A selection of faculty publications from the Department of Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University.
Submissions from 2025
Educational Case: Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation in a Patient with Cancer, Kripa Ahuja and Richard M. Conran
Discordance Between Profound Hyperprolactinemia and Hormone Immunostaining in a PIT1-Positive Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumor. A Rare Case Report, Aneela Arif and Radwa Osman
Role of Device Therapy in Complementing Contemporary Medical Management, Yoel Benarroch, Natalie Tapaskar, and Amin Yehya
Real-World Interventional Outcomes for Cardiogenic Shock Complicating Acute Myocardial Infarction, John E. Brush Jr., Ann M. Harper, Luke C. Kohan, Zachary Bouker, Kaivalya Dandamudi, and Deepak R. Talreja
Association Between Neighborhood-Level Social Vulnerability and Hypertension Outcomes, John E. Brush Jr., Chungsoo Kim, Yuntian Liu, Xin Xin, Chenxi Huang, Iris J. Lundy, Jordan R. Asher, Mitsuaki Sawano, Patrick Young, Jacob McPadden, Mark Anderson, John S. Burrows, Harlan M. Krumholz, and Yuan Lu
Combination of HSP90 Inhibitors and HSP70 Inducers Prevent Hydrochloric Acid-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis in Rabbits, Ruben M. L. Colunga Biancatelli, Pavel A. Solopov, Tierney Day, Dan E. Austin Jr., Len E. Murray, and John D. Catravas
Patient-Self Inflicted Lung Injury (P-SILI): An Insight into the Pathophysiology of Lung Injury and Management, Himanshu Deshwal, Ahmed Elkhapery, Rudra Ramanathan, Deepak Nair, Isha Singh, Ankur Sinha, Rishik Vashisht, and Vikramjit Mukherjee
Clinical Pharmacology and Medication Safety: A Remote Learning Elective Designed for Senior Medical Students, Elizabeth B. Graham, William T. Wightkin, Curt R. Bay, and Uzoma S. Ikonne
Cultures for Acid-Fast Bacilli: Are We Being Good Stewards?, Jennifer Hanrahan, Julie D. Sill, Patricia Ver Schneider, Jessica F. Copeland, Elsie Frimpongmaa Amoako-Kissi, Ogochukwu O. Ilobi, and Angela J. Toepp
Protein Marker-Dependent Drug Discovery Targeting Breast Cancer Stem Cells, Ashley V. Huang, Yali Kong, Kan Wang, Milton L. Brown, and David Mu
HER2 Alterations Across Solid Tumors: Implications for Comprehensive Testing, Ahmed Ismail, Chimay Jani, Nusrat Jahan, Malla Midhun, Arnab Basu, Garima Gupta, Bassel El-Rayes, Sejong Bae, Tyler Mattox, Cyntanna Hawkins, Rebecca C. Arend, Mehmet Akce, Yanis Boumber, and Aakash Desai
Healthcare Provider Perspectives on a Clinical Decision Tool to Support Individualized Exercise Prescriptions and Discussions for Breast Cancer Survivors, Jinani Jayasekera, Oliver W. A. Wilson, Kaitlyn M. Wojcik, Eleanor M. Kerr, Rachelle Brick, David Berrigan, Jennifer Yeong-shin Sheng, Takeo Fujii, Kathleen Thomas, Henri K. Parson, Padma Sheila Rajagopal, and Richard L. Street Jr.
Blood Culture Utilization: How Many Follow-Up Cultures are Needed?, George Jones and Jennifer Hanrahan
Late Diagnosis of Klinefelter Syndrome: Overcoming Phenotypic Variability and Diagnostic Oversights, Amna Kamran and Chinelo Okigbo
Evaluating Retinal Hemodynamics Following Laser Photocoagulation Treatment for Retinopathy of Prematurity, Christina Kilby, Jeong-Yoon Wu, Shaiza Mansoor, He Eun Forbes, Ria Kapoor, Kristin Williams, Abhishek Rege, Avigyan Sinha, and Janet L. Alexander
A Scoping Review of Population Diversity in the Common Genomic Aberrations of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma, Sean S. Kumar, Ninad Khandekar, Komal Dani, Saina R. Bhatt, Vinay Duddalwar, and Anishka D' Souza
Medical Students' Attitudes Towards Research Participation After the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 Scoring Change, Danxun Li, Nina Li, Curt Bay, and Uzoma Ikonne
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Risk in Acne Patients: Implications for Dermatologic Care, Alex Y. Liu, Ana Ormaza Vera, and Clinton W. Enos
Generating Real-World Evidence in Early Alzheimer's Disease: Considerations for Applying the Target Trial Emulation Framework to Study the Safety of Anti-Amyloid Therapies, Xiaojuan Li, Sonal Singh, Bahareh Rasouli, Jennifer Lyons, Noelle M. Cocoros, Richard Platt, Ivan Abi-Elias, and Jerry H. Gurwitz
Delayed Hypertension Diagnosis and Its Association with Cardiovascular Treatment and Outcomes, Yuan Lu, John E. Brush Jr, Chungsoo Kim, Yuntian Liu, Xin Xin, Chenxi Huang, Mitsuaki Sawano, Patrick Young, Jacob McPadden, Mark Anderson, John S. Burrows, Jordan R. Asher, and Harlan M. Krumholz
Changes in Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Health Care Expenditures Among Patients Prescribed Semaglutide, Yuan Lu, Yuntian Lu, Tedi Totojani, Chungsoo Kim, Rohan Khera, Hua Xu, John E. Brush Jr., Harlan M. Krumholtz, and Jason Abaluck
Wrongful Migration: A Hidden Culprit Behind Flank Pain, Ryan Miller, Anjeza Cipi, and Emma Pierce
Balancing Regeneration and Resistance: Targeting DCLK1 to Mitigate Gastrointestinal Radiation Injury and Oncogenesis, Landon L. Moore, Jerry Jaboin, Milton L. Brown, and Courtney W. Houchen
A Novel D-Peptide Modulates DCLK1 Gelsolin Interactions, Reducing PDAC Tumor Growth, Landon L. Moore, Dongfeng Qu, Parthasarathy Chandrekesan, Kamille Pitts, Randal May, Byron E. Anderson, Milton L. Brown, and Courtney W. Houchen
Left Ventricular Assist Device Destination Therapy: A Journey to Home and Beyond, Mian Z. Munir, Marissa C. Galicia-Castillo, Mia Achitoov, and Amin Yehya
Psychedelic Minimalism: The Case Against Music in Psychedelic Therapy Settings, Samir A. Nader
The Reliability Gap: How Traditional Search Engines Outperform Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbots in Rosacea Public Health Information Quality, Houston C. Nelson, Morgan T. Beauchamp, and April A. Pace
Group Antenatal Care Positively Transforms the Care Experience: Results of an Effectiveness Trial in Malawi, Crystal L. Patil, Kathleen F. Noor, Esnath Kapito, Li C. Liu, Xiaohan Mei, Elizabeth Chodzaza, Genesis Chorwe-Sungani, Ursula Kafuulafula, Elizabeth T. Abrams, Allissa Desloge, Ashley Gresh, Rohan D. Jeremiah, Dhruvi R. Patel, Anne Batchelder, Heidy Wang, Jocelyn Faydenko, Sharon S. Rising, and Ellen Chirwa
Treatment of Myocardial Infiltration of Hodgkins Lymphoma: A Catch-22, Jennifer Priessnitz, Erin Biringen, Fadi Khoury, and Christina Bergin
A Case Displaying the Importance of JAK1 and JAK2 Gene Transcription in Antifungal Defense Against Coccidioidomycosis, Jennifer K. Priessnitz, Taylor Colore, and Nelson Nicolasora
Drug-Induced Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis From an Unreported Source: Daptomycin, Jennifer K. Priessnitz, Timothy Kuzel, Lindsay Ackerman, and Nelson Nicolasora
Screening and Addressing Food Insecurity at Free Clinics: A Scoping Review, Gautam Ramanathan, William Zak, Daiwik Munjwani, Robert Fisher, Esther May Sarino, and Mary J. Scourboutakos
Oral Microbiome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: New Understanding and Call to Action, Michael Saadeh, Sydney Donohue, Shaina Ailawadi, Gordon Hong, and David A. Johnson
Educational Case: Bullous pemphigoid, Ryan C. Saal, Alice A. Roberts, and Richard M. Conran
The Timing for Primary Prevention for ICD in the Current Era of Pharmacotherapy, Anastasia Shchendrygina, Amin Yehya, and Hadi Skouri
A Linear Presentation of Cutaneous Rosai Dorfman Disease, Emily Sheetz, Ryan C. Saal, Molly K. Smith, and Rachel Chikowski Byrd
Preliminary Validity of a Daily Functional Status Pain Assessment Tool, Wally R. Smith, Rehan Qayyum, Alexandra Ulbing, Margaret S. Guy, Daniel M. Sop, and Yue May Zhang
The Effect of Inelastic Compression Wraps on the Quality of Life of People with Chronic Venous Insufficiency: A Single-Center, Single-Arm Prospective Study, Abby Hargis Smits, Marita Yaghi, Narges Maskan Bermudez, and Hadar Lev-Tov
Arthroscopic Inlay Biceps Tenodesis Using a Tendon-Docking Anchor, Mark G. Soliman, Katherine S. Worcester M.S., Thomas E. Herron, and Kevin F. Bonner
Percutaneous Levoatrial Cardinal Vein Closure for Stroke Prevention, Chee Spencer, Amir Hasani, Alexander Ellis, and David Adler
Dance-Related Fractures Occur in the Upper and Lower Extremities at Similar Rates: An Analysis of the 2004-2023 National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Database, Senah E. Stephens, Joshua F. Edwards, and Lisa K. Cannada
Emergent Transcatheter Tricuspid Edge-to-Edge Repair for Right Ventricular Shock from Tricuspid Regurgitation in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Nicholas J. Valle, Amin Yehya, Animesh Rathore, Erich L. Kiehl, and Matthew R. Summers
Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events are Less Frequent in Psoriasis Patients Starting GLP-1RA Compared to Controls: An Observable Retrospective Cohort Study, Ana Ormaza Vera, Marla F. Osorlo, Madison Olexson, June Choi, Chunghwan Ro, and Clinton Enos
Fiber Photometry Analysis of Spontaneous Dopamine Signals: The Z-Scored Data Are Not The Data, Conner W. Wallace, Clare Y. Slinkard, Rachael Shaughnessy, Katherine M. Holleran, Samuel W. Centanni, Christopher C. Lapish, and Sara R. Jones
Retinal and Nailfold Microvascular Blood Flow as Potential Biomarkers for Aging and Function, Jeong-Yoon Wu, Saige Oechsli, Yash Porwal, Christina Kilby, Kenaan Elbash, Amrik Gill, Shaiza Mansoor, Ria Kapoor, He Eun Forbes, Samuel Asanad, Abhishek Rege, Kenneth Taubenslag, and Osamah Saeedi
Submissions from 2024
Radiation Induced Skin Fibrosis (RISF): Opportunity for Angiotensin II-Dependent Intervention, Patricia F. Boothe, Vidya P. Kumar, Yali Kong, Kan Wang, Howard Levinson, David Mu, and Milton L. Brown
Invasion of Superbugs: Cockroach-Driven Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Enterobacter in an ICU, Jennifer Hanrahan, Nicholas Schouten, Steven H. Fyffe, Annette Jencson, and Stephanie Stroever
Synthesis and Structure-Activity Relationship of Boronic Acid Bioisosteres of Combretastatin A-4 as Anticancer Agents, Yali Kong, Michael C. Edler, Ernest Hamel, Asa R. Britton-Jenkins, Omar Gillan, Susan L. Mooberry, David Mu, and Milton L. Brown
A Scoping Review of Population Diversity in the Common Genomic Aberrations of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma, Sean S. Kumar, Ninad Khandekar, Komal Dani, Saina R. Bhatt, Vinay Duddalwar, and Anishka D'Souza
Exploring Angiotensin II and Oxidative Stress in Radiation-Induced Cataract Formation: Potential for Therapeutic Intervention, Vidya P. Kumar, Yali Kong, Riana Dolland, Sandra R. Brown, Kan Wang, Damian Dolland, David Mu, and Milton L. Brown
Exposure to Low (10 cGy) doses of ⁴He Ions Leads to an Apparent Increase in Risk Taking Propensity in Female Rats, Nina Li, Simran Phuyal, Elliot Smits, Faith E. Reid, Ella N. Tamgue, Paola Alvarado Arriaga, and Richard A. Britten
Antiangiogenic Therapy Combined With Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Urothelial Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Mohammad Jad Moussa, Iuliia Kovalenko, Emanuele Crupi, Ekaterina Proskuriakova, Yimin Geng, Giuseppe Fallara, Raed Benkhadra, Daniele Raggi, Matthew T. Campbell, Pavlos Msaouel, and Omar Alhalabi