Student Research Accomplishments
Many of our students have presented their research at national conferences and contributed to peer-reviewed publications while completing the Summer Medical Student Respiratory Research Fellowship (SMURRF).
SMURRF Research Awards
Annual National Student Research Forum, Galveston, Texas
2024
- Svitlana Shyrobokova (Hitesh Deshmukh, MD, Mentor) 2nd place in Basic Science
- Elliott Brown (William Hardie, MD, Mentor) 2nd place for Best poster presentation in Pediatrics
2019
- Sofia Chinchilla (Samir Shah, MD, Mentor): Best poster presentation, Microbiology & Immunology
2018
- Hayley Flanagan (Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD, Mentor): Best poster presentation, Infectious Disease and Immunology Research
2017
- Mahima Venkatesh (Suhas Kallapur, MD, Mentor): Second place in poster presentation in public health
- Stephanie Herrin (Paul Kingma, MD, PhD, Mentor): Best poster presentation in Radiology AND Pediatrics Excellence Research Award
2016
- Greg Lavins (Theresa Gilbert, Mentor), Best Poster presentation, Neuroscience & Cell Biology
- Stephanie Kerlakian (Jason Wood, Mentor), Best Poster, Radiology Research ‐ 1st Place
- Meera Basu (Louis Muglia, Mentor): Best Poster Presentation, Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Michael Zhou (Zackary Cleveland, Mentor): Best Poster, Radiology Research ‐ 2nd Place
2014
- Abigail Stein (Patti Fulkerson, Mentor): Best Poster Presentation, Microbiology & Immunology
- Patrick McWeeney (Simon Hogan, Mentor): Best Poster Presentation, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
- Emily Cassell (JP Clancy, Mentor): Award for Excellence in Pediatric Research
Annual Research and Service Symposium, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
2023
- Heather Gamble (Mentor: Joanna Thomson, MD, Division of Hospital Medicine). Outstanding Merit, Clinical Medicine: "Hospital Outcomes Associated with Evidence-Based Recommendations for the Management of Pneumonia in Children with High-Intensity Neurologic Impairment".
- Harsimran Makkad (Mentor: Cole Brokamp, PhD, Department of Pediatrics). Outstanding Merit, Other: "Assessing individual- and community-level proxies of socioeconomic status to improve racial fairness of pediatric asthma prediction algorithms".
2020
- Yannan Huang (Grant Schulert, MD, PhD, Mentor): Best Poster Presentation, Clinical Medicine Research
2019
- Rosario Alarcon (Jocelyn Myers, PhD, Mentor): Best Poster Presentation, Clinical Medicine Research
2018
- Sofia Chinchilla (Samir Shah, MD, Mentor): Best Poster Presentation, Clinical Medicine Research
- Sarah Marshall (Patricia Fulkerson, MD, PhD, Mentor): Best Poster Presentation, Basic Science Research
American Thoracic Society (ATS)
2022
- Christopher McKenzie (Alister Bates, PhD, Mentor): Minority Trainee Development Scholarship
