Student & Alumni Highlights
Emory MSTP Class of 2018 on Match Day (left to right) Daniel Barron, Ryan Martinez, Jason Lamanna, Elizabeth Iffrig, James Scott Cordova, Lauren Hudson, Bryce Chiang, Constance Harrell Shreckengost, and Spencer Ng
Congrats to Spencer Ng for his induction into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society!
Congratulations to the Class of 2018 on Match Day!
We are very proud of our M4's who recently received their residency matches! Best of luck to you all! In the coming years, our soon-to-be Emory MSTP alumni can be found doing amazing things at these programs:
Emory University | Internal Medicine
Emory University | Neurological Surgery
Emory University | Ophthalmology
Emory University | Surgery-General
Northwestern University | Dermatology
Stanford University | Ophthalmology
University of Pennsylvania | Psychiatry
University of Minnesota | Pathology-Anatomic & Clinical
Washington University in St. Louis | Radiation Oncology
Congratulations to Nourine Kamili and Nusaiba Baker!
Nourine Kamili (IMP) received an NIH NRSA F31 fellowship: "Characterization of Naturally Occuring Anti-Blood Antibody Formation" Mentor: Sean R. Stowell, MD, PhD
Nusaiba Baker (BME) received an NIH NRSA F31 fellowship: "Elucidation of DNA Enzyme Nanoparticles in Regulating Gene Expression in the Lung" Mentor: Khalid Salaita, PhD
Nusaiba Baker (BME) also received Georgia Tech's Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship which supports outstanding engineering PhD graduate students from under-represented populations
Congratulations to our newly minted PhDs!
Erik Reinertsen (BME): “Dichotomizing illness from cardiovascular and activity time series” Advisor: Gari Clifford, D.Phil.
James Zhang (NS): "Optogenetic Stimulation of Transplanted Stem Cells to Enhance Regeneration and Repair After Traumatic Brain Injury" Advisor: Ling Wei, MD
Holly C. Lewis (IMP): “Aromatics & Exosomes: The Translation of Cell Therapy” Advisor: Jacques Galipeau, MD
Matt Kudelka (IMP): “Decoding the Cellular Glycome: Mucin-type O-glycans in Health and Disease” Advisor: Richard Cummings, PhD
Joav Birjiniuk (BME): “Investigation of fluid dynamic effects of endovascular intervention in a model of descending aortic dissection” Advisor: David Ku, MD, PhD
Patricia Cheung (Epi): “Evaluation of Interventions in the Clinical and School Settings to Prevent Child Obesity: A Step Forward in Translation” Advisor: Julie Gazmararian, PhD
Mfon Umoh (NS): “Characterization of clinical, pathological, and proteomic differences along the Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Frontotemporal dementia disease spectrum” Advisor: Jonathan Glass, MD
Dave Mathews (IMP): “The Role of Signal 3 Cytokines in Costimulation Independent Rejection” Advisors: Andres Adams, MD, PhD
Congratulations to our recent Fellowship Awardees!
September, 2017
Arielle Valdez (NS) received an NIH NRSA F31 fellowship: “Mechanisms of FMRP mediated translational repression” Mentor: Gary Bassell, PhD
Steve Yarmoska (BME) received and NIH NRSA F30 fellowship: “Perfluorocarbon nanodroplets for the detection and treatment of nodal metastases” Mentor: Stanislav Emelianov, PhD
David Trac (BME) received an American Heart Association Fellowship: “Improving the therapeutic functionality of child cardiac progenitor cells by spherical aggregation” Mentor: Mike Davis, PhD
Alex Waldman (M2) received Foundation of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers Medical Student Research Grant: “Sexually Dimorphic Multiple Sclerosis Pathogenesis and Progression” Mentor: William Tyor, MD
Vineet Tiruvadi (BME) received a Whitaker International Fellowship. Mentor: Helen Mayberg, MD and Robert Butera, PhD
Jessie Preslar (Epi) was awarded an NIH Fogarty Fellowship that will allow her to spend a year doing field work in Sierra Leone. Mentor: Michael Kramer, PhD
Dave Mathews (IMP) was heavily involved in a $12.6 million NIH research award granted to his research group. Mentor: Andrew Adams, MD, PhD
Moji Hassan (IMP) was selected to be a mentor and graduate assistant to the STEM Pathways program at Emory College. This is a program for incoming 1st-generation freshmen and helps them smooth the transition to college and explore science careers.
Aimee Vester (Environmental Health) received a Graduate Teaching Fellowship from Emory’s SIRE program. She will mentor undergraduates and lead a research course this upcoming year.
Howard Chiou receives Emory Who's Who Award
April 4, 2017
Congratulations to Howard Chiou for receiving Emory's Who's Who award which honors outstanding campus leaders for their scholastic and community achievements.
Congratulations to our M4's on Match Day 2017!
Congratulations to our M4's who matched into fantastic residency programs! We wish you all the best of luck in what is bound to be very successful careers!
General Surgery at the University of Wisconsin
Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein / Montefiore Medical Center
Internal Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine
Internal Medicine at Harvard / Mass. General Hospital
Internal Medicine at UCLA
Internal Medicine at UCSF
Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh
Pediatrics at Harvard / Boston Children's Hospital
Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine
Other: Consultant / Boston Consulting Group
Co-Directors Dr. Robert Gross and Mary Horton celebrated and recognized in this month's Emory Medicine newsletter
November 29, 2016
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Gross for his appointment as VP of the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery! The seminar series organized by Mary Horton, "Doctors who changed Medicine", was also recognized in this month's Emory Medicine Newsletter. For more, click here.
Dr. Paul Garcia (Emory MSTP alum) featured in Emory News
September 28, 2016
Dr. Paul Garcia, a graduate and faculty mentor of Emory's MSTP program is interviewed for his role as a neuroanesthesiologist and a scientist studying the pharmacology involved with sedation, sleep, coma, and anesthesia. To read more, click here.
Howard Chiou featured in the Emory Report for Class of 2016
May 8, 2016
Howard Chiou, who will soon receive a PhD in Anthropology from the Laney Graduate School, was recently featured in the Emory Report. Learn about his journey of becoming a medical anthropologist/physician here.
Danielle Cicka featured in eScienceCommons
April 8, 2016
Featured in this article, 2nd year MD/PhD student Danielle Cicka worked with Dr. Quave as part of a first year self-directed seminar.
Emory MSTP alum in the news: Apple new CareKit Platform allows any user to collect medical data
March 22, 2016
Dr. Jaime Hatcher-Martin, an assistant professor in movement disorder neurology at Emory University who did consulting work for Apple on the CareKit version of mPower, notes that these high-quality apps, developed by researchers who study specific conditions, also provide doctors with objective data such as measuring a person’s tremor, recording a person’s voice and even collecting information on a person’s walking gait. Click here to access the full article.
Congratulations Class of 2016!!
March 18, 2016
Congratulations to class of 2016, who successfully matched today into some of the nation's top programs!! More details to be announced shortly.
Training Faculty part of the nation's first Healthcare Robotics degree programs
October 16, 2015
Three members of our training faculty - Lena Ting, Uriel Kitron, and Carol Worthman - from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University are part of the two universities' joint effort to create the first healthcare robotics program in the country. Over the next five years with support from a 2.9 million dollar NSF grant, the program will establish undergraduate and doctoral programs in healthcare robotics technologies. For the full press release, please see this article.
Graduate mentors recognized by School of Medicine
October 15, 2015
As part of School of Medicine's Faculty Recognition Week, Dean Christian Larsen acknowledged faculty who were recognized by their departments as being "Hidden Gems". Among the list are several faculty who are deeply integrated into the mentorship and guidance of MSTP students, including Drs. Gari Clifford, Jonathan Cohen, Michael Davis, Paul Garcia, and Malu Tansey. Congrats to all of these hidden gems!
Mentor pays it forward, is featured in the July/August Decatur Focus
July 29, 2015
Co-directory Anita Corbett was featured in the magazine "Decatur Focus" for her donation of the monetary award associated with her recent Eleanor Main Graduate Mentor award to the Decatur Education Foundation. We're proud of Dr. Corbett for her acheivements and philanthropy. The full article can be read on the Decatur Focus website.
Michael Mina interviewed on NPR
May 14, 2015
Michael was recently featured in an NPR interview on his thesis work on the effect of measles on a child's overall health. Check it out at NPR's website - including an audio version of the story.
Congratulations Dr. David Gutman!
May 11, 2015
Dr. Gutman and collaborators in the Department of Biomedical Informatics were the recipients of a $3.5 million U24 award from the National Cancer Institute. Congrats to Dr. Gutman on this great acheivment! For more information, please read the press release from the Winship Cancer Institute.
Congratulations IMP Student George Kannarkat!
April 29, 2015
George published a paper in the inaugural issue of NPJ Parkinson's Disease entitled "Immune gene variant magnified Parkinson's risk from insectiside exposure." The study was a collaborative effort between Emory University and UCLA. Congratulations George! You can view the Emory press release and read the article in it's entirety online.
Congratulations to Dr. Anita Corbett and Orion Kiefer!
April 24, 2015
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Dr. Anita Corbett, co-Director of the MSTP, and M3 MD/PhD student Orion Kiefer, Jr., as the first recipients of the Laney Graduate School's Eleanor Main Graduate Mentor Awards! The awards are given to the graduate student and faculty who "set the standard for mentorship excellence at Emory." We're incredibly proud of Orion and Anita on this amazing acheivement! More information can be found on the Laney Graduate School press release. |
Congratulations to our M4's on Match Day 2015!
Last week, we had 9 of our M4's match into fantastic residency programs! We wish you all the best of luck in what is bound to be very successful careers!
General Surgery at the University of Wisconsin
Internal Medicine at Albert Einstein / Montefiore Medical Center
Internal Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine
Internal Medicine at Harvard / Mass. General Hospital
Internal Medicine at UCLA
Internal Medicine at UCSF
Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh
Pediatrics at Harvard / Boston Children's Hospital
Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine
Congratulations to our M4's on Match Day 2014!
Last week, 6 M4's from our program successfully matched into top residency programs across the country! A hearty congratulations to all of them, and best wishes in their careers ahead! The residencies they matched into are:
Pediatrics at the UCSF School of Medicine
Ophthalmology at the University of Pennsylvania Health System
Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine
Radiation Oncology at the UT Southwestern Medical Center
Vascular Surgery at the University of Michigan Health System
Anesthesiology at NY Presbytarian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
Congratulations PBEE Student Michael Mina on his Thesis Defense!
Michael defended his thesis entitled "Unintended consequences of influenza vaccination on bacterial disease: Introducing the Generalized Herd Effect."
Congratulations IMP Student Nina Salinger Prasanphanich!
Nina was awarded the Benjamin H. Kean Travel Fellowship in Tropical Medicine to support her to conduct research in Africa this year.
Nina will join Ethan Bornstein (Emory School of Medicine) as one of 20 Kean Fellows for 2013.
Congratulations Anthropology Student Howard Chiou!
Howie was awarded a 2013 NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI) fellowship which will send him to Australia for 2 months.
Howie was also awarded an R36 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) for his project "From Cowboys to Pit Crew: An ethnographic study of the process of implementing a team-based care model on inpatient hospital units".
Congratulations BME Student Scott Robinson!
Scott was awarded a Student Research Fellowship by the Society for Vascular Surgery.
Scott also received a grant from the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation's Seed Grant Research Program. Read the press release.
Congratulations BCDB Student Ana Monteiro!
Ana was recently awarded the 2013 Merit Award from the Experimental Biology Conference hosted by the Association of Investigative Pathologists (ASIP).
2013 Retreat Group Photo
August 3, 2013
Congratulations Behavioral Sciences and Health Education Student Erica Smearman!
Erica was recently awarded a fellowship with the Molecules to Mankind (M2M) doctoral pathway.
Congratulations Neuroscience Student Constance Harrell!
Constance's paper "Not all depression is created equal: sex interacts with disease to precipitate depression" was published in Biology of Sex Differences.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23594674.
Constance's paper "Sex and lineage interact to predict behavioral effects of chronic adolescent stress in rats" was published in Behavioral Brain Research.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23583793.
Constance's paper "Sex differences in the effects of adolescent stress on adult brain inflammatory markers in rats" was published in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23348027.
Constance's paper "Translational reciprocity: Bridging the gap between preclinical studies and clinical treatment of stress effects on the adolescent brain" was published in Neuroscience.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23069751.
Constance's paper "Stress-induced sex differences: adaptations mediated by the glucocorticoid receptor" was published in Hormones and Behavior.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22426413.
Congratulations IMP Student Scott Krummey!
Scott's review "Heterogeneity within T Cell Memory: Implications for Transplant Tolerance" was published in Frontiers in Immunology.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22566919.
Congratulations IMP Student Anna Kersh!
Ana was recently awarded an F31 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) for her project "CD4+ T Cell Affinities In Secondary Progressive Demyelinating Disease".
You can read about her award here.
Congratulations IMP Student Devon Livingston-Rosanoff!
Devon successfully defended her thesis "Death and T Cells: An Evaluation of Host Contributions to Murine Cytomegalovirus Pathogenesis and Extrinsic Cell Death to T Cells".
Congratulations Anthropology Student Howard Chiou!
Howie was recently featured in the Emory Health Magazine for his contributions toward the formation of the Emory University Volunteer Medical Interpretation Services (EUVMIS).
You can read more about EUVMIS at the Emory Health Magazine by following this link.
Congratulations PBEE Student Josh Shak!
Josh's manuscript "Influence of bacterial interactions on pneumococcal colonization of the nasopharynx" was published in Trends in Microbiology.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23273566.
Congratulations MSP Student Scott Cordova!
Scott was the 2013 Division Students Advisory Council (DSAC) Poster Symposium winner.
Congratulations Neuroscience Student Orion Keifer!
Orion's manuscript "Structural and Functional Mapping of the Mouse Olfactory System with Manganese-enhanced MRI and Probablistic Tractography" was recently published in Brain Structure and Function.
2012 Retreat Group Photo
Congratulations BCDB Student Ana Monteiro!
Ana a recipient of the merrit award for the 2013 Experimental Biology Conference from the Association of Investigative Pathologists (ASIP).
You can read about Ana's award here: http://www.asip.org/awards/epigt.cfm. IMP student Duke Geem was a 2012 recipient.
Congratulations Neuroscience Student Sammy Lee!
Sammy's manuscript "Motor and sensory neuropathy due to myelin infolding and paranodal damage in a transgenic mouse model of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1C" was published in Human Molecular Genetics.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23359569.
Sammy's manuscript "Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease-linked protein SIMPLE functions with the ESCRT machinery in endosomal trafficking" was published in the Journal of Cell Biology.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23166352.
Sammy's manuscript "Therapeutic implications of protein homeostasis in demyelinating peripheral neuropathies" was published in Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23039381.
Congratulations IMP Student Gopi Mohan!
Gopi's manuscript "Antigenic subversion: a novel mechanism of host immune evasion by Ebola virus" was published in PLoS Pathogens.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23271969.
Congratulations BME Student Keon-Young Park!
Keon-Young's manuscript "Patient specific proteolytic activity of monocyte-derived macrophages and osteoclasts predicted with temporal kinase activation states during differentiation" was recently selected for the cover article in the Integrative Biology.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23114878.
Check out Keon-Young's cover on Integrative Biology.
Congratulations Director Anita Corbett, PhD!
Dr. Corbett was awarded the 2012 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
Read about the award announcement here.
Congratulations Alumnus Brandon Fornwalt, MD/PhD!
Dr. Fornwalt (2010) is a recipient of a 2012 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award. The award provides 5 years of funding and support for Dr. Fornwalt as an independent investigator.
Read the NIH new release here: http://www.nih.gov/news/health/oct2012/od-01.htm.
Congratulations Director Kerry Ressler, MD/PhD!
Dr. Ressler (MD/PhD Program Associate Director) has been elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM). His election to the IOM recognizes his significant advances in the field of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and fear conditioning. Dr. Ressler is a researcher at Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
Read the IOM new release here and the Emory news release here.
Congratulations Anthropology Student Howard Chiou!
Howie was named as a finalist for the 2012 Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) Innovation Award for his work, in collaboration with Brian Croxall (English), designing a project to further the pedagogical development of graduate students. Eat. Talk. Teach. Run! (ETTR): Changing Graduate Student Teaching One Fro-Yo and Bánh Mì at a Time utilizes a novel format to capture and disseminate graduate student innovations in teaching. Participants present four-minute lightning talks on their innovative techniques, assignments, and philosophies. Subsequent lines for food and a cafe-style layout are arranged purposively to encourage waiting and, consequently, conversations about teaching with people from disciplines outside their own. The on-the-go format was designed to facilitate graduate student community building while accommodating busy schedules. Howie and Brian will compete for the award at the annual POD conference in Seattle, WA (October 24 - 28, 2012), where the winner will be announced.
You can read more about the POD Innovation Award by following this link.
Congratulations BCDB Student Ben Nanes!
Ben's manuscript "p120-Catenin Binding Masks an Endocytic Signal Conserved in Classical Cadherins" was recently published in the Journal of Cell Biology.
You can access the abstract here: http://jcb.rupress.org/content/199/2/365.abstract.
Earlier this year, Ben was awarded a NRSA F30 training grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) for his project "Regulation of Endothelial Adhesion by VE-Cadherin Endocytosis". You can read more about it at the NIH Reporter website.
Congratulations IMP Student Devon Livingston-Rosanoff!
Devon's manuscript "Antiviral T Cell Response Triggers Cytomegalovirus Hepatitis in Mice" was recently published in the Journal of Virology.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22993151.
Congratulations Neuroscience Student Orion Keifer!
Orion's manuscript "A DTI tractography analysis of infralimbic and prelimbic connectivity in the mouse using high-throughput MRI" was recently published in NeuroImage.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22796992.
Earlier this year, Orion was awarded an HHMI/STEP Curriculum Development Fellowship and a GDBBS Student Mentor Award.
Congratulations IMP Student Duke Geem!
Duke was awarded an NRSA F30 by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Health for his project "The regulation of intestinal immune homeostasis by APCs and lymphocytes.".
Duke's manuscript "Isolation and characterization of dendritic cells and macrophages from the mouse intestine" was recently published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22644046.
Congratulations BME Student Jeenah Jung!
Jeenah's manuscript "Quantifying RNA-protein interactions in situ using modified-MTRIPs and proximity ligation" was recently published in Nucleic Acids Research.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22952158.
Congratulations Neuroscience Student David Bass!
David was awarded an NRSA F30 by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for his project "Amygdala Mediated Enhancement of Object Recognition Memory in the Hippocampus". You can read more about his award on the NIH Reporter website.
David's manuscript "Event-specific enhancement of memory via brief electrical stimulation to the basolateral complex of the amygdala in rats" was recently published in Behavioral Neuroscience.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22141467.
Congratulations BCDB Student Ana Monteiro!
Ana's review "Intracellular mediators of JAM-A-dependent epithelial barrier function" was recently published in the Annals of New York Academy of Sciences.
You can access the PubMed entry here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22671597.
