Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Research Fellowship (CRF) Program for Medical Students

Fellows

DDCRF Class of 2009-2010

Jonathan Brajtbord

Project: Predicting Prostate Cancer on the Basis of Preoperative Characteristics
Mentor: David Samadi, MD and Hugh Lavery, M.D., Department of Urology
E-mail:jonathan.brajtbord@mssm.edu

Alexandra Clifton

Project Developing, Implementing & Evaluating a Clinic- Based Birth Control Group for Adolescents Girls
Mentor: Angela Diaz, M.D., Katherine Malbon, M.D. and Anne Nucci, M.D., Department of Preventive Medicine, Health Promotion and Adolescent Health
E-mail: alexandra.clifton@mssm.edu

Catherine Constable

Project: Antiviral Drugs and Endocrine Abnormalities in Patients with Chronic Liver Disease
Mentor: Andrea Branch, Ph.D., Department of Medicine/Liver Diseases
E-mail: catherine.constable@mssm.edu

Andrew Goldstone

Project: Should Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation be treated at the Time of Mitral Valve Surgery?
Mentor: David Adams, M.D. and Joanna Chikwe, M.D., Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
E-mail: andrew.goldstone@mssm.edu

Robert Goldstone

Project: Ulcerative Colitis: The Impact of Surveillance Colonoscopy on Neoplastic Progression
Mentor: Steven Itzkowitz, M.D. and Thomas Ullman, M.D., Department of Medicine/Gastroenterology
E-mail: robert.goldstone@mssm.edu

Wisna Jean

Project: Investigation of Sexually Transmitted Infections-Induced Immune Response on Enhanced HIV-1 Acquisition in the Female Genital Tract
Mentor: Mary Klotman, M.D., Department of Medicine
E-mail: wisna.jean@mssm.edu

Elizabeth Schwartz

Project: Cortical Pathology Associated with Diabetes and Hypertension in Aging
Mentor: Patrick Hof, M.D., Department of Neurology
E-mail: elizabeth.schwartz@mssm.edu

Brian West

Project: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy following traumatic brain injury
Mentor: Mary Sano, Ph.D., Hillel T. Grossman, M.D. and Daniel Perl, M.D., Department of Psychiatry
E-mail: brian.west@mssm.edu