Students who entered the 2012 Medical Student Research Symposium pose with Dr. Rossi and Dr. Goebel.

Thirty-four Wayne State University School of Medicine medical students reported their basic and clinical research accomplishments at the 2012 Medical Student Research Symposium.

Many of the students had been awarded 2011 Medical Student Summer Research Fellowships, which were awarded competitively and coordinated by Noreen Rossi, M.D., F.A.C.P., professor of Internal Medicine (Division of Nephrology), and Dennis Goebel, Ph.D., associate professor of Anatomy & Cell Biology. These fellowships, which are jointly funded by the Medical School Alumni and by a faculty research advisor, provide medical students summer research opportunities guided by School of Medicine basic and clinical science faculty.

The symposium was organized by Drs. Rossi and Goebel.  Poster presentations Thursday and Friday, and Friday’s oral presentations, generated considerable scientific discussion on topics important to current medical science. The scope of topics is reflected by the titles of the presentations by the 12 medical students who received awards from the Medical School Alumni, the sponsor of the symposium.

Awards, determined by a panel of faculty judges, were in both the Basic and the Clinical Science categories for oral and for poster presentations, with awards for first, second and third place in each of four groupings, as well as the Dr. Hershel & Lois Sandberg Endowed Travel Award.

The award winners include:
Karam Asmaro, “Ethanol Administration Reduces Brain Injury by Preserving and Regulating Oxidative Metabolism,” Yuchuan Ding, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of Neurosurgery.

Paul Fu, “A Synergistic Effect of Normal Baric Oxygen (NBO) and Ethanol Therapies in Stroke,” Dr. Ding, research advisor.

Kimberley Grady, “The Impact of Arousal State and Obstructive Sleep Apnea on the Magnitude of Ventilator Long-Term Facilitation,” Jason Mateika, Ph.D., professor of Physiology, research advisor.

Daniel Groves, “Differential Blood Pressure Response Between Mild and Severe Two-kidney One-clip Hypertension with Cryo-treatment of the Renal Nerve,” Dr. Rossi, research advisor.

Melissa Kawa, “Use of Bone Substitute for Ballistic Injury Modeling,” Cynthia Bir, professor of Biomedical Engineering, research advisor.

Michael Kaufman, “Novel Treatments for Traumatic Brain Injury,” Christian Kreipke, Ph.D., assistant professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, research advisor. Dr. Herschel & Lois Sandberg Endowed Travel Award winner.

Shalini Makawita, “Validation of Candidate Pancreatic Cancer Serum Biomarkers Identifies SYCN and RED1B to Significantly Improve Performance of CA19.9 alone,” Eleftherios Diamandis, M.D., Ph.D., University of Toronto, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, research advisor.

Jacob Rube, “A Patient Family Centered Care Program Improves Family Satisfaction in the ICU,” Steven Tennenberg, M.D., associate professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology, research advisor.

David Tiesma, “Evaluating the Clinical Efficacy of Clazosentan, a Novel Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury,” Dr. Kreipke, research advisor. Dr. Herschel & Lois Sandberg Endowed Travel Award winner.

Sunali Wadehra, “The Disconnection Syndrome in Schizophrenia: Dynamic Causal Modeling of fMRI Data Reveals Disordered Cortico-hippocampal-striatal Interactions,” Vaibhav Diwadkar Ph.D., assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, research advisor.

Victoria Yee, “Enterobacter Species Infections: Epidemiology, Management and Outcomes,” Keith Kaye, M.D., M.P.H., professor of Infectious Diseases, research advisor.

Thomas Zervos, “In the Peruvian Amazon, Malaria Infection Severity is Associated with Host and Parasite Variables and Growth In Vitro,” OraLee Branch, Ph.D., New York University School of Medicine, research advisor.