MSTAR: Medical Student Training in Aging Research


MSTARS! We want to keep in touch with you!

 

We look forward to hearing from our past MSTAR participants and welcome any updates to your contact, institution, or professional information. Please let us know (via e-mail to Kristian Clausen) of any recent publications you have contributed to as well as any awards or achievements you have received.



2012 Students


Name: Jerome Atputhasingam
Site: UCSF
Mentor: Victor Valcour, MD
Project: Impact of apolipoprotein E4 on cognition and brain morphometry in aging HIV+ patients

Name: Michael Cao
Site: UCLA
Mentor: Edmond Teng, MD
Project: Functional changes in the progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia


Name: Jessamyn Conell-Price
Site: UCSF
Mentor: Sei Lee, MD
Project: Glycemic control and urinary incontinence in frail elders with diabetes mellitus

Name: Anna Darby
Site: UCSF
Mentor: Brie Williams, MD
Project: Evaluating a modified informed consent for older adults in correctional research

Name: John Fritch
Site: UCLA
Mentor: Jennifer Anger, MD
Project: Human factors in robotic surgery

Name: Kimberly Hall
Site: UCLA
Mentor: Michael Yeh, MD
Project: Long term effects of hyperparathyroidism on bone mineral density

Name:
Isabel Hujoel
Site: U Wash
Mentor: William Banks, MD
Project: Investigating the mechanism by which insulin crosses the nose-blood-brain barrier

Name: Deborah Jiang
Site: UCLA
Mentor: L. Apostolova, MD
Project: Cortical Atrophy and Gene Expression Levels in Cognitively Normal Elders and Subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Name: Jennifer Katzenberg
Site: U Colorado
Mentor: W. Kohrt/K. Moreau
Project: Telomere length and endothelial dysfunction across the stages of the menopause transition

Name: Naveen Krishnan
Site: UCLA
Mentors: Areti Tillou, MD
Project: Withdrawal of care in geriatric trauma patients

Name: Helen Lam
Site: UCLA
Mentors: J. Wanagat, MD
Project: Single muscle fiber mutation detection in mitochondria mutator mice

Name: Mychael Lagbas
Site: U Wash
Mentor: Saman Arbabi, MD
Project: Burn wounds: inhibition of inflammation via p38 MAPK inhibitor

Name: Kristin Masukawa
Site: UCLA
Mentor: Neil Wenger, MD
Project: Dissemination of physicians orders for life sustaining treatment in nursing homes in CA

Name: Sean Matsuwaka
Site: UCLA
Mentor: Jennifer Martin, MD
Project: How do older veterans with insomnia rate their health and do they talk with doctors about sleep problems?

Name:
Omar Meziab
Site: UCSF
Mentor: Deborah Barnes, MD
Project: Changes in physical activity before and after development of pre-clinical cognitive impairment

Name: Shannon O'Brien
Site: UCLA
Mentor: John Ringman, MD
Project: Parkinsonism as an earlysymptom of familial Alzheimer's Disease

Name: Wern Ong
Site: UCLA
Mentor: Michael Ong, MD
Project: Provider knowledge and attitudes on depression

Name: Isela Pardo
Site: UCSF
Mentor: Georges Naasan, MD
Project: Symptoms of psychosis as a diagnostic predictor of neurodegenerative disease

Name: Benjamin Sherman
Site: UCLA
Mentor: Jennifer Anger, MD
Project: Flow disruptions in robotic surgery

Name: Junzi Shi
Site: U Wash
Mentor: Nicole Gibran, MD
Project: Metabolic memory

Name: Chris Su
Site: UCSF
Mentor: Rebekah Sudore, MD
Project: Family matters: firstborn expectations and sibling conflict in advanced care planning


Name: Kelly Wagner
Site: U Colo
Mentor: Eric Coleman, MD
Project: Development and testing of the family caregiver activation tool (FCAT)

Name: Marianne Wallis
Site: UCLA
Mentor: Areti Tillou, MD
Project: Hospital readmissions of elderly acute care surgery patients

Name: Aimi Watanabe
Site: U Wash
Mentor: Brian Kraemer, MD
Project: Longevity and behavior studies of C. Elegans

Name
: Derek Wu
Site: UCLA
Mentor: Harry Vinters, MD
Project: Alzheimer's Disease changes in centenarian brains

Name
: Darab Zarrabi
Site: UCLA
Mentor: Arleen Brown, MD
Project: Association between allostatic load and stroke

Name: Howard Zee
Site: UCLA
Mentor: Jonathan Goldin, MD
Project: Landscape of imaging in the outpatient elderly population


MSTAR Trainees From Past Years