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Magnetic Resonance Imaging Fusion Prostate Biopsy In Patients With Prostate Cancer On Active Surveillance Who Went On To Have A Radical Prostatectomy, Isaac Palma-Zamora, Philip Olson, Guillaume Farah, Akshay Sood, Deepansh Dalela, Marcus Jamil, Sohrab Arora, Jacob Keeley, Natalija Kovacevic, James O. Peabody, Craig G. Rogers, Mani Menon, Ali Dabaja, Firas Abdollah

Medical Student Research Symposium

No abstract provided.

Use Of Biologics In Pityriasis Rubra Pilaris: A Case Report And Review Of The Literature, Elizabeth A. Warbasse, Taryn Huizenga Md

Medical Student Research Symposium

Pityriasis rubra pilaris (PRP) is an inflammatory papulosquamous disorder of unknown etiology. It is characterized by hyperkeratotic scaling plaques with an orange-red hue, “islands of sparing,” and palmoplantar keratoderma; it may cause erythroderma. There have been no completed controlled clinical trials for the treatment of PRP, and there are no FDA approved treatments at this time; most treatment evidence is derived from case reports. This review of the literature explores the use of various biologics which have been attempted for treatment of widespread or treatment resistant PRP. Some case reports have demonstrated efficacy of anti-IL-17 and anti-IL12/23 agents for PRP …

Focal Laser Photocoagulation For Diabetic Macular Edema Done By Resident Physicians: Predictors Of Effective Treatment, Matthew Tukel, Desiree Albert Md, Sarah Syeda Md, Anita Vaishampayan, Xihui Lin Md

Medical Student Research Symposium

Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of focal laser for the treatment of diabetic macular edema (DME) performed by ophthalmology residents.

Methods: This retrospective chart review studies DME patients treated in a resident clinic with focal laser. Visual acuity (VA), OCT central subfield thickness (CST), and maximum subfield thickness (MST) at initial, 1-month, and 6-month visits were recorded.

Results: For 32 reviewed patients, the average VA was 20/58 initially and 20/39 at 6 months (p=0.18). Mean CST was 311 µm initially and 305 µm at 6 months (p=0.09). Mean MST was 413 µm initially and 382 µm at …

Upper-Extremity Injuries Are The 2nd Most Common Workplace Injuries From 1992 To 2018, Nikhil R. Yedulla, Dylan S. Koolmees, Eric B. Battista, Syed S. Raza, Zachary A. Montgomery, Charles S. Day

Medical Student Research Symposium

Musculoskeletal injuries occur frequently in the workplace, yet it is unclear whether upper-extremity, lower-extremity, or trunk injuries are the most prevalent. We hypothesize that: (1) trunk injuries are the most common in the overall workplace, and (2) upper-extremity injuries are more common in labor-based industries than non-labor industries. Workplace related injury data from 1992 to 2018 was collected from the Bureau of Labor Statistics “Workplace Injuries & Illnesses” database. Occurrence of trunk, upper-extremity, and lower-extremity injuries in major industries (agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and healthcare) were aggregated during this time period and compared. Overall workplace related injury occurrence in major industries …

Enhancing Student Engagement In Wayne State University School Of Medicine (Wsusom) Curriculum Design, Development, Evaluation, And Implementation, Connor Buechler, Heidi T. Kromrei, Leo M. Hall

Medical Student Research Symposium

Purpose: There are a variety of ways in which the 1200 medical students at Wayne State University School of Medicine (WSUSOM) can formally participate in curricular efforts. To date, a formal inventory and evaluation of these programs has not been reported.

Methods: We compiled a list of students involved in courses, committees, and formal activities related to the medical school curriculum. We then developed and delivered a survey to measure student perceptions utilizing the following constructs: 1) Guidance/Support for Student Role, 2) Project Successes and Challenges, 3) Curricular Project Measurement and Monitoring, 4) Curriculum Management Committee Engagement and Accessibility, 5) …

The Only Female Surgeon Present, Robyn Oro

Notes from the Archives

No abstract provided.

Gbpac: New Updates Regarding Covid-19, March 16, 2020, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Response to COVID-19

A memo announcing the closure of the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center and the status of upcoming events.

Guidance For Employees Regarding Covid-19, March 16, 2020, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Response to COVID-19

A memo outlining the steps employees can take to maintain social distancing to prevent the spread of viruses.

From The Provost: Online Instruction Resources And Faculty Evaluation Changes, March 16, 2020, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Response to COVID-19

A memo from the Provost covering principles for online instruction and information on faculty evaluations.

Uni Announces Closure Of Communal Buildings, March 16, 2020, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Response to COVID-19

A memo announcing the closure of several buildings on campus.

2020-03-16_Michiganoverview_Pressrelease_54, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Cumulative Michigan COVID-19 Data

The press release was obtained from Michigan's Coronavirus page, under the tab Press Releases. The direct link to the press release is https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98158-521341--,00.html

Ada News - 03/16/2020, American Dental Association, Publishing Division

ADA News

Established in 1970 as the official newspaper of the American Dental Association, the ADA News serves practicing dentists and others allied to the dental profession in the U.S. and internationally. It is the No. 1 source of news and information about the many benefits and services the ADA delivers to members daily as well as timely information on scientific, social, political and economic developments affecting dentistry and health care.

2020-03-16_Michiganoverview_Covidstats, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Cumulative Michigan COVID-19 Data

The COVID Overview page was obtained from Michigan's main COVID-19 page: https:/www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98163-520743--,00.html. Data was compiled by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). The website updated at 2pm, with data including all information reported through midnight the previous day.

The website contained the tables Confirmed COVID-19 Cases by County, Percentage of Cases by Sex, Percentage of Cases by Age, and Hospitalization.

Pain Squad+ Smartphone App To Support Real-Time Pain Treatment For Adolescents With Cancer: Protocol For A Randomised Controlled Trial., Lindsay Jibb, Paul C Nathan, Vicky Breakey, Conrad Fernandez, Donna Johnston, Victor Lewis, Sarah Mckillop, Serina Patel, Christine Sabapathy, Caron Strahlendorf, J Charles Victor, Myla E Moretti, Cynthia Nguyen, Amos Hundert, Celia Cassiani, Graziella El-Khechen Richandi, Hayley Insull, Rachel Hamilton, Geoffrey Fang, Susan Kuczynski, Jennifer Stinson

Paediatrics Publications

INTRODUCTION: Pain negatively affects the health-related quality of life (HRQL) of adolescents with cancer. The Pain Squad+ smartphone-based application (app), has been developed to provide adolescents with real-time pain self-management support. The app uses a validated pain assessment and personalised pain treatment advice with centralised decision support via a registered nurse to enable real-time pain treatment in all settings. The algorithm informing pain treatment advice is evidence-based and expert-vetted. This trial will longitudinally evaluate the impact of Pain Squad+, with or without the addition of nurse support, on adolescent health and cost outcomes.

METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This will be a …

Beyond The Food Pantry: Supporting #Realcollege Students During Covid-19, Sara Goldrick-Rab

Rebuilding the Launchpad: Serving Students During Covid Resource Library

Colleges and universities across the United States and around the world are scrambling to keep their students, faculty, and staff healthy, safe, and educated during the COVID-19 pandemic. As experts on the daily crises that derail #RealCollege students and prevent them from completing their degrees our team at the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice offers the following considerations and resources to support your work.

2020-03-16 A Message From Chancellor Roth, Paul B. Roth

HSC Messages from the Chancellor

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: March 16, 2020, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Meaning-Centered Supervision: A Structured Self-Reflection Model To Reconnect With Personal And Professional Meaning In Palliative Care Work, Rebecca Cammy, Msw, Lcsw

Department of Medical Oncology Posters

Meaning-centered supervision explores participant’s sense of meaning of past, present, and future personal and professional experiences. The series aims to reintegrate selfreflection into clinical practice through experiential exercises, homework journaling, and group discussion. Social workers develop a narrative around themes of professional attitude, living and creating work life, and connections with the social work profession. The goal is to help palliative care social workers create a sense meaning and purpose in their work as they develop their personal and professional identities. Additionally, the hope is to support supervisees through any concerns of burnout and compassion fatigue.

Disease Mongering: How Sickness Sells, Vanessa C. Iroegbulem

Augustana Center for the Study of Ethics Essay Contest

“Disease mongering” is the practice of widening diagnostic boundaries of an illness and promoting their public awareness to expand the markets for treatment and to increase profits. This tactic typically used by pharmaceutical companies, medical equipment manufacturers, insurance companies, and even some doctors and patient groups, has become a great concern. Disease mongering has since increased in parallel with “medicalization,” which attempts to label normal human conditions as medical problems, thus becoming the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment. This paper first seeks to examine how an increasing amount of life’s natural conditions and ailments are being seen …

Surgical Approach To Orbital Floor Fractures: Comparing Complication Rates Between Subciliary And Subconjunctival Approaches, Joel A. Bronstein, William J. Bruce, Fadi Bakhos, Dalia Ishaq, Cara Joyce, Victor Cimino

Biostatistics Collaborative Core: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Background: There are multiple approaches to repairing orbital floor fractures. This study compares the postoperative complications of the subciliary and transconjunctival approaches.

Methods: The electronic medical records from 2 hospitals were screened for CPT codes associated with orbital floor reconstruction. A total of 184 patients were identified and included in the study. Patient characteristics and complications were compared by surgical approach.

Results: Of the 184 patients, 82 (44.6%) were in the subciliary group and 102 (55.4%) were in the transconjunctival group. The overall postoperative complication rate was 25.5%. The most common of these were diplopia (11.4%), corneal injury (7.1%), proptosis …

A Case Study Of Barriers To Dental Care In Nebraska, Kaitlin Buhler

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

An important aspect of overall health is access to dental care, which is, unfortunately, oftentimes difficult to obtain. This study used data collected from a case study of three registered dentists in Nebraska to investigate the barriers to dental care, and identified the lack of dental insurance, limited access to free or reduced-price dental care, and dental anxiety as perceived barriers to dental care. Factors that did not seem to have an impact were language or ethnicity differences between patients and workers, distance to travel, comfortability with receiving free or reduced-price dental care, knowledge of how often to visit the …

State Variability In The Prevalence And Healthcare Utilization Of Assisted Living Residents With Dementia, Kali S. Thomas, Wenhan Zhang, Portia Y. Cornell, Lindsey Smith, Brian Kaskie, Paula C. Carder

Institute on Aging Publications

Objectives: Almost 1 million older and disabled adults who require long‐term care reside in assisted living (AL), approximately 40% of whom have a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). States vary in their regulations specific to dementia care that may influence the presence of residents with ADRD in AL and their outcomes. The objectives of this study were to describe the state variability in the prevalence of ADRD among Medicare beneficiaries residing in larger (25+ bed) ALs and their healthcare utilization.

Design: Retrospective observational national study.

Participants: National cohort of 293,336 Medicare fee‐for‐service enrollees residing in larger (25+ …

Network-Based Drug Repurposing For Novel Coronavirus 2019-Ncov/Sars-Cov-2, Yuan Hou, Feixiong Cheng

Faculty Scholarship

Human coronaviruses (HCoVs), including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV, also known as SARS-CoV-2), lead global epidemics with high morbidity and mortality. However, there are currently no effective drugs targeting 2019-nCoV/SARS-CoV-2. Drug repurposing, representing as an effective drug discovery strategy from existing drugs, could shorten the time and reduce the cost compared to de novo drug discovery. In this study, we present an integrative, antiviral drug repurposing methodology implementing a systems pharmacology-based network medicine platform, quantifying the interplay between the HCoV-host interactome and drug targets in the human protein-protein interaction network. Phylogenetic analyses of 15 …

Reliability And Validity Of A Smartphone-Based Inclinometer Application Measuring Shoulder Internal Rotation, Taylor Lau, Sheng Lin, Tyler True, Wayne Wu, James M. Mckivigan

College of Health & Human Services (TUN) Publications and Research

This study intended to evaluate the reliability and validity of a smartphone-based inclinometer application and compare these results to those of the standard clinical goniometer. The study measured the internal shoulder rotation of 19 men and 20 women. One third-year physical therapy student took all the smartphone-based inclinometer measurements, and another took all the clinical standard goniometer measurements. The subjects were randomly placed into set amounts of internal rotation, and then the two measurements were taken. The study found no significant difference between the smartphone-based inclinometer and the goniometer. The reliability between the app and the goniometers was good to …

Learning In Pandemic, Noah Huseman

Reflections, Poetry, Photos, and other Writings

This is an essay written reflecting on C. S. Lewis’ address to Oxford students during World War II.

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - March 15, 2020, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the March 15, 2020 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's Newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents Include:

Class of 2020 celebrates Match Day results

USA medical students rally to donate ‘match money’

USA College of Medicine mourns loss of internal medicine professor

Traditional Funeral And Burial Rituals And Ebola Outbreaks In West Africa: A Narrative Review Of Causes And Strategy Interventions, Chulwoo Park

Faculty Publications

Introduction: In West Africa, traditional funerals and burials have proven main contributors to the spread of infectious diseases, such as Ebola, plague, the Marburg virus, and others. Although the World Health Organization has provided guidelines for the safe burial process after learning of the culture of the afterlife in Ebola-affected areas, little effort has been made to integrate theoretical interventions and models for changing West Africans’ funeral behavior. This research was conducted to study 1) the background of traditional burial rituals, 2) interventions to contain Ebola outbreaks in West Africa, and 3) a strategic approach to future disease outbreak in …

2020-03-15_Michiganoverview_Pressrelease_53, Michigan Department Of Health & Human Services

Cumulative Michigan COVID-19 Data

The press release was obtained from Michigan's Coronavirus page, under the tab Press Releases. The direct link to the press release is https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98158-521341--,00.html

Assessing The Dyadic Relationship Between Sleep And Health-Related Quality Of Life In Pd Patients And Their Caregivers Using The Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (Apim), Sushmitha Inguva

Graduate Student Council Research Grants

Overview: My name is Sushmitha Inguva. I am a 4th year doctoral student in the Department of Pharmacy Administration in the School of Pharmacy. My primary area of interest is in Health Economics and Outcomes Research. For my dissertation, I am focusing on sleep disorders and their impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients and caregivers.

Intellectual Merit: PD is caused by loss of dopaminergic neurons in the brain. PD patients experience motor and non-motor symptoms (NMS). Among NMS, sleep disorders are the most common, occurring in about 60-90% of patients. Sleep disorders in patients …

Exophytic Adiposis Dolorosa (Dercum's Disease) Of The Thigh: A Case Report., Jude L Opoku-Agyeman, Lauren Coffua, Jamee Simone, Terrance Hanley, Amir Behnam

Plastic Surgery Resident Research

Adiposis dolorosa or Dercum's disease is a rare lipomatous disorder characterized by painful lipomas. In this article, we report a case of rather large exophytic adiposis dolorosa causing difficulties with ambulation, and our surgical management of the disorder. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of a large exophytic adiposis dolorosa of the upper medial thigh causing problems with mobility. This is also the first reported case of the use of a delayed split-thickness skin graft (STSG) after interval use of wound vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) following dermolipectomy. A 77-year-old female presented with a chronic mass on the medial …