VCOM 2025 Annual Report

97

RESEARCH

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I plan to pursue a career in primary care, with a strong interest in Family Medicine. I hope to form long-term relationships, giving me the opportunity to care for the whole patient—from birth to the final days of their life. I am passionate about integrating preventative care into

Turner T*, Tjiattas-Saleski L . Elderly Woman With Extensor Lag. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. 2025 Jan 13;6(1):100037. PMID: 40012639. Villar NM*, Lee G*, Vo J*, Cluney C*, Dennis LA*, Dittmar J . The First Bilateral Staged Oxford Cementless Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty in Louisiana Following FDA Approval: A Case Report. Cureus. 2025 Dec 15;17(12):e99273. PMID: 41541961. Warner M*, Villa N*, Winebrenner J*, Lewis S, Tjiattas-Saleski L . The Complexity of Weak Rhesus Positivity in Pregnancy: Challenges and Management—A Case Report. Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med. 2025 Nov;9(4):436-438. PMID: 41191872. Warner MG*, Ranta EK*, Tjiattas-Saleski L. Child With Progressive Perioral Lesions. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. 2025 Nov 27;7(1):100281. PMID: 41399460. Wazir S*, Salinkas K*, Geneste B*, Shao J, Lipka JM . Low-Grade Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma of the Parotid in a Pediatric Survivor of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Cureus. 2025 Oct 11;17(10):e94346. PMID: 41230296. Weppner J , Rosenthal K, Bath J, Locklear T, Martinez M. IGF-1 as a Biomarker for Symptom Severity in Adult Traumatic Brain Injury: Evidence from an Observational Study. Neurotrauma Rep. 2025 Apr 21;6(1):345-354. PMID: 40697802. Weppner J . Discriminative validity of the interprofessional Collaborator Assessment Rubric. J Interprof Care. 2026 Jan Feb;40(1):188-191. Aug 4. PMID: 40760682. Williams R . COVID-19 Humic/Fulvic Acid Plus Epigallocatechin Gallate Treatment: A Retrospective Chart Review. Cureus. 2025 Jan 9;17(1):e77188. PMID: 39925527. Witte CL*, Dillard DJ*, Mesaris TD*, Hall AN*, Beck D , Dalati G. An Elusive Case of Transient 6:1 High-Grade Atrioventricular Block Despite Normal Initial Testing. Cureus. 2025 Dec 3;17(12):e98384. PMID: 41487766.

my practice—helping patients stay healthy and avoid costly hospital visits through education and early intervention.”

Daniel Frascella ’27 VCOM-Virginia, Howard Levine Scholarship

Shick T, Perkins C, Paul A, Martinez M, Joyce J, Beach K, Swahlan J, Weppner J . Randomized Controlled Trial: Preliminary Investigation of the Impact of High-Intensity Treadmill Gait Training on Recovery Among Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury. Neurotrauma Rep. 2025 Jan 24;6(1):82-92. PMID: 39882311. Singhal R, Sachdeva D, Wortman Ii K, Lall R . Unmasking Semaglutide-Induced Gastroparesis: The Dangers of Rapid Dose Escalation in a Diabetic Patient. Cureus. 2025 Sep 5;17(9):e91679. PMID: 41054677. Smith C*, Tjiattas-Saleski L . Ingested Foreign Body in a 2-Year-Old Boy. Osteopathic Family Physician. 2025 Spring;17(2):31-33. EID: 2-s2.0-105007464243. Smith L, Navarro J, Kidd M, Keesee J, Nagabandi S, Khouzam RN . Amiodarone: Get in rhythm or get off the dance floor. Analyzing the overuse of long term amiodarone in patients with atrial fibrillation. Curr Probl Cardiol. 2025 Oct;50(10):103145. PMID: 40769232. Spooner A, Helton AG, Lee V*, Redden D , Ponce BA, Fernicola JP, Ruark RJ. Quality Assessment of Computer-Assisted Navigation Knee Arthroplasty Studies. J Arthroplasty. 2025 Dec;40(12):3335-3341.e1. PMID: 40484052. Stein B*, Simons R, Sahhar H , Rishmawi S , Shaw AK. Hypoglycemic Encephalopathy With Multisystem Organ Dysfunction in an Infant With MEGD(H)EL Syndrome. Cureus. 2025 Nov 26;17(11):e97867. PMID: 41458770.

Sullivan AB, Davis B, Kidd J , Chiong-Rivero H. Understanding Depression in People Living with Multiple Sclerosis: A Narrative Review of Recent Literature. Neurol Ther. 2025 Jun;14(3):681-710. PMID: 40146488. Tarun MTI, Ebrahim HY , Dawud D, Elmageed ZYA , Corey E, El Sayed KA. The Olive Phenolic S-(-)-Oleocanthal as a Novel Intervention for Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancers: Therapeutic and Molecular Insights. Nutrients. 2025 Dec 17;17(24):3947. PMID: 41470892. Tarun MTI, Ebrahim HY , El Sayed KA. The Olive Phenolic S-(-)-Hydroxyoleocanthal Attenuates Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer via Modulation of EPHA3-Centered Oncogenic Network. Cancers (Basel). 2025 Dec 21;18(1):26. PMID: 41514539. Thuesen S*, Rogers M . Rural-Nonrural Disparities in Sports Medicine Access in Secondary School Athletics in Virginia. Curr Sports Med Rep. 2025 Jan 1;24(1):4-8. PMID: 39749951. Tiede DR, Plotkin DL, McIntosh MC, Michel JM, Huggins KW, Beck DT , Goodlett MD, Carr JC, Schoenfeld BJ, Mobley CB, Young KC, Swinton PA, Frugé AD, Roberts MD. Resistance training-induced appendicular lean tissue mass changes are largely unrelated to pre-training bone characteristics in a larger cohort of untrained adults. Front Physiol. 2025 Dec 3;16:1681719. PMID: 41415307.