8th ANNUAL RESEARCH DAY

                                                    Award Winners 2010

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

 

Case Report

 

 

 

First Place

Timothy Muchayi

Internal Medicine

An Unusual Cause of Back Pain in a Detroit Resident

Second Place

Abhijit Saste

Internal Medicine

Isolated Non-Compaction of the Ventricular Myocardium

Third Place

Karen Estrine

Emergency Medicine

Neonatal Plumbism Secondary to Maternal Chronic Lead Poisoning and PICA

 

 

 

 

Clinical Research

 

 

 

First Place

Yaser Hussein

Pathology

Glut-1 Expression Correlates with Basal-Like Breast Cancer

Second Place

Carrie Fitzgerald

Urology

A Successful Prospective Trial of Conservative Management for Pediatric Blunt Renal Trauma

Third Place

Tom George

Pharmacy

Risk factors for MRSA Bacteremia with an Elevated Vancomycin MIC (>1 mg/L)

 

 

 

 

 

Nursing Research

 

 

 

 

Ellen Portnoy

Nursing

Use of Dartmouth COOP Charts to Screen for Emotional Distress in a Primary Care Clinic

 

 

 

 

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

 

 

 

 

Case Report

 

 

 

First Place

Fahad Omar

Internal Medicine

Epstein-Barr Virus Infection presents with Neurological Signs & Symptoms

Second Place

Megan Bonanni

Emergency Medicine

Palliative Care in the Emergency Department: Palliative Care in the Setting of a Vascular Emergency

Third Place

Abdulrazak Alchakaki

Internal Medicine

Unknown Etiology of Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in Squamous Cell Cancer of the Cervix

 

 

 

 

Clinical Research

 

 

 

First Place

Gautam Bahl

Radiology

Detection of Recurrent Gliomas Treated with Surgery and Radiation Therapy using alpha-[11C]methyl-L-tryptophan (AMT) Positron Emission Tomography

Second Place

Naga Kommuri

Internal Medicine

Discharge Education Improves Knowledge And Outcomes In Heart Failure Patients

Third Place

E.M. Malitha Hettiarachchi

Internal Medicine

Blood Sugar Control of Hospitalized Patients with Non-Critical Medical Illnesses in a Community Based Teaching Hospital -- a Quality Improvement Project

 

 

 

 

Basic Science Research

 

 

 

First Place

Kristian Brown

Surgery

Differentiation of Alloreactive versus CD3/CD28 Stimulated T-lymphocytes Using Raman Spectroscopy: a greater specificity for noninvasive acute renal allograft rejection detection

Second Place

Muhammad Butt

Surgery

Valproic Acid Induces Neuronal Survival in a Polytrauma Swine Model of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Third Place

Gautam Bahl

Radiology

Improved Characterization of Brain Tumors and Microvasculature using High Resolution MR Perfusion Weighted Imaging and Susceptibility Weighted Imaging