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TRI Research Day Delivers

The Poster Session at Research Day was held in the pavilion at Heifer International Headquarters in Little Rock.
The Poster Session at Research Day was held in the pavilion at Heifer International Headquarters in Little Rock. – Photos by Mark Mathews

TRI’s Inaugural Research Day 2022 on Tuesday drew 125 attendees and included a poster session with 33 poster presenters.

Clare Nesmith, M.D., discusses her poster with Research Day attendees.

Held at Heifer International Headquarters in Little Rock, the full-day program included two keynote speakers and six presentations from researchers whose work has been supported by TRI.

Research Day keynote speakers Stacie Jones, M.D., and Rachel Hess, M.D. (left and right), with TRI Director Laura James, M.D.
Aaron Kemp, MBA, discusses his poster with judges Susan Smyth, M.D., and Rick Owen, M.D.

The posters represented TRI-funded programs including pilot awards, Health Science Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Awards, NCATS Supplemental Awards, KL2 Mentored Research Career Development Awards, Implementation Science Scholar Awards, Data Science Scholar Awards, Team Science Voucher Awards, and the Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program in the Department of Biomedical Informatics.

The poster winners are:

Overall Visual:
Cody Ashby, Ph.D., M.S., Assistant Professor, College of Medicine Department of Biomedical Informatics (Pilot)
Racial Differences in Multiple Myeloma Genomics and Outcome in Rural Populations

Overall Content:
Yasir Rahmatallah, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Medicine Department of Biomedical Informatics (Data Science)
Disease Trajectory Analysis From Electronic Health Record

Jennifer Vincenzo, Ph.D., and Josh Kennedy, M.D., visit with Yasir Rahmatallah, Ph.D., about his winning poster.

Overall Oral/Discussion:
Melissa Zielinski, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry (Pilot)
Incarcerated Pregnant Women in Arkansas: Expanding Foundational Knowledge and Building Research Capacity

Overall Impact:
Isabelle Racine Miousse, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (KL2)
Dietary Methionine Restriction Improves the Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors

Isabelle Racine Miousse, Ph.D., with her winning poster.

People’s Choice:
Nishank Jain, M.D., Assistant Professor, College of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine (Data Science) (with assistance from Layth Al-Hindi, medical student)
Event Rates and Risk Factors for Intracranial Bleeds Among Dialysis Patients on P2Y12 Inhibitors

The posters were judged by a who’s who of UAMS research leaders, including College of Medicine Dean Susan Smyth, M.D., Ph.D. Other judges were: Paul Drew, Ph.D., Laura Dunn, M.D., (new chair of the Department of Psychiatry) Bradley Martin, Pharm.D., Ph.D., Richard Owen, M.D., and Jessica Snowden, M.D.

View all of the poster entries in the Research Day Program.

Posted by dsrobinson on April 6, 2022

Filed Under: Front, News, Newsroom

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