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Morning Session (10:15-11:00 AM)

1. Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Miscarriage Risk in a Prospective Pregnancy Cohort
   Kristie Muya, Lily Bai, Paulina Chumakov, Digna Velez Edwards, Alexandra Sundermann
2. Enhanced Risk Prediction for Gestational Diabetes mellitus with a Combined Model of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Polygenic Risk Scores
   Jessica L. Gore Winters, Elizabeth A. Jasper, Jacklyn N. Hellwege, Atlas Khan, David R. Crosslin, Hanes B. Meigs, Tian Ge, Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik, Huiqi Qu, Elizabeth A. Rosenthal, Gail Jarvik, Todd L. Edwards, Digna R. Velez Edwards
3. Whole Exome and RNA Sequencing Identify Novel Rare Variant Associations with Uterine Leiomyomata Across Diverse Populations
   Jeewoo Kim, Alexis Akerele (presenter), Jaqueline Piekos, James Jaworski, Elizabeth Jaser, Jing Wang, Sarah Jones, Yanfei Zhang, Michel Ming Ta Lee, Jacklyn Hellwege, Todd Edwards, Digna Velez Edwards
4. Uncovering Population Specific Signals and Hundreds of New Loci from a Multi-Ancestry Study of Blood Pressure Traits in Over 2.5M Individuals
   Hannah M. Seagle, Jeewoo Kim, Joseph Breeyear, Catherine Greene, Hannah Poisner, Yash Pershad, Alexander Bick, Digna Velez Edwards, Yan Sun, Jacklyn Hellwege, Todd Edwards
5. Metabolic Diseases and Risk for Thyroid Cancer in a Predominantly Black and Low-Income Cohort
   Jessica Rampy, Xijing Han, Xiangzhu Zhu, Xiao-Ou Shu, Vivian L. Weiss, Martha J. Shrubsole
6. Demographics and Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Acute Acquired Brain Injury and Disorders of Consciousness at VUMC
   Taylor Hudson, Tyler Murphy, Alexander Osterhout, Eli Engstrom Cayce Strength, Yelena Bodien
7. Proteomic Signature for Persistent Smoking Effect and Its Association with Risk of Lung Cancer and Other Smoking-Related Cancers among Former Smokers
   Duc Huy Le, Qiuyin Cai. Jirong Long, M. Sang Nguyen, Wei Zheng, Xiao-Ou Shu
8. ResearchMatch.org: A National Registry Connecting Volunteers and Researchers to Advance Health Research
   Maeve Tischbein
9. Looking Ahead in REDCap – What’s to Come in 2026
   Katelyn Benhoff, Michelle Jones, Nan Kennedy, Alex Cheng, Paul Harris
10. Learning Healthcare: Managing Partnerships, Pathways, and Pragmatic Trials
    Cheryl Gatto
11. N/A
12. Hospital-to-Hospice Transitions in Tennessee’s Older Population
    Rashmikaa Ranganathan, Kakoti Generosa
13. Research to Advocacy and Policy: Hospital Implementation and Practice of the No Surprises Act, Price Transparency Act, and Financial Aid Policies in Tennessee
    An Yee Tan, Clare Sullivan
14. Federal Suspension of Medicaid Disenrollment in March 2020 was Associated with an Increase in Medicaid Retention among the Older Adult, Dually Enrolled Population
    Sharon Fernandez, Cyrus Kosa, Kali Thomas, Laura Keohane
15. Network Gaps: Examining Essential Community Provider Coverage in ACA Marketplace Plans
    Tatum Watson, Carrie Fry Jill Horowitz, John Graves
16. Kidney Transplant Recipients’ Perceptions of Treatment Decision-Making After New Cancer Diagnosis
    E. Breeding, M. Houston, P. Reese, A. Spann, T. French, D. Johnson, E. Gordon
17. Implementing a Hospital-Based Firearm Lock Distribution Program
    Katlyn G. McKay, Heather L. Kreth, Stacy Pecenka, Kelsey A.B. Gastineau
18. Early Outcomes of 10° Celsius Static Storage for Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation
    Marissa C. Kuo, Mark Petrovic, Samuel Nwosu, Benajamin French, Ashley Spann, Peter P. Reese, Ciara Shaver, Rachel Forbes, Matthew Bacchetta, W. Christian Crannell
19. Social Norms and Sexual Consent Among Undergraduate Students at a Southeastern Private University
    Sarah Sowell Van Dyk, Audrey Harris. Jordan Jurinsky, Nicole Allen, Jessica Perkins
20. The Relationship Between PHQ-2 Scores and Viral Suppression Among Young People Living with HIV (YPLHIV) at a Single Institution
    Chimdindu Ugwuanyi, Neerav Desai, Muktar Aliyu, Aialohi Ahonkhai
21. Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing Safety and Efficiency Normative Reference Values in Community-dwelling Older Adults
    Jill Cable, Lealani Mae Acosta, Cara Donohue
22. Pre- and Postoperative Swallowing Safety and Efficiency Profiles in Heart Transplant Recipients
    Cara Donohue, Jill Cable, Grace Ledford, Kelly Schlendorf
23. Pulmonary, Cough, and Swallow Function Normative Data in Healthy Pediatric and Adult Individuals: A Scoping Review
    Margaret Milantoni Church, Rabab Rangwala, Cara Donohue
24. Improving the Diagnostic Accuracy of Plasma Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers with Objective and Subjective Cognitive Screening
    Maryam Abdolmaleki, Leslie S. Gaynor, Timothy J. Hohman, Katherine A. Gifford, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Angela L. Jefferson. Corey J. Bolton
25. Glasgow Coma Scale Variation and Outcome Prediction After Hospital Admission: A TRACK-TBI Study
    Tyler J. Murphy, Jason K. Barber, Alexander Osterhout, Nancy R. Temkin, Samuel Snider, Mayur B. Patel, Geoffrey T. Manley, Yelena G. Bodien
26. Depressive Symptoms in Sexual Minority Adults: Impacts of Minority Stress, Family Support, and Sleep [Morning Session #26]
    Sueyoung Oh, Kirsty A. Clark
27. Disclosing Dementia Risk Based on Plasma Phosphorylated Tau: A Pilot Study
    Bhargavi Ramamurthy, Adena Cho, Nathan Fayez, Dominic Roby, Angela Jefferson, Corey Bolton
28. Sleep Health Among Children Born Preterm: Insights from the National Survey of Children’s Health
    Claudia Kantner, Erin Von Klein
29. Parietal Default Mode Network Connectivity is Associated with Tobacco Use in Psychosis
    Yunong Bai, Andrew R. Kittleson, Baxter P. Rogers, Anna Huang, Neil D. Woodward, Stephan Heckers, Julia M. Sheffield, Simon Vandekar, Heather B. Ward
30. Neural and Behavioral Correlates of Altered Interoceptive Processing in Schizophrenia-spectrum Disorders: A Task-based fMRI Study
    Andrew Kittleson, Baxter Rogers, Jinyuan Liu, Michelle Failla, Carissa Cascio, Sohee Park, Neil Woodward, Julia Sheffield
31. Evaluating AI Models Trained with Minimal Expert Feedback for Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease Skin Assessment in Photos of Patients with Diverse Skin Tones
    Andrew McNeil, Kelsey Parks, Michael Pogharian, Edward Cowen, Julia Lehman, Stephanie Lee, Steven Pavletic, Benoit Dawant, Eric Tkaczyk
32. Longitudinal Brain Correlates of Cognitive Performance in Early Psychosis
    Kossivi Mignondje, Adam Beermann, Ella Crabtree, Michael Coleman, Martha Shenton, Roscoe Brady, Jr., Kathryn Lewandowski, Heather Ward
33. The Role of VISTA in the Lung Tumor Microenvironment of Metastatic Melanoma
    Carly Fielder, Qianni Hu, Hyndong Yoon, Raymond Zhang, Anjali Raman, Megan Tigue, Chi Yan, Vivian Weiss, Douglas Johnson, Jin Chen, Tae Kon Kim
34. Uncovering a Highly Transforming, Myc-stabilizing Isoform of Dipeptidase-1 in Colorectal Cancer
    Elizabeth Fisher, Sarah Glass, Chelsie Sievers, Zheng Cao, Matthew Bechard, Samuel Ellis, Radhika Aramnadla, Ryan Smith, Ping Zhao, Robert Coffey
35. Wnt/β-catenin Signaling May Promote Squamous Differentiation in Papillary and Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
    Claudia Wahoski, Matthew Loberg, Hua-Chang Chen, Quanhu Sheng, Emalee Mann, Ethan Lee, Vivian Weiss
36. Confounding by Tobacco Smoking in Determining Reduced Lung Cancer Risk among World Trade Center Responders [Morning Session #36]
    Hsin-Ju Wu, Paolo Boffetta
37. Overcoming ICB Resistance in MHC-I Low Triple Negative Breast Cancer with Diacylglycerol Kinase Inhibitors
    Jacey L. Marshall, Paula Gonzalez Ericsson, John Wilson, Justin Balko
38. Trastuzumab Deruxtecan Reprograms the Tumor Microenvironment, Induces Immune Memory, and Demonstrates Combinatorial Benefit with Immunotherapy in a HER2-Positive Tumor Model
    Julia Steele, Susan Opalenik, Justin Balko
39. Profiling Glycan Remodeling Across Pancreatic Cancer Progression Using Lectin-Based Imaging and Comparative Glycomics
    Larissa Ramirez, Brenda Jarvis, Kathleen DelGiorno
40. Colonic Adenoma Recurrence in a Younger Population: A Retrospective, EHR-Based Cohort Study
    Shabna A. Mottemmal, Nicholas O. Markham
41. The Role of GPNMB in Infection-Mediated Endothelial Dysfunction
    Milene Tavares Fontes, Tristan Loveday, Cassandra K. Atzrodt, Chitra Basu, Hyehun Choi, Hong-Ngan Nguyen, Matthew Solomon, Fred Lamb, Ryan Stark
42. CD3+ T Cell: CD14+ Monocyte Complexes Are Associated with Sugar-Derived Metabolite
    Laventa M. Obare, Samuel Bailin, Xiuqi Zhang, Kisya Nthenge, John R. Koethe, Celestine N. Wanjalla
43. Relationship between Circulating Bacterial Small RNAs, Methotrexate Response, and Microbiome in New Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis
    Carolina Ramirez Becerra, Michelle J. Ormseth, Tulsi K. Joishy, Sheau Chiann Chen, Marisol Ramirez-Solano, Quanhu Sheng, Peter J. Turnbaugh, Carlos Ubeda, Renuka R. Nayak, Rebecca B. Blank, Jose U. Scher
44. High Throughput Screening Identifies Novel Compounds to Mitigate Infection-Induced Inflammation Leading to Preterm Labor
    Dilruba Sharmin, Alexus J. Brown, Jaya Khullar, Shajila Siricilla
45. Uptake and Processing of Iron by Alveolar Epithelial Cells in response to Cell-Free Hemoglobin Exposure
    Keagan M. Trexler, Nathan D. Putz, Jason Lin, Julie A. Bastarache
46. CD8 T Cell Heterogeneity in Critical Illness is Marked by the Emergence of a Hypometabolic Effector Population Associated with Respiratory Failure
    Matthew Stier, Allison Sewell, Casey Nichols, Erin Mwizerwa, Chooi Ying Sing, Julie Bastarache, Jeffrey Rathmell
47. GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Regulation of Inflammation through Neuro-Immune Cross Talk via Opioid and Adrenergic Receptors
    Stephanie Yu, Mona Mashayekhi, Ilkin Safa, Jinghuan Zi
48. Youth with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus at High Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
    Catherine Deffendall, Sarah Greene, Ashley Suh, Bryan Han, Catherine Mao, Michelle Ormseth, Christianne L. Roumie, April Barnado
49. Myeloid MK2 Drives Salt-sensitive Hypertension and Kidney Injury
    Mohammad Saleem, Lale Ertugly, Ashley Mutchler, Cheryl Lafer, Alp Ikizler, Thomas Kleyman, Annet Kirabo

Afternoon Session (1:45-2:30 PM)

1. Periconception Menstrual Irregularity and Risk of Miscarriage
   Lily Bai, Kristie Muya, Paulina Chumakov, Digna Velez Edwards, Katherine Hartmann, Alexandra Sundermann
2. Examining the Shared Genetic Architecture of Uterine Fibroids and Keloid Scars
   Catherine Greene, Toni Lewis, Gabrielle Hampton, Jeewoo Kim, Elizabeth Jasper, Jacklyn Hellwege, Todd Edwards, Digna Velez Edwards
3. Integrative Multi-Ancestry Genomics Identifies Population-Specific Drivers of Diabetic Macular Edema
   Christopher Otieno, Joseph Breeyear. Jeewoo Kim, Hannah Seagle, Jacklyn Hellwege, Sahra Mozaffari, Robert Graham, Brian Yaspan, Todd Edwards
4. Exploring Clinical Associations of Perinatal Depression: A Phenome-Wide Approach to Identifying Known and Novel Maternal Health Outcomes
   Hannah Schluter, Elizabeth Jasper, Digna R. Velez Edwards
5. Association of Body Mass Index and DNA Methylation Profiles in Normal Breast Tissue
   Y-Thanh Lu, Shuai Xu, Xiao Ou Shu, Jirong Long
6. Peanut Consumption, Circulating Metabolites, and Coronary Heart Disease: A Two-stage Prospective Metabolomic Study
   Lei Wang, Yanbo Zhang, Qibin Qi, Xiao-Ou Shu, Loren Lipworth, Wei Zheng, Hui Cai, Qiuyin Cai, Deepak Gupta, Danxia Yu
7. Vanderbilt University Qualitative Research Core (VU-QRC): Impact of Core Services on Clinical and Translational Research 2013-2026
   Kemberlee Bonnet, Ashley Sellers, David Schlundt
8. Mobilizing the Participant Voice: Using the MyCap App to Engage Participants from Anywhere
   Jessica Eidenmuller, Dionne Grant, Sophia Gomez, Emily Serdoz, Paul Harris, Alex Cheng
9. Youth Involved in the Legal System & Access to Sexual Health Services & Resources: A Service Provider Perspective
   Chioma Kas-Osoka, Louisa Ekem, Velma McBride Murry, Stephania Miller-Hughes, Jennifer Erves
10. Work-Related Travel of Home Care Workers
    Emmaline Keesee, Laura Keohane
11. Understanding Urban-Rural Differences in SLP Access: The Role of Agency Staffing Characteristics
    Glory Dhanaraj, Laura M. Keohane
12. Changes in Coverage Status Among Newly Enrolled Dual Beneficiaries
    Douglas Fletcher, John Graves, Kali Thomas, Laura Keohane
13. The Efficacy of Gonorrhea Sentinel Surveillance Interview (PDPH Philly Forward Internship Program)
    Zoe Breininger, Alice Stricker
14. An In-depth Examination of Facility Dog Intervention for Young Children Undergoing Outpatient ECHO and EKG Procedures
    Chengze Li, Renwen Zhang, Jessika Boles
15. Life’s Essential 8 and Incident Cardiovascular Disease: Validation Using Real World Data from Consumer Devices in the All of Us Study Research Program
    Julian Tremblay, Jeffrey Annis, Cihan Cakar, Melis Sahinoz, Hiral Master, Kelsie Full, Tali Elfassy, Evan Brittain
16. Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Correlates of Household Structure Independent of Socioeconomic Status
    Kaitlynn E. Ellis, Amar Camara, Camille Archer, Yulan D. Chen, Antonia N. Kaczkurkin
17. Exploring the Relationship Between Public Library Use and Preventive Health Engagement Among Black Adolescents with Adverse Childhood Experiences
    Lisa Kim, Bailey Spencer, Terrinieka Powell
18. Spiritual Care in Medicine – Perspectives, Practices and Training Gaps: A Survey of Catholic Medical Association Members
    James F. Bathon, Molly A. Bringham, Jackson W. Appelt. Kossivi L.A Mignondje, James L. Rogers, Keith Meador, Linda Donnelly, Carolyn M. Gretzinger, E. Wesley Ely.
19. Just Two May Do: Comparing Two-Pin to Three-Pin Lateral Constructs as Treatment for Type III Supracondylar Humerus Fractures
    James F. Bathon, Nathaniel Lempert, Madison Brna, Kartik Reddy, Courtney Baker, Andrew Rees, Jacob Schultz, Stephanie Moore-Lotridge, Lucas Wollenman, Jonathan Schoenecker
20. Profiling Dysphagia Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Associated Health Outcomes in Individuals with Severe Sepsis
    S. Kaytlyn Gregory, Leah McConnell Morain, Cara Donohue
21. Prevalence and Characteristics of Laryngeal Findings in Community-Dwelling Older Adults
    Faith Lemke, Sydney Beatty, Cara Donohue
22. Assessing Challenges to Continuity and Entry into Swallowing Services (ACCESS)
    Bailey Meyers, Hannah Malamud Hoffman, Cara Donohue
23. Accelerated DMN-Targeted cTBS Improves Processing Speed Deficits in Schizophrenia
    Jillian Connolly, Sophia Blyth, Gulcan Yildiz, Baxter Rogers, Simon Vandekar, Mark Halko, Roscoe Brady, Heather Burrell Ward
24. Proximal but Not Enduring: Disentangling Temporal Effects of Nicotine Use on Psychoticism
    Ali Sloan, Jonathan Schaefer
25. Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Pediatric ADHD: Functional Correlates of Comorbidity Profiles in a National Sample
    Ankita Mohan, Jonathan D. Schaefer
26. Longitudinal Relationships Between Cannabis and Tobacco Use and Symptom Severity in Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis
    Yunong Bai, Simon Vandekar, Brandee Feola, Jean Addington, Carrie E. Bearden, Kristin Cadenhead, Min T. Tsuang, Elaine F. Walker, Scott Woods, Ricardo E. Carrion, Heather B. Ward
27. Emotional Engagement and Music Perception Ability in Older Adults: Can Being Absorbed in Music Help You Hear Music Better?
    Sara Wilson, William Hiser, Jeffrey Eum, Srishti Nayak
28. Neural Systems-level Biomarkers of Socioemotional Dysfunction in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia
    Jayden Lee, Ryan Darby
29. Functional Connectivity Patterns Associated with Irritability in Children
    Camille Archer, Yulan D. Chen, Gabrielle E. Reimann, Kaitlynn E. Ellis, Anotnia N. Kaczkurkin
30. Using Unsupervised Learning to Explore the Relationship Between Type 2 Diabetes Phenotypes and Pancreatic Cancer
    J. Martin Arnoletti, Eric Gamazon, Kathleen DelGiorno, Marcus C. Tan
31. Characterizing the Association of Basal Cell Carcinoma Subtype with Frozen Section Analysis Positivity
    Andreja Radevic, Joaquin Austerlitz, Avivia S. Mattingly, Brooke Swain, Aravindhan Sriharan, Michael C. Topf
32. Hidden Discordance: Specimen Orientation and Margin Sampling Disagreement in Head and Neck Cancer Surgery
    Andreja Radevic, Joaquin Austerlitz, Sindhura Sridhar, Whitney Jin, Brooke Swain, Michael C. Topf
33. Wnt2 as a Driver of Liver Metastasis
    Kailey Caroland, Megan Tigue, Rincon Jagarlamudi, Diana Diaz Ethan Lee, Vivian Weiss
34. Nivolumab-Induced Remodeling of the Immune Microenvironment in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
    Melanie Aldridge, Syeda Maria Ahmad Zaidi, Matthew Cottam Kamran Idrees, Eben Rosenthal
35. Using [89Zr]Panitumumab Nuclear Medicine Imaging in Head and Neck Cancer Aids in the Definitive Diagnosis of Questionable Lesions 
    Ashtyn McAdoo, Nicole Meeks, Marisa Hom, Gary Smith, Even Rosenthal Michael Topf
36. Investigating the Implications of Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential (CHIP) for Radioligand Therapy in Metastatic Prostate Cancer
    Chinenyenwa Okolie, Ashwin Kishtagari, Paula Hurley, Alexander Bick, Kerry Schaffer
37. Cognitive Function in Pediatric Brain Tumor Patients: Initial Findings from a New VU-VUMC Collaboration
    Meredith A. Monsour, Ashley Anil, Skyler Hughes, Sydney Hulme, Michael C. Dwan, Bruce E. Compas
38. Patient-Centered Education Using 3D Printed Tumor Models
    Joaquin Austerlitz, Andreja Radevic, Sindhura Sridhar, Whitney Jin, Brooke Swain, Michael Topf
39. Use of a Novel Ex Vivo Lymph Node Scanner for Improving Lymph Node Yield in Head and Neck Surgery
    Joaquin Austerlitz, Andreja Radevic, Whitney Jin, Sindhura Sridhar, Brooke Swain, Mitra Mehrad, Michael Topf
40. Transcriptional Consequences of In Vivo Alveolar Type I Cell Depletion During Alveologenesis
    Taiana J. James, Shriya Garg, Nicholas M. Negretti, Alexandria Sharkey, Devan Wilkins, Shawyon Shirazi, Christopher S. Jetter, Arline Pierre-Louis, Jonathan Kropski, Jennifer Sucre
41. Long-read Sequencing Reveals Widespread DNA Hypomethylation in the IPF Lung Epithelium
    Arlo Colvard, Isabella Gaona, Taylor Sherrill, Jonathan Kropski, Jason Gokey
42. Sustained Yap/Taz Activity is Required to Maintain AT1 Cell Identity During Alveolar Repair
    Isabella P. Gaona, Tayor P. Sherrill, Gianluca T. DiGiovanni, Ujjal K. Singha, Jonathan A. Kropski, Jason J. Gokey
43. Antigen Presenting Cell-specific Keap1-Nrf2 Pathway Mediates Salt-sensitive Hypertension
    Mohd Khan
44. Evaluation of the In Vitro Therapeutic Index for Novel Inhibitors of Hyperinflammation at the Maternal-Fetal Interface
    Jaya Khullar, Dilruba Sharmin, Shajila Siricilla
45. Sphingosine-1-phosphate Deficiency Impairs Skin Healing after a Staphylococcus aureus Infection
    Ana Carolina Guerta Salina, Amondrea Blackman, Henrique Serezani
46. Salt-inducible Kinase Inhibition Promotes Weight Loss and Protects against Obesity-associated HFpEF in Mice
    Fubiao Shi, Vineet Agrawal, Uugantsetseg Munkhjargal, Elizabeth Kobeck, Hari U. Patel, Wei Zhang, Sheila Collins
47. Evaluating Immunologic Effects of GLP-1 Receptor Activation in Obesity
    Anne Hanna, Ilkin Safa, Mona Mashayekhi
48. Assessing the Use of Volatile Organic Compounds as Biomarkers for the Detection of Upper Gastrointestinal Disease
    Evelyn Funjika, Clara Bwalya, John Worthington, James Nyirenda, Paul Kelly, Violet Kayamba