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Meet the students presenting at the 2008 Annual Meeting!

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First Name Last Name Abstract Title State Discipline
Emily Ruth Adams Centenarian Offspring: Start Healthier and Stay Healthier MA Medicine
Clint Allred RAGE and LRP-1 Expression at the Arachnoid Membrane-Venous Circulation Interface OH Medicine
Juan Almodovar Are postmenopausal anxiety symptoms in women aged ?65 years associated with risk of developing coronary artery disease PR Medicine
Alisha Amann Measurement properties of the K6 psychological distress items: Examining the effects of sociodemographics, cardiovascular disease and its risk factors' MO Medicine
Jane Andrews Social Interaction vs. Physical Health Among Older Women MD Medicine
Megan Arnett Age and anesthesia alter the vesicular glutamate transporter VGLUT2 in rats MD Medicine
Aaron Ashton Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Plasma Glycoproteins with Age: a Pilot Study TX Medicine
Harita Bandlamudi Is there a lack of appropriate provider care and communication in older female African American asthmatics? OH Medicine
Deeksha Bansal Age but not Gender Differences in Serum Free Cortisol Levels OH Medicine
Mark Bicket The Association of the Physical Environment with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms and Other Outcomes in Assisted Living Residents with and without Dementia MD Medicine
Karilee W. Bingham Longituditional Analysis of Caregiver Burden in Long-Term Care Patients NY Nursing
Jerry B Bodily Fasting-induced changes in diurnal cortisol index impact the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis response to acute stress CO Medicine
Judith A Briant Specific OPRL1 Gene Variants Associate with Opiate Addiction Vulnerability in Caucasians NY Medicine
Judith Renee Buchanan Impact of media on medical students’ perceptions of the Mexican-American elderly TX Medicine
Charlotte M Carlson Follow-up of Fecal Occult Blood Testing Among Elderly Veterans CA Medicine
Orianna Chen Perceived Risks, Drinking Habits, and Willingness to Change Among Older At-Risk Drinkers OH Medicine
Harris U Chengazi Dementia as a Predictor of Adverse Outcomes in Hip Fracture Patients NY Medicine
Jordan M Cloyd Assessing Complication Risk in Elderly Patients Undergoing Multilevel Cervicothoracic Spinal Fusion Surgery CA Medicine
Frank E Corrigan Bone Mineral Density as an Index of Arterial Health MD Medicine
Theresa Cruthird-Rudd Evaluating the Accessibility of Assisted Living Facilities for Elderly Residents of Baltimore, Maryland VA Medicine
Thuy-Tien Le Dam The Relationship between Vitamin D levels and Body Composition in Older Adults: The Rancho Bernardo Study CA Medicine
Kathryn Daniel Differences in GFR calculation: MDRD, Cockcroft/Gault with Ideal Body Weight and Cockcroft/Gault with Measured Body Weight TX Nursing
Min Deng Neural Substrates of Age-related Decline in Executive Functions: In vivo measures of gray-matter abnormalities from magnetic resonance imaging OH Medicine
Kathryn Dincher Community Outreach to Older Adults through a Partnership between a School of Pharmacy and Local Agencies on Aging MD Pharmacy
Catherine Parsons Emmett Advance Care Planning of Chronically Ill African Americans: A Qualitative Study FL Nursing
Rebecca Taylor English How Do Attitudes Towards Aging and Menopause Affect Sexual Function in Postmenipausal Women? PA Medicine
Brooke Ersland Choosing to be Frail: Medical Students Perception of the Frail after a Senior Mentor Experience OK Medicine
Navid Ezra Analysis of Lifestyle Factors Leading to Obesity in Psoriasis Patients CA Medicine
Jessica Flores The PEACE Study Pilot Data: Palliative Care Early Assessment for Advanced Cancer Elderly Patients TX Medicine
Gina Fujikami Association Between Low Blood Pressure and Cognitive Function in Late Life: The Honolulu-Asia Aging Study HI Medicine
Katelyn Gamson An Acute Care for Elders Unit in a Public Hospital CA Medicine
C. Rory Goodwin EGFR activity alters glioma tumor response to Anti-HGF therapy MD Medicine
Talia Gracer Effects of Stroke on Orthostatic Blood Pressure Control at Different Times of Day NY Medicine
Antonio Graham Possible link between memory and cognitive deficits in elderly women due to elevated cortisol levels GA Medicine
Ariel Green Evaluating SAGE: A student-run home visitation program to decrease social isolation among older adults MD Medicine
Adam Greenlee Interactive video dance for exercise: What do postmenopausal women want? PA Medicine
J. Tasker Gundy The Role for Mobility Monitors To Reduce The Risk Of Falls In The Elderly Emergency Department Patient NY Medicine
David Lawrence Hamel Humoral fingerprints of health status in older adults PA Medicine
Anna Hennon Title: Has the Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Unit Model reached a tipping point? Barriers, facilitators, and effects of ACE dissemination OH Medicine
Christopher Ryan Henry Tough to Swallow: Dysphagia and Failure to Thrive Caused by Cervical Osteophytes WI Medicine
James Henry Reformed Consent: Adapting to New Media and Research Participant Preferences CA Medicine
Laura Heringer Long-Term Care Volunteers: Impact of significant prior relationships with older people and volunteer experience on student attitudes NC Medicine
Elizabeth S Hile A simple quantitative test of limb movement speed for clinical use PA Physical Therapy
Lana Hirai Gimber Functional Dependence of Dementia Patients in Home Care Before and After the 1997 Balanced Budget Act Hi Medicine
Amy Hsu Do Hospitals with High Volume of Geriatric Consultations Have Lower Feeding Tube Insertions Rates? RI Medicine
Anand Iyer A Community-Based Continence Education Program AL Medicine
Rowan Karaman Performance of balance assessment tests in emergency department elders using balance plate and timed-up-and-go testing OH Medicine
Kushal Karnik Age Related Functional Perfusion and BOLD MRI Response in Medial Temporal Lobe During Encoding VA Medicine
Michael Kaufmann Pandemic Preparedness in Nursing Homes OH Medicine
Melanie N Ketchandji Causes of death in elderly men after the diagnosis of prostate cancer TX Medicine
Julie King The Effect of Amyloid Precurser Protein on Neuronal Number in Transgenic Mice MD Medicine
H. Mabel KO The effects of aging on the globus pallidus in Schizophrenia NY Medicine
Gerhardt Konig Bioreactor for long-term culture of cartilage constructs PA Medicine
Aleksey Kretov The impact of support group activity on the relation between Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers. Reporting of change of misbehavior by caregivers NJ Medicine
Suanne Lawrence The 'trajectory of decline' - how did this concept get into aged care policy? Australia Nursing
John Leikauf Accuracy of Self-Reported Chronic Disease Among Inner-City Seniors NY Medicine
Catherine Lestage A questionnaire describing the physical and organizational environments of residential care facilities: test-retest reliability study Canada Clinical Sciences
Robert Jason Levine Relationship between Fatigue and Mobility Disability: Findings from the Women's Health and Aging Studies I and II ME Medicine
Hao W Liang Who Receives House Calls? OH Medicine
Shou-Chuang Liu The Effects of Therapeutic Exercise on Walking Speed in Long Term Care Elderly Residents Meta-analysis Taiwan Physical Therapy
Victoria Li Lung Effects of Age on Optic Disc and Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer measurements by Stratus OCT, HRT 3 and GDx ECC CA Medicine
Lauren Marcewicz Dying at Home: Does a Focus on End-of-Life Care Affect Location of Death in a Homebound Population? NY Medicine
Ainoa Mayo Three Person Decision-Making Discourse: A Study of Engagement and Control by Advocates for Persons with Dementia IL Social Work
Alexis McCullough Measuring self-reported quality of life prior to a palliative intervention in a nursing home OH Medicine
David N Mendelson Age-dependent effects of inhibitory function on balance PA Medicine
Mallika Lakshmi Mendu Diagnostic Testing in the Evaluation of Elderly Patients Diagnosed with Syncope CT Medicine
Alexander James Millman Secular Trends in S. aureus Infections in Older Adults NY Medicine
David Thomas Montag CD56 is a functional immune receptor for aging T cells PA Medicine
Roberto Moreno The Ability of the Antioxidant NtBHA to Down-Regulate the Oxidative Stress-Mediated Activation of p38 MAPK Activity TX Medicine
Susan W Muir Identification and Stratification of Fall Risk in Older Adults: Validation of the American Geriatrics Society Algorithm for Screening in Falls Prevention Canada Physical Therapy
Stephanie Munger The feasibility and barriers to enrolling hip fracture patients in a delirium study IN Public Health
Christopher Dinh Nguyen Attitudes Towards Adjuvant Hormonal Therapy in Elderly Breast Cancer Patients: The Effect of Bone Health CA Medicine
Maria L Nieto Cognitive Predictors of Physical Function in Older African Americans PA Medicine
Julie Nissimov IL-6 and Related Cytokines Induce Gliosis in Glial Cell Culture CA Medicine
Neil Nixdorf Accuracy of Medication Lists in Older Adults Presenting to the ED OH Medicine
Shirley Osadebe Attitudes to Cancer in the Hispanic/Latino Elderly TX Medicine
Christine O Palermo Orthostatic Hypotension Predicts Eight-Year Incident Depressive Symptoms: The Honolulu-Asia Aging Study HI Medicine
Bhrigu Rishi Parmar Does Aging or Gender Influence Cardiac Adaptations to Exercise Training in Healthy Subjects? WI Medicine
Scott Pope Estimation and identification of parameters in a lumped parameter cardiovascular model NC Mathematics
Laura Raducha-Grace Demographic and psychosocial factors associated with concordant knee pain patterns in Osteoarthritis Initiative study participants with bilateral knee pain PA Medicine
Alison Beth Rapoport Concordance between community-dwelling older adults and their health care proxies perspectives on advance care planning NY Medicine
Danilo Real Relationship Among Two Comorbidity Indexes, Demographic Characteristics and the Number of Drugs in a Health Promotion Program in Three Years Brazil Medicine
Michaela Restivo Development of a brief screening tool to assess physical functioning in older adults NY Medicine
Shayna E Rich Race and Health Care Professional Recommendations for Colorectal Cancer Screening MD Medicine
Matthew Adam Rischall The relationship of medial temporal lobe volume to mood and cognition in the ADNI dataset PA Medicine
Joseph Romano Increased Prevalence of Significant Recurrent Headache in Pre-Clinical Familial Alzheimer's Disease Mutation Carriers VA Medicine
Miri Rosen Impact of Senior Participation in the Seniors as Mentors Program NY Medicine
Meg Rothman End-of-Life care in the curriculum: A comparison of allopathic and osteopathic undergraduate medical education ME Medicine
Jonathan Rubright Does race alter your attitude toward research? PA Medicine
Michael Rudolph Application of three-dimensional stereotactic surface projections to PIB-PET amyloid imaging studies in Alzheimer's disease PA Medicine
Jonathon O Russell Kruppel-Like Factor 15 Modulates Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy via Inhibition of the Calcineurin-NFAT Pathway OH Medicine
Michael Ruzek Sources of Stress for Carers of Patients with a Young-onset Dementia NJ Medicine
Jean-Claude Rwigema The relationship of White Matter Hyperintensities (WMH) location and volume, on executive function and mood in the elderly PA Medicine
Sudip Saha Erythropoietin regulation of endothelial exocytosis MD Medicine
Alana Sasaki Cardiovascular Risk in Older Patients Taking Antipsychotic Medications HI Medicine
Emily Seifert Parameters affecting Verbal Working Memory in Neurologically Normal Older Adults GA Medicine
Priscila Serrano Relationship Between Two Comorbidity Indexes and the Abnormal Laboratory Profile of Elderly in a Health Promotion Program Brazil Medicine
Eugene Shieh Genistein reduces retinal pigment epithelial and Bruch's membrane degeneration induced by prolonged blue light exposure in senescence-accelerated mice: light microscopy findings MD Medicine
Anna Shuler Neuropsychological Correlates of Functional Status in Elders Seen in an Outpatient Geropsychiatry Clinic TX Medicine
Amanda Smith Inflammatory effects of an antibody used for the diagnosis of preclinical alzheimer's disease NE Medicine
Ashley Smith Prospective Cohort Study of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and the Risk of Parkinson's Disease OH Medicine
Caitlin Ellis Snow Practices and Attitudes Impacting Physician Utilization of New York Presbyterian Hospital's Palliative Care Consult Service NY Medicine
Kara A Stavros Delirium and the clinical assessment of attention in older adults NY Medicine
Elissa L Stern Can the Fried Criteria Be Used to Detect Changes in Frailty? PA Medicine
Satre Stuelke High Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Excised Prostate: Evaluation for the Detection of Prostate Cancer in Older Men NY Medicine
Tracee Suetsugu Length of Service in Hospice for Geriatric Patients with Cancer and Non-Cancer Diagnoses Before and After the 1997 Balanced Budget Act HI Medicine
Kristin N Taylor AAV-mediated knockdown of p11 in the adult mouse nucleus accumbens results in depressive behaviors NY Medicine
Anna J Taylor-Shih Overlooked and underserved: HIV counseling & testing for adults aged 50 and over NY Medicine
Eva van der Ploeg Recovery from frailty to a non-frail state in Dutch community dwelling older persons Netherlands Public Health
Matthew Vasievich Establishing an in vitro model of senescent populations of CD4+CD28- and CD8+CD28- T cells   Medicine
Roger Allen Velasquez Impact of Interdisciplinary Family Meetings on Health Care Outcomes among Geriatric Patients TX Medicine
Elizabeth R Wahl Older Adults' Estimation of Preventive Medication Benefits CT Medicine
Bryan K Ward Focal White Matter Hyperintensity in the Aging Vestibular System PA Medicine
Matthew Watto Acipimox Retards Aortic Atherosclerosis in Ritonavir Treated LDLR Knockout Mice MA Medicine
David Wert Measuring VO2 during Steady State in Older Adults PA Medicine
David M Wert Predictive Validity for Mortality of Self-Report and Performance-Based Measures of Functional Status in Community-Dwelling Older Women PA Physical Therapy
Karen J Whitt Associations between vitamin D receptor polymorphisms, serum vitamin D, and markers of calcium homeostasis in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA) VA Nursing
Florence Wu Outcomes of Elderly Patients with Esophageal Cancer: Who Undergoes Esophagectomy? MD Medicine
WanWan Xu Height Loss, Vertebral Fractures, and Misclassification of Osteoporosis PA Medicine
Priscilla Yee Late-Life Risk Factors and Healthy Survival: The Hawaii Lifespan Study HI Medicine
James Yeh Androgen Modulation in Diseased States: effects of testosterone and selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs) on prostate hypertrophy, adipogenesis, and muscle catabolism MA Medicine
Lindsey Yourman Use of computer decision support to improve prescribing in older adults: a systematic review CA Medicine
Valerie Zamudio Knocking Out ILs Signaling: A Cure for Diabetes? CA Medicine
Nicole Zanin The Conceptualization of Delirium in the Hospital Setting: A Pilot Study OH Medicine
Howie (Haopeng) Zheng Understanding the Role of NF-kB Pathway in Inflammation and Apoptosi MD Medicine