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Saving Face: Use Of Restraints In Mvcs Mitigates Surgery, Tbi, And C-Spine Injuries In Pediatric Facial Fracture Trauma, Dustin Rose Mchalffey

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Individualized Kinematically-Driven Contact Modeling Offers A Reliable Alternative For Periacetabular Osteotomy Planning, James J. Mcginley

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Translating Fap-Targeted Probes To The Or: Preclinical Evaluation Of Fapi-Cy5 In Pancreatic Cancer, Nicolette R. Mardik

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Evaluating Large Language Models For Cpt Code Prediction In Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Krishi S. Manem

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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A Head Of The Curve: Investigating Helmet Therapy Compliance In Patients With Craniosynostosis, Racquel V. Lyn

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Application Of Artificial Intelligence (Ai) In Cancer Symptom Management For Adult Cancer Survivors: A Scoping Review, Tao Wang, Haiying Wang, Mengyuan Li, Daniel Bressington, Daniel Terry, Guanjin Wang, Wai Hang Kwok, Jing Yu (Benjamin) Tan

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Background and aim: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been increasingly used in cancer survivorship to support symptom management. This scoping review aimed to map existing evidence on AI applications in cancer symptom management for adult cancer survivors, including AI model development, AI-enabled intervention delivery and adoption, symptom targets, key features of the AI approaches used, reported outcomes, influencing factors, and research gaps to inform future priorities.

Method: This scoping review was conducted in accordance with the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews. Eight electronic databases were comprehensively searched in November 2025 and updated in March 2026. Empirical studies published in …

Consensus Recommendations For Movement Therapies Of Patients With Heritable Vascular Diseases: A Modified Delphi Study, Randy Liu

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Too Many Hands On Deck: Assessing The Appropriateness Of Hand Surgery Transfers To The Texas Medical Center, Khang T. Le

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Enucleation Versus Anatomical Resection Of Malignant Pancreatic Tumors In Children And Young Adults, Alexander Lee

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Real-World Outcomes Of Patients With Geographic Atrophy Developing Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration After Receiving Anti-Complement Therapy, Charles F. Lano Iii

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Development Of A Culture System For Eosinophils Derived From Human Cord Blood Stem Cells, Christian Lachance

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Acceleration Of Coagulation Kinetics For Clot Burst Pressure Assessment, Hanuk Kwon

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Tmc Library Newsletter: From Its Past To Present, Alice Sherwood

Library Staff Publications

This presentation describes the early beginnings of our library newsletter, and the progress of its technology changes over time. "The TMC Library Newsletter" started out in 1998 as a quarterly print newsletter, "Library Lines", and evolved into a web-based one, "The Insider," published 6 and then 12 times a year through 2013. Since 2015, its name changed to what it is today and is also available on Digital Commons, an open journal available for the community and beyond. As an open journal using Digital Commons as its platform since April 2025, the items in this journal has grown to more …

Evaluating The Impact Of Eczema On Outgrowing Food Allergies, Multiple Food Allergies, And Atopic Multimorbidity In Children, Nicole K. Koulov

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Aligning The Library Website And Intuitional Repository Experience: Redesign, Implement And Engage, Alice Sherwood

Library Staff Publications

Last year, we started the process of changing sidebar menu items and breadcrumb navigation to help with enhancing accessibility for the library website based on some suggestions by staff members having issues with the website. As the project progressed of adjusting and changes to the library website navigation progressed, it was obvious how much these changes have created more differences of navigation menus between our library website and institutional repository creating no so streamlined experiences for users between the two. With the timing also eligible for the institutional repository to go through a redesign, steps were taken to document the …

Radiation Exposure Of Intraoperative Navigation During Posterior Spinal Fusion For Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis, Emily G. Koch

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Immunomodulatory Role Of Muc5ac In Lung Cancer Progression, Julia G. Kim

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Strength On Wheels Improves Exercise Motivation In Homebound Older Adults, Supraja Kadagandla

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Local Adherence With Society Guidelines And Postoperative Outcomes In Perforated Appendicitis, Mackenzie K. Joe

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Biomechanical Assessment Of Extensor Pollicis Longus Following Dorsal Wrist Approach: A Pilot Investigation, Jacob Jefferson

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Brief Psychosocial Interventions For Existential Distress In Advanced Cancer: A Scoping Review Of Randomized Controlled Trials, Lilian Vasconcelos, Justin Andrew Komisarof, Heather Villarreal-Munoz, Bronwyn Sutherland, Gary Rodin, Elizabeth Kvale

Library Staff Publications

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Predictors Of Failure Dring Nonoperative Management Of Simple Acute Appendicitis, Srisha Jayakumar

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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Project Inspire, Daphney R. Portis

Inspire Brochures

Project Inspire is USA Health’s semester-long injury prevention program that offers education, exposure and mentorship to justice-involved youth. Since 2017, this collaboration between USA Health and James T. Strickland Youth Center has engaged justice-involved teens with the five-pillar curriculum, which includes: traumainformed care training and confidence building, educational and professional development, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and intensive mentorship. The goal is to reduce the rates of violence by equipping and empowering youth to overcome obstacles and barriers they may face in order to build a brighter future. There are currently three sites with more opening across several states.

Age- And Period-Stratified Associations Between Ambient Fungal Spore Exposure And Asthma Healthcare Utilization In The San Juan Metropolitan Area, Puerto Rico, 2018–2021, Benjamín Bolaños-Rosero, Claudia I. Pereira Moreira, Catalina S. Robles-Rivera, Félix E. Rivera-Mariani

College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Publications & Presentations

Puerto Ricans experience among the highest asthma morbidity in the United States, and ambient fungal spores are abundant tropical aeroallergens. This ecological time-series study asked whether associations between ambient fungal spores and recorded asthma healthcare utilization in the San Juan Metropolitan Area, Puerto Rico (2018–2021), were stable across two contextual eras (post-Hurricane María recovery, 2018–2019; the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020–2021) and across age groups. Daily Burkard spore counts were linked to 168,578 asthma encounters. Encounter volume (negative binomial rate ratios, RR) and the ED/inpatient encounter fraction (logistic odds ratios, OR) were modeled per 10,000 spores·m−3 using weekly means and 3- and …

Connecting The Dots…Perceptions Of The Healthcare Provider On Prevalence And Cause: Addressing The Disparity With Obstetric Maternal Mortality, Ariell G. Hopkins

Summer Research Program Abstracts

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The Unacknowledged Challenge Of Moral Distress For Nurse Academics, Adam Burston, Glenna Mae Guiriba, Meena Gupta, Sara Bayes

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

The pluralistic nature of healthcare presents nurses with situations challenging their moral values which nurses must navigate. Challenges to moral values can result in the experience of moral distress, a problem that is common within the clinical nursing context. Moral distress is a known and well-researched phenomenon within nursing and has long contributed to detrimental effects such as frustration, anger, anxiety, decreased job satisfaction, burnout and ultimately attrition. However, despite extensive research in clinical environments, minimal research exists detailing this concept within the context of nursing academics and educators. Nurses can experience moral distress if they are in or exposed …

The Value Of Pilot And Feasibility Studies In Nursing Education Research: A Worked Example, Dhanya Anand Anil Kumar, Natasya Raja Azlan, Hugh Davies, Chandra P. Salgado Kent, Debbie Massey, Karen Strickland

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Background: Feasibility studies play a critical role in determining whether clinical or educational interventions can be implemented as intended before progressing to large-scale trials. In nursing education, many innovative teaching strategies, particularly complex interventions such as simulation-based learning, are often advanced directly to full trials without first establishing feasibility. This premature progression creates recruitment, acceptability, fidelity, and protocol adherence challenges, which may compromise study quality and valuable resources. This paper addresses this gap by clarifying the purpose and value of feasibility studies in nursing education research and outlining key considerations for designing an early-stage feasibility study that aligns with contemporary …

Reliability And Validity Of Upper Extremity Neurocognitive Reactive Tests In Collegiate Athletes, Matthew L. Gauthier, Marisa Pontillo, George J. Davies

Physical Therapy Faculty Publications

Objectives: Neurocognitive function is vital in sports, but evidence supporting neurocognitive reaction testing in upper extremity return-to-sport testing is limited. This study's purpose was to quantify measurement properties of upper extremity reactive testing in collegiate athletes, hypothesizing acceptable measurement properties for clinical use.

Design: Cross-Sectional Study.

Setting: Collegiate athletics.

Participants: Sixty-three healthy athletes (25 females, age = 20.8 ± 1.6 years, BMI = 25.6 ± 2.6 kg/m2; 38 males, age = 20.8 ± 1.6, BMI = 25.7 ± 2.6 kg/m2).

Main outcome measure(s): Successful touches and average reaction time on the Upper Extremity Reactive Closed Kinetic Chain Test (UERCKCT) and …

The Influence Of Childhood Experiential History On Elon Musk’S Personality, Amelia Brower, Aubrey Immelman

Psychology Faculty Publications

This paper presents the results of a developmental causal analysis of the adult personality of innovative entrepreneur and business leader Elon Musk, from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon.

Psychodiagnostically relevant data relating to Musk’s personality were collected from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with DSM-III-R, DSM-IV, and DSM-5-TR.

The findings of the personality assessment were previously reported in a separate paper. Musk’s primary personality patterns were found to be Ambitious/self-serving and Dominant/controlling, …

Refractory Status Epilepticus From 4-Aminopyridine With A Serum Concentration Of 1,300 Ng/Ml: The Highest Reported To Date, Timothy Kolosionek Do, Carl Levy Do, Aaron B Deutsch Do, Alexander Teshon Md, Derek J. Fikse Do

Department of Emergency Medicine

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