SHM Resident and Student Research Grant Recipients

2022 Resident and Student Research Grant Recipients

Summer Projects

Stephanie Cardenas  
Student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Project: The Effect of Anemia on Cognitive Function During Hospitalization
Location: University of Chicago

Brian Sangalang
Student at the University of California, Riverside - School of Medicine
Project: Preventing Inpatient Hypoglycemia in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes Mellitus
Location: Riverside Community Hospital

Longitudinal Projects

Nicole Gras
Resident in the University of Chicago Internal Medicine Residency Program
Project: Minimizing labs on day of discharge for patients going to skilled nursing facilities
Location: University of Chicago Medical Center

Daniel Motta-Calderon
Resident in the Vanderbilt University Internal Medicine Residency Program
Project: iDISCERN – An Interactive Mobile Tool to Visualize, Debias, and Communicate Diagnostic Reasoning in the Acute Setting
Location: Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Jason Huynh
Student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, John A. Burns School of Medicine
Project: Innovating Inpatient Communication by Utilizing HIPAA-compliant Texting Between Physicians and Patients
Location: The Queen's Medical Center

Vishvaas Ravikumar
Student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Medicine
Project: Comparing educational strategies to reduce inappropriate lab orders among internal medicine residents: A prospective cohort study
Location: University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (affiliated w/the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV)

*After 2021, the Student Scholar Grant was renamed the Resident and Student Research Grant.

2021 Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant Recipients

Summer Projects

Murtala Affini  
Student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Project: Identifying Existing Best Practices to Improve Patient Sleep During Hospitalization: A National Mixed-Methods Study of High Performing Hospitals
Location: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Bryana Banashefski
Student at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Project: A Healthy Dose of Skepticism: A Quality Intervention to Improve Appropriate Antibiotic Prescribing Practices for Patients with Non-IgE Mediated Penicillin Allergies
Location: Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Ojas Deshpande
Student at the California University of Science and Medicine
Project: Association between Sleep Quality, Health Literacy and Patient Outcomes in Hospitalized Diabetic Patients
Location: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Longitudinal Projects

Christina Brown, Sanket Aggarwal
Students at the Rush University Medical Center
Project: Escape Rooms: An Innovative Approach to Patient Safety Education
Location: Rush University Medical Center

Samir Kamat
Student at the Student at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Project: Sticking Points - Reducing Excess Fingerstick Blood Glucose Testing in Hospitalized Patients with Well-Controlled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Quality Improvement Study
Location: Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Vishruti Patel
Student at the University of Colorado School of Medicine
Project: Innovative Solutions for Supporting Academic Educational Missions in the Setting of Sustained and Disproportionate Clinical Growth:  A Multi-site Qualitative Analysis of Academic Hospitalist Programs
Location: University of Colorado School of Medicine

2019 Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant Recipients

Summer Projects

Yasaswi Vengalasetti
Student at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine
Project: Chronicling Calories: The Case of Improving the Missed-Documentation of Nutrition
Location: Stanford School of Medicine

Longitudinal Projects

Sagarika Arogyaswamy
Student at the California University of Science and Medicine
Project: Hospital Capacity Strain: A Qualitative Analysis of Solutions Utilized by Urban Academic Medical Centers
Location: The University of Colorado

Lisa Simon
Student at Harvard Medical School
Project: Barriers to Effective Oral Health Care of Hospitalized Patients
Location: Harvard Medical School

2018 Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant Recipients

Summer Projects

Sandeep Bala
Student at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine
Project: The Impact of Plain Language Open Medical Notes on Patient Activation
Location: Denver Health Hospital, Denver, Colorado

Maximilian Hemmrich
Student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Project: Derivation and Validation of a COPD readmission risk prediction tool
Location: The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Ilana Scandariato
Student at Weill Cornell Medical College
Project:  Understanding the Experience of the Long-Term Hospitalized Patient with Provider Fragmentation: A Qualitative Study
Location: Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York

Longitudinal Projects

Matthew Fallon
Student at Creighton University School of Medicine
Project: Reducing the hospital readmission rate of Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
Location: CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center – Bergan Mercy, Omaha, Nebraska

Philip Huang
Student at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Project: Expanded Patient Regionalization to Improve Care Efficiency
Location: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa

Erin Rainosek
Student at the University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio
Project: Design Thinking to Improve Patient Experience
Location: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

2017 Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant Recipients

Summer Projects

Anton Garazha
Student at Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University
Project: Effectiveness of Communication During ICU to Ward Transfer and Association with Medical ICU Readmission
Location: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Cole Hirschfeld
Student at Weill Cornell Medical College
Project: The Role of Diagnostic Bone Biopsies in the Management of Osteomyelitis
Location: Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York

Farah Hussain
Student at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Project: Better understanding clinical deterioration in a children’s hospital
Location: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio

Longitudinal Projects

Monisha Bhatia
Student at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Project: Using Electronic Medical Record Phenotypic Data to Predict Discharge Destination
Location: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

Victor Ekuta
Student at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Project: Reducing CAUTI with Noninvasive UC Alternatives and Measure-vention
Location: University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California

Yun Li
Student at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Project: Developing and implementing clinical pathway(s) for hospitalized injection drug users due to injection-related infection sequelae
Location: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire