2020 Poster Day Awards

23rd Annual Resident Poster Day Virtual Presentation

October 13, 2020

Resident Poster Day is an annual event for any Medicine or Med/Peds residents to present clinical cases, QI projects, research or educational innovations. The event is open to the three city programs. This year, posters were presented virtually in the Clinical Vignette and Research/QI categories. Posters were judged on the chosen topic, the poster arrangement and the oral presentation.

Watch Clinical Presentations (note: recording begins with presentations in progress)
1 hr 18 min

Watch Research Presentations
1 hr 21 min

Winners of Poster Day 2020

Clinical Vignette

1st Place: Prishanya Pillai, MD, Christina Perri, MD, MA, Abigail Schubach, MD, MS. and Christine Osborne, MD (URMC). “Do No Harm: Ethical Considerations in Continuing Life-Sustaining Treatment when Treating Outside the Standard of Care.”
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2nd Place: Alexandra M. Bender, MD, PhD, Kunali Gurditta, Elizabeth H. Cusick, MD, Thomas Walters, MD, Molly E. Plovanich, MD, Meghan K. Train, DO (URMC). “Anemia, Exertional Dyspnea, and Petechial Rash in a Healthy 62-year-old.”
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3rd Place: Michaela Barry BS, Prishanya Pillai MD, and Christine M. Osborne, MD (URMC). “Sweet Syndrome: A Rare Mimicker of Septic Shock.”
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Research/QI

1st Place: Kriti Thapa, MD, MPH and Nilbhi Patel, MD (URMC). "Unit-based Interdisciplinary Team Approach to Dispensing a Naloxone Kit upon Hospital Discharge."
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2nd Place: Nicholas H. Bishop, MD, PhD, Alessandra Rothberg, PA-C, Chris Jacob, DO (URMC). "Effect of Albumin Administration on Acute Kidney Injury After Paracentesis in Hospitalized Patients with and without Chronic Kidney Disease."
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Bryan E-Xin Tan, MD, Jeremiah P. Depta, MD, Bipul Baibhav, MD, Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH (RGH). "Necessity of 45-day Transesophageal Echocardiography after the WATCHMAN Procedure Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic."
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Additional Abstracts, Presentations and Posters Submitted

Clinical

Carlo Arevalo Rodriguez, MD, Joseph Nicholas, MD, MPH (URMC). “Neuroendocrine Disturbances as the Initial Manifestation of Leptomeningeal Metastasis.”
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Laura Saldivar, MD, Alexandra Buda, BS, Julia Trumbo, MD (URMC). “Mononucleosis Mimicking Malignancy.”
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Shireen Usman, MD (URMC). “An Atypical Case of Post-Pericardiotomy Syndrome.”
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Minh Thu T. Nguyen, MD, Christine M. Osborne, MD (URMC). “Dermatomyositis as Initial Presentation of dMMR Colorectal Cancer and its Treatment Dilemma.”
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Sara Gianfagna, DO, MSMEd., Kunali Gurditta, Mujtaba Soniwala, DO (URMC). “Casting a Broad Differential: Unstable Angina in the Setting of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura.”
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Elaine Rigney MD, Timothy Wiegand MD (URMC). “‘Start Low & Delay Until in Withdrawal’ – Lessons Learned from Precipitated Withdrawal after Early Buprenorphine Initiation after Methadone.”
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Justin A Komisarof, MD, PhD, Kevin McGann, Andrew G. Evans, MD, PhD, Mary Anne Morgan, MD (URMC). “An Atypical Presentation of Smoldering Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH).”
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Prishanya Pillai, MD, Maxime Jean, MD, PhD, Michaela Barry, BS. and Christine Osborne, MD (URMC). “Rhabdomyolysis and Necrotizing Crescenteric IgA Glomerulonephritis in a Patient with Legionella Pneumonia.”
Abstract

Vignette

Roshan Jha, MD, Mohammad Talal Khan, MD (RGH). “Always Exclude the Reversibles: Vitamin B12 Deficiency Mimicking Acute Lymphoma.”
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Research/QI

Osarenren Idemudia, MD, Abdullah Abdullah, MD, Nathan Ritter, MD (RGH). “Association of Ace Inhibitor or ARB Use with Incidence of COVID-19 Infection: A Retrospective Observational Study in Patients with an Isolated Diagnosis of Hypertension Aged 30 to 60 Years.”
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Bryan E-Xin Tan, MD, Leela Krishna Teja Boppana, MD, Abdullah S. Abdullah, MD, Dmitry Chuprun, MD, Abrar Shah, MD, Mohan Rao, MD, Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, Jeremiah P. Depta, MD (RGH). "Safety and Feasibility of Same-day Discharge after Left Atrial Appendage Closure with the WATCHMAN Device."
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Mujtaba Soniwala, DO, Saadia Sherazi MD, MS, Susan Schleede, MS, Scott McNitt, MS, Tina Faugh; Jeremiah Moore, PharmD, Justin Foster PharmD, Clive Zent, MD, Paul Barr, MD, Patrick Reagan, MD, Jonathan W Friedberg, MD, MSSc, Eugene Storozynsky, MD, PhD, Ilan Goldenberg, MD, Carla Casulo, MD (URMC). "Arrhythmia Burden in Patients with Indolent Lymphoma."
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Katia Bravo-Jaimes, MD, Miluska O. Mejia, MD, Nadia Isabel Abelhad, MD, Yelin Zhou, PhD, Marwan F. Jumean, MD, Sriram Nathan, MD, Abijheet Dhoble, MD (RGH). "Sex Differences in Outcomes of Cardiogenic Shock Requiring Temporary Percutaneous Mechanical Circulatory Support."
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Past Award Winners

2022 Poster Day Award Winners

2021 Poster Day Award Winners

2019 Poster Day Award Winners

2018 Poster Day Award Winners

2017 Poster Day Award Winners