June 1, 2009
The Fourth Annual Research and Poster Symposium for residents,
fellows and medical students took place on Saturday, April
25. The winners in each category are listed below. This
year over 125 abstracts were submitted and 75 were accepted for
display. Over 100 people attended this educational and
stimulating Symposium, some of whom commented that the event was
"very thought-provoking" and that it provided a "great opportunity
to view other colleagues' work". In addition to the poster judging,
Dr. Teresa Schraeder, graduate medical education editor at the
New England Medical Journal, presented a lecture entitled,
Medical Education: Who Will Train the Next Generation of
Physicians?
Category: Basic Research
First Prize: Michael Roehrl, M.D.,
Ph.D.
Glycoproteomic analysis of human lung adenocarcinomas using lectin
glycoarrays and tandem mass spectrometry: Differential expression
and glycosylation patterns of vinentin and fetuin A isoforms
Second Prize: Brian Lee
Edaravone, a free radical scavenger, protects components of the
neurovascular unit against oxidative stress in vitro
Third Prize: Noah Rodriguez, M.D.
Autoantibody profiling to identify pathway-specific tumor antigens
in ovarian cancer
Category: Clinical Research
First Prize: Avra Ackerman
Clinical manifestations of Tuberculosis among pediatric household
contacts with active culture confirmed disease
Second Prize: Stephen Williams,
M.D.
Discerning risk of clinically significant versus indolent prostate
cancer prior to biopsy: predictive model from a multi-center
cohort
Third Prize: Maros Ferencik, M.D.
Cardiovascular risk scores and coronary plaque burden as detected
by computer tomography for detection of acute coronary syndrome
Category: Health Policy/ Medical Education
First Prize: Jesse Ehrenfeld, M.D.
Utilization of an anesthesia information management system for
physician credentialing
Second Prize: Mary Catherine Arbour, M.D./ Alic
Lorch
Research for equity: A good start
Third Prize: Bharath Nath, M.D.
Social Networks are associated with peer-to-peer mentoring in
undergraduate medical education: a student-driven initiative to
bring learning communities to the UMass Medical School
Category: Clinical Vignettes
First Prize: Majorie Janvier
# Lemierre's Syndrome (a case of prostanginal sepsis)
Second Prize: Manmeet Singh, M.D.
Not the garden variety Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Third Prize: Robert Aaron, M.D.
A rare dermatological manifestation of Hyperbilirubinemia
