Category: Medical Student, 1st Place
Mentors: John Kaczmar, M.D. and Terry Day, M.D.
Title: Safety of novel targeted therapies and immunotherapy in recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell cancer: a meta-analysis
"Department of Medicine Research Day provided me a platform to be able to talk about my research, as well as learning from others. I think these events are very important to medical trainees to build confidence in their scientific practice, and allows them to be engaged in clinical research earlier in their careers. My research focused on assessing the safety of novel targeted therapies and immunotherapies in patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck cancer. Multimodal regimens are common in this population, but this disease disproportionately impacts elderly patients. Therefore, we thought it was important to perform a comparative meta-analysis of phase II and III randomized-controlled trials in order to understand how novel targeted therapies, immunotherapies, and combination administration of these agents with standard of care therapies impacted rates of adverse events."- Andraia
