UC Hosts 8th Annual Internal Medicine Research Symposium
Researcher from John Hopkins Medicine offers keynote
The University of Cincinnati (UC) Department of Internal Medicine in the College of Medicine hosted its eighth annual research symposium Friday, April 5, 2019, in the CARE/Crawley Atrium. Trainees submitted 38 posters and each trainee had an identified mentor. The theme for the event was “Building and Fostering Research for Discovery, Innovation and Impact.”
“This year’s symposium attracted overwhelming support from faculty and staff,” explains Gregory Rouan, MD, chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. “Forty-five faculty volunteered to judge trainee research posters while staff submitted seven posters in the basic and clinical research categories. Our keynote speaker offered a thought-provoking address that was well attended.”
Rouan also offered thanks to all symposium participants and attendees and to Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, associate chair for translational research, and Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, associate chair for basic research, both in the Department of Internal Medicine, for their roles in organizing the event. The keynote speaker was Robert Siliciano, MD, PhD, professor of medicine at John Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Siliciano’s address was titled “Curing HIV Infection: Going Beyond N=1.”
The Department of Internal Medicine has long served as an incubator for discovery and scientific advancement at the university and comprises nine divisions with more than 280 faculty as clinicians, scientists and investigators. The department is responsible for $86.9 million in research funding, including $10.3 million in new awards during the 2018 fiscal year.
Research and innovation are among the pillars of UC's strategic direction Next Lives Here.
Shailendra Patel, DPhil, speaks during the 8th Annual Internal Medicine Research Symposium at the UC College of Medicine.
Winning presentations in the basic research, clinical research and clinical case report categories for the poster competition during the symposium are listed below:
Trainee Basic Research Poster Awards:
1st place tie - $500 award given
Name and Division: Hannah M Russell, Division of Cardiovascular Health and Disease
Mentor: A. Phillip Owens, III, PhD
Poster Title: Fibrinogen Depletion Attenuates Angiotensin II-induced Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
1st place tie - $500 award given
Name and Division: Mohit Kumar, PhD, Department of Pharmacology and System Physiology
Mentor: Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD
Poster Title: Cardiac myosin binding protein c phosphorylation regulates calcium homeostasis
Honorable Mention Award - $150 award given
Name and Division: Yiyang Lu, Department of Pathobiology and Molecular Medicine
Mentor: Jane Yu, PhD
Poster Title: Rapamycin associated pro-survival pathways that contribute to treatment refractory in Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)
Trainee Clinical Research Poster Awards:
1st place - $500 award given
Name and Division: Masaaki Yamada, MD, Division of Nephrology, Kidney C.A.R.E. Program
Mentor: Charuhas V. Thakar, MD
Poster Title: Incidence and Consequence of Hyperkalemia in Solid Organ Transplant: An analysis of over 14,000 organ transplant recipients
2nd place - $250 award given
Name and Division: Nicole Wilson, PharmD, Division of Nephrology, Kidney C.A.R.E. Program
Mentor: Rita Alloway, PharmD
Poster Title: Early And Late Borderline Lesions Exhibit Differential Outcomes In Renal Transplant Recipients
Honorable Mention Award - $150 award given
Winner: Malik Khurram Khan, MD, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Mentor: Muhammad Ahsan Zafar, MD, MS-CTR
Poster Title: Reducing Delirium in the Medical ICU - Implementation of a sleep hygiene bundle and standardizing sedation in the Medical ICU
Yufei Dai, MD, is shown at the Internal Medicine Research Symposium.
Trainee Clinical Case Report Poster Awards:
1st place - $500 award given
Winner: Yufei Dai, MD, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Mentor: Robert Cohen, MD
Poster Title: Prolonged glycosuria after Canagliflozin discontinuation in a patient with euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis
2nd place - $250 award given
Winner: Yazan Vwich, MD and Andrew Welch, DO, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Mentor: Abid Yaqub, MD
Poster Title: Subclinical Cushing's Syndrome with Bilateral Adrenal Adenomas in MEN1
Honorable Mention Award - $150 award given
Winner: Jillian Thompson, DO, Cardiovascular Health and Disease
Mentor: Tehmina Naz, MD
Poster Title: A Case of Isolated Cardiac Sarcoidosis
2019 Research Symposium Poster Competition Staff Awardees:
1st place - $150 award given
Winner: Caterina Bartolacci, PhD, Division of Hematology Oncology
Mentor/PI: Pier Paolo Scaglioni, MD
Poster Title: FASN as a novel Therapeutic Target in Mutant KRAS Lung Cancer
2nd place - $100 award given
Winner: Begoña Campos-Naciff, PhD, Nephrology, Kidney C.A.R.E. Program
Mentor/PI: Charuhas Thakar, MD
Poster Title: Kidney injury under oxidative stress release CD36 and CD47 microparticles
Honorable Mention Award - $50 award given
Winner: Ameet Chimote, PhD, Division of Nephrology, Kidney C.A.R.E. Program
Mentor/PI: Laura Conforti, PhD
Poster Title: Failure to upregulate calmodulin underlies the suppressed KCa3.1 function and enhanced sensitivity to adenosine in CD8+ T cells of head and neck cancer patients
Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, is shown with Robert Siliciano, MD, PhD, and Carl Fichtenbaum, MD, at the Internal Medicine Research Symposium. Siliciano received an award of appreciation from the Department of Internal Medicine.
2019 Research Symposium Image Gallery Awardees
Basic Research Images:
1st place - $100 award given
Winner: Kristen Engevik, Department of Pharmacology and Systems Physiology
Image Title: Mouse Gastric Glands
2nd place - $50 award given
Winner: Andrew Dunn, PhD, Division of Digestive Diseases
Image Title: A Hole New World
Clinical Research Images:
1st place - $100 award given
Winner: Humna Abid Memon, MD, Division of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine
Image Title: Piercing of the Aorta
2nd place - $50 award given
Winner: Ameet Chimote, PhD, Division of Nephrology, Kidney CARE Program
Image Title: The Soldiers of the Immune System
Yuqi Cai, PhD, is shown at the Internal Medicine Research Symposium image competition.
Images in Medicine:
1st place - $100 award given
Name and Department/Division: Ameet Chimote, PhD, Division of Nephrology, Kidney CARE Program
Image Title: Reflections
2nd place - $50 award given
Name and Department/Division: Eric P. Smith, MD, Academic Research Services
Image Title: On top of old twister
People’s Choice:
Name and Department/Division: Ameet Chimote, PhD, Division of Nephrology, Kidney CARE Program
Image Title: Fiery Sunset
All story photos by Colleen Kelley/AHC
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