Chi Pham, OMS II

Chi Pham is a second-year medical student at Kansas City University-Joplin. She has demonstrated a continued interest in basic science and clinical research. She is a Vietnamese native and a graduate of the University of Alabama in Huntsville and majored in Biology with a minor in Chemistry.

Chi has experience working as a research assistant in a prokaryotic ribosome research lab as an intern and in a cancer center clinical trials office in her gap year. In the Summer of 2024, she worked on a project analyzing the effect of thrombocytopenia as a comorbidity on the length of hospital stay in pneumonia patients. She also worked on another project studying the association between the status of Pregnane X Receptor, a nuclear receptor regulating endo- and xenobiotic metabolism in eukaryotic cells, and cancer cell viability. Chi was also part of a research project investigating the gene expression regulation relationship between the trp and tna operons, two tryptophan metabolism operons in E. coli. She also authored a case report on the novel treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.

Outside of academic research, Chi is also the Co-President of the KCU Joplin Chapter of the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association. She is also an anatomy and clinical course tutor.

In her free time she enjoys reading, finding unique thrifts, watching football with her spouse, and exploring new Asian dishes.

Chi discloses she has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by or used on patients relative to the content of this presentation.