2023 Scholars
2023
Dr. Louissaint is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He specializes in liver diseases and liver transplantation. Dr. Louissaint’s research aims to leverage telehealth to improve the outpatient care of patients with cirrhosis, especially using effective technology-based patient-provider communication tools.
Dr. Yang is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and an emergency physician practicing at Clements University Hospital and Parkland Memorial Hospital. Dr. Yang’s research focuses on pre-hospital resuscitation with a particular interest in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, ventilation, and pre-hospital whole blood transfusion.
Dr. MacNamara is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and a member of the Division of Cardiology. Dr. MacNamara specializes in exercise physiology and advanced cardiac imaging, as well as shortness of breath and exercise intolerance in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Dr. Adhikari is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Medical Director of Perinatal Infectious Diseases for the Parkland Health and Hospital System. Dr. Adhikari’s research focuses on improving maternal health outcomes in disadvantaged populations. Her interests include infectious diseases in pregnancy, reducing primary cesarean delivery, and opioid use disorder in pregnancy.
Dr. Dohopolski is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He specializes in treating central nervous system malignancies such as brain tumors and cancers of the spinal cord. Dr. Dohopolski’s research focuses on advanced computer techniques to create an artificial intelligence model to identify cancer.
Dr. Truby is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She specializes in treating advanced heart failure and heart transplantation. Dr. Truby’s research focuses on studying advanced heart failure and transplantation, metabolomics, and proteomics.