Faculty Mentor Summer Research Project Directory
Faculty Summer Research Projects Directory
For any questions, please contact the Triple I team at somiii@uw.edu
Each Fall, we meticulously curate a catalog of projects from Faculty Mentors interested in collaborating with medical students during the summer quarter.
If you are a medical student in search of research opportunities beyond the Triple I program, please refer to the Research Opportunities page for further details.
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Projects Not Listed in Directory
Research projects outside of the Directory can fulfill the Triple I requirement if the faculty mentor holds a UWSOM faculty appointment and the projected timeline aligns with Summer 2027. Kindly contact somiii@uw.edu if your faculty mentor lacks a UWSOM faculty appointment or if adjustments to the Triple I timeline for your project are necessary.
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Toby Keys, MPH
SOI/SOD: Can AI Teach Bedside Manner? Medical Student Experiences with an AI-Simulated Patient
| Project Type: Community Health
Thomas Heston, MD
SOI/SOD: Systematic Reviews: AI / Large Language Models in Clinical Practice and Medical Education
| Project Type: Integration (Literature Reviews)
Eleanor (Nora) Gulick, PhD
SOI/SOD: Long Term Rehabilitation for Post Stroke Aphasia
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Yesol Sapozhnikov, PhD, RN
SOI/SOD: Long-term health outcome of cancer survivors
| Project Type: Epidemiological study using secondary datasets
Suhail Ahmad, MD
SOI/SOD: Device to Improve Blood Flow through Extracorporeal Systems
| Project Type: Medical-Engineering
Katarina Nguyen, MD
SOI/SOD: Low dose radiation therapy for osteoarthritis
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Ryan Abe, MD
SOI/SOD: Patient-Reported Experiences of Discrimination and Health Outcomes
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Ryan Abe, MD
SOI/SOD: Evaluating the Educational Impact of Equity Morbidity & Mortality Conferences
| Project Type: Medical Education
Ryan Abe, MD
SOI/SOD: Characterizing Caseworker Cultural Mediator Utilization at Harborview Medical Center
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Zach Miller, MD
SOI/SOD: Trauma and MSK radiology
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Yo Nishihara, MD
SOI/SOD: Identifying the drivers of prolonged antimicrobial therapy among neonatal intensive care unit patients.
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Wyeth Bair, PhD
SOI/SOD: Using artificial deep networks to gain insight into processing in the primate visual cortex
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
William “Trey” Todd, PhD
SOI/SOD: Circadian dysfunction in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease pathology.
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Trang Vu, MD
SOI/SOD: Toward safer benzodiazepine prescribing: Linking practice patterns with provider perspectives for development of a risk-based benzodiazepine prescribing protocol
| Project Type: Quality Improvement
Tommy Wood MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Meta-analysis projects in sports performance
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Theresa (Tess) Barton, MD
SOI/SOD: National trends in Rickettsial and Bartonella infections
| Project Type: Community Health
Stephen Smith, PhD
SOI/SOD: Elucidating information flow in biomedically relevant signal transduction networks
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Stacey Cohen, MD
SOI/SOD: evaluating clinical outcomes related to circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) testing in GI cancers
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Shilpa Murthy, MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: I have a research lab with various projects ongoing. We have a focus on early onset colorectal cancer in Veterans and are conducting quantitative and qualitative research related to this topic. I also do research on cancer policy, surgical disparities, and global oncology and can tailor project to students interest
| Project Type: RUOP/Discovery Hybrid
Shailender Bhatia, MD
SOI/SOD: We have a vibrant program of clinical and translational research in skin cancers, focused on improving outcomes using creative immunotherapy approaches. Our group has extensive experience in mentoring junior investigators at all levels to gain essential skills in clinically focused research and enhance their applications for future training and jobs.
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Sarah Haeger, PhD, MD, and Stuart Shankland, MD
SOI/SOD: NCOR-KUH project: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Heart Failure-Induced Kidney Injury
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Saori Sakaue, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Decoding the hidden genetic switches that shape human immunity
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Sangeeta Hingorani, MD
SOI/SOD: UW-NCOR-KUH summer research program--general information
| Project Type: Other
Sandhya R. Panch, MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: NCOR-KUH project: ITP outcomes research and patient outcomes in ones receiving HLA compatible platelet transfusions
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Samantha Reznik, PhD
SOI/SOD: Mediators and moderators of early psychosis services
| Project Type: Integration (Literature Reviews)
Ryan Dodge, MD
SOI/SOD: Right ventricular function following transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Rotonya Carr, MD
SOI/SOD: Understanding the mechanisms of hepatocellular lipid droplet biology
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Ronald Kwon, PhD
SOI/SOD: Genetic programs underlying bone formation
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Rishi Trikha, MD
SOI/SOD: Patient survey on peptides
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Ralph Ermoian, MD
SOI/SOD: Effect of body mass index on total body irradiation in conditioning for stem cell transplant.
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Rachel Salit, MD
SOI/SOD: Myelofibrosis Renal Disease: How prevalent is it and can it be fixed with stem cell transplant?
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Philip Louie, MD
SOI/SOD: "Unfinished Learners: How the Clinical Learning Environment Shapes Lifelong Learning in Medical Students "
| Project Type: Medical Education
Philip Louie, MD
SOI/SOD: Association of Preoperative Conservative Management With Patient Expectations and Early Expectation–Outcome Mismatch Following Lumbar Decompression
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Philip Louie, MD
SOI/SOD: Does the Cervical Spine Contribute to Rotator Cuff Disease? An MRI Analysis of Muscle Fatty Infiltration
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Paul Drain, MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Develop and Evaluating Rapid Diagnostics for Global Infectious Diseases
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Nisha Bansal, MD
SOI/SOD: NCOR-KUH project: Treatment of AKI with CRRT - an EHR study
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Nellie Bruns, PhD
SOI/SOD: Cardiac physiology and pathophysiology
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Neel Bhatt, MD
SOI/SOD: Translational research in the aging larynx
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Mia Hagen, MD
SOI/SOD: Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Summer Research Opportunity
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Meghan Flanagan, MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Natural language processing detection of patients with recurrent breast cancer
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
McKenna Parnes, PhD
SOI/SOD: Climate change and youth mental health
| Project Type: Community Health
Maya Chandru, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: NCOR-KUH project: Bladder function and Urinary Tract Infection
| Project Type: Options for basic science, device design, clinical research, QI
Matthew Kronman, MD, MSCE
SOI/SOD: Pediatric subspecialty ambulatory antibiotic prescribing
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Lynn Bekris, PhD
SOI/SOD: Neurodegenerative disease biomarker discovery and characterization
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Lisa Ni, MD
SOI/SOD: Evaluating Predictors of Poor Outcomes in Patients with Leptomeningeal Disease Undergoing Craniospinal Irradiation
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Lisa Maves, PhD
SOI/SOD: Zebrafish models of pediatric heart and muscle disorders
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Li (Amily) Guo, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Thromboinflammation: Platelet-leukocyte interactions in sepsis, traumatic brain injury, or stroke.
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Lauren Jatt, MD and Jim Kublin, MD
SOI/SOD: Malaria vaccine immunology
| Project Type: Immunology for Human Challenge Trials, High Dimensional Data Analysis
Kylie Kang, MD
SOI/SOD: Nodal Irradiation, Lymphopenia, and Immunotherapy Efficacy in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Kevin Labadie, MD
SOI/SOD: Assessing impact of chemotherapy on cachexia trajectory on surgical and oncological outcomes in veterans with gastrointestinal cancer
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Kelly Michaelsen, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Perioperative Patient Safety Research
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Kathleen Li, MD, MS
SOI/SOD: Geriatric emergency medicine, telehealth
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Kathleen Kieran, MD
SOI/SOD: Mentored Research in Pediatric Urology
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Kaitlyn Zenner, MD
SOI/SOD: Single cell sequencing of pediatric vascular malformations
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Julie Crudele, PhD
SOI/SOD: Optimizing AAV vector production
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Juliane Gust, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: CAR T cell-glioma trafficking at the blood-brain barrier
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Jonathan Fromm, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Design of a flow cytometry tube to help characterize T cell lymphomas
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Jonathan Fromm, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Tfh lymphoma characterization by flow cytometry using PD1, ICOS, CXCR3, and CXCR5.
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Jonathan Fromm, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: The role of the microenvironment in Hodgkin lymphoma in understanding disease relapse
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Jonathan Fromm, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Characterization of a Novel Flow Cytometry Assay for B-Cell Lymphomas after Treatment with Anti-CD19 Therapy
| Project Type: Clinical Research
John Blair, MD
SOI/SOD: The impact of myocardial bridges in the diagnosis and treatment of angina with non-obstructive coronary arteries
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Jim Jarvis, MD
SOI/SOD: Genetics and Epigenetics of Autoimmune Disease
| Project Type: The project combines basic science and bioinformatics
Jia Zhu, PhD
SOI/SOD: Epithelia interferon gamma responsiveness during human herpes simplex virus infection
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Jerome J. Graber, MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Neurological Cancers and Palliative Care
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Jennifer Franks, PhD
SOI/SOD: Single-cell analysis in pulmonary fibrosis
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Jay Sarthy, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Investigating the Epigenetic Effects of Chemothrapy in Pedatric Cancers
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Hichem Tasfaout, MSc, PharmD
SOI/SOD: Development of gene therapies for neuromuscular disorders
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Jacqueline Hobbs, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Creating QIPS Culture: Learning from Other Psychiatry Programs
| Project Type: Quality Improvement
Jack Brzezinski, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Rare tumors in predisposition syndromes - developing an initial understanding
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Jack Brzezinski, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: A first look at long-read RNA sequencing in Wilms tumors
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Jack Brzezinski, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Use epigenetic profiling to enhance risk stratification of pediatric sarcomas
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Helen Y. Chu, MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: respiratory virus epidemiology and disease burden in community populations
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Heather Gustafson, PhD
SOI/SOD: NCOR-KUH project: Retrospective Analysis of Hematologic Risk Factors for IEC-HS in Solid Tumor Patients
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Fenton McCarthy, MD
SOI/SOD: Outcomes Comparing Aortic Valve Repair with Ross Procedure
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Fenton McCarthy, MD
SOI/SOD: Outcomes in Aortic Dissection - A Multi-state and Multi-institutional Comparison
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Ellie Sato, MD
SOI/SOD: Have lots of ortho trauma research ideas and/or open to new projects
Ellen Schur, MD, MS
SOI/SOD: Genetic and environmental influences on hypothalamic inflammation
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Elizabeth Nguyen, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Contribution of genetics to kidney health and disease
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Diane Bimczok, DVM, PhD
SOI/SOD: Mucosal host-pathogen interactions using epithelial organoid models
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Daniel Zhou, MD
SOI/SOD: Quantitative neuroimaging and seizure outcomes in brain tumor-related epilepsy
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Claire Creutzfeldt, MD
SOI/SOD: Neuropalliative care and Severe acute brain injury
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Carrie Heike, MD, MS, and Sara Kinter, PhD, MA
SOI/SOD: Scoping review focused on computable phenotypes for pediatric cleft and craniofacial surgeries.
| Project Type: Clinical Research/Literature Review
Bonnie Lau, PhD
SOI/SOD: Auditory Brain Development and Wearable Neurotechnology Innovation
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Barbara Lam, MD
SOI/SOD: Computational tools to pull more from routine blood tests, to improve patient care, and uncover physiologic insights
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Anna Bender, PhD
SOI/SOD: Childhood exposure to violence assessment in pediatric primary care settings
| Project Type: Public Health
Alissa Hemke, MD, Julia Mattson, MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Early Childhood Mental Health Research
| Project Type: Clinical Research for Discovery component, but also an Integration component
Chris Su MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Financial hardship experienced by patients with cancer
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Benjamin Gern, MD
SOI/SOD: Understanding post-tuberculosis lung disease to develop treatments
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Cory Simpson MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Leveraging models of genetic skin blistering diseases to find new therapies
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Deborah Stenkamp, PhD
SOI/SOD: Photoreceptor development in vertebrates
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Anna (Cristy) Garza-Mayers MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Pediatric Vitiligo
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Anubhav Amin, MD
SOI/SOD: Spine Tumor Surgery/Radiation Outcomes
| Project Type: Clinical Research
David Rothstein, MD
SOI/SOD: Pediatric vascular surgery in children
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Brandon Hadland MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Hematopoietic stem cell development, pediatric leukemia biology
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Caleb Stokes MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Developing clinical biomarkers and treatments for neuroinflammation using mouse models of autoimmune and viral encephalitis
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
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