TCU Medical Students Participate in UNTHSC Research Appreciation Day

TCU School of Medicine students participated in the UNTHSC Research Appreciation Day (RAD), which took place  March 21-25. This year, 24 students presented or were part of research teams. The SOM awarded prizes for the best posters. The winners are:

1st place ($200)
Mei Mei Edwards, MS-3, (pictured) – Outpatient Intravenous Albumin Decreases Hospitalization and Mortality in Patients with Cirrhosis and Refractory Ascites or Anasarca

2nd place ($100)
Faria Khimani, MS-3, (with Suju Ojha, MS-3; Adam Wolf, MS-3; and Brandon Mallory, MS-3) – Hypertension at Home: How Telehealth Can Impact Hypertension Screening

3rd place ($50)
Areeba Khwaja, MS-3 – Characterization of Echocardiogram, Peritoneal Fluid, and Transjugular Liver Biopsy Assessment in Patients with Noncirrhotic Cardiogenic vs. Nephrogenic Ascites

Honorable Mention
Madison Doty, MS-2 – Variation of Best Fit Distributions in Single Cell Virus Dynamics Models

Honorable Mention
Alex Tolman, MS-3 – Case Report Choroidal Metastasis Secondary to Lung Malignancy

Class of 2023
Nadeem Al-Adli – The Incidence of Arterial Injury on CT Imaging in Cervical and Skull Base Fractures

Nadeem Al-Adli (with L Richards, MS-1) – Sacroiliac Joint Fusion Using the iFuse Titanium Triangular Implant System: Longitudinal Outcomes Study

Kathryn Biddle – Outcomes Associated with Various Iterations of the Dedicated Orthopaedic Trauma Room

Nicholson Brant – Minimally Invasive Lower Anterior Resections – Better Than Open But Not All The Same

Brandon Mallory – Placenta Accreta in a 19-Year-Old Patient

William A Mitchell – Surveying the Mental Health of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors with Treatment Derived Late Effects

Griffin Rechter – Early Axial Interfragmentary Motion and its Impact on the Fracture Healing Environment: A Scoping Review

Thomas Roser (with K Giga, MS-3) – The Effects of Surgical Repair Devices in Middle Aged Adults (50-59 Years of Age) with Femoral Neck Fractures

Dilan Shah – Role of BMI in Predicting Treatment Response to Standard Dose Intranasal Esketamine

Nathalie Scherer (with G Smith, MS-3) – Barriers to Diabetes Management in the Homeless Population

Mallory Thompson (with Q Losefsky, MS-3) – An Unusual Presentation of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Mimicking Cholangiocarcinoma

Shelby Wildish – Laparoscopic Detorsion of the Adnexa in the Second Trimester of Pregnancy: a Case Report

Class of 2024
Anton Agana – Designing a Study to Examine Acute Cross-over Effects of Lower Limb Muscle Fatigue During Upright Standing

Arsalan Ali (with B Jacobs, MS-2) – A Case Series of Atypical Back Pain in Pediatric Athletes

Jack Healy – Pleural Effusion as an Unusual Complication in a Woman with Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome: A Case Report

Benjamin Jacobs (with A Ali, MS-2) – Case Report: Patient with 3 Gastric Cancers Simultaneously (Adenocarcionma, NET, GIST)

Class of 2025
Sofia Olsson – Qualitative Descriptions of “What is Delta-8 THC”?

Lexy Richards – Patient Satisfaction with Telehealth in Neurosurgery Outpatient Clinic During COVID-19 Pandemic

Lexy Richards – Burnout and Emotional Intelligence in Neurosurgical Advanced Practice Providers across the United States: A Cross-Sectional Analysis

SaferCare Texas Excellence in Patient Safety Research Award

2nd place ($200)

Kathryn Biddle, MS-3 – Outcomes Associated with Various Iterations of the Dedicated Orthopaedic Trauma Room

3rd place ($100)

Faria Khimani, MS-3, (with Suju Ojha, MS-3; Adam Wolf, MS-3; and Brandon Mallory, MS-3) – Hypertension at Home: How Telehealth Can Impact Hypertension Screening