14th Annual DOM Research Day Agenda

8 - 8:15 a.m. | Welcome from Dr. Stephens

8:15 - 9:15 a.m. | Concurrent Oral Session I

8:15 - 8:30 a.m. | Featured Research I & II

• Group A
  • Featured Research I
    • Adam Gracz, PhD, "Dissecting cellular and genetic heterogeneity in GI tissues" Assistant Professor, Division of Digestive Diseases
• Group B
  • Featured Research II
    • Sara Auld, MD, MSc, "COVID-19: A journey across the spectrum of translational research" Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine

8:30 - 9:15 a.m. | Oral Presentations I & II

• Group A
  • Oral Presentations I

    • 8:30 – 8:45 a.m. Arun Balasubramanian (Digestive Diseases) “SARS-CoV-2 induces enteric neuronal production of Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide as a potential mechanism of COVID-19-associated diarrhea”

    • 8:45 – 9:00 a.m. Juline Deppen (Cardiology) “Alginate-encapsulated mesenchymal stromal cells improve hind limb ischemia in swine”

    • 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Kosuke Kato (Pulmonary) “Endothelial Nox4 mediates age-dependent severity and impaired resolution of acute lung injury”

• Group B
  • Oral Presentations II

    • 8:30 – 8:45 a.m. Ankita Agarwal (Pulmonary) “SWEAT ICU – a Study of Workload and thE Association of ouTcomes in the ICU”

    • 8:45 – 9:00 a.m. Tracey Henry (General Medicine) “Making an impact with E.M.P.A.C.T.: A new pilot mentoring program for URiM learners”

    • 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Maxwell Su (Infectious Diseases) “SARS-CoV-2 variant analysis by real-time RT-PCR, Asunción, Paraguay”

9:15 - 10:15 a.m. | Poster Session I

10:15 - 10:30 a.m. | Break

10:30 - 11:30 a.m. | Concurrent Oral Session II

10:30 - 10:45 a.m. | Featured Research III & IV

• Group C
  • Featured Research III
    • Srilatha Edupuganti, MD, "Why don’t we have a vaccine for HIV?" Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases
• Group D
  • Featured Research IV
    • Jessica Alvarez, PhD, RD, "Nutritional metabolomics to identify novel pathways linked to body composition" Associate Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipids

10:45 - 11:30 a.m | Oral Presentations III & IV

• Group C
  • Oral Presentations III

    • 10:45 – 11:00 a.m. Joel Eggert (Rheumatology/Immunology) “Strong basal TCR signaling mitigates the responsiveness of naive CD8+ T cells”

    • 11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Onyinye Iheaku (Hospital Medicine) “COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among metro Atlanta healthcare workers May - June 2021”

    • 11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Ambreen Merchant (Digestive Diseases) “Necrotizing pancreatitis mortality and healthcare burden in the United States: A nationwide analysis”

• Group D
  • Oral Presentations IV

    • 10:45 – 11:00 a.m. Sarah Hernandez (Infectious Diseases) “Simple, economical RNA extraction packets for low resource communities”

    • 11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Amany Gerges (Endocrinology) “Hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic crises among U.S. adults with diabetes and End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD): Population-based study, 2013-2017”

    • 11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Matthew Ryan Smith (Pulmonary) “Novel approaches to assess metabolic dysregulation in pulmonary hypertension”

11:30 a.m - 12:30 p.m. | Poster Session II

12:30 - 1 p.m. | Lunch

1 - 2 p.m. | Keynote: "Understanding inherited forms of prostate cancer: From familial risk to metastatic prostate cancer” 

Kathleen Cooney, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine, Duke University

2 - 2:30 p.m. | Featured Researcher V

Peter Wilson, MD, "Big data and cardiovascular risk" Professor, Division of Cardiology 

2:30 - 3 p.m. | Research Accomplishments and Awards