Abstract Winners

1^st Place - Resident
Presenting Authors: Katie Egan, MD, Plastic Surgery
Contributors: Rachel Guest, MD, Plastic Surgery; Lauren M Sinik, MD, Plastic Surgery; Niaman Nazir, MD, MPH, Population Health; Martin De Ruyter, MD, Anesthesiology and Satish Ponnuru, MD, Plastic Surgery

Title: Evaluation of Liposomal Bupivacaine at Split Thickness Skin Graft Donor Sites Through a Randomized, Controlled Trial

2^nd Place - Resident
Presenting Author: Katie Egan, MD, Plastic Surgery
Contributors: Melissa Cullom, BS and Niaman Nazir, MD, MPH, Population Health

Title: Patient Satisfaction Increases with Nipple Reconstruction Following Autologous Breast Reconstruction

1^st Place - Fellow
Presenting Author: Mae Winchester, MD, Maternal Fetal Medicine
Contributors: Keisuke Kozai, PhD, Pathology; Kursheed Iqbal, PhD, Pathology; Masanaga Muto, PhD, Pathology and Regan Scott, MS, Pathology

Title: AKT1 deficiency is linked to placental, fetal, and postnatal growth restriction

2^nd Place - Fellow
Presenting Author: Dr. Tarun Dalia, Cardiovascular Disease
Contributors: Wan-Chi Chan, MD, Cardiovascular Disease; Prakash Acharya, MD, Cardiovascular Medicine; Andrew Sauer, MD, Cardiovascular Medicine; Robert Weidling, MD, Internal Medicine; John Fritzlen, MD, Internal Medicine; Amandeep Goyal, MD, Cardiovascular Disease; Dana Miller, MD, Cardiovascular Medicine; Charles Porter, MD, Cardiovascular Medicine and Zubair Shah, MD, Cardiovascular Medicine

Title: Prognostic Role of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Wild Type Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy Patients Treated with Tafamidis

Poster Winners

1^st Place - Resident
Presenting Author: Keenan Hogan, MD, Pathology
Contributor: Garth Fraga, MD, Pathology

Title: Compliance With STARD 2015 Recommendations in Pathology

2^nd Place - Resident
Presenting Author: Johnny Wei, MD, Anesthesiology
Contributors: Abigail Houchin, BS, Anesthesiology and Brigid Flynn, MD, Anesthesiology

Title: Investigating the Association of the Pulmonary Artery Pulsatility Index with Postoperative Outcomes in Patients with Right Ventricular Dysfunction following Cardiac Surgery

1^st Place - Fellow
Presenting Author: Mae Winchester, MD, Maternal Fetal Medicine
Contributors: Emily Boevers-Solverson, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Parmida Shah, BS, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Meghan Barr, BS, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Abigail Hartmann, BS, Family Medicine;  Sharon Fitzgerald, MPH, Population Health and Marc Parrish, DO, Maternal-Fetal Medicine

Title: Racial and ethnic disparities in urine drug screening on labor & delivery

2^nd Place - Fellow
Presenting Author: Karsten Evans, MD, Cytopathology
Contributors: Rashna Madan, MBBS Pathology; Katie Dennis, MD, Pathology; Maura O’Neil, MD, Pathology; Amit Rastogi, MD, Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Daniel Mettman, MD, Pathology and Sarah Kelting, MD, Pathology

Title: Comparison of Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Sampling Methods for Obtaining Adequate Material for Diagnosis and Mismatch Repair Protein Testing of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Quality Improvement (Resident)
1st:Ryan Morse (PGY1), Internal Medicine
2nd: Kyle Ahonen (PGY3) and Tyler Josephs (PGY3), Psychiatry

Quality Improvement (Fellow)
(no submissions)

Clinical Research (Resident)
1st: Farhad Sami (PGY2), Internal Medicine
2nd: Keenan Hogan (PGY3), Pathology-Anatomic & Clinical

Clinical Research (Fellow)
1st: Nachiket Madhav Apte (PGY8), Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
2nd: Het Dharia (PGY4), Geriatric Medicine

Basic Science Research (Resident)
1st: Chad Tuchek (PGY4), Neurological Surgery
2nd: Helena Wichova (PGY5), Otolaryngology

Basic Science Research (Fellow)
(no submissions)

Case Reports
1st: Aba Al-Kaabi (PGY5), Allergy & Immunology

1st Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Kaleigh Doke, MD (PGY5 Radiation Oncology)
Postdoc: Prasad Dandawate, PHD (Cancer Biology - Anant)
Fellow: Aniket Rali, MD (PGY6 Cardiovascular Disease)

2nd Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Rohit Ganju, MD (PGY4 Radiation Oncology)
Postdoc: TJ Beadnell, PhD (Cancer Biology - Welch)
Fellow: David Shirilla, DO (PGY6 Clinical Neurophysiology)

1st Place Poster Presentations
Resident: Matthew Jacobs, DO (PGY2 Anesthesiology)
Postdoc: Yomna Badawi, PhD (Anatomy and Cell Biology - Nishimune)
Fellow: Erin Haer, DO (PGY5 Cytopathology)

2nd Place Poster Presentations
Resident: Julie Leber, DO & Jacob Cohn, MD (both PGY5 Internal Med/Psychiatry)
Postdoc: Hanan Elsarraj, MD/PhD (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - Behbod)
Fellow: Matthew Varon, MD (PGY5 Neuromuscular Medicine)

1st Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Randi Ryan, MD (Surgery)
Postdoc: Prasad Dandawate, PhD (Surgery)
Fellow: Aniket Rali, MD (Cardiovascular Diseases)

2nd Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Shamik Shah, MBBS (Neurology)
Postdoc: Christa Manton, PhD (Cancer Biology)
Fellow: Mohammad-Ali Jazayeri, MD (Cardiovascular Diseases)

1st Place Poster Presentations
Resident: Weston Gordon, MD (Neurology)
Postdoc: Yan Ma, PhD (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
Fellow: Nida Faheem, MD (Vascular Neurology) & Domenico Gattozzi, MD (Neurosurgery)

2nd Place Poster Presentations
Resident: Chad Tuchek, MD (Neurosurgery)
Postdoc: Shaogui Wang, PhD (Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics)
Fellow: Matthew Lippmann, DO (Cardiovascular Diseases) & Bashar Amr, MD (Cardiovascular Diseases)

1st Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Guanning (Nina) Lu, MD, Otolaryngology
Postdoc: Christa Manton, PhD, Cancer Biology
Fellow: Scott Louis, MD, Cardiothoracic Surgery

2nd Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Woodson Smelser, MD, Urology
Postdoc: Amy Whitaker, PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Fellow: Jennifer Villwock, MD, Rhinology & Skull Base Surgery

1st Place Poster Presentations
Resident: Daniel Kirkpatrick, MD, Radiology
Postdoc: Yomna Badawi, PhD, Anatomy and Cell Biology
Fellow: Ram Chettiar, DO, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

2nd Place Poster Presentations
Resident: Kristin Williams, MD, Radiology
Postdoc: Derek Oien, PhD, Cancer Biology
Fellow: Ali Jazayeri, MD, Cardiac Arrhythmia

1st Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Krista Grow, MD (PGY2 Emergency Medicine)
Postdoc: Heather Wilkins, PhD (Neurology - Swerdlow Lab)
Fellow: Prasad Gunasekaran, MBBS (PGY5 Cardiovascular Diseases)

2nd Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Brandon Carlson, MD (PGY4 Orthopaedic Surgery)
Postdoc: Ben Woolbright, PhD (Pharmacology - Jaeschke Lab)
Fellow: Scott Louis, MD (PGY6 Cardiothoracic Surgery)

1st Place Poster Presentations
Resident: Duke Pfitzinger, DO (PGY3 General Surgery)
Postdoc: Yan Ma, PhD (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - Godwin Lab)
Fellow: Kashyap Choksi, MD (PGY7 Cardiovascular Diseases)

2nd Place Poster Presentations
Resident: John Baer, DO (PGY3 Anesthesia)
Postdoc: Faezeh Koohestani, PhD (Molecular and Integrative Physiology - Chennathukuzhi Lab)
Fellow: Scott Belliston, DO (PGY5 Multiple Sclerosis)

1st Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Kushal Shah, MD, Neurosurgery
Postdoc: Aritra Bhattacherjee, PhD, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Fellow: Sampath Gunda, MD, MHA, Cardiac Arrhythmia

2nd Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Christopher Surek, DO, Plastic Surgery
Postdoc: Joshua Ogony, PhD, Cancer Biology
Fellow: Prasad Gunasekaran, MD, Cardiovascular Diseases

1st Place Poster Presentations
Resident: Jimmy Bush, MD, Pathology
Postdoc: Yan Ma, PhD, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Fellow: Courtney Huhn, MD, Geriatric Medicine

2nd Place Poster Presentations
Resident: Nicholas Barnthouse, MD, Orthopedic Surgery
Postdoc: Kevin Beggs, PhD, Pharmacology
Fellow: Bryn Taylor Haws, DO, Hematopathology

1st Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Jessica Hogan, MD, General Surgery
Postdoc: Greta Stamper, PhD, School of Health Professions
Fellow: Rashmi Thapa, MD, Cardiovascular Disease

2nd Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Chris Surek, DO, Plastic Surgery
Postdoc: Mitchell McGill, PhD, Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutics
Fellow: Dusan Stanojevic, MD, Cardiovascular Disease

1st Place Poster Presentations
Resident: Hesham Soliman, MD & Dave Seecharan, MD, Neurosurgery
Postdoc: Parthasarathy Rangarajan, PhD, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Fellow (TIE): Dipika Aggarwal, MD, Clinical Neurophysiology
Fellow (TIE): Jessica Barks, DO, Pulmonary Disease & Critical Care Medicine

2nd Place Poster Presentations
Resident: Kyle Smith, MD & Jeremy Peterson, MD, Neurosurgery
Postdoc: Wei Fang, MD, PhD, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

1st Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Casey Hertzenberg, General Surgery
Post Doc: Stephen Renaud, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Fellow: Jayasree Pillarisetti, Cardiology

2nd Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Richard Seagrave, Orthopaedic Surgery
Post Doc: Lydia Vermeer, Anatomy and Cell Biology
Fellow (TIE): Suresh Sharma, Cardiology
Fellow (TIE): Arun Sridhar, Cardiology

1st Place Poster Presentations
Resident: Jessica Hogan, General Surgery
Post Doc: Qiuhua Shen, School of Nursing
Fellow: Christopher Fox, Pathology

2nd Place Poster Presentations
Resident: Stuart Krein, Psychiatry
Post Doc: Lesya Holets, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Fellow: Rachel Mason, Geriatric Medicine

1st Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Stephanie Cohen, General Surgery
Post Doc: Julia Yue Cui, Internal Medicine
Fellow: Bassem Chehab, Cardiology

2nd Place Oral Presentations
Resident: Jamie Boone, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Post Doc: Deep Kwatra, Molecular and Integrative Physiology

1st Place Poster Presentations
Resident (TIE): Bradley Dyer, Internal Medicine/Psychiatry
Resident (TIE): Reshmi Saranga, Psychiatry
Post Doc: Fnu Gaurav, Surgery
Fellow (TIE): Amanda Gudgell, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Fellow (TIE): Madhu Reddy, Cardiology

2nd Place Poster Presentations
Post Doc: Pratik Home, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine