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Past Clendening and King Summer Fellows

2023 Clendening and King Summer Fellows Video Presentations

Nola Tran: “Amplifying the Narratives of First-Generation Medical Students.”
Tarik Aginar: “Igbo Spirituality applied to Western Medicine.”
Stephanie Ngo: “Medical Students’ Perceptions of the Hidden Curriculum.”
Audriana Angeles: “Experiences of women seeking healthcare in jails and prisons.” 
Luke Prohaska: “The Unique Experiences of Two Venezuelan Immigrants in Kansas City Relative to the Delivery of Health Care.”
Ariel Repass: Interviewing Physician Politicians.”
Kayla Wozniak: “Dissecting the Impact of Anatomy Lab Policies on Pregnant Medical Students and What They Reveal about a Mother’s Place in Modern Medical Education.”
Elaine Pope: “Calling the Midwife in the 21st Century: Benefits of the midwife-woman relationship.”
Saeed Masumi: "Afghan refugees’ access to healthcare in Kansas City.”
Anna Trofimoff: “Barriers to Referral for Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.”  
Kelly Brewer: “Therapeutic interventions at Osawatomie State Hospital.” (No video available)
Kristen Khoang: “Providers’ Perspectives on Determinants of Health in HIV Care” 

2022 Clendening and King Summer Fellows Video Presentations

10/24/22 Hannah David: "Moral injury among transplant providers: Evaluating the effects of training in end-of-life counseling"
Carine Tabak: "Medical examination at Ellis Island: How intelligence testing highlights the bias in the inspection" 
10/25/22 Bethany Snyder: "The “venery” of venereal disease: Tracing the evolving moral landscape of STI public health art through the 20th century" 
Armstrong Award Presentation
11/2/22 Kavya Nataraj: "An analysis of treatment approaches to PCOS in biomedicine versus Siddha medicine" 
Michael Arnold: "Where policy meets reality: Assessing the impact of banning menthol and other tobacco flavoring on African American smokers" 
11/3/22 Andrew Smith: "The nature of memory: A phenomenological examination of the lived experience of alzheimer's disease" 
Ashlyn Lipnicky: "Analysis of the desegregation events at the University of Kansas School of Medicine" 
11/4/22 Amu Nuney: “Sociocultural narratives of heart disease management in Indigenous communities of Northeast Kansas”
Sarani Pachalla: "Prioritization of postpartum depression resources for women with adverse childhood experiences: A quality improvement project" 
11/8/22 Randall Schmidt: "Pictures that speak: A photovoice case study on health barriers affecting Congolese refugee mothers" 
Aroog Khaliq: "A narrative approach to challenging situations with patients" 
11/10/22 Lipilekha Mukherjee: "The lived experience of individuals with thalassemia in Eastern India" 
Rahel Eshete: "Disparities in healthcare in burn patients based on Race, gender, age, socioeconomic status and geographic location" 

2021 Clendening and King Summer Fellows Video Presentations

Armstrong Award Presentation
Jose Alaras
Meg Dionisi
De'mond Glynn
Karam Hamada
Sharon Isaacs-Pullins
Grant Johnson
Caitlin Leconte
Sophia Leonard
Grace Noonan
Quinnlyn Walcott

2020 Clendening and King Summer Fellows Video Presentations

Talah Bakdash
Camille Claro
Hosain Ghassemi
Lisa Green
Grace Hagan
Hannah Moran
Christina Nguyen
Florence Osei
Kyle Rampestreiter
Hadi Zayed

2019 Clendening and King Summer Fellows Video Presentations

10/21/19: QeeQee Gao "A Chronicle of the Lived Medical School Experience"
Emily Worley "Lost in Translation: Medical Education on Effective Care for Those with Developmental Disabilities"
10/22/19: Gracie Palmer "A Comparison of Electronic Health Records and Interoperability Between Emergency Departments in the United States and Norway: Effects on Physician Perception and Patient Outcomes" Tho Nguyen "The Phenomenon of Facemask Usage and Air Pollution in Vietnam"
10/28/19: Nadia Nawabi "Moral Injury vs. Moral Distress: Their Presence, Inception, and Manifestations among Healthcare Staff" Emma Bassette "Perceptions of Cervical Cancer Screening and Treatment in Rural Guatemala"
10/29/19: Idaima Calderon "Assessing Attitudes, Perceptions and Knowledge of Contraceptives and Sexuality Among Youth in the Dominican Republic" Shiva Pedram "A Cultural Assessment of the Propensity Toward Home Births in the Netherlands"
11/14/19: Nathan Stacy "What Values Are Present in Our Medical School Oaths? A Historical and Current Perspective" Leah Dionisi "Parents' Perceptions of Genetic Testing of Newborns"

2018 Clendening and King Summer Fellows Video Presentations

10/23/18: Joy Fesen - Hematopoietic Stem Cell Therapy at KU: A Story of Genesis, Growth, and Evolution
Vafa Behzadpour - Impacts of Austerity on Greek Healthcare
10/26/18: Anna Herrick - Assessing the Value of Micro-Hospitals
Melissa Feuerborn - Building a Bridge for Batten Disease Families
10/29/18: Victoria Cox - Views of Pediatric Assent
Isaac Baldwin - Mental Health Centers and Faith Communities
10/30/18: Mariah Johnson - HCV Elimination Feasibility in the Kansas City Area
Nicolas Johnson - Black Women's Fertility and Use of ART
11/2/18: Elizabeth Sirois - Healthcare of Burmese Refugees
Ruben Torrez - Sexual Harassment of Nursing Students: What's Really Happening, and Is Enough Being Done to Address It?
11/16/18: Nate Grabill - Healthcare Needs of Villages in Eastern Haiti

2017 Clendening and King Summer Fellows Video Presentations

Rima Abhyankar, "Public and Health Care Providers' Perceptions of Type II Diabetes Mellitus in Urban India"
Jihad Al-Khatib, "Health Care Under Military Occupation: An Assessment of the Determinants of Health within the Palestinian Territories"
Mollie Chesis, "LGBTQ+ Experiences of Healthcare: A Narrative Project"
Rayyan Kamal, "Housing Cooperatives and Mental Health: Developing Community Based Interventions Towards Mental Health Inclusivity"
Anastasia Koptelova, "Contraceptive Behavior and Abortion Trends in USSR and Modern Russia"
Juan Salgado, "The Integration of Simulation into the Curriculum of a Medical School in Barcelona"
Jacob Schroeder, "Aspirin with a Dose of Acupuncture: The Role of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Modern Medical World"
Harris Tsamolias, "The Refugee Crisis: Creating New Problems"
Katelyn Twist, "Breast Cancer Prevention Education within the Kansas City Incarcerated Women's Population" 

2016 Clendening and King Summer Fellows

Abbey Elsbernd, "Perceptions of Stress in Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Patients in KCK and Copenhagen" 
Eyad Gharaibeh, "Beyond Barriers: A Refugee's Perspective of Healthcare"  
Mollyanne Gibson, "Prenatal Perspetives on Natural or Cesarean Deliveries in China" 
Michelle Metzger, "Obesity and Complications in American Indian Youth"
Pie Pichetsurnthorn, "HIV Preventive Care Among Asian and Pacific Islander Patients in the Midwest" 
Rebecca Piland, "Oh, the Humanities! How do Medical Students Best Learn Them for Board Examinations?" 
Chris Simwinga, "Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment in Zambia, Africa" 
Carley Trentman, "Nutritional Deficiencies in the Marshall Islands" An Examination from Pre-WW II to Now" 
Jerrica Werner, "Impact of Household Water Treatment Systems on Community Health in Patanatic, Guatemala"

2015 Clendening and King Summer Fellows 

Caleb Busch, "Healthcare in Japan: Traditional Medicine Meets Frontier Medical Technology"
Anna Cleland-Leighton, "Upstream Risks Affecting Patients in KU's Inter-professional Teaching Clinic"
Amy Johnson, "Burden of Interpersonal Violence at Kingston Public Hospital Accident and Emergency Department" 
Yvonne Kamau, "Youth Perceptions on Community Development in Rural Kenya: Re-evaluating our perceptions about Africa"
Sarah Kennedy, "Exploring the Health Care Encounter as an Opportunity to Reach Trafficked Women"
Jocelyn Matoon, "Medical Students, Stress, and the Strengths-Based Approach"
Anna Powers, "The Status of Female Genital Mutilation Prevention in Europe and a Look toward the Future"
Spencer Thiel, "Perspectives on Short-Term International Medical Trips"

2014 Clendening and King Summer Fellows Video Presentations

Andrea Sitek,  "A Community Divided Over Mountaintop Removal"
Erin Mitchell,  "Visualizing the Unique Perspectives of Adolescents with Cancer: A Photovoice Pilot Study"
Sarah Scrafford,  "Quality of Life measurements at Bay Cliff Health Camp for Children with Physical Disabilities" 
Margaret Wilkes,  "Student Reflections on Empathy: Incorporating Student Voices into Medical Education"<
Joel Burnett,  "A qualitative study of chronic pain patients engaged in the Relieving Pain in Kansas City initiative"
Viktoriya Tulchinskaya,  "Parisian End-of-Life Care: What Can We Learn?"
Erin Atwood,  "Comparison of Early Education Programs for Children with Disabilities in Kansas, Missouri and Lima, Peru"
Devin Kenney, "The Reality of a Treatable Disease: Assessing the Burden of Malaria on the Pothawira Clinic in Malawi, Africa"
Keenan Hogan,  "Investigating the Educational Potential of End-Of-Life Experiences"
Erin Eifler,  "Man's Best Friend: Therapy Animals in our Healthcare System"
Tequilla Manning,  "Costa Rican Sex Workers' Risk Behaviors and Attitudes Toward Government Regulation of Safe Sex Practices: An Exploratory Study"

2013 Clendening Summer Fellows Video Presentations

Hannah Anderson, " Women's Healthcare in a Syrian Refugee Camp"
Christina Bourne, " Honduras, Blumenschein Clinic"
Kirsten Devin, " The Giant Woke Up: A Forward-Looking Secondary Healthcare Model in Brazil"
Jason Foster, " Modern Disease and Medicine in Peruvian Amazonia"
Senushi Jayaratne, " Kansas and Oklahoma, Native American Healthcare"
Kristen Meier, " Peru, Amazon Hope"
Emily Miller, " KC, Interpreting Services Study"
Claire Thomas, " Honduras, Blumenschein Clinic"
Tony Zhou, " Feasibility and Acceptability of Interactive Digital Learning for Children with Diabetes Mellitus Type 1"

2014 Clendening Summer Fellows Proposals

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2003 Clendening Summer Fellows Proposals

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