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
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
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
Breaking the Stereotype: Interventions Aimed at Changing Medical Student Misperceptions of Radiology and Increasing the Female Match Rate, Victoria Podsiadlo and Carolynn M. DeBenedectis
Critical Reflection: Tracking professional identity formation in a medical student trainee, Cesar Rodriguez
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Approach to the Diagnostic Workup and Management of Small Bowel Lesions at a Tertiary Care Center (poster), David Stein, Jonathan Green, Christopher R. Schlieve, Ann K. Friedrich, Kevin P. Baratta, David H. Ma, May Min, Krunal Patel, David R. Cave, Demetrius E. M. Litwin, and Mitchell A. Cahan
Nonoperative Approach to Treatment of a Gluteus Medius Tear, Jason Yang, Alexander Lukez, Lauren O'Loughlin, and Jennifer Baima
Publications from 2017
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Contraceptive Use in Young Women, Cecilia Bahamon, Katherine G. Leung, and Luu D. Ireland
Ipsilateral Lower Limb Weakness After Sarcoma Treatment: A Case Report, Jennifer Baima, Amanda Doodlesack, and Jennifer LaFemina
Total Joint Replacement Prehabilitation: A Feasibility Study, Jennifer Baima, Elizabeth Z. Li, Amanda Doodlesack, Mathew J. Most, Jeffrey Metzmaker, and David C. Ayers
Compliance and safety of a novel home exercise program for patients with high-grade brain tumors, a prospective observational study, Jennifer Baima, Zehra Beyza Omer, John M. Varlotto, and Shakeeb Yunus
Two Cases of Lyme Arthritis in Winter In New England: A Case Series, Jennifer Baima and Lauren Woo
Comparison of Self-reported and Measured Pre-pregnancy Weight: Implications for Gestational Weight Gain Counseling, Annika L. Bannon, Molly E. Waring, Katherine Leung, Jessica Masiero, Julie M. Stone, Elizabeth C. Scannell, and Tiffany A. Moore Simas
Sunlight and ultraviolet radiation-pertinent retinal implications and current management, Tedi Begaj and Shlomit Schaal
RNA-Sequencing Reveals Direct Targets of Tumor Suppressor miR-203 in Human Mammary Epithelial Cells, Alexander P. Boardman, Victoria E. Pedanou, Tessa M. Simone, and Michael R. Green
Burden of Psychosocial and Cognitive Impairment in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation, John A. Bostrom, Jane S. Saczynski, Alexandra M. Hajduk, Kevin Donahue, Lawrence S. Rosenthal, Clifford Browning, Cynthia Ennis, Kevin C. Floyd, Heather Richardson, Nada Esa, Jessica Ogarek, and David D. McManus
Digital Pills to Measure Opioid Ingestion Patterns in Emergency Department Patients With Acute Fracture Pain: A Pilot Study, Peter R. Chai, Stephanie Carreiro, Brendan J. Innes, Rochelle K. Rosen, Conall O'Cleirigh, Kenneth Mayer, and Edward W. Boyer
Glycolytic reliance promotes anabolism in photoreceptors, Yashodhan Chinchore, Tedi Begaj, David Wu, Eugene Drokhlyansky, and Constance L. Cepko
Hyperspectral Imaging Provides Early Prediction of Random Axial Flap Necrosis in a Preclinical Model, Michael S. Chin, Ava G. Chappell, Giorgio Giatsidis, Dylan Perry, Jorge Lujan-Hernandez, Anthony Haddad, Hajime Matsumine, Dennis P. Orgill, and Janice F. Lalikos
Multiple fixed drug eruption to minocycline at sites of healed burn and zoster: An interesting case of locus minoris resistentiae, Renata Dalla Costa, Connie Yihan Yang, Molly Stout, Daniela Kroshinsky, and Arianne Shadi Kourosh
Implementing a Fee-for-Service Cervical Cancer Screening and Treatment Program in Cameroon: Challenges and Opportunities, Geneva A. DeGregorio, Simon Manga, Edith Kiyang, Florence Manjuh, Leslie Bradford, Preetam Cholli, Richard Wamai, Rebecca Kemunto Ogembo, Zacharie Sando, Yuxin Liu, Lisa Kennedy Sheldon, Kathleen Nulah, Thomas Welty, Edith Welty, and Javier Gordon Ogembo
Role of CT in the Diagnosis of Nonspecific Abdominal Pain: A Multicenter Analysis, Jonathan D. Eisenberg, Andrew T. Reisner, William D. Binder, Atif Zaheer, Martin L. Gunn, Ken F. Linnau, Chad M. Miller, Angela C. Tramontano, Maurice S. Herring, Emily C. Dowling, Elkan F. Halpern, Karen Donelan, G. Scott Gazelle, and Pari V. Pandharipande
Gender Differences in Indoor Tanning Habits and Location, Jessica Feng, Christine F. Frisard, Vinayak K. Nahar, Jessica L. Oleski, Joel J. Hillhouse, Stephenie C. Lemon, and Sherry L. Pagoto
Impaired osteogenesis of T1DM bone marrow-derived stromal cells and periosteum-derived cells and their differential in-vitro responses to growth factor rescue, Tera M. Filion, Jordan D. Skelly, Henry Huang, Dale L. Greiner, David C. Ayers, and Jie Song
Are "Goods for Guns" Good for the Community? An Update of a Community Gun Buyback Program, Jonathan Green, Rachelle N. Damle, Rebecca E. Kasper, Pina Violano, Mariann M. Manno, Pradeep P. Nazarey, Jeremy T. Aidlen, and Michael P. Hirsh
Medication Exposure and Risk of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection in Community-Dwelling Older People and Nursing Home Residents, John P. Haran, Evan Bradley, Emily Howe, Xun Wu, and Jennifer Tjia
A systematic review of smartphone applications for smoking cessation, Brianna L. Haskins, Donna Lesperance, Patric Gibbons, and Edwin D. Boudreaux
Age-dependent Changes in the Articular Cartilage and Subchondral Bone of C57BL/6 Mice after Surgical Destabilization of Medial Meniscus, Henry Huang, Jordan D. Skelly, David C. Ayers, and Jie Song
Beyond Ether and Chloroform-A Major Breakthrough With Halothane, Lisa Huang, Christine N. Sang, and Manisha S. Desai
Quantitative microvascular analysis of retinal venous occlusions by spectral domain optical coherence tomography angiography, Nicole Koulisis, Alice Y. Kim, Zhongdi Chu, Anoush Shahidzadeh, Bruce Burkemper, Lisa C. Olmos de Koo, Andrew A. Moshfeghi, Hossein Ameri, Carmen A. Puliafito, Veronica L. Isozaki, Ruikang K. Wang, and Amir H. Kashani
An exploratory study of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for emotional eating, Emily Levoy, Asimina Lazaridou, Judson A. Brewer, and Carl Fulwiler
CK2 inhibitor CX-4945 destabilizes NOTCH1 and synergizes with JQ1 against human T-acute lymphoblastic leukemic cells, Haiwei Lian, Dun Li, Yun Zhou, Esther Landesman-Bollag, Guanglan Zhang, Nicole M. Anderson, Kevin Charles Tang, Justine E. Roderick, Michelle A. Kelliher, David C. Seldin, Hui Fu, and Hui Feng
WooFood Cooks, Jessica Rose Long
Providing Pediatric Asthma Home Visits by Community Workers -- Lessons Learned, David McCarthy
Medical Marijuana Education for Medical Students, Patrick McGuire
Differential involvement of the microtubule cytoskeleton in insulin receptor substrate 1 (IRS-1) and IRS-2 signaling to AKT determines the response to microtubule disruption in breast carcinoma cells, Jose Mercado-Matos, Jennifer L. Clark, Andrew J. Piper, Jenny Janusis, and Leslie M. Shaw
An occurrence of apnea, bradycardia, and desaturation events resulting in a delay of discharge in late preterm and full term infants, Brian Montenegro, Christina Freiberger, Lauren Veit, Michael Amberson, Sagori Mukhopadhyay, and Lawrence M. Rhein
Economics of Home Monitoring for Apnea in Late Preterm Infants, Brian L. Montenegro, Michael Amberson, Lauren Veit, Christina Freiberger, Dmitry Dukhovny, and Lawrence M. Rhein
Medical student and hospital team fight cervical cancer in rural China, Haley Newman
Carcinoids and Capsules: A Case Series Highlighting the Utility of Capsule Endoscopy in Patients With Small Bowel Carcinoids, Michael G. Noujaim, Jonathan Green, May Min, Christopher R. Schlieve, Krunal Patel, Mitchell A. Cahan, and David R. Cave
High-Grade Partial and Retracted (less than 2 cm) Proximal Hamstring Ruptures: Nonsurgical Treatment Revisited, Jonathan R. Piposar, Amrit V. Vinod, Joshua R. Olsen, Edward Lacerte, and Suzanne L. Miller
Psychometric Development of the Research and Knowledge Scale, Lauren R. Powell, Elizabeth Ojukwu, Sharina D. Person, Jeroan J. Allison, Milagros C. Rosal, and Stephenie C. Lemon
Missing the target: including perspectives of women with overweight and obesity to inform stigma-reduction strategies, Rebecca M. Puhl, M. S. Himmelstein, A. A. Gorin, and Young J. Suh
Validity of the Nurses' health study physical activity questionnaire in estimating physical activity in adults with rheumatoid arthritis, Thomas Quinn, Michelle Frits, Johan von Heideken, Christine Iannaccone, Nancy A. Shadick, Michael Weinblatt, and Maura D. Iversen
Attempted and Successful Vacuum-Assisted Vaginal Delivery by Prepregnancy Body Mass Index, Sebastian Ramos, Molly E. Waring, Katherine Leung, Nili S. Amir, Annika L. Bannon, and Tiffany A. Moore Simas
Health System Advance Care Planning Culture Change for High-Risk Patients: The Promise and Challenges of Engaging Providers, Patients, and Families in Systematic Advance Care Planning, Jennifer Reidy, Jennifer Halvorson, Suzana Makowski, Delila Katz, Barbara Weinstein, Christine McCluskey, Alex Doering, Kathryn DeCarli, and Jennifer Tjia
Door-to-Imaging Time for Acute Stroke Patients Is Adversely Affected by Emergency Department Crowding, Martin A. Reznek, Evangelia Murray, Marguerite N. Youngren, Natassia T. Durham, and Sean S. Michael
Integrated behavioral health practice facilitation in patient centered medical homes: A promising application, Sarah S. Roderick, Nelly Burdette, Debra Hurwitz, and Pano Yeracaris
Current trends and challenges in the postoperative medical management of Crohn's disease: A systematic review, Andrew T. Schlussel, Nicole B. Cherng, and Karim Alavi