Alexandra Adams, MD, PhD leads a family-based intervention project - Healthy Children, strong families - to reduce obesity and cardiac risk factors in American Indian children. This participatory research project, a partnership between four Wisconsin Tribes, great Lakes inter-Tribal Council and UW researchers, is a randomized controlled trial examining the effect of a home visiting intervention on reducing metabolic risk and improving lifestyles in the children and their primary caregivers.

Hear the following presentations from the 2009 Medical Student Research Forum: "Molecular Analysis of T-Cell Receptor Repertoire in Human Melanoma" Bret Bostwick, Mentor: Mark Albertini, MD "Totally Awesome Virtual Anatomy" Ben Durkee, Mentor: Ed Bersu, PhD "Screening For Insulin Resistance in Collegiate Football Linemen" Scott Haskins, Mentor: David Bernhardt, MD "Short Report: Factors That Affect Specialty Choice and Career Plans of Wisconsin’s Medical Students" Kjersti Knox, Mentor: Richard Rieselbach, MD "Risk Factors for Pediatric Fractures" Morgan Swanstrom, Mentor: Blaise Nemeth, MD, MS

This presentation will cover: 1) Epidemiology of asthma: role of the environment and the hygiene hypothesis 2) Viral infections in infancy: relationship to asthma and host and viral factors 3) Pets and microbial exposure: relationship to atopic diseases and associations with immune development

Hear the following presentations from the 2007 Medical Student Research Fall Forum: "Phenotype Segregation Network Analysis of Risks Associated with Low Birth Weight" Nana-Ama Ankumah, Mentor: Theresa Duello, PhD "Developing Interventions to Treat Tobacco Dependence in a Free Clinic" Brian Hilgeman, Mentors: Tom Jackson, MD; Bruce Christiansen; Jennifer Brown "A Novel Method for Classification of Lumbar Degenerative Disc Disease" Charles Czeczok, Mentor: Paul Anderson, MD "Utilizing Systems Engineering Applications to Improve HIV Flow Laboratory Capabilities in Nairobi, Kenya" Brian Frederick, Mentors: Harold Steudel, PhD; Barbara Payne, PhD; Judd Walson, MD, MPH "Little Association Between Choice of Chemotherapy Treatment and Self-Related Health Among Women Diagnosed with Invasive Breast Cancer" Mary Rhodes, Mentor: Amy Trentham-Dietz, PhD

Hear the following presentations from the 2006 Medical Student Research Fall Forum: "An Abbreviated Ultrasound Scanning Protocol For Atherosclerosis Screening" Adam Gepner, Mentor: James Stein, MD "Pioglitazone Helps to Restore Insulin Secretions & Insulin Secretory Reserve in Islet Transplant Recipients: Preliminary Results" David Hirsch, Mentor: Luis Fernandez, MD "Relationship between HIV-1 Subtype, Antiretroviral Response and Resistance in a Ugandan Pediatrics Clinic" DeAnna Friedman, Mentor: Frank Graziano, MD, PhD

Hear the following presentations from the 2006 Medical Student Research Fall Forum: "The Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Trichostatin A Induces Morphologic Differentiation and Inhibits Growth of Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells" Christopher Platta, Mentor: Herbert Chen, MD, FACS "Is That Your Pager or Mine? A Survey of Female Family Medicine Physicians in Dual Physician Relationships" Anne Kolan, Mentor: Sarina Schrager, MD, MS "The Influence of Peripheral Neuropeptide Administration on Bovine Nucleus Pulposus Cells in Vitro" Jacques Hacquebord, Mentor: Paul Anderson, MD