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 III program, please refer to the Research Opportunities page for further details by clicking here.
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Research projects outside of the Directory can fulfill the III requirement if the faculty mentor holds a UWSOM faculty appointment and the projected timeline aligns with Summer 2025. 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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Constantine Saclarides, MD (constantine.p.saclarides@gmail.com)
SOI/SOD: "Traumatic Rib Fractures in the Alaska Native Population: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Morbidity and Mortality "
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Brenna Simons, PhD (imd4@cdc.gov)
SOI/SOD: Applied Public Health Research and Response
| Project Type: Community Health
David Luxton, PhD (ddluxton@uw.edu)
SOI/SOD: Application of Large Language Models for Suicide Risk Assessment in Clinical Settings
| Project Type: Literature Review
Zach Gallager, PhD (zgalla@uw.edu)
SOI/SOD: Utilization of internal and external resources for learning gross anatomy at UWSOM
| Project Type: Medical Education
Sangeeta Hingorani – NCOR-KUH (sangeeta.hingorani@seattlechildrens.org)
SOI/SOD: NCOR-KUH
| Project Type: Basic Science/Clinical Research
Karen Colorafi, PhD (karen.colorafi@providence.org)
SOI/SOD: Understanding the pain experience during cardiac catheterization
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Olga Koblova, MD (olgako@uw.edu)
SOI/SOD: The key genetic factors that impact the course of bipolar disorder and pharmacological treatment outcomes in older adults
| Project Type: Literature Review
Fenton McCarthy, MD (Fenton.McCarthy@providence.org)
SOI/SOD: Surgical Outcomes Following Complex Thoracic Aortic Reconstruction
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Jessica Valentine, MD (jesskvalentine@gmail.com)
SOI/SOD: Barriers to Interfacility Hospital Transfers in rural Montana
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Justin Bowles, MD (jmbowles@multicare.org)
SOI/SOD: The effect of computer use in the exam room on patient satisfaction in urgent care
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Justin Bowles, MD (jmbowles@multicare.org)
SOI/SOD: Comparison of the effect of in-clinic and pre-clinic wait times on patient satisfaction and perception of care
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Justin Woods, MD (juwoods@gmail.com)
SOI/SOD: Compassion fatigue and AI
| Project Type: Literature Review
Ryan Gilles, MD
SOI/SOD: Literature review of shelf exam scores and correlation to clinical performance.
| Project Type: Literature Review
Philip Louie, MD
SOI/SOD: How do we best assess socioeconomic disparities in spine surgery?
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Philip Louie, MD
SOI/SOD: What are the recent trends in the costs of spine surgery to address adult spinal deformity?
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Philip Louie, MD
SOI/SOD: Are Sarcopenia and Frailty associated with Decisional Regret following surgery for Adult Spinal Deformity
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Hoa Appel PhD, MPH
SOI/SOD: A literature review of an integrative behavioral healthcare model in primary care
| Project Type: Literature Review
Hoa Appel PhD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Examining behavioral health needs in the Latino community
| Project Type: Community Health
Hoa Appel PhD, MPH
SOI/SOD: An examination of the clinical workforce in rural and underserved areas
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Julie Dombrowski MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Public health HIV/STI services
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Lorenzo Giacani, PhD
SOI/SOD: Assess Treponema pallidum Burden in clinical samples from syphilis-infected mothers and babies
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Ying Zhang, MD
SOI/SOD: Wont Go Back – Building Access to Abortion in Primary Care
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Travis D. Hull MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Rate of arterial conduit utilization in coronary artery bypass grafting
| Project Type: Clinical Research
James Miller, MD
SOI/SOD: Quality improvement projects at Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department
| Project Type: Quality Improvement
Toby Keys, MPH
SOI/SOD: Planetary Health Physician Survey-
| Project Type: Community Health
Stephanie McLaughlin, MD
SOI/SOD: Gonorrhea Pathogenesis
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Kevin Hybiske, PhD
SOI/SOD: Basis of Chlamydia trachomatis genital and rectal tropism
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Janelle Clauser, MD
SOI/SOD: DRS accommodations in medical school vs on Step 1
| Project Type: Medical Education
Molly Blackley Jackson, MD
SOI/SOD: "Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Colleges program for MD students - a collaborative study with the Learning Communities Institute (LCI) "
| Project Type: Medical Education
Kathy Li, MD
SOI/SOD: Understanding patient, family, and other stakeholder perspectives on interfacility transfer
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Whitney Harrington MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Investigating the establishment, function, and specificity of T cells in human milk
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Sara Hardy, MD
SOI/SOD: The impact of sociodemographic status and ability to pay for next generation sequencing on outcomes for patients with glioma
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Eric Bortz, PhD
SOI/SOD: A Rapid Diagnostic Nanopore Assay for Drug Resistance and Strain Typing of Tuberculosis in Alaska
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Erik Kimble, MD
SOI/SOD: CAR T cell Therapy for Hematologic Malignancies
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Jennifer Franks, PhD
SOI/SOD: Single-cell analysis in pulmonary fibrosis
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Sheela Sathyanarayana MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Microplastic Exposures in Children
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Kelsey Eitel, MD
SOI/SOD: Literature review in pediatric gender affirming care or other topics within pediatric endocrinology, including diabetes, adrenal, etc.
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Mae Dirac MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Global burden of uterine fibroids, Global burden of polycystic ovarian disease, Global burden of premenstrual disorders, Global burden of genital prolapse, Global burden of perimenopausal disorders
| Project Type: Literature Review
Javeed Shah, MD
SOI/SOD: Understanding Immune Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis in Pregnant Women
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Mignon Loh, MD
SOI/SOD: Targeting chromatin remodeling complexes in ZNF384-rearranged leukemia
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Charlotte Lewis MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Dental providers and infant frenotomies: participation and practice.
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Charlotte Lewis MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Hospital utilization for feeding problems in the first year of life in infants born large vs small for gestational age.
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Zheyi Teoh MD, MPH (FILLED)
SOI/SOD: Utility of pan-fungal, aspergillus, and mucorales PCRs in the workup of children with suspected pulmonary infections
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Yusha Katie Liu MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Peripheral nerve injury - clinical, translational, and basic science research
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Vishal Nigam, MD
SOI/SOD: Understanding pathogenesis of cardiopulmonary bypass associated inflammation.
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Vince Raikhel, MD
SOI/SOD: Direct Observation of Feedback Delivery, a systematic literature review.
| Project Type: Medical Education
Trang M Vu, MD
SOI/SOD: Development, implementation, and evaluation of a tiered risk-based monitoring protocol for chronic controlled medications prescribing in a primary care clinic
| Project Type: Quality Improvement
Trang M Vu, MD
SOI/SOD: Hepatitis C Elimination at UW Medicine
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Thomas Heston, MD
SOI/SOD: Evaluating Statistical Fragility in Medical Research
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Susan Graham MD, PhD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Phosphatidylethanol Levels, Disordered Alcohol Use, and Sexual Risk Behavior among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in Kenya
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Susan Collins, PhD
SOI/SOD: Harm reduction interventions for substance use disorder
| Project Type: Other
Suhail Ahmad, MD
SOI/SOD: Development of Wearable Artificial Kidney
| Project Type: Other
Steve Polyak, PhD
SOI/SOD: Oral Drug Combinations for Emerging & Re-Emerging RNA Viruses
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Sebastian Tong MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Primary Care Engagement and Practice-Based Research
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Sarah Psutka, MD
SOI/SOD: 1. Deep Phenotyping Frailty - Moving to an actionable Resource/Vulnerability Model for assessing surgical candidacy and predicting recovery trajectories and patient-reported quality of life after surgery for GU malignancies 2. My Informed Choice (MiChoice) - Developing a clinical trade-off calculator for patients locally advance renal cell carcinoma who have undergone radical nephrectomy and are considering whether or not to receive adjuvant pembrolizumab 3. Evaluation of Prehabilitation focused on Personalized Exercise prescriptions (the GetMoving trial, The EMPOWER Trial, The PEAC Trial)
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Sarabjeet Singh, MD
SOI/SOD: Role of Large Language Models in patient engagement and radiology report simplification.
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Rozenn Lemaitre, PhD
SOI/SOD: Population studies examining biomarkers with health outcomes
| Project Type: Other
Reza Hosseini Ghomi, MD
SOI/SOD: QI/health services/clinical research projects
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Ralph Tayyar, MD
SOI/SOD: Outcomes for Mucorales infections in solid organ transplant patients
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Rachel Salit, MD
SOI/SOD: Does Bone Mineral Density Improve in Patients with Myelofibrosis Following Bone Marrow Transplant?
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Puneet Bhargava, MD
SOI/SOD: Solutions to the problem of Physician Burnout - Lessons from the Business and Economics literature
| Project Type: Literature Review
Nassr Nama, MD
SOI/SOD: Management of Pediatric Complicated Pneumonia: Evaluating Antibiotic Therapy Versus Chest Tube in a Multicenter Study
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Nassr Nama, MD
SOI/SOD: Evaluating Renal Ultrasound Use After Infant UTIs: Reducing Overuse and Preventing Harm in Low-Value Care
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Namrata Singh, MD
SOI/SOD: Projects at the intersection of rheumatology-oncology and aging
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Minal Jagtiani, MD
SOI/SOD: Prevalence of large versus small bowel pneumatosis intestinalis.
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Minal Jagtiani, MD
SOI/SOD: Incidence of pelvic congestion in the presence of vaginal pessaries in post-menopausal women.
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Mike Crowder MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Molecular Genetic Approaches Towards a Better Understanding of Hypoxic Cellular Injury
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Mehmet Kurt, PhD
SOI/SOD: Applications of AI/ML in neuroimaging: Foundation Models
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Maya Sardesai, MD
SOI/SOD: Service outcomes of craniofacial trauma referrals and consultations to a regional level 1 trauma center
| Project Type: Quality Improvement
Masumi Ueda Oshima, MD
SOI/SOD: Outcomes after allogeneic stem cell transplantation using post-transplantation cyclophosphadmide as graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Mark Phillips, PhD
SOI/SOD: Brain Metastases--Treatment, followup and predictive modeling
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Manish Dhyani, MD
SOI/SOD: Clinical performance of non-invasive methods for estimating liver fibrosis
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Manish Dhyani, MD
SOI/SOD: Liver Cancer Surveillance Database and Monitoring Outcomes.
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Mahmud Mossa-Basha, MD
SOI/SOD: Presence and evolution of intracranial atherosclerosis in brain cancer patients
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Mahmud Mossa-Basha, MD
SOI/SOD: Embolic stroke of undefined source: Improving classification through advanced vascular imaging
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Lisa Maves, PhD
SOI/SOD: Zebrafish models of heart and muscle disorders
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Lisa Erlanger, MD
SOI/SOD: Weight Inclusive Care/Weight Stigma
| Project Type: Literature Review
LaVone Simmons, MD
SOI/SOD: The second stage at UWMC 2012-2017, 2018-2020 vs 2021-2025; the impact of the pandemic and Risk-Reducing Inductions
| Project Type: Quality Improvement
Kimberly Aldinger, PhD
SOI/SOD: Clinical features and genetic variants associated with Dandy-Walker malformation
| Project Type: Literature Review
Kevin Hallgren, PhD
SOI/SOD: Alcohol and substance use disorder treatment services research
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Kerry Meyer, PhD
SOI/SOD: Examining the clinical relevance of Parent and Observer Reports during Adult ADHD Evaluations in Primary Care:
| Project Type: Quality Improvement
Kelly Michaelsen MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: The Michaelsen Lab works on Hardware and Software Developments for Perioperative Patient Care and Safety. We have projects on neuromuscular blockade device development, patient alarm systems, artificial intelligence in the operating room and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Katie Strobel, MD and Taylor Hendrixson, MD
SOI/SOD: Systematic review on either 1) maternal nutritional status and milk composition, 2) how milk composition varies globally
| Project Type: Literature Review
Kathryn Gray MD, PhD (FILLED)
SOI/SOD: Translational and clinical research approaches to understand adverse pregnancy outcomes
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Julia Hood PhD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Understanding Polydrug Use Risk and Protective Factors, Patterns, and Trajectories to Prevent Drug Overdose
| Project Type: Community Health
Judith Tsui MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Drug overdose among persons with HIV engaged in care
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Jordan Roberts MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Childhood-onset lupus research
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Jocelyn James, MD
SOI/SOD: Improving hepatitis C elimination within University of Washington/Harborview patients.
| Project Type: Quality Improvement
Jerome Graber MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Neuro-oncology, multidisciplinary, many potential topics.
| Project Type: Other
Hong Wang MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Financing Mechanisms of People Centered Integrated Healthcare
| Project Type: Literature Review
Heather Brandling-Bennett
SOI/SOD: Retrospective case series of cutaneous fungal infections
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Gavin Ha, PhD
SOI/SOD: Characterizing tumor evolution in cancer patient rapid autopsies
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Gavin Ha, PhD
SOI/SOD: Analysis of data from new technologies to study the structure of cancer genomes
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Elizabeth Loggers MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Using Natural Language Processing to Detect 'Tumor Fever' in Electronic Medical Records
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Elizabeth Loggers MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: “Tumor Fever” Literature Review
| Project Type: Literature Review
Scott DeRoo, MD (PROJECT FILLED)
SOI/SOD: Clinical Outcomes Research in Aortic Surgery
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Ben Aaronson, PhD
SOI/SOD: Promoting Positive Childhood Experiences for Children with Autism and ADHD in the Context of a Summer Treatment Program
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Daniel Fisher MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Establishing Neuropsychiatric Domains in Dementia: A Systematic Review
| Project Type: Literature Review
Damon Page, PhD
SOI/SOD: Investigating Neurobiological Mechanisms in a Preclinical Model of a Genetic Neurodevelopmental Disorder
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Cory Simpson MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Epidermal keratinocyte biology and rare skin disease models
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Christina Lam, MD
SOI/SOD: Clinical research into Congenital Disorder(s) of Glycosylation (CDG).
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Chris Longenecker, MD
SOI/SOD: GROW-Rural
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Chetan Seshadri, MD
SOI/SOD: Immune Responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Carlos Castillo Pinto, MD
SOI/SOD: Hemodynamic changes during seizures after acute brain injury.
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Brody Foy, PhD
SOI/SOD: Computational modelling for improving clinical laboratory test services
| Project Type: Bioinformatics
Brock Grill, PhD
SOI/SOD: Evaluating patient-derived genetic variants for effects on gene function using CRISPR editing in C. elegans
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Brian Bothner, PhD
SOI/SOD: Metabolomic Analysis by Mass Spectrometry
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Bhavya Rehani, MD
SOI/SOD: Bridging gaps in imaging in low resource communities
| Project Type: Community Health
Benjamin Gern, MD
SOI/SOD: Using quantitative imaging to uncover factors that drive tuberculosis pathology
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Avik Som MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Image guided delivery of biomaterials for tissue engineering and cancer therapy (Interventional Radiology)
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Anna Fiastro MPH, PhD
SOI/SOD: Inequities in telehealth medication abortion access
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Anna (Cristy) Garza-Mayers MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Barriers to Therapeutics in Pediatric Vitiligo
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Andrew White, MD
SOI/SOD: Teaching medical error disclosure to resident physicians: A scoping review
| Project Type: Literature Review
Alison Bays MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Giant Cell Arteritis
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Alisa Kachikis MD
SOI/SOD: Maternal vaccinations in high-risk pregnancies
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Alexi Matousek MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Design and testing of same day discharge protocol for anatomic lung resection patients
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Alexi Matousek MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Media Project: Production of surgical consent videos for common thoracic surgery procedures, pilot use in the clinic, qualitative analysis of effectiveness and patient satisfaction
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Alexi Matousek MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Media Project: Create a video library of teaching topics for medical students to prepare for their surgery rotations and assessment of effectiveness.
| Project Type: Medical Education
Alexi Matousek MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Creation of REDCap outcomes database for paraesophageal hernia patients, analysis of past data, future study design
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Alexi Matousek MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Creation of REDCap outcomes database for esophageal cancer patients, basic analysis & future study design
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Alexi Matousek MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: ERAS (enhanced recovery after surgery) protocol intervention to decrease length of stay for anatomic lung resection
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Alexi Matousek, MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Multidisciplinary collaboration and ION bronchoscopy implementation decreases time to treatment for lung cancer patients
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Kathleen Kieran, MD, PhD (kathleen.kieran@seattlechildrens.org)
SOI/SOD: Mentored Research in Pediatric Urology
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Chris Su MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Financial Toxicity in Patients with Cancer and Limited English Proficiency
| Project Type: Health Services Research
Janelle Clauser MD
SOI/SOD: CQI (continuous quality improvement) project for LCME site visit
| Project Type: Medical Education
Elizabeth Nguyen MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Single cell analysis of kidney disease
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Fred Buckner, MD
SOI/SOD: Antibiotic drug discovery
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Brandon Hadland MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Modeling human hematopoiesis and blood disorders using pluripotent stem cell models
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Bonnie Lau PhD
SOI/SOD: Electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG) and auditory brain development
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Frederick Shic, PhD (FILLED)
SOI/SOD: The Developmental Interplay of Attentional, Genetic, and Medical Risk Factors in Emergent Autism
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Caleb Stokes MD, PhD
SOI/SOD: Targeted immunotherapy of neuroinflammation in viral encephalitis
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Seth Pincus MD
SOI/SOD: Cytotoxic immunoconjugates for the eradication of persistent viral reservoirs
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Nicole Jackson MD, MPH
SOI/SOD: Unexpected Carceral Fatalities in Washington State - a Review of Initial Reporting Years
| Project Type: Community Health
Elizabeth Rhea, PhD
SOI/SOD: Contributors of brain insulin resistance
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Shu Feng MD
SOI/SOD: Ophthalmology emergency and consults research
| Project Type: Clinical Research
Danielle Bruns PhD
SOI/SOD: Pathophysiological mechanisms of heart disease
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Yoshiko Kojima PhD
SOI/SOD: Eye movement analysis with a VR headset
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
David Koelle, MD
SOI/SOD: Human T cell Immune Response to Infectious Pathogens
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
Heather Gustafson, PhD
SOI/SOD: Modeling Secondary Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis: An Innate Immune Primary Story
| Project Type: Basic Science Research
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