Lab: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mentor: David Ku, MD, PhD
Research Synopsis: Biomechanics of blood flow, thrombosis, and thrombolysis, with a focus on device creation and therapeutic options for pathologic disease processes using a combination of in-vitro and in-vivo models.
Goeto Dantes, MD, PGY-3
Years in the Lab: 2022-2024
Funding: Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta
Lab: ECMO Fellowship/Pediatric Critical Care Fellow
Mentor: Allison Linden, MD, PhD
Research Synopsis: Clinical pediatric ECMO fellow with additional pediatric surgery research responsibility, followed by one year of critical medicine fellowship with a concentration in pediatric critical care medicine.
James L. Galloway, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2022-2024
Funding: Department of Surgery and the VA Office of Academic Affiliations Advanced Fellowships Program
Research Synopsis: Healthcare improvement research and scholarship, operations leadership, and teaching quality and safety.
Aileen Johnson, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2020-2023
Funding: Resident Scientist Scholarship of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Lab: Transplant Immunology
Mentor: Christian P. Larsen, MD, DPhil
Research Synopsis: Studies of the interaction of the microvirome with the transplant recipient immune system to better understand complications in kidney and pancreas transplant recipients.
Olivia Keane, MD, PGY-3
Years in the Lab: 2020-2024
Funding: University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Lab: HOPE (Health Outcomes & Policy Effects) Lab at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Department of Pediatric Surgery
Mentor: Lorraine Kelley-Quon, MD
Research Synopsis: Focus on opioid use in high-risk neonate pediatric surgical populations and its effect on neurocognitive disability and healthcare utilization.
Chase King, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2021-2023
Funding: Grants
Lab: Structural Heart Research and Innovation Lab
Mentors: Muralidhar Padala, PhD; Robert Guyton, MD
Research Synopsis: Investigate surgical and interventional therapies for valve disease and heart failure using animal models.
Research Synopsis: Characterizing the colorectal cancer tumor immune microenvironment and the immunologic mechanisms that mediate the persistence and proliferation of colorectal liver metastasis in order to identify novel therapeutic targets.
Research Synopsis: Completing MPH at Rollins School of Public Health and working in research focusing on trauma, public health, and violence prevention.
Eli Mlaver, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2022-2024
Funding: NIH TL1, Georgia Surgical Quality Collaborative Grant
Lab: GSQC Research Fellow, Quality and Outcomes Research
Research Synopsis: Defining the role of galectin-9 expression in the cholangiocarcinoma immune microenvironment in order to develop novel therapeutic strategies.
