During Summer 2023, URI graduated its 13th cohort of UC Berkeley undergraduate students.
2023 Research Symposium
The 2023 URI interns were mentored by a diverse group of researchers. This year, our URI interns presented on the following topics at our annual Research Symposium:
Catherine Tong | Veterans and Health Misinformation/Disinformation
Mentor: Priya Joshi, MD
Emily Torres | Developing Contraceptive Health Care Education Tools
Mentor: Cynthia Harper, PhD
Leah Biruk | Parental Attitudes Towards Whole Genome Sequencing
Mentor: Teresa Sparks, MD, MAS
Astrid Gonzalez Gudino-Guizar | The End of Roe v. Wade
Mentor: Diana Greene Foster, PhD, MA
Shea Stubblefield | Improving Patient Experience at the San Francisco VA Primary Care Clinic
Mentor: Maya Dulay, MD
Nellie Alonso | Studies on Endometriosis
Mentor: Linda Guidice, MD, PhD, MSc
Natalia Macias | Transit Time Flow Measurements in Arterial vs Venous Conduits in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting
Mentor: Marko Boskovski, MD, MPH
Ashley Fang | Phenotyping of Maternal Intervillous Monocytes (MIMs) & Fetal Hofbauer Cells (HBCs) with Placental Malaria using in Situ Hybridization
Mentor: Stephanie Gaw, MD, PhD
Mia Cacho | Demographics & Risk Perceptions of Nicotine Usage
Mentor: Beth Cohen, MD, MA
Ashlee Osborne | Case Study: Decision-Making Surrounding Family-Planning After Fetal Exome Sequencing
Mentor: Teresa Sparks, MD, MAS
Janeth Garcia | Novel Combination Therapy for Osteoporosis in Men & Biomechanical Computed Tomography
Mentor: Anne Schafer, MD, Janet Chiang, MD, Dolores Shoback, MD
Ohemaa Addo | The End of Roe v. Wade
Mentor: Diana Greene Foster, PhD, MA
Egbert Allesandro Villegas | Immune mechanisms and Immunomodulation in Sepsis and Injury
Mentor: Judith Hellman. MD
Reed Broaders | Cognitive Impairment in Veterans with Vascular Disease
Mentor: James Iannuzzi, MD, MPH
Samuel Appiah | Change in Surgical Practice in Liver Transplantation and the Impact on Clinical Trail Enrollment
Mentor: Matthieu Legrand, MD, PhD
Lizbeth Garcia | The ECHO and DREAM Project
Mentor: Tracy Woodruff, PhD, MPH