11th Annual AMSA Poster Session Winners

Sponsored by the National Health Service Corps,
National Institute of Health, AMSA Foundation

Basic Research Poster Presentation Winner

Michael Keng, MSU - College of Human Medicine

Combined Effects of Arsenic Trioxide and Heat Shock Protein 90 Inhibitors on Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription Protein 3 Activity in HEL Cells

 

Basic Research Oral Presentation Winner

Akash J. Patel, Baylor College of Medicine

Mammalian/Drosophila Ataxin-1, the protein causing Spinocerebellar Ataxia 1, interacts with Gfi-1/Senseless proteins via the highly conserved AXH domain

 

Basic Research Oral Presentation Honorable Mention

Sara Kleinschmidt, Northwestern University

The 17 kDa tau fragment as a necessary mediator of toxicity in Alzheimer Disease and other tauopathies

 

Clinical Research Poster Presentation Winner

Tanvir Hussain, Baylor College of Medicine

The influence of patient race in preventive care advice offered by physicians: potential use of racialized health beliefs in treatment

 

Clinical Research Oral Presentation Winner

David Fusco, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

Post-operative hydrocephalus in patients undergoing emergent hemicraniectomy for elevated intracranial pressure: A retrospective case series

 

Clinical Research Poster Presentation Honorable Mention

Arjun Venkatesh, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Adverse Events Among Hospitalized Patients Significantly Increase Costs

 

Community Service Projects Poster/Oral Presentation Winner

Sarah Bagley, Georgetown University School of Medicine

Getting in the Door: Health Access for the Uninsured in Greater Washington, DC

 

Medical Education Poster/Oral Presentation Winner

Flavio Casoy, Brown Medical School

The Financing of Undergraduate Medical Education: A National Conference to Address Medical Student Debt

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