MS1 Summer Stipend Research Projects

co-sponsored by the PMHA, UC Irvine, and the UC Medical Humanities Consortium

  • Sarah o’Dell MS1 “A Medical Inkling: Robert Havard and the Clinical Imagination” Jun-Sept 2018
  • Janice Chua MS1 “The Adoption of Microvascular Free Flap Surgery by Otolaryngologists” Jun-Sept 2018
  • Nazin Sedehi, MS1 “Poetry and Surgery” Jun -Sept 2017
  • Christine Pham, MS1 “Medical Photography and Empathy” Jun-Sept 2017
  • Melinda Schneider, Rachel Sunico, MS1s “Functional gait changes in Cerebral Palsy with dance movement therapy” May-Sept 2017
  • Robert Hately, MS1 “How Space Exploration Has Changed the Field of Medicine” Jul-Sept 2016
  • Shella Raja, MS1 “Hospital Art in London and U.S.” Jun-Sept 2016 
  • Samuel Sampson, MS1 “Measuring Empathy in Response to Representational Art” May-Aug 2015 
  • Soe Thein, MS1 “Food Narratives of Elderly Ethnic Patients” May-Oct 2015
  • Helen Shin, MS1 “Patient Narratives of Mental Illness in the Christian Religion” May-Aug 2014
  • Nina Narasimhalu, MS1 “Superimposing Shakespeare on Modern Medicine: How Physicians Continually Find Meaning and Inspiration in their Work” May-Aug 2011
  • David Cheng MSII “Pain Perceptions and Impact on Existing Doctor-Patient Relationships For The Geriatric Population” Apr-Dec 2010
  • Laura Doan, MSII “Changes in Medicine from the 1920’s to Today: Exploring the Life Story Narratives of Patients Age 65 and Over” Apr-Dec 2010
  • Stephanie Le MSII “Doctor-Patient Relationships in Vietnamese-American and Vietnamese Populations” Apr-Dec 2010