Research Synopsis: Healthcare improvement research and scholarship, operations leadership, and teaching quality and safety.
Logan D. Glosser, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2024-2026
Funding:Dept. of Thyroid and Endocrine Surgery, Grady Memorial Hospital
Lab:Thyroid and Endocrine Surgery, Emory University Hospital, Administrative Fellowship, GMH
Mentors:Jyotirmay Sharma, MD; Keith Andrew Delman, MD
Research Synopsis:Surgical quality improvement and outcomes research with focus on thyroid tumors.
Administrative Synopsis: Administrative fellow and project manager for structural and EMR-related strategic initiatives to promote workflow efficiency.
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.
Hilary R. Jessup, MD, PGY-3
Years in the Lab: 2024-2026
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 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
Margaret Kennedy, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2024-2026
Funding:Department of Surgery and the VA Office of Academic Affiliations Advanced Fellowships Program
Lab:Atlanta VA Quality Scholars Advanced Fellowship
Research Synopsis:Utilization of healthcare quality improvement methods and implementation science with a focus on improving health care delivery systems, patient safety, and patient outcomes.
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
Nicole L. Petcka, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2024-2026
Funding: Department of Surgery and the VA Office of Academic Affiliations Advanced Fellowships Program
Lab: Atlanta VA Quality Scholars Fellowship, Behind the Knife Surgery Education Fellowship
Research Synopsis:Evaluating bariatric patient reported outcome measures, investigating healthcare improvement research and scholarship, and developing engaging surgical education content.
Evan Straub, MD, PGY-2
Years in the Lab: 2024-2026
Funding:ARPA-H grant
Lab:Lyons Lab
Mentor:John Lyons, MD; Philip Santangelo, PhD
Research Synopsis:Modulating sepsis with novel mRNA delivery therapeutics.
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.
