The Seventh Annual MMS Research Poster Symposium for Residents, Fellows and Medical Students took place on Friday, November 30, 2012 in conjunction with the 2012 MMS Interim House of Delegates Meeting. Over 100 abstracts were submitted by residents, fellows and students in four categories: Basic Research, Clinical Research, Health Policy/Medical Education and Clinical Vignettes. 53 of the abstracts were accepted to the symposium for display.
The MMS is proud to announce the following winners of the Seventh Annual Poster Symposium:
Basic Research
First Place:
Walter M. Kim, MD, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Structural Details of the HIV/SIV Nef-TCRzeta interaction and its Role in T-cell activation
Second Place:
Anjali Rai
Texas A & M University Health Science Center College of Medicine
All-trans retinoic acid inhibits high glucose-induced fibrosis through regulation of NFkB signaling
Third Place:
Sanggyu Bae, MD
Steward St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center
The effect of TNF-alpha intratumoral injection in the WT Lewis Lung Carcinoma and P75 receptor KD Lewis Lung Carcinoma
Clinical Research
First Place:
An Hong Bui, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Relationship Between Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardia and Vascular Death in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome in the PLATO Trial
Second Place:
Joseph Pare, MD
Boston University
Ultrasound (US) as a first-line imaging modality for appendicitis: Does it reduce health care costs, radiation exposure and length of stay (LOS) in emergency department (ED) patients?
Third Place:
Kelsey R. Murphy
Tufts Medical School
Evaluation of the new IFCPC colposcopy classification in a US colposcopy population
Health Policy/Medical Education
First Place:
C. Jason Mallo, DO
Austen Riggs Center
Integrating Psychosocial Concepts into Psychopharmacology Training
Second Place:
Monique A. Gary, DO
Berkshire Medical Center
Development of Systems-Based Practice Competency through Surgical Multidisciplinary Rounds
Third Place:
Bassem Mikhael, BA
Harvard Medical School
Clinical Pathway Development for Acute Axial Low Back Pain
Clinical Vignettes
First Place:
Nicholas Shaheen, MD
Michael Barker, MD
St. Vincent Hospital
CT findings in Peritoneal Tuberculosis
Second Place:
Arvind Kalyan Sundaram, MD
Mount Auburn Hospital
Unusual presentation of Primary Cardiac Lymphoma with Right ventricular flow obstruction
Third Place:
Eimear Kitt, MD
Baystate Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine
A Stroke of Death: Artery of Percheron Syndrome
Honorable Mention:
Hasan S. Merali, MD
MassGeneral Hospital for Children
Cystic Echinococcosis in a 7-Year-Old-Girl from Morocco
Honorable Mention:
Vinod E. Nambudiri, MD, MBA
Boston Children’s Hospitals
Disseminated BCG-itis in a 14-Month-Old Male with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
Copies of the abstract book from the Seventh Annual Research Poster Symposium are available to MMS members. Please email Colleen Hennessey at chennessey@mms.org to request a copy.
Past Symposium Winners:
Judges
The Massachusetts Medical Society would like to thank our prestigious panel of judges for the Seventh Annual Research Poster Symposium:
Leon Adelman, MD
Emergency Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Founder
Providers for Progress
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.
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
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
David L. Stahl, MD
Clinical Fellow
Harvard Medical School
Anesthesiology Resident
Massachusetts General Hospital
Chair, Resident and Fellow Section
Massachusetts Medical Society
