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

Fellows

DDCRF Class of 2007-2008

Jessica Cohen

Mentor: Ethan Halm, M.D., Department of Medicine
Project: Determining Medication Adherence to Improve Asthma Outcome
E-mail: jessica.cohen@mssm.edu

Steven Esses

Mentor: Lloyd Mayer, M.D., Department of Medicine and Clinical Immunobiology
Project: CD8+ T Cell Repertoire in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
E-mail: steven.esses@mssm.edu

Benjamin Goldsmith

Mentors: R. Sean Morrison, M.D., Department of Geriatrics
Sheryl Green, M.D., Department of Radiation Oncology
Project: Patient Preferences for Palliative Radiotherapy
E-mail: benjamin.goldsmith@mssm.edu

Yasmine Kirkorian

Mentors: Miriam Merad, M.D., Ph.D. and Matthew Collin, M.D., Ph.D.
Project: Langerhans Cell Chimerism and Cutaneous Graft-Versus-Host Disease
E-mail: anna.kirkorian@mssm.edu

Ajay Nemade

Mentor: Zahi Fayad, Ph.D., Department of Radiology
Project: Using Radiological Techniques to Monitor Drug Intervention in Atherosclerosis
E-mail: ajay.nemade@mssm.edu

Nirnimesh Pandey

Mentor: Karl Jepsen, Ph.D., Department of Orthopaedics
Project: Co-Adaptation of Pediatric Bone Traits in the Second Metacarpal
E-mail: nirnimesh.pandey@mssm.edu

Andrew Paris

Mentor: Scott Friedman, M.D., Department of Medicine/Liver Diseases
Project: Mechanisms Underlying a Genetic Polymorphism in Antizyme Inhibitor 1 that Delays progression of Hepatic Fibrosis
E-mail: andrew.paris@mssm.edu

Seth Sclair

Mentor: Thomas Schiano, M.D., Department of Medicine/Liver Diseases
Project: Hepatic Progenitor Cells: Their Possible Role in Recurrent HCV and Allograft Loss Post-Liver Transplantation
E-mail: seth.sclair@mssm.edu