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2024 Annual TRS Poster Finalists

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TRS is always an amazing highlight of the hard work and talent among our trainees in basic science and clinical research. For this year’s poster presentation, abstracts were submitted by undergraduate students, graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, residents, and associate fellows. Each poster was judged on scientific merit, presentation and communications skills, and evidence that the trainee understood the significance of their work and played the major role in obtaining the data upon which the poster was based.

trainee research symposium panelists speaker 01Pictured L to R: Drs. KeAndrea Titer, John I. Kennedy, Jr., Megan Hays, and Laurence BoitetLaurence Boitet, PhDLaurence Boitet, PhDThe TRS Keynote Speaker was Laurence Boitet, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Education in the Heersink School of Medicine and UAB Medicine's Director of Biomedical Trainee Wellness, who presented, "Burn Bright, Not Out: A Call to Action on Biomedical Trainee Burnout." The panelists were KeAndrea Titer, Ph.D., Associate Professor in division of General Internal Medicine, Megan Hays, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation in the Heersink School of Medicine and Clinical Psychologist, and John Kennedy, Jr., M.D., Professor Emeritus and DOM Senior Advisor and Director of Wellness.    

A special thank you to the DOM Research Excellence Advancement and Mentoring Council and DOM faculty who served as judges. We appreciate everyone for their continued support of research in our Department!

Congratulations to the 2024 DOM TRS Winners! 

Dyan Alvarez, MD

Dyan Alvarez, MD

J. Claude Bennett Award for Excellence in Research by an Associate Fellow (tie)

Division:  Gerontology, Geriatrics & Palliative Care

Mentor: Sylvia Huang, PhD

Poster title: Effects of a Multimodal Self-Care Curriculum on Mitigating Burnout and Enhancing Self-Compassion in a Hospice and Palliative Fellowship Program

Naman Shetty, MD

Naman Shetty, MD

J. Claude Bennett Award for Excellence in Research by an Associate Fellow (tie)

Division:  Cardiovascular Disease

Mentor: Pankaj Arora, MD

Poster title: Association of Predicted Deleterious Genetic Variants for Inherited Cardiomyopathies with Clinical Outcomes in a Multi-Ancestry US Population

Haifa Alsharif

Haifa Alsharif

Samuel B. Barker Award for Excellence in Research by a Graduate Student (tie)

Division: Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism

Mentor: Sushant Bhatnagar, PhD

Poster title: Exploring the Metabolic Impact of Brain Angiogenesis Inhibitor 3 (BAI3) on Energy and Glucose Homeostasis

Gretchen Bollar

Gretchen Bollar

Samuel B. Barker Award for Excellence in Research by a Graduate Student (tie)

Division:  Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine

Mentor: Susan Birket, PhD, PharmD

Poster title: Chronic Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa co-infection causes lung structural damage in the adult cystic fibrosis rat

Keri Kemp, PhD

Keri Kemp, PhD

Joseph Reeves Award for Excellence in Research by a Postdoctoral Scholar

Division: Nephrology

Mentor: Sylvie Mrug, PhD

Poster title: Genetic Disruption of the Cardiomyocyte Circadian Clock Impacts Diurnal Variations in Cardiac miRNA Species

Kate McCarty, MD

Kate McCarty, MD

Thomas N. James Award for Excellence in Research by a Resident

Division: Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology

Mentor: Maria Danila, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.

Poster title: Analysis of Social Determinants of Health Documentation and Prevalence among Patients with RMD in the UAB Health System

Feroze Ganaie, PhD

Feroze Ganaie, PhD

Jeanne M. Marrazzo Award for Excellence in Research by a Staff Scientist 

Division: Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine

Mentor: Moon Nahm, MD

Poster title: Discovery of a novel pneumococcal capsule type 33E that has emerged from vaccine type 33F via a single gene inactivation and may evade 33F-induced immunity

Brianna Monroe

Brianna Monroe

Suzanne Oparil Award for Excellence in Research by an Undergraduate Student

Division:  Nephrology

Mentor: David Pollock, PhD

Poster title: Bmal1 contributes to mean blood pressure rhythms in rats on a low salt diet

 

2024 TRS Poster Semi-Finalists