Research Day 2025 Announces Winners

Posted on May 13, 2025
Research Day presenters speak with faculty about their research posters

UICOMP Research Day 2025 was held May 7 and featured 184 research abstracts by our medical students, residents, fellows and faculty.

Keynote speaker Jan Kitajewski, PhD, Director of the University of Illinois Cancer Center, kicked off the event with an “Overview of the University of Illinois Cancer Center and Highlighting Research on Metastatic Mechanisms.”

Congratulations to the winners and all participants!

Top Scores: Medical Students

Research

  1. Andrea Ouyang — Phenotypes of Eating Behavior Among Treatment-Seeking Youth Living with Obesity
  2. Samantha Wahlers — Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Refining Brain Size Norms Using Age and Sex-adjusted Percentiles
  3. Rhonda Lee — Mouse Model of Spinal Cord Injury: Expression of Pro-inflammatory Mediators and MMPs

Clinical Vignette

  1. Kushi Gowda — Robotic Rectopexy for Rectal Prolapse
  2. Mariam Ouzidane — Raynaud’s Disease Causing Gangrene in a 72-year-old Male: A Case Report and Literature Review
  3. Allison Wallenfang — Not Just RhD, a case report to consider beyond RhD when treating HDFN

Top Scores: Residents/Fellows

Research

  1. Anna-Lisa Martino — Does RSV prophylaxis with a single one-time dose of Palivizumab prior to discharge in premature infants born between 29-32 weeks gestational age decrease RSV complication risks?
  2. Yusuf Kagzi — Safety and Efficacy of Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication for Acid Reflux After Esophageal Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    Jenny Nguyen — Implementation of a standardized pain control regimen with risk stratification for IUD insertion and colposcopic biopsy
  3. Christina Carfagnini — The Efficacy and Safety of CD-19 Directed CAR-NK Therapy in Adults with B-Cell Malignancies: A Meta-Analysis

Resident Clinical Vignette

  1. Kwadwo Danso — ‘It Looks Like You Have Socks On’: A Presentation of Acute Parvovirus B19 Infection in an Adolescent
    Muhammad Saad Khan — WBC 98K and not Leukemia? Novel myeloproliferative disorder with rare ETV6-FLT3 translocation
    Priscila Lisboa — Facing TAM from Birth: A Multisystem Neonatal Case in Trisomy 21
  2. Senuri Dissanayake — The Periorbital Enigma: A Diagnostic Conundrum of Overlapping Autoimmune Features and MAS in an Adolescent
  3. Tarek Kanan — The deadly combination of drugs leading to serotonin syndrome: A Case Report
Modified on May 13, 2025