Please view the current scholarly opportunities below. Contact the appropriate faculty member for more information. (All listed faculty are willing to work with residents.)
| Faculty Member | Project Type | Topic | Project Description | Estimated Project Lenth / Hours of Work | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carmen Polito | Chart Review | Prehospital Sepsis Care | Noninvasive end-tidal CO2 validation in prehospital sepsis identification | 3-6 months | May 1, 2021 |
| Carmen Polito | Other | Prehospital Sepsis Care | A sepsis protocol training curriculum for EMS providers (manuscript composition) | 3-6 months | Flexible |
| Carmen Polito | Other | Prehospital Sepsis Care | Comparative analysis of qSOFA and PRESS screening to identify prehospital sepsis (manuscript composition) | 3-6 months | Flexible |
| Carmen Polito | Other | Prehospital Care | Shock index as a hospital triage tool for high-risk, medical EMS patients (manuscript composition) | 3-6 months | Flexible |
| Andre Holder | Other | Sepsis prediction with machine learning | Create an algorithm to identify risk of sepsis and its sequelae in ICU patients | 6-10 months | Flexible |
| Andre Holder | Other | Metabolomic trajectories in sepsis and ARDS | Identify the metabolic pathways and metabolites that differentiate risk of sepsis and its related organ failure | 9-12 months | Flexible |
| Andre Holder | Other | Septic shock fluid resuscitation in heart failure | Is there a difference in fluid resuscitation strategy for patients with septic shock and h/o HF? | 3-6 months | September 30, 2021 |
| Andre Holder | Meta Analysis | Sepsis prediction with machine learning | Identify if sepsis prediction models could have a clinically meaningful impact on decision-making | 3-6 months | June 30, 2021 |
| F. Eun-Hyung Lee | Other | COVID-19 vaccine responses in specialized patients | COVID-19 vaccine responses in Asthma patients on biologics | 1 year | December 1, 2021 |
| F. Eun-Hyung Lee; Tiffany Walker; Jenny Han; Alex Truong; Advit Dixit; Thanushi Wynn | Other | Understanding the clinical phenotypes of COVID-19 long-haulers | Phenotyping the COVID-19 long-haulers | 1 year | December 1, 2021 |
| Siva Bhavani | Other | Association of Body Temperature with Incidence of Venous Thromboemboli in Sepsis | Evaluate whether an association between temperature and coagulopathy exists in a big dataset of patients with sepsis | 3 months | Flexible |
| Aaron Trammell and Mike Hart |
Other | Studies of patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) using a national VA Corporate Data Warehouse cohort established by Dr. Trammell | Define factors that positively or negatively affect outcomes in PH patients | 3-6 months | Flexible |
| Aaron Trammell and Mike Hart |
Other | Studies that involve recruitment of patients with PH, collection and analysis of biological data, and analysis to facilitate more accurate subphenotyping of PH patients | Define factors that positively or negatively affect outcomes in PH patients | 6-36 months | Flexible |
| Mike Hart and Aaron Trammell |
Other | Lab-based studies using cells and/or animal models and/or clinical samples to examine pathways involved in PH pathogenesis and therapeutics | Explore / define new pathways in PH that can be exploited for therapeutic benefit | 6-36 months | Flexible |
| David Schulman | Other | Development of educational materials | Development of teaching cases for case-based learning or interactive PowerPoints that can be used to teach evidence-based medicine / epidemiology or pulmonary concepts | 2-3 months per project | Flexible |
| Michael Koval | Other | Efficacy of peptide-based drugs in the treatment of bacterial pneumonia/ARDS associated with alcoholic lung disease | Laboratory study to measure the ability of different peptides to prevent ARDS using rodent models of chronic alcohol use disorder challenged with Klebsiella Pneumoniae | 6-12 months | Flexible |
| Dean Jones and Young-Mi Go | Basic/translation research: The effects of environmental exposures on lung health and disease | To investigate metabolism and redox mechanism associated with environmental exposure-caused pulmonary fibrosis. | 12 months | Flexible | |
| Dean Jones and Young-Mi Go | Integrative omics data analysis | Learn high-resolution metabolomics and integrative multi-omics data analysis to be able to write a manuscript and publish the findings. | 6-12 months | Flexible | |
| Jenny Han | Chart Review | Retrospective study | Retrospective chart review investigating the course and trajectory of patient outcomes from acute COVID to post-COVID at Grady | 12 months | Flexible |
| Jenny Han | Other | Pilot RCT clinical trial | Investigating health care worker burnout during pandemic: intervention arm Transcendental Mediation | 3-9 months | Flexible |
| Jenny Han | Other | Post-COVID clinic | Risk factors for post-COVID long hauler syndrome: outpatient post-COVID registry and biorespository | 6 months | Flexible |