The Script: COPHS has strong showing in April Scholars Symposium
Janel Shoun-Smith |
College brings 70 students to the annual academic showcase
To see lots of photos from the April Student Scholars Symposium, click here.
In April, Lipscomb University held its annual Student Scholars Symposium, featuring presentations of student research from throughout the university.
The College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences made a strong showing in the symposium with 70 students presenting posters and talks on their research projects, conducted in cooperation with faculty.
The symposium is the university’s premier event reflecting on-campus student research, a primary factor in Lipscomb becoming a Carnegie Foundation designated doctoral-level institution in 2016, said Provost Craig Bledsoe.
“The Student Scholars Symposium reflects the quality, creativity and range of research produced by students at Lipscomb,” Bledsoe said. “I am most proud of the fact that the Student Scholars Symposium is now not only a tradition at Lipscomb but a growing one.”
The College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences-sponsored speaker at this year’s symposium was Mari-Etta Parish (’00), a registered dietitian and owner of the private practice Healthlete in Nashville, which counsels major league athletes on their nutrition habits.
Read on to see the COPHS students who participated and their research subjects:
College of Pharmacy
Faculty adviser Scott Akers:
Utilizing a Bi-Directional Transporter Assay to Identify Pgp Substrates (award winner)
Haley Scarbrough
Faculty adviser Beth Breeden:
Managing Clinically Significant Interactions in the Transition from a Locally Developed to Commercially Developed Drug-Drug Interaction Database
Toni Darnell, William Hedges, Bonnie Lewis, Ethan Parsons
Faculty adviser Kevin Clauson:
Nomophobia and Sleep in Pharmacy Students: Is Problematic Mobile Phone Use Associated with Poor Quality Sleep?
August Whipple
Faculty adviser Joe Deweese:
HU-331 and Oxidized Cannabidiol Stabilizes the Closed Clamp Conformation of Topoisomerase II
Cole Fief
Faculty adviser Ben Gross:
Implementing Transitions of Care in Rural Middle Tennessee
James Barker
Retrospective Review of a Pharmacist Managed Diabetes Clinic on Hemoglobin a1c (award winner)
Cindy Kaing
The Incidence of High-Risk Patient Readmission at a Regional Medical Center Following Implementation of a Transitions of Care Program by a Community Pharmacy
Jessica Lampley
Faculty adviser Klarissa Jackson:
Sunitinib Metabolism and Implications for Drug-Induced Liver Damage
Gracia Amaya
An In Vitro Characterization of Meperidine N-Demethylation by Cytochrome P450 Enzymes
Jessica Murray
Faculty advisers Klarissa Jackson, Susan Mercer and Joe Deweese:
Oxidized Products of Cannabidiol Inhibit Topoisomerase Iiα
James Wilson II, Cole Fief
Faculty adviser Jeff Lee:
Developing a Model Framework to Assess the Budget Impact of Ocrevus (ocrelizumab) in Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (PPMS) in a U.S. Medicare Population (award winner)
Brett Stephenson, Ethan Parsons
Cost-Effectiveness of Extended-Release Levodopa-Carbidopa versus Controlled-Release Levodopa-Carbidopa in Patients with Advanced Parkinson’s Disease
Connor Whitfield
Faculty adviser Jeff Lee, Kam Nola, Beth Breeden and Kevin Clauson:
A Pharmacist-Led Effort to Leverage Digital Health to Screen for Sleep Disorders and Identify the Impact of Medications on Sleep
Stacey English, Carl Stepnowsky, Adam Amdur
Faculty adviser Susan Mercer:
Targeting Topoisomerase II: Synthesis and Evaluation of Halogenated Podophyllotoxin and Etoposide Analogs (award winner)
Matthew Murphy
Faculty adviser Lindsey Miller:
Stigma Toward Antipsychotic Medications Among Healthcare Clinicians
Tyler Casey
Faculty adviser Matt Vergne:
Quantitation of Anthocyanins in Cranberry Juice
Mallory Burns
UV-C Irradiation on the Quality of Green Tea’s LC-MS/MS Quantitation of Catechins
Kevin Flatt
School of Nursing
Faculty advisor Jennifer Weber:
Are College Students Taking Illegal Stimulants More Likely to Have Improved Academic Performance Compared to the Academic Performance of College Students Who are not Taking Illegal Stimulants?
Betsy Scheibe, Matt Mulch, Keyonna Wilder, Michelle Garcia, Ellen Holland
The Effects of Added Sugar on the Incidence of Adolescent Obesity
Lauren Haley Haggard, Ashlee Taylor, Ashley Mannel, Rachel Caldwell, Jessica Polk
How Does the Availability of Nutritional Education of School-aged Children in Impoverished Communities Affect the Predisposition of Chronic Illness as an Adult Compared to the Nutritional Options in School-aged Children in other Socioeconomic Communities?
Elizabeth Cross, Audrey Davis, Ayesha Harris, Katie Horton, Aubrey Moss, Kayla Roberts
Regarding Nonpharmacological Treatments for Alzheimer’s Dementia: Does Music Therapy Reduce Symptoms More Effectively than other Nonpharmacological Treatment Options? (award winner)
Raj Patel, Sheona Gozmao, Adrienne Corr, Allison Meyers, Rabab Jambi, Rana Filfilan
Relationship Between Various Aspects of Staff Hygiene and Hospital-Acquired Infection
Caroline Sutton, Jenny Phelan, Graylin Brock, Josh Gutierrez, Kaleigh Ligon
Do Asthmatic Children with Mothers Who Consumed Tobacco During Pregnancy have an Increased Risk at Developing Asthma Versus Asthmatic Children Whose Mothers Did Not Consume Tobacco During Pregnancy?
Emily Trovillion, Jenna Harper, Taylor Mitchell, Susie Clark, Kennedy Potts
In Preterm Infants, What is the Effect of Skin-to-Skin Care on Their Physiological and Social Aspects in Comparison to Conventional Neonatal Care within the Hospital Setting in the First Year of Life?
Claire Schmittou, Emily Claiborne, Christopher Hale, Hannah Weller, Amy Potts
Are Pregnant Women Who Consistently Sleep Five Hours or Less at Risk for Greater Complications During Pregnancy Compared with Pregnant Women Who Sleep Eight or More Hours During their Duration of Pregnancy?
Emma Paul, Hannah Grimes, Karina Beltran, Jena Starkweather, Lauren Kubat
Faculty adviser Christin Shatzer:
Comparison of Novel Actigraphy Endpoints to Polysomnography Measurements of Sleep Disturbance in Children
Megan L. Alder
Department of Nutrition and Kinesiology
Faculty adviser Autumn Marshall:
Malnutrition in Today’s Hospital Patient (award winner)
Leah Davenport
Faculty adviser Autumn Marshall, Kent Johnson, Jeremy Townsend,
The Effects of Whey and Pea Protein on Body Composition, Muscle Architecture and Performance in CrossFit athletes (award winner)
Amy Banaszek, William Bender, William Vantrease