USF-LVHN SELECT Program Students
2017
Effect of body mass index on operative outcome after robotic-assisted Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy: retrospective analysis of 129 cases at a single high-volume tertiary care center., Ahmed I Salem, Matthew Thau, Tobin J Strom, Andrea M Abbott, Nadia Saeed, Khaldoun Almhanna, Sarah E Hoffe, Ravi Shridhar, Richard C Karl, and Kenneth L Meredith (Article)
Barriers to Care: Motivational Interviewing for Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetics., William Schertzing (Poster)
Automated Antibody De Novo Sequencing and Its Utility in Biopharmaceutical Discovery., K Ilker Sen, Wilfred H Tang, Shruti Nayak, Yong J Kil, Marshall Bern, Berk Ozoglu, Beatrix Ueberheide, Darryl Davis, and Christopher Becker (Article)
QI Assessment of Attending Physician Burnout at Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) Using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI)., Pooja Shankar (Poster)
The Collaboration of Leaders in Medicine and Public Health to Improve Population Health., Andrew Shenoi (Poster)
Carbon dioxide versus room air insufflation during balloon-assisted enteroscopy: A systematic review with meta-analysis., Ashok Shiani, Seth Lipka, Andrew Lai, Andrea C Rodriguez, Christian M Andrade, Ambuj Kumar, and Patrick Brady (Article)
Characteristics and Outcomes of Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy at Lehigh Valley Children’s Hospital., Jennifer Shields MS and Tibisay Villalobos MD, FAAP (Poster)
Adaptations of an RNA virus to increasing thermal stress., Sonia Singhal, Cierra M Leon Guerrero, Stella G Whang, Erin McClure, Hannah G Busch, and Benjamin Kerr (Article)
Comparison of Complication Rates for Different Surgical Treatments in the Management of Hidradenitis Suppurativa., Andrew Steele and Robert X. Murphy JR, MD, MS (Poster)
Medical education and human trafficking: using simulation., Hanni Stoklosa, Michelle Lyman, Carrie Bohnert, and Olivia Mittel (Article)
A Comparison of Implants Used in Open-Door Laminoplasty: Structural Rib Allografts Versus Metallic Miniplates., Ehsan Tabaraee, Praveen Mummaneni, Amir Abdul-Jabbar, David Shearer, Esha Roy, Beejal Amin, Christopher Ames, Shane Burch, Vedat Deviren, Sigurd Berven, Serena Hu, Dean Chou, and Bobby K Tay (Article)
Let's Talk! Engaging the Community in Advance Care Planning Through Games., Seth VanZant, Aleksandra Bacewicz, Alexandria Holmes, Priscilla Shen, Lora Bojilova, Robert Levy, Nicole Defenbaugh PhD, and Robert Motley MD (Poster)
Let's Talk! Engaging the Community in Advance Care Planning Through Games., Seth VanZant, Aleksandra Bacewicz, Alexandria Holmes, Priscilla Shen, Lora Bojilova MS2, Robert Levy, Nicole Defenbaugh PhD, and Robert Motley MD (Poster)
Integrating Disability: Evaluating the Usefulness of "My Health Report" and its Effect on Doctor-Patient Communication., Seth VanZant, Sweety Jain MD, and Elizabeth Perkins (Presentation)
Implementing 5S Methodology to Maximize Flow and Efficiency in Shelter-Based Student Clinic., Seth VanZant; Andre Lee; Lauren Walheim; Anne Laverty; Preethi Rajan; Aleksandra Bacewicz; Elizabeth Beaty; Cristina Calogero; Amy B. Smith PhD; Susan E. Hansen MA; and Marna R. Greenberg DO, MPH, FACEP (Poster)
Prevention of the Primary Cesarean Sections at Lehigh Valley Health Network., Kara Mia V. Villaneuva MS4 and Amanda B. Flicker MD (Poster)
Improving Ostomy Appliance Care Education through Values-Based Patient Centered Care., Dhrumil Vyas (Poster)
Assessing Nurses' Perceptions of Female Surgeons: Is there a bias against women in surgery?, Carly Waldman (Poster)
Primary Hepatic Leiomyosarcoma Presenting as a Budd-Chiari-Like Syndrome., Jessica Watson, Carolyn Hanna MD, Ross Biggs DO, and Matthew Sullivan (Poster)
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the 30-Second Chair Stand Test as an ED Screening Tool for Elderly Fall Risk Assessment., Adison Weseloh; Bryan G. Kane MD; Jeanne L. Jacoby MD; Robert D. Barraco MD, MPH; Tracy M Bishop DO; Kyli Krape DO; Stephanie Merrick MD; Michael Wagner; Deirdre Warner DO; and Marna R. Greenberg DO, MPH, FACEP (Poster)
Oncogenic mechanisms of Lin28 in breast cancer: new functions and therapeutic opportunities., Hanchu Xiong, Wenhe Zhao, Ji Wang, Benjamin J Seifer, Chenyang Ye, Yongxia Chen, Yunlu Jia, Cong Chen, Jianguo Shen, Linbo Wang, Xinbing Sui, and Jichun Zhou (Article)
patient Navigation: The Future of Process Improvement at Moffitt Cancer Center., Johanna Yun (Poster)
Large Chest and Abdominal Wall Defect Reconstruction With Anterolateral Thigh Free Flap to Right Gastroepiploic Artery Anastomosis., Angie Zhang, Amra Kuc, Paul Smith, Amanda Zimmerman, Alicia Billington, Ricardo J Gonzalez, and Deniz Dayicioglu (Article)
Approaches and genetic determinants in predicting response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in locally advanced gastric cancer., Jichun Zhou, Jianguo Shen, Benjamin J Seifer, Shaojie Jiang, Ji Wang, Hanchu Xiong, Lingmin Xie, Linbo Wang, and Xinbing Sui (Article)
The NLRP3 inflammasome modulates sleep and NREM sleep delta power induced by spontaneous wakefulness, sleep deprivation and lipopolysaccharide., Mark R Zielinski, Dmitry Gerashchenko, Svetlana A Karpova, Varun Konanki, Robert W McCarley, Fayyaz S Sutterwala, Robert E Strecker, and Radhika Basheer (Article)
2016
Utilization of bedside ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of massive pulmonary embolism: a case report., Osman Z. Abbasi DO, Thanhnga T. Doan, Sumit Duggal MD, Sanjeev U. Nair MD, and Shawn M. Quinn DO (Article)
Conservative vs. Aggressive Management for Patients with Stable GI Hemorrhage at Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest, Jeremy Li Agostinho MS (Poster)
Progesterone treatment shows greater protection in brain vs. retina in a rat model of middle cerebral artery occlusion: Progesterone receptor levels may play an important role., Rachael S Allen, Iqbal Sayeed, Yuliya Oumarbaeva, Katherine C Morrison, Paul H Choi, Machelle T Pardue, and Donald G Stein (Article)
Development of a Novel Clinical Pathway for Evaluating Abnormal Bleeding Girls and Young Women, Christie Atchison MS (Poster)
Facial Fractures in the Aging Population., Dunya M Atisha, Tucker Burr, Alexander C Allori, Liana Puscas, Detlev Erdmann, and Jeffrey R Marcus (Article)
Interneuronal mechanisms of hippocampal theta oscillations in a full-scale model of the rodent CA1 circuit., Marianne J Bezaire, Ivan Raikov, Kelly Burk, Dhrumil Vyas, and Ivan Soltesz (Article)
Changing the Face of Diabetes Education at Lehigh Valley Health Network—Creation of a New Resource for Late Adolescents and Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes, Jacob R. Blount MS4; Linda M. Schwartz MDE, AHIP, CM; Laura Harstine; and Joyce Najarian MSN, RN, CDE (Poster)
Optimizing Patient Length of Stay Using Real-time Data Analysis and Lean Techniques, Alisha Bonaroti MS (Poster)
Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in Trauma Patients. Review of the Literature, Revision and Implementation of New Evidence-based VTE Prophylaxis Guidelines., Dariam Cardentey Oliva MS (Poster)
Quantitative imaging of magnesium distribution at single-cell resolution in brain tumors and infiltrating tumor cells with secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS)., Subhash Chandra, Dylan J Parker, Rolf F Barth, and Susan C Pannullo (Article)
Review of Public Health Ethics in State Comprehensive Cancer Control Plans, 2005-2020, Jennifer Chevinsky MS (Poster)
Delayed Umbilical Cord Clamping: A Quality Initiative Implementation by the Obstetrics and NICU Departments, Elizabeth Ciaravino MS4 (Poster)
Walking on Eggshells: A Caregiver’s Autoethnographic Journey Using Emotional Intelligence, Tabitha Copeland MS (Poster)
Serum microRNAs as diagnostic markers of endometriosis: a comprehensive array-based analysis., Emine Cosar, Ramanaiah Mamillapalli, Gulcin Sahin Ersoy, SihYun Cho, Benjamin Seifer, and Hugh S Taylor (Article)
Long-term evolution of multiple sclerosis disability in the treatment era., Bruce A C Cree, Pierre-Antoine Gourraud, Jorge R Oksenberg, Carolyn Bevan, Elizabeth Crabtree-Hartman, Jeffrey M Gelfand, Douglas S Goodin, Jennifer Graves, Ari J Green, Ellen Mowry, Darin T Okuda, Daniel Pelletier, H-Christian von Büdingen, Scott S Zamvil, Alisha Agrawal, Stacy Caillier, Caroline Ciocca, Refujia Gomez, Rachel Kanner, Robin Lincoln, Antoine Lizee, Pamela Qualley, Adam Santaniello, Leena Suleiman, Monica Bucci, Valentina Panara, Nico Papinutto, William A Stern, Alyssa H Zhu, Gary R Cutter, Sergio Baranzini, Roland G Henry, and Stephen L Hauser (Article)
Safe Discharge: Perception among both Emergency Medicine Attending Physicians and Nurses Regarding Discharging Patients after Opiate or Opioid Administration, Benjamin Croll (Poster)
AMPK Activation and Metabolic Reprogramming by Tamoxifen through Estrogen Receptor-Independent Mechanisms Suggests New Uses for This Therapeutic Modality in Cancer Treatment., Natalie A Daurio, Stephen W Tuttle, Andrew J Worth, Ethan Y Song, Julianne M Davis, Nathaniel W Snyder, Ian A Blair, and Constantinos Koumenis (Article)
OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY CHARACTERISTICS OF MACULAR EDEMA AND HARD EXUDATES AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH LIPID SERUM LEVELS IN TYPE 2 DIABETES., Samaneh Davoudi, Evangelia Papavasileiou, Ramak Roohipoor, Heeyoon Cho, Shreyas Kudrimoti BA, Heather Hancock, Suzanne Hoadley, Christopher Andreoli, Deeba Husain, Maurice James, Alan Penman, Ching J Chen, and Lucia Sobrin (Article)
Vertical Mastectomy Incision in Implant Breast Reconstruction After Skin Sparing Mastectomy: Advantages and Outcomes., Deniz Dayicioglu, Bugra Tugertimur, Kristen Zemina, Johnathon Dallarosa MD, Sequoya Killebrew, Augustine Wilson, Dunya Atisha, and Nazanin Khakpour (Article)
Introduction of a Patient Refusal Waiver and Incidence of Patient Refusal in the Context of Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis, Derek Djavaherian MS; Nicole Reimer BSN, RN, OCN; and Beatrice Oertner (Poster)
Standardizing Patient Care at the Children’s Hospital at Lehigh Valley Health Network: Assessing the Need for a Pediatric Migraine Clinical Pathway, Kelli Dunker MS4 and Melissa L. Brannen MD (Poster)
Retrospective Analysis of the Appropriateness of Ordered Outpatient Head MRI’s and CT Scans – A Pilot Study, Robert T. Duprey MS (Poster)
Cracking the Code: Hospital-Specific Resuscitation Outcomes and Code Status Discussions, Jameson Dyal MS4 (Poster)
Lehigh Valley Health Network Total Joint Replacement Clinical Pathway: Pre-Admission Expansion to Target Patient Education, Mary Kate Erdman MSIV (Poster)
A Retrospective Study of Outcomes for Penicillin- Allergic Patients Presenting with Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia at Lehigh Valley Health Network Hospitals, Colton Faza MS (Poster)
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomies Performed at Night Versus Day at LVHN: An Investigation Into Average Length of Stay, Benjamin T. Fedeles MS (Poster)
Implicit Association of Gender and Leadership in Healthcare, Rachel Fieman MS4 (Poster)
Tailoring a Social Needs Assessment Tool for an Urban Latino Population, Stephanie Fosbenner MS (Poster)
Gender Differences in Civilian Injury in Baghdad from 2003 to 2014: Results of a Randomized Household Cluster Survey, Thomas Fowler MS (Poster)
Recruiting and Retaining Women Leaders at Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), Melanie R. Francis MS (Poster)
Drug Repurposing: Tolfenamic Acid Inactivates PrbP, a Transcriptional Accessory Protein in, Christopher L Gardner, Fernando A Pagliai, Lei Pan, Lora Bojilova, Maria I Torino, Graciela L Lorca, and Claudio F Gonzalez (Article)
Adapting to Hospital Culture and Improving Patient Care: Development of a Pediatric Gastronomy Tube Medical Program, Heather Geist BS and Marybeth Browne MD (Poster)
ED-STEADI: Evaluating the Effectiveness of TUG Test as a Screening Tool for Geriatric Fall Risk Assessment, Michael Goodwin MS (Poster)
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Timed-Up-and-Go (“TUG”) Test as an ED, Michael Goodwin MS; Bryan G. Kane MD; Jeanne L. Jacoby MD; Robert D. Barraco MD, MPH; Tracy M Bishop DO; Kyli Krape DO; Stephanie Merrick MD; Michael Wagner; Diedre Waner DO; and Marna R. Greenberg DO, MPH, FACEP (Poster)
Prevalence of Homelessness or At-Risk for Homelessness in the ED Setting, Marna R. Greenberg DO, MPH, FACEP; Brett Feldman PA-C; Osman Z. Abbasi DO; Joshua Enyart DO; Yasir Abunamous BA; Timothy Batchelor; Emily L. Bennett BS; Cristina G. Calogero BS; Kareem S. Elsayed; Rachel F. Ledyard BS; Mikdat Ulas BS; Alexis M. Begliomini BA; Zachary J. Ezrow BS; and Timothy J. Friel MD (Poster)
Launching a Veteran-Centered Medical Home Through Improved Care-Coordination Protocols, Keith Groshans MS (Poster)
Identifying Provider Strategies to Maintain Humanism in Medicine, Joseph Hall MS (Poster)
Distress Screening of Chemotherapy Patients According to NCCN Guidelines in the LVPG Hematology-Oncology Clinic Demonstrates a Statistically Significant Reduction in Subjective Distress, Andrew Heisel MS4, Ramona E. Chase CRNP, Brian J. Patson MD, and Eliot L. Friedman MD (Poster)
Influence of Body Mass Index and Albumin on Perioperative Morbidity and Clinical Outcomes in Resected Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma., Andrew Hendifar, Arsen Osipov, Jasleen Khanuja, Nicholas Nissen, Jason Naziri, Wensha Yang, Quanlin Li, and Richard Tuli (Article)
Neuromodulation of Courtship Drive through Tyramine-Responsive Neurons in the Drosophila Brain., Jia Huang, Weiwei Liu, Yi-Xiang Qi, Junjie Luo, and Craig Montell (Article)
Getting Patients Moving: LVHN Total Joint Replacement Care Pathway, Nicholas James MSIV (Poster)
Needs Assessment for a Teaching Elective at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine Lehigh Valley Campus, Kristian Johnson MS (Poster)
“Go See that Patient”: An Examination of the Amount of Unsupervised Time Medical Students Spend with Patients During their First Clinical Year, Pamela H. Kim MS (Poster)
Do They Teach Fear in Medical School, Ajay Koti MS (Book Chapter)
How to Make Challah: The Jewish Octopus, Ajay Koti MS (Book Chapter)
Street Medicine, Ajay Koti MS (Book Chapter)
Wounded Healers, Ajay Koti MS (Book Chapter)
Leadership Training in Medical School: A Student’s Perspective, Catherine Lee (Poster)
Identification of secreted and membrane-bound bat immunoglobulin using a Microchiropteran-specific mouse monoclonal antibody., William T Lee, Derek D Jones, Jennifer L Yates, Gary M Winslow, April D Davis, Robert J Rudd, Christopher T Barron, and Cailyn Cowan (Article)
Multidimensional reduction of multicentric cohort heterogeneity: An alternative method to increase statistical power and robustness., Caroline Le Gall, Julie Laurent, Nicolas Vince, Antoine Lizee, Alisha Agrawal, Alexandre Walencik, Pauline Rettman, Katia Gagne, Christelle Retiere, Jill Hollenbach, Anne Cesbron, Sophie Limou, and Pierre-Antoine Gourraud (Article)
Identifying Factors to Reduce Readmission of Surgical Patients at LVHN, With a Focus on Cardiothoracic Patients, Alvancin Louis MS and James K. Wu MD (Poster)
Corticosterone Blocks Ovarian Cyclicity and the LH Surge via Decreased Kisspeptin Neuron Activation in Female Mice., Elena Luo, Shannon B Z Stephens, Sharon Chaing, Nagambika Munaganuru, Alexander S Kauffman, and Kellie M Breen (Article)
High fluence light emitting diode-generated red light modulates characteristics associated with skin fibrosis., Andrew Mamalis, Eugene Koo, Manveer Garcha, William J Murphy, R Rivkah Isseroff, and Jared Jagdeo (Article)
Measuring Post-Operative Nausea and Vomiting, Norman McKoy MS (Poster)
Creation of a Pediatric Obesity Comorbidity Screening Sheet to be Implemented into EPIC, Susan M. Mothersele MS (Poster)
Identifying Risk Factors for Prolonged Hospital Stay and 30 Day Readmission for Elective EVAR for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms, Daniel Myers MS (Poster)
An Analysis of Provider Attitudes Toward a Clinical Decision Support System for the Intrapartum Management of Group B Strep, Sasha Nelson MS (Poster)
An fMRI Study of the Impact of Block Building and Board Games on Spatial Ability., Sharlene D Newman, Mitchell T Hansen, and Arianna Gutierrez (Article)
An fMRI Study of the Impact of Block Building and Board Games on Spatial Ability., Sharlene D Newman, Mitchell T Hansen, and Arianna Gutierrez (Article)
Surgical outcomes associated with postoperative atrial fibrillation after robotic-assisted pulmonary lobectomy: retrospective review of 208 consecutive cases., Emily P Ng, Frank O Velez-Cubian, Kathryn L Rodriguez, Matthew Thau, Carla C Moodie, Joseph R Garrett, Jacques P Fontaine, and Eric M Toloza (Article)
Chronic Pain Protocol Adherence and Utilization in Primary Care, Abigail O'Reggio (Poster)
Impact of margin status and lymphadenectomy on clinical outcomes in resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma: implications for adjuvant radiotherapy., Arsen Osipov, Jason Naziri, Andrew Hendifar, Deepti Dhall, Joanne K Rutgers, Shefali Chopra, Quanlin Li, Mourad Tighiouart, Alagappan Annamalai, Nicholas N Nissen, and Richard Tuli (Article)
Direct to OR Resuscitation: A Reevaluation 20 Years After Implementation at Lehigh Valley Health Network, Cameron Paterson MS (Poster)
Pilot Survey for a Nation-wide Patterns of Care Study on How Radiation Oncologists Treat Gastric Cancer, April Pearson MS (Poster)
STAT3 polymorphisms may predict an unfavorable response to first-line platinum-based therapy for women with advanced serous epithelial ovarian cancer., Jennifer Permuth-Wey, William J Fulp, Brett M Reid, Zhihua Chen, Christina Georgeades, Jin Q Cheng, Anthony Magliocco, Dung-Tsa Chen, and Johnathan M Lancaster (Article)
Longitudinal Effects of Ketamine on Dendritic Architecture In Vivo in the Mouse Medial Frontal Cortex., Victoria Phoumthipphavong, Florent Barthas, Samantha Hassett, and Alex C Kwan (Article)
MyLVHN Enrollment Project, Alexandra Printz MS and Richard S. MacKenzie MD (Poster)
Systematic Review of Emotional Intelligence in Surgical Education, Gina Provenzano MD, Rachel D. Appelbaum MD, Alisha Bonaroti MS, Mary Kate Erdman MS, and Marybeth Browne MD (Poster)
On a Mission, Victoria Psomiadis MS (Book Chapter)
Novel Collaborative Cardiology and Maternal Fetal Medicine Practice – Continued Experience at the Heart and Pregnancy Program, Joanne Quiñones MD, MSCE; Margaret Bettin; Irena B. Cabrera MD; Adetola Louis-Jacques MD; Amy M. Ahnert MD; and Ronald S. Freudenberger MD (Poster)
Piloting a Social Screener in the Pediatric Clinic, Preethi Rajan, Madelyn Kapushy, Samantha A. Goodrich PhD, and Kimberly C. Brown MD (Poster)
Diagnosis and management of nephrotic syndrome in an adult patient: A case report, Samuel B. Reynolds BS and Ryan Lutz (Article)
Serendipitous Diagnosis of a Ganglioneuroma in a Diagnostic Medical Sonography Educational Setting., Catherine E. Rienzo MS, RT(R), RDMS, FSDMS and Ian T. Mark MD (Article)
Using Pharmacological Manipulation and High-precision Radio Telemetry to Study the Spatial Cognition in Free-ranging Animals., Timothy C Roth, Aaron R Krochmal, William B Gerwig, Sage Rush, Nathaniel T Simmons, Jeffery D Sullivan, and Katrina Wachter (Article)
Admission Floor and its Relation to Length of Stay in Patients with Hip Fracture, Jacob Rust; Thomas Kwarcinski; Cathyann Feher RN,MSN; and Michael D. Pasquale MD, FACS, FCCM (Poster)