Current Students and Alumni
DACCPM Summer Research Program Alumni
2025 Alumni
MS1s
- Andrew Bao: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
- Casey Barry: Eastern Virginia Medical School
- Neha Bhupathiraju: Paul L Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech Univ
- Brian Brenchley: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
- Callie Diesch: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
- Daniel Li: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
- Alexander Mai: Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Jared McDonald: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
- Chance Melton: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
- Tai Phan: Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Timah Usman: Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine
- Maria Vilchez Vega: University of Houston College of Medicine
College
- Zoe Hufstedler: Texas State University: San Marcos
- Sohan Kureti: University of Texas at Austin
- Ronak Patel: Elmira College
- Matthew Prabhu: Denison University
- Mateo Rivera Ceferino: University of Houston
- Hannah Taylor: Macalester College
- Landyn Thompson: Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
- Pablo Troop: College of William and Mary
- Peyton Wheeler: University of Georgia
- Aarohi Thakar: University of Texas at Austin
High School
- Milan Matthew: Elkins High School
Poster Presentation Winners
- Airway Management
- 1st ¨C Airway Management Challenges with Uncertain TE Fistula Location in Esophageal Cancer: Phan T, Popat K and Bui T
- 2nd - Lingual Tonsil Hypertrophy, Is it a Difficult airway?: Patel R, Vilchez Vega C, Ovsak G, Lim J, Witek J, and Pennycuff J
- Acute Pain Medicine and Regional Anesthesia
- 1st - Two Epidurals for Multilevel Pain Control Following Two-Stage Resection of Sacral Chondroblastic Osteosarcoma: Melton C, Phan T, Barry C, Zavala A and Owolabi A (Chance Melton & Jimmy Phan)
- 2nd - Superficial Cervical Plexus Block for Ambulatory Central Venous Catheter Placement in a Patient on Semaglutide: Vilchez Vega MC, Oliver JA, Zavala A, and Tsai EH ( Claudia Vilchez Vega)
- Cardiac Anesthesia
- 1st ¨C "Ghosted": Pericardial Agenesis Discovered During Robotic Left Lung Segmentectomy: Mai A, Man J, Thakar A, Ramirez M, Pham S, Siddiqui Z and Thakar D ( Aarohi Thakar)
- 2nd - Intraabdominal cardiac pacemaker meets abdominal surgery: Navigating the risks: Martinez L, Strang A, Akinwunmi S, and Pham S (Shalom Akinwunmi)
- Perioperative Medicine
- 1st ¨C Rhythm and Reason ¨C Neurocardiogenic syncope and prevention of cardiac arrest: Wheeler P, Mensah C, Tsai J and Speer B (Peyton Wheeler)
- 2nd - Immunotherapy and Anesthesia: How does the new frontier of cancer therapy affect perioperative medicine? A literature Review: Melton C, Hufstedler Z, Iguaran J and Mena G (Chance Melton)
- Critical Care
- 1st ¨C Brown Blood, Blue Patient: A Case of Benzocaine-Induced Methemoglobinemia: Taylor H, Thompson L, Melton C, Phan T, and Hendon A (Hannah Taylor)
- 2nd - Periorbital subcutaneous emphysema after tracheostomy: Taylor H, Thompson L and Hendon A (Landyn Thomson)
- Pain Medicine
- 1st ¨C Evaluating the Risk of Methadone and QTc Interval Prolongation in an Oncologic Population: Li D, Javed S, Huh B (Daniel Li)
- 2nd - The dual effect of morphine on nociception and wound healing in a model of postsurgical pain: Li D, Li Y, and Dougherty P. (Daniel Li)
- Clinical Research
- 1st ¨C Impact of Perioperative Dexmedetomidine Administration on Pancreatic Cancer Progression: A Retrospective Cohort Study: Troop P, Zapata D and Cata J (Pablo Troop)
- 2nd - Opioid Outcomes After ERAS for Head & Neck Cancer Free Flap Reconstruction with Nested Case-Control: Diesch C, Ceferino M, Ye A, Lewis C, Feng L, Popat K, Popovich S, Andrabi T, Syed T, Hagberg C, and Koyyalagunta L (Callie Diesch & Mateo Ceferino)
- Pediatric Anesthesiology
- 1st ¨C When Calm Turns to Chaos: Recurrent Prolonged Emergence Delirium in a Child with Von Hippel-Landau Syndrome Following Non-Painful Procedures: Andampout K, Phan T, Ramirez L, and Bui T (Jimmy Phan)
- 2nd ¨C Side effects of lymphazurin blue for sentinel lymph node mapping in a pediatric patient: Owusu-Agyemang A, Mohapatra S, Owusu-Agyemang P, Zavala A, Tsai E, Tsai J (Ama Owusu-Agyemang)
- Basic Science
- 1st ¨C Functional & Structural Characterization of Acute Cisplatin Treatment in Mice: Zhu P, Li D, Heles M, Elahi H, Dougherty PM (Pengyu Zhu)
- 2nd - Circulating NETs in solid tumor patients with sepsis and septic shock: Gupta P, Gonzales P, Sharma A, Payton M, Kandy R, Chilamankuri R, Nair S, Gutierrez C, Cata J, Deng S, Moghaddam S, Gaeta S, Malik I, Sharma J (Pooja Gupta)
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2024 Alumni
MS1s
- Clara Francis: Sam Houston State University
- Jose Mauricio Galdamez Melara: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
- Prit Hasan: Sam Houston State University
- Tarikul Islam: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
- Cameron Lim: Sam Houston State University
- Julissa Dyanara Mireles: University of Houston College of Medicine
- Shweta Goldie Mohapatra: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
- Pallavi Muraleedharan: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
- Saman Nekoobahr: Paul L Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University
- Ahsan Omer: University of Houston College of Medicine
- Ryan Wong: University of Houston College of Medicine
College
- Mia Baumann: Rice University
- Joy Choo: Texas Tech University
- Remy Ayman Chritah: Emory University
- Madelaine Arimel A Cruz: Texas A&M University
- Blake Haden Fairchild: Texas A&M University
- Garry Wayne Gibson: University of Houston
- Louis Victor Hlavinka: Texas A&M University
- Issac Shibu Koshy: University of Texas at Austin
- Meagan Lewis: Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
- Caitlyn Tu Tuyen Nguyen: University of St. Thomas
- Ama Serwaah Owusu-Agyemang: Occidental College
- Nyla Savannah Staes: Washington University in St. Louis
- Ivan Tomongha: Trinity University
- Grace Cat-Duyen Truong: Skidmore College
- Kaylin M Wells: Baylor University
High School
- Eric Thekkel: L V Hightower High School
- Karam Linda Maria: Elkins High School
- Aarohi Thakar: William P Clements High School
Featured Posters
- Cameron Lim: Transorbital intubations
- Shweta Goldie Mohapatra, Blake Fairchild and Pallavi Muraleedharan: Intubation in an iron lung
Poster Presentation Winners
- Pain Medicine and Patient Experience:
- 1²õ³Ù&²Ô²ú²õ±è;¨C&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Joy Choo: Peripheral Nerve Stimulation, a Minimally Invasive Option for End of Life Pain Management
- 2nd ¨C Julissa Mireles: Impact of Glycemic Control on Surgical Site Infections in Neuromodulation Pain Procedures: a Retrospective Analysis & Ahsan Omer - Patient Experience with Medication Refills Through Symptom and Palliative Care Center
- Pediatric Anesthesiology
- 1st - Aarohi Thakar: Perioperative Management of Curative Pediatric Hemipelvectomy for Ewing¡¯s Sarcoma
- 2nd - Ama Owusu-Agyemang: Awake Craniotomy in a Pediatric Patient at a Tertiary Care Center
- Clinical Research/Basic Science
- 1st - Paola Yepez: Nosocomial Infections in COVID-19 ICU Cancer Patients: No Impact on ICU Mortality?
- 2nd - Ryan Wong: Intraoperative dexmedetomidine administration and acute kidney injury in patients undergoing unilateral partial nephrectomy: a retrospective study
- Airway Management
- 1st - Blake Fairchild and Luke Twaddell: Use of Optiflow THRIVE High-Flow Nasal Oxygen System versus a Non-rebreather oxygen delivery device in Patients with a High Risk of Obstruction in IR
- 2nd - Madelaine Cruz: Difficult Airway¡ When fiberoptic is not enough!
- Case Reports and Mix
- 1st - Louis Hlavinka: Perioperative Management of a Pacemaker for MRI guided Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy of the Spine
- 2nd - Clara Francis & Mia Baumann: Perioperative hypoglycemia symptomology in non-diabetic patient undergoing endoscopy: A case report & Remy Chritah - Impact of Telehealth Regulation on Telehealth Visit Volume at MD Anderson Cancer Center from January 1, 2020 to June 30, 2024. A Quality Improvement Project.
2023 Alumni
MS1s
- Hayden Fanguy: Sam Houston State University
- Evelyn Lazaris: Sam Houston State University
- Diego Miguel Martinez: University of Houston College of Medicine
- Leonardo Jose Martinez: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
- Malachi T. Miller: University of Houston College of Medicine
- Dana Orlando: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
- Lauren Denise Simmons: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
- Luke Roloff Twaddell: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
- Yusuf Zaidi: Texas A&M School of Medicine
College
- Miguel Angel Araujo: University of Houston
- Madelaine Arimel Alvarez Cruz: Texas A&M University
- Blake Haden Fairchild: Texas A&M University
- Maggie G Miao: University of Texas at Austin
- Caitlyn Tu Tuyen Nguyen: University of St. Thomas
- Adaora Claire Nwokeji: Princeton University
- Lisha Shrestha: University of Texas at Austin
- Nyla Savannah Staes: Washington University in St. Louis
High School
- Satvik Gundre: Dulles High School
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