrine Disorders (PDF)
Molly Frost	Catherine Gordon, MD, MSc CCHMC – Adolescent and Transition Medicine	Location, Location, Location: Examining Outcomes in Patients with Eating Disorders (PDF)
Ayushi Jain	Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD CCHMC – Allergy and Immunology	Deletion of SPINK7 by CRISPR/Cas9 Elicits Pro-Inflammatory and Impaired Epithelial Barrier Responses in Esophageal Epithelial Cells (PDF)
Jasmine Lee	Timothy A. Pritts, MD, PhD UC – Surgery	Microparticles from Stored Red Blood Cell Units Alter ZO-1 Expression in Endothelial Cells (PDF)
Adam Miller	Nancy Ratner, PhD UC – Hematology/Oncology	Identifying Novel MPNST Therapies using a DUSP Inhibitor in a New Patient Derived Xenograft Mouse Model (PDF)
Michael Ortman	Bryan Mackenzie, PhD UC – Molecular and Cellular Physiology	Examining a role for gastric acid in iron absorption (PDF)
Adam Price	Lee A. Denson, MD CCHMC – Gastroenterology	Physiologic hypoxia and lipid peroxidation products modulate Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor-dependent neutrophil bacterial killing in Pediatric Crohn’s Disease (PDF)
Tiani Schindt	Nancy Crimmins, MD CCHMC – Endocrinology	HDL Subspecies in Youth with Type 1 Diabetes and Celiac Disease: A Pilot Student (PDF)
Kameron Shams	Gregory Myer, MD CCHMC – Sports Medicine	Functional Outcomes Following Medial Pattellofemoral Ligament Reconstruction: A Pilot Study (PDF)
Chalita Washington	Jessica Kahn, MD, MPH CCHMC – Adolescent and Transition Medicine	Individual- and Partner-Level Characteristics Associated with Vaccine-Type and Non-Faccine-Type Human Papillomavirus Infection (HPV) in Young Women After Vaccine Introduction (PDF)
Caleb Winner	Brenda Wong, MD, MBBS CCHMC - Neurology	Quality of Life (QOL) Outcomes in Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (PDF)
Max Eujin Yeo	Tayyab Diwan, MD UC – Surgery-Transplant	Redefining Staple Loading Pressures for Adequate Tissue Apposition in Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (PDF)

2016

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Daniel Bowles	John van Aalst, MD CCHMC – Plastic Surgery	3D Printed Polycaprolactone as a Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering (PDF)
Kathleen Copp	Emily DeFranco, DO UC – Obstetrics and Gynecology	Pediatrician Opportunities To Guide Maternal Diet In The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit(NICU) (PDF)
Parthib Das	Alexander Miethke, MD CCHMC – Gastroenterology	The Distinct Phenotype of Autoimmune Sclerosing Cholangitis in Pediatric Patients is Associated with Prominent Hepatic Type 17 and B-lymphocyte Immune Responses (PDF)
Johnny Ellis	Gregory Myer, PhD UC – Orthopaedic Surgery / CCHMC – Sports Medicine y	Negative Shift: A Novel EEG Biomarker for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) (PDF)
Patrick England	Steven J. Kleene, PhD UC – Molecular and Cellular Physiology	Quantification of TRPP2 along Lengths of Primary Cilia (PDF)
Katelyn Gordon	Lee A. Denson, MD CCHMC – Gastroenterology	Plasma Apolipoprotein-A1 as a Prognostic Indicator for Pediatric Crohn Disease (PDF)
Tricia Hengehold	Jackie Grupp-Phelan, MD, MPH CCHMC – Emergency Medicine	Non-Responders for a Suicide Screen are Important (PDF)
Elizabeth Hoffman	Sean Moore, MD, MS (co-mentor) / Kris Steinbrecher, PhD (co-mentor) CCHMC &ndash Gastroenterology	A Novel Mouse Model With Humanized IgA Dynamics: The Hepatobiliary-Specific pIgR KO (PDF)
Mark Johnson	Timothy A. Pritts, MD, PhD UC – Surgery	Impact of Tranexamic Acid on Posttraumatic Coagulation and Inflammation (PDF)
Patrick Lee	Theresa Alenghat, VMD, PhD CCHMC – Immunology	Regulation of HDACs and Histone Acetylation in Intestinal Epithelial Cells by Lipopolysaccharide (PDF)
Jennifer O’Donnell	Catherine Gordon, MD, MSc CCHMC – Adolescent and Transition Medicine	fMRI Analysis of Response to Visual Food Stimuli (PDF)
Kelly Passabet	Jessica G. Woo, PhD CCHMC – Biostatistics and Epidemiology	Diet Quality Trajectories in Early Childhood (PDF)
Brij Patel	David Y. Hui, PhD UC – Pathology!	Influence of Perivascular Adipose Tissue and High Fat Diet on Vascular Tone (PDF)
Monica Saccucci	Jessica Kahn, MD, MPH CCHMC – Adolescent Medicine	Epidemiologic Trends in Non-Vaccine-Type HPV after Vaccine Introduction: No Evidence for Type Replacement but Evidence for Cross-Protection (PDF)
Nirali Shah	Stacey Huppert, PhD CCHMC – Gastroenterology	Xiap Mediated Degradation Of Notch Protein As A Potential Mechanism In Pathogenesis Of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (PDF)
Radhika Teli	Stacey Huppert, PhD CCHMC – General and Community Pediatrics	Parents as Agents of Change: Examining Parental Shifts Through a Family-Centered Intervention to Improve Child Nutrition and Physical Activity (PDF)
Vijay Venkatesan	Daniel Abbott, MD (co-mentor) UC – Surgical Oncology Shimul Shah, MD (co-mentor) UC – Transplantation	Redefining Staple Loading Pressures for Adequate Tissue Apposition in Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (PDF)

2015

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Stephanie Armocida	Charles C. Caldwell, PhD UC – Surgery	Do thermal injury-driven changes in gut butyrate levels contribute to thermal-injury driven changes in immune status in an Asm-dependent manner? (PDF)
Arianna Cabrales	Andrew Dauber, MD CCHMC – Endocrinology	Identification of genetic etiologies of pediatric short stature using whole exome sequencing (PDF)
Spencer Dunaway – Finalist - Galveston, TX	Michael R. Rosen, MD CCHMC – Gastroenterology	Role of amphiregulin in mediating the protective effects of IL-33 in colitis (PDF)
Karl Enroth	Mark Mitsnefes, MD, MS CCHMC – Nephrology	Disease and Economic Burden of Acute Kidney Injury on Children Hospitalized with Heart Failure (PDF)
Heng He – Finalist - Galveston, TX	Timothy A. Pritts, MD, PhD UC – Surgery	Potential Novel Role of Acid Sphingomyelinase Activity in the Development of the Red Blood Cell Storage Lesion (PDF)
Kunal Karani	Mark Mitsnefes, MD, MS CCHMC – Nephrology	Disease and Economic Burden of Acute Kidney Injury on Children Hospitalized with Heart Failure (PDF)
Yeseong Kim	Gurjit Khurana Hershey, MD, PhD CCHMC – Asthma Research	Role of Vitamin D deficiency in diesel exhaust particle (DEP)-induced allergic asthma exacerbations (PDF)
Kourtney King	Emily DeFranco, DO UC – OB/GYN	Treatment of Gestational Diabetes with Acarbose (PDF)
Sri Rajamouli	Simon P. Hogan, PhD CCHMC – Allergy and Immunology	Inhibitory receptor variants in IBD (PDF)
Corinne Rauck	Zalfa Abdel-Malek, PhD UC – Dermatology	The role of the cAMP signaling pathway activated by the melanocortin 1 receptor in the DNA damage response of human melanocytes to UV (PDF)
Amit Samba	Rohit Kohli, MBBS, MD CCHMC – Gastroenterology	A Chronic High Fructose Diet Induces Progressive Murine NASH with Early Mitochondrial Aging (PDF)
Daniel Schneider	Gregory Myer, PhD UC – Peds & Orthopaedic Surgery / CCHMC – Sports Medicine	Mechanical and Functional Outcomes of Anterior Cruciaete Ligament Revision with Quadriceps Tendon versus Patellar Tendon or Hamstring Tendon (PDF)
Alix Schrager	Shelley Kirk, PhD, RD, LD CCHMC – HealthWorks!	Tuning In: Mindfulness-based practice as an adjunct lifestyle intervention for obese and overweight children (PDF)
Robert Sibilia	Christy K. Holland, PhD UC – Cardiovascular Diseases and Biomedical Engineering	Ultrasound Modeling of Chest Cavity for Coronary Artery Drug Delivery (PDF)
Joy Wang	Jun-Ming Zhang, MD UC – Anesthesiology	Obesity-induced inflammation and low back pain (PDF)

2014

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Ryan Aschenbrener	Scott W. Powers, MD CCHMC – Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology	The Effect of Behavioral Intervention and Nutrition Education on Body Composition in Children with Cystic Fibrosis (PDF)
Victoria Besser	Lori J. Stark, PhD CCHMC – Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology	Management of Obesity in Preschool-Aged Children: Identifying Reasons for Which Pediatricians Decline Recruitment of Preschool-Aged Children at and Above the 95th BMI Percentile for Pediatric Obesity Treatment Studies (PDF)
Lauren Dehan	Sean Moore, MD CCHMC - Gastroenterology	In Vitro Effects of Folate Deficiency on Intestinal Crypt Morphology and Stem Cell Methylation (PDF)
Doug Dembinski	Siddarth Khosla, MD UC – Otolaryngology	The Effect of Velopharyngeal gap size on the Acoustics and Perceived Severity of Voice Disorder (PDF)
Lara Graham	David Y. Hui, PhD & Anja Jaeschke, PhD UC – Pathology	Abnormal Over-Expression of Sortilin-1 in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Accelerates Tumor Progression via Suppression of miR33 (PDF)
Amanda Harrell	Raymond E. Boissy, PhD UC – Dermatology	Alix Co-Localizes with Galectin-3 and Traffics Tyrp-1 in Melanocytes (PDF)
Josi L. Herren	Marc E. Rothenberg, MD, PhD CCHMC – Allergy and Immunology	Elucidating the Role of Epigenetic Memory in the Pathogenesis of Allergic Inflammation in the Model of Eosinophilic Esophagitis (PDF)
Anas Jawaid	Carl Fichtenbaum, MD UC – Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases	The Occurrence of Serious non-Aids Clinical Events in Persons with and without Transiently Elevated HIV Load (“blips”): A Case Control Study (PDF)
Julia Kiernan	Zalfa Abdel-Malek, PhD UC – Dermatology	Toward Development of a Preventive Strategy for UV Induced Sunburn and DNA Damage Based on Utilizing Selective MC1R Agonists (PDF)
David Parsons	Fred Finkelman, MD UC – Immunology	Rapid Desensitization of Mice Using Monoclonal Antibodies to Fc€R1a (PDF)
Saranya Sethuraman	Dorothy Supp, PhD UC – Surgery	Keloids and Fish Oil: The Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Gene Expression and Growth of Keloid Scar Keratinocytes and Fibroblasts (PDF)
Garrett Sprague	Stavra Xanthakos, MD, MS CCHMC – Gastroenterology	Determination of Liver Stiffness in Chronic Liver Disease Patients by Acoustic Radiation Force Imaging (ARFI US) (PDF)
Christopher C Stahl - Finalist Galveston, TX	Daniel Abbott, MD UC – Surgical Oncology	Determination of Liver Stiffness in Chronic Liver Disease Patients by Acoustic Radiation Force Imaging (ARFI US) (PDF)
Brandon Tan	Rohit Kohli, MBBS, MD CCHMC – Gastroenterology	Hepatic Steatosis Amelioration Dependence Upon Ileal FXR-FGF15 Signaling to the Liver After Vertical Sleeve Gastroectomy in Obese Mice (PDF)
Luke A. Umana	Frank McCormack, MD UC – Internal Medicine/Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep	Sirolimus Use in Lymphangioleiomyomatosis Patients: the Clinical Conundrum (PDF)
Thomas C. Westbrook	Lee A. Denson, MD CCHMC – Gastroenterology	Ileal Transcriptome and Serologic Markers Distinguish Ulcerative Colitis from Crohn’s Disease (PDF)
Dana Whittemore - Finalist Galveston, Tx	Jessica Kahn, MD, MPH CCHMC – Adolescent Medicine	Racial Differences in Type-Specific Human Papillomavirus Epidemiology (PDF)

2013

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Dhruv Amratia	Jorge Bezerra, MD CCHMC - Gastroenterology	Altering the Maternal Microbiome in cxcr2 ko Mice Decreases Susceptibility to Experimental Biliary Atresia (DOC)
Mark Costello Finalist— Galveston, TX	Jed Hartings, PhD UC - Neurology	Major Ischemia Transforms Cortical Spreading Depolarizations into a Pathophysiological Process Producing Neuronal Death (DOC)
Annie Deliosio	Jackie Grupp-Phelan, MD CCHMC - Emergency Medicine	Setting Matters in Suicide Screening for Adolescent Patients Presenting with Non-psychiatric Complaints in the ED (DOC)
Joseph Fixler	George Deep, MD UC - Internal Medicine - Infectious Disease	Zinc Importer ZIP2 and the Dendritic Cell Response to Histoplasma Capsulatum Infection (DOC)
Emily Hautman Finalist-Galveston, TX	Matthew Skelton, PhD CCHMC - Neurology	Unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) Striatal Lesions Associated with Earlier Onset Parkinsonian Phenotype in Creatine Transporter Deficient Mice as compared to Wild Type Controls (DOC)
Grabiela Lopes	Sean R. Moore, MS, MD CCHMC - Gastroenterology	Intervention and Mechanism of Alanyl-Glutamine for Gut Inflammation, Nutrition, and Enteropathy (IMAGINE): A Double-Blind Placebo Control Randomized Dose-Response Trial in Undernourished Brazilian Children (PDF)
Mason Nistel	Rohit Kohli, MD CCHMC - Gastroenterology	Hepatic Lipid Profile Improvement after Murine Sleeve Gastrectomy: The Role of Bile Acid Signaling (DOC)
Ahmad Saqr	Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD CCHMC - Allergy and Immunology	Elucidating LRRC31 induction by IL-13 (DOC)
Victoria Schopper	H. Leighton Grimes, PhD CCHMC - Experimental Hematology and the Division of Pathology	Role of MicroRNA Expression in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (DOC)
Claire Seguin	Noah Shroyer, PhD CCHMC - Gastroenterology	Potential Patterning Factors in the Small Intestine (DOC)
Kevin Song	Stacey Huppert, PhD CCHMC - Gastroenterology	Macrophages are Associated with Intrahepatic Bile Duct Regeneration (DOC)
Robert Sturm	Vladimir Bogdanov, PhD UC - Internal Medicine -Heme/Onc	Macrophages are Associated with Intrahepatic Bile Duct Regeneration (PDF)
Taryn Surtees	Jose Cancelas, MD Hoxworth/CCHMC Exp Hematology	Vav3/Rec2 are Novel Targets for Therapeutic Intervention in High-risk Lymphoblastic Leukemia (DOC)
Yuen (Jason) Wei	Yana Zavros, PhD UC - Physiology	The Study of H. pylori-host Epithelial Interactions (DOC)
Suma Yalamanchili	Randy Seeley, PhD UC - Internal Medicine	Bromocriptine: Metabolic Effects During Circadian Disruption (PDF)

2012

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Allyson Best Finalist— Galveston, TX	Christopher Lindsell, PhD UC - Emergency Medicine	Out of Africa: Using Computer Simulation to improve Patient Flow (PDF)
Eric Cohen Finalist— Galveston, TX	David D’Alessio, MD UC - Medicine	Efficacy of GLP-1 based drugs in mice without pancreatic GLP-1 receptors (PDF)
Lauren Colom	Bradley Dixon, MD CCHMC - Nephrology and Hypertension	The role of the primary cilium in the cellular response to a hyperosmolal microenvironment (PDF)
Evan Crowe	Lee Denson, M.D. CCHMC - Gastroenterology	The Effects of Serum Concentrations of Certain Biological Markers on the Subsequent Growth of Pre-Pubertal Children with Crohn's Disease (PDF)
Matthew Gropler	Randy Seeley, Ph.D UC - Internal Medicine, Endocrinology	Nutrient delivery and handling following bariatric surgery in obese rats (PDF)
Joshua Hilliard	David Hui, Ph.D UC - Pathology	Influence of Apolipoprotein E Polymorphism on Postprandial Inflammation (PDF)
Samuel Lee	Patrick Tso, Ph.D UC - Pathology	ApoA-IV and its role in intestinal chylomicron formation and metabolism (PDF)
Kara Lewnard	Francis X. McCormack, M.D. UC - Internal Medicine, Div.of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine	The Role of Pulmonary Collectins in Pandemic Influenza A Viral Infection (PDF)
Stefan Malin	Noah Shroyer, Ph.D CCHMC – Pediatrics Gastroenterology	Intestinal Organoid Responses to Bacteria and Bacterial Antigens (PDF)
Allison Mayhew	Jessica Kahn, M.D. CCHMC - Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics	Impact of Perceived Risk and Need for Safer Sexual Behaviors on Sexual Behaviors and STI Diagnosis after HPV Vaccination in Young Women (PDF)
Anne Murphy	Robert Siegel, M.D. CCHMC - Heart Institute James Heubi, M.D. (co-mentor)	A pilot study comparing high intensity interval exercise to traditional aerobic exercise interventions in obese children (PDF)
Eric Niespodzany	Bryan Mackenzie, Ph.D UC - Molecular & Cellular Physiology	Defining the Functional Role of DMT1 in the Heme-Absorptive Pathway (PDF)
Lee Ann Norman	Diego Perez-Tilve, Ph.D UC - Internal Medicine	Physiological Responses Induced by a Surgical Procedure Increase Leptin Sensitivity and Signaling (PDF)
Ravi Nunna	Hermine Brunner, M.D. CCHMC - Pediatrics Rheumatology	Micro-RNA as Biomarkers of Lupus Nephritis (PDF)
Sindhu Samba	John J. Bissler, M.D. CCHMC - Nephrology	Tuberous Sclerosis Renal Disease: From Cell Biology Quirks to Possible Cures (PDF)
Stacey Williamson	Stavra Xanthakos, M.D. CCHMC - Gastroenterology	Relationship of ultrastructural mitochondrial changes with histological severity and subtypes of pediatric NAFLD and NASH (PDF)
Alexandra Wilson	Raymond E. Boissy, Ph.D UC - Dermatology	The Mechanism of Pitera as a Suppressor of Oxidative Stress (PDF)

2011

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Ali Azad	Randy Seeley, PhD Internal Medicine (UC)	FGF21: A Novel Regulator of Cachexia (PDF)
Rusty Baik^‡	Bryan MacKenzie, PhD Molecular & Cellular Physiology (UC)	Role of brush-border Na⁺/H⁺ exchangers (NHE) in energizing intestinal iron uptake: Molecular physiology and targeting NHE3 in iron-overload disorders (PDF)
Natalie DelFosse^‡	Ardythe L. Morrow, PhD Pediatrics (CCHMC)	The influence of offering donor human milk and lactation support to mothers on the provision of mother’s own milk to preterm infants (PDF)
Colin Edwards	Ravindhra G. Elluru MD, PhD Pediatric Otolaryngology (CCHMC)	Evaluation of Buccal Mucosa Grafts for Treatment of Acquired Subglottic Stenosis in a Murine Model (PDF)
Sarah Erhman	Kenneth Campbell, PhD Developmental Biology (CCHMC)	Role of Sema5A in the formation of amygdalar circuitry: Implications for Autism Spectrum Disorders (PDF)
Alexander Fisher^‡	Bradley P. Dixon, MD Nephrology & Hypertension (CCHMC)	The DNA Damage Response of Gastrointestinal Cells in the Hyperosmolal Bladder Microenvironment (PDF)
Emily Galan	Raymond E. Boissy, PhD Dermatology (UC)	Galectin-3 Regulates Apoptosis and is Associated with Vitiligo (PDF)
Rebecca Greaves	K. Wikenheiser-Brokamp, MD,PhD Pathology/Pulmonary Bio. (CCHMC)	Murine model to elucidate mechanisms of chemoresistance in lung cancer (PDF)
Kelsey Guanciale^‡	Rohit Kohli, MBBS, MS Pediatrics-Gastroenterology (CCHMC)	Role of Vitamin E in improving murine non-alcoholic steatohepatitis through induction of the endogenous glutathione antioxidant pathway (PDF)
Drew Kaiser	David D’Alessio, MD Medicine (UC)	Effect of RYGB and VSG on Cholesterol Absorption and Synthesis (PDF)
Tasneem Kaleem^‡	Noah Shroyer, PhD Pediatrics-Gastroenterology (CCHMC)	Gfi1 regulates intestinal and gastric epithelial differentiation downstream of Notch (PDF)
Suchin Khanna	Marielle Kabbouche, MD Neurology (CCHMC)	Identification of Abnormal Neuromagnetic Signatures in the Motor Cortex of Adolescent Migraine (PDF)
Neera Khattar^‡	Ephraim Gutmark, PhD Otolaryngology, Aerospace Eng. (UC)	Analysis of Airway Anatomy and Airflow Dynamics in Turner’s Syndrome patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Jerry Kwong^‡	Bruce J. Aronow, PhD Bioinformatics (CCHMC)	Mechanical load and hormonal effects on angiomyolipoma cells (PDF)
Neha Maheshwari^‡	Marshall Montrose, PhD Molecular & Cellular Physiology (UC)	Effects of colonic inflammation on metabolism of a drug that treats inflammatory bowel disease
Jason Martin^‡	Yana Zavros, PhD Molecular & Cellular Physiology (UC)	The role of Hedgehog signaling as a regulator of epithelial regeneration during gastric ulcer healing (PDF)
Amit Patel^‡	John N. Lorenz, PhD Molecular & Cellular Physiology (UC)	Non-Canonical Effects of Digoxin and other Cardiac Glycosides on Vascular Smooth Muscle (PDF)
Elizabeth Perkins	Kan N. Hor, MD D. Woodrow Benson, MD, PhD Pediatrics (CCHMC)	Segmental circumferential strain predicts myocardial fibrosis in DMD-associated cardiac disease (PDF)
Samantha Spear	Zalfa Abdel-Malek, PhD Dermatology (UC)	Impact of MC1R genotype on induction and repair of UV-induced damage in human melanocytes (PDF)
Jessica Wen	Yi-Gang Wang, MD, PhD Pathology (UC)	Mesenchymal stem cell overexpression of CXCR4 and induction of rat cardiomyocyte proliferation and differentiation (PDF)

2010

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Christie Alexander	Zalfa Abdel-Malek, PhD Dermatology (UC)	The role of Upstream Stimulating Factor-1 (USF-1) in human melanocyte photoprotection (PDF)
Subha Amatya	Marshall H. Montrose, PhD Mol/Cell Physiology (UC)	What class of material seals small intestine epithelial discontinuities and maintains the epithelial barrier? (PDF)
Danesh Bansal NEOUCOM	John J. Bissler, MD Nephrology & Hypertension (CCHMC)	Correlation between angiomyolipoma mTORC1 inhibition response and plasma growth factors (PDF)
Nicholas Berger	Rohit Kohli, MBBS, MS GI/Nutrition (CCHMC)	Hepatocyte free fatty acid flux is modulated by insulin through activation of fatty acid transport proteins (PDF)
Theresa Chan	Aaron J. Johnson, PhD Neurology (UC)	VEGF as a viable therapeutic target in neurologic diseases characterized by inflammation-induced blood brain barrier disruption (PDF)
Jatin Dhimar	David D'Alessio, MD Endocrinology (UC)	An inducible ß-cell Cre: Level of expression and effect on glucose tolerance (PDF)
Amar Dixit	Mitchell Cohen, MD GI/Hepatology/Nutrition (CCHMC)	Role of guanyly cyclase c in the immune response to intestinal helminth infections (PDF)
Julia Jones	Bruce Aronow, PhD Biomedical Informatics (CCHMC)	Identification of androgen receptor genomic targets during lower urinary tract development using ChIP-Seq data and analyses (PDF)
Martine Lamy	Stephen Strakowski, MD James Eliassen, PhD Psychiatry (UC)	Test-retest reliability of an integrated emotional-attentional task (PDF)
Tianyi Lu	Nadean L. Brown, PhD Developmental Biology (CCHMC)	Investigation of Neurogenin2 regulation of cell cycle progression during mouse retinal neuron formation (PDF)
Dhwani Mehta	D. Woodrow Benson, MD, PhD Molecular/CV Biology (CCHMC)	Pathogenic mechanisms of Ellis van Creveld Syndrome (PDF)
Rosalynd Mincy Univ of IL	Jeffrey A. Whitsett, MD Pulmonary Biology (CCHMC)	Development of lung epithelial programming using ES and iPS cells (PDF)
David Moon	Lee A. Denson, MD GI/Hepatology/Nutrition (CCHMC)	Genetic variation in STAT3 and cytokine mediated STAT3 phosphorylation in EBV transformed B lymphocytes from pediatric IBD patients and their healthy first degree relatives (PDF)
Lindsay Brummett-Mooney OSU	Prasad Devarajan, MD Nephrology & Hypertension (CCHMC)	Regulatory role of JNK in apoptosis of tubule cells following renal ischemia-reperfusion injury (PDF)
Katherine Schmidt	Raymond E. Boissy, PhD Dermatology (UC)	The role of heat shock protein-60 (HSP-60) in trafficking of tyrosinase proteins to the melanosome (PDF)
Roy Won	Pirooz Eghtesady, MD, PhD Cardiothoracic Surgery (CCHMC)	Role of vasopressin V2 receptor pathway in placental vascular resistance with fetal cardiac bypass (PDF)
Mohsin Zaidi	Jill Huppert, MD, MPH Jennifer Reed, MD Adolescent/Emergency Med (CCHMC)	The impact of improved contact with adolescent women diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection in the emergency department (PDF)

2009

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Nevert Badreldin	Carl Fichtenbaum, MD Internal Medicine (UC)	Durability of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in Treatment-Naïve Women with HIV Infection (PDF)
Douglas Brown	Noah Shroyer, PhD GI/Nutrition (CCHMC)	Atoh1 as a Colon Tumor Suppressor That Mediates the Anti-proliferative Effects of ?-secretase Inhibitors (PDF)
Yoon Cho	Nancy Ratner, PhD Exp HemCancer Biology (CCHMC)	Role of Oligodendrocyte Differentiation in NF-1 Phenotypes (PDF)
Thomas Chung	Jeff Robbins, PhD Molecular/CV Biology (CCHMC)	Cardiac Disease: Alzheimer's of the Heart? (PDF)
Adam Goodale	Ravindhra Elluru, MD, PhD ENT (CCHMC)	The Role of Inflammation and Prostaglandin E2 in Subglottic Stenosis Development (PDF)
Elizabeth He	Michael Williams, PhD Pediatric Neurology (CCHMC)	Cognitive Effects of Methamphetamine in Adult Rats (PDF)
Tia Jackson-Bey	Ardythe Morrow, PhD Biostatistics & Epidemiology (CCHMC)	Comparison of the milk composition of secretor and non-secretor mothers and its relation to infectious disease outcomes in breastfed infants in Cincinnati, Ohio: Analysis of Cincinnati data collected as part of the Global Human Milk Research Collaborative (PDF)
Matthew Johnson	Randy J. Seeley, PhD Darleen Sandoval, PhD Psychiatry (UC)	Dietary Exposure to Bisphenol-A and Metabolic Syndrome in a Rodent Model? (PDF)
Scott Korfhagen	John Bissler, MD Nephrology/Hypertension (CCHMC)	Mutagenesis as a Result of Renal Medullary Hyperosmolar Microenvironment on DNA Damage Recognition and Repair (PDF)
Oran Kremen	Prasad Devarajan, MD Pediatric Nephrology (CCHMC)	Neurophil Gelantiase-Associated Lipocalin as a Predictive Biomarker for the Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease (PDF)
Tam Le	Stephanie Ware, MD Molecular/CV Biology (CCHMC)	Identification of Genetic Mutations Causing Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Using Microarray-Based Sequence Capture Technology (PDF)
Arek Manugian	David D’Alessio, MD Internal Medicine/Endocrinology (UC)	Changes in Pancreatic Islet Function and Morphology Following Gastric Bypass Surgery In Rats (PDF)
David Mihal	Sean Davidson, PhD Path/Lab Medicine (UC)	Elucidation of Structural Features of ApoA-I in High Density Lipoprotein Using a Tri-functional Protein Cross-linker and Mass Spectrometry (PDF)
Brian Oloizia	Jo El Schultz, PhD Pharmacology/Cell Biophysics (UC)	Altered Protein Expression and Post-Translational Modifications of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+-Handling Proteins: Defining Novel Downstream Targets of PKC in FGF2-Induced Cardioprotection (PDF)
Erika Osterholzer	Raymond Boissy, PhD Dermatology (UC)	Formation of BLOC-3 and its Role in Trafficking of Tyrosinase Proteins (PDF)
Marihelen Otto	Jodie Duffy, PhD Cardiothoracic Surgery (CCHMC)	Effect of pGz on Reducing Apoptosis in Neonatal Piglet Hearts Following Cardiopulmonary Bypass (CPB) and Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest (DHCA) (PDF)
Sabre Patton	Jill Huppert, MD, MPH Adolescent Medicine (CCHMC)	Diagnostic Potential of a Rapid Chlamydia Test (PDF)
Nick Saenger	Jorge Bezerra, MD GI/Nutrition (CCHMC)	Molecular Mechanisms of Duct Injury in Biliary Atresia (PDF)
Adam Safdi	Ted Denson, MD GI/Nutrition (CCHMC)	Serum Vitamin D Level and Disease Activity in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease (PDF)
Aaron Seitz	Charles C. Caldwell, PhD Surgery (UC)	Brain-Specific Leptin as a Necessary Mediator of the Immune Response During Sepsis (PDF)
David Turer	Jesse Taylor, MD Surgery (UC)	The Mechanical Properties of Tissue Engineered Bone (PDF)
Dheer Abhay Vyes	John Lorenz, PhD Mol/Cell Physiology (UC)	Effects Cardiotonic Steroids in Hamster Vascular Smooth Muscle (PDF)
Trevor Whitwell	Philip Howles, PhD David Hui, PhD Path/Lab Medicine (UC)	Role of NPC1L1 and cell cholesterol in adipocyte differentiation and cytokine secretion (PDF)

2008

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Noah Allen	Kenneth Weiss, MD Radiology, (UC)	Multiparametric Imaging of Bone Architecture: A Cadaveric Study (PDF)
JoAnna Brenneman	William Miller, PhD Molecular Genetics (CCHMC)	Characterization of Molecular Signaling Properties of the Human Cytomegalovirus-Encoded G Protein Coupled Receptor US28 and Analysis of Contribution to Viral Induced Atherosclerosis (PDF)
David Dow	Prasad Devarajan, MD Nephrology/Hypertension (CCHMC)	Validation of HBD-1 as a Biomarker of Protection Against Contrast Induced Nephropathy (PDF)
Mohammed Fadlalla	Yaron Tomer, MD Endo, (UC)	Analyzing and Identifying Peptides that Interact with the MHC II Molecule, HLA-DR3 (PDF)
Arpit Gandhi	Eric Gruenstein, Ph.D Molecular Genetics, (UC)	Effects of Valproic Acid Exposure on Synchronized Calcium Oscillations in Cortical Neuronal Cultures (PDF)
Jonathan Gully	Lee Denson, MD Gastro/Nutrition (CCHMC)	GM-CSF and Epithelial Intestinal Cell Survival in Ileal Crohn's Disease (PDF)
Philip Hartman	Ravindhra G Elluru, MD, PhD ENT, (CCHMC)	Molecular Mechanisms of Acquired Subglottic Stenosis in a Murine Model (PDF)
Matthew Johnson	Donald Gilbert, MD Neurology, (CCHMC)	Frontal lobe and subcortical / cortical inhibitory deficits and neuropsychological performance in ADHD vs. Control Children (PDF)
Narayan Kissoon	Woody Benson, MD Cardiology, (CCHMC)	Non-invasive Detection of Cardiac Abnormalities in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (PDF)
Zheng Lan	Nancy Ratner, PhD Exp HemCancer Biology (CCHMC)	Role of EYA4, a transcription factor, in NF-1 derived peripheral nerve tumors (PDF)
Elinor Lee	Marc Rothenberg, MD Allergy/Immunology (CCHMC)	The Role of Melanin-concentrating hormone in Eosinophilic Esophagitis (PDF)
Matthew Loftspring	Joseph Clark, MD Neurology, (UC)	Th e role of bilirubin oxidation products (BOXes) in modulating the immune response to intracerebral hemorrhage (PDF)
Valerie Marckel	Lawrence Dolan, MD Endo, (CCHMC)	Macronutrients: A role in Adolescent Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes (PDF)
Joseph Mastin	Jose Cancelas Exp Hematology, (CCHMC)	Targeting pharmacollogically Rac GTPases in Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukemia (PDF)
Anne McHugh	Zalfa Abdel Malek, PhD Dermatology (UC)	The Melanocortin 1 Receptor gene Determines Melanoma Susceptibility by Regulating Nucleotide Excision Repair and Genomic Stability of Human Melanocytes (PDF)
Chandrasekhar Padmanabhan	Mitchell Cohen, MD Gastro/Nutrition, CCHMC	Uroguanylin Gene Expression in Response to a Hypertonic Challenge in HT29-18-N2 and mIMCD3 Cell Lines (PDF)
Alison Rasper	Charles C. Caldwell, PhD Surgery, UC	Immune status determination following trauma (PDF)
Elaine Reno	Jeffery Molkentin, M.D. Molecular CV Biology (CCHMC)	Identification of Proteins Involved in Formation of the Mitochondrial Pore During Necrosis (PDF)
Erik Sass	Keith Crutcher, PhD Neurosurgery, (UC)	Optimization of Neural Regeneration on Carbon Nanotubes (PDF)
Emily Schoettmer	Jodie Duffy, PhD Cardiothoracic Surgery, (CCHMC)	Subcellular localization of calpastatin in rat neonatal cardiomyocytes subject to simulated ischemia and reperfusion (PDF)
Tasneem Shikary	Jessica Kahn, MD Adolescent Med, (CCHMC)	Type-Specific Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Human Papillomavirus Infection in Young Women (PDF)
Jason Steinberg	John Bissler, MD Nephrology/Hypertension (CCHMC)	An Imaging Study of Renal Angiomyolipoma Development in Patients with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (PDF)
John Szymusiak	Patrick Tso, PhD Path/Lab Medicine, (UC)	Effect of Pluronic F-68 on Cholesterol Absorption and Synthesis (PDF)
Lauren Wancata	David Hui, PhD Path/Lab Medicine (UC)	Hepatic LRP1 Modulation of Reverse Cholesterol Transport and a Possible Role in the Development of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) in Mice (PDF)
Julia Zhu	John Cuppoletti Molecular/Cell Physiology, (UC)	Function of Ion Channels at Extreme Temperatures (PDF)

2007

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Jared C. Bentley	Joseph Clark, PhD Neurology (UC)	Effects of Bilirubin Oxidation Products (BOXes) on White Matter Edema Development and Injury Following Intracerebral Hemorrhage (PDF)
Nicholas Bhojwani	Mitchell Cohen, MD Gastroenterology (CCHMC)	The Role of Guanylyl Cyclase C During Intestinal Adaptation (PDF)
I-Yuan Joseph Chang**	Noah F. Shroyer, PhD Gastroenterology (CCHMC)	Uncovering the Protective Effect of Intestinal Secretory Cells in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (PDF)
Heather Finlay-Morreale	Jay Johannigman, MD Surgery/Trauma (UC)	Intentional Firearm Injuries in Women – Looking Beyond the Trauma Registry to Discover Differences in Injuries from Intimate Partners (PDF)
Jeffrey R. Golen	D. Woodrow Benson, MD/PhD Cardiology (CCHMC)	Mutation Analysis of Nkx2.6 Gene in a Cohort of Patients with Conotruncal Defects (PDF)
Patrick J. Haas	Manoocher Soleimani, MD Internal Medicine (UC)	Fructose-induced Hypertension is Attenuated in Mice That Lack the Apical Cl -/HCO 3 - Exchanger Slc26a6 (PDF)
Heather Hartman**	Larry Patterson, MD Nephrology (CCHMC)	Urinary Proteomic Analysis at Termination of Nephrogenesis in Mice (PDF)
Jonathan Hassel**	David D’Alessio, MD Internal Medicine/Endocrinology (UC)	Peripheral Effects of Ex-4 and GLP-1 on Anorexia and Weight Loss (PDF)
John Kpaeyeh	Michael Bates, MD/PhD Gastroenterology (CCHMC)	Hlx Homeobox Transcription Factor Regulation of Genes Required for Enteric Nervous System Development (PDF)
Kenneth Liu	John Bissler, MD Nephrology/Hypertension (CCHMC)	Genetic Instability and Polycystic Kidney Disease (PDF)
Susan Numan**	Ken Weiss, MD Radiology (UC)	Multiparametric Imaging of Bone Architecture: a Cadaveric Study (PDF)
Robert Orlowski*	Bibiana Bielekova, MD Neurology (UC)	Rolipram Therapy Inhibits Important Immunoregulatory Circuits in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis (PDF)
Tejas Patel	Prasad Devarajan, MD Nephrology/Hypertension, (CCHMC)	Inhibition of the JNK apoptotic signalling pathway as a protective mechanism against renal injury after ischemia (PDF)
Maria D. Reid	Charles Caldwell, PhD Surgery (UC)	Determination of the immune status following trauma (PDF)
Evan Roller	Jun-Ming Zhang, MSc/MD Anesthesiology (UC)	Anti-inflammatory Corticosteroid Reduces Mechanical Pain Behavior, Sympathetic Sprouting, and Elevation of Pro-inflammatory Cytokines in a Rat Model of Neuropathic Pain (PDF)
Jessica Smith	Leslie Myatt, MD Obstetrics/Gynocology (UC)	Effect of Obesity and Diabetes on Nitrative Stress in the Placenta (PDF)
Jeffrey M. Sutton*	Keith A. Crutcher, PhD Neurosurgery (UC)	Nogo Receptors Contribute to Parallel Growth of Regenerating Axons on Spinal Cord White Matter (PDF)
Paul Toste	Brad Warner, MD Surgery (CCHMC)	Confocal Microscopy to Evaluate the Angiogenic Response to Small Bowel Resection (PDF)
Paul S. Weisman	Lois J. Arend, MD Path/Lab Med (UC)	SEW-2871 is Toxic to Renal Epithelial Cells at Therapeutic Dose (PDF)

2006

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Tecumseh Bryson	Kathleen Goss, PhD Surgery (UC)	Regulation of the APC tumor suppressor by lactogenic hormones in the mouse mammary gland (PDF)
Gregory Carpenter	Jo El Schultz, PhD Pharmacology/Cell Biophysics (UC)	Involvement Of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase (nNOS) In Cardioprotection Induced By Fybroblast Growth Factor-2 During Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury (PDF)
Chris Carson	James Eliassen, PhD Psychiatry, Center for Imaging Research (UC)	Anterior Limbic Dysfunction in Bipolar Disorder (PDF)
Elizabeth Cohen	Simon P. Hogan, PhD Allergy/Immunology (CCHMC)	Eosinophils and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (PDF)
Kyle Donley	Rodney Dekoter, PhD Molecular Genetics (UC)	Functional analysis of transcription factor Spi-C in the immune system by gain of function and loss-of-function experiments (PDF)
Kwame Ennin	Brad Warner, MD Gen & Thoracic Surgery (CCHMC)	A Quantitative Analysis of Adaptation in Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS) (in model organisms) Using an Analysis of Radiological Images (PDF)
Ryan Farrell	Eric Gruenstein, PhD Molecular Genetics (UC)	The Roles of NMDA Receptor Subunits on Calcium Oscillations in Neuronal Networks (PDF)
Justin Gibler	Manoocher Soleimani, MD Internal Med/Nephrology (UC)	Interaction between CFTR and chloride/bicarbonate exchanger SLC26A6 is essential for HCO3- secretion in the intestine (PDF)
Constance Gong	Heidi Kalkwarf, PhD Gen & Comm Peds (CCHMC)	Reference values for bone mass and density of the lumbar spine for children 6-36 months of age (PDF)
Mike Hazenfield	Kenneth Weiss, MD Radiology (UC)	Multiparametric Osteoporosis Imaging: A Cadaveric Study (PDF)
Christine Heubi*	Patrick Tso, PhD Path & Lab Med (UC)	The Role of Cholesterol and Fatty Acids on Intestinal Apo A-IV Synthesis and Secretion (PDF)
Jennifer Jaworski	Thomas Kimball, MD Cardiology (CCHMC)	Relationship of Body Mass Index Rebound and Adverse Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Children (PDF)
Patrick Jones	Jackie Grupp-Phelan, MD, MPH Emergency Medicine (CCHMC)	Stage-of-Change Assessment in the Parents of Pediatric Emergency Department Patients with Unrecognized Mental Illness (PDF)
Jordan Kharofa	Daniel Woo, MD Dept of Neurology (UC)	Use of SSRI’s and the Risk for Hemorrhagic Stroke
Andrew Lee*	Jose Cancelas, MD Res Div, Hoxworth Blood Ctr. (UC) Exp. Hematology (CCHMC)	Analysis of the ability of the Rac-specific small-molecule inhibitor (NSC23766) to induce mobilization of human hematopoietic stem cells in a murine model (PDF)
Maren Lunoe	Brian Saelens, PhD Behavioral Med/Clin Psychology (CCHMC)	The effect of diet composition on the rate of intra-abdominal fat accumulation in pre-adolescent children (PDF)
Ryan Maher	Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD Allergy/Immunology (CCHMC)	The effects of eosinophilia and epithelial hyperplasia on symptom expression in eosinophilic esophagitis
Nicholas McDonald	Horacio Rilo, MD Surgery (UC)	Inhibition of the p38 pathway during preservation of the pancreas by the two-layer cold storage method protects pancreatic islets against apoptosis prior to transplantation (PDF)
Erin Medlin	Jessica Kahn, MD, MPH Adolescent Medicine (CCHMC)	Health Behaviors and Decisions Concerning HIV Testing in Adolescents (PDF)
Katie Meier	Mitchell Cohen, MD Gastroenterology (CCHMC)	The role of cGMP in heat stable enterotoxin induced intestinal epithelial cell proliferation (PDF)
Sheena Mukkada	Mary Staat, MD Infectious Disease (CCHMC)	Impact of consecutive ova and parasite examinations on detection of intestinal parasites in internationally adopted children (PDF)
Siddharth Munsif	Michael Bates, MD, PhD Gastroenterology (CCHMC)	Hlx regulation of enteric smooth muscle gene expression (PDF)
Mark Onady	Ephraim Gutmark, MD Otolaryngology (UC) Maninder Kalra, MD Pulmonary Medicine (CCHMC)	Application of Matlab Digital Image Analysis to Measure Pharyngeal Wall Compliance Background & Significance (PDF)
Natlie Pilgrim	Ardythe Morrow, PhD Lisa Martin, PhD Epid/Biostatistics (CCHMC)	Differences in the Composition of Human Milk in Women with Gestational Diabetes (PDF)
Julie Pultinas	Susan Pinney, PhD Environmental Health (UC)	An exploratory pilot study of the use of the Stunkard figural stimuli scale to predict risk of diabetes, breast cancer, and early breast development (PDF)
Neelima Ravipati	Prasad Devarajan, MD Nephrology (CCHMC)	Early Prediction of Acute Renal Injury Following Cardiac Catheterization (PDF)
Jonathon Spanyer	Toan Le, MD Orthopaedics (UC)	The effect of surgical approach on restoration of gait after total hip arthroplasty (PDF)
Haiyang Tao	Matthew Flaherty, MD Neurology (UC)	The effect of warfarin anticoagulation and INR intensity upon hematoma volume in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (PDF)
Wei Wang	Jill Huppert, MD MPH Adolescent Med (CCHMC)	Developing a Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Acute Menorrhagia in Adolescent Females (PDF)
Denise White	John Greinwald, MD Otolaryngology (CCHMC)	Transcriptional Regulation of Bmp4 in the inner ear (PDF)
Amit Zachariah	Litsa Kranias, PhD Pharma/Cell Biophysics (UC)	Effects of a human Inhibitor-1 mutation (G147D) on calcium homeostasis and contractility in adult rat cardiomyocytes (PDF)

2005

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Jonathan Buechler	Jacqueline Grupp-Phelan, MD/MPH	Effects of Pediatric and Maternal Mental Health on Emergency Room Utilization (PDF)
Gerald Cho	Jennifer J. Marler, MD	Development of a Small Animal Model for Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) and Testing of New Therapies to Suppress Clinical Progression of AVMs (PDF)
Adam Czaikowskyº	Jeffrey Pearl , MD	Alleviation of Reperfusion-Mediated Cardiac Dysfunction (PDF)
Ashima Dhamija	Michael Reed, MD	RB Activity Determines Therapeutic Response in Lung Cancer Lines (PDF)
Hillary Dunlevy	Carl Fichtenbaum, MD	Reducing High Risk Behaviors by Peer Counseling of HIV-Infected Persons in an Academic Medical Practice Setting
Austin Hakeº	Sean Davidson, PhD	Structural analysis of apoliprotein A-IV by limited proteolysis (PDF)
Joseph Hall	Harvey Hahn, MD	Delayed Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) Evaluation of Ischemic vs. Non-Ischemic Etiologies of Cardiomyopathy in Cocaine-Associated Patients (PDF)
Kevin Hartman	Litsa Kranias, PhD	Studies in transgenic rabbits with cardiac-specific phospholamban overexpression (PDF)
Monica Hurtubise**	James Heubi, MD	Prevalence of reduced bone mass in children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Lauren Imwalle	Timothy Hewett, PhD	The effects of cutting maneuvers on lower extremity valgus measurements in female athletes (PDF)
Mark Lechnerº	Kenneth Weiss, MD	A Comparison of a ‘Virtual’ CT & MRI Autopsy with the Traditional Autopsy (PDF)
Beth Maisel	John Greinwald, MD	The role of Fam3c in semicircular canal development (PDF)
Amina Malik	Jill Huppert, MD	An exploration of delay to treatment of STIs in an outpatient setting (PDF)
Daniel Neiss	David Y. Hui, PhD	A Pilot study of lipid biosynthesis gene expression in HIV-infected individuals on antiretroviral therapy (PDF)
Douglas Nguyen*	Raymond Boissy, MD	On the Pathophysiology of Occupational/Contact Vitiligo (PDF)
Tiffany Nolan*	Aaron J. Johnson, PhD	Influence of glatiramer acetate on the development of MRI T1 black holes and CNS homing of helper T cells inTMEV infected C57BL/6mice
Laura Owens	Daniel Woo, MD	Recent Upper Respiratory Infection and Risk for Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (PDF)
Derek Pyles	Tim Le Cras, PhD	Role of FGF 18 in Postnatal Lung Development & Neonatal Lung Disease (PDF)
Bradley Raetzke	Fredy Revilla, MD	The Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus on Gait and Stability (PDF)
Brandi Reevesº	C. Fenoglio-Preiser, MD	11q13 Amplicon Analysis in Advanced Gastric Tumors: Correlation with Prognosis and Cyclin D1 Expression and Amplification (PDF)
Sareena Singh	Bruce Aronow, PhD	Analysis of Angiogenesis Markers in the Urine and Serum of Children with Vascular Anomalies (PDF)
Linda Steinbaugh	Dawn Kleindorfer, MD	The Impact of Gender on the Effects of Tissue Plasminogen Activator in Acute Ischemic Stroke Using Catheter Angiographic Evidence (PDF)
Colleen Toetz	Jon Gerald Divine, MD	The effects of patellofemoral pain syndrome on lower extremity biomechanics during landing and cutting in female athletes (PDF)
Jon Wislerº	Thomas Kimball, MD	The Effect of Left Ventricular Size On Right Ventricular Hemodynamics in Children with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (PDF)
Kent R. Zettel II**	Cora Ogle, PhD	The Effects on Splenic Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells from sepsis caused by cecal ligation and puncture (PDF)

2004

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Bernice Adu-Amankwa	Leslie Myatt, PhD	Hormonal Regulation of the Prostaglandin Inhibitory (EP₂, EP₄) Receptors in Human Myometrial Cells (PDF)
Irfan Asif	Peter J. Stern, MD	The Use of Small Intestine Submucosa as a Scaffold in Flexor Tendon Repair (PDF)
Asha L. Bailey	Kathleen H. Goss, PhD	Adenovirus-Mediated Introduction of the APC tumor Suppressor into Human Breast Cancer Cells (PDF)
Jennifer Bishop	Jill Huppert, MD/MPH	Clinical Performance of a Rapid Trichomonas Vaginalis Test (PDF)
Rachel Boggus	Zalfa Abdel-Malek, PhD	Protection of Human Melanocytes from Ultraviolet Radiation-Induced Mutagenesis by Endothelin-1 and Alpha-Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone (PDF)
Kurt Brueggemann	Kenneth Weiss, MD	Sequential Diffusion Weighted MRI in the Evaluation of Hyperacute Stroke (PDF)
Patrick Bruss	Joanna Groden, PhD	Transcriptional Regulation in the Progression of Benign to Malignant Tumors in Colorectal Cancer (PDF)
Matthew Cooper**	Joseph F. Clark, PhD	Testing Dopamine Receptor Agonist for Treatment of Cerebral Vasospasm After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Using an in vitro Model (PDF)
Tara Doyle	Mirjam Zegers, PhD	The Role of E-cadherin and PIX Recruitment in the Establishment of Contact-Inhibition of Proliferation in Breast Cancer Cells (PDF)
Michelle Fillion	Martin ter Beest, PhD	Correlation Between Syntaxin Isoform Localization and Loss of Polarity of PSA Secretion in Transformed and Non-Transformed Cell Lines (PDF)
Audrey Kesselring**	Susan M. Pinney, PhD	Assessment of Factors Affecting the Willingness of African Americans to Join a Breast Cancer Registry and Measurement of Differential Loss of Information by Non-Participation (PDF)
Daniel Larson	John Greinwald, MD	Spatial and temporal Expression of Fam3c in the Developing Semicircular Canals of the Mouse (PDF)
Robert Martínez	David D'Alessio, MD	Effect of Plasma Glucose on Islet Size and ß-cell Mass Following Islet Transplantation
Thomas A. Pham*	David Y. Hui, PhD	Apolipoprotein E (141-155)₂'s Role in Cholesterol Clearance of Smooth Muscle Cells (SMC) and its Relation to the Inhibition of PDGF Stimulated SMC Migration (PDF)
Zachary E. Pittsenbarger	Jacqueline Grupp-Phelan, MD/MPH	Children with ADHD at Increased Risk for Acute Injury Presentation to the Pediatric Emergency Department (PDF)
David M. Plank*	Jeffrey M. Pearl, MD	Calcium Response to Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Circulatory Arrest in Neonatal Cardiac Myocytes (PDF)
Kasey A. Reynolds*	Thomas R. Kimball, MD	Cardiac Ventricular Interaction: Do Right Ventricular Hemodynamics Affect the Left Ventricle (PDF)
Jeremy M. Riedesel	Jessica A. Kahn, MD/MPH	Attitudes About Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Among Pediatricians and Family Practitioners (PDF)
Justin Smith**	Raymond Boissy, PhD	Assessment of Intracellular Membrane complexes and Vacuoles Characteristic of Melanocytes from Patients with Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome (HPS) (PDF)
Michael Wolujewicz	Ranjan Deka, PhD	The Role of Phosphodiesterase 4D in Genetic Susceptibility to Ischemic Stroke (PDF)

2003

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Monique Bethel	Kathleen Goss, PhD	Modulating Expression of the APC Tumor Suppressor Using RNA Interference (PDF)
Robert J. Brower III	Ronald W. Millard, PhD (Joel J. Schultz, PhD)	Probing Adrenergic Function of the Failing Hamster Heart: Neuronal Norepinephrine Release, Uptake-1 Pump, and Receptor Mediated Effects (PDF)
Timothy M. Fernandes**	David A. D’Alessio, MD	Regulation of Visceral Afferent Nerves by Glucagon-like Peptide-1 (PDF)
Mandeep Singh Ghuman**	Gurjit Khurana Hershey, MD/PhD	Role of Methylation in Trafficking of Stat6 (PDF)
Saulius Girnius	David Williams, MD	The Role of Rac1 and Rac2 in Antigen Presentation and Lymphocyte Activation by Dendritic Cells (PDF)
Jodi M. Grandominico	Carl J. Fichtenbaum, MD	The Incidence and Prevalance of Elevated Blood Pressures in HIV Infected Persons on Antiretroviral Therapy (PDF)
Lisa Kaplan Gray	Thomas P. Shanley, MD	Cell-Specific Regulation of TNF-Induced Activation of the NF-?B Signaling Pathway by IL-10 (PDF)
Michael Gray	John Bissler, MD Susan Pinney, PhD	Role of Uranium in Mutagenesis of the PKD1 Gene in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) (PDF)
Mark A. Griffiths	James E. Heubi, MD	Cross Sectional Study of Bone Mineral Density (BMD) in Children Exposed to Chronic Corticosteroid Therapy (PDF)
Kristin M. Haight	Thomas R. Kimball, MD	Is Arterial Dysfunction Evident in Obese Pediatric Patients? (PDF)
Scott A. Johnstone II	Jeffrey M. Pearl, MD	Calpain Inhibition Reduces Myocardial Cellular Injury and Myocardial Stunning During Hypoxia And Reoxygenation Associated With Cardiopulmonary Bypass (PDF)
Jessica L. Kavanaugh	Jessica A. Kahn, MD	Acceptability of Human Papillomavirus Self-testing vs. Clinician-testing in Adolescents (PDF)
Scott J. King	Timothy P. Cripe, MD	Biodistribution and Tumor Specificity of a Multimutated Adenovirus (PDF)
Samir Parikh**	Prasad Devarajan, MD	Carnitine Pretreatment Reduces Apoptosis and Prevents Ischemic Acute Renal Failure (PDF)
Tiffany Pickup	Jacqueline Grupp-Phelan, MD/MPH	Maternal Perceptions of Mental Health Screening in a Pediatric Emergency Department (PDF)
Kellie Rath	Jill Huppert, MD	Differences in Clinical Presentations of STIs and UTIs in Adolescent Females (PDF)
Judd Storrs	Kenneth L. Weiss, MD	Computer Tomography (CT) Brain Prescriptions in Talairach Space: a New Clinical Standard (PDF)
Jennifer A. Tesar*	Jeffrey A. Whitsett, MD	Role of Midkine in Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling (PDF)
Chet R. Villa*	Harvey S. Hahn, MD	PKCa Activation is Protective Against Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury (PDF)

2002

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Jason H. Bell*	Jeffrey M. Pearl, MD	Calpain Inhibition Decreases Ischemia-Reperfusion Induced Pulmonary Hypertension and Cardiopulmonary Dysfunction by Decreasing Endothelin-1 in Neonates (PDF)
Collin M. Burkart	Philip N. Howles, PhD	Altered Metabolism of Postprandial Lipoproteins Leads to Diet Induced Obesity in Carboxyl Ester Lipase (CEL) Knockout Mice
C.W. Debrosse*	Marc E. Rothenberg, MD/PhD	Induction of resistin-like molecule beta (RELMß) by respiratory allergen, IL-4, IL-13, and STAT6 in experimental asthma (PDF)
Timothy S. Duerler	David D'Alessio, MD	Thrittene (S-13) Expression in the Gastric Mucosa (PDF)
K. Chad Hilty	Harvey S. Hahn, MD	Evidence For Enhanced Ischemic Preconditioning Through Combination dPKC-Inhibition and ePKC-Activation (PDF)
Gregory S. Huang	Brad W. Warner, MD	Serum After Small Bowel Resection: Effects on Apoptosis in Intestinal Epithelial Cells (PDF)
Brooks Keeshin	Therese Zink, MD/MPH	Hispanic mothers' comfort about domestic violence screening compared with other routine screening questions (PDF)
Geoffrey Rechenberg	Eric Gruenstein, PhD	Decreased frequency of synchronized cytoplasmic calcium oscillations in an in vitro network of cortical neurons following chronic, but not acute, lithium treatment (PDF)
Keith R. Ridel	Joeseph S. Solomkin, MD	Human Neutrophil Peroxide Production in Response to Tumor Necrosis Factor-a (TNF-a) is Enhanced by Adherence to a Microvascular Endothelial Cell Monolayer in vitro (PDF)
David E. Solarz	Thomas Kimball, MD/FACS	Right ventricular myocardial strain and strain rate in post-operative tetralogy of Fallot patients: the elusive goal of evaluating right ventricular function (PDF)
Shaun M. Stickley	Karl Matlin, PhD	Deposition of Laminin-5 During Epithelial Cell Polarization (PDF)
Judd Storrs	Kenneth L. Weiss, MD	Clinical Brain MRI prescriptions in Talairach space: Technologist and Computer Driven Methods (PDF)
Anish Wadhwa	Joseph Clark, PhD	Creatine Treatment and Diagnosis of Patients With Creatine Transporter Deficiency (PDF)
Matthew Wylie	Frank Sharp, MD	Blood Genomics of Stroke (PDF)

2001

Student	Mentor	Project Title
David Bargnesi	Gurgit K. Khurana-Hershey	Elucidation of the Interleukin-13 Receptor Alpha 2 Promoter (PDF)
Suzanne Bennett	Thomas E. Bell	Clinical Assessment of an Artificial Catheterizable Stoma (Vesicostomy Button) for Use in Urinary Retention - A Pilot Study (PDF)
John Bradshaw	John H. Greinwald, Jr.	Mutations in the Connexin 26 Gene Among Bangladeshi with Nonsyndromic Hearing Impairment: A Pilot Project (PDF)
James Bruns	David Y. Hui	Genetic Differences in Neointimal Hyperplasia in Response to Vascular Injury (PDF)
Jared Hagaman	Cora Ogle	Pharmacological Modulation of Generalized Inflammatory Response in Hepatocytes by Prolactin (PDF)
Matt Harris	David L. Butler	Effects of Cell Density on Collagen Alignment in Mesenchymal Stem Cell-seeded Collagen Gels Used for Tendon Repair (PDF)
Selena Eldora Heman-Ackah	Clinton H. Joiner	A Comparative Study of Pain Management in Vaso-Occlusive Crisis within the United States and West Africa (PDF)
William Andrew Jenkins	Fred A. Luchette	Hypoxia is Not the Sole Cause of Lactate Production During Shock (PDF)
Travis Kidner	Andrew Lowy & Joanna Groden	Identification of Protein Partners of the APC Tumor Suppressor (PDF)
Robert J. O'Bert	Michael J. Linke	Interactions of Pneumocystis carinii with Alveolar Macrophages (PDF)
James H. Paxton	Per-Olaf Hasselgren	Interleukin-10 Activates the Transcription Factor C/EBP and the Interleukin-6 Gene Promoter in Human Intestinal Epithelial Cells (PDF)
Randall T. Rust	John D. Wyrick	Osteoporosis Management: DEXA Scans and Biochemical Markers Used as Guidelines for Initiation of Treatment
Erin Smith	Alan B. Storrow	Quantifying Time Savings Using Point-of-Care Emergency Department Cardiac Marker Testing: Is it Really Faster? (PDF)
Timothy P. Welch	Mary Allen Staat	Epidemiology of Varicella in Hamilton County, Ohio Pre- and Post-Licensure of the Varicella Vaccine (PDF)

2000

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Timothy J. Brennan	Alan B. Storrow	Comparison of resting nuclear imaging and cardiac markers for the prognosis of patients at risk for acute coronary syndromes (PDF)
Chad El-Zayaty*	G. Khurana-Hershey	Generation of Transgenic Mice Overexpressing IL-13 Receptor Alpha 2 (IL-13Ra2) (PDF)
Wilson King	James E. Heubi	Prevalence of reduced bone mass in non-ambulatory institutionalized children and adults
Nikkya M. Koval	Steven Boyce	Kinetic assessment of vascular ingrowth during engraftment of cultured skin substitutes (PDF)
Ross J. Kuhner	Suzanne Greenberg	The effect of tumor necrosis factor-a (TNF-a) on endothelin-1 (ET-1) and platelet activating factor (PAF) production in isolated renal tissues from pregnant and non-pregnant rats (PDF)
Alex Nee	Frank Sharp	Chromium mesoporphyrin induced heme oxygenase-1 gene expression as a protective mechanism against stroke (PDF)
S. Renee Nierman*	J. Howard James	Role of epinephrine in carbohydrate metabolism during subacute sepsis (PDF)
John A. Occhino	William Chance	Effects of neuropeptide Y antagonists on induced and scheduled feeding in rats (PDF)
Kim Phillipi	Daniel Kantor	Design and assembly of prototype transcranial ultrasound thrombolysis system (PDF)
Mark A. Schroeder	G. Khurana-Hershey	Structure/Function Analysis of the IL-13 Receptor (IL-4Ra/IL-13Ra1) (PDF)
Peter J. Siska	Eric Gruenstein	Effect of calcium oscillations on neuronal gene expression (PDF)
Ryan E. Will*	Eric Gruenstein	Calcium/calmodulin-modulated protein kinase-II as a decoder of neuronal oscillations (PDF)
Jason Wilson	Raymond Boissy	Studies of the morphology of lymphangioleiomyomatosis cells, their expression of melanocyte receptors for known mitogenic factors, and their expression of MART-1 (PDF)
Lisa Ziemnik	Robert Albright Joseph Palascak	A retrospective study of Lovenox in the treatment of deep vein thrombophlebitis in patients with primary malignant brain tumors (PDF)
Andrew Zurick	Fred A. Luchette	Evaluation of unfractionated heparin, low molecular weight heparin, and warfarin for deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis in high risk trauma patients (PDF)

1999

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Brandon J. Bell	Alan B. Storrow	Comparison of protocols containing graded exercise testing and SPECT for evaluation of moderate to low risk chest pain patients in an emergency department chest pain center
Lesley M. Burrell*	G. Khurana-Hershey	The role of interleukin (IL)-4 receptor alpha allelic variants in asthma (PDF)
Christopher A. Eppley	William Lewis	Cardiac structural and functional changes in AIDS and cocaine (PDF)
Jason M. Evans	Fred A. Luchette	Adrenergic blockade increases intracellular Na+/K+ ratio and decreases lactic acid in skeletal muscle during hemorrhage (PDF)
Michael George*	J. Howard James	Does only the a-2 isoform of the Na+, K+-ATPase in skeletal muscle response to stimulation by epinephrine? (PDF)
Steven Hatch*	Ranjan Deka	Confirmation of the NIDDM susceptibility loci on chromosome 2 in the Samoan population (PDF)
Roderick Matthew Huff	Per-Olof Hasselgren	Effect of the stress response on muscle protein breakdown during sepsis (PDF)
Michael C. Kreeger	Edward C. Jauch	Determination of the pharmacokinetics of serum cleaved tau protein in spinal cord injury patients (PDF)
David Krusling	Bellamkonda Kishore	Molecular basis of resistance of renal medulla to vasopressin in potassium depletion
Stephanie A. Locaputo	Jorge A. Bezerra	Urokinase regulation of liver regeneration (PDF)
Lori Jenine Maxam	Kenneth R. Wagner	Early oxidative stress and heme oxygenase-1 induction in edematous white matter following intracerebral hemorrhage (PDF)
Sara Pinney*	Leslie Myatt	Effects of VEGF and CRH on expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (PDF)
Alexander Towbin	John Cuppoletti	Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs activation of epithelial chloride channels (PDF)
Randall James Warren	Michael D. Privitera Joseph Palascak	Postictal language assessment as a prognostic tool for complex partial seizures (PDF)
Karen Willis*	Keith A. Crutcher	ApolipoproteinE and ß-amyloid in Alzheimer's patients (PDF)

1998

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Neal Aquino	Edward V.A. Lim	Long term functional outcomes study of bimalleolar fractures (PDF)
Peggy Braun*	Brad W. Warner	Enhanced salivary epidermal growth factor is a nonessential aspect of intestinal adaptation in female mice (PDF)
Rachael A. Callcut	William Lewis	Cardiac and aortic function and ultrastructure in AZT treated FBV/n mice (PDF)
Craig Carpenter	Joanna Groden	Examination of protein partner interactions with DNA-DNA helicase BLM (PDF)
Alexander S. Donath	Lyon L. Gleich	Gene therapy for head and neck cancer: A murine model (PDF)
James Dunn	Z. Abdel-Malek	Role of the melanocortin 1 receptor in the response of normal human melanocytes to ultraviolet rays (PDF)
Alon Frank	Raymond E. Boissy	Studies on tyrosinase related protein-1 (PDF)
Michael Gilbert	Peter Walzer	Expression of a cloned human-specific MSG protein from Pneumocystis carinii (PDF)
Tracy Jones*	Jeffrey Whittset	Pulmonary emphysema in SP-D gene-targeted mice (PDF)
Kevin J. Malone	Alan B. Storrow	Comparison of a nine and six-hour emergency department based chest pain center treatment strategies for patients at low to moderate risk for acute coronary syndrome (PDF)
Bryce R.H. Robinson*	Fred A. Luchette	Adrenergic blockade reduces lacticacidosis during hemorrhagic shock (PDF)
Sarah Ronan*	Robert W. Wilmott	Evaluation of MEG as an anti-inflammatory therapy in chronic Pseudomonas infection (PDF)
Steven D. Schrock	Evelyn V. Hess	Knowledge and usage of United States Pharmacopeia reviewed botanical products in the family physician-patient relationship (PDF)

1997

Student	Mentor	Project Title
Richard Shane Brown	Ming Xu	Identification of D3 dopamine receptor interacting proteins using the yeast two hybrid system
Carey C. Brown	Fred A. Luchette	Effect of hemorrhagic shock on skeletal muscle metabolism
Haleem Chaudhary	J. Howard James	Stimulation of Na+ K+-AtPase and glycolysis by elevated intracellular Na+ in sepsis
John Fueston	Raymond E. Boissy	Assessment for presence of tyrosinase related protein-1 (TRP-1) in patients with congenital nystagmus and determination of the function of TRP-1 in genetically defined mice
Nathan C. Hall	Kenneth R. Wagner	Loss of enzyme activity due to cell disruption following experimental intracerebral hemorrhage in the pig
Melanie Harris	Clinton Joiner	Survival rate of sickle cells dependson HbF content
Robin Scott Horrell	Nancy Ratner	Testing a novel model for myelination
Julia Minjung Kim*	Robert J. Arceci	Chromosomal mapping of a new helicase gene
Christopher M. Perry	P. O. Hasselgren	The role of NF-kappa ß in sepsis-induced muscle proteolysis
James Shmalo	William Lewis & Randy Morris	Transgenic models of heart disease in AIDS: effects of HIV-1 and AZT on cardiac ultrastructure
Jonathan P. Smerek	Edward H. Miller	Fifteen-year survivorship studyof the uncemented ceramic-on-ceramic bearing autophor® total hip prosthesis
Marshall Stepanian	Carol A. Caperelli	Solution structure of glycinamide ribonucleotide transformylase by NMR

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STUDENT	MENTOR	PROJECT TITLE
Nora Bell	Vanessa Olbrecht, MD CCHMC – Pain Management	Biofeedback Virtual Reality: A Novel Intervention for Pain Catastrophizing in Pediatric Patients
Dorothy Chan	Oluwole Awosika, MD UC – PM&R	Determining the Role of Single Support Center of Pressure Distance for Characterizing Post-Stroke Walking Impairment and Response to Rehabilitation Training
Rahul Chandwani	Nehal Parikh, DO, MS CCHMC – Neonatology	Neurostructural Effects of Postnatal Corticosteroid Treatment for Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Very Preterm Infants
Callen Conroy	Takanori Takebe, MD, PhD CCHMC – GI	Bilirubin Induces Maturation of Human iPSC-derived Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells and Organoids
Aexander C. Doherty	Donald L. Gilbert, MD CCHMC – Neurology	Motor Cortex Inhibition: A Marker of Motor Function in Neurofibromatosis Type I
Alex Huron	Lee (Ted) Denson, MD CCHMC – GI	Identifying Epithelial Inflammatory Signals Driving the Proliferation of Myofibroblasts in DUOX2 Genetic Variant Human Intestinal Organoids
Joy Li	Ernest V. Pedapati, MD, MS CCHMC – Child Psychiatry	Frontal Lobe Hyperconnectivity as a Biomarker for Executive Function in Fragile X Syndrome
Algernon Lutwak	Daniel Woo, MD, MS UC – Neurology	Pro- and Anti-Inflammatory miRNA Expression in Swine and Human Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Shahena Poynice	Jessica Woo, PhD CCHMC – Biostatistics and Epidemiology	Pregnancy Outcomes in a Cohort of Black and White Adolescents
Rohan Rao	Soma Sengupta, MD, PhD UC – Neurology	Validating RNA-nanoparticles for Focused Ultrasound Delivery to Glioblastomas
Jack Reifenberg	Phillip Minar, MD CCHMC – GI	Evaluation of Pharmacokinetic Models for Infliximab Dosing for Crohn’s Disease
Jack Saczawa	Senu Apewokin, MD UC – Infectious Diseases	Utilization of host fecal micro-RNAs as a predictor of future Clostridioides difficile toxin production
Anna Schwarz	Alex Miethke, MD CCHMC – GI	Investigating the Liver Disease Phenotype in IL-10 Knockout Mice Treated with DDC as a Novel Model for IBD-Associated Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
Kathleen Wang	Emily DeFranco, DO UC – Obstetrics & Gynecology	Treatment of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus with Acarbose
Claire Weinstein	Allison Weiss, PhD UC – Molecular Genetics	Host Intestinal Defenses Against Clostridioids Difficile Infection in Chemotherapy Patients