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The 2024 intern cohort consisted of students from UMass Amherst at top, UMass Boston in the middle and UMass Lowell at the bottom.
Pictured left from L-R: On the top row are Mirabella Paolucci, Evelyne Nibitanga, Claire Schwartz, and John Ferreira. Middle row students are Annabell Victor, Stephanie Benavides, and Basim Naeem. Bottom row students are Kim Nguyen, Mayank Amrohi, Makenna Sheehan and Brianna Bergin. Unavailable for photo: Angeli Franz and Rochell Luciano.
KL2 awardee, Michelle K. Trivedi, MD’09, MPH, associate professor of pediatrics, receives grant for study aimed at improving daily medication adherence for children with asthma
Michelle K. Trivedi, MD’09, MPH, associate professor of pediatrics and KL2 awardee
$3.8 million NIH grant supports study that will partner with 14 pediatric practices, schools and families in Massachusetts to serve children with difficult-to-control asthma symptoms. Full story
Study by KL2 awardee, Lara Kovell, MD, MSCI, finds food insecurity reported by many pregnant patients with hypertensive disorders
Lara Kovell, MD, MSCI, associate professor of medicine and obstetrics & gynecology
Study designed to support the policy change needed to enhance access and funding to food support and screening programs in pregnancy, in order to improve food security and health outcomes for pregnant individuals with risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Full story.
A study by KL2 awardee, Nancy Byatt, DO, MS'15, MBA, found two models were equally effective in improving depression symptoms in obstetric patients
Nancy Byatt, DO, MS’15, MBA, professor of psychiatry, obstetrics & gynecology, and population & quantitative health sciences
Clinical study indicates programs modeled on MCPAP for Moms where patients served by obstetric practices that use the model experience showed an improvement in depression symptoms. Full story.
TL1 trainee shares research showing rare but persistent false positives on COVID-19 home antigen tests
Evidence of persistent false positive COVID-19 rapid antigen tests in certain situations was published in the New England Journal of Medicine Feb. 22 in a letter by Carly Herbert, BA, MD/PhD student and TL1 trainee, Apurv Soni, MD, PhD’21, assistant professor of medicine and co-director of the Program in Digital Medicine at UMass Chan, also a TL1 trainee; and David McManus, MD'02, MSc'12, the Richard M. Haidack Professor of Medicine, chair and professor of medicine.
Preparing Engineers for Professional Practice (PEPP) 2024
PICTURED ABOVE: UMass Lowell Biomedical Engineering students and program mentor, Lindsey Tulipani, PhD, Assistant Professor with their project prototype and poster for “Fall Prevention”.
Preparing Engineers for Professional Practice (PEPP) 2024 (Group 2)
PICTURED ABOVE: UMass Lowell Biomedical Engineering students with their project prototypes and poster for “Rapid Test for Effect of Antibiotics on Bacterial Pathogens.
2022 TL1 fellowship training awardee, Carly Herbert, MD/PhD student, won Top Presentation this past December at the William Schnaper Visiting Scientist TL1 Minisymposium: Circumventing Road Blocks in Clinical Translational Science. Her presentation content was based on her TL1 project titled, "Optimizing Use of Rapid Antigen Diagnostics for COVID-19". Carly was joined by speakers from seven other clinical and translational science centers across the U.S.
