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Research Day 2023

Event Contact

Jenna Ferguson, MPA, MA
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Future Dates

April 29-30, 2024

DOM Annual Research Day 2021

April 27, 2021

We would like to extend a special thank-you to our plenary/oral/poster presenters, judges, special guests, and volunteers who helped to make this year’s event possible. With the challenges faced over this last year due to COVID, a shift towards a completely virtual event would not have been possible without you! We truly appreciate the time and effort you gave to ensuring Research Day’s success.

Congratulations to the 2021 plenary presenters and oral presentation winners!

Plenary Presenters

Vasilii Bushunow, MD
Reed Doerfler, MD
Rachael Gordon, MD, PhD
Sarah Jones, MD, MS
Timothy Kim, MD
Chantal Lemoine, MD
Vinny Negi, PhD
Georgios Triantafyllou, MD

Oral Presentation Winners

Haylee Baxendell, BS
Syed Bukhari, MD
Callie Drohan, MD
Tumader Khouja, BDS, MPH, PhD
Justin Sui, BA

Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE

Research Day 2021 Guest Speaker

Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE, is the Jackson Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Physician-in-Chief, Department of Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Armstrong is a graduate of Yale University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She was a resident and chief resident in Medicine at Johns Hopkins and completed a general internal medicine fellowship and Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1998, she joined the faculty at Penn and became Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine in 2008. At Penn, she also served as Associate Director of the Abramson Cancer Center and Co-Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. In April of 2013, she was appointed as physician-in-chief of the Mass General Department of Medicine. Dr. Armstrong is an internationally recognized investigator in the areas of medical decision making, quality of care, and cancer prevention and outcomes. For her work, she received the Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine, the Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Federation of Medical Research, the Alice Hersh Award from Academy Health, and election to the American Society of Clinical Investigation, Association of American Physicians and National Academy of Medicine. In addition to her career in health policy and disparities research, Dr. Armstrong is a dedicated practicing internist with a longitudinal primary care practice and rotations as the Bigelow visit on the inpatient general medicine services. Over her career, Dr. Armstrong has prioritized her role in medical education, including developing and leading courses on clinical decision making at Penn and at Mass General and founding multiple innovative educational programs including the Master of Science program in Health Policy Research at Penn and the Center for Educational Innovation and Scholarship at Mass General. Diversity and inclusion are central to Dr. Armstrong’s leadership, including her award-winning roles in the advancement of women, her commitment to programs to support diversity across faculty and trainees at the MGH, and her research leadership in health disparities and community-based research. Dr. Armstrong oversees a Department of more than 1,100 faculty members who span ten clinical divisions and six research units, as well as the Department’s educational program in undergraduate and graduate medical education.

Click here to watch Dr. Armstrong's presentation: Unraveling Disparities in Genomic Medicine

Plenary Presenters

Vasilii Bushunow, MD

Resident, General Internal Medicine

Palliative Care Attitudes and Experiences Among Resident Physicians at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Watch Dr. Bushunow’s presentation

Reed Doerfler, MD

Chief Medical Resident, General Internal Medicine

Molecular Alterations in Hurthle Cell Nodules and Preoperative Cancer Risk

Rachael Gordon, MD, PhD

Resident, Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology

B Cell and Macrophage NADPH Oxidase is Protective in Murine Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Watch Dr. Gordon’s presentation

Sarah Jones, MD, MS

Junior Faculty, General Internal Medicine

Training Internal Medicine Residents to Perform Telemedicine Video Visits: A Novel Skill-Based Curriculum

Timothy Kim, MD

Resident, General Internal Medicine

Decreased Cerebellar Volume and Functional Connectivity Identify Novel CNS Alterations in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Chantal Lemoine, MD

Resident, General Internal Medicine

Early Patterns of CPAP Usage as Predictors of CPAP Adherence

Vinny Negi, PhD

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Endocrinology and Metabolism

Targeting Epigenetic Readers Preserves Î²-cells by Modulating Inflammatory Pathways in Diabetes

Georgios Triantafyllou, MD

Clinical Fellow, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine

Mitochondria Targeted Reactive Oxygen Species Scavenging with MitoTEMPO Improves Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension in A Novel Rat Model of Combined Pre- and Post-Capillary Pulmonary Hypertension

Oral Presenters


Adeyinka Adejumo, MD, MS Clinical Fellow, A6 Category: Health Services		Anna LaRosa, MD Clinical Fellow, Cardiology Category: Health Services
Reem Alameer, MBBS Clinical Fellow, Infectious Diseases Category: Clinical		Travis Lear, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Aging Institute Category: Bench or Basic Science
Nameer Al-Yousif, MD Resident, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Category: Clinical		Yang Li, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Category: Bench or Basic Science
Heather Ballance, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Aging Institute Category: Bench or Basic Science		Jacob Lloyd, MD Resident, Endocrinology and Metabolism Category: Quality Improvement
Aditi Bawa, MD Resident, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Category: Clinical		Abigail Maloy Lab Staff/Technician, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Category: Translational
Adipong Brickshawana, MD, PhD Clinical Fellow, Cardiology Category: Bench or Basic Science		Stephanie Maximous, MD, MS Junior Faculty, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Category: Medical Education
Carlos Caballero, MD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Renal-Electrolyte Category: Translational		Maureen Mburu, MD Lab Staff/Technician, Vascular Medicine Institute Category: Translational
Jeffrey Chen, BA Medical Student, Endocrinology and Metabolismcrinology and Metabolism Category: Bench or Basic Science		Nilay Mitash, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Category: Bench or Basic Science
Ana Clemente-Sanchez, MD, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Category: Translational		Raja Gopal Reddy Mooli, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Endocrinology and Metabolism Category: Bench or Basic Science
Sarah Clifford, BS Medical Student, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Category: Clinical		Sridesh Nath, MBBS Clinical Fellow, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Category: Translational
Callie Drohan, MD Junior Faculty, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Category: Translational		Jessica Oh, MD Resident, General Internal Medicine Category: Clinical
Shumail Fatima, MD Junior Faculty, General Internal Medicine Category: Clinical		Soumojit Pal, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cardiology Category: Bench or Basic Science
Jonathan Florentin, PhD Junior Faculty, Vascular Medicine Institue Category: Bench or Basic Science		Shulin Qin, MD, PhD Junior Faculty, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Category: Translational
Haritha Gandicheruvu, MD Resident, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Category: Clinical		Cody Rutledge, MD, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Vascular Medicine Institute Category: Bench or Basic Science
Eli Goshorn, MD Clinical Fellow, Infectious Category: Quality Improvement		Leslie Scheunemann, MD, MPH Junior Faculty, Geriatric Medicine Category: Health Services
Rebecca Green, MD Clinical Fellow, General Internal Medicine Category: Medical Education		Erin Schikowski, MD Resident, Cardiology Category: Health Services
Lara Groetzinger, PharmD, BCCCP Clinical Pharmacist, Quality Improvement Category: Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine		Sanjay Sridaran, MD Resident, General Internal Medicine Category: Health Services
Mara Hartoyo Undergraduate Student, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Category: Clinical		Josiah Strawser, MD Resident, General Internal Medicine Category: Medical Education
Ronan Hsieh, MD Clinical Fellow, Hemonc Category: Clinical		Kelly Strong Undergraduate Student, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Category: Translational
Filip Istvanic, MD Resident, Cardiology Category: Clinical		Charit Taneja, MD Clinical Fellow, Endocrinology and Metabolism Category: Clinical
Sagar Kale, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Category: Translational		Kazuya Tanimura, MD, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Category: Epidemiology
Tumader Khouja, BDS, MPH, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow, General Internal Medicine Category: Health Services		Roger Tieu, BS Medical Student, Renal-Electrolyte Category: Bench or Basic Science
Minjung Kim, MS Lab Staff/Technician, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Category: Bench or Basic Science		Sathish Vasamsetti, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Vascular Medicine Institute Category: Bench or Basic Science
Corrine Kliment, MD, PhD Junior Faculty, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine Category: Bench or Basic Science		Katherine Wood, PhD Junior Faculty, Vascular Medicine Institute Category: Translational
Matthew Lapa, MD Post-Doctoral Fellow, Cardiology Category: Epidemiology		Rachel Zhuang, MD Resident, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Category: Clinical

Poster Presenters


Tiba Abdulwahid, MD	Mohanad Hamandi, MD	Cristina Padilla, MD, MS
Felix Aggor, PhD	Allexa Hammond, MD	Anurag Paranjape, PhD
Tahreem Ahmad, MBBS, MD	Rawan Hammoudeh, MD	Akruti Patel, PhD
Wafaa Albalawy, MS	Emmy Han, BS	Jennifer Peugh, MD
Waqas Ali, MBBS, MD	Randall Harley, BS	Aimee Pickering, MD
Henin Alsamarraie, MD	Yusra Hasan, MD	Matthew Pittappilly, MD
Diana Alvarez Davidek, MD	Beth Hoffman, MPH	Nicole Ponde, PhD
Muhammad Wahab Amjad, PharmD, PhD	Ato Howard, MD	Gerard Portela, MPH
Sindhana Anbalagan	Qianjiang Hu	Michael Porter, MD
Alexis Andreas	Joseph Ibrahim, MD	Rachel Powell, MD
Martina Anto-Ocrah, PhD, MPH, MT(ASCP)	Youko Ikeda, PhD	Andres Pulgarin, PhD
Amitha Avasarala	Susan Jacob	Thomas Radomski, MD, MS
Michael Bashline, MD	Zaineb Javed, Bsc	Arun Rajaratnam, MD
Rebecca Beacham, BS	Jiating Jiang, MD	Richard Ramonell, MD
Matthew Bittner, MD	Sarah Jones, MD, MS	Vatsala Rangachar Srinivasa, MPH
Corry Bondi, PhD, MS	Yujung Jung, MD	Mayumi Robinson, MA
Marta Bueno, PhD	Spencer Keil, MD	Eva Roy, BS
Alexandra Bursic, MD	Anamil Khiyami, MD	Diana Samberg, MD, MS
Nikhita Chahal, MD	Andrew Knight, MD	Jewel Scott, PhD, RN, FNP-C
Muhammad Umar Cheema, PhD	Yandong Lai, PhD	Manasi Sejpal, MD
Edwin Chen MD, PhD	Bowa Lee, MD	Dheepa Sekar, MD
Cheng Chen, PhD	Jeongkyung Lee, PhD	Shujie Shi, PhD
Raad Chowdhury, MD	Kathryn Leyens, MD	Cary Shiwarski, MD, PhD
Grace Conway, BS	Dedong Li, PhD	Puneeth Shridhar, MD, MS
Malamo Countouris, MD, MS	Xiuying Li, PhD	Jorna Sojati, MS
Abigail Cox, BS	Becky Lin	Carly Sokach, MD
Rolando Cuevas, PhD	Michael Lu, MD	Madison Stellfox, MD, PhD
Marianela Dalghi, PhD	Tony Macedonia, MD	Justin Sui
Anjali Das	Neha Mehrotra, MD	Yujie Sun, MD
Sudipta Das, PhD	Matthew Metzinger, MD	Priscilla Tang
Rushikesh Deshpande, MS	Soheb Anwar Mohammed, PhD	Aylin Tansel, MD, MPH
Susan Devaraj, PhD, MS, RD	Nicolas Montalbetti, PhD	Tiffany Taylor, BS
Mehak Dhande, MD	Jeffrey Moorhead, DPT	Subhanudh Thavaraputta, MD
Samuel Duvall, PhD	Erica Motter, MA	Sara Van Meerbeke, MD
Amal Elhaw, BPharm	Anjana Murali	John Villandre, BS
Adriana Estrada-Bernal, PhD	Stephanie Mutchler, PhD	Xueping Wang, PhD
John Evankovich, MD	Simin Nasr, MD	Brittany West, DO
Faizan Ali Faizee, MD	Niranjana Natarajan, PhD	Xi Yang, MD
Nadim Farhat, MSc	Vinny Negi, PhD	Minting Yu, MD
Stephanie Gambino	Jennifer Newitt, MD	Irina Zabbarova, PhD
Josh Garfein, MPH	Andrew Nickerson, PhD	Maryam Zamanian, MD
Marc Gauthier, MD	Hayley Nordstrom, BS	Michael Zhang
Gillian C. Goobie, MD, FRCPC	Lee Ohayon	Qian Zhang, MD, MS, PhD
Brittaney-Belle Gordon, MD	Chukwudi Onyemekwu, DO	Paul Zhou, BS
Matthew Gorgone, DO	Rebeca Ortiz Worthington, MD	Maryam Zia, MD
Amir Gougol, MD	Rachel Pace, MD	Richard Zou, MD

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Research Day 2023

Event Contact

Future Dates

DOM Annual Research Day 2021

Congratulations to the 2021 plenary presenters and oral presentation winners!

Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE

Research Day 2021 Guest Speaker

Plenary Presenters

Vasilii Bushunow, MD

Reed Doerfler, MD

Rachael Gordon, MD, PhD

Sarah Jones, MD, MS

Timothy Kim, MD

Chantal Lemoine, MD

Vinny Negi, PhD

Georgios Triantafyllou, MD

Oral Presenters

Adeyinka Adejumo, MD, MS

Anna LaRosa, MD

Reem Alameer, MBBS

Travis Lear, PhD

Nameer Al-Yousif, MD

Yang Li, PhD

Heather Ballance, PhD

Jacob Lloyd, MD

Aditi Bawa, MD

Abigail Maloy

Adipong Brickshawana, MD, PhD

Stephanie Maximous, MD, MS

Carlos Caballero, MD

Maureen Mburu, MD

Jeffrey Chen, BA

Nilay Mitash, PhD

Ana Clemente-Sanchez, MD, PhD

Raja Gopal Reddy Mooli, PhD

Sarah Clifford, BS

Sridesh Nath, MBBS

Callie Drohan, MD

Jessica Oh, MD

Shumail Fatima, MD

Soumojit Pal, PhD

Jonathan Florentin, PhD

Shulin Qin, MD, PhD

Haritha Gandicheruvu, MD

Cody Rutledge, MD, PhD

Eli Goshorn, MD

Leslie Scheunemann, MD, MPH

Rebecca Green, MD

Erin Schikowski, MD

Lara Groetzinger, PharmD, BCCCP

Sanjay Sridaran, MD

Mara Hartoyo

Josiah Strawser, MD

Ronan Hsieh, MD

Kelly Strong

Filip Istvanic, MD

Charit Taneja, MD

Sagar Kale, PhD

Kazuya Tanimura, MD, PhD

Tumader Khouja, BDS, MPH, PhD

Roger Tieu, BS

Minjung Kim, MS

Sathish Vasamsetti, PhD

Corrine Kliment, MD, PhD

Katherine Wood, PhD

Matthew Lapa, MD

Rachel Zhuang, MD

Poster Presenters

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