School of Medicine Student Publications
The School of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) was founded in 1962 with the mission to advance the health and well-being of the people of the Commonwealth and the world through pioneering education, research, and health care delivery with our clinical partners. The UMMS educational experience will inspire our future physicians and physician scientists to excel in patient care, innovation, discovery, leadership and service.
This collection showcases journal articles, presentations and other publications authored by medical students at UMass Medical School. See also the collections for specific programs: Capstone Presentations; Senior Scholars Program; and Student Perspectives on Effective Teaching.
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Publications from 2020
Delays to Surgery and Coronal Malalignment Are Associated with Reoperation after Open Tibia Fractures in Tanzania, Patrick D. Albright, Syed H. Ali, Hunter Jackson, Billy T. Haonga, Edmund Ndalama Eliezer, Saam Morshed, and David W. Shearer
Impact of Age, Race, and Socioeconomic Status on Women's Perceptions and Preferences Regarding Communication of Estimated Breast Cancer Risk, Nita Amornsiripanitch, Sarah M. Ameri, and Robert Goldberg
Primary Care Providers Underutilize Breast Screening MRI for High-Risk Women, Nita Amornsiripanitch, Sarah M. Ameri, and Robert J. Goldberg
A Unique Presentation of Cutaneous Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma, Mary Awad, Erik Holzwanger, and Sandeep Jubbal
Episode 2: Friendly, not Familiar, Divya Bhatia, Hugh Silk, Rose Schutzberg, and Qiuwei Yang
Episode 1: Budgeting, Divya Bhatia, Qiuwei Yang, and Hugh Silk
Episode 6: Asylum Body Work, Divya Bhatia, Qiuwei Yang, Hugh Silk, and Lucy M. Candib
Episode 5: Penal Code, Divya Bhatia, Qiuwei Yang, Hugh Silk, and Lisa S. Gussak
Episode 3: When I Did What I Swore I Would Never Do, Divya Bhatia, Qiuwei Yang, Hugh Silk, and David S. Hatem
Episode 4: Dear Anonymous Donor, Divya Bhatia, Qiuwei Yang, Hugh Silk, and Xinmiao Bridget Yang
Evaluation of Noninvasive Respiratory Volume Monitoring in the PACU of a Low Resource Kenyan Hospital, Kendall Burdick, Muchai Stephen Thuo, Xiaoke Sarah Feng, Matthew S. Shotwell, and Joseph J. Schlesinger
Clinical predictors of adverse cardiovascular events for acute pediatric drug exposures, Stephanie Carreiro, Simone Miller, Bo Wang, Paul Wax, Sharan Campleman, Alex F. Manini, and ACMT Toxicology Investigators Consortium (ToxIC)
Prehospital Intubations Are Associated With Elevated Cuff Pressures: A Cross-Sectional Study Characterizing ETT Cuff Pressures at the UMMMC University Emergency Department, Ruo S. Chen, Matthew R. Rebesco, Laurel C. O'Connor, Kara L. LaBarge, Edgar J. Remotti, and Joseph C. Tennyson
Practice Patterns for Management of Pediatric Femur Fractures in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Patrick F. Curran, Patrick Albright, John M. Ibrahim, Syed H. Ali, David W. Shearer, and Coleen S. Sabatini
Impact of acute kidney injury on long-term outcomes after fenestrated and branched endovascular aortic aneurysm repair, Shernaz S. Dossabhoy, Jessica P. Simons, Allison S. Crawford, Francesco A. Aiello, Dejah R. Judelson, Edward J. Arous, Louis M. Messina, and Andres Schanzer
Non-Adherence Tree Analysis (NATA) - an adherence improvement framework: a COVID-19 case study [preprint], Ernest Edifor, Regina Brown, Paul Smith, and Rick Kossik
Comparison of a Collective Intelligence Tailored Messaging System on Smoking Cessation Between African American and White People Who Smoke: Quasi-Experimental Design, Jamie Faro, Catherine S. Nagawa, Jeroan J. Allison, Stephenie C. Lemon, Kathleen M. Mazor, Thomas K. Houston, and Rajani S. Sadasivam
Accelerated Graduation and the Deployment of New Physicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Terence R. Flotte, Anne C. Larkin, Melissa A. Fischer, Sonia N. Chimienti, Deborah M. DeMarco, Pang-Yen Fan, and Michael F. Collins
Understanding the Impact of Teledermatology on No-Show Rates and Healthcare Accessibility: A Retrospective Chart Review, Ellen B. Franciosi, Alice J. Tan, Bina Kassamali, Daniel M. O'Connor, Medhi Rashighi, and Avery LaChance
Penile calciphylaxis: A retrospective case-control study, Colleen Gabel, Teja Chakrala, Radhika Shah, Melissa J. Danesh, Allison S. Dobry, Anna Cristina. Garza-Mayers, Lauren N. Ko, Emily Nguyen, Jessica St. John, Andrew C. Walls, Sagar U. Nigwekar, Philip I. Song, and Daniela Kroshinsky
Intramedullary Nailing Versus External Fixation in the Treatment of Open Tibial Fractures in Tanzania: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial, Billy T. Haonga, Max Liu, Patrick Albright, Sravya T. Challa, Syed H. Ali, Ann A. Lazar, Edmund N. Eliezer, David W. Shearer, and Saam Morshed
The Exclusion of Older Persons From Vaccine and Treatment Trials for Coronavirus Disease 2019-Missing the Target, Benjamin K.I. Helfand, Margaret Webb, Sarah L. Gartaganis, Lily Fuller, Churl-Su Kwon, and Sharon K. Inouye
Risk of COVID-19 in Dermatologic Patients on Long-term Immunomodulatory Therapy, Zachary E. Holcomb, Monica Rosales Santillan, Peyton C. Morss-Walton, Prerna Salian, Min Ji Her, Nicole M. Giannotti, Alexa B. Kimball, and Martina L. Porter
Don’t call me in the morning: why it might be best to see patients in-person, a case report, Johnny Jarnagin, Jennifer Baima, Mathew J. Most, and David A. Mazin
Frailty Index Scores are Stronger Predictors of Complications in Free Flap Breast Reconstruction than BMI, Age, and ASA Class: A Retrospective Analysis on the ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program from 2010 - 2018, Alex Joo and Giorgio Giatsidis
Increasing Fat Graft Retention in Irradiated Tissue after Preconditioning with External Volume Expansion, Jorge Lujan-Hernandez, Michael S. Chin, Dylan J. Perry, Ava G. Chappell, Luca Lancerotto, Nanze Yu, Robert P. Slamin, Elizabeth Bannon, Thomas J. Fitzgerald, and Janice F. Lalikos
The Role and Scope of Prehabilitation in Cancer Care, Alexander Lukez and Jennifer Baima
Prehabilitation to Improve Positioning Reproducibility in Patients Undergoing Pelvic Radiation Therapy, Alexander Lukez and Lauren O'Loughlin
Light Forge: A Microfluidic DNA Melting-based Tuberculosis Test, Ian M. Mbano, Tawanda Mandizvo, Jerome Rogich, Tafara T. R. Kunota, Jared S. Mackenzie, Manormoney Pillay, and Frederick K. Balagadde
Learning in the Time of COVID-19: a Preclinical Student's Perspective, Eleanor Anne McClements
Goals-of-care decision aid for critically ill patients with TBI: Development and feasibility testing, Susanne Muehlschlegel, David Y. Hwang, Julie M. Flahive, Thomas Quinn, Christopher Lee, Jesse Moskowitz, Kelsey Goostrey, Kelsey Jones, Jolanta J. Pach, Andrea K. Knies, Lori Shutter, Robert J. Goldberg, and Kathleen M. Mazor
The rise and fall of heterologous transfusion, H. Yen Nguyen and Manisha S. Desai
Global Learnings Evidence Brief: Protecting Health Care Workers in South Korea During the COVID-19 Pandemic, SeungJu Jackie Oh, Julia Ah-Reum An, and Ruby Kwak
Current understanding on the role of nitric oxide and therapeutic potential of NO supplementation in schizophrenia, SeungJu Jackie Oh and Xiaoduo Fan
Breaking the Stereotype: Interventions Aimed at Changing Medical Student Misperceptions of Radiology and Increasing the Female Match Rate, Victoria Podsiadlo and Carolynn M. DeBenedectis
The Presence of Hurthle Cells Does Not Increase the Risk of Malignancy in Most Bethesda Categories in Thyroid Fine-Needle Aspirates, Yin Ren, Natalia Kyriazidis, William C. Faquin, Selen Soylu, Dipti Kamani, Rayan Saade, Nicole Torchia, Carrie Lubitz, Louise Davies, Nikolaos Stathatos, Antonia E. Stephen, and Gregory W. Randolph
Critical Reflection: Tracking professional identity formation in a medical student trainee, Cesar Rodriguez
Senior Scholars Day Slide Presentation, May 2020, Judith A. Savageau
Goodbye Season 1, and Thank You!, Qiuwei Yang, Divya Bhatia, and Hugh Silk
Publications from 2019
Pelvic prehabilitation: pelvic exercises assist in minimizing inter-fraction sacral slope variability during radiation therapy, Jennifer Baima, Lauren O'Loughlin, Alexander Lukez, Yunsheng Ma, and Janaki Moni
Diabetic neuropathic foot without neuropathy: Could it be cancer? - a case report, Jennifer Baima, Felix Santiago, and Mathew J. Most
Sarcopenia in lung cancer: Could chest imaging help?, Jennifer Baima, Elke Sarah Schipani, Wasih Kamran, John M. Varlotto, Lacey J. McIntosh, Karl Uy, Isabel Emmerick, and Mathew J. Most
Proton pump inhibitors and 180-day mortality in the elderly after Clostridium difficile treatment, Evan S. Bradley, Emily Howe, Xun Wu, and John P. Haran
SAVIOR ICU: sonification and vibrotactile interface for the operating room and intensive care unit, Kendall J. Burdick, Seiver K. Jorgensen, Taylor N. Combs, Megan O. Holmberg, Samantha P. Kultgen, and Joseph J. Schlesinger
Development of a Customized Vaping Cessation Initiative to Assist Massachusetts Youth Who Wish to Quit Vaping, Karen Del'Olio, Nanette Vitali, Webb Camille, Caroline Cranos, and Lori Pbert
Positional transient loss of consciousness and hemispheric deficits in the setting of severe four-vessel extracranial cerebrovascular disease, Colleen P. Flanagan, Parth D. Sheth, and Jessica P. Simons
First Report of siRNA Uptake (for RNA Interference) During Ex Vivo Hypothermic and Normothermic Liver Machine Perfusion, Andrew R. Gillooly, Jessica Perry, and Paulo N.A. Martins
No Woman is an Island -- Access to Care and Extreme Measures for Cancer Pain and Lymphedema: A Case Report, Lauren M. Hall, Julia Reilly, Mathew J. Most, and Jennifer Baima
Global Radiology Training Prevalence Among Radiology Residency Programs, Hana L. Haver, Max P. Rosen, and Carolynn M. DeBenedectis
Oxygenated UW Solution Decreases ATP Decay and Improves Survival After Transplantation of DCD Liver Grafts, Paulo N.A. Martins, Timothy A. Berendsen, Heidi Yeh, Bote G. Bruinsma, Maria-Louisa Izamis, Sanna Op den Dries, Andrew R. Gillooly, Robert Porte, Martin L. Yarmush, Korkut Uygun, and James F. Markmann
Role of Mucosal Protrusion Angle in Discriminating between True and False Masses of the Small Bowel on Video Capsule Endoscopy, May Min, Michael Noujaim, Jonathan Green, Christopher R. Schlieve, Aditya Vaze, Mitchell A. Cahan, and David R. Cave
A Systematic Review of Development Programs Designed to Address Leadership in Academic Health Center Faculty, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Joanna Cain, Robert J. Milner, Martha E. Meacham, Annika L. Bannon, Len L. Levin, Nili S. Amir, Katherine Leung, Judith K. Ockene, and Luanne A. Thorndyke
Evaluation of portable colposcopy and human papillomavirus testing for screening of cervical cancer in rural China, Haley Newman, Jilin Hu, Xiao Li, Jing He, Leslie Bradford, Songmei Shan, Xiaomei Wu, Bin Zhu, Wenyang Yang, Bingqin Fu, Baosheng Zhu, and Guangping Gao
The Possible Role of the Angiotensin System in the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia: Implications for Pharmacotherapy, SeungJu Jackie Oh and Xiaoduo Fan
Prehabilitation for patient positioning: pelvic exercises assist in minimizing inter-fraction sacral slope variability during radiation therapy, Lauren O'Loughlin, Alexander Lukez, Yunsheng Ma, Jennifer Baima, and Janaki Moni
Chronic Pain Practices: An Evaluation of Positive and Negative Online Patient Reviews, Mariam Salisu Orhurhu, Bisola Salisu, Emily Sottosanti, Niyi Abimbola, Ivan Urits, Mark Jones, Omar Viswanath, Alan D. Kaye, Thomas Simopoulos, and Vwaire Orhurhu
Generation of Functional Human Adipose Tissue in Mice from Primed Progenitor Cells, Raziel Rojas-Rodriguez, Jorge Lujan-Hernandez, So Yun Min, Tiffany DeSouza, Patrick Teebagy, Anand Desai, Heather Tessier, Robert Slamin, Leah Siegel-Reamer, Cara Berg, Angel Baez, Janice F. Lalikos, and Silvia Corvera
Mortality Associated With Opioid Overdose: A Review of Clinical Characteristics and Health Services Received in the Year Prior to Death, Christian Rose, Abtin Shahanaghi, Mauricio Romero-Gonzalez, Jorge Yarzebski, Michael Andre, Gregory J. DiGirolamo, Alan P. Brown, and Gerardo Gonzalez
Applying Machine Learning Algorithms for Automatic Detection of Swallowing from Sound, Laura F. Santoso, Faiz Baqai, Mary Gwozdz, Justina Lange, Matthew G. Rosenberger, James Sulzer, and David Paydarfar
Sensory dysphagia: A case series and proposed classification of an under recognized swallowing disorder, Laura F. Santoso, Daniel Y. Kim, and David Paydarfar
Knowledge of and Attitudes Towards Mental Illness Among ASHA and Anganwadi Workers in Vadodara District, Gujarat State, India, Qainat N. Shah, Pooja A. Dave, Daniella A. Loh, Raghu Appasani, and Craig L. Katz
Gene Silencing With siRNA (RNA Interference): A New Therapeutic Option During Ex Vivo Machine Liver Perfusion Preservation, Max F. Thijssen, Isabel M. A. Bruggenwirth, Andrew R. Gillooly, Anastasia Khvorova, Timothy F. Kowalik, and Paulo N.A. Martins
Adult-onset bilateral Parry-Romberg syndrome, Elizabeth Tkachenko, Michael J. Cunningham, Patrick O'Donnell, and Nikki A. Levin
Regional vitiligo induced by imiquimod treatment for in-transit melanoma metastases, Elizabeth Tkachenko, Jennifer Y. Lin, and Rebecca I. Hartman
Human Otopathology of Cochlear Implant Drill-out Procedures, Danielle R. Trakimas, Reuven Ishai, Elliott D. Kozin, Joseph B. Nadol Jr., and Aaron K. Remenschneider
Otopathology of Unilateral Cochlear Implantation in Patients With Bilateral Temporal Bone Fracture, Danielle R. Trakimas, Renata M. Knoll, Reuven Ishai, Daniel J. Lee, David H. Jung, Joseph B. Nadol Jr., Aaron K. Remenschneider, and Elliott D. Kozin
Bipolar Disorder in the Menopausal Transition, Dawn Truong and Wendy K. Marsh
Low Back Pain, a Comprehensive Review: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment (poster), Ivan Urits, Aaron Burshtein, Medha Sharma, Lauren Testa, Peter A. Gold, Vwaire Orhurhu, Omar Viswanath, Mark R. Jones, Moises A. Sidransky, and Alan D. Kaye
Low Back Pain, a Comprehensive Review: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment., Ivan Urits, Aaron Burshtein, Medha Sharma, Lauren Testa, Peter A. Gold, Vwaire Orhurhu, Omar Viswanath, Mark R. Jones, Moises A. Sidransky, Boris Spektor, and Alan D. Kaye
Pilot lifestyle education intervention for patients with severe mental illness during the inpatient stay, Carrie Wu, Mathew Chiang, Radhika Natarajan, Marie Fusaro-Davis, Cezar Cimpeanu, Mark Liu, Amy L. Harrington, and Xiaoduo Fan
Publications from 2018
A Common Pain in Pregnancy with an Uncommon Cause, Jennifer Baima, Amrit V. Vinod, and Mathew J. Most
A Child With an Unusual Retained Oral Foreign Body, Timothy Baloda, Megan L. McBurnie, and Theodore Macnow
The Current Online Face of U.S. Academic Ophthalmology, Tedi Begaj, Omar Helmy, Samuel Leeman, and Shlomit Schaal
Positioning of Patients for Pelvic Radiation: Variability Across Treatment, Mashhood Ahmad Bodla, Alexander Lukez, Lauren O'Loughlin, Jennifer Baima, and Janaki Moni
Maximising the global health impact of future HIV cure-related interventions through advance planning, Regina Brown, Steven G. Deeks, and Nir Eyal
SoMe and Self Harm: The use of social media in depressed and suicidal youth, Jennifer L. Carey, Stephanie Carreiro, Brittany Chapman, Nathalie Nader, Peter R. Chai, Sherry L. Pagoto, and Danielle E. Jake-Schoffman
Assuring Integrity in the Residency Match Process, Sonia N. Chimienti, Deborah M. DeMarco, Terence R. Flotte, and Michael F. Collins
The Use and Relevance of the Hippocratic Oath in 2015-a Survey of US Medical Schools, Shernaz S. Dossabhoy, Jessica Feng, and Manisha S. Desai
Reinterventions after fenestrated or branched endovascular aortic aneurysm repair, Shernaz S. Dossabhoy, Jessica P. Simons, Kyle R. Diamond, Julie M. Flahive, Francesco A. Aiello, Edward J. Arous, Louis M. Messina, and Andres Schanzer
Fenestrated endovascular aortic aneurysm repair using physician-modified endovascular grafts versus company-manufactured devices, Shernaz S. Dossabhoy, Jessica P. Simons, Julie M. Flahive, Francesco A. Aiello, Parth D. Sheth, Edward J. Arous, Louis M. Messina, and Andres Schanzer
Approach to the Diagnostic Workup and Management of Small Bowel Lesions at a Tertiary Care Center, Jonathan Green, Christopher R. Schlieve, Ann K. Friedrich, Kevin Baratta, David H. Ma, May Min, Krunal Patel, David Stein, David R. Cave, Demetrius E. Litwin, and Mitchell A. Cahan
Intuitive versus Algorithmic Triage, Alexander Hart, Elias Nammour, Virginia B. Mangolds, and John Broach
Is perception of excessive weight gain in a woman's last pregnancy associated with less weight gain in her current pregnancy?, Kasey M. Hebert, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Noreen C. Okwara, and Molly E. Waring
A Chronology for the Identification and Disclosure of Adverse Effects of Succinylcholine, Lisa Huang, Christine N. Sang, and Manisha S. Desai
Geographic Diffusion and Implementation of Acute Care Surgery: An Uneven Solution to the National Emergency General Surgery Crisis, Jasmine A. Khubchandani, Angela M. Ingraham, Vijaya Daniel, M. Didem Ayturk, Catarina I. Kiefe, and Heena Santry
Disparities in access to emergency general surgery care in the United States, Jasmine A. Khubchandani, Connie Shen, M. Didem Ayturk, Catarina I. Kiefe, and Heena P. Santry
Caste matters: perceived discrimination among women in rural India, Jasmine A. Khubchandani, Apurv Soni, Nisha Fahey, Nitin Raithatha, Anusha Prabhakaran, Nancy Byatt, Tiffany A. Moore Simas, Ajay Phatak, Milagros C. Rosal, Somashekhar Nimbalkar, and Jeroan J. Allison
Popular Literature as an Educational Aid for History of Anesthesia, Eun Kyung Ellen Kim, Bronwyn Cooper, and Manisha S. Desai
ANRIL: A lncRNA at the CDKN2A/B Locus With Roles in Cancer and Metabolic Disease, Yahui Kong, Chih-Heng Hsieh, and Laura C. Alonso
UMMS alum Raghu Kiran Appasani addresses UN General Assembly on global mental health, Lisa M. Larson
Positioning of port films for radiation: variability is present, Alexander Lukez, Lauren O'Loughlin, Mashhood Ahmad Bodla, Jennifer Baima, and Janaki Moni
Bipolar Sealing Device Use in Pancreas Graft Preparation: A Novel Tieless Backtable Surgery Technique, Paulo N.A. Martins, Andrew R. Gillooly, Babak Movahedi, and Adel Bozorgzadeh
Evaluation of a Pre-Made Expanding-Retrieval Flashcard Tool and Medical Student Performance on Step 1, Alexander Miller, Geargin Wilson, and Howard Sachs
Should We Use the IMPACT-Model for the Outcome Prognostication of TBI Patients? A Qualitative Study Assessing Physicians' Perceptions, Jesse Moskowitz, Thomas Quinn, Muhammad W. Khan, Lori Shutter, Robert J. Goldberg, Nananda Col, Kathleen M. Mazor, and Susanne Muehlschlegel
This Is My Body, Kathryn E. Norman
Outcomes of Prehospital Chemical Sedation With Ketamine Versus Haloperidol and Benzodiazepine or Physical Restraint Only, Laurel O'Connor, Matthew Rebesco, Conor Robinson, Karen Gross, Andrew Castellana, Mark J. O'Connor, and Marc C. Restuccia
Spirituality and Willingness to Participate in Health-Related Research Among African Americans, Elizabeth Ojukwu, Lauren R. Powell, Sharina D. Person, Milagros C. Rosal, Stephenie C. Lemon, and Jeroan J. Allison
Mitochondrial Biogenesis: MitoCPR Resuscitates Import-Defective Mitochondria, Jacqueline Pires and Cole M. Haynes
Varicosities affecting the lower limb veins consequent to a unique variant drainage pattern of the small saphenous vein, Shauna Mary Rice, Elke Sarah Schipani, Ana Maleesa Rae Santos, Katherine Anais Sadaniantz, Prithwijit Roychowdhury, Eustathia Lela Giannaris, and Manas Das
Time is Money: The True Cost of Helicopter EMS (HEMS), Jerome Rogich, Eike Blohm, and Joseph Tennyson