RAD 2002 Award Winners

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Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine Winners

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First Place – Melissa D. Koehler, MBA, CHE, internal medicine, division of geriatrics, “Cognition & Characteristics of Residents Receiving Psychiatric Services in the Nursing Home Setting” (right)

 

Second Place – Scott Young, family medicine, “Value of Community-Based Automated Blood Pressure Machine Measurements in Large Arm Hypertensive Patients” (left)

Resident Poster Presentations
First Place – J.K. Knust, DO, surgery, “Intra-Operative Treatment Strategy to Reduce the Incidence of Post-Cardiopulmonary Bypass Atrial Fibrillation”


Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Winners

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Front row (left to right): Joungil Choi, Chang Su, Martha Stokely
Second row (left to right): Katie Overheim, Linda Mooberry, Xinyu Zhang, Ginelle Gellert, L. Don Roberts

Graduate Student Association

Student Poster Presentations

First Place – Martha Stokely, biomedical sciences, “Effects of Intravitreal Endothelin-1 on Anterograde Fast Axonal Transport are Cargo-Selective, in Rat Optic Nerve”

Second Place – Vinay Kumar Parameswara, molecular biology and immunology, “Phosphoprotein Phosphatases and Insulin Secretion”

Third Place – Joungil Choi, molecular biology and immunology, “Vitamin E Attenuates Apoptosis and Specific Protein Oxidation in Neuronal Cell Lines”

Fourth Place – Chang Su, biomedical sciences, “Rho-A Delays Smooth Muscle Cell Progress into Mitosis by PKN-Mediated Phosphorylation of CDC25C”

Fifth Place – Nasreen Jacobson, cell biology and genetics, “The Secretory Pathway of Myocilin”

Sixth Place – Katie Overheim, molecular biology and immunology, “The Staphylococcus Aureus Global Regulators (AGR and SAR) Promote Severe Pneumonia in Mice”

Abbott Laboratories Postdoctoral Fellow Poster Presentation Winner – Xiangle Sun, molecular biology and immunology, “Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor Co-expressed with Immunogen in One Vector Provide Better Adjuvant Effects in DNA Vaccination”

Fort Worth MedTech Center Innovation Award Recipient – Linda Mooberry, molecular biology and immunology, “Generation of Taxol-Containing HDL Particles via Freeze-Thaw Cycling”

Alcon Research, LTD Student Oral Presentations
First Place – L. Don Roberts, biomedical sciences/Cardiovascular Research Institute, “Competition in Regulating the Smooth Muscle Myosin Heavy Chain Gene Promoter: C/EBPb-Mediated Activation vs. Ying Yang 1 (YY1)-Mediated Repression”

Second Place – Xinyu Zhang, pharmacology and neuroscience, “Expression of Human Glucocorticoid Receptor Alpha and Beta Isoforms in Human Trebecular Meshwork Cells and their Regulation by Dexamethasone”

Third Place – Ginelle Gellert, molecular biology and immunology, “Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor (UPAR) Regulation of Integrins Involved in Natural Killer Cell Extracellular Matrix Degradation and Migration”


School of Public Health Winners

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Front row (left to right): Naveed Ahmad, Marco Marruffo
Second row (left to right): Rosa Rosario-Rosado, Patrick Moonan

Public Health Student Association

Student Oral Presentations

First Place – Patrick Moonan, epidemiology, “Geospatial and Molecular Clustering of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis”

Second Place – Naveed Ahmad, MD, biostatistics, “Acanthosis Nigricans (AG) and Obesity: A Marker for Identifying Children at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM)”

Honorable Mention (tie) – Raven Aneesh-Green, epidemiology, “A Comparative Study: Breast Cancer in Hispanic Women”

Wendy Wadley, community health, “Evaluation of Endothelial Dysfunction in Children at Risk for the Development of Type 2 Diabetes and Coronary Heart Disease”

Student Poster Presentations

First Place – Marco Marruffo, MD, MS, epidemiology, “Serological Survey of Chagas’ Disease in a Rural Community in Venezuela”

Second Place – Patrick Moonan, epidemiology, “Evaluation of the Capacity of the Elispot Test to Detect Latent Tuberculosis Infection”

Third Place – Rosa Rosario-Rosado, MS, epidemiology, “Epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Community Hospital, January 1, 2000 – June 30, 2001”