Thank you for attending the 2nd Annual Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine Research Day
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the resounding success of our 2nd Annual MSUCOM Research Day 2024. Thank you for your active participation, achievements, and dedication to medical education and research. We were able to showcase some excellent and innovative research contributions and foster meaningful professional and pedagogic discussions and connections within our research community.
Please mark your calendars and join us on May 13, 2025, for the 3rd Annual MSUCOM Research Day!
Please mark your calendars and join us on May 13, 2025, for the 3rd Annual MSUCOM Research Day!
Spartan Medical Research Journal
After receiving authors' permission to publish, the Spartan Medical Research Journal published all accepted abstracts from the 2023 Research Day in a Special Edition Research Symposium. We anticipate publishing this year's Research Day issue in the fall of 2024.
2024 AWARDS
Awards totaling more than $12,000 were given in the following categories:
Dr. Amalfitano Excellence in Research Award
Colin O'Hern, BSc
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DO-PhD student; MSUCOM; BME
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Poster Awards
Medical & Graduate Students
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Kit Zoltin, MSc
Samantha Caico, BSc
Luke Noah, BSc
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Medical student; MSUCOM
DO-PhD student; MSUCOM; Neuroscience
Medical student; MSUCOM
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Residents, Fellows & Post-docs
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Kriti Khatri, PhD
Ayman Alhadheri, MD
Jordan Sarver, DO
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Post-doc with MSUCOM faculty; MSU BMB
SCS-affiliated Resident Physician; McLaren Oakland
SCS-affiliated Resident Physician; Detroit Medical Center; Urology
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Oral Presentation Awards
Medical & Graduate Students
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Melissa Meschkewitz, BSc
Aastha Bahl, BSc
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DO-PhD student; MSUCOM; BMB
Medical student; MSUCOM
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Residents, Fellows & Post-docs
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Stephanie Coallier, MD
Daniel Gerow, DO
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SCS-affiliated Resident Physician; Trinity Health Muskegon; Emergency Medicine
SCS-affiliated Resident Physician; University of Michigan Health West; Orthopaedic Surgery
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Best Case Report Award
Victoria Qian, BSc
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Medical student; Wayne State University School of Medicine
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2024 Keynote Speaker
William Hersh, MD is a Professor in the Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Hersh served as the inaugural Chair of DMICE from 2003 to 2022. He is a leader and innovator in biomedical informatics, both in education and research, and continues his work as a professor in the department.
In education, Dr. Hersh served as Director of OHSU’s Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program, which is one of the oldest and largest in the world in the field, from its inception in 1996 through 2023. The program has awarded nearly 1000 degrees and certificates. Dr. Hersh also spearheaded OHSU’s efforts in online learning in biomedical informatics. He has taught in person and online widely around the world. Dr. Hersh has led a number of innovations in biomedical informatics education. He conceptualized and implemented the first offering of the American Medical Informatics Association 10x10 (“ten by ten”) program, which provides the equivalent of an introductory graduate-level course and has been completed by over 3000 people. He is Editor of the textbook, Health Informatics: Practical Guide, 8th Edition. Dr. Hersh is also an accomplished researcher. His main efforts have been in the area of information retrieval (also known as search) applied to biomedicine. He has authored over 200 scientific papers and abstracts as well as the book, Information Retrieval: A Biomedical and Health Perspective, 4th Edition (Springer, 2020). His current work focuses on the application of search techniques to electronic health record data, aiming to improve patient cohort discovery and amplification of signals of rare diseases. He has also led a number of information retrieval challenge evaluations with participation of many research groups from around the world under the guise of the Text Retrieval Conference or TREC. |