Scholarly Activity

Fellows engage in scholarly activity and a range of clinical and bench research, as well as Quality Improvement projects.
Fellows may select a project and use up to 10 months of elective time to initiate and complete the project.
Completion of an online fellow research symposium is required and a research committee will help the first-year fellow select a project and mentor.
Fellows are encouraged to attend one national meeting per year, paid for by the division, with the expectation that an abstract will be submitted to the meeting.
Scholarly Activity by Current Fellows
Dr. Kaitlin Branick:
Quality of Life of patients greater than 1 year after hospitalization for COVID-19 related respiratory failure
Dr. Mollie Brittan:
Safety of Lumbar punctures for patients on anticoagulation
Dr. Amber Johnson:
Effect of MyD88 Signaling Pathway on Airway Muc5ac and Muc5b in Response to Organic Dust Exposure
Dr. Samih Khauli:
Systematic Review article: Safety of bronchoscopy in patients with pulmonary hypertension
Dr. Jacob West:
Retrospective Study on Phenobarbital Efficacy in the ICU - Review on safety of phenobarbital initiation. Hypothesis is phenobarbital is safe to administer on a non ICU floor
Scholarly Activity Resources for Fellows
- Division clinical research team
- Clinical Research Center seminar on research methodology
- The integrated Cancer Repository for Cancer Research - iCaRe2
- UNMC Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR)
- Office of Vice Chancellor for Research
- UNMC GME Education Research Collaborative
- IRB applications
- grant applications
- study design
- instrument development
- data collection
- analysis
- manuscript preparation
- oral and poster presentation development