Medical School
Midwestern University
College of Osteopathic Medicine
Downers Grove, IL

Undergraduate
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, IL

Research

     Current:

• Post-operative walking enhancements for recovery (The POWER Study): A randomized controlled trial. This study randomized patients to goal oriented post operative ambulation vs routine post operative ambulatory care. Primary outcome is number of steps taken (as measured by a pedometer) in the post operative period prior to discharge.
  
  
• Bladder drainage during labor: A randomized controlled trial. This trial randomized patients to receiving an indwelling catheters vs intermittent catheterization in laboring patients. Primary outcome measured was time to delivery.
  

      Completed:

• Lack of telopeptides in fibrillar collagen I promotes the invasion of a metastatic breast tumor cell line. Demou ZN, Awad M, McKee T, Perentes JY, Wang X, Munn LL, Jain RK, Boucher Y. Cancer Res. 2005 Jul 1;65(13):5674-82.