The Fifth Annual MMS Research Poster Symposium for Residents,
Fellows and Medical Students took place on Friday, December 3, 2010
in conjunction with the 2010 MMS Interim House of Delegates
Meeting. 110 abstracts were submitted by residents, fellows
and students in four categories: Basic Research, Clinical
Research, Health Policy/Medical Education and Clinical
Vignettes. 62 of the abstracts were accepted to the symposium
for display.
The MMS is proud to announce the following winners of the Fifth
Annual Poster Symposium:
Basic Research
First Place:
Kevin R. Anderson
Boston University School of Medicine
Small RNA, Iron Regulation and Antibiotic
Susceptibility
Second Place:
Matthew S. Davids, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
BH3 Profiling to Characterize Apoptic Priming in Chronic
Lymphocytic Leukemia
Third Place:
Jenny Hong Gao, MD
North Shore Medical Center Internal Medicine
VentX, a Novel Wnt Antagonist, Regulates Cellular Senescence in
Cancer Cells
Clinical Research
First Place:
Nicola J. Smith, MD
Center for Children with Special Needs at Tufts Floating
Hospital
An Abbreviated Screen for Autism Spectrum Disorders
Second Place:
Arjun K. Venkatesh, MD, MBA
Brigham & Women's Hospital Emergency Medicine
Inappropriate CT Imaging for ED Patients with Suspected
Pulmonary Embolism: Defining the Performance Gap
Third Place:
Jeffrey K. Lange, MD
University of Massachusetts Medical School Orthopaedic
Medicine
Effective Radiation Dose to Patients Using Intraoperative
Cone-beam CT in Thoraco-Lumbar Spinal Surgery
Health Policy/ Medical Education
First Place:
Arjun K. Venkatesh, MD, MBA
Brigham & Women's Hospital Emergency Medicine
Variation in Emergency Department Disposition Across
Massachusetts Hospitals, 2005
Second Place:
Mitchell R. Lunn, MD
Brigham & Women's Hospital Internal Medicine
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender-Related Content in
Undergraduate Medical Education
Third Place:
Graham Brant-Zawadzki
Tufts University School of Medicine
Using Text Based Communication to Facilitate Triage, Acute
Care, and Emergency Response in Milot, Haiti
Clinical Vignettes
First Place:
Khagendra Dahal, MD
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center Internal Medicine
Hemodialysis Using High-cutoff Protein-leaking Dialyzer in Cast
Nephropathy: a Case with Renal Revival
Second Place:
Troy Anderson, DO
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center Anesthesia
Another Use of the Boussignac System in a Patient with
Bilateral Phrenic Nerve Paralysis
Third Place:
Brian Rothschild, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital Dermatology
Cowden's Syndrome - An Uncommon Autosomal Dominant Condition
Presenting with Characteristic Skin Lesions and a Strong
Predisposition to Several Cancers
Copies of the abstract book from the Fifth Annual Research
Poster Symposium are available to MMS members. Please email
Colleen Hennessey at chennessey@mms.org to request
a copy.
Judges
The Massachusetts Medical Society would like to thank our
prestigious panel of judges for the Fifth Annual Research Poster
Symposium:
Anil K. Chandraker, MD, FASN, FRCP
Medical Director of Kidney and Pancreas
Transplantation
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Director
Transplantation Research Center
Donald E. Craven, MD
Chair of Infectious Diseases
Lahey Clinic
Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Julie R. Ingelfinger, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Senior Consultant in Pediatric Nephrology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Deputy Editor
The New England Journal of Medicine
S. Jay Jayasankar, MD
Consulting Orthopaedic Surgeon
Massachusetts General Hospital
President
Boston Medical Library
Peter B. Kang, M.D.
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.
Vincent C. Smith, MD
Associate Director of NICU
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical 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
Malissa J. Wood, MD FACC
Clinical Cardiologist and Staff Physician
Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory
Massachusetts General Hospital
Co-Director
MGH Heart Center Corrigan Women's Health Program
