Faculty Directory for Triple III Research Projects
The Faculty Project Directory is NOW OPEN. Please continue to monitor this page weekly as projects will continue to be added for the Scholarship of Discovery and Integration Summer of 2024
Every Fall we curate a list of projects from Faculty Mentors who would like to work with medical students over the Summer quarter. The 2023 Directory of Faculty Projects is now open for the academic year 2023-2024. If you are a medical student seeking a research opportunity beyond the III, please see the portion of this website dedicated to helping you do so here.
The Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety is proud to launch the QI Match Tool. This is an online platform where leaders can post QI projects and find collaborators across UW Medicine. QI Project Match Tool: Link
Research Project outside of the Directory will meet the III requirement, if the faculty mentor has UWSOM faculty appointment, and the projected timeline will fit for Summer 2024. Please contact somiii@uw.edu if your faculty mentor doesn’t have UWSOM faculty appointment and if you need to adjust the Triple I timeline for your project.
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Diane Tseng MD PhD
SOI/SOD: Novel Biomarker Screening Program in Lung Cancer to Expand Access to Personalized Cancer Clinical Trials.
| Project Type: Community Health
Alexandra Collis MD
SOI/SOD: Assessing the efficacy of a rapid response simulation curriculum for forth year medical students during Transition to Residency
| Project Type: Medical Education
Will Lack, MD and Bil Ledoux, PhD
SOI/SOD: Validation of Biplane Fluoroscopy to Track Distal Femur Fracture Motion
| Project Type: Other
Ryan Gilles MD
SOI/SOD: Literature Review Project Assistance
| Project Type: Literature Review
Sarah Psutka MD, Other
SOI/SOD: Development of a Personalized Competing Risks Calculator For Patients with High Risk Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma Considering Adjuvant Immunotherapy
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Sarah Psutka MD, Other
SOI/SOD: Deep Phenotyping Frailty in Genitourinary Oncology and Understanding Relationships between Frailty and Functional Recovery after Multimodal Treatment
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Michael Nuara MD
SOI/SOD: Outcomes research in gender affirming facial surgery (GAFS)
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Will Lack MD
SOI/SOD: Employing a risk calculator to reduce the rate of unnecessary surgery among Veterans in whom there is concern for septic arthritis of the knee
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Harveshp Mogal MD
SOI/SOD: Initial Outcomes of CRS/HIPEC in Major Academic Center
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Zain Rizvi MD
SOI/SOD: Clinical outcomes after Head and Neck Oncologic and Reconstructive Surgery
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Marco Pravetoni PhD
SOI/SOD: Preclinical and clinical studies on new vaccines and immunotherapies for opioid use disorders
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Megan Lewis PhD
SOI/SOD: Assessing the effectiveness of learning anatomy in a cadaver lab compared to virtual reality
| Project Type: Medical Education
Megan Lewis PhD
SOI/SOD: Assessing the impact of ketosis during exercise on circulating inflammatory mediators
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Ralph Ermoian MD
SOI/SOD: When there are equivalent options for treating cancer, do patients want to know the potential difference in climate change impacts of their treatment options?
| Project Type: Other
Tim Cherry PhD
SOI/SOD: Non-coding genetic risk factors in human visual disorders
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Annette Estes PhD
SOI/SOD: Sleep in School-age Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Shachi Mittal PhD
SOI/SOD: Digital mapping of immune cells in Breast Cancer
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Margaret Hammersla PhD
SOI/SOD: Increasing access to cancer care in rural Montana through the implementation of a Hub and Spoke Oncology Practice
| Project Type: Quality Improvement
William Phillips MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Clinical Review of Systems: History, Training, Practice and Evidence
| Project Type: Literature Review
Maryam Asif MD, Other
SOI/SOD: Characterize RBC utilization in the ICU setting at University of Washington Medical Center
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Nickolai Martonick PhD
SOI/SOD: Assessing movement mechanics for injury prevention
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Kathleen Kieran PhD
SOI/SOD: Mentored Research in Pediatric Urology
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Nadya Modyanova PhD
SOI/SOD: Improving language comprehension via gestures in children with autism spectrum disorders and/or language impairments in rural Montana
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Masumi Ueda Oshima MD
SOI/SOD: Costs and outcomes of eculizumab for transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy on the inpatient blood and marrow transplant service
| Project Type: Quality Improvement
Jonathan Tang PhD
SOI/SOD: Generation of a conditionally stable nanobodies library for cell-targeting applications and neural network training
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Jonathan Tang PhD
SOI/SOD: Neural dynamics underlying dopamine-dependent action learning process in mice
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Jonathan Tang PhD
SOI/SOD: Reviewing the effect of Dissociative experiences on action learning mechanisms in individuals
| Project Type: Literature Review
Jonathan Tang PhD
SOI/SOD: Dissecting the Ayahuasca ceremony into its ritualistic components
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Jonathan Tang PhD
SOI/SOD: Fine-tuning language models for psychological/psychiatric applications
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Jonathan Tang PhD
SOI/SOD: Exploring the relationship between spiritual/religious concepts and biomedical knowledge
Jonathan Tang PhD
SOI/SOD: Motion tracking algorithms for human behavior research
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Masumi Ueda Oshima MD
SOI/SOD: Analysis of donor-recipient hematopoiesis in long-term survivors of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Jeremy Sharib MD
SOI/SOD: Slice culture for peritoneal malignancies
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Jeremy Sharib MD
SOI/SOD: Leiomyosarcoma patterns and immunohistochemistry
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Jeremy Sharib MD
SOI/SOD: Peritoneal Surface Malignancy/HIPEC Database
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Kimberly Aldinger PhD
SOI/SOD: Genetics and genomics of neurodevelopmental disorders
| Project Type: Other
Julia Brechbiel PhD
SOI/SOD: Options for either in-person or remote project depending on whether you'd like to complete a meta-analysis (remote) or a small QI project (in-persn) to administer questionnaire and collect data to support the integration of mental and behavioral health screening across the clinic to better support patients' burnout, distress, and mental health as they live with diabetes.
| Project Type: Quality Improvement
Julia Mattson PhD, MD
SOI/SOD: Improving Parent-Child Interactions in Preschool and Early School-Age Children with Disruptive Behaviors
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Cara Palmer PhD
SOI/SOD: Sleep Neurobiology and Trauma
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Shelley McGuire PhD, Mark McGuire PhD, and Janet Williams PhD
SOI/SOD: Characterization of diets consumed by breastfeeding women living in and around Moscow, Idaho
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
David Rothstein MD
SOI/SOD: Chest tube management after resectional lung surgery in children
| Project Type: Clinical Research
David Rothstein MD
SOI/SOD: Outcomes following arterial reconstruction upon decannulation from ECMO
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Kimiko Domoto-Reilly MD
SOI/SOD: Establishing a direct clinical-law enforcement partnership to address dementia crisis intervention across WA state
| Project Type: Community Health
David Rothstein MD
SOI/SOD: Treatment and outcomes of non-neonatal patients with pneumatosis intestinalis
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Neel S. Bhatt MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Return to school or work after completion of cancer-directed therapy
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Neel S. Bhatt MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Late effects and quality of life after hematopoietic cell transplantation for non-malignant diseases
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Hanna Hunter MD
SOI/SOD: AI and Prehabilitation
| Project Type: Literature Review
Hanna Hunter MD
SOI/SOD: Physical function screening/assessment in oncology clinics
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Joel Graff PhD
SOI/SOD: Painting Cells in 3D: Impact of Ubiquitin Ligase Expression on Cell Morphology and Function
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Sara Jane Webb PhD
SOI/SOD: Medical Data Abstraction
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Katelyn Kotlarek PhD
SOI/SOD: Craniofacial Microsomia MRI Study
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Katelyn Kotlarek PhD
SOI/SOD: Cleft Palate Repair Study
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Chris Su MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Financial toxicity experienced by patients with limited English proficiency and cancer
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Jonathan Cogen MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Antibiotic Prescribing Patterns for Chronic Cough following OR Evaluation in Children
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Claudia Carvalho PhD
SOI/SOD: Investigating the genomic basis of rare diseases
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Janelle Clauser MD
SOI/SOD: Rates of DRS accommodations in foundations compared to USMLE and impact on exam pass rate
| Project Type: Medical Education
Gavriel Kohlberg MD
SOI/SOD: Assessment of non English speaking patients with severe hearing loss - what has come of them?
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Benjamin Grannan MD
SOI/SOD: Functional neurosurgery clinical and cognitive outcomes research.
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Benjamin Grannan MD
SOI/SOD: Studying human language learning network with intracranial electrophysiological recordings
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Mary Crocker MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Preventing wildfire smoke impacts on child health
| Project Type: Community Health
Ash McDonough PhD
SOI/SOD: Influence of food source on brain development and inflammation
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
D. Taylor Hendrixson MD & Katie Strobel MD
SOI/SOD: Clinical outcomes of human milk use in complex neonatal populations
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Allison Lambert MD
SOI/SOD: Time to prescription of Trikafta for remote and local dwelling patients with cystic fibrosis
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Allison Lambert MD
SOI/SOD: Characterizing area deprivation among adults with CF treated at the Spokane CF Care Center
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Laurie Eldredge MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Tracheostomy decision making in bronchopulmonary dysplasia
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Elliott Weiss MD, Other
SOI/SOD: Family Attitudes about Alternative Methods of Consent for Neonatal Clinical Trials (FAM-CONNECT)
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Nina Bozinov MD
SOI/SOD: "A Retrospective Study to Evaluate the Demographic and Clinical Factors for the Selection, Initiation and Modification of Disease Modifying Therapy (DMT) in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis. Other possible questions to be researched. "
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Lisa Force MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Global cancer literature review
| Project Type: Literature Review
Elizabeth Nguyen MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Epigenetic regulation of kidney regeneration
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Fred Buckner MD
SOI/SOD: Antibiotic drug discovery
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Jessica Chong PhD
SOI/SOD: Independent assessment of the rate of discovery for new rare diseases
| Project Type: Literature Review
Nicole Ehrhardt MD
SOI/SOD: Use of the ECHO model for Health Care Trainees
| Project Type: Medical Education
Allison Cole MD
SOI/SOD: Colonoscopy Outreach for Rural Communities (CORC) - A hybrid implementation effectiveness study of a patient navigation intervention to increase colonoscopy completion among rural residents.
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Rachel Umoren MD
SOI/SOD: Neonatal Education & Simulation-based Training (NEST) Lab
| Project Type: Medical Education
Brandon Hadland MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: 1) Modeling pediatric leukemia development and resistance mechanisms using induced pluripotent stem cells, 2) studying effects of biomechanical forces on hemogenic endothelial fates in engineered microvessels (collaboration with Ying Zheng, UW ISCRM)
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Sara L. Zettervall MD MPH
SOI/SOD: Vascular Surgery Summer Scholars Program
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Rani Sunder MD
SOI/SOD: Perioperative pain management strategies for pediatric solid organ transplantation : a scoping review.
| Project Type: Literature Review
Austin Baird PhD
SOI/SOD: Organ Dysfunction and Sepsis - Identifying Biomarkers and Mechanisms
| Project Type: Literature Review
Michelle Kuhn PhD
SOI/SOD: Stigma, Bias, and Prenatal Substance Exposure: Understanding the state of the lived experience and stigma prevention/reduction literatures.
| Project Type: Literature Review
Jong-Wook Ban MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: A systematic review of low dose radiation for osteoarthritis.
| Project Type: Other
Mike Crowder MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Molecular Genetic Approaches Towards a Better Understanding of Hypoxic Cellular Injury
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Susan Shenoi MD, Other
SOI/SOD: Muscle strength in Juvenile Myositis
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Kikkeri Naresh MD
SOI/SOD: Biomarkers in lymphomas
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Deborah Stenkamp PhD
SOI/SOD: Roles of thyroid hormone (TH) and TH receptors in regulating cone photoreceptor differentiation and fate.
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Jong-Wook Ban MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Systematic review to summarize the effectiveness of magnesium on cognitive function.
| Project Type: Literature Review
Lisa Erlanger MD
SOI/SOD: Literature review of educational interventions to reduce anti-fat bias in healthcare professionals
| Project Type: Literature Review
Heather Gustafson MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Inflammasome activation in CAR-HLH
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Aditi Dokras MD
SOI/SOD: Education Handouts for Pediatric Nephrology Clinic
| Project Type: Medical Education
Bonnie Lau PhD
SOI/SOD: EEG/MEG studies of auditory brain development
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Lisa Maves PhD
SOI/SOD: Zebrafish models of pediatric muscle and heart disorders
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Cindy Lin MD
SOI/SOD: Head and Spine Injury Reduction, Equestrian Injury Prevention
| Project Type: Literature Review
Mehmet Kurt PhD
SOI/SOD: Deep learning algorithms for automated segmentation of gliomas
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Michael S Womack MD
SOI/SOD: Electronic circuit modeling of the circulation with and without congenital heart disease, and effects of positive pressure ventilation or pericardial disease.
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Cindy Lin MD
SOI/SOD: ExerciseRx: Physical Activity Promotion & Rehabilitation Medicine Using Digital Health Tools
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Frederick Shic PhD
SOI/SOD: Attentional Predictors of Outcomes in Infants at Higher Likelihood for Autism
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Caleb Stokes MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Mechanisms of neurologic injury in viral encephalitis
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Seth Pincus MD
SOI/SOD: Metabolic and Transcriptional Effects of Cytotoxic Immunoconjugates on HIV-Infected Cells
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Paul Johnson MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Wyoming Medicaid utilization and outcomes research
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Scott Weissman MD
SOI/SOD: Are healthcare providers more or less likely to send patients home with intravenous antibiotics based on patient or family race/ethnicity or language of care?
| Project Type: Clinical Research
David Mack PhD
SOI/SOD: Dysregulation of developmental myosins leads to congenital contractures
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Tomas Mustelin MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: The molecular mechanisms of rheumatoid arthritis pathogenesis
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Tomas Mustelin MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: The pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematous
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Molly Rosenthal MD
SOI/SOD: Guardianship Practices on Inpatient Medicine Services Across the US
| Project Type: Literature Review
Jonathan Fromm PhD, MD
SOI/SOD: The role of the microenvironment in Hodgkin lymphoma in understanding disease relapse
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Jonathan Fromm PhD, MD
SOI/SOD: Validation of a Novel Flow Cytometry Assay for B-Cell Lymphomas after Treatment with Anti-CD19 Therapy
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Paul Drain MD; MPH
SOI/SOD: Clinical Studies of HIV, Tuberculosis, and malaria in sub-Saharan Africa
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Robert Holdefer PhD
SOI/SOD: Improved prediction and understanding of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring performance with causal modelling
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Eric Ford PhD
SOI/SOD: Quality Improvement in Radiation Oncology
| Project Type: Quality Improvement
John Kang MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Natural language processing in oncology
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Kenneth Feldman, MD
SOI/SOD: How often do bruised pre-mobile infants subsequently sustain abuse
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Nicole Jackson MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Pre- and post-mortem diagnostic discrepancy
| Project Type: Quality Improvement
Anders Conway, MD and Myles Melton, MD
SOI/SOD: Evaluating Point of Care Ultrasound in Paramedic Environment
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Vandana Kalia PhD
SOI/SOD: Programming CAR T cell Therapeutic Product with Distinct Fates
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Surojit Sarkar PhD
SOI/SOD: Single Cell Gene Expression Profiling of T Cell Exhaustion in Solid Tumors and Chronic Infections
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Surojit Sarkar PhD
SOI/SOD: Engineering memory-like CAR-T cells for protection from relapse
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Julie Crudele PhD
SOI/SOD: AAV gene therapy for muscular dystrophy
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Rachel Salit MD
SOI/SOD: Does Returning to Work after Stem Cell Transplant Actually Lead to Increased Risk of Infections?
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Namrata Singh MD
SOI/SOD: Association between anti-rheumatic agents and cancer incidence in rheumatic diseases; Frailty and outcomes in patients with rheumatic diseases
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Elizabeth Rhea PhD
SOI/SOD: Causes of brain insulin resistance
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Myron Evans PhD
SOI/SOD: Identification and targeting vulnerabilities in pediatric medulloblastoma
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Jeff Carroll PhD
SOI/SOD: Expanding the reach of target therapies for nano-rare diseases
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Shu Feng MD
SOI/SOD: Inpatient and Emergency Department Ophthalmology Consults and Tele-ophthalmology
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Kelly Michaelsen MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Our lab is focused on improving perioperative patient care and safety through new device development.
| Project Type: Other
Jordan Roberts MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Pediatric lupus outcomes research
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Danielle Bruns PhD
SOI/SOD: Heart failure- molecular and physiological mechanisms of disease
Kathryn Gray MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Precision medicine approaches for understanding adverse pregnancy outcomes and reducing disparities
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Neel K. Bhatt MD
SOI/SOD: Neurophysiology of the aging larynx
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Thomas F. Heston MD
SOI/SOD: Statistical Fragility in Medical Literature: Assessing the Robustness of Research Findings
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Thomas F. Heston MD
SOI/SOD: Investigating the Reproducibility Crisis: Why So Many Medical Research Findings Fail to Replicate
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Ana Weil MD,MPH
SOI/SOD: Identifying genes in bacterial strains that impact immune response to oral vaccination
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Ashley Vaughan PhD
SOI/SOD: Understanding the genetics of the malaria life cycle progression.
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Behzad Najafian MD
SOI/SOD: Deep learning assisted automated quantification of glomerular mesangial matrix in diabetic kidney disease.
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Yoshiko Kojima PhD
SOI/SOD: Eye movement analysis with a VR headset
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Weston Powell PhD, MD
SOI/SOD: Circadian rhythms in human airway epithelia regulating viral responses
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Stephen E.P. Smith, PhD
SOI/SOD: Activity-dependent protein-protein interactions that mediate Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) signaling
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
David Koelle, MD
SOI/SOD: T cell responses to infectious pathogens
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Marco Praventoni, PhD
SOI/SOD: Clinical Trials of Opioid Vaccines for treatment of opioid use disorders and prevention of Overdose
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Kate Debeiec, MD
SOI/SOD: Gynecologic Vascular Anomalies
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Heather Gustafson, PhD
SOI/SOD: Understanding how a Child's Inflammatory Status Impacts Response to Immunotherapy
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Nassar Nama, MD
SOI/SOD: Evidence Synthesis for Hospitalized Children
| Project Type: Remote-Literature Review
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