{"id":214568,"date":"2024-05-21T15:34:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T19:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=214568"},"modified":"2024-05-23T10:52:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T14:52:17","slug":"research-of-uconn-medical-students-shines-at-premiere-otolaryngology-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/05\/research-of-uconn-medical-students-shines-at-premiere-otolaryngology-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Research of UConn Medical Students Shines at Premiere Otolaryngology Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cUConn med students are making all of us proud by representing our institution with excellent quality presentations at the premiere academic otolaryngology conference of the year,\u201d shared Dr. Kourosh Parham, professor and program director of research in the Department of Surgery\u2019s Division of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.<\/p>\n

Parham adds, \u201cThey deserve a lot of credit for being selected to present. The societies are very selective in accepting poster and podium presentations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings (COSM) is the joint meeting of eight specialty otolaryngology societies. Its mission is to bring together the membership of the COSM societies, Otolaryngology residents in training, medical students and allied health professionals for the purpose of disseminating and exchanging the latest cutting edge clinical and basic scientific research.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s COSM poster and presentations by UConn medical students included:<\/p>\n

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\"Desiree
Desiree Campbell, SOM Class of 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Desiree Campbell<\/strong> presenting her team\u2019s research poster on the comparison of western blots and ELISA methods for quantification of ototoxicity biomarker prestin<\/em> in the Annual Meeting of the American Neurotological Society. An additional podium presentation was also given by Heather McClure<\/strong>, SOM Class of 2026 on western blot characterization of human serum prestin, an outer hair cell biomarker.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Patrick
Patrick Adamczyk, SOM Class of 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Patrick Adamczyk<\/strong> presenting his team\u2019s research poster on serum levels of otologic biomarker, prestin, suggest cochlear upregulation in tinnitus patients <\/em>in the Annual Meeting of the Triological Society.<\/p>\n

\"Mohsin
Mohsin Mirza, SOM Class of 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mohsin Mirza<\/strong> and team presenting a poster on how levels of inner ear biomarker, otolin-1 are related to serum calcium levels <\/em>in the Annual Meeting of the American Otological Society.<\/p>\n

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\"Grace
Grace Nichols, SOM Class of 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In addition, Grace Nichols<\/strong>\u00a0shared two presentations of her research team assessing the quality of online patient education materials on pediatric functional endoscopic sinus surgery <\/em>at The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology; and also on investigating the laryngeal microbiome in pathological and non-pathological states at the <\/em>Annual Meeting of the American Laryngeal Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UConn School of Medicine students presented their research findings at the Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting 2024 in Chicago from May 15-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":214570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076,1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1873],"class_list":["post-214568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 22:01:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214677,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214568\/revisions\/214677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/214570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214568"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=214568"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=214568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}