August 2025 Good News
Welcome Our New MS1s!
The MD-PhD Program’s involvement in the Summer Pre-Medical Professions Program was a success!
•Thank you to Cali Love and Chris Mederos for guiding the students on a tour through their labs!
Delaney Ding was a co-author of a manuscript in BMC Emergency Medicine:
“Differences in emergency department visit characteristics and resource utilization for persons with human immunodeficiency virus, 2018-2019 compared with 2009-2010”
Jake Ricci was a first author of a manuscript in Interventional Cardiology Clinic:
“Iliac Arterial Intervention”
Amy Peiper and Haley Wilt were co-authors of a manuscript in the American Journal Physiology: Gastrointestinal Liver Physiology:
“Apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter governs neonatal bile acid homeostasis early in life despite its strong ileal repression”
Jake Ricci was first author on a book chapter in the textbook “Peripheral Arterial Disease” entitled:
“Iliac Artery Intervention”
Haley Wilt was a co-author of a manuscript in Cureus:
“Ifosfamide-Induced Partial Arginine Vasopressin Resistance Responsive to Vasopressin/Desmopressin and Amiloride”
Julia Bruner was a first-author of a manuscript in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology:
“Understanding Immune Dynamics in Liver Transplant Through Mathematical Modeling”
Caretia Washington was the first author of a manuscript in Cancer Research Communications:
“Treatment outcomes differ for racial and ethnic minorities with advanced-stage laryngeal cancer: A Florida Cancer Data System analysis”
Anna Fusco was the first author of a commentary in Neurosurgery:
“Commentary: Evaluating the Impact of Frailty on Mortality in Nonoperative and Operative Type II Odontoid Fracture Patients: An ACS-TQIP Survival Analysis of 22,440 Patients”
Sasank Desaraju was a co-author of a manuscript in the Journal of Medical Internet Research Medical Informatics:
“Language Models for Multilabel Document Classification of Surgical Concepts in Exploratory Laparotomy Operative Notes: Algorithm Development Study”
Delaney Ding was a senior author of a manuscript in Journal of Medical Case Reports:
“Immunoglobulin A vasculitis and pustular psoriasis precipitated by Tawon Liar: a case report”
Chloe Warpinski was a co-author of a manuscript in Annals of Family Medicine:
“Broadening Inclusion of Primary Care: Trainee Insights and Commentary on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”
Katie Flaherty was a co-author of a manuscript in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene:
“Evaluation of a Scalable Design for a Pediatric Telemedicine and Medication Delivery Service: A Prospective Cohort Study in Haiti”
Caretia Washington was a first-author of a manuscript in CHEST Pulmonary:
“Evaluating the Effectiveness of ChatGPT and Google Gemini in Providing Lung Cancer Screening Recommendations for Vulnerable Communities”
Conner Angelle presented a poster at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Toronto:
“The role of Apolipoprotein E in Amyloid Beta deposition: Insights from dense-core and diffuse models of amyloidosis”
Cali Love earned a position on the Cancer Center’s T32!
Jack Figg’s F30 was funded:
“The role of adoptive cellular therapy on myeloid-derived suppressor cell depletion in glioma”
Jessica Molina’s F30 was funded:
“Identifying Phenotypes in Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis through Pain, Biomechanics, and Machine Learning Analyses”
Miranda Reid’s F30 was funded:
“Evaluating an outreach strategy to improve the uptake of shared decision-making for lung cancer screening”
Scott Cohen successfully defended his dissertation:
“Hospital Transmission and Outbreak Detection of Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens Using Genomic and Real-World Data”
Holy Ryan and Julia Bruner got engaged!
