| Project Title | Mentor Name | Department | Research Keywords (hidden column) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Vagus Nerve as an Anatomical Correlate of Depression: A pilot study | Christopher Troup | Surgery | Depression, vagus nerve |
| Ischemic Stroke Patients with a preceding transient ischemic attack (TIA) and thrombolytic therapy in a telestroke and non-telestroke setting. | Thomas Nathaniel | USCSOMG | Stroke, TIA, telestroke, TPA |
| Gastric Cancers | Christine Schammel | Cancer Institute | Progression, management, and survival |
| Prostate Artery Embolization | Christine Schammel | Urology, IR | PAE management and outcomes compared to gold standards |
| Ox Tail Spine Model | Melinda Harman | Clemson Research | Biomechanical |
| Femoral Head Impact Study | Melinda Harman | Clemson Research | Orthopaedics |
| PHANTOM – Pregnancy-related Hypertension: Adherence to New Type of Monitoring | Lauren Demosthenes, MD | OBGYN | post-partum hypertension, remote monitoring, Babyscripts, care redesign, patient-centered care |
| Incorporating Choosing Wisely and High Value Care into M1 Clinical Curriculum | Lauren Demosthenes, MD | USC Greenville | medical curriculum, curricular intervention, high value care, choosing wisely |
| LARC placement in the postpartum period | Dylan Solise | OBGYN | LARC, postpartum |
| Stroke Systems of Care and Different Measures to Improve Stroke Patient Care | Thomas Nathaniel | Biomedical Sciences | Stroke Systems of Care , tPA, Telestroke |
| Compliance with Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Care Protocol | William Hand | Anesthesiology | N/A |
| Assessing Office-based Addiction Treatment in a Community Health Setting | Elizabeth Davis | Primary Care Leadership Program: South End Community Health Center | addiction, substance use disorder, OBAT, office based addiction program, suboxone, retention rates |
| The Effect of 17-Alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate Utilization on Recurrent Spontaneous Preterm Birth | Kacey Eichelberger | OBGYN | Progesterone, Makena, 17-OHP, 17-Alpha-Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate, Spontaneous pre-term birth |
| The Effects of Social Supports on Relapse in Pregnant women with Substance Use Disorder | Kacey Eichelberger | OBGYN | substance use disorder, social support, pregnancy, relapse |
| Severity of Idiopathic Toe Walking and Its Influence on Treatment | David Westberry | Shriner's Hospital for Children | orthopedics, idiopathic toe walking, pediatric orthopedics |
| The Case for Outpatient Care: Undocumented Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) | Julie Linton | Pediatrics | End Stage Renal Disease |
| Exercise is Medicine Greenville (EIMG) | Jennifer Trilk | Biomedical Sciences | exercise, lifestyle, lifestyle medicine, EIMG, Exercise is Medicine Greenville, diet, nutrition, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal |
| Women's Health Disparities Project | Brooks McPhail | Biomedical Sciences | Maternal Mortality among African American Women |
| Subsets of Anti-Insulin B Lymphocytes in Type 1 Diabetes | Rachel Bonami | Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology & Immunology | B lymphocytes, flow cytometry, type 1 diabetes, ELISA |
| Type I Diabetes Trial Net | Sandra Weber | Endocrinology | Type I Diabetes Prevention |
| Treatment Options for T1/T2 NSCLC | Christine Schammel | Pathology | NSCLC, Radiation Therapy, Surgery, T1/T2 |
| Effect of cholesterol reducer medications on thrombolysis therapy and outcomes in acute ischemic stroke patients | Thomas Nathaniel | Biomedical Sciences | acute ischemic stroke |
| The utility of serial hemoglobin monitoring in blunt splenic injury | Kat Pellizzeri | Surgery | serial hemoglobin |
| Ventral Hernia Repair After Prior Myofascial Release | Jeremy Warren | Surgery | hernia repair; surgery; myofascial release; component separation |
| Outcomes of Neonates with Antenatal Diagnosis of CNS Abnormalities | Christopher Troup | Pediatrics | maternal fetal medicine; ultrasound; CNS abnormalities; MRI; NICU; nursery; neonate; outcomes |
| EPIC MEnTOR Program | Daniel Whitehead | Clemson Research | Drug Development, EPIC, Chemistry |
| Endometriosis Project | Anna Blenda | Biomedical Sciences | BCL6, SIRT1 |
| The Effect of an After School Exercise and Wellness Program on Children’s Self-Value, Stress, and Attitudes Towards Exercise | Jennifer Trilk | Biomedical Sciences | N/A |
| Hypertension in Athletes - Prospective Study | Vicki Nelson | Family Medicine | N/A |
| Effect of Metabolic Inhibitors on FA Uptake of Trypanosoma bruceii bruceii | Kim Paul | Clemson Research | fatty acid uptake |
| Cervical Ripening | Lauren Demosthenes | OBGYN | cervical ripening |
| Robotic vs. Laparoscopic Paraesophageal Hernia | Jeremy Warren | Surgery | robotic, laparoscopic, hernia repair, surgery |
| Ventral Hernia Repair in a Contaminated Field | Jeremy Warren | Surgery | VHR, abdomen, hernia, surgery |
| A Comparison of Blood Based Testing to Tissue Sampling for the Detection of Mutations in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer | Christine Schammel | Pathology | Non-small cell lung cancer, tissue biopsy, blood test, EGFR, PD-L1 |
| The Effect of an After-School Exercise and Wellness Program on Children’s Self-Value, Stress, and Attitudes Towards Exercise | Jennifer Trilk | Biomedical Sciences | Exercise, wellness, children, BMI, after-school program, attitude, physical activity, stress |
| Exercise Counseling in Pregnancy: Are women receiving the information they need? | Jennifer Trilk | Biomedical Sciences | Pregnancy |
| "Exercise Counseling in Pregnancy: Are women receiving the information they need?" | Jennifer Trilk | Biomedical Sciences | An evaluation of exercise recommendations being given to pregnant women by their OBGYN physicians here at PRISMA Health. |
| Investigation of patient's diagnosed with ADH/ALH and their progression to invasive carcinoma | Christine Schammel | Pathology | atypical ductal hyperplasia and atypical lobular hyperplasia |
| Two Year Analysis of Pressfit Noncemented Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty in the Treatment of Proximal Humerus Fractures | Stephan Pill | Orthopaedics | Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty |
| Routine Cultures of Nonunions | John Adams | Orthopaedics | Orthopaedic surgery, osteomyelitis, nonunion surgery |
| Acute GI bleeding: Patient characteristics, Endoscopy, Embolization/Surgery and Outcomes | Gary Abrams | Family Medicine | GI Bleeding |
| Medical Student Perceptions of Emergency Medical Technician Training During the First Year of Medical School | William Wright | Biomedical Sciences | Emergency Medicine |
| The Role of EMT in Med School (ish, not decided yet) | William Wright | USC - Columbia | EMT, Research, Curriculum |
| Helping Patients with Chronic Diseases (HTN, DM, Depression) To Understand Behavioral Changes | Meenu Jindal | Internal Medicine | Chronic disease, hypertension, Type 2 diabetes mellitus, depression, food behaviors, food preferences |
| Perceived and Physiological Fatigue: Contributing factors, effects on cognition, empathy, and burnout | Lauren Fowler | Biomedical Sciences | Perceived fatigue, physiological fatigue, biomarkers of fatigue, empathy, cognitive performance, burnout |
| Gender differences in the outcomes of individuals with the treatment of Ischemic Strokes via the use of TPA | Thomas Nathaniel | Neuroscience | gender, TPA, ischemic, stroke, treatment |
| Bleeding on OAC | Sarah Fox | Surgery | Colorectal surgery, colonoscopy, bleeding. |
| US for Pelvic Pain in Reproductive Age Women | Phillip Moschella | Emergency Medicine | Ultrasound, CT scan, High value care, pelvic pain |
| Gender Differences in Pre Depression and Stroke Outcomes | Thomas Nathaniel | Neuroscience | Neuroscience, stroke, depression, gender differences |
| The Effect of Pre-Stroke Depression on Patient Outcomes using TPA Methods of Treatment | Thomas Nathaniel | Biomedical Sciences | Neurology, Neurosurgery, TPA, Tele-stroke |
| Opioid-Dependent Births Case Series | Jennifer Hudson | Pediatrics | Opioid-dependent, birth |
| Disparities in perinatal depression screening and referral: A retrospective cohort study | Laura Carlson | OBGYN | OB/GYN |
| Disparities in perinatal depression screening and referral : A retrospective cohort study | Laura Carlson | OBGYN | Depression, perinatal, screening |
| Evaluation of Working Environment Factors and their Associations with Choice of Treatment Pathway for Health System Employees in the Spine, Shoulder & Knee (SSK) Program | Melanie Cozad | USC - Arnold School of Public Health | orthopedics, patient-specific preferences, shoulder disorders, treatment pathways |
| Multimedia surgical description of removal of a leiomyoma | Sharon Ben-Or | Surgery | Leiomyoma surgery, multimedia, laproscopic |
| Blood analysis of tumor markers in lung cancer | Sharon Ben-Or | Surgery | Treatment efficacy, lung cancer, tumor markers, blood sampling, improved patient treatment |
| Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviors of Religiosity, Spirituality, and Cultural Competence in the Medical Profession: A Cross-sectional survey study | Ann Blair Kennedy | Biomedical Sciences | cultural competence |
| Case Report: An Atypical Presentation of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria and Concurrent JAK2(617F) Mutation | Mark O'Rourke | Internal Medicine | Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria; PNH; Budd-Chiari Syndrome; JAK2(617F) mutation; chronic abdominal pain |
| The Relevance of Personality and Resilience in Medical Students' Choice of Medical Specialty | John Cull | Clemson Research | Personality; Resiliency; Specialty Choice; Burnout; Brief Resilience Scale; Big Factor Five Inventory |
| Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Endometriosis: Prospective Analysis of the Effect of Surgery. | Bruce Lessey | OBGYN | IBS; endometriosis |
| A Multi-modal, Opioid Sparing Pain Management Strategy in Cardiac Surgery | Caroline McKillop | Anesthesiology | opioid, pain, pain management, cardiac surgery, anesthesia |
| Insurance Status Influence on Discharge Location and Length of Stay After Ischemic Stroke | Christine Schammel | Pathology | Stroke |
| Reported Rationales for HPV Vaccination vs. Non-Vaccination Among Undergraduate and Medical Students in Upstate South Carolina. | John Cull | Surgery | HPV |
| Microwave Ablation of a Gallbladder Remnant Following Partial Cholecystectomy | Michael Devane | Radiology | Ablation |
| Management of Tibial Bow in Fibular Deficiency | David Westberry | Orthopedics | Tibial Bowing |
| cfDNA/blastocoel Fluid | Renee Chosed | Biomedical Sciences | Embryos |
| The Effect of Timing of Post-Operative Radiographs on Coronal Balance in Idiopathic Posterior Spinal Fusion Patients—A Retrospective Analysis | Michael Wattenbarger | Orthopaedics | Orthopaedics |
| CATCH Project | Julie Linton | Pediatrics | We will be working with Berea Middle School as well as Pasos in order to increase the amount of resources available to the underserved Latino and African American students and their families. |
| Assessing the potential therapeutic efficacy of amnion-based biologics for osteoarthritis | Jeremy Mercuri | Clemson Research | amnion-based biologics, osteoarthritis, steroid injections |
| Petrosal Bone Morphotype Investigation | Lauren Gonzales | Biomedical Sciences | Petrosal Bone, Comparative anatomy, cochlea, semicircular canals, paleontology |
| Laparoscopic vs. Open Placement of Ventriculogallbladder Shunt in Cases of Pediatric Hydrocephalus | Earl (Chris) Troup | Neuroscience | ventriculogallbladder shunt, pediatric neurosurgery, pediatric shunt revision, hydrocephalus |
| Outcomes of Revascularization in Patients with Previous Contralateral Amputation | Sagar Gandhi | Surgery | Amputation, revascularization, critical limb ischemia |
| Retrospective Comparison of Operative Variables from Single Event Multi-Level Surgeries Performed by Two Attending Surgeons versus Single Event Multi-Level Surgeries Performed by One Attending Surgeon | Lauren Hyer | Shriners Children's Hospital for Orthopedics | Orthopaedic Surgery, Surgery, Surgeon |
| Comparative Biology - Morphotyping the Petrosal Bones of Various Animals to Look at Inner Ear Function | Lauren Gonzales | Biomedical Sciences | Inner Ear, Cochlear, Hearing, Comparative biology, Morphotype |
| Contaminated Mesh- VHR | Jeremy Warren | Surgery | Contaminated mesh |
| Patient Engagement Studio Efficacy | Ann Kennedy | Biomedical Sciences | Patient |
| Sea urchins treated +/- PAF and RNAseq on whole embryos and cfDNA on blastocoel fluid | Renee Chosed | Biomedical Sciences | blastocoel fluid |
| Human survivable aneuploidies and aneuploid vs. euploid | Renee Chosed | Biomedical Sciences | Embryo, aneuploid, euploid, DNA, gene expression, blastocoel fluid |
| Embryo Research | Renee Chosed | Biomedical Sciences | Sea urchins treated with +/-PAF and then measure intracellular Ca+2 release |
| Inner Ear Comparative Morphology | Lauren Gonzales | Biomedical Sciences | Functional Morphology, Comparative Morphology, Gross Anatomy, Petrosal Bones, CT Scans, Plain film X-Rays, 3D Modeling |
| Diabetes Research | John Emerson | Center for Family Medicine | Diabetes Research |
| Pediatric Pain Management | Blake Windsor | Pediatrics | Pediatric, pain, non-opioid pain managment |
| GRE1902R: Functional Outcomes of Complete Excision of the Navicular in Pediatric Foot Deformity | David Westberry | Orthopaedics | pediatrics; navicular bone; Shriner's Hospital for Children; foot deformity |
| I will know in early May - it will have to do with Surgical Oncology and Breast Cancer | Nancy DeMore | Cancer Institute | Surgical oncology, breast cancer, MUSC Breast Center |
| Patient Engagement Studio Quality Improvement Evaluation | Ann Blair Kennedy | Biomedical Sciences | TBD |
| Arteriovenous fistulas in non-hemodialysis patients: A contemporary analysis of a forgotten alternative to venous access | Christopher Carsten | Surgery | TBD |
| Comparing Y90 Radioembolization and DEB-TACE for Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma with evaluation of ALBI Grade and Child-Pugh Score as prognostic indicators | Christine Schammel | Pathology | Hepatocellular Carcinoma treatment options: Y90 (TARE), DEB-TACE, Sorafenib |
| Human Economics Project on IVF | Renee Chosed | Biomedical Sciences | IVF, OB/GYN |
| Prevalence of Nocturnal Hypertension and Non -Dipping on Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring studies in Obese Children | Sudha Garimella | Pediatrics | Hypertension |
| Patient Engagement Quality Improvement Research | Ann Blair Kennedy | Biomedical Sciences | Patient Engagement in Research, value, efficacy |
| EPIC MEnTOR Program Research | Kerry Smith | Clemson Research | pathogen |
| Dissemination and Implementation of Effective Childhood Obesity Treatment Innovations | Kerry Sease | Pediatrics | I haven't started the project yet so I am not sure what the keywords will be. |
| To Be Determined | Stephan Pill | Orthopaedics | Shoulder, Sports Medicine, Arthroplasty |
| Data Collection for Shoulder Arthroplastic and Arthroscopic Surgeries | Dr. Stephan Pill | Orthopaedics | Shoulder arthroplastic and arthroscopic surgeries |
| Enhancing the YMCA-Diabetes Prevention Program with Mindfulness Training: A Pilot Study | Meenu Jindal | Internal Medicine | Prediabetes, diabetes, mindfulness, prevention |
| Creation and Assessment of a Modified Stroke Scale with Increased Sensitivity to Posterior Strokes | Mahmoud Rayes | Neuroscience | Creation and Assessment of a Modified Stroke Scale with Increased Sensitivity to Posterior Strokes |
| Management of Mesh Infection | Jeremy Warren | Surgery | hernia repair, general surgery, mesh infection |
| Mouse reversine treatment (aneuploiud vs euploid) with cfDNA, RNAseq and RT-PCR | Renee Chosed | Biomedical Sciences | embryo, aneuploid, euploid, cfDNA, OBGYN, reversine, embryos, implantation |
| Patient Consent for Seed Grant 2 | Lauren Demosthenes | Psychiatry | Patient consent, opioids,FAVOR, seed Grand 2, overdose, psychiatry |
| Outcomes of an ERAS program in patients undergoing laparotomy or minimally invasive surgery for pelvic disease | jeffrey elder | OBGYN | ERAS |
| In vitro modulation of human lymphocyte and myeloma cell function by bacterial enterotoxins | Sergio Arce | Biomedical Sciences | The heat-labile enterotoxins (HLT) of Escherichia coli LT-IIa, LT-IIb and LT-IIc are potent adjuvants which induce distinct T-helper (Th)-cell cytokine profiles, immunoglobulin G (IgG) subclass and anti-tumoral responses. To determine if the distinct immune regulatory/anti-tumoral effects observed for LT-IIa, LT-IIb, and LT-IIc are elicited by binding of the HLT to their cognate ganglioside receptors, the populations of human lymphoid and myeloma cells that interact with the three HLT and their effects on various lymphocyte/myeloma responses in vitro will be evaluated. It is expected that the data obtained in this study will reveal novel regulatory pathways for enhancing anti-myeloma immune responses and will provide useful information towards understanding the mechanisms which underlie HLT-associated adjuvanticity. |
| ERAS Protocol | Jeffery Elder | OBGYN | ERAS |
| Retrospective Analysis of Shoulder Arthroplasty and Arthroscopy | Stephan Pill | Orthopaedics | orthopedics, shoulder, arthroplasty, athroscopy |
| Comparative Anatomy of Fossil Mammals. | Lauren Gonzales | Biomedical Sciences | Ear Anatomy |
| ALH and ADH Breast Cancer | Christine Schammel | Pathology | I will be assisting with this project |
| Colorectal Cancer | Christine Schammel | Pathology | I will be assisting with this project |
| “In vitro modulation of human lymphocyte and myeloma cell function by bacterial enterotoxins” | Sergio Arce | Biomedical Sciences | enterotoxins, lymphocyte, myeloma cell |
| Design and Implementation of a Multi-Disciplinary Diabetes focused clinic within a primary care center to support patient self-efficacy and improve diabetes outcomes in an uncontrolled diabetic patient population | John Emerson | Family Medicine | Diabetes |
| Implementation of Group Medical Visits for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus at a Community-Based Primary Care Clinic | Shannon Taylor | Family Medicine | Diabetes |
| Endometrial BCL6 testing for predicting IVF outcomes: a cohort study | Bruce Lessey | OBGYN | BCL6, endometriosis, IVF |
| Comparison of SPECT/CT and 2-D Planar Lymphoscintigraphy for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Melanoma of the Head and Neck | Christine Schammel | Surgery | Melanoma, SPECT, CT, SLNB |
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University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville (USCSOMG): Student Project
Database
A database of projects completed or started by USCSOMG medical students has been compiled
and can be searched by specific keywords or by research mentor. Medical student research
is inclusive of the following topical areas:
- Bedside (Clinical and Translational)
- Bench (Cellular and Molecular)
- Community Health
- Medical Education
- Population Health/Health Policy
- Other areas
Additional information regarding student projects is available upon request.