| Research |
| Hospital of
the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Surgery, Division
of Surgery Education 2003-present |
- Ongoing research to examine interaction
of education, efficiency, and patient safety. In separate
projects, studied operating room data, faculty teaching
scores, hospital finance data, patient satisfaction data,
resident education and incident report data. Determined
relationships between teaching scores and Relative Value
Units (RVUs), department and hospital margin for different
specialties, patient satisfaction and surgical house staff,
and looked at patterns associated with resident incident
reports.
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| Howard Hughes
Medical Insitute-National Institutes of Health Research Scholars
Program - 1 year fellowship in Bethesda, MD from 8/97-6/98.
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- Worked in Dr. Warren Strober's laboratory in the Mucosal
Immunity Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Disease. Studied Th1 cell development and the effects of
TGF- on naive CD4+ T cells and differentiated CD4+ Th1 cells
and Th2 cells. Demonstrated that TGF- acts to suppress Th1
cell proliferation and IFN-gamma production by inhibiting
the phosphorylation of an intracellular signal transduction
protein, STAT4.
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| Yale University,
Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology - Summer, 1996.
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- Analyzed blood samples from patients with non-Zollinger
Ellison Syndrome hyper gastric acid secretion. Extracted
DNA and used PCR to look for mutations in the endocytosis
signalling region of the subunit of gastric H,K-ATPase.
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| Beth Israel
Hospital, Department of Surgery - Summers, 1994, 1995. |
- Conducted research on intestinal epithelial cell ion transport
in the laboratory of Jeffrey Matthews, M.D. at the Beth
Israel Hospital in Boston. Techniques included electrophysiological
and fluoroscopic analyses.
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| Presidential
Scholar and Honors Thesis in laboratory of C.R. McClung, Ph.D.
- 1992-1995. |
- Research in molecular genetics to quantify the photic
and non-photic gene regulatory elements in the plant Arabidopsis.
Ran genetic tests to determine the circadian expression
of different kinds of mRNA. Mutated plants through the addition
of noxious gases to isolate mutants in circadian regulation.
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