2014 Resident/Fellow Research Symposium. watch videoThe 2014 Department of Medicine Annual Resident/Fellow Research Symposium, which took place Tuesday, June 3, featured a large turnout and lots of conversation and activity. Eighty-one posters were on display, including 57 from members of the Internal Medicine Residency Program (an increase of 13 over last year), 16 from Medicine fellows, six from Dermatology residents, and two from medical students and/or other pre-MDs.
Resident and fellow posters were judged separately, and the winners and honorable mentions are listed below. Cash prizes were awarded ($400 for 1st place, $300 for 2nd place, and $200 for 3rd place).
"I thank Bettina Fries, and Anna Manca and her staff for all their work in making the Symposium a success, as well as the trainee investigators and their mentors," said Dr. Victor Schuster, Chairman of the Department of Medicine.
Resident Prizewinners and Honorable Mentions will make formal presentations at the June 12th Medicine Grand Rounds.
Resident Winners
Drs. William Southern and Marla Heller with Dr. Gupta, award winner.
- 1st Place – Dr. Kristin Swedish - Differences in Access to Health Care Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations in New York City
- 2nd Place – Dr. Aman Shah - Coronary Artery Calcification is the Strongest Predictor of Abnormal Duke Prognostic CAD Index
- 3rd Place – Dr. Jian Shan - Risk Factors and Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Pre-Clinical Diastolic Dysfunction in a Multiethnic Urban Population
Resident Honorable Mention
- Dr. S. Attalla - Woman, Interrupted: An Unusual Cause of Psychosis
- Dr. J. Pacifico - Fire in the Belly
Fellow Winners
- 1st Place – Dr. Maria Sobolev - Ultrasound-Guided Catheterization of the Femoral Artery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
- 2nd Place – Dr. Sean Dhar - Lung Function More Than A Decade After World Trade Center (WTC) Exposure: The Influences Of Bronchial Reactivity And Corticosteroid Therapy
- 3rd Place – Dr. Pragya Gupta - Pulseless Oximetry: A Preliminary Evaluation
Fellow Honorable Mention
- Dr. D. Rosen - Self-Reported Snoring and Coronary Heart Disease: Results from the Jackson Heart Study
Dr. Clement Tagoe and colleagues discuss a poster.Symposium Participants
Internal Medicine Residents
- Aagaard P, Shulman E, Di Biase L, Fisher JD, Gross JN, Kim SG, Palma EC, Ferrick KJ, Krumerman A
Outcome of Early Repolarization - a Focus on Hispanics
- Alapati V, Golier F, Sobolev M
Ventricular Fibrillation Arrest in a Patient with Prinzmetal’s Angina
- Ali N, LeFrancois D
Misleading Presentation: Hypersens Pneumonitis
- Attalla S, Spira E, Alani M, Massoumi H, Kalia H
Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid-Induced Cholestasis, Acute Kidney Injury, and Pancreatitis
- Attalla S, Marcus AJ, Alani M, Kalia H
Rectal Variceal Bleeding in a Cirrhotic Patient with Peptic Ulcer Disease
- Attalla S, Hemel D
Woman, Interrupted: An Unusual Cause of Psychosis
- Behringer S
Rediscovering an Ancient Diagnosis
- Brusati A
A Major Opportunity for Obstetricians/Gynecologists: Improving Awareness of Cardiovascular Disease Among Women
- Calvo M, Chun S
Hyperkalemia Associated with Beta Blockers
- Cheah JT, Korcak JA
A-Knee-Mia: Blood Where it Doesn’t Belong
- Chua A, Zelnick J, O'Donnell M, Sullivan Meissner J
Healthcare Provider Perspectives on Barriers to Tuberculosis Care and Treatment Among Foreign-Born Populations in New York City
- Cohen M, Hemel D
Immunosuppression: Opening a Can of Worms for Hyperinfection Syndrome
- Cruz CM, LeFrancois D
Microscopic Polyangitis
- Curtis S
Anabolic Steroid Induced Cholestasis Treated with Plasmapheresis
Dr. Thomas Aldrich discusses a poster with its presenter.- Curtis S, Etzion Z, Danda N, Billett H
The Effects of Aging on Sickle Cell Disease and Identification of Possible Markers for Increased Survivorship
- Epstein S, Schlair S
A Rash Decision
- Goldfinger M, Santiago A, Gundabolu K, Barta S
Gender and Race as Prognostic Factors In Patients Treated With Rituximab for B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
- Griffin J, Segal K, Arnsten J, Nahvi S
Barriers to Telephone Quitline Utilization Among Methadone Maintained Smokers
- Gutgarts V, Cheah J, Vassilakis A
An Unresponsive Patient? It May Be Sero-Tone-In
- Gutgarts V, Rakowski E, Fries B
The Perfect Lipodystrophy Storm
- Han D, Murray J, Bejarano-Fernandez E, Cuervo AM, Wolkoff A
Microtubule Based Motility of Autophagic and Lysosomal Compartments In Vitro; Vesicles with LC3 on Their Surface Show Greater Motility Than Those That Contain Lamp1
- Hirsch J, Demyen M, Keller S
Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance in Hepatitis C Patients: How Are We Doing?
- Huang J, Calvo M
Painless Aortic Dissection
- Jain R
Epidemiological Study of Myelodysplastic Syndromes in a Racially Diverse Inner-City Population
- Kooragayalu S, Suarez C, Ramharack J, Mokrzycki M, Eisen L
MALA: Metformin Associated Lactic Acidosis
- Kotecha V, Hauck K, Shaines M
Severe SIRS following 23-valent Pneumococcal Vaccination in a Patient with Behçet’s Disease
- Kroopnick J, Conigliaro R
DRESSed in Disguise
- Lebduska E, Dubey S, LeFrancois D, Schlair S
Resident as Preceptor: Developing Senior Residents’ Ambulatory Teaching Skills as Part of a Resident as Teacher Curriculum
- Massera D, LeFrancois D
An Underdiagnose Syndrome of Lower Extremity Pain and Weakness in a Patient with Diabetes Mellitus
- Pacifico J, Schlair S
Fire in the Belly
- Patel N, Marcus A, Simon D
Cytomegalovirus Infection and Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate Associated Ischemic Colitis: A Case Report
- Patel N, Aroniadis O, Schlair S
Steroids and Worms: Diagnosing a Rare Cause of Abdominal Pain in Advance AIDS
- Platovsky A, Tokayer A, Donovan, C
Folate Levels in Patients with Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth
- Rakowski E
Addressing Dressler’s Syndrome
- Rao G, Card A
An Unusual Case of Acute Back Pain
- Rhee E, Pollack R
Ophthalmoplegia and Hypopituitarism as the Initial Manifestation of Metastatic Small Cell Cancer
- Sabari J, Cabrera R, Segall J
Macrophages Confer Resistance to Cisplatin in MTLn3 and MDA-MB 231 Breast Cancer Cells
- Sabari J, Shifteh K, Ow T, Tassler A, Schiff B, Garg M, Rosenstein M, Sarta C, Haynes H, Eng Y, Rosenblatt G, Abramowitz M, Schlecht N, Prystowsky M, Packer S, Smith R, Haigentz Jr., M
Renal Dysfunction is Common Among Patients Treated with Radiotherapy for Locoregionally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer
- Safo S, Cunningham C, Beckman A, Starrels J
“A Place at the Table:” Community Members’ Experiences and Expectations for Academic-Community Partnerships in HIV/AIDS Research
- Shah A, Kelesidis I, Ginwala N, Torrens A, Fuster V, Falk E, Muntendam P, Sillesen H, Boxt L, Wang D, Negassa A, Garcia, M
Coronary Artery Calcification is the Strongest Predictor of Abnormal Duke Prognostic CAD Index
- Shah R, Agarwal R
A Rare Case of Proximal Muscle Weakness
- Shahid M, Shtessel M, Abelow C
Tocilizumab-associated "Migraine"
- Shan J, Zhang L, Taub C
Risk Factors and Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Pre-Clinical Diastolic Dysfunction in a Multiethnic Urban Population
- Shulman E, Aagaard P, Qaraghuli F, Lener S, Fisher J, Ferrick K, Krumerman A
The Prognostic Value of Early Repolarization with ST-Segment Elevation in the Hispanic Population
- Singhal R, Santana C
Health Literacy and Usability of Patient Education Documents
- Slucca M, Spevack D
Diagnostic Yield of TEE for Infective Endocarditis in Patients Referred for Suspected Endocarditis
- Swedish K, Bachhuber M, Patel V
Differences in Access to Health Care Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations in New York City
- Trimbur C, Hong S
Calciphylaxis of Evil
- Tsai E, Johnson J, LeFrancois D
A Girl and Her Unsuspecting Heart
- Tsai H, Kitchell D, Tsai E
A Sweet Rhythm
- Velez C, Aroniadis O, Mehra S, Brandt L
Bleeding Biliary-Enteric Fistulas (BEFs): A Complication of Chronic Calculous Cholecystitis
- Velez C, Stevens EW, Goodman RL
Sick to Your Stomach: Iatrogenic Bowel Angioedema
- Wang C, Attarian S, Menegus M
A Case Report of Alemtuzumab Associated ST-segment Elevation and Myocardial Stunning
- Wang C, Spevack D
Impact of Obesity on Heart Rate Response During Treadmill Exercise
- Wang C, Shaines M, Spevack D
With A Spongy Heart
- Xie Y, Crandall J, Tabatabaie V
Cancer Incidence in Metformin vs. non-Metformin Users in Patients Diagnosed with Type II Diabetes Mellitus
- Yang S, Sharma D, Abramowitz M
Limitations of Creatinine- and Cystatin C-Based GFR Estimation in Assessing CKD Risk in Obese Patients: NHANES 1999-2004
Dermatology Residents
- Chan A, Chakrapani A, Jacobson M, Mann R
Extensive Calcified Lupus Profundus as the Primary Presentation of Connective Tissue Disease in an Elderly Female
- Khanna S, Harrington A, Mahalingam M, McKinley-Grant L
Eccrine Syringofibroadeoma
- Lev-Tov H, Adar T, Cohen S
Marsupialization Surgery is the "Gold" Standard for Treatment-Resistant Hidradenitis Suppurativa
- Lucey P, Kheir S, Anatelli F, Lindgren A
Intravascular B-cell Lymphoma Masquerading as Morphea
- Stamell EF, Ingram A, Tian J, Kirsner R, Friedman A
Identifying an Education Gap in Wound Care Training in US Dermatology Residency Programs
- Tinklepaugh A, Mercer J, Amin B, Mann R
Lichen Planus Glossitis: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Conundrum
- Chang A, Jain P, O’Donnell M, Jacobs W
Drug Susceptibility Testing Using Highly Intensive Fluorophage in Mycobacteria Avium Complex
- Park C, Ostrowsky B, Szymczak W, Munjal I, Nori P, Guo Y, Williamson J, Chung P, Gialanella P, Levi M
Lessons Learned from Early Implementation of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-ToF MS) With Antimicrobial Stewardship, A Pilot Study
- Ahmad J, Blumen H, Tagoe C
Clinical Significance of Autoimmune Thyroiditis in Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Role of Chronic Pain Syndromes
- Shrestha A, Tagoe C
Autoimmune Thyroiditis is Associated with Higher Frequency of Spine Degenerative Joint Disease
- Albuquerque F, Garcia M, Pina I, Menegus M, Redline S, Brush E, Kaplan R, Shah N
Sleep-Disordered Breathing, Cardiac Biomarkers, and Sleepiness in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction.
- Dhar S, Aldrich TK, Crosse T, King C, Christodoulou V, Weakley J, Banauch GI, Berger KI, Weiden MD, Hall CB, Ye F, Webber MP, Prezant DJ Lung Function More Than A Decade After World Trade Center (WTC) Exposure: The Influences Of Bronchial Reactivity And Corticosteroid Therapy
- Gupta P, Carlese A, Goldstein D, Aldrich T
Pulseless Oximetry: A Preliminary Evaluation
- Lim L, Kooragayalu S, Aldrich T
Diaphragm Thickness and Function in Obese Individuals
- Brandt L, Aroniadis O, Greenberg A, Borody T, Finlayson S, Furnari V, Kelly C
Safety of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) in Immunocompromised (Ic) Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
- Greenberg A, Aroniadis O, Shelton C, Brandt L
Long-Term Follow-Up Study of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- Pinn D, Aroniadis O, Brandt L
Long-Term Follow-Up Study of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) for the Treatment of Refractory Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
- Desir J, Inal S, Melamed M, Pullman J, Golestaneh L
Glomerular Features Of Cardio-Renal Syndrome. A Case Controlled Study
- Rosen D, Weng J, Rueschman M, Redline S, Shah N
Self-Reported Snoring and Coronary Heart Disease: Results from the Jackson Heart Study
- Sobolev M, Lee CA, Slovut DP, Shiloh AL, Eisen LA
Ultrasound-Guided Catheterization of the Femoral Artery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
- Sridharan A, Jain R, Bachhuber M, Lam A, Yu Y, Friedman E, Verma A
Anisocytosis is Associated with Decreased Survival in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Myelodysplastic Syndromes: A Single Center Experience
- Sridharan A, Curtis S, Kaner, J, Aparo S, Barta S
Hepatitis
Medical Students
- Adler B, Krausz A, Chouake J, Mihu M, Cabral V, Pattabhib R, Nacharaju P, Friedman J, Nosanchuk J, Friedman A
S-Nitroso-N-Acetylcysteine Nanoparticles: An Innovative Nitrosating Agent for Bacterial Infection
- Krausz A, Adler B, Cabral V, Navati M, Charafeddine R, Clendaniel A, Harper S, Friedman J, Nosanchuk J, Friedman A.
Curcumin-Encapsulated Nanoparticles as an Innovative Anti-microbial and Wound Healing Therapy
