Professional/Clinical Student Winners

Medical Students

First Place

Jason Park,  "Nrf2 phosphorylation is attenuated in tubules of OVE26 diabetic mice."  Mentor:  Michelle Barati, Ph.D., Department of Medicine - Nephrology

Second Place

Ben Rogers, "Efficacy of Pediatric IABPs in a Pediatric Model of Acute Ischemic Heart Failure."  Mentor: George Pantalos, Ph.D., Cardiovasular Innovation Institute

Third Place

Jeffrey Howard, "Comparison of the efficacy of Regranex and ATP-encapsulated lipid vesicles in skin wound healing."  Mentor: Sufan Chien, M.D. Department of Surgery

Dental Students

First Place

Thomas Bailey,  "Survey of Institutional Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Radiology Specialty Practice."  Mentor: Allan Farman, D.D.S., Department of Surgical and Hospital Dentistry

Second Place

Jacob Scott, "Characterizing of K2 serotype capsule of Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC 43816."   Mentor: Jonathan Warawa, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Third Place

Porscha Jefferson, "The Role of Iron in the Growth of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitan."  Mentor: Donald Demuth, Ph.D., Oral Health and Rehabilitation

Graduate Public Health Students

First Place

Stephanie Denkhoff, "Patterns of All-Cause Mortality Over 10 years by Breast Cancer Tumor Phenotype and Hispanic versus non-Hispanic White Ethnicity."  Mentor: Richard Baumgartner, Ph.D., Epidemiology

Second Place

Natasha DeJarnett, "Traditional Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Predict Acrolein Metabolite Level in a Population-Based Study."  Mentor: Aruni Bhatnagar, Ph.D., Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Graduate Nursing Student

Winner

Jean Edward, R.N, B.S.N., "Social Determinants and Disparities in Health Status; The Availability of Dietary Needs in a low income, inner city, public housing community and the impact on Self Care Management."  Mentor: Vicki Hines-Martin, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, School of Nursing