Brown Scholars Research Projects

"The program provided exposure to different physicians and different aspects of primary care. This allowed me to get a better sense of the kind of primary care career I could see for myself."

Research Projects

Class of 2024

  • Jasmine Chaparro
    Project: Barriers to Appropriate Language Services for Spanish-Speaking Patients with a Non-English Language Preference (NELP) in the Clinical Setting 
  • Nathalia Forbath
    Project: Potential Benefits of Combined Newborn and Postpartum Visits: A Qualitative Study 
  • Amir Hassan
    Project: Qualitative approach to exploring pathways to care for young persons with psychosis symptoms in rural Mozambique 
  • ​ Jackson Roberts
    Project:  Social and Environmental Determinants of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Community-Dwelling Older Adults 
  • Peter Suwondo
    Project: Exploring the impact of longitudinal medical school tracks at Columbia P&S on primary care career outcomes among graduates 
  • Gillian Wright
    Project:  Trends in Placental Abruption 2000-2020 

Class of 2023

  • Xander Harris
    Project: Instituting an Abortion and Options Counseling Workshop for Medical Students
  • Claudia Ortuno Garcia
  • Project: System fixes Data presentation
  • Emma Healy
  • Project:  Project Title: Improving the Transition from Pediatric to Adult Primary Care through Resident Education
  • ​Gregory Karelas
    Project:  Healthcare Access and Anti-Haitianismo: Healthcare for Haitians living in the Dominican Republic
  • ​John Buyske
    Project: It wouldn't be a dealbreaker": Provider attitudes towards HCV treatment in people living with HIV and currently using drugs
  • Rory Brown
    Project:  Longitudinal engagement with addiction treatment after ED-initiation of buprenorphine in an Indian Health Service ED
  • Sanna Alas
    Project:  The Chef Will See You Now: Patient-Centered Approaches to Nutrition" - in collaboration with Brown Scholar Yasmin Issari
  • Spencer Dunleavy
    Project: Assessing the effect of student-run clinics on matching into primary care specialties: an interrupted time series approach
  • Yasmin Issari
    Project:  The Chef Will See You Now: Patient-Centered Approaches to Nutrition" - in collaboration with Brown Scholar Sanna Alas

Class of 2022

  • Cibel Quinteros Baumgar
    Project: Associations between contraceptive availability and rate of subsequent legal abortions in Colombia: A historical cohort analysis  
  • Francisca Chou
    Project: Disparities in resource utilization by families of children with complex cardiac conditions 
  • Daniel Letchford
    Project: Medication sales and chronic disease management in private facilities in low-income communities in Kenya 
  • Katherine Yoh
    Project: Mixed methods - Fibroids and their surgical management 
  • Lucy Colville
    Project: Nature as Nurture - Case study of Nature Walk for Medical Students 
  • Andrew Irwin
    Project: Assessment of Best Practices and Common Workplace Injuries for Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy    
  • Nicolas Herzik
    Project: Can Nonexperts Use Portable Ultrasound to Acquire Adequate Focused Cardiac Ultrasound Videos in Nonclinical Settings?

Class of 2021

  • Taiwo P. Alonge
    Project: Medicine, Public Health, Community Health, and Social Justice Curriculum for NYC BIPOC High Schoolers
  • Marco Grossi Barber
    Project: COVID-19 Patient Needs after Discharge Home: A Content Analysis of Medical Records from a Remote Care Program
  • Fikayo Falodun
    Project: Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdown on Social Connectedness and Mental Health among Adolescents in New York City.
  • Kathleen Goodwin
    Project: Dissemination and Implementation of Opioid Education and Naloxone Training at Columbia University.
  • Stephanie Granada
    Project: Birthing Experiences of Spanish Speakers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in NYC 
  • Teresitta Velez
    Project: Experience of Families with Limited English Proficiency on Family-Centered Rounds
  • Kristen Ward
    Project: Mental Health Monologues

Class of 2020

  • Amy Ellingson
    Project: Improving the rate of HPV vaccination among 11-17-year-olds at the Farrell Community Health Center: A Quality Improvement Project
  • Aury Garcia
    Project: Maternal Acculturation and Childhood Obesity Risk Factors During the First 1000 Days of Life
  • Lilian McKinley
    Project: Hospital Safety-Net Burden and Risk for Readmissions and Severe Maternal Morbidity.
  • Gabriela Puente
    Project: Interactions with Law Enforcement and Associations with General Anxiety Amongst Young Men in Northern Manhattan
  • Cristian Taborda
    Project: The role of telephone vs video interpretation on patient satisfaction and comprehension in an adult ambulatory care clinic.
  • Barbara Trejo
    Project: Integrating Primary Care Into Community Mental Health Settings
  • Sarah Williams
    Project: Podcasts about Pediatrics and Advocacy

Class of 2019

  • Melissa C. Chiang
    Project: Interprofessional Education at CHHMP: Improving Interdisciplinary Communication at a Student-Run Free Clinic
  • Natalie A. Diacovo
    Project: The Waiting Room as a Space for Self-Expression in the Pediatric Primary Care Setting
  • Anoushka A. Sinha
    Project: The Waiting Room as a Space for Self-Expression in the Pediatric Primary Care Setting
  • Lauren K.  Harris
    Project: Auriculotherapy as Adjunct for Pain Management During First Trimester Aspiration Abortion:  A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, three-arm trial
  • Kimberly B. Laughman
    Project: Pediatrics Clerkship Adolescent Health Curriculum Research
  • Rebecca D. Lichtin
    Project: Piloting an Inter-Professional Education Program for Health Graduate Students
  • Koryalys Edwards
    Project: Describing Baseline Characteristics of Adolescent vs Young Adult OnTrackNY Participants

Class of 2018

  • Erin E.  Elbel
    Project: Providing Well Child-Care Through Group Visits: A Multi-Site Effort
  • Martha A Muña
    Project: Providing Well Child-Care Through Group Visits: A Multi-Site Effort
  • Amit Suneja
    Project: Chronic disease management after natural disaster: public policy, public health, and provider perspectives 
  • Zoe L. Becker
    Project: Women’s Health at Columbia-Harlem Homeless Medical Partnership (CHHMP)
  • Mytra Haerizadeh
    Project: Interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder induced by medical events: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  • Jacob S. Hartman
    Project: Long-form journalism on the inter-professional and collaborative response of healthcare professionals and child safety workers in northern Vermont to the opioid epidemic’s impact on the parent-child relationship
  • Logan C. Mauney
    Project: Creating the Brown Scholars Longitudinal Care Experience
  • Vanessa L. Nieto
    Project: Activity (and Discrimination) in Pregnancy 
  • Rebecca K. Tsevat
    Project: Adolescents’ and Parents’ Attitudes Toward Adolescent Clinical Trial Participation: Changes Over One Year
  • Athena L.  Huang
    Project: Incidence and Screening Recommendations for Diabetic Retinopathy in Type 2 Diabetes Patients

Class of 2017

  • Lauren C. Bell
    Research Project: Red Reflex Screening in Cambodia: Exploring the effects of a brief training
  • Giselle Jaconia
    Research Project: Managing Multiple Medications: A Qualitative Evaluation of Facilitators and Barriers to Medication Adherence Among Seniors
  • Nicholas A. Rozon
    ​​​​​​Research Project: Young Men, Police Interactions, and Associations with Anxiety: A Cross-Sectional Study

Class of 2016

  • Lois Bangiolo
    Research Project: The Silent STI: Chlamydia in Upstate NY School-Based Health Clinics
  • Ariel Franks
    Research Project: HVTN 505 PrEP Interview Project
  • David Hankins
    Research Project: Sexual History-Taking by Medical Students during the Clinical Year

Class of 2015

  • Benjamin D. Gallagher
    Research Project: Design and Methods of the Telemonitoring Adherence to Medication in Heart Failure Patients (TEAM-HF) Trial
  • Sarah A. Johnson
    Research Project: An Education Module to Increase Pediatric Resident Knowledge of and Screening for Cyber-bullying and Online Harassment
  • Katherine Nash
    Research Project: “Digame” (formerly known as “WHIP”): Assessing the need for and implementation of an intensive summer Spanish language and cultural immersion program
  • Matt Wingo
    Research Project: Improving Access to the Columbia-Harlem Homeless Medical Partnership for Differently-abled Homeless and Uninsured Patients: A QI Project Coordinating outreach and infrastructure

Class of 2014

  • Zeena Audi
    Research Project: Lang Scholar Community Ambassador Internship: The Impact of a Patient-as-Teacher Module Created by Adolescents in Washington Heights
  • Katherine Brown
    Research Project: APOYO: The Adolescent Pregnancy Project of Washington Heights
  • Cecilia Fix
    Research Project: The Implementation of the YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program

Projects Prior to 2014

  • Rebecca Eskin
    Project: Status of Advance Care Planning and Impact of a Physician Education Intervention for Elderly Patients at a University-Owned Community Hospital
  • Hilary Grubb
    Research Project: Cultural Humility with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations: A Novel Curriculum in LGBT Health for Family Medicine Residents 
  • Colleen Kays
    Project: Apoyo: Educating Medical Students and Pregnant Adolescents in Washington Heights 
  • Ruth Stefanos
    Project: Motivations for and Outcomes of Participation in the International and Immigrant Family Health & AIDS Program (IFHAP) in the Dominican Republic among Columbia Medical Students 
  • Nicole Weitz
    Project: Management of Atopic Dermatitis by Primary Care Providers in Training 
  • Elizabeth Blair
    Project: Perceptions of medical care and patterns of healthcare utilization of homeless individuals at a student-run community-based clinic
  • Cornelia Griggs
    Project: Assessment of Perceptions of Domestic Violence: Post-Disclosure Care and Resources in the Urban Immigrant Community of Washington Heights
  • Jennifer Hallock
    Project: Planning, Decisions, and Ambivalence: Pregnancy in a Family Medicine Practice
  • Chris Hahn
    Project: Drug abuser perceptions of barriers to accessing health care services

Summer Research Projects

2023

  • Kensington Cochran
    Project: Impact of Telehealth on Primary Care

2022

  • Joshua Dawson
    Project: Pick-Up Sports & Health (PUSH) to MD; Michelle Battle - Reducing Hypertension Events Post-Partum for High-Risk Patients

2021

  • Jasmine Chaparro
    Project: Social Determinants of Health in Pediatrics

2020

  • Sanna Alas and Yasmin Issari
    Project: The Chef Will See You Now (Community-Based Nutrition)