The Department of Medicine is nearing the end of another successful year. There is much to be proud of, and we are very grateful for your efforts and ongoing dedication. Take a look back at some of the many accomplishments, highlights, and honors of the past year, below.

DOM Research Day

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.

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”

DOM Launches Research Ride Podcast & Spotify Playlist

The DOM Research Ride podcast, hosted by Charlie Searles, highlights our department’s cross-cutting research programs and the brilliant and passionate researchers behind them. In 2022, Charlie featured guest speakers Nadine Rouphael, MD, Jessica Alvarez, PhD, RD, and Ted Johnson, MD, MPH, who discussed their research efforts and shared more about who they are outside of work. Click here to listen on our YouTube channel.

Research Ride Spotify Playlist
In 2022, we also launched our Research Ride Playlist on Spotify! Each episode, featured guests share the songs they cannot live without. Click here to listen to Spotify Playlist