Research Day - Department of Medicine

Research Day

Research Day 2008

Schedule and call for abstracts

Research Day 2007

10 th Annual Research Day Award Winners

Clinical Fellows

Junior Faculty

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Resident/Student

Health Services

George Thompson, III, MD

Rucha Jani, MD

Syed Z. Imam, PhD

Pranavi Sreeramoju, MD

Jose Camargo-Galvis, MD

Falguni Das, PhD

Ralf Harskamp, MS

Devesh Pandya, MD

Sara Espinoza, MD

Research Day 2006

9 th Annual Research Day Award Winners

Clinical Fellows

Junior Faculty

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Resident/Student

Health Services

Honorable Mention

Ramavathi Nandyala, MD

Chhay Tay, MD

Luci Leykum, MD

Shujie Zhao, MD

Syed Z Imam, PhD

Karen Block, PhD

William J Pate, BS

Gina M Jetter, MSI

Krista Bowers, MD

Kavithalakshmi Sataranatarajan, PhD

Steven Achinger, MD

Research Day 2005

Award Winners

Clinical Fellow	Junior Faculty	Medical Residents and students	Postdoctoral Fellow	Health Services
Sunil Dwivedi, MD Carlos Taboada, MD	Muralidhar Beeram MD Yves Gorin PhD	Daniel Katselnik Jacqueline Losi MD	Germán Gornalusse Lenin Mahimainathan PhD Hernan Martinez	Mary Jo Pugh PhD

Research Day 2004

Award Winners

Clinical Fellow	Junior Faculty	Medical Residents and students	Postdoctoral Fellow
Alayne Markland Jose F. Roldan James R. Strader	Hemant Kulkarni Eric Mortensen	Patricia Gomez Dinger Jill V. Green Emily Y. McLaurin Matthias Simon	Molly Dudley Rosaria Polci

Research Day Winners 2003

Clinical Fellow	Junior Faculty	Medical Residents and students	Postdoctoral Fellow
Hector Bolivar Ratna Danda	Jennifer Gooch Srinivas Mummidi	Steven Achinger Nikhil Joshi	Renata Belfort Terry Kay Epperson

Research Committee's Choice Award

Denis Feliers, PhD

Chairman's Choice Award

Marlon Quinones, MD

Medical Dean's Choice Award

Nedal Arar, PhD

Research Day Winners 2002

Clinical Fellow	Junior Faculty	Medical Residents and students	Postdoctoral Fellow
Walid Aboujaoude Oscar Munoz Arun Rao	Yumay Chen Senlin Li Yoshinori Miyazaki	Jorge Alvarez Luis Velez Brent Wagner	Jennifer Gooch Rosaria Polci Marlon Quinones

Dean & Chairman's Choice

Rajesh Babu, MD

Susan Lokoski, MD

Research Day Winners 2001

Clinical Fellow

Junior Faculty

Medical Resident

Postdoctoral Fellow

Khalid Mohammad, MD,PhD (Endocrinology)

Effect of Endothelin A (ETA) Receptor Blockade on Bone Remodeling.

Srinivas Mummidi, DVM,PhD (Infectious Diseases)

Extensive repertoire of membrane-brouond and soluble DC-SIGN1 and Dc-Sign2 isoforms: Inter-individual variation in expression of DC-SIGN transcripts.

Denise Gonzales, MD (Medicine)

Left Anterior Descending Aneurysm Causing Acute Myocardial Infarction in a 26 Year Old Woman.

Yves Gorin, PhD (Nephrology)

Angiotensin II Activates Akt/Protein Kinase B by an Arachidonic Acid/Redox-Dependent Pathway and Independent of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase

Thongchai Pratipanawatr, MD (Diabetes)

Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I (IGF-1) Exerts Less of an Effect of FFA Metabolism Than Insulin (INS)

Babatunde Oyajobi, PhD (Endocrinology)

Macrophage Inflammatory Protein-1 Alpha (MIP-1a)/CCl3 Stimulates Osteoclast Formation and Bone Resorption In Vivo.

Jose Roldan, MD (Medicine)

Factors associated with the combined cortical thickness of the second metacarpal bone in Patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Marlon Quinones, MD (Infectious Diseases)

Direct effects of chemokine receptors on T cell and non-T cell compartments regulate Th cell development in vivo>

Research Day Winners 2000

Clinical Fellow

Junior Faculty

Medical Resident

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mamta Kalidas, MD (Hematology)

Expression of multiple cell cycle regulatory genes in differentiating hematopoietic cells is iron dependent.

Sun Jin Choi, PhD (Hematology)

Mechanism of action of OIP-2, a novel inhibitor of osteoclast formation.

Julian Molina, MD, PhD(Medicine)

Targeted ablation of the tumor suppressor gene semaphorin IV, in ES cells.

Enrique Gonzalez, MD (Infectious Diseases)

CCR5 haplotypes associated with altered rates of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 and progression to disease in infected children.”

Alejandro Restrepo, MD (Immunology)

Frequency of comorbid conditions in rheumatoid arthritis.

Wolf Gallwitz, PhD(Endocrinology)

Identification of a new agent for the treatment of osteolytic bone disease dur to metastatic breast cancer by its capacity to decrease PTH-rP transcription.

Marcos Restrepo, MD(Medicine)

Antibiotic sensitivities to mycobacterium fortuitum: 11 year experience.

Ming Zhao, MD, PhD