Dec 4, 2017

Post Graduate Medical Education Resident Research Awards

We are pleased to announce several Resident Research Awards, received from the recently run competition by UT Post Graduate Medical Education:

 

Jay Detsky (PGY5) – Joseph M. West Family Memorial Fund, the Heidi Sternbach Scholarship, the Timeposters Fellowship and the Starr Medal

Project: Multi-contrast late enhancement magnetic resonance imaging of glioblastoma

Supervisor: Dr. Hany Soliman, Dr. Arjun Sahgal, Dr. Chinthaka Heyn

 

Jennifer Kwan (PGY3) - Edward Christie Stevens Fellowships in Medicine

Project: Reversing lymphedema with metabolic reprogramming

Supervisor: Dr. Fei-Fei Liu

 

Pencilla Lang (PGY4) - Joseph M. West Family Memorial Fund and the Chisholm Memorial Fellowship.

Project: CBCT Radiosensitivity Marker to Predict Radiation Pneumonitis

Supervisor: Dr. Andrew Hope

 

Aruz Mesci (PGY3) - Joseph M. West Family Memorial Fund

Project: Long non-coding RNA UCA1 as a predictive biomarker of Gleason Grade in active surveillance of prostate cancer

Supervisor: Dr. Stanley Liu

 

Srinivas Raman (PGY5) - Joseph M. West Family Memorial Fund

Project: A Phase II Study of High-dose Thoracic Reirradiation for Recurrent Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Supervisor: Dr. Andrea Bezjak

 

Please join us in congratulating our residents on their achievements!