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Active Projects
| Student / Resident Name | Faculty PI Name | Title | Description / status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Looking for student | Mollie Meek | Redesigning the Interventional Radiology Mortality & Morbidity conference | In planning stages. |
| Looking for student or resident | Mollie Meek | Qualitative research project about perceptions of conflict of interest among interventional radiology physicians | In planning stages. |
| Looking for residents | Phillip Kenney | Extended Adrenal Case Report | To include: adrenal cavernous hemangioma, adrenal histoplasmosis, traumatic adrenal injury with active bleeding (from adrenal), very atypical adenoma, calcified myelolipoma. Also perhaps more routine things like RP paraganglioma, adrenal hematoma, classic adrenal carcinoma. |
| Students / Residents / Post-Docs needed | Xiawei Ou | Impacts of nutrition and obesity on children’s brain development | USDA-funded study at Arkansas Children's Hospital, see: https://acnc.uams.edu/home/research-cores-labs/our-laboratories-2/brain-imaging-lab/ for more details. |
| Students / Residents / Post-Docs needed | Xiawei Ou | Effects of prenatal opioid exposure on children’s brain development | NIH funded study at UAMS/ACH, part of the NIH Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study. https://heal.nih.gov/research/infants-and-children/healthy-brain/ |
| Students / Residents / Post-Docs needed | Xiawei Ou | Maternal Obesity and Offspring Neurodevelopment: the MOON study | NIH funded study at Arkansas Children's Hospital. The goal is to understand how maternal obesity affects offspring brain structural and functional development. |
| Kyle Standiford | Gitanjali Bajaj | Imaging findings in abdominal manifestations of multiple myeloma | In planning stages |
| Sanaz Ameli | Terry Angtuaco | Why don’t medical students choose radiology? | Survey to senior med school class – 26 responses that were very telling. Planning an intervention to educate (2h) pre-clinical med school classes in April. Discuss about 7 cases. |
| Kyle Jackson | Lyle Burdine James Meek | Liver cancer - Y90 embolization and contralateral lobe hypertrophy for metastatic resection - UAMS experience | In planning stages |
| Rebecca Minner (graduated) Olivia Ray | Mollie Meek | Why female students choose / don’t choose a specialty | Results presented but not published yet. |
| Zach Schwartz (graduated) Natalie Phelan | Mollie Meek | Mechanical Thrombectomy of TIPS | Draft Case Series |
| Sandra Scroggins | Mollie Meek | LEAN project regarding MRI workflow | In planning stages |
| Dhruba Dasgupta | Mollie Meek | HHT in pregnancy | IRB in progress |
| Kaley Ferguson | Mollie Meek | Lung Cancer Screening | IRB in progress |
| Mallory Heft | Mollie Meek | Was SARS-CoV-2 Unknowingly in Arkansas Before March 2020? | IRB approved, awaiting data from AR-CDR |
| Jackson Mosley | James Meek | Liver Cancer | |
| Dakory Lee | Mollie Meek | Intracranial Hemorrhage Morphology Algorithm | IRB approved, data requested from AR-CDR |
| Maddie Shaw | Mollie Meek | Intimate Partner Violence | IRB being drafted |
| Andrew Buchan Logan Scott-Kirchen | Mollie Meek | Pulmonary Thrombectomy | IRB approved, published abstract and oral presentation, manuscript in progress |
| Greg Malyutin | Mollie Meek | Paracentesis in an Outpatient Clinic | Manuscript in progress |
| Mathieu Sabbagh | Mollie Meek | Case Report: HHT and melorheostosis | Manuscript in progress |
| Brad Griffitts | Mollie Meek | Liver Transplant | Manuscript ready, looking for journal target |
| Taylor Witt | Mollie Meek | Nanopillar Catheter Coating | Reached out to U of A for Material Science collaborators |
| Abby Hertzog Nathan Taylor Zain Alfanek | Mollie Meek | Head & Neck CTAs | IRB approved, chart review done, abstract submitted to EAST. Also on team: Marty Radvany, Avi Bhavaraju |
| Nicole Mercier Scott Fleck | Mollie Meek | Head CT | Manuscript submitted to AJNR in July 2020 |
| Reed Shelton Zoe Crystal (UAMS-NW) | Terry Angtuaco | Marshallese population; high no-show rate to imaging | Patient education materials in native language? Might pursue through Center of Health Literacy |
| Kaley Ferguson | Kevin Wong | Mandibular Case Series | Literature review in progress. |
| Nayanatara Swamy | Gwendolyn Bryant-Smith | Male Breast Cancer Screening | Manuscript ready, being submitted to Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. If rejected, will try Public Health Research and Practice. |
| Bradley Griffiths | Jeff Lynch Emmanuel Giorgakis | Hepatic Artery Thrombosis after Liver Transplant | Under review at Annals of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery. |
| Liza Hill | Arabinda Choudhary | Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma | IRB returned to address questions. Also on team: Rangarajan Purushothaman, George Vilanilam, Raghu Ramakrishnaiah, Linda Deloney, Karen Farst |
| Rangarajan Purushothaman | Gitanjali Bajaj | Alignment is everything; The Kinematics, Imaging Findings and Management of Carpal Instability | Abstract accepted to RSNA |
| None needed | Roopa Ram, Gitanjali Bajaj, Kedar Jambekar | LIRADS - Treatment response- Role of imaging | Review article for Seminars in Radiology |
| Nayanatara Swamy | Roopa Ram | How well do you know the pelvic floor anatomy? | Abstract accepted to RSNA |
| Akshaya Jagadale | Roopa Ram | Ankle Arthroplasty: Imaging findings of changing implants & emerging complications | Abstract accepted to RSNA |