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Wednesday, March 6, 2019 Table of Contents Welcome from President Renee Coffman…………………………………………….3 Welcome from the Research Symposium Chairs..………………………………..4 Keynote Speakers…………………………………………………………………………………5 Utah Abstracts…………………………..………………..……….………………………….....7 Nevada Abstracts………………………………………………………………………..……..86 Roseman University Research Symposium 2019 Program 2 Friends and Colleagues, Welcome to the Fifth Annual Roseman University of Health Sciences Research Symposium. We are pleased and grateful to continue the momentum that has been building since our first Symposium five years ago. This year, we received 136 abstracts to date across our three campuses in South Jordan, UT and Henderson & Summerlin, NV as well as from a growing contingent from our colleagues outside of Roseman. We look forward to featuring the discoveries and scholarly work of our faculty members, staff, post-doctoral researchers, residents, and students from all of Roseman’s health disciplines. Many of the presenting authors both inside and outside of Roseman carry affiliations with other great universities and entities worldwide. Our presenters are immensely talented and in demand, working across borders to create solutions, collaborating with other great minds, and bridging our communities. This year’s abstracts cover a wide range of topics in various areas including bench-top science, clinical research, and educational research. These works independently and collectively represent prodigious planning, methodical execution, and deeply insightful findings. With a wide breadth and depth of scientific subject matter, they are steps towards solutions, solutions that advance not only our work and our national and international reputation, but advance the human race. Some of these presentations address a number of diseases including PTSD, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, cancer, depression and fatty liver disease. Other presentations address important health issues such as e-cigarette usage, geriatric health, cannabinoids, opioid prescribing trends and youth prescription abuse. These are in addition to presentations that discuss ways to improve student learning and general wellness in the population. As you can see, the work being conducted is truly transformational and holds great possibility in evolving our understanding of critically important issues. We believe that this thinking, input and collaboration not only showcases current thinking, but sparks new ideas, new modes of thinking, and imagination. We are proud of the minds and hearts of those in this room today. Thank you to all those responsible for making this important event happen, as well as to all those attending the symposium and supporting the work of colleagues, students and friends. We believe this symposium will continue to grow and serve as a platform for the best thinking and research and a home for sparking imagination, solutions, discovery and learning. Sincerely, Renee Coffman, President Roseman University Research Symposium 2019 Program 3 Dear Colleagues and Guests, Welcome to the 2019 Annual Research Symposium at Roseman University of Health Sciences – the 5th anniversary of this university-wide event that highlights the outstanding research and creative endeavors of Roseman community, students, residents, faculty, researchers, staff and our regional and international guests. It is an opportunity to celebrate the innovation, academic scholarship and creativity and a forum to share the discoveries, insight and performance with a broader audience. The day-long event will take place simultaneously at both campuses in South Jordan, Utah and Henderson, Nevada and will feature 1) keynote speakers, 2) oral and poster presentations, 3) meal, and 4) award presentations. Presentations will be judged by faculty members as well as by qualified guests. We would like to give our heartfelt gratitude to the Keynote speakers, our local organizing team members, volunteers and staff who worked tirelessly to make this event happen. We would also like to thank the sponsors for your generous support which is vital for the success of the symposium. We hope you will find this a dynamic opportunity to learn, network and collaborate with fellow healthcare professionals. Sincerely, Dr. Kamran Awan, BDS, PhD, FPFA, FADI Dr. David Rawlins, PhD Chair, South Jordan Campus Chair, Henderson Campus Associate Professor, College of Dental Medicine Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy Roseman University of Health Sciences Roseman University of Health Sciences Roseman University Research Symposium 2019 Program 4 Keynote Speaker: South Jordan Rena D’Souza, DDS, MS, PhD President, International Association for Dental Research (IADR), Professor of Dentistry & Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs & Education, Health Sciences, University of Utah How Science and Technology Advances Impact Oral Health: IADR’s Vision for the Next Century Rena D’Souza is Professor of Dental Sciences, Neurobiology & Anatomy, Pathology and Surgery at the University of Utah. She currently serves as Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and Education for the Health Sciences. As a clinician-scientist, D’Souza has been strongly committed to discovery and mentoring throughout her academic career. She is a past president of the American Association for Dental Research (or, AADR) and is the current President of IADR, the largest global dental research organization with about 12,000 members in over 100 countries worldwide.. Dr. D’Souza has authored over 150 publications and book chapters and has maintained an active research program for over 35 years through grant awards from the National Institutes of Health and other agencies. She has also led two major NIH-funded institutional grants that supported the research training of dentists and dentists-scientists at the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels. She received the 2002 Distinguished Scientist Award from the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) and the Presidential Award for Research Excellence from the Texas A&M Health Science Center in 2010. She was also inducted into the German National Academy of Sciences in 2012. Dr. D’souza was recognized as the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine’s Birnberg Research Medal in 2016. Dr. D’Souza is the proud recipient of over 15 dean’s teaching excellence awards and is the 2017 Irwin D. Mandel Distinguished Mentoring Awardee. Roseman University Research Symposium 2019 Program 5 Keynote Speaker: Henderson David R. Powell, MD Senior Vice President, Metabolism Research Pharmaceutical Biology Department Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The Woodlands, TX Sotagliflozin as an Adjunct to Insulin for Patients with Type 1 Diabetes Dr. David R. Powell is a Senior Vice President over Metabolism Research at Lexicon Pharmaceuticals. He received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey following a bachelor’s degree in biology from Rutgers University. Following residencies in Pediatrics, Pediatric Nephrology, and Pediatric Endocrinology at the Medical University of South Carolina, University of California-San Francisco, and Stanford University, Dr. Powell joined Baylor College of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology. By the time he left Baylor in 2004, he was a Professor of Pediatric Nephrology. He joined Lexicon Pharmaceuticals in The Woodlands, Texas as the Director of Metabolism Research. While at Baylor, Dr. Powell studied ways to treat linear growth failure in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD). His studies demonstrated that growth hormone (GH) increased linear growth in an animal CKD model, a finding that predated clinical data showing that GH improves final adult height of people with CKD. His research group also found that FKHR (now known as FoxO1) was the protein that conferred the negative effect of insulin on hepatic gene transcription. At Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Dr. Powell has used mouse gene knockouts (KOs) to identify drug targets. His group searched for metabolism drug targets within the nearly 5000 knockouts of druggable genes shared by mice and humans. Through this effort, Dr. Powell identified SGLT1 and SGLT2 as superior targets leading to the development of sotagliflozin (LX4211), an orally delivered dual SGLT1/SGLT2 inhibitor that improved glycemic control in clinical trials. His group has also developed LX2761, an SGLT1 inhibitor restricted to the intestine, which is undergoing clinical trials. They also studied Xermelo, an oral tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH) inhibitor that lowers serotonin production and treats carcinoid syndrome diarrhea, and performed preclinical studies for LX1031, a TPH inhibitor that provided significant relief to subjects with diarrhea- predominant irritable bowel syndrome. He has also developed antibodies that lower lipid levels and developed inhibitors of Notum, a Wnt deacetylase, which are bone anabolic agents. His group has also found a number of other key genes that are involved in obesity and diabetes, including polymorphisms that are linked to diabetes risk, as well as genes that influence bone mass in humans. Roseman University Research Symposium 2019 Program 6 Roseman University of Health Sciences Utah Abstracts Roseman University Research Symposium 2019 Program 7 01: Secretome Analysis of Oral Keratinocytes Chronically Exposed to Shisha Shankargouda Patil;1,2 Niraj Babu;3,4 Tejaswini Subbannayya;3 Sonali V Mohan;3,4 Gajanan Sathe;3 Hitendra S Solanki;3 Pavithra Rajagopalan;3 Krishna Patel;3