SCCSL MENTORING PROJECTS:

Here are list of past and current mentoring projects undertaken by staff within the SCCSL. 

MENTORING

Dr. Kruse-Jarres:

6/08 – 7/08      Mentee:  Medical student associated with the American Society of Hematology (ASH) - 2008 Minority Medical Student Award Program (MMSAP)

                        Project: Objective Pain Markers in Sickle Cell Disease

3/10                 Mentee: Graduate student at the Tulane School of Public Health

                        Project: evaluation of the sickle cell day hospital

3/10                 Mentee: Resident, Internal Medicine at Tulane, School of Medicine

                        Project: Bone density in sickle cell disease

9/10                 Mentee: T1 Medical Student (Tulane SOM)

                        Project: PICA in sickle cell disease

Current:           Mentee: T1 Medical Student (Tulane SOM)

                        Project: Vitamin d deficiency in sickle cell disease

Current:           Mentee, T1 Medical Student (Tulane SOM) The DeBakey Scholars Program

                        Project: Transcranial dopplers during exchange transfusion in sickle cell disease

Dr. Kanter

Current:          Mentee, T4 Medical Student (Tulane SOM)

                       Project:  Vitamin D deficiency in sickle cell disease

                       Presentations:   Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, 2011

                       Amanda C Winters, Rebecca Kruse-Jarres, and Julie Kanter.  Vitamin D Deficiency In  Pediatric Patients with Sickle Cell Disease Correlates with Reticulocytosis but Not with Clinical Disease Severity

                      5th Annual Sickle Cell Disease Research and Educational Symposium and Annual National Sickle Cell Scientific Meeting, 2011

Amanda C Winters, Rebecca Kruse-Jarres, and Julie Kanter.  Vitamin D Deficiency In Pediatric Patients with Sickle Cell Disease Correlates with Reticulocytosis but Not with Clinical Disease Severity

Current:         Mentee, T3 Medical Student (Tulane SOM)

                      Project:  Institutional review of the use and outcome of hydroxyurea in pediatric patients with  sickle cell disease