The Clinical Experience
Specializing in Neck & Back.
Professional Society Memberships
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
American Medical Association
American Medical Women’s Association
Association of Women Surgeons
Clark County Medical Society
J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society
North American Spine Society
Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society
Publications
Albanese J, Pietryga J, Scott R, Allenback G, and Nelson K. The relationship between hand size and difficulty using surgical instruments: A survey of orthopaedic surgery residents. (Manuscript in progress)
Albanese J, Gross C, Azab M, Mahalean S, and Makar R. Spontaneous pneumomediastinum: a rare complication of methamphetamine use. Respiratory Medicine Case Reports. 2016.
Chapters
Albanese J, Daubs MD: Appropriate Use Criteria in Spinal Surgery. In Benzel, Edward & Steinmetz, Michael (5th). Benzel’s spine surgery: techniques, complication avoidance, and management.
Daubs G, Albanese J, Daubs MD: Preoperative Evaluation of Psychosocial Aspects and Work-related issues. In Benzel, Edward & Steinmetz, Michael (5th). Benzel’s spine surgery: techniques, complication avoidance, and management
Presentations
KSOM / Resident Research Day
May 2021, Las Vegas, NV
Poster, The relationship between hand size and difficulty using surgical instruments: A survey of orthopaedic surgery residents (Honorable mention award)
Association of Women Surgeons / Research Madness
July-August 2020, Virtual competition
Visual abstract, quickshot and oral presentation, The relationship between hand size and difficulty using surgical instruments: A survey of orthopaedic surgery residents (Top 16 presentation)
UNLV / Interdisciplinary Sports Medicine Conference
March 2020, Las Vegas, NV
Lecture, Approaching Hip Pain in the Young Athlete
KSOM/ American Medical Women’s Association Chapter Meeting
November 2019, Las Vegas, NV
Lecture, On Being a Woman in a Surgical Residency
KSOM / Orthopaedic Surgery Grand Rounds
March 2018, Las Vegas, NV
Lecture, Female Athlete Triad, Eating Disorders, and Skills for Wellness
UNLV / Interdisciplinary Sports Medicine Conference
September 2017, Las Vegas, NV
Lecture, Shoulder Impingement
UNR Med / Student Research Day
February 2016, Reno, NV
Poster, A Case of Dissociative Amnesia with Dissociative Fugue
American Federation for Medical Research / Western Regional Meeting
January 2015, Carmel, CA
Oral presentation, Ultrasound: A Potential Tool for the Diagnosis of Gastric Motility Disorders
Nevada American College of Physicians Chapter / Northern Region Abstract Competition
December 2014, Reno, NV
Oral presentation, Ultrasound: A Potential Tool for the Diagnosis of Gastric Motility Disorders
UNR / Bierkamper Student Research Convocation
October 2014, Reno, NV
Oral presentation, PSA Kinetics and NaF-18 PET/CT Detection of Metastases in Recurrence of Prostate Cancer
UC Irvine Health / Western Urology Student Research Convocation
September 2014, Orange, CA
Poster, PSA Kinetics and NaF-18 PET/CT Detection of Metastases in Recurrence of Prostate Cancer
Society of Molecular Biology & Evolution / Mechanisms of Protein Evolution Conference
February 2013, Denver, CO
Poster, LLAMBDA: Estimating Indel Rates and Length Distributions from a Multiple Sequence Alignment (Best undergraduate poster award)
TGen / Helios Scholars Research Symposium
July 2012, Phoenix, AZ
Poster, Identifying Fusion Genes in Multiple Myeloma (Best Poster Award)
Research
Department of Orthopaedics, KSOM / Resident Investigator
May 2020 -Las Vegas, NV
Examining the concordance between the proposed treatment for thoracolumbar injuries, according to the Thoracolumbar Injury Classification and Severity Score (TLICS), and the actual treatment over a ten-year period at a level-I trauma center under the guidance of Dr. Sukanta Maitra
Department of Orthopaedics, KSOM / Resident Investigator
May 2018 -Las Vegas, NV
Pursuing the development and implementation of a geriatric hip fracture protocol at a level-I trauma center as a quality improvement measure with the assistance of Drs. Brock Wentz, Erik Kubiak, Douglas Fraser, and Carmen Flores
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Summer Oncology Fellowship / Student Researcher
June 2014 - August 2014, Los Angeles, CA
Analyzed the relationship between prostate-specific antigen kinetics and the detection of metastatic disease by F-18 NaF PET/CT scans in patients with biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer after prostatectomy or radiation therapy with the guidance of Dr. Bhushan Desai in the Department of Radiology at Keck SOM
Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, UNR/ Student Researcher
January 2014 - May 2015, Reno, NV
Investigated ultrasonography as a diagnostic tool for gastroparesis with the guidance of Dr. Grant Hennig
Center for Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics, Biodesign Institute, ASU / Student Researcher
August 2012 - May 2013, Tempe, AZ
Developed an indel rate estimation procedure in Perl to be used as a compliment to the simulation software DAWG under the supervision of thesis director Dr. Reed Cartwright
Defended Honors thesis and gained approval with minor revisions
Translational Genomics Research Institute / Helios scholar
May 2012 - July 2012, Phoenix, AZ
Compared software program used to identify fusion genes in multiple myeloma cell lines and patient samples under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Keats in the Multiple Myeloma Lab, Integrated Cancer Genomics Division
