2022 – 2023
Partners in Plastic Surgery
1. The Inframammary Fold: Techniques in Maintaining the Fold and Long-Term Results
2. Peri-Areolar Teflon Suture Technique in Controlling the Nipple Areola Complex
3. Silicone vs Saline Implants and the Effect on Bottoming Out After Breast Surgery
4. The 410 Breast Implant, A Single Surgeon’s Experience
5. Plastic and Reconstructive Fundamentals: Book Chapters on NAC Reconstruction and Capsular Contracture
Department of Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center
1. CHEERS Quality Improvement: Assessing and improving management of Loyola Plastic Surgery Service Consults, Handoffs, Education, Emergencies, Rounding, and Staffing
2. Developing an Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) Protocol
3. Predictors in Complications of Oncoplastic Breast Reconstruction
Department of Transplant Surgery, Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
Student Research Assistant
A 3-year study focused on the discharge process for renal transplant patients. A standardized discharge work (SDW) process was developed using principles from the Toyota Production System. This SDW has been implemented, targeted at decreasing patient anxiety to lower readmission rates.
2014 – 2016
Department of Burn Surgery, Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
Student Research Assistant
Analyzing the number of unnecessarily intubated COPD patients who present to the ED with facial burns secondary to smoking with nasal cannula use as they are assumed to have inhalation burns. The goal of this project is to determine the costs and complications this aggressive intubation practice imposes.
Department of General Surgery, Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
Student Research Assistant
Principal Investigator: Kyle Perry, M.D.
Currently preparing a database of all the esophagectomies performed at OSUWMC from 2010 to 2015 to determine:
–Differences in patient satisfaction scores, overall complications, and weight loss between trans-hiatal and Ivor Lewis esophagectomies
–The impact of J-tube placement at time of surgery in overall weight loss and patient morbidity
–The impact of ischemic deconditioning in Ivor Lewis esophagectomies
*Abstract entitled “Laparoscopic gastric ischemic conditioning prior to minimally invasive Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy: a single institution’s experience.” has been submitted to SAGES.
2012 – 2016
Department of Plastic Surgery, Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
Student Research Assistant
Principal Investigator: James Boehmler, M.D., Michael Miller, M.D., Gregory Pearson, M.D.
–A comprehensive, best-practices protocol was introduced and implemented in November 2010. All patients undergoing breast reconstruction using tissue expanders at our institution in the five years prior to the protocol, and in the two years after, were analyzed. Patient characteristics and surgical outcomes were analyzed. Determined the rates of infection before and after the protocol was implemented. Presented the results at the OSUWMC research day.
–Utilize the Vectra machine to analyze the effectiveness of the open Ryan procedure in elevating the inframammary fold and the quality of symmetry achieved in unilateral reconstructions compared to the native, contralateral breast through a retrospective study of breast reconstruction patients at OSUWMC from 2006 to 2012.
–Created a survey and sent it out to all plastic surgery residency programs, integrated and independent, to determine to the attention of plastic surgery residents and identify factors and costs imparted by attrition.
–Applying lean methods to breast reductions and panniculectomies to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze surgical supply waste and develop cost effective practices in the operating room.
2012 – 2013
Department of Orthopaedics, Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
Student Research Assistant
Principal Investigator: Thomas Scharschmidt, M.D.
Performed a retrospective study to compare the clinical outcomes of 50-60 pediatric patients with primary osteosarcomas and Ewing’s sarcomas at Nationwide Children’s Hospital from 2002 and 2010. Analyzed the incidence of blood transfusions and determined the effects on the risk of metastasis, local recurrence, disease free survival, and overall survival.
2011
Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Ohio State University
Student Research Assistant
Principal Investigator: Sung Ok Yoon
Researched the molecular mechanisms of myelination and neuronal death in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease through protein kinase JNK3 activity through PCR gels, Western blots, and immunoprecipitations with DNA harvested from transgenic mice.
2010 – 2011
Department of Pulmonology, Case Western University
Student Research Assistant
Principal Investigator: Thomas Kelley, Ph.D.
Explored the causes and effects of intracellular cholesterol accumulation in cystic fibrosis. Used mass spectroscopy, immunoprecipitations, and Western blotting to identify and study the protein apaf-1 interacting protein, APIP, with CAV-1.
