VCOM 2021 Annual Report

Virginia Research Recognition Day Winners

FACULTY Researcher of the Year Blaise Costa, MPharm, PhD Associate Professor for Pharmacology Biomedical Research

RESIDENTS Clinical Research

Second Place Jasmine Jackson-Akers, DO Evaluation of Online Versus Live Lecture Teaching Format on Family and Internal Medicine Residents Perceived Educational Benefit MEDICAL STUDENT Biomedical Research Structural Integrity and Immune Response Regulation: Neutrophil Attracting Protein A and its Role in the Pathogenesis of Lyme Arthritis Second Place Robert Schranze, Class of 2021 An Assessment of Mental Health Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic Third Place Ami Shah, Class of 2023 Providing Naloxone Training to First-Year Medical Students: A Work in Progress Honorable Mention Gurleen Kaur, Class of 2024 Implications and Significance of Mercury in Rice Clinical Research First Place Brett Brodsky, Class of 2022 Cardiac Pathology Following COVID-19 Infection in Division 1 Athletes Second Place Abigail White, Class of 2022 TNF Alpha Levels as an Indicator of Facial Effleurage Efficacy in Patients with Acute Rhinosinusitis Third Place Travis Smith, Class of 2021 The Impact of COVID-19 on Otolaryngology Practice Patterns First Place Marisela M. Davis, Class of 2024

First Place Angelica Perry, DO Manual Drainage of the Gallbladder Second Place - TIE Zachariah Jensen, DO, LMMG Osteopathic Manipulation Improves Patient Pain Scale Regardless of Operator Experience Samuel Werner Retrospective Review of Maternal Morbidity and Obstetrical Interventions Following Intrapartum Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) Third Place Richard Miller, DO The Effects of Implementing the ABCDEF Protocol in an ICU within a Level III Trauma Center Case Reports First Place Reginald Pinder, II, DO Fight like a Girl Second Place Samantha I. Smith, DO, MS A Rare Case of Corynebacterium Endocarditis of a Native Valve Rare Etiology of Renal Failure in a 25-year- old Caucasian Man: Fabry Disease with a Novel Mutation of GLA GENE Honorable Mention John Biery, DO, CAQSM Expand Your Differential for Abdominal Pain Educational Research Third Place Salem Gaballa

First Place Stefan Duma

A Novel Instrumentation Package to Quantify Rib Biomechanics During Osteopathic Manipulation of the Thorax

Second Place Angela H. Benton

Removal of a Small, Hypothetical Protein Attenuates B. Abortus Survival in Mice and Macrophages Third Place Stephen DiGiuseppe Proteomic and Mechanistic Dissection of the Poxvirus-Customized Ribosome Clinical Research First Place Caroline Moon Thompson, LPC, LSATP Identifying Wellness Options and Measuring Resilience and Burnout Trends in a Residency Education / Simulation Research Comparing Peer-Evaluation Scores with Self-Evaluation Scores During a Cardiac Dysrhythmia Management Simulation with Undergraduate Medical Students Second Place Carrie Baker, DO Measuring Performance Outcomes in Second-Year Medical Students Within the Neonatal Curriculum Design Utilizing High Fidelity Manikin Simulators First Place Watson Edwards

First Place Andrew Wyker, DO

Successful Resident-Led Education and Utilization of Ventilator Prone Positioning

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