VCOM 2024 Annual Report

Biomedical, Educational, and Clinical Research Interests

Population, Community Health, and Healthcare Delivery • Fitness and health behaviors • Nutrition and obesity • Women’s health • International research in Zika virus • International water quality studies • Health in international disadvantaged populations • International environmental toxicology Educational Research • Simulation, educational models, and service-based learning • Medical education and graduate medical education • Interprofessional education • Educational technology • Teaching methods and assessment tools General Medicine/Other • Ethics research • Military research on blood storage, combat casualty care • Cardiopulmonary • Free radicals and antioxidants • Birth defects • Diabetes • Immunotoxicology • Pharmacology • Artificial intelligence and machine learning in medicine • Syndromic surveillance for emerging biothreats

Musculoskeletal Research • Injury prevention • Rehabilitative care • Kinesiology • Sports medicine • Nutraceuticals and natural products • Lupus and autoimmune disease OMM/OMT • Opioid pain management alternatives • Neuromusculoskeletal health • Biomechanically derived studies • Medical imaging derived studies • Quantitative and functional outcomes studies Neuroscience • Neurodegenerative disease including Alzheimer’s • Aging and neurological research • Nanomedicine and neurologic health • Concussion and traumatic brain injury including blast injury Cancer Research and Genetics • Precision medicine • Computational biology and bioinformatics solutions • Biomarker and drug target discovery • Genomics • Genetic basis of disease • Translational research

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