Determining eligibility:

You are eligible to present at the OSUWMC College of Medicine Trainee Research Day if you meet the following two criteria:

• You are a student in a College of Medicine training program (Undergraduate Programs including HRS, COM Graduate Program including HRS, OSU MD program, the OSU Medical Scientist Program, OSUWMC residency/fellowship or Postdoc program) performing hypothesis driven research with a College of Medicine Faculty member.

• If yes, continue to the next question.
• If not, you are not eligible to present at Research Day.

Was this research conducted at The Ohio State University Medical Center, College of Medicine or Nationwide Children’s Hospital?

• If yes, continue to the next question. If not, the advisor on the abstract must be the College of Medicine faculty.

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Please determine your trainee status as of February 1. If you do not fit into one of the following trainee categories, you may not be eligible to present at Research Day:

As of February 1, will you be pursuing an undergraduate degree in the School of Health and Rehabilitation (HRS) or the Undergraduate Biomedical Science Major (BMS)?

• If yes, select Undergraduate student as your trainee level when submitting your abstract.
• If no, continue to the next question.

As of February 1, will you be pursuing a medical degree at The Ohio State University College of Medicine?

• If yes, select Medical student as your trainee level when submitting your abstract.
• If no, continue to the next question.

As of February 1, will you be pursuing a combined MD/PhD degree?

• If yes, select MD/PhD student as your trainee level when submitting your abstract.
• If no, continue to the next question.

As of February 1, will you be pursuing a Masters or PhD at The Ohio State College of Medicine including HRS with a faculty advisor is a full-time faculty member of the College of Medicine?

• If yes, select Graduate student as your trainee level when submitting your abstract.
• If no, continue to the next question.

As of February 1, will you be a physician conducting research as a clinical resident or fellow at The Ohio State University College of Medicine? If you are unsure, please search for your name at https://directory.osu.edu/findpeople.php (the OSU Find People search):

• If your job title is listed as “Clinical Instructor House Staff,” select Resident/Clinical postdoctoral fellow as your trainee level when submitting your abstract.
• If no, continue to the next question.

As of February 1, will you be pursuing postdoctoral research training as a Postdoctoral Researcher or Postdoctoral Fellow in the Ohio State University College of Medicine/Office of Health Sciences? If you are unsure, please search your name at https://directory.osu.edu/findpeople.php (the OSU Find People search) to verify that you hold one of these two job titles and that your appointment is in either a unit of the College of Medicine or the Office of Health Sciences.

• If your job title is one of the two official postdoc titles, select Postdoctoral researcher/fellow when submitting your abstract.
• If your position is listed as a Research Associate, Research Specialist, Research Scientist, or another regular, non-training research/laboratory position, you do not officially meet the criteria for the postdoctoral trainee category. If you fall into one of these titles but still consider yourself to be a postdoctoral trainee and are within five (5) years of receiving your doctorate, contact researchday@osumc.edu to discuss your situation. Please contact the office no later than January 30 to ensure a decision prior to the abstract submission deadline.
• If you are in a postdoc job title such as Post Doctoral Scientist at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital and you meet the eligibility criteria outlined in the “Determining eligibility” section at the top of this document, select Postdoctoral research/fellow when submitting your abstract.

All College of Medicine students, fellows, and trainees who are eligible to participate in Research Day are also qualified to take part in the poster competition. Winners of the competition receive a substantial travel award to apply toward the cost of attending a scientific meeting of their choice.

Presenters may not submit more than one poster.

The judging staff typically comprises OSU Medical Center faculty; however, Battelle researchers and invited keynote speakers have also participated in past years. On the day of the event, the judges will review posters and completing a score sheet. The score sheets, which are based on a given set of criteria, are then tallied and the travel awards given to individuals with the highest scores within each category -- Graduate Students, PREP Scholars/Undergraduate students, MD-PhD (Medical Scientist) Students, Medical Students, Postdoctoral Trainees, and Residents/Clinical Fellows.

Travel awards are funded by the College of Medicine Office of Medical Education. The award may be used immediately by the award winner to attend a scientific meeting of his or her choice. However, awards may be used to attend only meetings that are held after the date of issuance of the award and within one year of the date of issuance of the award.

Awards may be redeemed by completing and submitting the necessary forms prior to attending the selected meeting. ResearchDay@osumc.edu 

The  2023 Poster session is back to an in person event! Scheduled for April 13th in the BRT.

• Abstracts should include the hypothesis of the study, methods used, results, conclusions and future plans.

• Physical posters should not exceed 48x36 in size.

Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center Template

Nationwide Children's Hospital Research Institute Template with the College of Medicine Logo

Poster printing: There are various options for printing both on and off-campus. Located on the First Floor of the Thompson Library in Room 160 (OIT Computer Lab) you can print posters up to 48 X 36 on plain paper for $9.25 (entire poster, not per foot). Please note you will need a Buck-ID with money on it in order to print. There is a Buck-ID machine located in the lobby of the library that will provide temporary Buck-IDs for this purpose.  The Health Science Library's Medical Visuals Team provides poster printing services to researchers across the OSU campus. Information regarding Medical Visuals is available online, including printing costs a tutorial on How To Create a Poster and you should allow at least a week for printing.  Printing is also available through the DHLRI, find details here.  Additional print services such as FedEx/Kinko’s are also available off-campus. Templates are above if you are having difficulty accessing NWC and Medical Visuals internal pages. 

Please note that only one abstract/poster will be accepted per trainee. 

• The deadline for submission is February 24th.
• Enter a short, specific title, DO NOT USE ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
• Enter your advisor’s name and email address.
• Enter up to five keywords pertaining to your abstract. *Do not use all capital letters*
• Type the abstract content into the space provided.
  • Limit your abstract submission to no more than 2000 characters.
  • Abstracts should include the objective of the study, methods used, results and conclusions.
• Categorize your research as clinical, basic or translational.
• Select 4 unique areas of emphasis as they apply to your research.
• Your mentor must be registered to judge by Feb. 24th for your proposal to be accepted

Submit My Abstract

Winners of the COM Trainee Research Day poster competition each receive a $500 Scientific Travel Award, to be used by the recipient for attending and presenting their research (the same project as presented at Trainee Research Day) at a scientific meeting of his or her choice. The award must be used within the year period following the event date (i.e., 2022 COM Trainee Research Day winners have from April 8th 2022 to March 1, 2023, to use the award) the award may be accessed by following the instructions below. 

Policy

• The presentation must be from the same project presented at Trainee Research Day.
• The travel award is not transferable, only the winner may use the funds.
• Please note COM funds cannot be transferred to a Research Project.
• Trainees are expected to use the most economical travel arrangement possible.
  1. No mileage reimbursement will be given for conferences within 75 miles of Columbus.
  2. No mileage reimbursement will be given if the cost of flying is less than the reimbursable rate of driving. Mileage is reimbursed at 54 cents per mile only to the student whose car is being driven.
  3. Airline flights are acceptable for distances that are in excess of 3 hours driving time.
  4. No reimbursement will be provided for families accompanying the trainee.
  5. Meals will be reimbursed based on university per diem regulations. Meal receipts are not needed. No alcohol expenses will be reimbursed.

Travel Award Request Procedure

• Realizing the award amount is used to supplement travel funds provided through your mentors department, we ask that your department travel administrator coordinate your travel. 
• To request your travel award; students must email Research Day directly with a cc to your travel administrator to obtain a pre-travel information.
• Students must provide a copy of the abstract acceptance letter/email, in their name, conference agenda, and any departmental pre-travel form to Research Day *at least 30 days prior to travel.
• Students will receive acknowledgement/approval of their travel funds request within 5 business days.

Post Travel Procedure

• Students must submit the completed travel forms along with documentation to Research Day
• Travel reimbursements must be submitted within 30 days after the travel is complete.
• Student must notify our office of any additional awards used for this travel.

*If you do not have a travel coordinator please contact us two months prior to planned travel to ensure an internal staff member can process your travel. 

2023 Research Day Award Winners

First Name	Last Name	COM Trainee Group	Research Advisor's First Name	Research Advisor's Last Name	Research Advisor's Degree	Research Advisor's Department
Kiara	Bahamonde	Discovery Prep Trainee	Paco	Herson	PhD	Neurological Surgery
Kevin	Blum	Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)	Chris	Breuer	MD	Pediatric Surgery
Koral	Blunt	Medical Student	Paul	Stoodley	PhD	Microbial Infection and Immunity
Nick	DeGroff	Undergraduate	Andrew	Fischer	PhD	Neuroscience
Thanh	Dinh	Graduate Student	Bethany	Mundy-Bosse	PhD	Internal Medicine - Division of Hematology
Joshua	Foster	Postdoctoral Researcher/Fellow	Chien-Liang Glenn	Lin	PhD	Neuroscience
Kyle	Gordon	Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)	Richard	Gumina	MD, PhD	Internal Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Meretta	Hanson	Graduate Student	Jason	Wester	PhD	Neuroscience
Devin	Jones	Graduate Student	Ken	Oestreich	PhD	Microbial Infection and Immunity
Erryk	Katayama	Medical Student	Ryan	Rauck	MD	Orthopaedics
James	London	Graduate Student	Richard	Fishel	PhD	Cancer Biology and Genetics
Anushree	Majumdar	Undergraduate	Kevin	Mason	PhD	Pediatrics
Alexander	Marr	Graduate Student	Nicole	Grieselhuber	MD, PhD	Internal Medicine - Division of Hematology
Alexia	Martin	Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)	Kevin	Cassady	MD	Pediatrics
Matthew	McFadden	Graduate Student	Adriana	Forero	PhD	Microbial Infection and Immunity
Rohan	Mital	Medical Student	Benjamin	Kaffenberger	MD	Dermatology
Ansel	Nalin	Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)	Eric	Miller	MD, PhD	Radiation Oncology
Tuan	Phan	Resident/Clinical Fellow	Polina	Shindiapina	MD, PhD	Internal Medicine - Division of Hematology
Charles	Rabolli	Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)	Federica	Accornero	PhD	Physiology & Cell Biology
Zachary	Risch	Resident/Clinical Fellow	Sameek	Roychowdhury	MD, PhD	Internal Medicine - Division of Oncology
Andrew	Russell	Undergraduate	Aaron	Goldman	PhD	Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology
Shane	Scott	Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)	Sakima	Smith	MD	Internal Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Hanna	Sorensen	Medical Student	Kevin	Martin	DO	Orthopaedics
Samuel	Speaks	Undergraduate	Jacob	Yount	PhD	Microbial Infection and Immunity
Ben	Stromberg	Graduate Student	Matthew	Summers	PhD	Radiation Oncology
Jasmine	Tuazon	Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)	Ken	Oestreich	PhD	Microbial Infection and Immunity
Gavisha	Waidyaratne	Resident/Clinical Fellow	Khalid	Mumtaz	MBBS	Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Jack	Wang	Medical Student	Ling-Qun	Hu	MD	Anesthesiology
Tyler	Young	Medical Student	Terrin	Tamati	PhD	Audiology

2022 Research Day Award Winners

First Name	Last Name	COM Trainee Group	Mentor First Name	Mentor Last Name	Mentor's Department
Jasmine	Tuazon	MD/PhD Student (MSTP Program)	Ken	Oestreich	Microbial Infection and Immunity
Helen	Chen	MD/PhD Student (MSTP Program)	Tamar	Gur	Psychiatry
Walter	Wang	MD/PhD Student (MSTP Program)	David	Carbone	Internal Medicine
Sydney	Fobare	MD/PhD Student (MSTP Program)	Erin	Hertlein	Internal Medicine
Aaren	Kettelhut	MD/PhD Student (MSTP Program)	Nicholas	Funderburg	Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Kyle	Gordon	MD/PhD Student (MSTP Program)	Richard	Gumina	Internal Medicine
Ilse	Hernandez Aguirre	MD/PhD Student (MSTP Program)	Kevin	Cassady	Pediatrics
Daniel	Brook	MD/PhD Student (MSTP Program)	William	Miller	Public Health
Zheng Hong	Tan	MD/PhD Student (MSTP Program)	Tendy	Chiang	Otolaryngology
Wenyuan	Yin	MD/PhD Student (MSTP Program)	Jonathan	Godbout	Neuroscience
Kylene	Daily	MD/PhD Student (MSTP Program)	Amal	Amer	Microbial Infection and Immunity
Love	Moore	Discover Prep Student	Rodney	Britt	Pediatrics
Andrew	Karp	Discover Prep Student	Adriana	Forero	Microbial Infection and Immunity
Emma	Krebs	Undergraduate	Anne	Strohecker	Cancer Biology and Genetics
Mikayla	Bull	Undergraduate	Susheela	Tridandapani	Internal Medicine
Prathik	Chakravarthy	Undergraduate	Steven	Sizemore	Radiation Oncology
Charles	Wendt	Undergraduate	David	Arnold	Neurology
Sara	Zelinskas	Undergraduate	William	Carson	Surgery
Rakesh	Murugesan	Undergraduate	Susheela	Tridandapani	Internal Medicine
Benjamin	Ormseth	Medical Student	Robert	Duerr	Orthopaedics
Kaeli	Zoretich	Medical Student	Sabrena	Noria	Surgery
Maria Jose	Guerrero	Medical Student	Tasha	Posid	Urology
Onaopepo	Kola-kehinde	Medical Student	Hamdy	Elsayed-Awad	Anesthesiology
Vikas	Munjal	Medical Student	Lluis	Samaranch	Neurological Surgery
David	Ryskamp	Medical Student	Robert	Magnussen	Orthopaedics
Riddhima	Agarwal	Medical Student	Tendy	Chiang	Otolaryngology
Justine	Schneider	Medical Student	Paul	Stoodley	Microbial Infection and Immunity
Maria	Riley	Medical Student	Kevin	Ho	Pulmonary Disease
Jordan	Gewirtz	Medical Student	Nolan	Seim	Otolaryngology
Allison	Yan	Medical Student	Catherine	Chung	Pathology
Benjamin	Dralle	Medical Student	Jennifer	Dotson	Pediatrics
Nabiha	Islam	Medical Student	Jessica	Kaffenberger	Internal Medicine
Stuart	Ramsell	Medical Student	Courtney	Campbell	Internal Medicine
Roberto	Gonzalez	Medical Student	Robert	Magnussen	Orthopaedics
Alexandra	Sheldon	Medical Student	Kyle	VanKoevering	Otolaryngology
Catherine Grace	Hobayan	Medical Student	Jessica	Kaffenberger	Internal Medicine
Deepika	Narayanan	Medical Student	Mitchell	Grayson	Pediatrics
Douglas	Wu	Medical Student	Debra	Zynger	Pathology
Alicia	Bao	Medical Student	Francesca	Cottini	Internal Medicine
Jacob	Brooks	Medical Student	Paul	Stoodley	Microbial Infection and Immunity
Heather	Wang	Medical Student	Brett	Worly	Obstetrics/Gynecology
Tyler	Young	Medical Student	Oliver	Adunka	Otolaryngology
Sydney	Townsend	Graduate Student - Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program	Tracy	Bedrosian	Pediatrics
Kelly	Rich	Graduate Student - Neurosciences Graduate Program	Stephen	Kolb	Neurology
Brandon	Cox	Graduate Student - Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program	Maria	Ariza	Cancer Biology & Genetics
Maria	Ford	Graduate Student - Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program	Rodney	Britt	Pediatrics
Emily	Schwarz	Graduate Student - Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program	William	Carson	Surgery
Rachel	Knebel	Graduate Student - Health and Rehabilitation Science Graduate Program	Jessica	Krok-Schoen	Health Sciences
Alexa	Miehls	Graduate Student - Anatomy	Ashley	Jackson	Pediatrics
Srijana	Pokhrel	Postdoctoral Research/fellow	Kenneth	Oestreich	Microbial Infection and Immunity
Glenn	Boyles	Residents/Clinical postdoctoral fellow	Christa	Nagel	Obstetrics/Gynecology
Gregory	Serpa	Postdoctoral Research/fellow	Matthew	Long	Internal Medicine

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

2021 Research Mentor of the Year Award

Trainee Name	Trainee Group	Research Mentor	Department
Rodnie Colon Ortiz	Discovery Prep Trainee	Dana McTigue, PhD	Neuroscience
Abigail Leggett	Graduate Student	Paul Stoodley, PhD	Microbial Infection and Immunity
Keefe Mcdougal	Graduate Student	Kedryn Baskin, PhD	Physiology & Cell Biology
Janani Ravikrishnan	Graduate Student Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BSGP)	Jennifer Woyach, MD	Internal Medicine
Himanshu Savardekar	Graduate Student Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BSGP)	William Carson, MD	Surgery
Wesley Wang	Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)	David Carbone, MD, PhD	Internal Medicine
Rebecca Glowinski	Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)	Asuncion Mejias, MD, PhD	Nationwide Children's Hospital
Walter Wang	Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)	Jose Otero, MD, PhD	Pathology
David Bushart	Medical Student	Candice Askwith, PhD	Neuroscience
Yannis Hadjiyannis	Medical Student	Michail Lionakis, MD	Laboratory of Clinical Immunology & Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Kyle Kopechek	Medical Student	Gregory Cvetanovich, MD	Orthopaedics
Shannon Rudolph	Medical Student	Olubukola Nafiu, MD	Nationwide Children's Hospital
Claire Kovalchin	Medical Student	Benjamin Kaffenberger MD	Internal Medicine
Manisha Ravi	Medical Student	Benjamin Kaffenberger MD	Dermatology
Jacob Brooks	Medical Student	Paul Stoodley, PhD	Microbial Infection and Immunity
Cua Santino	Medical Student	Michelle Humeidan, MD, PhD	Anesthesiology
Shrestha Sinha Ray	Postdoctoral Researcher/Fellow	Kathrin Meyer, PhD	Nationwide Children's Hospital
Brooke Benner	Postdoctoral Researcher/Fellow	William Carson, MD	Surgery
Greg Eisinger	Resident/Clinical Fellow	Mark Wewers, MD	Internal Medicine
Jc Chen	Resident/Clinical Fellow	Syed Husain, MBBS	Surgery
Anthony Moussa	Undergraduate	Jason Wester, PhD	Neuroscience
Alissa Ray	Undergraduate	W. David Arnold, MD	Neurology

2020 Research Mentor of the Year Award

Trainee Name	Trainee Group	Research Mentor	Department
Summer Fair	Discovery Prep Trainee	Mark Hester PhD	Nationwide Children's Hospital/Pediatrics
Brigitte Gonzalez Olmo	Graduate Student	Ruth Barrientos PhD	Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, and Neuroscience
Shouvonik Sengupta	Graduate Student	Mireia Guerau PhD	Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Fiona Brown	Graduate Student	Robert Baiocchi MD, PhD	Internal Medicine/Hematology
Kaitlin Read	Graduate Student	Ken Oestreich PhD	Microbial Infection and Immunity
Jing Han	Graduate Student	Ginny Bumgardner MD, PhD	Surgery/Transplant Surgery
Sydney Fobare	Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)	Erin Hertlein PhD	Internal Medicine/Hematology
Kylene Daily	Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)	Amal Amer MD, PhD	Microbial Infection and Immunity
Erin Bishop	Medical Student	Paul Reiter PhD, MPH	Public Health/Cancer Prevention and Control
Nicolas Kumar	Medical Student	Amar Bhatt MD	Anesthesiology
Kyle Kopechek	Medical Student	Gregory Cvetanovich MD	Orthopaedics
Candice Park	Medical Student	Peter Lu MD, MS	Nationwide Children's Hospital/Pediatrics
Paul Macklis	Medical Student	Benjamin Kaffenberger MD	Dermatology
Nicolette Payne	Medical Student	Geoffrey Box MD	Urology
Jacqueline Chu	Medical Student	Jenny Barker MD, PhD	Plastic Surgery
Michael Butler	Postdoctoral Researcher/Fellow	Ruth Barrientos PhD	Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, and Neuroscience
Michelle Lightfoot	Resident/Clinical Fellow	Selvendiran Karuppaiyah PhD	Obstetrics/Gynecology
Dionisia Quiroga	Resident/Clinical Fellow	William Carson MD	Surgery/Surgical Oncology
Resham Mawalkar	Undergraduate	Bhuvaneswari Ramaswamy MD	Internal Medicine/Medical Oncology
Divya Shankar	Undergraduate	Susheela Tridandapani PhD	Internal Medicine/Hematology