VCOM 2024 Annual Report

Research Recognition Day Winners VCOM-Carolinas

Student Researcher of the Year Max Muir, Class of 2024

Poster competition winners, by category, were: Case-Based Reports First place Yassine Lahlou, Class of 2025; Mariam Aamir, Class of 2026; Victoria Shadiack, DO Efficacy Of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment in Managing Chronic Migraines: A Case Study

Second place Anna Marchek, Class of 2026; Julia Wolf, Class of 2026; Georgia O’Leary, Class of 2026; Gabriela Pages, Class of 2026; Madison Benefield, Class of 2026; Brooke Bennett, Class of 2026; Priyanka Arunkumar, Class of 2027; Marc Burrows, LMSW; Alexis Stoner, PhD; Jeff Cashman, DO Self-Administered Naloxone as an Adjunct to Reduce Mortality and Morbidity Rate in Opioid Overdose Deaths Third place (tie) JuliSu DiMucci-Ward, PhD; Paul Switzer, MD, DHA; J. Christopher Caston, MD; Christopher Goddard, Class of 2025; Andrew Walker, Class of 2026; Andrew Helmy, Class of 2026; Rohit Putcha, Class of 2026; Niharika Kandala, Class of 2026; Dema Hamed, Class of 2026; Chirag Lodha, Class of 2025; Sarah Geevarughese, Class of 2025; Rakhi Mira Patel, Class of 2025 Correlations between Methyldopa administration and norepinephrine levels in 14 outpatient psychiatric patients: A retrospective chart review

Biomedical Sciences First place

Levi Diggins, Class of 2025; Rebecca Corallo, Class of 2026; Daniel Ross; Olivia Lewis; Krishna Patel, Class of 2026; Sundeep Bhanot, Class of 2027; Rachel Daley, Class of 2026; Bidyut K Mohanty

Dynamics of noncanonical DNA structures of c-Myc Oncogene

Second place Keenan B. Caddell, Class of 2025; Jordan Winebrenner, Class of 2025; Oluwamuye F. Akinbote, MD Management of Labor in a Patient with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease: A Case Study Third place Rachel Hemsath Class of 2025; Shawn Votruba Class of 2025; Nadim Salman, MD Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis As The Initial Presentation For Graves’ Disease In A Hispanic Male

Second place Krishna Patel; Chirag Lodha; Christopher Smith; Levi Diggins; Venkata Kolluru; Daniel Ross; Christopher Syed; Olivia Lewis; Rachel Daley; Rebecca Corallo; Jacob Thaddeus; Sundeep Bhanot; Bidyut K Mohanty ExoChew: An exonuclease technique to generate single-stranded DNA libraries Third place Alexander Holland, Class of 2025; Robyn Sawyers, Class of 2025; Gabrielle Aluisio, Class of 2026; Matthew Fitzpatrick, OMSII; Tyler Aluisio, Class of 2026; Zoltan Hajdu, MD Fast-Conducting Gap Junctions Explain

Clinical Education First place

Third place (tie) Robyn Sawyers, Class of 2025;

Why The Pulmonary Myocardium Becomes The Leading Rhythm Generator For The Heart

Nichole Tackett, Class of 2024; Alyssa McMandon, Class of 2026; T.J. Mack, RN; Meagan Evangelista, MD; Heather Bendyk, MBA; Kristine Lombardozzi, MD Interpersonal Violence and Social Determinants of Health

Mari Ascano-Ravelo, RN, Class of 2026; Danielle Drew, RN, Class of 2025; Elias Bouyounes, Class of 2026; Tommy Lindsey, DO; Michael Parks, MPA; David Redden, PhD Cardiac Arrest Simulation Response Time: A Comparative Study in Preclinical Medical Education

Oral presentation winners, by category, were: Case-Based Reports

Clinical Education First place Creighton Kellogg and Andrew Hospodor

Biomedical Sciences First place Rebecca Corallo

First place Rayhan Karimi

Second place Quang-Minh Dang

Second place An Nguyen

Second place (tie) Nicholas Minner

Second place (tie) Vineet Madishetty and Mark Dawod

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