Hawa Abu, MD, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine and Population and Quantitative Health Sciences

Mentor: Alok Kapoor, MD, MSc and Jennifer Reidy, MD

The role of spirituality in shared decision making for older adults

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Ratna Chaturvedi, PhD

Instructor, Department of Neurobiology

Mentor: Jean Pierre Schatzmann Peron, PhD

Glial control of sleep homeostasis and its role in neurodegeneration

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Elizabeth Douglas, DO, MPH

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Mentor: Tiffany Moore Simas, MD, MPH, MEd

Integrating women's health into primary care

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Mostafa A. Elfawal, PhD

Assistant Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine

Mentor: Jennifer Daly, MD

Curriculum development for human parasitic nematodes

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Johannes Elferich, PhD

Instructor, Department of RNA Therpeutics Institute

Mentor: Marcus Ruscetti, PhD

Development of volume cryo-EM for mapping and structure determination of biomolecules in native tissues

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Adham Farroukh, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Mentor: Kimberly Fisher, MD

Vital protocol: Ventilator independence through accelerated liberation

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Jonathan Green, MD, MSCI

Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery

Mentor: Kimberly Yonkers, MD

Creation and implementation of a peer support program for UMass General Surgery Residents

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Sajjad Hassan, MD, D(ABMM)

Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology at UMass Chan Baystate

Mentor: Allan Walkey, MD, MSc

Myeloma cast nephropathy and the use of therapeutic plasma exchange: Practice pattern variation for use of therapeutic plasma exchange among patients hospitalized with myeloma cast nephropathy

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Ruby Joshi Batajoo, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Mentor: Brian Silver, MD

Effectiveness of testosterone therapy on pubertal development in steroid-treated patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD): A retrospective single-center study

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Elvisa Loshe, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Mentor: Nicholas Smyrnios, MD

Implementing safe reuse of multi-use ophthalmic bottles in perioperative care

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Patrick Lowe, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine

Mentor: Eric Cucchi, PA-C, MS

Improving treatment of alcohol use disorder in the emergency department

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Timothy Menz, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics at UMass Chan Baystate

Mentor: Garrett Zella, MD

IBDo's & Don'ts: Impact of a pediatric IBD education handbook

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Mehrak Moaddab, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Mentor: Deepika Devuni, MD

The hardest decision on VA-ECMO: A global survey of futility, discontinuation practices, and palliative care integration

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Kevin O'Day, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Mentor: Kimi Kobayashi, MD, MBA, SFHM

We need an ECG STAT! But was it actually ordered? An initiative to improve ECG ordering in the cardiac ICU

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Izuchukwu Okafor, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology

Mentor: Melissa Fischer, MD

From needs assessment to innovation: Exploring the development of a pre-dissection resource on anatomical variations

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Emily Padilla, PsyD

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Mentor: Daniel Mullin, PsyD, MPH

Hope as resilience? The impacts of hopefulness on moral injury, psychological well-being, and sustained advocacy behavior among psychologists and psychology trainees

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Laurie Pearson, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Mentor: Mara Epstein, ScD, ScM

Outcomes beyond survival in older adults with acute myeloid leukemia: Quantifying healthcare utilization with SEER Medicare

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Sarah Pearson, PsyD

Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

Mentor: David Hatem, MD

Yes, and...building a family medicine residency medical improv curriculum

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Hector Ribeiro Benatti, PhD, DVM

Instructor, Department of Genetic and Cellular Medicine

Mentor: Nate Hafer, PhD

Repairing biology & sharing knowledge

Phenotype rescue and education in Mucolipidosis II/III: An AAV Therapy pipeline broken down for patient-family education

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Ashley Russo, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery

Mentor: Roberto Caricchio, MD

Designing a multidisciplinary pancreatic cancer care model

A systems-based approach to complex oncology care

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Sandhya Tagaram, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Mentor: Meghna Trivedi, MD

Diagnostic excellence as a patient safety imperative: Implementation and sustainability

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Xavier Vela Parada, MD,FASN

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Mentor: Honghuang Lin, PhD, FAHA

Bringing renal genetics at UMass Chan

Genetic screening for APOL1 pathogenic variants in at-risk populations

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Joshua Wancura, PhD, DABR

Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology

Mentor: Vandana Nagpal, MD

Breast tumor bed radiotherapy calculations: Do modern approaches make a clinically meaningful difference?

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Khursheed Wani, PhD, MS

Instructor, Department of Medicine

Mentor: Cole Haynes, PhD

Pathogen-induced oleata depletion regulates intestinal immunity via UPRER

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Jenna Watson, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology

Mentor: Hugh Silk, MD, MPH, FAAFP

Moving beyond the clinic: Developing a session on structural vulnerability and structural determinants of health for fourth year medical students

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Anna Whelan, MD, FACOG

Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Mentor: Laura Cohen, DO

Time, Team, and Blood: Improving intra-operative hemorrhage response in obstetrics

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Gianna Wilkie, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Mentor: Ben Gerber, MD

Glucagon like peptide-1 receptor agonist therapy after pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes mellitus: A mixed methods study

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Hanqiao (Ciao) Zheng, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology

Mentor: Shyam Patel, MD, PhD

Benign or Neoplastic: A GRAY zone

Cytological Scoring System to distinguish Benign Thyroid Follicular Lesions from Follicular Neoplasms

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