The 15th Annual DOM Research Day celebrates another year of research efforts across the department!

That’s a wrap! Our 2022 Department of Medicine Research Day was held at the Emory Student Center on Thursday, October 27. For the first time since 2019, the event was held in person, with more than 300 faculty, staff, and trainees in attendance.

Presenters from across the department’s ten divisions shared the exciting basic, translational, and clinical research currently being conducted. The event included Featured Research talks, oral presentations, poster presentations, a keynote, and a presentation of awards.

This event’s keynote presentation, “Novel mitochondrial mechanisms for cardiometabolic disease” was delivered by E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD, Chair and Executive Medical Director, Department of Medicine, UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. Attendees also had the opportunity to hear from the following DOM researchers, who were Featured Researchers throughout the day.

• “Bearing the burden of non-AIDS comorbidities: How HIV and sex interact to impact and inform strategies for healthy aging” – Lauren Collins, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, 2021 DOM Clinical Citation Award (Junior faculty)
• “American-style football athletes: A robust model of early cardiovascular risk” – Jonathan Kim, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Cardiology
• “Environmental metals and lung health” – Young-Mi Go, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary, 2021 DOM Basic Citation Award (Senior faculty)
• “Novel roles of peripheral NMDA receptors in health and disease” – Cesar Romero, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Renal Medicine (K01 Grant recipient)
• “Nocturia study participants differ from those with nocturia: Why it matters” – Ted Johnson, MD, Division Director of General Internal Medicine

Congratulations to this year’s Research Day award winners! 

• Best oral presentation (Basic Science Research): Somesh Banerjee, Post-doc fellow, Digestive Diseases “PKC alpha protects ferroportin leading to systemic iron overload in diabetes”
• Best oral presentation (Clinical/Translational Research): Steven Lewis, Graduate student “MPI derived strain differentiates amyloidosis from left ventricular hypertrophy”
• Best oral presentation (Quality/Health Services Research): Camille Vaughan, Associate Professor, Geriatrics “A cluster randomized trial of two implementation strategies of EQUIPPED”
• Best poster presentation (Basic Science Research): Brenda Antezana, Graduate student “Antibiotic resistance transfer by extracellular vesicles in the pneumococcus”
• Best poster presentation (Clinical/Translational Research: Matthew Woodruff, Instructor, Rheumatology/Immunology “Machine learning identifies a unique subset of inflammatory long-COVID patients”
• Best poster presentation (Quality/Health Services Research): Adegboyega Olayode, Assistant Professor, Hospital Medicine “Diagnosis and management of Helicobacter pylori among hospitalized patients”

Thank you once more to our speakers, presenters, judges, moderators, and attendees for their time and input. We would also like to recognize the Office of Research and Faculty Development team for assistance in organizing this great event. Special thanks to our faculty chair, Cecile Lahiri, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, and faculty vice chair, Saria Hassan, Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, for their leadership and to Sarah McClellan, MPH, Assistant Director of Research Programs, for her superb organization of this key research event.

We hope everyone enjoyed Research Day and we look forward to seeing you in 2023. Be sure to tag us in your social media posts using the hashtag #22DOMResearchDay and check out our Instagram highlight “22 Research Day” for a recap of the day.