Sixth Annual Poster Symposium Winners

The Sixth Annual MMS Research Poster Symposium for Residents, Fellows and Medical Students took place on Friday, December 2, 2011 in conjunction with the 2011 MMS Interim House of Delegates Meeting.  Over 80 abstracts were submitted by residents, fellows and students in four categories:  Basic Research, Clinical Research, Health Policy/Medical Education and Clinical Vignettes.  57 of the abstracts were accepted to the symposium for display.

The MMS is proud to announce the following winners of the Sixth Annual Poster Symposium:

Basic Research

First Place:
Jessica M. DeLong, MD
Lahey Clinic
A Non-invasive MiRNA Based Assay to Detect Bladder Cancer in Cell-free Urine

Second Place:
Arun Rai
Boston University School of Medicine
Small Molecule Inhibitor WP1130 Downregulates Mcl-1 via USP9x Inhibition and Sensitizes to Bcl-XL Inhibitor ABT-737 in Solid Tumors

Third Place:
Nora G. Lee, MD
Boston University Medical Center Urology
Up-regulation of Transforming Growth Factor-b and the Counter-regulatory Effects of Hepatocyte Growth Factor in Fetal Sheep Bladder Outlet Obstruction

Clinical Research

First Place:
Venkatesh L. Murthy, MD, PhD
Brigham & Women’s Hospital Cardiology
Coronary Vascular Function Accounts for Increased Mortality in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease

Second Place:
Marvin Duque, MD
Tufts Medical Center Hematology/Oncology
Natural Killer Cell Enriched Donor Lymphocyte Infusions after Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant to Prevent Disease Relapse: A Phase I Clinical Trial

Third Place:
An Barry Bui, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Internal Medicine
Elevated Concentration of Placental Growth Factor (PlGF) and Long Term Risk in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome in the PROVE IT-TIMI 22 Trial

Health Policy/Medical Education

First Place:
Zirui Song
Harvard Medical School
Unintended Consequences of Redistributing Income from Specialists to Primary Care Physicians in Medicare

Second Place:
Paul B. Gerrard, MD
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Rasch Analysis of Eleven Functional Independence Items in the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey in Patients with a Primary Diagnosis of Cerebrovascular Disease

Third Place:
Hetal Fichadia, MD
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Surgery
How to Teach Quality and Patient Safety to Surgical Residents?

Clinical Vignettes 

First Place:
Georgios Syros, MD
St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center Cardiology
Toxic Myocarditis in IV Drug User with Fluctuating Mitral Regurgitation

Second Place:
Vasanth S. Kainkaryam, MD
Baystate Medical Center Med-Peds
Numb Chin Syndrome:  The Presenting Symptom of Burkitt’s Lymphoma in a Teenager

Third Place:
Saurabh Dahiya, MD
Baystate Medical Center Internal Medicine
Primary Testicular Lymphoma with Cardiac Involvement in an Immunocompetant Male

Copies of the abstract book from the Sixth Annual Research Poster Symposium are available to MMS members.  Please email Colleen Hennessey at chennessey@mms.org to request a copy.

Past Symposium Winners:

• Fifth Annual Research Poster Symposium
• Fourth Annual Research Poster Symposium 

Judges

The Massachusetts Medical Society would like to thank our prestigious panel of judges for the Sixth Annual Research Poster Symposium:

Alan J. Albert, MD
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Donald E. Craven, MD
Chair of Infectious Diseases
Lahey Clinic
Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine

Peter B. Kang, MD, FAAP
Pediatric Neurologist & Physician-Scientist
Children’s Hospital Boston
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Director of the Neurology Rotation
Boston Combined Residency in Pediatrics.

Darshan H. Mehta, MD, MPH
Medical Director
Associate Director of Medical Education
Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital

Gwenn S. O’Keeffe, MD, FAAP
Pediatrician & Health Journalist
Chief Executive Officer
Pediatrics Now

Sadeq A. Quraishi, MD, MHA
Instructor in Anesthesia
Harvard Medical School
Staff Anesthesiologist-Intensivist
Massachusetts General Hospital
Doctoral Research Fellow
Harvard Clinical & Translational Science Award Center

Eric J. Reines, MD, FACP
Geriatrics Primary Care Physician
Elder Service Plan of North Shore PACE

Caren G. Solomon, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Deputy Editor
The New England Journal of Medicine