DAY OF DISCOVERY Interprofessional Research Day 2019
Bolstering the profoundly probative purpose of a superlative education, unparalleled clinical care, and steadfast community service, research comprises a key component of the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) mission. Each year, Interprofessional Research Day encourages investigation and discovery through which LECOM scholars augment their education with hands-on, analytical undertakings. The College vigorously supports student exploration as the students, faculty, and medical residents showcase their findings before an audience of their peers. The entire LECOM Erie Research Day event, held on November 1, 2019, proved to be a resounding success as it underscored the significant value of LECOM research and the constant commitment of the College to the comprehensive objectives which defines LECOM exceptionalism. The 2019 competition recorded more than 80 students and physicians who presented scientific research addressing a range of topics.
More than $3,000 was awarded to participants whose work in lecture or poster presentation segments finished in the top three of the respective categories. The highest honor for the Research Day student poster session was awarded to second-year scholar, Rayann Atway, for her research entitled, Development of an Opal Multiplex Immunofluorescence Assay to Better Tailor Aggressive Prostate Cancer Therapy. Second-year medical student, Syed Ahmed, received the second-place prize in the poster session for his research entitled, In Utero Valproic Acid Exposure Results in Dysmorphology Within the Ventral Nucleus of the Medial Geniculate. Hasan Alhelo, a first-year student, garnered third-place accolades with his poster entitled, Repeated Prenatal Valproic Acid Exposure and Oropharyngeal Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorder Rat Models. The lecture session was met with a plethora of analysis and study as the first-place laurels
in the Student Lecture Presentation category was presented to 2020 doctor of anatomy education candidate, Leah Labranche, for her research entitled, Seeing in Stereo: Investigating the Relationship Between Spatial Ability and Learning with 3D Anatomy Models. The second-place honor was awarded to first-year medical student, Azka Khan, for her oral presentation addressing, Co-infection Prevalence of Anaplasma Phagocytophilum and Borrelia Burgdorferi in Ixodes Scapularis Ticks in Erie, Pennsylvania. Third-year medical student, Yusra Mansour, claimed the third-place honors with her research entitled, In Utero Exposure to Valproic Acid Results in Hypoplasia and Reduced Ascending Axonal Projections to the Auditory Thalamus. The physician poster session found the first-place prize being awarded to Western Reserve Hospital resident, Jessica Tullington, DO, for her research entitled, Laparoscopic LigaSure Verse Laparoscopic Stapler in Acute Appendicitis: An Intraoperative Cost Analysis.
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