R!L 2014 took place Sept. 16-19 and also featured three nursing conferences, a variety of mini symposiums and lectures, as well as an in-depth program at the Kentucky Science Center geared toward 6th-12th grade students who were introduced to the Pulse of Surgery program sponsored by Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Foundation/Kentucky One Health and the University of Louisville. In attendance were middle to high school students with an interest in the health sciences fields from St. Francis High School, Westport TAPP, Louisville Classical Academy, and several homeschool groups. Stefano Bonassi, head of the Unit of Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology at the IRCCS in Rome Italy and Mary Woolley, president and CEO of Research!America were keynote speakers during R!L 2014.
R!L 2014 winners were honored in a special ceremony by R!L co-chairman and associate dean for research, J. Christopher States, PhD; Craig McClain, MD, associate vice president for translational research; Pam Feldhoff, PhD, associate vice president for research; David Hein, PhD, professor and chair of Pharmacology and Toxicology and associate university provost; Rhonda Hoffman, CCRP, system director for Norton Healthcare Office of Research Administration; Ken Marshall, president of University Hospital/Kentucky One Health and Matthew Williams, director of major gifts, Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Foundation/Kentucky One Health.
A panel of approximately 90 UofL faculty judges participated in judging over the three-day competition.
The winners are:
Master’s Basic Science Graduate Student Award
1st place Zimple Kurlawala
2nd place Stephen Wechman
3rd place Diana Avila
Doctoral Basic Science Graduate Student Award
1st place Amanda Pocratsky
2nd place Adjoa Boakye
3rd place April Herrity
School of Dentistry Dental Student Award
1st place John Houston
2nd place Saira Ahmed
3rd place Paridhi Kalia
Norton Healthcare Medical Student Award
1st place Andrew Stillman
2nd place Michael Zhang
3rd place Mellad Khoshnood
Public Health & Information Sciences
Master’s Student Award: TIE
Stephanie Lunn
Victory Osezua
Doctoral Student Award: Ray Yeager
Basic Research in Public Health Award: Kendall Stocke
Research & Practice in Public Health Award: Stephanie Boone, PhD
NCI Cancer Education Program Norbert J. Burzynski Award Professional Student Category
1st place Dillon Pender (Lacey McNalley)
2nd place Eric Riedinger (Jorge Gomez-Gutierrez)
3rd place Deepa Patel (Kelly McMasters)
NCI Cancer Education Program Norbert J. Burzynski Award Undergraduate Student Category
1st place Lee Sims (Jill Steinbach)
2nd place TIE: Tejas Sangoi (Brian Ceresa)
2nd place TIE: Harold Ghooray (Shirish Barve)
3rd place TIE: Kendall Huddleston (Ramesh Gupta & Rhada Munagala)
3rd place TIE: Adrienne Voelker (Brian Ceresa)
Michael K. Tanner Memorial Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Sciences
Winner Venkat Ramakrishnan
Ruth Greenberg Award for Excellence in Medical Education Research
1st place Whitney Nash
2nd place Michael Metz
3rd place Alexander Marti
Student Engineering Collaboration Award
1st place Anastasia Keller
2nd place Matthew Nitzken
School of Medicine Medical Resident Award
Winner Charles Kimbrough
School of Medicine Clinical Research Fellow Award
Winner Augustina Palacio
Postdoctoral Fellow Award
1st place Shuichi Sato
2nd place Fahmi Abdallah Mohammed Khalifa (mentor Ayman El-Baz)
Research Associate Award
1st place Harshini Sarojini
2nd place Sanjay Yadav
Research Staff Award
1st place Joshua Royal
Young Faculty Investigator Award
Deepa Kolaseri Krishnadas
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Foundation Basic Science Research Faculty Award
Winner Juliane Beier
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Foundation Clinical Research Faculty Award
Winner Cynthia Crabtree
Nursing Graduate Student
Winner Tariq Al Dwaikat