MONICA BRODY-D’URSO

University of Arizona

Mbrody22@arizona.edu

Monica Brody-D’Urso is an incoming transfer student entering her junior year at the University of Arizona studying Medicine with Integrative and Practice Focused Medicine emphasis and Spanish. She is transferring from the University of Rochester, where she met her husband, cat and participated in the UR Predoc program. She is a first-generation, low-income college student hailing from Peoria, Arizona. After graduation, she aspires to take a gap year to join the military, and then attend the University of Arizona medical school, and serve as a primary care physician in rural communities, specifically to migrant communities providing care to both documented and undocumented individuals. During her time in Tucson, her goals are to continue serving with the mobile health clinic, Casa Alitas, and El Rio.

⊲ PROJECT

The influence of malnutrition on geriatric trauma patients

The impact of nutritional status on the outcomes of geriatric trauma patients remains unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of malnutrition on both short-term and post-discharge outcomes of a multi-institutional cohort of geriatric trauma patients.