The items in this list constitute the final, graded reports of MEDI 8127.

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Submissions from 2025

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Analysis of Corneal Nerve Morphology and Stromal Haze Pre and Post Oxervate Therapy in Patients with Neurotrophic Keratopathy, Kaylin C. Arpaia

Submissions from 2024

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A Comparative Study of the KARVI Scale and ASQ-3 Developmental Screening Tools, Alberto Allegre and Maria F. Lozano Bonilla

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Comparative effectiveness of endo arteriovenous fistula vs open surgical arteriovenous fistula: a preliminary analysis., Melissa M. Cruz, James J. Fitzgibbon, and Mohamad A. Hussain

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Periacetabular osteotomy: an analysis of social media to determine the most common questions asked by the periacetabular osteotomy population, John M. Gaddis, Bretton Laboret, Ryan Bialaszewski, Elizabeth Bergman, Jenny LaCross, Edward P. Mulligan, and Joel Wells

Submissions from 2023

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Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Degeneration in Early-Stage Diabetic Retinopathy, Andrew B. Callan, Sonal V. Jha, Laura Valdez, and Andrew Tsin

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Establishing the First Student-Run Clinic to Provide Free Health Care to a South Texas Colonia, John Nicholas Cauba, Beatriz Tapia, and Andrew Callan

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Outcomes of Nephrolithiasis Care by Patient Race: From a Statewide Quality Improvement Collaborative, Brianna A. Guillen, Fumihiko Nakamura, Brandon Dodd, Ademilola Tejuoso, Sarah Johnson, Will Cranford, Eric Wahlstedt, Andrew Harris, and Kellen Choi

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Birth defect trends within Texas Public Health Region 11, 2000-2019: an analysis of Texas Department of State Health Services public data., Miguel A. Lopez, Jonathan M. Hebert, and Padmanabhan Rengasamy

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Pharmacologic vs. Surgical Intervention in Recurrent Acute Otitis Media in Children; A Literature Review, Marlon C. Monayao

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Barrier Identification of Home Blood Pressure Monitoring for Hypertensive Pregnant Patients in The Rio Grande Valley, Johanna Mora and Denise De Los Santos

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Policy Proposal to Improve Access and Affordability of Generic Prescription Drugs, Surya Namboodiri

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Barriers Faced by Families and Providers of Children Needing Complex Medical Care, Elvia D. Palomarez

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Brain Microvessels from Dementia and No Dementia Subjects: A Model for Micro to Macro Protein Analysis?, Jiye A. Park, Mamatha Damodarasamy, C. Dirk Keene, William A. Banks, Shelly Erickson, Zin Z. Khaingd, Jeffrey Hyde, and May J. Reed

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The effect of substance use on choroid plexus morphology and ultrastructure: a systematic review, Angelica Pham and Alan Francis

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YBX1 Expression in HCC Cell Lines to Verify Its Role in Sorafenib Resistance, Irum Rahman and Manish Tripathi

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A retinyl palmitate-loaded lipid-xanthophyll nanoparticle system for substrate delivery in minimal visual cycle in vitro, Giani C. Tah, Eugenia Poliakov, Sheetal Uppal, and Thomas Michael Redmond

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Microbiota composition in Alzheimer's patients and how it affects cardiometabolic health: a literature review, Robert A. Weinberg

Submissions from 2022

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Thrombosed orbital varix of the inferior ophthalmic vein: A rare cause of acute unilateral proptosis, Ahmed Abdusalam, Uche Ehiemua, John W. Thompson, Robert Starke, Alexis Morell, Evan Luther, Balint Otvos, Michael Silva, Victor Lu, and Vasu Saini

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ACL Reconstruction Recovery Rates Trend Lower for Athletes with Additional Knee Damage, Ryan Ketan Ajgaonkar, Madison Kent, Mitzi S. Laughlin, Vitor H. Pinhiero, Kyle A. Borque, and Andy M. Williams

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DEVELOPING A TOOL USED FOR ASSESSING SUNSCREEN UTILIZATION AND SUN EXPOSURE, Lois C. Akpati, Carlos Maldonado, Carlo Hector, Adriana Perales, Luis Cervantes, Margarita Faz, and Juan Carlos Alvarenga

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Social Determinants of Health and Stage of Presentation of Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Taha Al Hassan, Saba Suleman, Adam Bender-Heine, and Rachel A. Giese

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Stop the stroke: an analysis into the role of Gender and PMH in stroke symptom recognition​, Shuaibahmed M. Arab and Kelsey Baker

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Palmitoylation as a Regulator of MAGUK Proteins Postsynaptic Localization, Santiago Balderas, Rozena Shirvani-Arani, Xiaoqian Fang, and Yonghong Zhang

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Molecular Mechanism of Immunotherapy Function in Prostate Cancer: A Comprehensive Review, Muhammad Bangash, Samuel K. Owusu-Mireku, Alejandro Rincon, and Bilal B. Hafeez

Karius Test for the Diagnosis and Management of Infectious Diseases in Children: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Pamela Campos, Utpal Bhalala, Oluwafemi Ojo, and Guyu Li

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Transportation Barriers to Healthcare Access in Medically Underserved Populations, Aaron Carrillo

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OXPHOS Inhibition via LUC7L2 as a Target for SF3B1-Mutant Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Carlos H. Cisneros Jr, Anagha Inguva, Hunter Tolison, Maria Amaya, and Craig Jordan

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Postnatal Steroid Use to Counter Bronchopulmonay Dysplasia, Aaron Dadzie

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Clinical Management of Larsen Syndrome in Inpatient Rehabilitation: A Case Report, Philippe J. Dentino

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Influence of Age, Race, and Ethnicity on Pre-hospital Stroke Time Intervals in the Rio Grande Valley., Elio E. Garcia Sosa

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Comparing Stroke Symptom Recognition and Intervention Times in the Rio Grande Valley, Joshua M. Ninan and Kelsey Baker

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Patient Navigation Services in the Rio Grande Valley: Impacts on Clinicians, Students, and Patients, Sabrina Orta, Saba Suleman, Samuel Alvarez, Miguel Garza, and Ruayda Bouls

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Review of Functional MRI and Connectivity Studies of Emotional Dysregulation and Substance Abuse, Michelle M. Pham and Alan N. Francis

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From Bench to Bedside: Bridging the Gap Between Animal Behavior Research and the Study of Human Personality and Psychopathology, William Reckley and Mario Gil

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Effectiveness of adeno-associated virus in H9C2 cardiomyoblast and HEK293T cell lines, Cristian Saenz, Andres J. Medina, and Genaro A. Ramirez-Correa

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Obesity Management in Primary Care Medicine: A Review of Obesity Perception and Barriers to Weight Loss, Asma Syed and Saima Siddiqui

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How Diabetes affects Interphotoreceptor Retinoid- Binding Protein (IRBP) Expression Using Cell Culture: Growth Curves, Andrew Tsin, Laura Valdez, Manny Edward Campos, and Sridhar Srinivasan

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Characterization of POTE-2 Expression in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Lines, Alisha A. Valdez, Samantha Lopez, Kyle Doxtater, Ana Ayala Pazzi, Amayrani Sanchez, Sophia Leslie, and Manish Tripathi

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Implementation of Vitamin D Screening and Planned Intervention of Supplementation for Deficient Collegiate Athletes of the Rio Grande Valley, Amanda J. Wheeler

Submissions from 2021

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MIND, BODY, AND RACE: A Look Into How Implicit Racial Biases Influence Emotion Perception, Faiza Ahmad

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Spinal Cord Injury: What About the Brain?, Nazaneen Amjadi, Kelsey Baker, and Monica Lozano Garcia

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Cardiometabolic Responses in Individuals with/without Family History of Type 2 Diabetes, Christopher J. Cavazos

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A Review of Temporary Functional Deafferentation, Victoria Cuello

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Proliferation Migration Invasion analysis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma after knockdown of POTEE gene expression, Aaron D. De La Cruz, Samantha Lopez, Kyle Doxtater, and Manish Tripathi

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The Healthcare System Navigator Project at the UT Health RGV Area Health Education Centers., Miguel A. Garza

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Phenotypic expansion of nucleolar protein 6, a potential haplo-essential gene contributing to reproductive failure, Alexandria N. Gonzalez

Detection of Duodenal versus Gastric Primary Neuroendocrine Tumors with 68Ga-DOTATATE PET, Shiv Govindji, Muhammad Bassel Darwish, Annie Laurie Benzie, Patrick James McLaren, Edward Cho, Houssam Osman, and Dhiresh Rohan Jeyarajah

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Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Incidence of Myringotomy with Tympanostomy Tube Placement, Jordan Kishbaugh and Brian Perry

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Report on the diabetes status in the Rio Grande Valley, Christopher Reid-Gordon and Hieu Tran

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Prehospital Ultrasound Use by Paramedics for Trauma: A Literature Review, Aaron Silva

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The Role of Zinc in PSD-95 Palmitoyl Modification and NMDAR surface expression., Safiya Syed, Xiaoqian Fang, Luis Acosta, Ivonn Ruvalcaba, Yonghong Zhang, and Lili Guerra

Submissions from 2020

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Applying SIR Modeling Data to Predict the Growth of COVID-19 Cases in Hidalgo County and Guide Public Policy Interventions, Sidney Charm D. Reyes

Submissions from 2019

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Rescue Transesophageal Echocardiography as a Tool to Improve Cardiac Critical Care Health Literacy in the Intensive Care Unit, Madeline Elaine Huff, Jerome C. Crowley, and Kenneth T. Shelton