UIWSOM Office of Research and Innovation Mission Statement

The Office of Research and Innovation's mission is to train outstanding and professional scholars with an osteopathic focus on patient and justice-based research and scholarly activity. Through clinical and laboratory opportunities, our students obtain the professional skills and experiences that will prepare them for intra- and inter-disciplinary research and scholarly activity.

UIWSOM Research Day 2025
SAVE THE DATE – UIWSOM Research Day
May 1, 2025
1-4pm

We are pleased to announce that the Office of Research and Innovation will sponsor the 6th annual UIWSOM Research Day on May 1, 2025. This event will consist of an in-person poster presentation session and will highlight the outstanding research being performed by SOM faculty, staff and students. This is a chance for our faculty, staff and students to interact with our poster presenters so please come and see the exciting work being done at the SOM!

Submission deadline and instructions will be provided at a later date.

FSGRA and SRA Application Submission Period
The Office of Research and Innovation will begin accepting applications for the Faculty Seed Grant Research Award (FSGRA) and Student Research Award on Monday, January 6, 2025. The FSGRA guidelines and application can be located on the ORI Faculty Research website, under the Funding Support for Faculty Research accordion. The SRA guidelines and application can be located on the ORI Student Research website, under the Funding Support for Student Research accordion.
The application deadline is Friday, March 14 by 5 p.m.

Research Areas of Interest

The University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine is committed to providing learners and faculty with research opportunities in the Anatomical Sciences. Our state-of-the-art anatomy facilities currently support projects in the following areas:

  • 3D model printing
  • Anatomical variations
  • Online course design
  • Ultrasound technology
  • Osteopathic integration
  • Innovative teaching modalities

Our anatomy faculty are involved in several multi-institutional collaborations related to the anatomical sciences and are excited to engage all UIWSOM faculty and students interested in anatomy education research.

The University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine is committed to supporting research in community health assessment and improvement, clinical quality improvement, medical informatics, health services research, worksite wellness, preventive medicine and public health.

UIWSOM will utilize multidisciplinary and community-engaged approaches to scholarship with the goal of jointly developing (with civil society organizations, practitioners, administrators and policymakers), implementing and assessing interventions aimed at evidence-based solutions to health differences that are driven largely by social, economic and environmental factors. Research efforts are aimed at improving equity of access to appropriate primary healthcare and address individual, social and structural determinants of health that lead to or reinforce conditions of vulnerability and a greater risk of poorer health outcomes.

The University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine supports scholarly activity in the design, development, implementation and evaluation of osteopathic medical education. Areas of current faculty interest and investigation include:

  • Curriculum design and instructional strategies innovations
  • Evaluating integration of osteopathic principles with biomedical science education
  • Learning through assessment and evaluation
  • Faculty development program initiatives
  • Academic leadership training
  • Mentorship training
  • Integrating facilitation of physician personhood/professional identity formation into a student-centered curriculum
  • Interprofessional education

The Department of Translation Medicine within the University of Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine has a unique capability for conducting benchtop-to-bedside and bedside-to-benchtop, pre-clinical research, connecting military and civilian applications.

Our department’s scientists seek to understand and develop fundamental critical care technology of injury and illness that impact our community and military personnel across the U.S., and to translate the most cutting-edge medicine findings to bring novel lifesaving interventions to the patients that need them the most.

Our scientific programs are complemented by substantial core facilities and by an extensive pre-clinical, clinical and applied translational relationships, providing additional expertise and collaboration. Our faculty is dedicated to training the next generation of physician- and basic-scientists through the Department of Translational Medicine, UIWSOM.

Focus on Research

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Research Chalk and Talk Series

Monthly
Time: 12:10 - 12:50 p.m.
Building 1, A142

 

March 24th

Erin Kraus (OMSIII) and Lara Burr (OMSIII) will introduce an innovative approach to enhancing osteopathic medical education through the use of a miniature 3D-printed model of the pelvis. In this presentation they cover the purpose, production, application of a cost effective and anatomically accurate tool created to enhance understanding of the visuospatial relationships of the sacrum and innominate. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the model while reviewing pelvic somatic dysfunction as well as explore possible clinical applications of the model.

Series Dates: Jan. 22, 2025; Jan. 29, 2025; Feb. 19, 2025; March 24, 2025

2025 UIWSOM Research Day Poster Awards

Thanks to all of the enthusiastic poster presenters and SOM community who visited to make this year’s Research Day a great success! We had a total of 32 posters representing research in the fields of translation research, biomedical research, prospective and retrospective analyses, and case reports. The research at the SOM continues to excel in all research approaches! Congratulations to all participants. Faculty judges viewed and ranked all posters, and ORI would like to thank them for their efforts. ORI would like to announce the following award winners. The names in bold with an asterisk indicate the students that defended the poster.

Congratulations to our award winners and to everyone who presented and attended this year’s Research Day!

The following group received the award for Best Case Report Poster

No Need for the Saw--- A Distinguished Case of Successful Arm Reattachment Following Near Full Traumatic Amputation

Savannah Potter BS1*; Richard W. Walsh MD2; Luke D. Perry DO3; Jessica Rodriguez MBS1*; Abdulaziz Shammaa BS1 ; Susannah E. Nicholson MD MS FACS4; Ashley A. McGinity MD FACS4; Brian W. Sager MD5; Jason Coffman MD5 ; Matthew J. Sideman MD DFSVS FACS3; Lori Pounds MD, FACS, RPVI, DFAVF3.

Affiliations: 1: Medical Student, University of the Incarnate Word College of Medicine, San Antonio, Texas 2: Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 2: Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 3: Director of Trauma Research, Division of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 4: Division of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 5: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.

 

The following group received Best Translational Research Poster

Comparison of Oxygenator Thrombus Area using Nitric Oxide Anticoagulation versus Standard of Care following 72-hours ECLS in Uninjured Swine

Mitchell, AM 1, 2 and Bauer, AN1, 2*; Roberts, TR1; Persello, A1; Beely, B1; Somaney, AS1, 2; Zang, Y1; Callahan, J1; Ogozaly, B1; Harea, GT1; Wendorff, DS1 and Batchinsky, AI1, 2.

Affiliations: Autonomous Reanimation and Evacuation Research Program, The Geneva Foundation, San Antonio, Texas and Department of Translational Medicine, University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine, San Antonio, Texas.

 

The following group received Best Retrospective Analysis Poster

Sexual Dysmorphism of Genitourinary Injury in Setting of Pelvic Fracture in Trauma

Young Son 1, Ethan Wood 2, Edward Wu 3, Kiley Hassevoort 1, Michelle Kaminski 1, Ronald Clearie 1, Julia Scali 1, Kimberly Toumazos 4, Virgil Kevin DeMario *4 and Thomas Mueller 1.

Affiliations: Jefferson University Urology Department, Philidelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Maimonides Urology Department and University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine.

 

The following group received Best Literature Review Poster

Drain Placement in Radical Prostatectomy

Thao-Mi Ha MS1, Virgil DeMario MA1, Charlie Wood BS2, Vaishnavi Patel BS1, Devki Patel BS3 and Young Son DO4.

Affiliation: University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine and Jefferson Health NJ Urology.

 

The following group received Best Educational Research Poster

Educational Simulation Tool for Palpatory Diagnosis of Pelvic Somatic Dysfunction

Erin Kraus*, MS, OMS-III1, Lara Burr*, MS, OMS-III1, Earlanda Williams, PhD1 and Scott Leggoe, DO1.

Affiliation: University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine