Thursday, April 3, 2008    9:30 am - 12 noon                                                                                        revised 3/20/08

Post-Doctoral Fellows and Medical Residents  Location:  Auditorium

  9:30

Venkataramanan Gangadharan

Tracheal Metastasis of Lung Cancer: A Rare Complication

  9:45

Sumit Kalra

A Case of Ventricular Tachycardia Terminated by Carotid Massage

10:00

Georges El Khoury

An Exceptional Variant of Single Coronary Artery Anomaly, Presenting with Acute St Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

10:15

Christopher W. T. Miller

Elevated IgE, Eosinophilia and Persistent Airway Obstruction

10:30

Break

10:45

Subhadra Nandakumar

Molecular Link Between Toll Like Receptors, Obesity and Risk of Cancer

11:00

Vivekananda Pattabiraman

Philadelphia-Chromosome Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Long-term Survival in an Adult Jehovah’s Witness

11:15

Nakhle Saba

Effects Of Vitamin E Isotypes On KG-1 Leukemic Cells Gene Expression, Cell Growth and Proliferation

11:30

Harsha Gadadhar Vardhana

Eliciting Patients’ Cancer Stories and Health Disparities with an Integrated Patient-Centered Storytelling Interview, and the Use of These Video-Recorded Stories to Educate and Train Health Care Personnel in Effective Patient Physician Communication

11:45

Umesh Kumar Vyas

REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD) as an Early Marker for Development of Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Literature Review

Graduate Students    Location:  Room 130

  9:30

Kenneth W. McDonald

A Temporal and Spatial Analysis of North American Avian Redistributions in Response to Changes in Climate

9:45

Kelly Moore

Long-Term Geochemical Impacts from Permanganate Oxidation: Field-Scale Assessment

10:00

Terry Shannon O'Quinn

Development of a GIS Protocol to Prioritize Water Quality Improvements in Reservoir Embayments in Tennessee

10:15

Mihir Patel

ETSU Health Corps

10:30

Mark Quickel

Control of MnO2 Particles During Permanganate-ISCO Through Use of Chemical Stabilization Aids

10:45

Break

11:00

Jeremy B. Stout

Skeletal Morphology and Systematics of Late Pliocene Alligator SP

11:15

Preston Visser

Ethnic Differences in Risk and Protective Factors for Depression

11:30

Stacie Woolard

Up-Regulating Death Receptor 5 Via Tunicamycin Administration Increases Anti-HSV Immune Response

IMPORTANT REMINDER:  All oral presentations should be limited to 10 minutes in length, followed by 5 minutes of judges' questions.