Medical Student Research Day award winning abstracts

Abstract

A wide variety of research is conducted by medical students and other undergraduate health science students at Dalhousie. Much of this research is presented each year at Dalhousie’s Undergraduate Health Science Student Research Day. The abstracts included here were selected for awards from the more than forty that were presented. WINNER OF THE PLATFORM PRESENTATION: MODULATION OF DENDRITIC CELL FUNCTION BY ACTIVATED PROTEIN C - by Kathleen A. Matheson, Konrad Kronenberger, Derek Minney, Michael Bezuhly, Kenneth A. West, and Robert S. Liwski. POSTER PRESENTATION WINNERS: PRE-SURGICAL LOCALIZATION OF FRONTAL LANGUAGE AREAS WITH fMRI: A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION - by Sarah Ironside, Gail Eskes, David Clarke. UTILIZATION OF INTRAVENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULIN IN THE ATLANTIC PROVINCES - by Nathan WD Lamond, Chris Caudle, Erica Burton, Adam Webber, and David R Anderson. CORRECTING COMPENSATORY MISARTICULATIONS WITH CORRECTIVE BABBLING®: A PARENT BASED APPROACH - by Jennifer Parker. LONG QT SYNDROME IN A FOUNDER POPULATION IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA - by Zoe Dyer, Laura Arbour. HEPATITIS A AND TRAVEL AMONGST NOVA SCOTIA POST-SECONDARY STUDENTS: EVIDENCE FOR A TARGETED VS. UNIVERSAL IMMUNIZATION STRATEGY - by Katherine Matheson, Scott Halperin, Shelly McNeil. MATERNAL AND PERINATAL MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY WITH SPONTANEOUS ONSET OF LABOUR AND OBSTETRICALLY INDICATED DELIVERY IN WOMEN WITH PRETERM PRELABOUR RUPTURE OF THE MEMBRANES - by Jenny JY Lim, Victoria Allen.