The Spirit of Inquiry: MD/MS Program Cultivates Future Clinician-Researchers
Bridging medicine and research, physician-scientists play a vital role in academic medicine and the private sector. Such contributions are more urgently needed than ever before, yet there is currently a shortage of qualified individuals to heed the call. Thankfully, medical education is responding: According to recent research, a greater number of medical students are being exposed to research opportunities today, with an increase of more than 20% between 2011 and 2020. Read more. (Pulse Summer 2024)

Benjamin Sherman (M3-DUCOM) is doing his research year at Standford University School of Medicine, with Vivek P. Buch, Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery. His research topic is “Developing Connectomic Modulation of Cognitive Networks.”

Ben will be presenting a case study on an epilepsy patient at AANS this year titled “Bilateral Anterior Thalamic and Pulvinar Deep Brain Stimulation with Cortical Responsive Neurostimulation in a Patient with Medically and Surgically Refractory Epilepsy: Case Report Update.”

Ben also submitted one paper titled “Utilizing Multi-nodal Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment of Complex Movement Disorders: Initial Case Series” to JNNP and won the young neurosurgeon clinical award at CNS 2022 for a session oral presentation of an earlier version of this paper.

Ben also has a textbook chapter coming out titled “The Brain Machine Interface” in Artificial Intelligence in Neurosurgery: Translatable Technologies and Current Advances.

Bela Delvadia (M3-DUCOM) is doing her research year at Tulane University College of Medicine with Dr. William Sherman Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery.

Bela will be attending the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons meeting this February 2024 and has several publications:

• “Comparing outcomes of Quad Tendon Repair with Transosseous Tunnels vs. Suture Anchors: A Systemic Review”
  Delvadia, B., Sonnier, J., Looney, A., Walia, P., Okhuereigbe, D., Freedman, K., Tjoumakaris, F.
  Podium presentation. National Medical Association, Orthopaedic Section; New Orleans, La. (July, 2023)
• “Adult Reconstruction Surgeons Manage Patients With Higher Medical Complexities and Still Achieve Comparable Outcomes to Sports Medicine Surgeons Following Total Knee Arthroplasty”
  Collins L., Winter, J., Delvadia, B., Cole, M., Sherman, W.
  Arthroplasty Today, Volume 25, 2024,101287,ISSN 2352-3441, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artd.2023.101287

Shreya Mandloi (M3 DUCOM) is doing her research year at Jefferson Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery with Dr. Mindy Rabinowitz.

Shreya will again be attending the North American Skull Base Society and Combined Otolaryngology Spring meeting this year. Previously, Shreya presented her work at conferences and has several papers accepted for publication.

Manuscripts:

• “Exploring Functional Connectivity in Chronic SCI Patients with Neuropathic Pain Versus without Neuropathic Pain”
  Mandloi S, Syed M, Ailes I, Shoraka O, Leiby B, Miao J, Thalheimer S, Heller J, Mohamed FB, Sharan A, Harrop J, Krisa L, Alizadeh M
  Accepted at Neurotrauma Reports
• “The role of insula in chronic pain following spinal cord injury: A resting state fMRI study”
  Mandloi S, Syed M, Shoraka O, Kang K, Sathe A, Heller J, Thalheimer S, Mohamed FB, Sharan A, Krisa L, Matias CM, Alizadeh M
  Journal of Neuroimaging. 33(5): 781-791. doi: 10.1111/jon.13117 (Sept-Oct 2023)
• “Stellate Ganglion Block for Treating Post-COVID-19 Parosmia”
  Naimi B, Garvey E, Chandna M, Duffy A, Hunter S, Mandloi S, Kahn C, Farquhar D, D’Souza G, Rabinowitz M, Rosen M, Toskala E, Roedl J, Zoga A, Nyquist G, Rosen D
  Accepted at International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology

Katie Mullen (M3 Geisinger) was the first student to join our program from another medical school. Katie matriculated into the MMS program to work with Dr. Bob Sataloff for her MS research year.

Katie is submitting a much-anticipated scholarly work for publication entitled “Implications of Nutraceutical Modulation of Glutathione with Cystine and Cysteine in General Health and Otology.”

Anticipated presentation:

• “Incidence of Abnormal Acetylcholine Receptor, Striatal Muscle, and MUSK Antibodies in Voice Patients with Myasthenia Gravis of the Larynx”
  Mullen, K.
  The Voice Foundation’s 53rd Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, Pa. (June 1, 2024)

Book chapter citations:

• “Implications of Nutraceutical Modulation of Glutathione with Cystine and Cysteine in General Health and Otology”
  Mullen, K, Kwyer, TA, Sataloff, RT
  In: Sataloff RT, Roehm, PC eds. Hearing Loss. 5th ed. Taylor & Francis; in press
• “Implications of Nutraceutical Modulation of Glutathione with Cystine and Cysteine in General Health and Otology”
  Mullen, K, Kwyer, TA, Sataloff, RT
  In: Sataloff RT, Roehm, PC eds. Occupational Hearing Loss. 4th ed. Taylor & Francis; in press
• “Diagnosing Occupational Hearing Loss”
  Sataloff, RT, Mullen, K
  In: Sataloff RT, Roehm, PC, eds. Occupational Hearing Loss. 4th ed. Taylor & Francis; in press

 
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