2022 Research Paper Prize Competition

Recipients of the 2022 "Medical Student Research Paper Prizes"

Abramson Cancer Center clinical/translational research prize – Nicole Wayne
Title: Outcomes of children and young adults with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphomawho present in critical status

AI and Informatics in Medicine – Fengling Hu
Title: Voxel-wise Intermodal Coupling Analysis of Two or More Modalities Using Local Covariance Decomposition

Balduin Lucke Memorial Prize – Emily Lubin
Title: Analysis of Histone Variant Constraint and Tissue Expression Suggests Five Potential Novel Human Disease Genes: H2AFY2, H2AFZ, H2AFY, H2AFV, H1F0

Celso-Ramon Garcia Award for Outstanding Women’s Health Research – Naomi Fields
Title: Identifying Opportunities to Discuss Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis During Contraceptive Coaching Discussions With Urban Adolescent Women

Celso-Ramon Garcia Award for Outstanding Women’s Health Research – Jessica Wu
Title: Patient attitudes and preferences for management of pregnancy of unknown location

Clinical Epidemiology Research Prize – Claudia Hentschel
Title: Race, Ethnicity, and Utilization of Outpatient Rehabilitation for Treatment of COVID-19 Sequelae

Creskoff Prize – Derek Sung
Title: Sinusoidal and lymphatic vessel growth are controlled by reciprocal VEGF-C–CDH5 inhibition

David B. P. Goodman Award – David Weiner
Title: Mogamulizumab Multimodality Therapy with Systemic Retinoids or Interferon for Advanced Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma

Edward Raffensperger Research Prize – Jacob Harris
Title: Clinical Practice Guidelines on Pediatric Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: a Systematic Quality Appraisal of International Guidelines Using the AGREE II Instrument

Emergency Medicine – Angela Chen
Title: Algorithms Identifying Low Acuity Emergency Department Visits: A Review and Validation Study

Emergency Medicine – Madhavi Muralidharan
Title: Algorithms Identifying Low Acuity Emergency Department Visits: A Review and Validation Study

Gail Morrison Prize – Randall Burson
Title: Imagining the ‘structural’ in medical education and practice in the United States: A curricular investigation

Gail Morrison Prize – Olivia Familusi
Title: Imagining the ‘structural’ in medical education and practice in the United States: A curricular investigation

George W. Householder, III Memorial Prize – Lydia Federico
Title: Circulating Adipokines and Associations with Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis

George W. Householder, III Memorial Prize – Aimee Juan
Title: Tissue-specific Grb10/Ddc insulator drives allelic architecture for cardiac development

ITMAT Prize for Clinical/Translational Research – Elizabeth Thompson
Title: Endogenous T1ρ cardiovascular magnetic resonance in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

John G. Clark Prize – Aileen Ren
Title: PIK3CA and CCM mutations fuel cavernomas through a cancerlike mechanism

John Pryor Award for Trauma Research – Reed McGraw
Title: Pre-Intervention Computed Tomography Improves Performance of Endovascular Intervention in Patients with Abdominopelvic Trauma.

John R. Stanley Research Prize for Dermatology – Katherine Beattie
Title: TRPC3 Antagonizes Pruritus in a Mouse Contact Dermatitis Model

John R. Stanley Research Prize for Dermatology – Felix Chin
Title: Multidimensional immune profiling of cutaneous lupus erythematosus in vivo stratified by patient responses to antimalarials

Jonathan Rhoads Prize for Surgical Scholarship – Sarah Landau
Title: Trainee Sex and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Milestone Assessments During General Surgery Residency

Jonathan Rhoads Prize for Surgical Scholarship – Elizabeth Sell
Title: Microbial Metabolite Succinate Activates Solitary Chemosensory Cells (SCCs) in the Human Sinonasal Epithelium

Leonard Davis Institute’s William L. Kissick, MD, DrPH, Health Policy Research Prize – Doreen Lam
Title: Comparative Effectiveness of an Automated Text Messaging Service for Monitoring COVID-19 at Home

Leonard Davis Institute’s William L. Kissick, MD, DrPH, Health Policy Research Prize – Andrew Parambath
Title: Comparative Effectiveness of an Automated Text Messaging Service for Monitoring COVID-19 at Home

Marc Levine Radiology Research Award – K. Charlotte Lee
Title: Routine Use of Contrast on Admission Transthoracic Echocardiography for Heart Failure Reduces the Rate of Repeat Echocardiography during Index Admission

Mary Ellis Bell Prize – Rebecca Greenblatt Ramesh
Title: CNViz: an R/Shiny Application for Interactive Copy Number Variant Visualization in Cancer

Neurosurgery Research Prize – Hasan Ahmad
Title: Developing a Prediction Model for Identification of Distinct 1 Peri-Operative Clinical 2 Stages in Spine Surgery with Smartphone-Based Mobility Data

O. H. Perry Pepper Prize – Rafael Fernandez
Title: GSK3 inhibition rescues growth and telomere 1 dysfunction in dyskeratosis congenita iPSC-derived type II alveolar epithelial cells

O. H. Perry Pepper Prize – Lily Owei
Title: Smart-phone Based Geofencing: A Novel Approach to Monitoring Clinical Work Hours in Surgery Residency

Orthopaedic Research Prize – Shikha Singh
Title: Minimally Invasive Deformity Correction Technique: Initial Case Series of Anterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion at L5–S1 for Multi-Level Lumbar Interbody Fusion in a Lateral Decubitus Position

Pediatric Research Prize – Danielle Zamalin
Title: Disparities in Early Reporting to Child Protective Services in Cases of Suspected Child Abuse

Peterman-Arnold Award for Endocrinology – Ariana Meltzer-Bruhn
Title: Does Nutrition Consultation in the Year Leading Up to Neuromuscular Scoliosis Surgery Result in Significant Weight Gain, or Just a Larger Magnitude Curve?

Robert M. Toll Prize – Larissa Wietlisbach
Title: Dark Clouds with Silver Linings: Internal Medicine Residents’ Anxieties about COVID-19 Coupled with Program Innovations and Increased Resident Wellness

Rose Meadow Levinson Memorial Prize – Jonathan Baron
Title: Low-Dose Radiotherapy Versus Moderate-Dose Radiotherapy for the Treatment of Indolent Orbital Adnexal Lymphomas\

Rose Meadow Levinson Memorial Prize – Gregory Chen
Title: Integrative Bulk and Single-Cell Profiling of Pre-manufacture T-cell Populations Reveals Factors Mediating Long-Term Persistence of CAR T-cell Therapy

Roy G. Williams Award – Jing Luan
Title: Distinct properties and functions of CTCF revealed by a rapidly inducible degron system

Stuart L. Fine Ophthalmology Medical Student Research Prize – Yi Zhou
Title: Association between Depression and Severity of Dry Eye Symptoms, Signs and Inflammatory Markers in the DREAM Study

The Masters of Science in Health Policy Research Medical Student Award  in Community Engagement & Health Equity Research – Jeremy Wortzel
Title: Association Between Urban Greenspace and Mental Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a U.S. Cohort

The Masters of Science in Health Policy Research Medical Student Award in Innovation & Implementation Research – Vivek Nimgaonkar
Title: Racial Disparities in 30-Day Outcomes Following Index Admission for COVID-19

William F. Jeffers Prize – Sabine Schneider
Title: scRNA-Seq Reveals New Enteric Nervous System Roles for GDNF, NRTN, and TBX3