Talk schedule

This session begins at 1:00 pm. Each student will give their 3-minute talk and be allowed one question from the audience for a total of approximately 5 minutes. Groups of 2 or 3 students will be given extra time.

Please see the abstracts and posters for more information on each talk. The poster number is in parentheses directly after the title. 

3-minute Lightning Talk Schedule:

Welcome and opening remarks

Group one

Conner Olson 

Effect of Tibial Slope on Posterior Tibial Translation in Posterior Cruciate Ligament Deficient Knees (1)

Thomas Matthew Gentle III 

Assessment of Monocarboxylate Transporter 1 mutations in patients with recurrent ketoacidosis (2)

Anna Grimsgard

CFTR and BRAF V600E interaction in colorectal cancer (3)

Caleb Anderson, Bretton Ruiter

Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis and Method of Detection in Rural and Urban Populations (4)

April Feist  

Physician, Resident, and Staff Reported Barriers to Cancer Screenings for DFMRC Patient Population (5)

Hannah Strei  

No Call No Show Appointments at Duluth Family Medicine Clinic (6)

Erica Wooner 

ATV Accident Prevalence and Helmeted vs Non-Helmeted Outcomes of Pediatric Patients (7)

Nick Catlett  

The Perceived Power of Flight and its Impact on Rural Traumatic Brain Injury Outcomes (8)

Zoe Avestruz  

Significance of Rurality on Access to Care for Traumatic Brain Injuries in Northern MN (9)

Callie Wersal  

Rural Providers' Perceptions of Outpatient Care for Adults with Memory Loss and Dementia in Northern Minnesota: Preliminary Results (10)

Jacob Lastovich 

The Link Between Early Life Adversity and Heavy Cannabis Use: Examing the Role of Impulsivity and Age of First Use (11)

10-minute break

Group two

Walker Tordsen  

Examining Pulse Oximetry and Skin Pigmentation in Critically Ill Adults (12)

George Ongoro  

Equitable Access to Vaginal Birth: Addressing Disparities in Maternal and Fetal Outcomes for Underrepresented and African American Patients (13)

Lauren Belanger  

Perceptions of COVID-19 Vaccination Boosters Among MN Fairgoers (14)

Hanna O'Neill  

The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Cardiac Surgery Outcomes (15)

Clayton Metcalf, Nehemiah Olson, and Rebecca Sedivy  

IV Drug Use Associated Infectious Endocarditis at St. Luke's Hospital, 2008-2022 (16)

Peter Salama  

Atrial Fibrillation: How Neighborhood Characteristics and Socioeconomic Status Affect Outcomes of Patients in Southern Minnesota and Western Wisconsin (17)

Brittany Carlson  

Atrial Fibrillation Care Gap: Provider Survey to Assess Usability and Acceptability (18)

Kai Akimoto  

Charting Sustainable Medicaid Program Improvement in the island of Guam (19)

Ashlyn Jenc

Developing a Wellness Curriculum for DFMRP (20)

Pete Smith

Video Quality and Speaker Familiarity in Medical Education Suture Didactics

Nicholas Leifeld

Alleviating the Physician Shortage by Increasing Medical Student and Resident Physician Capacity in the North Midwest (21)

Acknowledgements and closing remarks