2016 Medical and Dental Student Forum

The Medical and Dental Student Forum will feature presentations from the 2016 awardees for the Glorney-Raisbeck Student Grant in Cardiovascular Disease Research, Ferdinand C. Valentine Student Research Grant in Urology, and the David E. Rogers Medical and Dental Student Research Grant.

Please join us for this event, which will showcase the innovative research conducted by our medical and dental student grant recipients. Faculty mentors, research colleagues, and all who support the work of the recipients are welcome to attend.

The Glorney-Raisbeck Medical Student Grant in Cardiovascular Research

Andrew Abadeer
Weill Cornell Medical College
“Optimizing Performance of Novel Microstructural Scaffolds in Poorly Vascularized Beds”

Mitchel DeVita
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
“CREG1 overexpression enhances transplantation of ESC derived cardiomyocytes into mouse myocardium”

Britny Keith
New York Medical College
“Survivors of Childhood Cancer Face Multiple Health Problems”

Daniel Leisman
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
“Antithrombotic Effects of Ticagelor Alone vs Ticagrelor plus Aspirin Dual Antiplatelet Therapy in a Validated Ex Vivo Model of Thrombosis”

Amanda Owens
Stony Brooke Medicine
“Impact of Heart Disease in Pregnancy on Maternal and Fetal Outcomes During Delivery in New York State”

Jingshuo (Derek) Sun
SUNY Upstate Medical University
“A microfluidic approach to generate multimodal contrast agents for atheroscierosis”

Isaac Teboul
SUNY Upstate Medical University
“Effects of Methotrexate on Cholesterol Handling in Peripheral Monocytes of Post-MI Type 2 Diabetes”

Ferdinand C. Valentine Student Research Grants in Urology

Abimbola Ayangbesan
Weill Cornell Medicine School
“Clinical Relevance of White Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Perinephric Fat from Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma”

Matthew Epstein
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
“The Effect of First Uninterrupted Sleep Period on Outcomes of Nocturia Therapy”

Benjamin Mann
New York Medical College
“Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation in Male Stress Urinary Incontinence”

Suraj Parikh
New York Medical College
“Exploration of Renoprotective Mechanisms of Antioxidants in Oxidative Renal Cell Injury”

The David E Rogers Student Fellowship Program

Neda Bionghi
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
“Improving treatment outcomes for extensively drug resistant tuberculosis using next generation antimycobacterial drugs”

Tamika Brown
Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University
“The influence of Loan Repayment Programs on Career Choice in Community Health Centers”

Corissa Chang
UCSF School of Dentistry
“Importance of content and format in oral health instruction for low-income Mexican immigrant parents: A qualitative study”

Jaydon Kiernan & Koeun Choi
Stony Brook University Global Health Institute
“Identifying the Cultural Practices that Perpetuate Cysticercosis in Infandiana, Madagascar”