This winter, the Office of Medical Student Research is offering an exciting opportunity for our Einstein medical students to present at Gap Year Research Works-in-Progress (WIP).

Dates and Times

The Gap Year Work-in-Progress will be held on the following dates:

Friday, Nov. 15 – 9:00am-11:00am

Monday, Nov. 18 – 1:00pm-3:00pm

Tuesday, Dec. 3 – 9:00am-11:00am

Thursday, Dec. 10 – 1:00pm-3:00pm

Location

WIP will be a fully virtual event. You can find the Zoom links below:

Presentation Details

Presentations will be scheduled in 20-minute blocks, with time for questions and a break period in each session.
We will have up to 6 students presenting on each date, for a total of 21 students over the four-day period.
Each student will get 14-minutes to present, followed by 5-minutes of Q&A.
Students must come prepared with PowerPoint slides that have been reviewed by the PI/Mentor prior to the presentation. Note: we will be closely adhering to time limits to ensure that everyone has enough time to present.
Please review the " How to Prepare a Platform Presentation" in Resources: Scholarly Products Resources for additional guidance.
Dress: Business Casual

Key Considerations

Unless your topic is highly technical (e.g. machine learning), devoting 2-3 slides to the background is plenty. Limit the focus on the work of others - we really want to hear about your project, your methods, your results (if you have them), and your future plans.

Use the technology. Plots of data are much easier to understand than tables, and there are plenty of free infographic software packages online (Canva is one).
Even though your projects are still developing, your presentation should be practiced. This is not a contradiction--it is perfectly possible to give a well-polished and practiced presentation that carefully explains why an experiment failed or a project was not feasible as initially designed, and discusses the lessons learned and plans for the future.

2024-2025 Gap Year Works-in-Progress Schedule

Below, you will find the schedule for the five-scheduled dates for WIP:

Friday., Nov. 15 ZOOM Recording -Passcode: n8BHn1%d

Slot #	Name of Student Presenter	Title of Research	Mentor(s)	Presentation links
1	Albert Dweck	Reducing the “No-Show” Rate for Lung Cancer Screening in an Underserved Community	Dr. Neel Chudgar	ALbert Dweck - No show LCS AD2.pptx
2	Suzanne Gross	Targeting CD97 (ADGRE5): A Novel Approach in Antibody-Drug Conjugate Therapy for Glioblastoma	Dimitris Placantonakis, MD PhD (NYU)	Suzanne Gross - Albert Einstein College of Medicine WIP November 2024.pptx
3	Sarah Romanelli	Feasibility of a Streamlined Approach for Psoriatic Arthritis Screening and Symptom Assessment
4	Giancarlo Paternoster	Development of a Low-Cost Oxygen Blender	Dr. Umar K. Mian
5	Henry Hoang	Association Between COVID-19 Infection and Post-Operative Outcomes Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Retrospective Cohort Study	Dr. Erik Romanelli	WIP presentation- Henry Hoang.pptx
6

Monday., Nov. 18 ZOOM Recording-Passcode: *5u@Dvkc

Slot #	Name of Student Presenter	Title of Research	Mentor(s)	Presentation Links
1	Anne Lally	Secondary Markers of Survival in Glioblastoma	Dr. Vijay Agarwal	Lally GBM OS18 WIP.pptx
2	Evan Rothchild	Quantitative Risk Stratification in Fibula-Free Flap Surgery Using Bollinger and Calcium Scoring	Dr. Joseph Ricci
3	Mohammed Bashier	Post-Pandemic Disparities in Access to Care Among Ankle Fracture Patients	Dr. Mani Kahn
4	Sayak Ghosh	Factors Predicting Presentation and Outcomes in Pituitary Adenomas	Dr. Vijay Agarwal
5	Peter Ch'en	Real world analyses of salvage therapies for advanced Merkel cell carcinoma with primary or acquired resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy	Paul Nghiem, MD/PhD
6	Wesley Day	Incidence and risk factors of new-onset depression following total shoulder arthroplasty	Jonathan Grauer, MD	Wes 2025 Einstein WIP TSA Depression.pdf

Tues., Dec. 3 Zoom LINK

Slot #	Name of Student Presenter	Title of Research	Mentor(s)	Presentation Links
1	Ali Karandish	Predictive Modeling of Long-Term Occlusion Outcomes Following Woven EndoBridge Treatment of Cerebral Aneurysms: A Machine Learning Approach	David Altschul, MD
2	Bijoy Shah	Development and Validation of EczemaXcel: A Mobile Application for Enhancing Atopic Dermatitis Management through Patient-Reported Outcomes	Sunit Jariwala, MD
3	Richard Rookwood	Characterizing Racial Demographics in Mycosis Fungoides Clinical Trials	Dr. David Ciocon
4	Avalon Kelly	Characterization of the dormant tumor cell subpopulation responsible for lung metastasis formation in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma	Maria Soledad Sosa, Ph.D.
5	Natalie Tan	Medication Adherence and Depression Severity in Patients with Childhood-onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus	Dr. Tamar Rubenstein
6

Thurs., Dec. 10 Zoom LINK

Slot #	Name of Student Presenter	Title of Research	Mentor(s)	Presentation links
1 1:00-1:20	Shimrani Banik	Then and Now: Social Determinants of Health, Pre-Covid, Post-Covid, and the Utilization of Healthcare by NYS Medicaid Patients in the Bronx, NY	Dr. Howard Forman
2 1:20-1:40	Troy Karanfilian	Long-term outcomes after brow lift: a systematic review and meta-analysis.	Dr. Anne Barmettler
3 1:40-2:00	Kara Turner	Evaluating Pigmentary Disorders Using a Colorimeter: An Objective Measurement Approach	Dr. Nada Elbuluk
4 2:00-2:20	Emely Tejeda	Advances in the treatment of Atopic Dermatitis, Vitiligo, and Melasma	Dr. Andrew F. Alexis
5 2:20-2:40	Janet Choi	A systematic review of scurvy in recent times + a case report on the novel use of a non-ablative laser for scarring alopecia	Dr. Kseniya Kobets and Dr. Benedict Wu