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.orgto request a copy.
Past Symposium Winners:
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
