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HomeMembersAssemblies and SectionsAssembliesPulmonary Infections and TuberculosisAwards ▶ 2014 ATS Abstract Scholarship Award Recipients
2014 ATS Abstract Scholarship Award Recipients

These Abstract Scholarship Awards have been funded by the American Thoracic Society

Robert P. Dickson, MD
University of Michigan
Abstract Title: A Comparison Of Three Methods Of Identification Of Bacteria In Bronchoalveolar Lavage Specimens

Chad Marion, DO
Yale University School of Medicine
Abstract Title: Chitinase 3-like 1 (Chi3l1) Augments Bacterial Clearance While Suppressing Neutrophilic Pulmonary Inflammation In Pseudomonas Pneumonia

Yasir Tarabichi, MD
University of California Los Angeles
Abstract Title: Administration Of Intranasal Live Attenuated Influenza Induces Changes In Both The Nasal Microbiome And Microarray Expression Profiles

Brittan S. Scales, BS, MPH, PhD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Abstract Title: Persistent Inflammation Leads To Community-Wide Changes In The Murine Lung Microbiome, Including A Bloom Of Pseudomonas Fluorescens

Kohei Fujita, MD
Kyoto University
Abstract Title: Prevalence And Risk Factors For Chronic Co-Infection In Pulmonary Mycobacterium Avium Complex Disease

Ali Rashidian, MD
UCSF Fresno
Abstract Title: Utility Of Laboratory Studies In Diagnosing Lung Nodules Due To Coccidioidomycosis

Fadie Coleman, BA, MA
Boston University School of Medicine
Abstract Title: Alveolar Macrophage NF-?B-driven Lung Defense Is Circumvented By Virulent Pneumococci

Barbara Jones, MD
University of Utah
Abstract Title: Going Big: Five Year Trends In Antibiotic Use For Hospitalized Pneumonia Patients in National VA Data, 2006-2010

Ranu Surolia, Ph.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Abstract Title: Attenuation Of HO-1 Responses In The Elderly Predisposes To NTM Infections

Mehdi Mirsaeidi, MD, MPH
University of Illinois at Chicago
Abstract Title: Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease Mortality In The United States, 1999-2010: A Population-Based Comparative Study

Vikas Anathy, PhD
University of Vermont
Abstract Title: Glutaredoxin-1 Attenuates S-Glutathionylation Of The Death Receptor Fas And Decreases Resolution Of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Pneumonia

Samantha M. Yeligar, MS, PhD
Emory University
Abstract Title: HIV Infection Induces Dysregulation Of PPAR-? And TGF-? In Alveolar Macrophages Of Otherwise Healthy Subjects

M. Leigh Anne Daniels, MD, MPH
University of North Carolina
Abstract Title: Dural Ectasia On Lumbosacral MRI And Chest CT In Idiopathic Bronchiectasis Patients: Phenotypic Overlap With Hereditable Connective Tissue Disorders

Jason  Arnason,, Bsc., MSc
The University of Calgary
Abstract Title: Co-Infection With Human Rhinovirus And Bacteria Modulates The Innate Host Response Through The Dysregulation Of Antimicrobial Peptide Expression

Byeong-Ho Jeong, MD
Samsung Medical Center
Abstract Title: Oral Macrolide Therapy After An Initial 2 Weeks Of Combination Antibiotics For Treating Mycobacterium massiliense Lung Disease

Sebastian Kurz, MD, PhD
University Hospitals Cleveland Case Medical Center
Abstract Title: Structural And Functional Characterization Of The Highly Effective Boronate-Transitional-State-Inhibitor (BATSI), EC19, Of The Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Beta-Lactamase BlaC

Paula P. Griffith, BA
University of Utah
Abstract Title: Triage And Outcomes Of Emergency Department Patients With Parapneumonic Effusion

Mark A. Bernard, Ph.D.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Abstract Title: HIV-encoded miRNAs engage macrophage Toll-like receptor 8 and promote TNF? release.

Raj  Shah, MD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Abstract Title: The Diagnostic Utility Of Bronchoalveolar Neutrophils And Serum Procalcitonin For Pneumonia In Intubated Patients

Joshua Danley, DO
Lankenau Medical Center
Abstract Title: Women With Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infection Have Normal Estrogen Levels, But Lower DHEA Levels Compared With Age-Matched Controls