2022 Poster Day Awards

25th Annual Resident Poster Day Presentation

October 18, 2022

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 in the Clinical Vignette and Research/QI categories. Posters were judged on the chosen topic, the poster arrangement and the oral presentation.

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Winners of Poster Day 2022

Clinical Vignette

1st Place: Kimberly Seymour (URMC). “Secondary Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in a Patient with Presumptive Weaver Syndrome.”
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2nd Place: Kingshuk Mazumdar, MD, MBA; Sina Salehi Omran, MD; Angelo Pedulla, MD (URMC). “The Electrocardiographic Waves of the Octopus Trap: Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Masquerading as Acute Myocardial Infarction.”
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3rd Place: Abigail Schubach MD, Amulya Penmetsa MD, Ashwani Sharma MD, Shivangi Kothari MD  (URMC)."A Novel Approach to Obtaining Tissue in a Difficult to Access Indeterminate Biliary Stricture: Percutaneous Cholangioscopy and Biopsy."
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Research/QI

1st Place: Ido Goldenberg, MD, Arwa Younis, MD, David T. Huang, MD, Spencer Rosero, MD, Valentina Kutyifa, MD PhD, Scott McNitt, MS, Bronislava Polonsky, MS, Jonathan S. Steinberg, MD, Wojciech Zareba, MD, PhD, Mehmet K. Aktas, MD, MBA (RRH). "Risk Stratification for Ventricular Tachyarrhythmia in Patients with Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy."
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2nd Place: Jessica Oribabor, Naz Baecher, Scott McNitt, Beth Carlson, Liubov Fingerut, Elizabeth McKinley, Joy Choi, Scott McIntosh, Jeffrey Alexis (URMC). "Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets: Assessing Patient Satisfaction After Left Ventricular Assist Device."
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3rd Place: Anima Ghimire MD, Josh Broden MD, Meghan Train DO (URMC). "614 UPP Team: Wash-Glove-Wash QI Initiative."
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Additional Abstracts, Presentations and Posters Submitted

Clinical

Laura Saldivar, MD, PGY-2, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics; Tara Cicic, MS3; Dr. Adam Doyle, MD; Dr. Jeffrey Andolina, MD, MS (URMC). "A Case of a Missing IVC: Always Absent or an Adverse Event?"
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Laura Saldivar, MD, PGY-3, Sarah Beasley, MD, PGY-4, Corey Romesser, MD, & Erica Miller, MD (URMC). “Bradycardia, Renal Failure, AV Nodal Blockade, Shock and Hyperkalemia: A Rare Syndrome Threatening Cardiovascular Collapse.”
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Kimberly Hsu, MD (URMC). “Case of Desmoplakin Cardiomyopathy Treated with Heart Transplantation.”
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Chanjun S Park BA, Seif Nasir MD, Joseph Nicholas MD (URMC). “Nothing to Savor, This Food has no Flavor: A Case of Profound Dysgeusia in Disseminated Nocardia.”
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Pinguang Yang MD PhD, Joseph DiTursi MD, Prishanya Pillai MD, Hani Katerji MD, Gauri Patil BS, Paul Woods DO, Bilal Ahmed MD (URMC). “Hidden in Plain Sight: Castleman’s Disease Presenting as Fever of Unknown Origin.”
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Chloe Swanger MD; Homaira Rahimi MD, MTR; Li Liu MD, PhD; Treyc Terry MD (URMC). “False Positive Serum Pregnancy Testing in Patients with Elevated Autoimmune Antibodies.”
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Smith Agyingi, MD; Elliot Graziano, MD; Maisa Abdalla, MD (URMC). “Role of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Diagnosis of Upper GI Bleed Secondary to Aorto-Esophageal Fistula.”
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Sarah Rusnak, MD; Justin Lansinger, MD; Caroline Miller, MD; Christine M. Osborne, MD (URMC). “Gallbladder Rupture as Presentation of Urothelial Carcinoma.”
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Kelly A. Russo, MD, Ted Louie, MD (URMC). “The Unassuming Culprit: A Case of N. Sicca Bacteremia with Eculizumab Therapy.”
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Omar Tayseer Al Ali, Andrew Takla, Soon-IL Song (RRH). “Alopecia Areata after COVID-19 Vaccination.”
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Research/QI

Piotr Karmilowicz MD, Erin Armenia MD, Michael Hannon MD, Maria Mackin MS, Farhan Bajwa MD, Hima Vidula MD, Jeffrey Alexis MD, Ronald G. Schwartz MD, MS (URMC). “Survival Advantage of Treated Patients Diagnosed with Cardiac TTR Amyloidosis by Dual Isotope Perfusion Metabolism CZT SPECT: Four Year Experience at the University of Rochester.”
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Hayley Flanagan, MD, Kim Seymour, MD, John Mariano, MD, Jeffrey Andolina, MD (URMC). “Demographic Disparities Related to Fertility Preservation Counseling in Patients Undergoing Bone Marrow Transplantation."
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Dean Salem MD, Jessica Oribabor MD MS, Hayley Flanagan MD, Hannah Doyle MD, Conrad Gleber MD MBA, Jennifer Readlynn MD, Julia Trumbo MD, Kathryn Schneider RD, & Amy Blatt MD (URMC). “Ramadan Dietary Order Quality Improvement Initiative.”
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Mohaned Serdah, MD, Ryan O'Connor, MD, Elizabeth Newman, PA-C, Jeffrey Bruckel, MD (URMC). “Assessing Compliance and Efficacy of LVEDP Guided Hydration Protocol in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography.”
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Ido Goldenberg, Mehmet K. Aktas, Spencer Z. Rosero, Scott McNitt, Rupinder Buttar, Valentina Kutyifa, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA​ (URMC). "Risk of Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Device Recipients."
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Past Award Winners

2021 Poster Day Award Winners

2020 Poster Day Award Winners

2019 Poster Day Award Winners

2018 Poster Day Award Winners

2017 Poster Day Award Winners