Research Day presenters discussed their work and took viewer questions during a 20-minute question-and-answer session. This year's poster presentations can be found on the Research Day homepage or on the EVMS YouTube channel.

Watch the Room F Q&A session from Research Day 2020.

Room F Schedule

2:30 - 2:50 p.m.

  • Richard Bonney, Resident/Fellow: "Commonly Seen Scooter-related Injuries at Imaging for a Level 1 Trauma Center"
  • Steve D'Souza, Resident/Fellow: "The masquerading acute liver injury"
  • Kanishk Sharma, Resident/Fellow: "Adult B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia with PTHrP mediated hypercalcemia: A case report"
  • Scott Whitlock, MD, Resident/Fellow: "Inpatient Dermatology Consultations for Suspected Skin Cancer"

2:50 - 3:10 p.m.

  • Devi Kasinathan, Resident/Fellow: "Interleukin -12 induces vascular hypersensitivity to vasoconstrictors in obesity with type 2 diabetes"
  • Allen Ko, MD, Resident/Fellow: "Pneumocystis Pneumonia in a COVID-19 World: Not All Ground Glass Opacities Are Due to COVID-19!"
  • Bakri Kulla, MD, Resident/Fellow: "Retrospective Evaluation of the Three-Step EIA/PCR Algorithm as an Effective Method for Detection and Treatment of Clostridium Difficile Infection" and "The Opportunistic Hiccup - A Unique Case Presentation of Candidal Esophagitis in Well-Controlled HIV Patient"

3:10 - 3:30 p.m.

  • Richard Lussier, DO, Resident/Fellow: "Standardizing patient preparation prior to radioiodine therapy"
  • Tamar Matitashvili, MD, Resident/Fellow: "Extracellular vesicle’s miRNA cargo in follicular fluid as predictor of oocyte maturation in infertile patients"
  • Daniel O'Neal, Resident/Fellow: "Implementation of a Standardized Radiology Education in the Pediatric Residency Curriculum"
  • Abigail Winz, Resident/Fellow: "Ultrasound findings in cases of male infertility"

3:30 - 3:50 p.m.

  • Ahmad Al-Husseini, Medical Masters student: "An investigation of neonatal sepsis at a tertiary hospital: Isolation, Identification, and antibiotic sensitivity patterns of pathogenic bacteria at Muhimibili National Hospital (MNH) in Tanzania"
  • Jinbum Dupont, Medical Masters student: "BLZ945 Depletion of Perivascular Macrophages in Acute SIV-infected Macaque Brain"
  • Aaliyah Joseph, Medical Masters student: "Mental illness through a cultural lens: analyzing trends in the endorsement of symptoms in Hampton Roads refugees"
  • Danielle Long, Medical Masters student: "Investigating the importance of pericyte subsets in the human brain"

3:50 - 4:10 p.m.

  • None scheduled

4:10 - 4:30 p.m.

  • Kevin Houston, MD Program student: "Community Stroke Awareness Survey in Hampton Roads, Virginia"
  • James Lau, MD Program student: "Anti-Platelet Therapy and Cognitive Function Outcome"
  • Eunice Wu, MD Program student: "Gastric GIST with Co-Occurrence of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor"