Student Research Forum video produced by Bobby Pitts.
Student Research Forum
Mission
The Student Research Forum (SRF) exists to serve the students at the University of Kansas Medical Center, to advance their research and to bolster their professional development. The forum provides a public stage for the presentation, assessment and discussion of their scientific investigations as well an opportunity to recognize and award exceptional research efforts. The forum will provide exposure to talks from world-class researchers and promote interdisciplinary collaboration between fields, departments, professional schools and universities to foster high-quality, innovative research that will transform our present scientific understanding and ultimately improve the lives of people in the state of Kansas and throughout the world.
Each year the Graduate Student Council sponsors the Student Research Forum. A in-person multi-day interactive event, the 2026 SRF will be held April 13-17, 2026. It will showcase research conducted by students from the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Professions. In addition to the student presentations, the SRF features a banquet and the extremely popular A.L. Chapman Keynote Research Lecture.
Questions or Comments can be e-mailed to srf@kumc.edu.
A.L. Chapman Keynote Research Lecture
The A.L. Chapman Lecture series was created in honor of A.L. Chapman, Professor Emeritus of Anatomy & Cell Biology and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Emeritus.
2026 A.L. Chapman Keynote Speaker
Dr. Erica L. Woodahl, Ph.D.
Keynote Speech: April 13th in Beller Conference Center.
Erica L. Woodahl, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical and
Pharmaceutical Sciences and Director of the L.S. Skaggs Institute for Health Innovation (SIHI) at the University of Montana. She also serves as Co-Director of the NIH-funded Rocky Mountain Research Evaluation and Commercialization Hub (RMT-REACH). Dr. Woodahl received a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the University of Washington. Her research focuses on community-engaged approaches to increase participation in clinical research and accelerate the translation of biomedical discoveries into real-world health solutions that benefit all populations. Dr. Woodahl has established long-standing partnerships with rural and Indigenous communities to advance precision medicine and pharmacogenomics research, identifying factors that contribute to variability in treatment outcomes, and supporting the translation of discoveries into clinical practice. Her work is grounded in community-based participatory research and addresses the complex and important challenges of conducting clinical research with these communities.