Special Awards and Others

Michael K. Tanner Memorial Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Sciences

Anita Chhabra, Microbiology and Immunology.  " The Decreased Frequency of Tregs in Lupus-prone Mice may be due to a Defect in Conversion of non-Tregs to Tregs."

Ruth Greenberg Award for Excellence in Medical Education Research

First Place:

Aaron Smith, School of Medicine.  "Medical Student Research without a Laboratory: Louisville's Student Epidemiology Club."  Mentor:  Charles Woods, M.D., Pediatric Infectious Disease

Second Place:

Candice Burns, M.D., Department of Pediatrics.  "Extending the Overextended Resident: A New Role for Nurse Clinicians in the Academic Pediatric Inpatient Setting."

Third Place:

Alexander Bautista, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology.  "Teaching Fiberoptic Skills: Acceleration of the Learning Curve with Simulators."

School of Public Health and Information Sciences

Award for Basic Research:

Yiqun Mo, Ph.D., Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences.  "Differential Susceptibility to Chlorine-Induced Airway Fibrosis in Inbred Mouse Strains."

Research and Practice Award:

Robert Prasaad Steiner, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences.  "Evaluating the Impact of a Community and Worksite Tobacco Smoking Ban on the Healthcare Utilization among Active Employees."

Student Engineering Collaboration Awards

Co-winner:

Sujith Dassanayaka, Department of Physiology and Biophysics.  "Potential mechanistic pathway of acquired von Willebrand's disease in patients with a continuous flow LVAD: In vitro findings."  Mentor: Steven Koenig, Ph.D., Bioengineering

Co-winner:

Ruthie Fligor, Bioengineering.  "Quantifying Overground Locomotion in Spinal Cord Injured Rats and Mice Using Engineering Design Concepts."  Mentor: David Magnuson, Department of Neurological Sugery