The 22nd Annual Resident Research Day took place on Tuesday, April 15. Each year, the J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program hosts this annual event to showcase residents’ research achievements and celebrate the collaboration between residents and dedicated faculty.
Resident Research Day featured a keynote presented by Sara Turbow, MD, (General Internal Medicine), titled “From Scratch to Success: A Recipe for a Career in Research & Medicine,” and resident oral presentations from three of our residents (listed below). The event also included three resident oral presentations and 95 poster presentations. Residents submitted 118 clinical vignettes and research abstracts for blind peer review. Please see below for this year’s Resident Research Day winners as reviewed by our 14 DOM faculty members.
Congratulations to all of our presenters on their extraordinary work!
Resident Oral Presenters
ORIGINAL RESEARCH PROJECTS:
- Ishwar Chuckaree, MD, PGY2 Resident, “Plasminogen Activator Urokinase Receptor (PLAUR) Levels are a Predictor of Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in the General Population, Independent of High-Sensitive CRP (hs-CRP)”
- Kathryn Sharma, MD, PGY2 Resident,
“The PEN-FAST is Mightier than the Sword: Evaluating the Oral Amoxicillin Challenge at Emory University Hospitals”
CLINICAL VIGNETTE:
- Navila Sharif, MD, PGY3 Resident,
“One Lumen, Two Zebras: Nocardia and Non-TB Mycobacterium Bacteremia in an Immunocompetent Patient on TPN”
Poster Presentations:
Of the 95 posters presented in person at the Resident Research Day Symposium following the Grand Rounds oral presentations, the following winners were selected by the juried review of 14 faculty members from the Department of Medicine.
Original Research Poster Winners
- 1st place: Rand Ibrahim, MD – PGY2 Resident, “The Safety and Feasibility of Flecainide Use in AF-induced cardiomyopathy”
- 2nd place: Carolyn Brooks, MD – PGY3 Resident, “Opioid Prescribing Patterns in Chronic Pancreatitis Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)”
- 3rd Place: Mildred “Milee” Nelson, MD – PGY3 Resident, “Why We Do What We Do: A Survey of ID Providers About Oral Antibiotics”
Honorable Mention, Original Research
- Alam Merchant, MD – PGY3 Resident, “Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Ameliorate Diet-Induced Hepatic Steatosis and Cardiomyopathy in Mice”
- Honorable Mention – Daniel Rzewnicki, MD – PGY2 Resident, “Tough nut to crack: Baseline white blood cell count modifies the of effect of piperacillin-tazobactam vs cefepime on mortality in the ACORN trial”
- Honorable Mention – Malika Elhage Hassan, MD – PGY1 Resident, “Outcomes of the Bashir Endovascular Catheter Thrombolysis “On-The-Table” Technique for the Treatment of Intermediate Risk Pulmonary Embolism”
- Honorable Mention – Phillip Anjum, MD – PGY3 Resident, “Warfarin and GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Interaction Effects on Time in Therapeutic Range”
Clinical Vignette Poster Winners
- 1st place: Catherine Bennett, MD – PGY4 Med-Psych Medicine Resident, “Perilous Pica: A Case of Paradichlorobenzene Ingestion”
- 2nd Place: Martin Osorio Nader, MD – PGY2 Resident “Catechola-mimicry: Paraganglioma Presenting as a Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Phenocopy”
- 3rd Place: Rand Ibrahim, MD – PGY2 Resident, “Standing the Test of Time: Acute Flare of Chronic Hepatitis B with Herbal Intoxication”
Honorable Mention, Clinical Vignettes
- Shree Patel, MD – PGY1 Resident, “Very Important Perpetrator: A Patient with Chronic Secretory Diarrhea”
We send our gratitude to the numerous faculty members who participated in the abstract review and poster judging, as well as the faculty mentorship behind each of these resident research and clinical vignette projects. Special thanks to Dustin Smith, Anamaria Dragan, Dylan Koundakjian, and Thedis Carries for their organization and execution of this wonderful event!
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