A bevy of Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine students will present their research and scholarship at this year’s WSU Health Sciences Research Symposium.
The symposium will be held in the WSU Spokane Medicine Building (MED) commons on April 15 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. All students, staff, and faculty are invited to view poster presentations, ask questions, and exchange ideas.
The following College of Medicine students will present independent and collaborative supervised projects:
- Ali Sethi and Benjamin Caruso, MD students, “Temporal Trends in Open and Minimally Invasive Inpatient Sacroiliac Joint Fusions from 2016-2020”
- Andi Croteau, MD student, and Elizabeth Medina, neuroscience PhD candidate, “Mice carrying maternal Ube3a deletion associated with Angelman’s syndrome display altered sleep ontogenesis”
- Delaney Miller, MD student, “Sleep Interrupted: Exploring the Effects of Total Sleep Deprivation on Chronic Insomnia Through Polysomnography”
- Emily Bundy, MD student, “Use of TikTok as a Source of Medical Information Regarding Tubal Ligation”
- Emma Seidler, MD student, “Using the alcohol biomarker urine ethyl glucuronide to predict self-reported drinking measures in individuals with alcohol use disorder”
- Ethan Sanderson, Grant Dahl, and Noushyar Panahpour Eslami, MD students, “Substance Use of WSU Students in Dorms Before vs. After COVID”
- Georgie Linnell, MPH student, “Meeting the need: Perspectives from primary care providers in rural central and eastern Washington who diagnose autism spectrum disorder”
- Gisella Logioia, MD student, “Total Sleep Deprivation Impairs Decision Making More in Healthy Sleepers than in Individuals with Chronic Insomnia”
- Grant Dahl, Shruthie Gnaneswaran, and Ethan Sanderson, MD students, “Demographic and Clinical Presentation of Individuals Seeking Substance Use Treatment with a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse”
- Hadyn Fernholz-Hartman, NEP student, “Quinoa-Derived Metabolites Enhance Mitochondrial Function in C2C12 Muscle Cells”
- Jessica Bae and Kibeom Kwon, MD students, “Prevalence of intestinal parasites in stool samples from two Guatemalan communities”
- Justin Gillette, MD student, “The Architect of Conversation: A Psychometric Evaluation of Large Language Models”
- Kishanee Haththotuwegama and Morgan Smith, MD students, “Addressing Barriers in Harm Reduction: A Design Thinking Approach to Community-Driven Solutions”
- Mariam Farhat, Jessica Marie Manuel Domingo, and Sarah Goh, MD students, “Case Report: Vertebral Osteomyelitis due to Brucellosis”
- Matthew Chen and Carsten Schmidt, MD students, “Use of BMP-2 in a complicated revision distal radius ORIF and outcomes”
- Michael Quan, MD student, presenting “Arthroscopic Management and Spontaneous Recovery of Calcific Ligamentitis in the ACL/PCL: A Case Report of a 90-Year-Old Female with Knee Calcification”
- Natalie Williams, MD student, “#inductionoflabor – Evaluating Medical Misinformation on TikTok”
- Olivia Willis, MD student, “The Relationships Between Maternal Wellbeing and Infant Sleep, Emotionality, and Regulation”
- Rhodric Kelly, MD student, “The role of G protein-coupled receptor FRPR-4 in regulating innate immunity in C. elegans”
- Shana Busch, MD student, “Culture conditions differentially regulate the inflammatory niche and cellular phenotype of tracheo-bronchial basal stem cells”
- Toby K. Chen, MD student, “Predictors of Treatment Response for Children with Rumination Syndrome”
The symposium will also include presentations from faculty across the health sciences.