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Lifeline Student Research Fellowship 

2008 Award Winners

Aaron Bond
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Sponsor: Fred A. Weaver, MD
Project Title: Long Term Durability of Endovascular Thoracic Aortic
Stent Graft Repair for Emergent Pathologies

Megan Carroll
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Norfolk, VA
Sponsor: Jean M. Panneton, MD
Project Title: The Use of Cryoplasty in Treating in-Stent Restenosis- Will it be Effective?

Amy Chen
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
Sponsor: Melina R. Kibbe, MD
Project Title: Plaque Digestion: A New Paradigm for Treating Atherosclerotic Lesions

Kelly Rose Dimond
University of Colorado
Aurora, CO
Sponsor: Mark R. Nehler, MD
Project Title: Efficiency and Safety of the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (K/DOQI)
Guidelines for Vascular Access in an Academic Setting

Laurel K. Ehrichman
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Sponsor: Gilbert R. Upchurch, Jr., MD
Project Title: ERK Regulation of MMP9 in Elastase-Induced Murine Abdominal Aortic
Aneurysm Formation

Patricia Wood Harris
Methodist Hospital
Houston, TX
Sponsor: Alan B. Lumsden, MD
Project Title: Open, Endovascular and Hybrid Approaches to Repair of the Thoracic Aorta:
Is it an open or closed case?

Robert Hsu
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, OH
Sponsor: Amy B. Reed, MD
Project Title: Are Endovascular Approaches Altering Amputation Rate?  A Medicare Database
Review

Stephen Seedial
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York, NY
Sponsor: K. Craig Kent, MD
Project Titlte: Development of Novel Non-Viral Gene Therapy Vectors

Xiang Wang
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Sponsor: William H.  Pearce, MD
Project Title: Lower Extremity Bypass Surgery and Amputation Outcome in California, 1996-2004

Hyun Ah Yoon
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC
Sponsor: Randolph L. Geary, MD
Project Title: Generating Smooth Muscle Cells from Amniotic Fluid Progenitor Cells