The Annual UMKC Health Sciences Student Research Summit enables members of the UMKC health sciences community to display posters in a forum that highlights the health sciences research being conducted in the UMKC Schools of Science and Engineering, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing and Health Studies, Pharmacy, etc., and fosters research collaborations across disciplines and schools that will produce economic, health, education, and quality-of-life benefits for the greater Kansas City community.

Now in its 12th year, this exciting showcase held at Children’s Mercy Research Institute featured multiple UMKC School of Dentistry members, including Claire Houchen (OCS PhD) and Muskan Rawoot (BA/MD), of Bumann Lab, pictured above with Dr. Erin Bumann, Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences.

View photos from the event by clicking here.

View the winners below:

Graduate

1^st Place (Poster 61)

Amber Sun, Mentor: Dr. Brian Do, Title: Breaking Barriers in Amniotic Fluid Embolism Management with Interventional Radiology

2^nd Place (Poster 6)

Amen Teshome, Mentor: Dr. Peter Koulen, Title: Utilizing in vitro retinal ganglion cell morphology analysis to study eye diseases.

Other

1^st Place (Poster 19)

Paris Yates, Mentor: Dr. Paula Monaghan-Nichols, Title: Is Ciclesonide a Safer Glucocorticoid Alternative in the In-utero Developing Brain?

Postgraduate

1^st Place (Poster 7)

Megan Hartle, Mentor: Dr. Mark Sawkin, Title: Patient Perceptions on Clinical Pharmacist Intervention within a Suboxone Clinic at a Federally Qualified Health Center

Professional

1^st Place (Poster 85)

Samuel Kim, Sruthi Sripada, Olivia Lyon and Dr. Patrick Weldon Mentor: Dr. Michael Moncure, Title:  is The Effects of National COVID-19 Hospital Protocol on Drain Use Post-Thyroidectomy: A Retrospective Analysis of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Database

2^nd Place (Poster  38)

Devin Davies, Mentor: Dr. Peter Koulen, Title: A Possible Role of the TLR3/4 signaling pathway in the Pathogenesis of Age-Related Macular Degeneration

3^rd Place (Poster 37)

Devin Davies, Mentor: Dr. Kathleen Spears, Title: 31-year-old Male with Patau Syndrome: A Rare Case of Long-term Survival​

Undergraduate

1^st Place (Poster 30)

Shekhar Gugnani, Mentor: Dr. Paula Monaghan-Nichols, Title: Prenatal Exposure to Synthetic Glucocorticoids Leads to Long-Term Changes in Cardiac Function