Time |
Student Presenter, Title of Thesis, and Advisor(s) |
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8:00 am |
Introductory Comments – Michael P. Timko, PhD |
8:15 am |
Michael M. Bechara
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: The Physicians’ Views
Thesis Advisors: Carolyn Engelhard, MPA, Health Policy Program, UVA SOM and Nadim G. Haddad, MD, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Georgetown University |
8:35 am |
Charlotte H. Campbell
Digesting the Metabolic Syndrome Exploring Properties of Lipin 1 in Binding Phosphospecific Antibodies in Relation to the Metabolic Syndrome and Its Significance to Healthcare
Thesis Advisor: Thurl Harris, PhD, Department of Pharmacology, UVA SOM |
8:55 am |
Jordan D. Burnette
The Paradox of Place: An Assessment of Perceived Barriers and Facilitators of Physical Activity in Central Appalachia
Thesis Advisors: Elizabeth McGarvey, EdD, Department of Public Health Sciences and Diane Whaley, PhD, Applied Developmental Sciences |
9:15 am |
Eric D. Morris
The Growing Public Health Issue of Nosocomial Infections: Analyzing the Burden of Clostridium difficile infection on the University of Virginia Hospital
Thesis Advisor: Laurie Archbald-Pannone, MD, MPH, Department of Internal Medicine, UVA SOM |
9:35am |
Kristina A. Burger
Vascular Risk Factors and Cognition in African American
Thesis Advisors: Carol A. Manning, PhD, Department of Neurology, UVA SOM and Ishan C. Williams, PhD, UVA School of Nursing |
9:55 am |
Mary Allison Kramer
Developing Small-scale Preparations of Axonal Transport Proteins for Use in the Study of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and other Neurodegenerative disease
Thesis Advisor: William Guilford, PhD, Department of Biomedical Engineering |
10:15 am |
Darya A. Malinina
Differential NF-kb Activation by Transposon Generated C. difficile Mutants and Recommendations for the Current C. difficile Outbreak
Thesis Advisor: William A. Petri, Jr., MD, PhD Professor, Division Chief of Medicine, Infectious Diseases
and International Health, UVA SOM |
10:35 am |
Caroline K. Vines
The Future of Obamacare – Assessing the Knowledge of the PPACA and Information Preferences of the Population of Newly Eligible Americans
Thesis Advisor: Wendy Cohen, MEd, PhD, Department of Biomedical Informatics, UVA School of Public Health |
10:55 pm |
John S. Kubinski
Explaining the Unexplained: Proposed Regulatory Functions for Evolutionarily Conserved Elements in the Human Genome
Thesis Advisor: Aaron Quinlan, PhD, Department of Public Health Sciences and Center for Public Health Genomics |
11:15 pm |
Suraj K. Mishra
Biological Therapies for the Histone Acetyltransferase Tip60 to Target Cancer Progression and Tumorigenesis
Thesis Advisor: Anindya Dutta, MD, PhD, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, UVA SOM |
11:35 pm |
Sophia S. Urban
The Role of Rhesus Monkey Rhadinovirus Tegument Protein ORF52 in Microtubule Bundling and Its Homology to Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus
Thesis Advisors: Dean H. Kedes, MD, PhD, and Melissa S. Anderson, PhD Candidate, Myles H. Thaler Center for AIDS and Human Retrovirus Research, UVA SOM |
11:55 pm |
Leah F. Caudell-Feagan
Evidence for Brain Drains in Lower and Middle Income Countries Using Rwanda as a Case Study
Thesis Advisor: J. Forrest Calland, MD, Department of Surgery, UVA SOM |
12:15 pm |
Closing Remarks |
