The Mount Sinai Summer Institute for NeuroAIDS Disparities (MSINAD).

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Our summer scholars and their projects:

Summer of 2008

Uraina Clark, Ph.D.

Neurologic and neuropsychological effects of HIV and early life stressors in US-born and Liberian-born individuals
Brown Medical School
Local faculty mentor: Ronald Cohen, Ph.D.
MSINAD mentor: Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D. and Vadim Yuferov, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University

Kaori Kubo Germano, M.A.

Bilingualism and HIV-related neuropsychological impairment
Fordham University
Local faculty mentor: Monica Rivera-Mindt, Ph.D.
MSINAD mentor: Mira Goral, Ph.D., Lehman College of the City University of New York

Melissa Nashat, Ph.D.

Expression of cannabis receptors in HIV-infected brain and expression of HIV in cannabis users
BMCC of the City University of New York an Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Local faulty mentor: Sunhee C. Lee, M.D.
MSINAD mentor: David Volsky, Ph.D., Columbia University and St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center

Erin Sundermann, M.A.

Genetic predictors of cognition in HIV+ women
University of Illinois at Chicago
Local faculty mentor: Pauline Maki, Ph.D.
MSINAD mentor: Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D. and Orna Levran, Ph.D., The Rockefeller University

Summer of 2009

Kathryn Elliott, M.D., J.D.

Health Care Disparities in HIV Neuropathic Pain and Treatment
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Local faculty mentor: Jessica Robinson-Papp, M.D.
MSINAD mentor: Rosamond Rhodes, Ph.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Colleen Lawhorn, Ph.D.

Genetic variants that influence HIV to AIDS progression in African American women illicit drug users
Rockefeller University
Local faculty mentor: Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D.
MSINAD mentor: Jessica Robinson Papp, M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Cordula Reitz, M.D.

Neurodevelopmental impairment among HIV-infected children in the developing world and factors influencing optimal treatment and care
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Local faculty mentor: Louise Kuhn, Ph.D., M.P.H.
MSINAD mentor: Susan Morgello, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Reuben Robbins, Ph.D.

NeuroAIDS in Africa: Assessing neuropsychological functioning in HIV+ South Africans - A pilot study
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Columbia University
Local faculty mentor: Robert Remien, Ph.D.
MSINAD mentor: Bambi Schieffelin, Ph.D., New York University
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