Prisca Obidike

Prisca Obidike, MD, Allison Cheng, MD, Olivia Calisi, MD, MEd, Jungeun J. Lee, BS, Paddy Ssentongo, MD, Anna Ssentongo, PhD. John Oh, MD, FACS. COVID-19 and Mortality in the Global Surgical Population: A Systematic Review and Meta- Analysis. Journal of Surgical Research. March 2024

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Presented at the Clinical Congress, American College of Surgeons 2021

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Submitted: Fusing Video Games and Virtual Simulation into Online Medical Education. Allison Chang & Prisca Obidike BS. Academic Medicine. 2021.

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Central PA Medicine Magazine. August 2020.

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Brittainy Hereford, Alice Cai, Saher Ali, Rahima Khatun, Prisca Obidike BS, Zena Saleh, Jamal Benson Jessica Poulson, Caleb Frank. Call to Action: White Coats for Black Lives. Central PA Medicine Magazine. August 2020.

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Research Assistant, Department of Surgery Advisor: Dr. Amanda Cooper. Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA Conducted a retrospective analysis on 408,887 patients using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Participant Use Files (ACS NSQIP PUF) database.

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Our objective was to compare the risk of VTE following splenectomy against colectomy, a procedure with similar indications and level of complexity.

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Manuscript submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.

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Research Assistant, Department of Surgery Advisor: Dr. Joshua Winder. Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA We recorded a video showing an innovative approach for the treatment of gastroparesis of a remnant stomach in a patient status post Roux-en-Y gastric bypass using endoscopic pyloromyotomy.

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Research Assistant, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Advisor: Dr. Edward Harhaj. Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA We conducted several wet lab experiments to investigate the underlying mechanism of innate immunity and autoimmunity regulation by the zinc finger protein, ZFAND6 in bone marrow-derived macrophages.

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Summer Research Intern Advisor: Dr. Stuart Schreiber, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard, MA Designed and conducted several wet lab experiments to understand the role of cholesterol metabolism and apolipoprotein E particles in Alzheimer's disease.

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Our findings were accepted for poster presentations.

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Summer Research Intern Advisor: Dr. Douglas Spitz. University of Iowa, IA, Iowa City, IA Designed and conducted several wet lab experiments to investigate the enhancement of neuroendocrine cancer therapy via disruption of peroxide balance in cancer stem cells.

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Assisted with in-vivo experiments and performed cardiac puncture and tumor extraction in laboratory mice.

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Chioma Moneme, MD, MBA, Prisca Obidike, MD, Joanna Yost, PhD, Charles Friel, MD. Suicidal Ideation During Surgical Training: Is an Innovative Surgical Trainee Check-In Program A Part of the Solution? Journal of Surgical Education.

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Prisca Obidike BS, Maria Escudero-Fung, Melissa Chima, Brianna Evans, Anjana Sinha, Marisa Riley. Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.

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