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