Meet the presenters and learn about the focus of their research.
Research Topics & Presenters
Name: Jeffrey N. James, MD, DDS, MBA, FACS, FAACS (LSU Health) & Syed Asghar MD, DMD (LSU Health)
Contact Info: jjame1@lsuhsc.edu & sasgha@lsuhsc.edu
Background:
- Website began as a personal surgical reference and has since expanded for use by other LSU & outside residents/fellows. Site includes stepwise procedure photos & descriptions, procedure-specific op notes & postop instructions.
Name: Justine Moe, MD, DDS (University of Michigan):
Contact Info: jusmoe@med.umich.edu
Background:
- Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) significantly trails behind other cancers in biomarker research.
- OSCC survival falls behind other head and neck cancer sub-sites.
- OSCC is increasing among nonsmokers
- Estrogen receptor signaling modulates cell proliferation in many cancer types
Name: John Zuniga, DMD, PhD (UT Southwestern Medical Center):
Contact Info: john.zuniga@utsouthwestern.edu
Stages:
- STAGE 1: Collation and reduction of barrier items from the literature and creation of a draft measure
- STAGE 2: Expert panel revising measure
- STAGE 3: Cross-sectional survey repeated for test-retest reliability
- STAGE 4: Finalization of measure based on psychometric findings from the survey for testing