VCOM 2025 Annual Report

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RESEARCH

February 14, 2025 Virginia Research Day Winners

Third Place Neal Patel ‘27 Infective Endocarditis in a 19-Year-Old Basketball Player Medical Student—Public Health First Place Elijah Akinade ‘28 Young Adult Location and Logistics Consideration and Rural Environments: The Y’ALL CARE Evaluation Second Place Danielle Sullivan ‘25 Impact of Childhood Competitive Sports Participation on Young Adult’s Mental Wellbeing Third Place Prutha Patel ‘26, Yash Desai ‘26 Enhancing Childhood Educator Knowledge And Confidence: Virtual “Coffee Chat” Interventions With Medical Professionals Medical Resident—Case Reports First Place Patrick Pagaduan Unraveling Kartagener’s: The Triad of Mystery in Cilia Dysfunction Second Place Mirna Martinez Lazarus Phenomenon: Delayed Return of Spontaneous Circulation After Termination of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in a Patient With an In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Arrest Third Place Alex McKinney Candida in the Chest: A Case Report on Fungal Thoracis

Graduate Student—Biomedical First Place Rana Estaleen Gut Microbiota Immunomodulations in CX3CR1 Deficient Lupus Mice Second Place De’Yanna Hines Measurement of Glucose Uptake in an Alzheimer’s Disease Rat Model Post Cranial Osteopathic Manipulation Using FDG-PET Imaging Third Place Nora Ahmed Investigating Regional Diffrences in Migroglia Phenotype Across Combined Repetative Blast Exposure and Delayed Closed Head Controlled Cortical Impact Induced Traumatic Brain Injury Medical Student—Biomedical First Place Antonio Balducci ‘27 Determining the Prevalence of the Neuroanatomical Sensory Elements of the C1 Spinal Level: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Second Place Romina Boortalary ‘27 The Antimicrobial Effects of Dragon’s Blood on Select Gram Positive Bacteria Third Place Priyanka Shah ‘26 Analyzing the Facial Nerve at Zuker’s Point Using Geometric Morphometrics: A Cadaveric Study Undergraduate Student—Biomedical First Place Juliana Lopez-Vivas The effect of Biolaminin in horse Schwann cells in vitro culture Faculty—Biomedical First Place Kelly Roballo, DO NANOG induces skeletal muscle reprogramming and enhances reinnervation after peripheral nerve injury

Medical Student—Clinical First Place Cara Satoskar ‘27

Co-Morbid Incidence of Endometriosis and Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: A Large-Scale Cohort Analysis Second Place Satvika Nimmagadda ‘26 Duration of Steroid Taper in Acute COPD Exacerbations with Acute Hypoxicand/or Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure to Prevent Hospital Readmissions Third Place R. Toncich ‘27 Comparative Analysis of Methods for Obtaining Median Nerve Cross Sectional Area Using Ultrasound Medical Student—Education and Simulation First Place Gabrielle Moore ‘27 Publication Misrepresentation in Residency Applications: A Discussion and Possible Solution Second Place Riya Patel ‘27 Integrating Virtual Human Dissector into a Digital Escape Room Experience: An Online Anatomy Education Study Third Place Pranav Varrey ‘27 All of Us Database Educational Module - An Effort to Increase Research Accessibility for Students in Rural Communities Faculty—Education and Simulation First Place Taylor Daniels Medical Student—Case Reports First Place Olivia Cooney ‘26 Xanthogranulomatous Pyelonephritis in the Absence of Positive Urine Cultures Second Place Paige O’Brien Daly ‘26 Gallbladder Volvulus Masquerading As Gastric Volvulus: A Diagnostic Challenge In An Elderly Patient

Faculty Researcher of the Year Biomedical: Aaron Beger, PhD Clinical: Ed Magalhaes, PhD, LPC Student Researcher of the Year Cara Satoskar ‘27

Graduate Student—Clinical First Place

Haley Highsmith, Sarah Howell The Validity of a Pose Estimation App Compared to a Universal Goniometer to Measure Joint Position