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Research Week 2021

Research Week 2021 promotional image featuring several local investigators in a virtual conference session

2021 Research Week program booklet

Day 1 - Tuesday June 8, 12:00-1:30 PM

Keynote address: Dr. Karen Ashe, MD, PhD - "Treating the Diseased Brain in Dementia". Featuring introductory remarks from Dr. Hanna Bloomfield, and presentation of the 2021 Frank Lederle Paper of the Year Award.

Webex recording link: Click to view recorded keynote address (1 hour) Recording password: fE57kMC*

Day 2 - Oral Presentations - Wednesday June 9, 12:00-1:30 PM

Time Presentation
12:00 The role of posttraumatic stress on memory complaints and performance in active-duty service members
Seth Disner, Elsa Mattson, Nathaniel Nelson, Patrick Armistead-Jehle
12:15 Chlorhexidine oral rinses for symptomatic COPD: a randomized, blind, placebo-controlled preliminary study
Alexa Pragman, Ann Fieberg, Cavan Reilly, Christine Wendt
12:30 Implementing cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) in VA primary care
Erin Koffel, Hildi Hagedorn
12:45 Increasing Addiction Recovery Services Referrals for Alcohol Use Disorder in the Inpatient Setting: A Quality Improvement Project
Baila Elkin, Kayla Murphy, Elizabeth Aby
1:00 Population and Community-Based Interventions to Prevent Suicide: A systematic Review
Noah Venables, Eric Linskens, Allison Gustavson, Nina Sayer, Maureen Murdoch, Roderick MacDonald, Kristen Ullman, Lauren McKenzie, Timothy Wilt, Shahnaz Sultan
1:15 Aortic Endograft Infections Are Associated with Secondary Interventions
Daniel Ihnat, Jing Li, Paul Orecchia, Derrick Green, Lisa Smith, Christopher Creedon

Webex recording link: Click to view recorded presentations (1 hour 30 minutes) Recording password: EcD3V8t$

Day 3 - Oral Presentations - Thursday June 10, 12:00-1:30 PM

Time Presentation
12:00 The Effect of Biopsychosocial Factors on Chronic Pain Functioning
Cara Wienkes, Erin Koffel, Melissa Polusny, Erin Krebs
12:15 High fat diet effect on brain immune response and lipid metabolism
David Roe, Rui Kuang, Joshua Nixon, Kendra Fleming, Simon So, David Bernlohr, Michael Lee, Tammy Butterick
12:30 High Satisfaction with Telehealth for Arthroplasty Post-operative Care at the Minneapolis VAMC
Nathan Graden, Kelsey Wise, Kelly Edwards, Melissa Albersheim, Benjamin Williams, Amy Gravely, Vernon Franklin Sechriest
12:45 Protein kinase CK2 correlation with clinical outcomes in HPV(+) and HPV(-) oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma
Janeen Trembley, Li Bin, Kren Betsy, Justin Peltola, Juan Manivel, Meyyappan Devi, Amy Gravely, Mark Klein, Khalil Ahmed, Emiro Caicedo-Granados
1:00 Are Clinicians Being Left Behind in the Age of Enlightenment for Exoskeleton Technology
Alec Basten, Nicole Walker, John Looft
1:15 Impact of Childhood Trauma on Post-Concussive Neurobehavioral Symptoms
Alison Gammons, Seth Disner

Webex recording link: Click to view recorded presentations (1 hour 28 minutes) Recording password: 43XkFPM@

Poster Session

Individual research posters are available to Minneapolis VA personnel on the VA network drive at W:\RESEARCH\Research Week 2021.