VCOM 2025 Annual Report

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Jan. 1, 2025, through Dec. 31, 2025 VCOM Publications and Presentations (continued)

Nguyen J*, Nguyen JQ, Moore JC*, Krutsinger B*, Overturf MD . Branch Retinal Artery Occlusion in a Young Adult: A Diagnostic Clue to Systemic Embolic Risk. Cureus. 2025 Sep 14;17(9):e92291. PMID: 41098245. Nguyen J*, Sasser SM*, Sharma N, Overturf MD . Technical Adaptations in Kyphoplasty for T5 Vertebral Collapse With Sharp Kyphotic Angulation. Cureus. 2025 Sep 19;17(9):e92715. PMID: 41116957. Oles V, Dash S, Anandakrishnan R . Bigpicc: a graph-based approach to identifying carcinogenic gene combinations from mutation data. BMC Bioinformatics. 2025 Jun 7;26(1):155. PMID: 40481393. Omar R*, Khan S*, Pabon MR*, Baray A*, Greene G*, Millard JA . Statistical shape analysis of the incus. Folia Morphol (Warsz). 2025 Jul 4. PMID: 40611732. Omolekan TO, Folahan JT, Tesfay MZ, Mohan H, Dutta O, Rahimian L, Ferdous KU, Ghavimi R, Cios A, Beng TK, Francis J, D’Auvergne O, Borad MJ, Kousoulas KG, DiGiuseppe S , Nagalo BM, Chamcheu JC. Viral warfare: unleashing engineered oncolytic viruses to outsmart cancer’s defenses. Front Immunol. 2025 Aug 25;16:1618751. PMID: 40927720. Parekh A*, Patel K*, Ralston G*, Donald A*, Beier E*, Carroll L, Redden D . Assessing the Prevalence of Depression Among English- and Spanish-Speaking Patients at a Free Medical Clinic. Cureus. 2025 Oct 1;17(10):e93648. PMID: 41181785. Patel A*, Shah S*, Lim J*, Kang D*, Ramkumar V*, Brown A*, Devereaux RS, Ebrahim HY, Abd Elmageed ZY . Comparative Analysis of Facial Injuries From Electric and Gas Stoves: A National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) Database Study. Cureus. 2025 Sep 2;17(9):e91499. PMID: 41050021. Patel D*, Lewis O*, Mohanty BK, Eagerton D, Foushee JA, Tripathi K . Role of Aberrant GLI as a Biomarker and Signaling Pathway in Cancers. Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(21), 11396. EID: 2-s2.0-105021481906. Patel N*, Beskow C*, Patel T, Crean A, Virgilio R . Incidental Discovery of a Sigmoid Colon Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Mimicking Colitis: A Case Report. Cureus. 2025 Aug 28;17(8):e91194. PMID: 41018318.

Patel P*, Desai Y*, Bhagtani H, Redden D, Abraham-Hardee S . Enhancing Childhood Educator Knowledge and Confidence: Virtual “Coffee Chat” Interventions with Medical Professionals. Cureus. 2025 Jul 4;17(7):e87290. PMID: 40761974. Peoples BM, Harrison KD, Samaan MA, Mobley CB, Redden DT , Roper JA. Knee Health Is a Major Determinant of Mobility Across the Healthspan. J Funct Morphol Kinesiol. 2025 Nov 20;10(4):454. PMID: 41283561. Peoples BM, McIntosh MC, Harrison KD, Smith BR, Guzman KGS, Campos-Vargas SE, Cifuentes DC, Mueller BJ, Kavazis AN, Beck DT , Roberts MD, Roper JA. Beyond strength: dietary nitrate augments self-selected functional mobility after resistance training in middle-aged adults. Geroscience. 2025 Dec 18. PMID: 41408034. Perera IR*, Daniels T, Looney J, Gittings K, Rawlins FA 2nd . Predicting New York Heart Association (NYHA) heart failure classification from medical student notes following simulated patient encounters. Sci Rep. 2025 Jul 15;15(1):25491. PMID: 40665036. Price KW*, Bhagtani H, Abraham Hardee S , Yeager D*, Anandakrishnan R . Transition to Clinical Years Podcast Series: A Pilot Project to Support Rising Third-Year Students. Cureus. 2025 Apr 16;17(4):e82359. PMID: 40385779. Ranta EK*, Ranta JC*, Redden D, Stoner AM . A quantitative analysis comparing pre-clinical volunteering hours with third-year medical students’ preceptor evaluations. J Osteopath Med. 2025 Nov 5. PMID: 41187763. Reese CF, Gooz M, Hajdu Z , Hoffman S. CD45+/ Col I+ Fibrocytes: Major source of collagen in the fibrotic lung, but not in passaged fibroblast cultures. Matrix Biol. 2025 Apr;136:87-101. PMID: 39828137. Refai S*, Mattar A*, Patel N*, Hull SD, Virgilio R . An Atypical Case of Miller Fisher Syndrome: Classic Clinical Triad Despite Negative Anti-GQ1b Antibody. Cureus. 2025 Mar 13;17(3):e80529. PMID: 40225479.

Refai S*, Mattar A*, Safarjalani Z*, Syed A*, Haggag R*, Virgilio R . Valsalva Leading to Pain in the Left Arm: A Case of Paradoxical Embolism. Cureus. 2025 Mar 19;17(3):e80834. PMID: 40255821. Reid BE*, DiGiuseppe S , Akbarian Tefaghi H. Elevated D-dimer Levels in the Exacerbation of End-Stage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) With Hypercapnia. Cureus. 2025 Feb 24;17(2):e79574. PMID: 40144410. Reid BE*, Perez M*, Abd Elmageed Z, DiGiuseppe S , Balbuena K. Spinal Cord Infarction Following Zoledronic Acid Administration in a Patient With Metastatic Prostate Cancer. Cureus. 2025 Nov 3;17(11):e96011. PMID: 41356986. Rizkallah A*, Deer A*, Katkic M*, Millard JA . Landmark based morphometric analysis of the pulmonary valve. Surg Radiol Anat. 2025 Apr 3;47(1):114. PMID: 40178636. Robb J, Dittmar JM , Inskip SA, Rose AK, Mitchell PD, O’Connell TC, Price M, Cessford C. More continuity than change following the Black Death epidemic in medieval Cambridge. Sci Rep. 2025 Sep 29;15(1):33388. PMID: 41023128. Ross D , Lewis O*, McLean O*, Bhanot S*, Donahue S*, Baker R*, Dias R*, Eagerton D , Mohanty V, Mohanty BK . Thermally activated irreversible homogenization of G-quadruplexes in an ALS/FTD-associated gene. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 Nov 24:2025.06.02.657482. PMID: 41394713. Sacks M*, Lewis S . Tubal Stump Ectopic Pregnancy Following Salpingectomy: A Rare Diagnostic Challenge. Cureus. 2025 Sep 21;17(9):e92869. PMID: 41127722. Saliba NB*, Adams KJ*, Sims K*, Fontan E*, Hollingsworth JC . Acute Myocarditis Following Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Gastroenteritis in a 30-Year-Old Male. Cureus. 2025 Feb 13;17(2):e78961. PMID: 40091973. Schultz AM*, Creger PE, Mathews TJ, Minshall CT, Lombardozzi KA . Congenital Peritoneal Encapsulation: A Review. Am Surg. 2025 Aug;91(8):1378-1387. PMID: 40340438.

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