Spotlight on Students

Photo: KAREN PHILIPPI Montoya Taylor, James McIlwain, and Michael Chang

Batter Up

From GPA to ERA, this kid scores.

J.J. Eno ’08 MD’12 has been named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All- American baseball teams by the members of the College Sports Information Directors Association for the second time. Eno is only the second two-time winner in Brown baseball history. A neuroscience concentrator, Eno will enter Alpert Medical School this fall. The former walk-on played in forty-three of Brown’s forty-four games this year, starting thirty-seven of them, and leading the team in slugging at .483. He finished the year with a .290 batting average.

All That and a Bag of Chips

PLME student gets a big break.

Caitlin Cohen ’08 MD’12 and the nongovernmental organization she began as a Brown undergraduate, Mali Health Organizing Project (MHOP), are finalists for the Do Something Awards, the “Oscars of youth service awards.” MHOP empowers slum residents to improve their community with sustainable solutions, guided by the mission “Promoting health change, not charity.” MHOP has already received a $10,000 prize for being nominated, and the grand prize winner will take home $100,000. Online voting will determine which of the winners gets the big prize. Only bona fide teenagers ages thirteen to nineteen are eligible to vote.

The winner will be announced during the Teen Choice Awards, to be televised on the Fox network on Monday, August 4. Caitlin will walk the red carpet and attend the star-studded event in Los Angeles. “A far cry from Sikoroni,” Caitlin writes from the section of Bamako, Mali, where she is spending the summer.

Until then, she and MHOP will be emblazoned on 27 million bags of Doritos chips. Do Something, the organization that sponsors the awards, aims to encourage teenagers to join community service projects in their local communities.

The Envelope, Please

On May 23, Alpert Medical School held its annual award ceremony to recognize students in the undergraduate PLME and MD classes of 2008. The following awards were presented.

PLME Awards

Medical School Awards

Newsmakers

Courtney Clark Bilodeau, MD, first-year obstetrical medicine fellow, was a finalist in the Clinical Abstract Poster Competition for her project, “Labor and Delivery in Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome,” American College of Physicians Annual Meeting on May 16.

Fakhra S. Chaudhry, MD, a resident in Diagnostic Imaging, presented the abstract “Two Isn’t Better than One: Spectrum of Mullerian Duct Anomalies” at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society held in Washington, DC, in April. Co-authors were Woodfield CA, Lazarus E, Spencer PK.

Karen C. Chen, MD, resident in Diagnostic Imaging, presented “Acute Abdominal Pain in Pregnant Women: How to Image and Manage,” at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society held in Washington, DC, in April. Co-authors were Lazarus E, Woodfield CA, Mayo- Smith WW.

Christina Cinelli MD’08 presented an abstract, “Cortical Thickness Measurement as an Indicator for Ultrasound-guided Fine Needle Aspiration of Axillary Lymph Nodes in Breast Cancer Patients,” at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society held in Washington, DC, in April. Co-authors were Mainiero MB, Koelliker SK.

Kisha Destin, MD, a fellow in the Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship, presented “Phagocytosis and Oxidative Burst of Neonatal Neutrophils Confronted with Candida albicans and Candida parapsilosis” at the annual meeting of the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research in Philadelphia, PA, on March 29.

James Enos MD’11 has received a Summer Training in Aging Research Topics Mental Health NIMH Award, for “Normal pressure hydrocephalus: clinicalpathological correlations.” This is a highly competitive award to prepare young investigators for careers in aging mental health research.

Ronnesia Gaskins, PhD, MSPH, a research fellow at the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk, presented “To Do a Post Doc or to Not Do A Post Doc,” Breakfast Roundtable Discussant at the annual Society of Behavioral Medicine Conference, held in San Diego, CA, on March 28. She gave a poster presentation at the annual Society of Behavioral Medicine Conference entitled, “Language Is Associated With Women’s Physical Activity Behavior” San Diego, CA, on March 27.

Michael Jaimes, MD, a fellow in Diagnostic Imaging, presented the abstract, “Vascular closure device re-access, a novel re-entry technique,” at the Society of Interventional Radiology meeting held in Washington, DC, on March 16. Co-authors were Jay B, Soares GM, Ahn SH.

Jennifer Lefner, MD, a fellow in the Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship, presented “Duration of Caffeine Citrate Therapy Is Associated with Increasing Postnatal Growth Restriction in Very Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants” at the annual meeting for the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research in Philadelphia, PA, on March 29.

Sumona Saha, MD, gastroenterology fellow, presented a poster at the Digestive Disease Week 2008 meeting: McGowan C., Saha S., Chu G., Resnick M., Moss SF: “Intestinal Ischemia Due to Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate (Kayexalate) in Sorbitol: Not Just in the Very Ill,” on May 18.

Nehan Shah, MD, resident in Diagnostic Imaging, presented “MR Appearance of the Lumbar Discs in Children” at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in Washington, DC, in April. Co-author was Levine SM.

strong>Douglas B. Tsai, MD, fellow in Diagnostic Imaging, presented the abstract, “Initial Invivo Experience Within the USA with the B. Braun Convertible IVC Filter Design,” at the Society of Interventional Radiology annual meeting in Washington, DC, in March. Co- authors include Durham D, Soares GM, Dubel GJ.