Medical Student Research Day

MEDICAL EDUCATION

The Medical Student Research Day is hosted annually to share and showcase the scientific knowledge created by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai students through their investigative studies. The 2025 Medical Student Research Day was held on Thursday, May 1, 2025. A celebration of the accomplishments, curiosity, and rigorous research of the medical student body, this year’s event marked the 30th year of Medical Student Research Day. Founded by former Medical Research Office Director, Karen Zier, PhD, Professor Emeritus, in 2018 the celebration was renamed in Dr. Zier’s honor.

Medical Student Research Day included in-person student poster and oral presentations. The oral presenters were:

Elise M. Solazzo, MS II
Scoping the First Aid Knowledge of U.S. Medical Students
Mentor: Christopher Strother, MD

Hailey Yetman, MS II
Health Related Social Risk Factors are Associated with Lower Self-Reported Quality of Life in Patients on Hemodialysis
Mentor: Lili Chan, MD

Nina Rodriguez, MD/MSCR
Scholarly Year Evaluating the 2023 European Association of the Liver’s Guidelines for Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy: Risk Stratification and Outcomes in 4,000+ U.S. Patients
Tatyana Kushner, MD

Matthew D. Park, PhD, (MD/PhD)
Hematopoietic Aging Promotes Lung Cancer by Fueling IL-1A-Driven Emergency Myelopoiesis
Mentor: Miriam Merad, MD, PHD