Faculty Mentors

 Student Name

Mentor 

Project Title 

Joe Stalder, Pharm. D. candidate Daniel O'Connor, M.D. 

DOES GENOTYPE PREDICT THE NUMBER OF MEDICATIONS NEEDED TO CONTROL BLOOD PRESSURE? 

Lina Meng, Pharm. D. candidate Brookie Best, Pharm.D.  Using Scavenge Samples to Determine Ampicillin Pharmacokinetics in Infants 
Steven Chen Pharm.D. candidate Scott Johns, Pharm.D.

The Relationship Between Vancomycin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and Resistance to

Other Antibiotics 
Shawna Kobayashi, Pharm. D. candidate Candis M. Morello, Pharm.D., CDE, FCSHP 

Focus Group: Survey Development and Evaluation of a First-Year Diabetes Self-

Care Education Program 
Annie Chen, Pharm. D. candidate Edmund V. Capparelli, Pharm.D. 

ADVERSE EFFECTS OF DAPSONE WHEN USED AS PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII

PNEUMONIA PROPHYLAXIS IN PEDIATPJC ONCOLOGY PATIENTS. 
Kay Hien Nguyen, Pharm.D. candidate  Charles James, Pharm.D. 

Antimicrobial Consumption as a Potential Driver of Microbial Resistance in a Surgical

Intensive Care Unit at an Academic Medical Center 
Mithun Diwakar, medical student Roland R. Lee, M.D.  SVD 8-Channel Coil Combine for 2D Chemical Shift Imaging (CSI) MRI 
Brian Lichtenstein, medical student  Stephen Seslar, M.D. 

Surgical Approaches to Epicardial Pacemaker Placement: Does pocket location affect lead

survival? 
Stephen Weston, Medical student  Jeffrey B. Schwimmer, M.D.  Association of Dietary Calcium Intake and Visceral Adipose Tissue in Obese Adolescents 
Charlotte Gore, medical student  Felipe Medeiros, M.D. 

Comparison of Comeal Hysteresis Measurements in Caucasian and African-American Patients

Using the Ocular Response Analyzer 
Andrew Breithaupt, medical student  Richard Bodor, M.D.  Endoscopic Repair of Craniosynostosis: A Retrospective Study 
Theresa Chu, medical student  Ed Ball, M.D. 

Phase I Study of Iplimumab (Neutralizing Monoclonal anti-CTLA4 Antibody) for

Treatment of Relapsed Malignancy Following Allogenic Hematopoietic Stem Cell

Transplantation 
Pam Chayavichitsilp, medical student*   

Performance ofEpilumescence Digital Imaging of atypical NEVI with clinical-histopathologic

correlation 
Alexander Ko, medical student*  Folate antagonists 
Bonnie Vorasubin, medical student*   

Uptake of Activatable Cell Penetrating Peptides by Human Breast Carcinoma: Progress

Reports 

Jeffrey K. Lee
Medical student* 

  PTEN's role in colorectal cancer and hamartomatous polyps 
Jessica Sperber, medical student*   The effective dose of alfentanil using the step-up stepdown method in experimentally induced pain of healthy male volunteers 
Kathy Salari, medical student*   Familial Correlation of Lobular Breast Cancer in the San Francisco Bay Area
Kevin Tse,
medical student*
 
Alan Hargens, M.D. 

The heritability of bone mineral

density (BMD) 
Matthew Ho, medical student*   

The effectiveness of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA) as

compared to the MMSE as a screening tool for patients with cortical (Alzheimer's disease) and

subcortical dementia (Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease).         

Student 

Mentor 

Project title 

Yauk Lee, medical student  Claude Sirlin, M.D. 

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING TO EVALUATE NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER

DISEASE 
Brent Rose, medical student  Loren Mell M.D., Arno J Mundt M.D., Catheryn Yashar M.D.  Hematologic Toxicity Modeling in Cervical Cancer Treated with Radiotherapy 
David Bui, medical student*  David Roth, M.D. Ph.D.; Hemal Patel, Ph.D.  In vivo ecdysone-inducible gene expression of Caveolin-3 in cardiac myocytes 
Filamer Kabigting, medical student*  Tissa Hata, M.D.  Clinical and pathological characteristics of melanoma in African American Patients 
Jamie Lavender, medical student*  Tony Reid, M.D., Ph.D.  Cancer 
Sameer Nath, medical student*  Joshua Lawson M.D., Loren Mell M.D.,and AJ Mundt M.D.  Optically-Guided Frameless Linac-Based Stereotactic Radiosurgery for the Treatment of Intracranial Metastatic Disease: Clinical Experience and Outcomes 
Linda Nguyen, medical student*  Quyen T. Nguyen  Uptake of Activatable Cell Penetrating Peptide by Human Squamous Cell Carcinoma 
Jacqueline Sequoia, medical student*  Joshua Lawson M.D., Loren Mell M.D., and AJ Mundt M.D.  Adaptive Radiotherapy in Cervical Cancer Using Daily Cone-beam CT 
Waylan Wong, medical student*  Mark S. Wallace, M.D.  Optimal Dose for Pregabalin in Capsaicin-Induced Pain & Hyperalgesia 


*Year-long student