2019 BERD Voucher Program Awardees
Four projects were awarded in 2019:
PI: Frederick Cobey, MD, Chief of the Division of Cardiac Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Tufts Medical Center
Co-I: Shara Azad, MD, Resident Physician, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Tufts Medical Center
TITLE: Laryngeal Mask Airway for Transfemoral-Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
PI: Suriya Jeyapalan, MD, Director of Neuro Oncology, Department of Hematology Oncology, Tufts Medical Center
Co-Is: Richard Dowd, MD, PGY-4 Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Tufts Medical Center; Shilpa Ghatnekar, MS, Tufts University School of Medicine
TITLE: NeMeRe: A Neoplastic Meningitis Registry Analysis in Adults
PI: Shira Pedan, MD, Pediatric Hospitalist, Lawrence General Hospital, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center
Co-Is: Dan Hale, MD, Director of the Pediatric Hospitalist Program, Lawrence General Hospital, Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center; Caroline Komanecky, MD, Resident Physician, Greater Lawrence Family Health Center
TITLE: The Impact of the 2018 Merrimack Valley Gas Fires on Emergency Department Visits for Childhood Respiratory Illnesses and Asthma: An Observational Study
PI: John Schorge, MD, Chief of Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts Medical Center
Co-Is: Leslie Bradford, MD, Gynecologic Oncologist, Maine Medical Center; Kirsten Jorgensen, MD, PGY-2 Resident, Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program, Tufts Medical Center; Victoria Wang, MD, PGY-1 Resident, Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program, Tufts Medical Center
TITLE: Laparoscopic Interval Debulking Surgery for Advanced Ovarian Cancer After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy