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2014-2018 SRP Faculty and WUSM Med Students (488) 2014-2018 SRP List WUSM OMSR July 2018 2014-2018 SRP Faculty and WUSM Med Students (488) 2014-2018 SRP List WUSM OMSR July 2018 SRP Faculty SRP Faculty SRP SRP Faculty Faculty Research Interest Student LN Student FN SRP Research Project SRP FIHTM LN FN Faculty Division year Dept Abendschein Dana Medicine Cardiology Role of Coagulation Proteases & Karlow Nicholas Targeting the Antithrombotic 2015 Inflammatory Molecules in Vascular Effect of Human Apyrase Remodeling Directly to the Site of Arterial Thrombosis Abraham Christopher Radiation Clinical Brain metastases, stereotactic Bhat Nisha Predictors of Discovery of 2018 Oncology Divisions radiosurgery, and palliative care. Previously Undetected Brain Metastases at the Time of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Akinwande Olaguoke Radiology Interventional oncology, bariatric Atagu Norman Construction of a predictive 2018 embolization. model for future liver remnant hypertrophy after portal vein embolization Anadkat Milan Medicine Dermatolog Dermatology; Blood Pokala Naveen Clinical Findings in Cutaneous 2015 y Graft vs Host Disease Ances Beau Neurology Developing Structural and Functional Deliz Juan Personality and Resting-State 2016 Neuroimaging Biomarkers of Normal Gonzalez Functional Connectivity in the Aging and Neurodegeneration; Setting of Alzheimer's Disease Therapeutic Interventions to Improve Neurocognitive Deficits Associated with Neurodegenerative Disorders Anokhin Andrey Psychiatry Substance Abuse; Genetic & Mulvey Bernard Neurocognition, Genetics, and 2014 Neurobiological Bases of Human Adolescent Substance Abuse Individual Differences Apte Rajendra Ophthalmo Role of Macrophages in Mediating Chen Howard Role of microRNA-150 in 2015 logy & Inflammatory Eye Disease Macrophage Aging and Visual Cholesterol Homeostasis Sciences Apte Rajendra Ophthalmo Role of Macrophages in Mediating Erickson Stephen Diagnostic Biomarkers in 2015 logy & Inflammatory Eye Disease Uveitis and Intraocular Visual Lymphoma Sciences 1 2014-2018 SRP Faculty and WUSM Med Students (488) 2014-2018 SRP List WUSM OMSR July 2018 Apte Rajendra Ophthalmo Role of Macrophages in Mediating Liu Sonya Nampt Knockout Effects in 2015 logy & Inflammatory Eye Disease Macrophages Visual Apte Rajendra Ophthalmo Role of Macrophages in Mediating Chen Teresa Role of Sirtuin Consumption of 2016 logy & Inflammatory Eye Disease NAD+ in Photoreceptor Cell Visual Death Arbelaez Ana Maria Pediatrics Endocrinolo The Brain’s Role in Response to Mayer Sarah Effects of Malnutrition on Brain 2017 gy and Hypoglycemia and Counterregulation, Development Diabetes as well as the Effects of Diabetes on Brain Metabolism, Structure, and Function Avidan Michael Anesthesio Cardiothora Intraoperative Awareness, Schelble Allison SATISY-SOS: Systematic 2014 logy cic Postoperative Cognitive Alteration, Assessment and Targeted Anesthesiol Brain Monitoring During Surgery, and Improvement of Services ogy Postoperative Outcomes Following Yearlong Surgical Outcome Survey Avidan Michael Anesthesio Cardiothora Intraoperative Awareness, Tang Rose Preoperative Falls As a 2014 logy cic Postoperative Cognitive Alteration, (Diandian) Predictor of Postoperative Falls Anesthesiol Brain Monitoring During Surgery, and and Postoperative Delirium ogy Postoperative Outcomes Avidan Michael Anesthesio Cardiothora Intraoperative Awareness, Mathur Shagun Family Assessment of Post- 2015 logy cic Postoperative Cognitive Alteration, Operative Delirium Anesthesiol Brain Monitoring During Surgery, and ogy Postoperative Outcomes Avidan Michael Anesthesio Cardiothora Intraoperative Awareness, Soares Andrea Intraoperative Awareness with 2015 logy cic Postoperative Cognitive Alteration, Post-Operative Recall Anesthesiol Brain Monitoring During Surgery, and ogy Postoperative Outcomes Avidan Michael Anesthesio Cardiothora Intraoperative Awareness, Thomas Robert ENGAGES Study - EEG and 2015 logy cic Postoperative Cognitive Alteration, Lucas Postoperative Delirium Anesthesiol Brain Monitoring During Surgery, and ogy Postoperative Outcomes 2 2014-2018 SRP Faculty and WUSM Med Students (488) 2014-2018 SRP List WUSM OMSR July 2018 Avidan Michael Anesthesio Cardiothora Intraoperative Awareness, Cui Victoria 3D-CAM Study 2016 logy cic Postoperative Cognitive Alteration, Anesthesiol Brain Monitoring During Surgery, and ogy Postoperative Outcomes Avidan Michael Anesthesio Cardiothora Intraoperative Awareness, Richardson Ashley Association Between 2017 logy cic Postoperative Cognitive Alteration, Postoperative Delirium and Anesthesiol Brain Monitoring During Surgery, and Changes in Quality of Life ogy Postoperative Outcomes Avidan Michael Anesthesio Cardiothora Intraoperative Awareness, Tzeng William Obstructive Sleep Apnea and 2017 logy cic Postoperative Cognitive Alteration, Incidence of Postoperative Anesthesiol Brain Monitoring During Surgery, and Acute Pain ogy Postoperative Outcomes Avidan Michael Anesthesio Cardiothora Intraoperative Awareness, Yu Lijia (Laina) Effects of Post-Operative 2017 logy cic Postoperative Cognitive Alteration, Delirium on Intermediate Term Anesthesiol Brain Monitoring During Surgery, and Cognition ogy Postoperative Outcomes Avidan Michael Anesthesio Cardiothora Intraoperative Awareness, Arrington Brianna Acute Postoperative Pain and 2017 logy cic Postoperative Cognitive Alteration, Confusion in Patients with Anesthesiol Brain Monitoring During Surgery, and Obstructive Sleep Apnea ogy Postoperative Outcomes Avidan Michael Anesthesio Clinical Intraoperative Awareness, Jordan Katherine Obstructive Sleep Apnea as an 2018 logy Research Postoperative Cognitive Alteration, Independent Predictor of Brain Monitoring During Surgery, and Postoperative Delirium and Postoperative Outcomes Pain: An Observational Study of a Surgical Cohort Awad Michael Surgery General Design & Development of New Surgical Liang Zhe Ergonomic Analysis of 2014 Surgery Platforms for Performing NOTES Laparoscopic Surgery in (Natural Orifice Translumenal Severely Obese Patients Endoscopic Surgery) Awad Michael Surgery General Design & Development of New Surgical Wang Robert Ergonomic Analysis of 2014 Surgery Platforms for Performing NOTES Laparoscopic Surgery in (Natural Orifice Translumenal Severely Obese Patients Endoscopic Surgery) 3 2014-2018 SRP Faculty and WUSM Med Students (488) 2014-2018 SRP List WUSM OMSR July 2018 Awad Michael Surgery General Design & Development of New Surgical Kuo Iris An analysis of ten-year 2018 Surgery Platforms for Performing NOTES minimally invasive foregut (Natural Orifice Translumenal clinical outcomes at BJH Endoscopic Surgery) Barch Deanna Psychology Understanding the Developmental Hickman Leonard The Relationship Between 2016 Interplay Among Cognition, Emotion, Altered Frontoparietal- and Brain Function to Better Amygdala Functional Understand the Deficits in Behavior and Connectivity and Reduced Cognition Found in Illnesses such as Hippocampal Growth in Schizophrenia and Depression Children with a History of Major Depressive Disorder: A Longitudinal Study Barnoya Joaquan Surgery Public Public Health; Tobacco Control in St Krishnan Sangitha Newspaper Advertising & 2014 Guatemala Health Louis; Chronic Disease Prevention in Consumer Promotions of Fast- Sciences Guatemala Food Chain Restaurants with Delivery Service in Guatemala Barnoya Joaquan Surgery Public Public Health; Tobacco Control in St Weisel Daniel Newspaper Advertising & 2014 Guatemala Health Louis; Chronic Disease Prevention in Consumer Promotions of Fast- Sciences Guatemala Food Chain Restaurants with Delivery Service in Guatemala Barrack Robert Orthopaedi Adult Hip and Knee Reconstruction Kazarien Gregory Assessing Surgeon and 2017 c Surgery Surgery and Patient Specific Total Knee Institution-Based Factors that Replacement Surgery Impact Implant Alignment Following Total Joint Arthroplasty Bateman Randall Neurology Heart; Causes and Future Diagnosis and Tang Mengxuan Correlations Between 2014 Treatments of Alzheimer's Disease "Jo" Biomarkers, Imaging Profile, and Phenotypic Variation in Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's Disease Bateman Randall Neurology Heart; Causes and Future Diagnosis and Zhang Lily Kinetics of Plasma Amyloid-β in 2014 Treatments of Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's Disease Bayliss Susan Medicine Pediatric Genodermatoses, Dermatologic Hsu Tina Retrospective and Prospective 2016 Dermatolog Syndromes, Vascular Birthmarks, Evaluation of Pediatric y Vitiligo, and Lasers Cutaneous Mastocytosis 4 2014-2018 SRP Faculty and WUSM Med Students (488) 2014-2018 SRP List WUSM OMSR July 2018 Bednarski Jeffrey Pediatrics Hematology Investigation of the 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