2024 CDU / UCLA Medical School Student Research Colloquium Highlights the Challenges of Combating Health Care Disparities
On February 23rd, the Class of 2024 Medical Research Colloquium highlighted current research in health disparities at its annual public presentation. Dr. Shahrzad Bazargan, Chair of the UCLA / CDU Medical School Research Thesis Program, assisted by Program Coordinator Kaveh Dehghan, assembled an impressive array of moderators, mentors, and judges with broad research and subject matter experience.
The team of moderators, judges, and mentors, assist third and fourth-year students in developing and completing an independent research project. While the overall theme is healthcare disparities, students have wide latitude in choosing research projects that include biobehavioral / psychosocial, health services research, and public policy with application to under-resourced communities. Fourthyear students present their findings at the spring annual medical student research colloquium.
Moderators Dr. Shanika Boyce, CDU and UCLA Dr. Stanley Hsia, CDU and UCLA Dr. Gerardo Moreno, CDU and UCLA
Faculty Judges Dr. Vincent Chong, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and CDU Dr. Junko Ozao-Choy Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Dr. Dotun Ogunyemi, CDU Dr. Beverley Petrie, UCLA. Dr. Peggy Sullivan, UCLA. Dr. Sharon Younkin, UCLA.
Student Presenters, Mentors, and Subject Matter Ikeanyi, Chinonyelum( Nonye) Primary Mentor: Polina A. Segalova, PhD
Policy & Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Teal Health: An At- Home Cervical Cancer Screening Device Salazar, Raul Primary Mentor: Gerardo Moreno, MD, MS A Content Analysis of Twitter Posts Related to Fentanyl Overdoses Dominique, Georgina Primary Mentor: A. Lenore Ackerman, MD, PhD Duration of Non-Obstructive Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in End-Stage Renal Disease Patients Undergoing Renal Transplantation: A Systematic Review Edwards, Jordan Primary Mentor: Adam J. Milam, MD, PhD The Role of Methadone in Cardiac Surgery for Management of Postoperative Pain Johnson, Sean Primary Mentor: Fereidoun Abtin, MD Predictors of Invasive from Non-Invasive Adenocarcinoma Using Visual Semantic Features and CAD-Based Texture Analysis Preston, Raslyn Primary Mentor: Judith S. Currier, MD Diversity in HIV Clinical Trials in Los Angeles( DIVERSLA): An Assessment of Barriers Ramirez, Juan Primary Mentor: Kymora B. Scotland, MD, PhD Social Media Impact on Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Management: Are Popular English and Spanish Media Providing the Best Information to Our Patients? Timmons-Vendryes, Richard Primary Mentor: Dallas Swendeman, MD, PhD The Potential of a Hygiene-Based Method and ยก Lubricarte, Liberarte, Lavarte +! in the Prevention of HIV / STI in Peru Valenzuela, Alex Primary Mentor: Zhengping Zhuang, MD, PhD The Last of Us: A Novel Fungal-Based Dendritic Cell Vaccine
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