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.
Zachary J. Grady, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2023-2025
Funding:NIH T32 and Department of Surgery
Lab:Surgical Critical Care
Mentor:Randi Smith, MD
Research Synopsis:Utilization of machine learning to evaluate the use of ultra-massive transfusion in the traumatically injured patient and injury pattern recognition and prevention.
Lucy D. Hart, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2023-2025
Funding:Grady research funds
Lab:Trauma Surgery
Mentor:Randi Smith, MD
Research Synopsis:
Analyzing the social and economic burden of firearm-related injury in our community, and determining the cost-effectiveness of a hospital-based violence intervention program at Grady Memorial Hospital.
Research Synopsis:Understanding anti-tumor activity of CD26 as a potential target in T cells to treat patients with cholangiocarcinoma.
Olivia Keane, MD, PGY-3
Years in the Lab: 2022-2024
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.
James Keiler, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2023-2025
Funding: NIH T32 and Department of Surgery
Lab:Dr. Ford’s Lab
Mentors:Steven Kim, MD, and Mandy Ford, PhD
Research Synopsis:Transplant Research
Timothy K. Lee, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2023-2025
Funding: T32 Critical Care grant via the NIH
Lab:Dr. Coopersmith and Dr. Ford laboratories
Mentors:Dr. Mandy Ford, Phd; Dr. Craig Coopersmith, MD, FACS, FCCM
Research Synopsis:Elucidating the function of FCyIIB Fc T-cell receptor in sepsis.
Research Synopsis:Determine how a novel combination immunotherapy approach impacts tumor progression and the tumor immune microenvironment in murine models of colorectal cancer liver metastasis.
Katherine A. Ortmeyer, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2023-2025
Funding:University of Pennsylvania
Lab:Offsite at University of Pennsylvania
Mentor:UPENN
Research Synopsis:Thoracic Surgery Research
Savannah Smith, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2022-2024
Funding: Institutional grants
Mentor: Juan Sarmiento, MD
Research Synopsis: Clinical outcomes and societal implications of hepatobiliary disease.
Mary Caitlin Sok, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2023-2025
Funding: Institutional Grants
Lab: Surgical Oncology
Mentor: David Kooby, MD
Research Synopsis: Targeted therapies for gastrointestinal malignancies.
Shannon Swisher, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2022-2024
Funding:Institutional Grants
Lab:Paulos Laboratory
Mentor:Chrystal Paulos, PhD; Keith Delman, MD; Michael Lowe, MD
Research Synopsis:Engineering T Cells with high CD26 expression to develop novel immunotherapy agents that improve the current management of locoregional melanoma, and to ultimately expand these findings across solid tumors.
Stephanie K. Tom, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2022-2024
Funding:Institutional Grants
Lab:Cardiothoracic Surgery
Mentor:Robert Guyton, MD; Kendra Grubb, MD
Research Synopsis:IMPROVE-FMR clinical trial, which analyzes potential predictors of mode failure following mitral valve ring annuloplasty. Device development and testing for mitral valve regurgitation.
Research Synopsis: Defining the role of galectin-9 expression in the cholangiocarcinoma immune microenvironment in order to develop novel therapeutic strategies.
