W.T. Gill, Jr., Summer Research Fellowships
Summer 2009 Fellows

Summer 2009

Fellow Project Title
Shilpa Agarwal Effectiveness of Laser/Light Treatments on Acne Vulgaris
Deborah Akinniyi BiBil Lessons: Cardiologists' Views of a Race-Based Personalized Medicine
Morgan Albert Brain Pathologies, Reserve, Cognition in Aging and Dementia
Deniz Basci Pharmacology Research in Turkey
Matthew Bean In vivo Analysis of Embolization after Vetebroplasty in a Live Pig Model
Shelly Bhowmik Patient Experiences of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Effects of Chinese Herbal Medicine on CYP-450
Daisi Choi A Quantitative Approach: Assessing Mental Health Needs of Medical Students at GWU
Kristina Damas An Analysis of the Inherent Radiosensitivity of Putative Cancer Stem Cells from Individual Patients' Breast and Cervical Cancers
Carly Glick Prospective Screening Study to Evaluate the Sensitivity and Specificity of the Automated Breast Ultrasound System and Digital X-ray Mammography
Elan Golan Feasibility of Minimally Invasive Pelvic Fixation: Percutaneous S2 Iliac Fixation
Samita Goyal Genomic and Proteonic Profiling of Inducible Otitis Media Mucoid Metaplasia
Ivy Haskins Project on Comparative Effectiveness Research
Rehan Hussain Assessing Neural Mechanisms of Injury in Inborn Errors of Urea Metabolism Using Anatomic, fMRI, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Spectroscopy
Amit Joseph The Role of BP1 in the Activation of Oncogenes by Prolactin
Waleed Kurtom Developmental Expressions in the Functional Anatomy of Listening and Reading Comprehension and their Perturbation by Childhood Epilepsy
Sheliza Lalani Examining the Effect of Obesity on Cardiac Health in Children with Congenital Heart Disease
Megan Lofton Evidence-Based Interventional Strategies for Tobacco Use Among African Americans in the DC Metro Area
Shivangi Lohia Correlation of White Matter Structures with Functional Activation and Neuropsychological Test Performance for Verbal Working Memory Tests as Assessed by Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) in Children with Epilepsy
Katherine Michelis Determining Physicians' Rationales for prescribing lipid-lowering therapy, evaluating the effectiveness of various lipid-lowering regiments, and comparing their relative costs
Wilfred Njah Exploring Whether Epigenetic Factors such as Histone Methlytransfereases HPRT4 and HPRT5 Can Increase the Efficiency of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Formation
Sarah Pai ED Arrival Mode: Why do the Sick Drive Themselves?
Rohan Panchamia Bacterial Antigen Induction of Mucin Glycoprotiens in Middle Ear Cells
Pooja Pandya A Multi-Reader Multi-Center Clinical Study to Compare the Diagnostic Accuracy of the Xpres Digital Mammography System to Standard Screen-film Mammography
Kamal Patel In-vivo Knee Kinematics for Patients with ACL Reconstruction
Valerie Pershad Acupuncture Trialists' Collaboration: meta-Analysis of Chronic Pain Trials
Todd Pierce Incidence and Risk Factors for DVT and PE Following Major Spinal Surgery
Frederik Rebling Resistance of the Antiplatelet Effect of Aspirin in Patients at High Risk of Cardiovascular Events
Allison Spitzer Mapping of Genetic Loci that Influence Bone Morphometry
Talar Tatarian Retrospective Study to Correlated Breast Cancer Oncotype with Course Treatment to Determine the Implications of Such Analysis
Adam Tinklepaugh Mechanism of Lack of Inflammation in Neonatal Mouse Skin
Rishi Vashista Pediatric Otolaryngology: Resource Utilization and Socioeconomic Implications