VCOM - Virginia 2018 Yearbook

Board Member, Brain Injury Services of Southwest Virginia Member of the New River Valley HeartChase & Walk, American Heart Association Attended OMED 2017 Attended the American Association of Clinical Anatomist (AACA) annual conference in Minneapolis, MN, July, 2017 Attended the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine Annual Meeting; Washington, DC, April, 2018. Abstracts: Dunn AP, Johansen K. Incorporating Clinical Skills in the Anatomy Laboratory: Can Students Document Their Dissections? Poster presented at: Annual Conference of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists, 2017 July 18-21; Minneapolis, MN. Dunn AP, Carpenetti T. The Effect of Introductory Anatomy Videos on First Year Dissection Quality and Documentation. Poster presented at: VCOM-Carolinas 2018 Via Research Recognition Day; 2018 March 30; Spartanburg, SC. Skip Garner, PhD Co-authored 5 papers including “Quantifying medical student clinical experiences via an ICD Code Logging App” and “ZDHHC3 as a risk and mortality marker for breast cancer in African American Women” Member, Institutional Review Board Member, REAP Review Committee Four invited talks nationally and internationally 20 poster presentations internally and externally

Tiffany Carpenetti, PhD

Received funding for a REAP proposal, serving as the co-PI Mentor to Paneeni Lohana, OMSII, 1st place, - poster contest, VCOM Reserach Day 2018.

Ashleigh Prince Dunn, DO Appointed as

National Faculty for the Department of Foundational Biomedical Sciences – Division

Reviewer for the NIH NIAID Special Emphasis grant panel for the NIAID Partnerships for the Development of Vaccines and Immunoprophylactics Targeting Multiple Antimicrobial-Resistant Bacteria (R01, RFA-AI-17-017), February 2018 Attended the ASM Microbe 2018 Conference, June 7-11, 2018 Attended the FOCIS 2018 Conference on June 18-23, 2018. Presented two posters entitled “Antibody-Mediated Protection from an Adenovirus-Vectored RSV Vaccine” and “Respiratory Syncytial Virus Glycoproteins Activate Primary Human Dendritic Cells” Received One Health grant, “Developing a Lamb Model for the Study of Human and Bovine RSV Disease” Received REAP grant, “Development of a Point-of-Care Diagnostic Kit for Bacterial and Viral Pneumonia” Ashleigh Prince Dunn, DO, with her poster presented at the 2017Annual Conference of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists, in Minneapolis, MN.

Anatomy of the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners, May 2018 Served on the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners, COMLEX- USA Level 1 Standards Setting Panel, Chicago, 2018 Invited speaker, Carilion Clinic’s 13th Annual Anesthesiology Workshop, 2018 Faculty Advisor for American Medical Women’s Association VCOM Student Admissions Committee Member Served on the Professional Ethics Standards Board

Teresa Johnson, MS, PhD

Nick Kinney, PhD Co-authored three papers Poster presentation at the AACR Annual Meeting, April 14-18, 2018, in Chicago, IL

Received adjunct faculty status in the Virginia Tech Department of Biochemistry and the Virginia-Maryland

Mike Briener, MD, worked with VCOM students in the Project Smile event that raised funds for a child born with a cleft palette from Wythevillle, in Southwest Virginia.

College of Veterinary Medicine Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology

Poster presentation at VCOM 2018 Research Day

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