Discovery Scholarship Day

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Come see what our amazing DGSOM students have been up to for their Discovery year! This is an opportunity for our MS3 students to present their scholarly work spanning across every aspect of medical scholarship. Projects include work in traditional biomedical research, medical education, innovation, advocacy and bioinformatics among others. Come celebrate our students achievements and growth towards becoming leaders in medicine.  

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Discovery Scholarship Day Schedule

• 1:00-2:30PM: Oral Plenary Session
• 2:45-4:30PM: Small Group Presentations
• 4:30-5:30PM: Discovery Reception

2025 Plenary Speakers

• Alejandro Vega: “TRPV4 as a Potential Therapeutic Target for Pulmonary Hypertension-Induced Right Ventricular Failure”
• McKensie Hammons: “ Pancreatic Cancer Treated with Checkpoint Inhibition Exhibits Immune Changes Linked to Survival”
• Aleena Imran: “Impact of Cost Growth Target Models on Total Medical Expenditure”
• Maria Luna: “Survey of UCLA Health Family Medicine Physicians Reveals Gaps in LGBTQIA+ Training Regarding A-spec Identities”
• Ilich Rodriguez Rivas + Angelina Wei: ”Restoring Diagnostic Access: A Narrative Scoping Review of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Homeless and Displaced Populations/ The Promise and Limits of POCUS for People Experiencing Homelessness”
• Casey Chun: “Mixed-methods Assessment of Geospatial Injury Patterns across Limbe, Cameroon to support Lay First Responder Pilot”
• Vanessa De Haro: ’Do No Harm—To Patients and the Planet: A Community-Based Approach to Assessing Healthcare Provider Awareness on the Environmental Impact of Inhalers in a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Los Angeles’
• Abhinav Suri: “Automated Detection and Classification of Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules on CT using Deep Learning”