Brandon L
- Research Program Mentor
MD candidate at Boston University
Expertise
Clinical medicine of all topics, ophthalmology, oncology, cardiology, pulmonology
Bio
I have extensive experience with conducting clinical medical research of any subject. Topics can range anywhere from optimizing telehealth for patients with chronic lung diseases, to understanding COVID-19 and physician burnout, to finding risk factors for bleeding after surgery. I have particular expertise with review articles, including literature reviews, scoping reviews, and systematic reviews with or without meta-analysis. Outside of research, I love creating and playing music with friends, playing golf, skiing, trying new foods, and exploring cities!Project ideas
Mitochondrial diseases: a review of current knowledge and future research
Mitchondrial diseases come in many forms and are rare. Many of these diseases do not have effective treatment and can be devastating. In order to guide future scientists in pursuing appropriate research on mitchondrial diseases, it is important to perform a literature review to see what current knowledge already exists and reveal gaps in the literature where future research must be performed. This paper can be a literature review or scoping review, which means that students would read through existing publications to understand the current state of the literature, and use what they've read to create their scientific research paper. Students will end up with a scientific research paper that can be published to journals and presented at various local and national conferences. They will learn skills of literature review, research study design, data collection, data analysis, manuscript review, and, if applicable, journal submission process.
How does socioeconomic status affect appendix surgery outcomes?
We are beginning to understand that socioeconomic status (SES) can affect many parts of a person's health. It would be interesting to see how SES affects a specific surgical procedure, such as appendix surgery. The data for this project can be collected in a variety of ways, such as from existing, published data. The student would read through and extract data from existing publications, and use that data to synthesize their paper. This paper could take a more qualitative approach, summarizing the current literature and pointing out interesting findings in existing research, or take a more quantitative approach by analyzing complications of appendix surgery by zip code (to correlate SES). Students will end up with a scientific research paper that can be published to journals and presented at various local and national conferences. They will learn skills of literature review, research study design, data collection, data analysis, manuscript review, and, if applicable, journal submission process.
