DOM well represented at delayed 2025 College of Medicine – Tucson Research Day poster session

By the numbers, 31 of 115 posters presented April 29 at the delayed Poster Session for the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson Research Day included mentors from the Department of Medicine.

Those mentors included 18 DOM faculty members — three of which had DOM secondary appointments (Hina Arif-Tiwari, MD – Division Gastroenterology & Hepatology; Julie Ledford, PhD – Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, or PACCS; and Lalitha Madhavan, MD, PhD – Division of General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine, or GGP) and one who is the Division of Cardiology fellowships site director at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (David Hamilton, MD) — and another who’s an Internal Medicine Residency Program – Tucson physician in training (Faisal Stypho, MD, a PGY-2 resident).

See below for a full list of posters, presenters and their mentors — as well as a mini-photo gallery from the event.

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The Poster Session was originally scheduled for April 2, when other College of Medicine – Tucson Research Day activities — under the theme, “Unity in Discovery” — were held in the Health Sciences Innovation Building. But high winds made it unsafe to host the session, which was planned to be held under tents in the U of A Health Sciences Plaza outside the College of Medicine – Tucson south entrance.

All was sunshine and fair weather on the afternoon when the Poster Session was actually held.

Of the DOM mentors, several mentored multiple posters. That included, with four each, Dr. Arif (whose primary appointment is in the Department of Medical Imaging, where she’s vice chair for clinical affairs and chief of the Division of Abdominal Radiology), Steven Goldman, MD (Division of Cardiology), and Jennifer H. Stern, PhD (Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism); with three, Daniel C. Butler, MD (Division of Dermatology); and with two, Dr. Madhavan (whose primary appointment is in the Division of Neurology, where her research focuses on Parkinson’s disease).

Research topics ranged from “3D Bioengineered Patch Promotes Cardiac Tissue Repair/Regeneration in Animal Models of Chronic Ischemic Heart Failure via Immunomodulation” (presenter: Allison Tulino; mentor: Dr. Goldman) to “Glucagon receptor agonism ameliorates age-related decline in glucose and lipid homeostasis in male mice” (presenter: Temara Fletcher; mentor: Dr. Stern) to “Colonoscopic Decompression is Associated with Improved Resolution in Acute Colonic Pseudo Obstruction” (presenter: Fariba Hossein; mentor: Sasha Taleban, MD, GI division) to “Pathophysiology of Decreased Bone Mineral Density in the Setting of Hemophilia” (presenter: Taylor Ford; mentor: Akshay Amaraneni, MD, Division of Hematology & Oncology, and director of the DOM’s Arizona Hemostasis & Thrombosis Center).

Other mentors for students and residents presenting posters included (with their divisions): Clara Curiel-Lewandrowski, MD (Dermatology); Jason P. DuPont, MD (Dermatology); Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD (Cardiology); Kristopher J. Abbate, MD (GGP – General Internal Medicine); Fariba Donovan, MD, PhD (Infectious Diseases); Randy Horwitz, MD, PhD (PACCS - Allergy); Julia B. Jernberg, MD (GGP - Geriatrics); C. Kent Kwoh, MD (Rheumatology); and Mahdieh Fazel Jedlowski, MD, PharmD (Dermatology).

For all the 2025 Research Day poster themes, their presenters and mentors, see this link.

MINI-PHOTO GALLERY
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