Spring 2023 Dissertations and Theses Added to MEDICA@MUSC in Digital Commons

The following dissertation and thesis titles have been recently submitted to MEDICA@MUSC in Digital Commons by MUSC’s Spring 2023 master and doctoral degree candidates:

• "Increased Physician Literacy as an Intervention to Improve Value-Based Care and Reduce Cost in the Surgical Setting" by Melissa Boyles
• "The Association Between Race and Rurality on Maternal and Infant Outcomes in North Carolina" by Ebony Burns
• "Antibiotic-Induced Gut Dysbiosis During Adolescence Dysregulates Metabolism and Skeletal Maturation" by Matthew Carson
• "Food Deserts Impact on Hospital Admissions in Malnourished Patients Residing in Florida" by Joshua Cartwright
• "Personalization and Optimization of Noninvasive Brain Stimulation for Transdiagnostic Applications" by Kevin Caulfield
• "Assessing the Involvement of Projections from the Prelimbic Prefrontal Cortex to the Paraventricular Nucleus of the Thalamus in Cocaine Withdrawal-Induced Anxiety" by Clinton Coelho
• "Time is Brain: How a Descriptive Analysis of Telestroke Metrics Can Improve Program Performance" by Christopher Cordero
• "The Role of Complement in Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury" by Christine Couch
• "What Are the Barriers to Midwife Service Utilization Among Low-Risk Pregnant Women in Florida?" by Ileana Cruz
• "Crosstalk Between the Extracellular Matrix and the Cell- Cell Junction - Associated RNAi Machinery Regulates Colon Cancer Cell Behavior" by Amanda Daulagala
• "Utilizing Mass Spectrometry Imaging to Correlate N-Glycosylation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Tumor Subtypes for Biomarker Discovery" by Andrew DelaCourt
• "A PNPLA3-Deficient iPSC-Derived Hepatocyte Screen Identifies Drugs to Potentially Reduce Steatosis in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease" by Caren Doueiry
• "Cancer-Specific Perturbations to Arginine Metabolism Blunt Replication and Performance of Oncolytic Myxoma Virus" by Parker Dryja
• "Influence of Canonical and Non-Canonical IFNLR1 Isoform Expression on Interferon Lambda Signaling" by John Evans
• "Characterizing Pediatric Unilateral Brain Damage: Unilateral Spatial Neglect, Balance, and More" by Emerson Hart
• "Association Between Arkansas Cannabis Program Implentation and Drug Overdoses" by Alex Hooper
• "Cost Effectiveness of Buprenorphine when Used Long Term versus Short Term Use" by Ty Hudgens
• "A Connecting Link Between Sphingolipid Metabolism and the Complement System in Cancer Metastasis" by Alhaji Harune Janneh
• "Decellularized Heart Extracellular Matrix as a Biomimetic Substrate for Alleviating hiPSC-Cardiac Fibroblast Activation and Enhancing Isogenic Cardiac Organoids" by Charles Kerr
• "Improving Scheduling for Diagnostic Imaging and the Effect on Hospital Revenue: An Ex Post Facto Study" by Stephen Liebowitz
• "Multivariate Longitudinal Prognostic Factors: Improving Prediction and Association Modeling with a Single Binary Outcome Using Smoothing Splines and Composite Variables" by Sherry Irene Livingston
• "Healthcare Employees’ Perceptions on the Effects of Internal Audits" by Jeremy Mason
• "Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Stress and Burnout Related Experiences of the Infection Preventionists in the Greater Houston Area" by Tawanna McInnis-Cole
• "Hospital Board Composition Effect on Health Equity" by Derrick Mitchell
• "Novel Mechanisms of Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Lung Fibrosis" by Joe E. Mouawad
• "Role of Macrophages in Regression of Myocardial Fibrosis Following Alleviation of Left Ventricular Pressure Overload" by Lily Neff
• "The Association of Foreign PHI on AME & Death" by Larry Norman
• "Identifying the Temporal N-linked Glycosylation Changes During Liver Disease Progression: from Liver Injury to End-stage Liver Disease" by Shaaron Ochoa-Rios
• "MyoD Functions as an Oncogene in Rhabdomyosarcoma by Promoting Survival Through Differentiation and CYLD" by Alexander Oles
• "Animal-Assisted Therapy: A Program Evaluation of One Substance Abuse Treatment Center" by Erin Poore
• "HIV Treatment Utilization: An Exploration of One Ryan White Clinic" by Joseph Powe
• "Examining Acute-Care Human Performance Trends During Disruption: A Mixed-Methods Study" by Parker A. Rhoden
• "Deciphering the N-Glycomic and Collagen Proteomic Molecular Signatures Towards Breast Cancer Control and Prevention" by Denys Rujchanarong
• "Telehealth Impact on National Emergency Department Utilization Among Children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus" by Miranda Sandreth
• "A Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve Follow-up Time and Reduce Readmissions and Emergency Department Utilization for Oncology Patients" by Delaney Serfling
• "Orphan Drug Reimbursement Trends" by Ing Teng
• "Mapping the Opal Score for Clinical Trials to Coordinator Hours: A Single Site Study" by Kesley Tyson
• "Identifying Functional Imaging Markers in Psychosis Using fMRI" by Ruiqi Wang
• "The Genomics of Autism-Related Genes IL1RAPL1 and IL1RAPL2: Insights into Their Cortical Distribution, Cell-Type Specificity, and Developmental Trajectories" by Jacob Weaver
• "Hospital Uncompensated Care Costs and Profits: A Comparison of Mississippi and Arkansas, Pre- and Post- Medicaid Expansion" by Edrin R. Williams
• "The Impact of County Level Characteristics on Type 2 Diabetes Related ED Utilization" by Jessica Wilson
• "Virtual Visits in Routine Prenatal Care" by Katrina K. Wu
• "Medicaid Expansion Case Study: Differences Between Florida and New York Medicaid Expansion Policy" by Mary R. Zielinski

Full text of a given work may be subject to access restrictions determined by the author. For more information, contact the Waring Digital Archives program at medica@musc.edu.

Congratulations to all of MUSC’s Spring 2023 graduates!