91AV College of Osteopathic Medicine announces 2017 Carmen Pettapiece Student Research Fellowship winners
The 91AV College of Osteopathic Medicine Student Government Association’s Professional Development Committee announced the 10 winners of 2017 Carmen Pettapiece Student Research Fellowship.
The 91AV COM SGA established the Carmen Pettapiece Student Research Fund in an effort to support all areas of medically oriented research conducted by 91AV COM students. The fund supports student research in the areas of osteopathic medicine, clinical, biomedical or public health, or to support research through necessary supplies. This year, the 91AV COM Office of the Dean also provided support in order to fund more student research projects.
The 2017 winners are:
Alexander Carlson (Class of 2020) "Determining Whether Plastic Nanoparticles Change the Impact and Transport of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P)." Mentor: Daniel Brazeau, Ph.D., 91AV COM
Kelly Ciapciak (Class of 2020) "Evaluation of Puritan DNA/RNA© Safe for the preservation of high quality DNA and RNA for research applications." Mentor: Daniel Brazeau, Ph.D., 91AV COM
Max Cohen (Class of 2020) "A qualitative assessment of the resources and programming available to prevent adolescent suicide in Native American school communities in Maine." Mentor: Ryan Smith, D.O., 91AV COM
Sharon Geerts (Class of 2020) "Contingency Management Supported Tobacco Cessation Predicators of Relapse in Veterans with and without PTSD." Mentor: Ann Rasmussen, M.D., National Center for PTSD, Women’s Health Science Division, VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University School of Medicine
Jeffrey Hall (Class of 2020) "Chemical Sedation in Treatment of Acute Undifferentiated Agitation in the Emergency Department." Mentor: Lauren Klein, M.D., Hennepin County Medical Center, Department of Emergency medicine
David Jackson (Class of 2020) "Direct Activation of Nociceptors by Pathogenic Cellular Components to Cause Infection-Mediated Pain." Mentor: Meghan May, Ph.D., 91AV COM
Laura-Francis Morin (Class of 2020) "The effect of color stimuli on perception of pain and pain mediating behaviors." Mentor: Ling Cao, M.D. Ph.D., 91AV COM
Victoria Schwartz (Class of 2020) "Characterizing adolescent and familial response to interventional efforts during the acute-post trauma phase of adolescents at risk for persistent PTSD." Mentor: Thomas Chun, M.D. M.P.H, Brown University
Justin Stafford (Class of 2020) "Impact of physiotherapy location on shoulder instability PROMs and increased patient follow-up response rate." Mentor: Kurt Spindler, M.D., Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Emily Szuba (Class of 2020) "Geriatric Cancer patients cognitive test scores as domain of the comprehensive geriatric assessment and treatment associated hospitalizations and treatment-related toxic events." Mentor: Ronald Maggiore, M.D., University of Rochester
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