2024 Research Symposium

Congratulations to GME trainees winning first prize in the respective categories: Shahzaib Khan (Case report), Nancy Mayer (Investigator Initiated Research), Trisha Andrews & Suchitra Muralidharan (QI) and Iga Fudyma (Med Student).

We were also thrilled to welcome all Healthcare Professionals to present for the first time! Congratulations to the Clinical Pharmacist, Chad Kateelar, who took home the first prize in this new category.

To view a virtual poster of each submission, select the link below.

Quality Improvement Projects

1. Heart Failure BMP by Trisha Andrews, MD and Suchitra Muralidharan, MD, Internal Medicine Residents

Healthcare Professionals

1. Utilization of Dispense Tracking to Reduce Re-dispensing by Chad Ketelaar PharmD. And Whitney Pelletier PharmD
2. Brief-Free: An Initiative to Moisture Associated Skin Damage by Morgan McCormick, BSN, Sarah Culver, BSN, & Margaret Ondrey, APRN, CN

Case Reports

1. An RV Thrombus: Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Kyle Hamann, DO and Vijay Kata, MD, Internal Medicine Residents
2. Successful debulking of tricuspid valve endocarditis utilizing angiovac aspiration thrombectomy by Abraham Lee, DO, Cardiology Fellow
3. A rare triple threat: pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium, and pericarditis by Dureshahwar Ali, DO, Cardiology Fellow
4. Cerebral Malaria: A case of morbid rise in parasitemia associated with Plasmodium Falciparum by Kyle Hamann, DO, Internal Medicine Resident
5. Acute CMV: A Rare Culprit of Protein Losing Enteropathy in an Immunocompetent Adult by Nancy Mayer, DO, Internal Medicine Resident
6. Vaping-Associated Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum by Nancy Mayer, DO, Internal Medicine Resident
7. Lyme Carditis by Nishita Vattem DO, Internal Medicine Resident
8. Repeat Offender: Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection by Nishita Vattem DO, Internal Medicine Resident
9. The Uninvited Weight Loss Coach: A Case of Enterococcus Durans Endocarditis by Nishita Vattem DO, Internal Medicine Resident
10. Treatment of Massive Pulmonary Embolism with Large-Bore Mechanical Thrombectomy by Dureshahwar Ali D.O., Cardiology Fellow and Seerat Hassan D.O., Internal Medicine Resident
11. Pneumocystis jiroveci Pneumonia: Unmasking an Uncommon Culprit in a Presumably Immunocompetent Patient by Shreya Jain, DO Internal Medicine Residents
12. Unraveling the Complications of Acute Cholecystitis: A Case Report of Hemoperitoneum Leading to Gastric Ulcerations by Shreya Jain, DO Internal Medicine Resident
13. Seronegative HSV encephalitis causing temporal lobe epilepsy resulting in new-onset psychosis by Shahzaib Khan DO, Psychiatry Resident
14. MADSAM, a Rare Case of Inflammatory Demyelinating Neuropathy, Misdiagnosed as Lupus by Shahzaib Khan DO, Psychiatry Resident
15. Purkinje Network Modification Utilizing the High Density OPTRELL Mapping Catheter by Suchitra Muralidharan, MD, Internal Medicine Resident
16. Ticagrelor’s Arresting Performance after Elective PCI by Suchitra Muralidharan, MD, Internal Medicine Resident
17. Check the colon: Colon Cancer in Clostridium septicum Bacteremia by Sasha Singh, DO, Internal Medicine Resident
18. Disseminated VZV, a Rare Case of Hepatitis and Pancreatitis by Trisha Andrews, MD, Internal Medicine Resident
19. Bronchoprovocation Test Gone Awry by Trisha Andrews, MD, Internal Medicine Resident

Medical Students

1. Iatrogenic Atrial Septal Defects Following Intracardiac Echocardiography Guided Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion by Iga Fudyma, Medical Student on Rotation

Investigator-Initiated Research

1. Further Defining Gastric Emptying with Mathematical Models by Nancy Mayer, DO, Internal Medicine Resident