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Spatial Health Research Group

Contact Information

Dr. Michael Emch
UNC-Chapel Hill
CB3220
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

All pictures courtesy of Research Team members

 

Alex Finch

Undergraduate Research Assistant
asfinch@email.unc.edu




Alex feeding the elephants in Thailand

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Research

As an undergraduate, I interned at the Carolina Population Center as a a research assistant for Margaret Carrel examining the evolution and dispersal of influenza in Asia I became interested in this after studying the relationship between urbanization and mortality during the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918. Previously, I have worked as a co-investigator in the Duke Department of Neuroanesthesia and Surgery evaluating neurogenesis after ischemia in an organotypic hippocampal slice model. Before that, I worked as a research assistant for the UNC Emergency Department on a project to determine the efficacy of infrared spectroscopy in predicting acute compartment syndrome of the leg.

Education

B.A. Geography concentration Human Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Graduated May 2009

Publications

Finch A, Moldovan M, Frank J, Bagnell R, Katz LM, Pearlstein R. Transient mild hypothermia differentially alters mitotic activity in normal and post-ischemic hippocampal slices from neonatal rats. Journal of Thermal Biology, 2010 May; 35(4): 189-196. 

Katz LM, Frank JE, Dvorak A, Finch A, Szymanowski A, Gordan CJ. Independence of brain and trunk temperature during hypothermic preconditioning in rats. J Neurosci Methods, 2009 May; 179(2): 179-83.

Katz LM, Nauriyal V, Nagaraj S, Finch A, Pearlstein K, Szymanowski A, Sproule C, Rich PB, Guenther BD, Pearlstein RD. Infrared imaging of trauma patients for detection of acute compartment syndrome of the leg. Critical Care Medicine, 2008 Jun; 36(6): 1756-61.

Finch A. “Cave Art of Burma,” Arts of Asia, 2005 May; 35(4): 93-103.

Finch A. “The Jatakas of Bagan,” Arts of Asia, 2004 May; 34(3): 106-117.