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Central & West Texas GME Research Day 2024

The 5th Annual CWTX Division Research Symposium was held on Friday, April 19th, 2024 at Del Sol Medical Center and virtually. We had about 100 people join this year to watch our wonderful presenters. 30 residents presented their novel work, with representation from all programs in the division (Internal Medicine, Transitional Year, Surgery, OBGYN). We had 5 oral presenters, and our independent judges rated the top 3 which included:

First Place: Virginia Lowe, DO - St David’s OBGYN, faculty mentor: Dr. Linda Haddox (PD)
- Case of Uterine Artery Injury in a Patient Undergoing Prophylactic Uterine Artery Balloon Placement Prior to a Planned Cesarean Hysterectomy in the Setting of PAS
Second Place: Rohan Divecha, MD – Las Palmas Del Sol Medical Center Internal Medicine, faculty mentor: Dr. Paul Mathew
- Pantoprazole Induced Pancytopenia in a Post-Chemotherapy Patient: A Case Report
Third Place: Sophia Jimenez, MD – St David’s Surgery, faculty mentor: Dr. Ernest Gonzalez (PD)
- Cortisol in Elderly Trauma Patients
Jack Demirjian, MD, MS - Las Palmas Del Sol Medical Center Internal Medicine, faculty mentor: Dr. Oscar Garcia (APD)
- Flash Pulmonary Edema Secondary to Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava
Dylan Gallegos, DO – Las Palmas Del Sol Medical Center OBGYN, faculty mentor: Dr. Dominque Barnes
- Post-Operative Infection Following Abdominal Hysterectomy with or without Surgical Drains

Congratulations to our audience favorite poster award winner: Dr. Alondra Sierra – Las Palmas Del Sol Medical Center OBGYN, faculty mentor: Dr. Aaron Poole (APD)
- Use of Cervical-Ripening Foley-Balloon for Membrane Reduction at the Time of Physical Exam Indicated Cerclage

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Infectious Causes of Cavernous Thrombosis: A Rare Case of Mastoiditis

Koshin Ahmed and Suresh Antony
Retrospective Study: Adverse Effects of Hyperglycemia in Nondiabetic Critically Ill Patients with Myocardial Infarction

Enkhbileg Batbileg, Jourdan Harper, Daniel Moore, Carol Wang, and Sarah Barraza
Case Report Of Cortisol-induced Pancreatitis

Jehidy Batista Michelena, Valentine Mwangi, Payal Passi, and Oscar Garcia
Large Bowel Obstruction: Malignancy vs Endometriosis, Which is the Culprit?

Kayla Brown, Amar Shah, Robert Zaunbrecher, and Megan Turley
Case Review: Gallstone Ileus Over 50 Years After Cholecystectomy and Choledochoduodenostomy

Kathleen Mae Bryan, Sophia Jimenez, and Alejandro Garcia
TGF-β Signaling Pathways in the Development of Diabetic Retinopathy

Andrew Callan, Sonal Jha, Laura Valdez, Lois Baldado, and Andrew Tsin
Non-invasive Ventilatory Support, Tube Feeding & Risk of Aspiration Pneumonia

Jason Mae Chacon, Zuhaib Murtaza, Sarah Barraza, Judy Jin, and Payal Passi
Flash Pulmonary Edema Secondary to Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava

Jack Demirjian, Rohan Divecha, Emmanuel Garrastegui-Mercado, and Oscar Garcia
Pantoprazole Induced Pancytopenia in a Post-Chemotherapy Patient: A Case Report

Rohan Divecha, Caleb Nieves, and Paul Mathew
Stroke as a Result of Caseous Mitral Annular Calcification

Ricardo Estrada-Montes, Sarah Barraza, George Matus, and Asha Kurian
Intertwin Membrane Separation in Monochorionic- Diamniotic Twins

Fran Franceschini Lopez, N Moreno, Henry Garcia, and Manuel Rivera-Alsina
$Efficacious Antibiotic treatment for Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth and Refractory Gastroparesis Secondary to Scleroderma by Andrea Francis, Ellen Pepperell, Brandon Chong, and Micheline Tantchou$
Efficacious Antibiotic treatment for Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth and Refractory Gastroparesis Secondary to Scleroderma

Andrea Francis, Ellen Pepperell, Brandon Chong, and Micheline Tantchou
Post-Operative Infection Following Abdominal Hysterectomy with or without Surgical Drains

Dylan Gallegos and Dominique Barnes
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the Setting of Syphilis on the US-MX Border

Jourdan Harper, Enkhbileg Batbileg, Andrew Bush, Cesar Calianga, and Hector Zepeda
Mycobacterium flavescens Infection: An Unusual Case of Prosthetic Joint Infection

Peter Holleb and Suresh Antony
Cortisol in Elderly Trauma Patients

Sophia Jimenez, Ernest Gonzalez, Leslee Keilty, and Carol Wang
Case of Uterine Artery Injury in a Patient Undergoing Prophylactic Uterine Artery Balloon Placement Prior to a Planned Cesarean Hysterectomy in the Setting of PAS

Virginia Lowe and Linda Haddox
Second Trimester Uterine Rupture with Abnormal Vascularity of the Lower Uterine Segment

Munsa Manandhar and Linda Haddox
Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Pemphigus Vulgaris: A Missed Connection

Amelia Mellor and Suresh Antony
A Case of Underlying Inflammation Mistaken for Ascites

Zuhaib Murtaza, Mattia Walter, Joseph Sammarco, Micheline Tantchou, and Oscar Garcia
Reducing Broad-spectrum Antibiotic Use by Appropriately Treating Community Acquired Pneumonia

Caleb I. Nieves-Velez, Richard Pieri, and Miki Otta
Low Grade Appendiceal Mucinous Neoplasm: Intraoperative Diagnosis of Tumor Origin

Sydney Parker, Caroline Keefer, and Robert Markus
Plasma Cell Rich Lymphoid Neoplasm in an Endocervical Polyp of the Uterine Cervix in a Perimenopausal 52-Year-Old Woman

Anjali Patel, Jacqueline Haas, and Angela Kueck
Pre-Workout Pancreatitis

Mohammad Ridha, Gilberto Rivera-Gonzalez, and Seenivasagam Makeswaran
A 19 Year Old Male Presenting with Recurrent Acute on Chronic Pancreatitis

Eric Romero and Paul Mathew