RAD 2008 Award Winners

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Public Health Student Association Awards
Place Prize Winner Presentation Title
4th $150 Rachel Jackson HOW PAST, PRESENT, AND CONTINUED RELIGIOSITY AFFECT SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE INCIDENCE AMONG AMERICAN ADOLESCENTS
3rd $300 Katandria Johnson HEALTHCARE ACCESS FOR TEXAS DISABLED HISPANIC CHILDREN
2nd $450 Mohammad Rahman ASSESSMENT OF SEVERE INJURIES AMONG NATIVE AMERICANS ON THE ROSEBUD INDIAN RESERVATION IN ROSEBUD, SOUTH DAKOTA
1st $600 Sally Hoger DISCOVERY OF A UNIQUE NATURAL PRODUCT SCAFFOLD THAT INHIBITS METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS (MRSA)
TCOM Awards
Place Prize Winner Presentation Title
3rd $300 Darcie Weilbacher and Laura Barratt DO TEXAS PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS INTERPRET PLAIN-FILM RADIOGRAPHYS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE?
2nd $400 Alan Lewis TEXAS RURAL AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR (AED) PLACEMENT: MAKING A DIFFERENCE
1st $500 Devin Flaherty IMPROVED FLUID RESUSCITATION WITH PYRUVATE-FORTIFIED RINGER’S FOR HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK AND HINDLIMB ISCHEMIA
Place Prize Winner Presentation Title
3rd AM $300 Erica Kafka CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOPARTICLE-MEDIATED DRUG DELIVERY TO NB4: FEASIBILITY OF NANOPARTICLE USE FOR CELLS IN SUSPENSION AND BLOOD DISEASE
3rd PM $300 Mallika Valapala INVOLVEMENT OF ANNEXIN A2 MEDIATED EXTRACELLULAR PROTEOLYSIS IN EXCITOTOXICTY OF RETINAL GANGLION CELLS
2nd AM $400 T.J. Bartosh L-TYPE CALCIUM CHANNELS MODULATE RETINOIC ACID-INDUCED MEF2 ACTIVITY AND EXPRESSION OF CARDIAC SPECIFIC GENES
2nd PM $400 Subhamoy Dasgupta C17ORFF37 REGULATES PROSTATE CANCER CELL MIGRATION AND INVASION BY NUCLEAR FACTOR-KAPPA B MEDIATED DOWNSTREAM TARGET GENES
Alcon Research Achievement Awards
Place Prize Winner Presentation Title
1st AM $500 Devin Flaherty IMPROVED FLUID RESUSCITATION WITH PYRUVATE-FORTIFIED RINGER’S FOR HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK AND HINDLIMB ISCHEMIA
1st PM $500 Lorie Gonzalez CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SUBUNIT-DEPENDENT ACTIVITY OF CARISOPRODOL AT GABAAR
Postdoc $700 Vidhya Rao ENDOTHELIN-1 MEDIATED REGULATION OF EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX COLLAGENS IN RAT OPTIC NERVE HEAD.
Tech Fort Worth Innovation Award
Place Prize Winner Presentation Title
1st $350 Amber Ondricek PHYTOESTROGENS AS NEUROPROTECTANTS IN OPTIC NEUROPATHIES
Place Prize Winner Presentation Title
AM $250 Arti Sharma, Ph.D. CARDIOMETABOLIC RESPONSES AND ETHNICITY IN METABOLIC SYNDROME AND DIABETES
PM $250 Guadalupe Leon DIABETES IDENTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
Neurobiology of Aging Awards
Place Prize Winner Presentation Title
1st $500 R. Scott Duncan EFFECTS OF PROGESTERONE ON CALCIUM SIGNALING IN HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONS
For Her Awards
Place Prize Winner Presentation Title
Pre-doc 1st $250 R. Scott Duncan EFFECTS OF PROGESTERONE ON CALCIUM SIGNALING IN HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONS
Post-doc 1st $250 Patty Hardt, M.D. EFFECTIVENESS OF UNIVERSAL RAPID HIV SCREENING FOR WOMEN IN LABOR: A SYSTEMS BASED APPROACH
PACE Awards
Place Prize Winner Presentation Title
AM $500 Alan Lewis TEXAS RURAL AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR (AED) PLACEMENT: MAKING A DIFFERENCE
PM $500 Rachel Jackson DEPRESSION AND THE SEVERITY OF HIV SYMPTOMS IN HIV POSITIVE WOMEN
The names of all first place winners were placed in a hat to select the recipient of the Travel Service Everywhere drawing for a round-trip airline ticket to attend a national conference. The recipient of the drawing was Scott Duncan.