HCA Healthcare Graduate Medical Education 2025 Research Days

Grand Strand Medical Center | HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital | Memorial Health University Medical Center | Trident Medical Center

Grand Strand Medical Center Research Day

• Best Quality Improvement Podium: Enhancing Patient Safety: The Role of Interdisciplinary Teams in Reducing Blood Culture Contamination - Fady Awad, DO; Internal Medicine
• Best Research Study Podium: An Assessment of CRP and ESR in Ruling Out Acute Infectious Spinal Pathology in the Emergency Department and Inpatient Setting, A Retrospective Cohort Study* - Justin Blaskowsky, DO; Emergency Medicine
• Best Case Report Podium: A Case of Primary Gastric Diffuse Large B Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma with Tumor Lysis and The Warburg Effect - Sarah Barnhardt, DO; Internal Medicine
• Best Poster - Quality Improvement: Effect of Implementing Practical Strategies for Effective Lectures in a Graduate Medical Education Internal Medicine Lecture Series - John-Michael Benson, MD; Internal Medicine
• Best Poster - Research: Quality Outcomes for Older Adults Undergoing Elective Cholecystectomy and Colectomy in the United States: A Scoping Review from the SAGES QOS Committee - Jeannie Kontos, MD. General Surgery
• Best Poster - Case Report: A Case of Acromegaly - Zhiwei Zhang, DO; Endocrinology Fellowship
• Best PGY1 Poster: A Common Presentation for an Uncommon Diagnosis: Case Report of Rare Hyperinsulinemia Hypoglycemia Post Gastric Bypass Surgery - Minh Nguyen, DO; Internal Medicine

HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital Research Day

• Best Podium Presentation
  
  • First Place: Outcomes of Methotrexate Treatment for Ectopic Pregnancy: Inpatient vs. Outpatient Management
    Presenter: Courtney Smith, MD; Emergency Medicine Residency
    Authors: Courtney Smith, MD, Taryn Hoffman MD, Kavya Davuluri, MD, Ashley Brodrick, DO, Taylor Penny, DO, Robyn Meadows, Martin Wegman, MD PhD
  • Second Place: No Patient Left Behind: Improving Transition of Care in Coronary Artery Disease and Heart Failure Patients
    Presenter: Rebecca Schuyler, MD; Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship
    Authors: Rebecca Schuyler, MD, Gunjan Mundhra, MD, Mubbasher Syed, MD, MPH
• Best Poster Presentation
  
  • First Place: Porokeratosis Ptychotropica: Diagnostic Insights Into a Rare Dermatosis
    Presenter: Layal Antoury, MD; Dermatology Residency
    Authors: Layal Antoury, MD, Sadia Salim, MD, Karthik Krishnamurthy, DO FACOD, FAAD
  • Second Place: Congenital Posterior Urethroperineal Fistula Presenting as a Cystic Mass
    Presenter: Muhammad Siddiqui, MD
    Authors: Muhammad M. Siddiqui, MD, Sang Woo Pak, MD, Preeya Mistry, MD, Sarah Starnes, MD, Stacy White, MD, Anthony Zarka, DO, Lori Gurien, MD
• Best Original Research Presentation
  
  • Winner: High Rates of Avoidable Computed Tomography Angiography for Pulmonary Embolism Exclusion
    Presenter: Nicholas Prewitt, MD; Emergency Medicine Residency
    Authors: Kalyan Mantha, MD, Angelo Kantrales, DO, Kerolos Abadeer, DO, Pranav Bommineni, DO, Nicholas Prewitt, MD, Martin Wegman, MD PhD
• Best Quality Improvement Presentation
  
  • Winner: Interprofessional neonatal resuscitation simulations: an in-situ assessment of pediatric readiness At a multi site academic center
    Presenter: Jessyca Gibson, MD; Emergency Medicine Residency
    Authors: Jessyca C. Gibson, MD, Petru C. Nemes, MD
• Best Case Report Presentation
  
  • Winner: When Innocent Becomes Malignant... Unmasking STEMI through PVCs
    Presenter: Sharul Saxena, MD
    Authors: Sharul Saxena, MD, Jomel Jacinto MD, Yuhning Linda Hu, MD

Memorial Health University Medical Center Research Day

• Best Podium Presentation
  
  • Winner: 39 Week Labor Induction versus Expectant Management and Cesarean Section Rates in Low-Risk Multiparous Women
    Presenter: A. Tanner Fincher, MD; Program: OB/Gyn
    Authors: A. Tanner Fincher, MD; Brendon Cornett, MPH; Michael G. Flynn, PhD; Sylwia Blawat, DPT, MHC; Mikalah Maury, MS; Anthony B. Royek, MD; Arthur M. Baker, MD
• Best Original Research Poster
  
  • Winner: Rural Georgians’ Perspectives on Organ Donation
    Presenter: Isait Alvarado; Mercer University School of Medicine
    Authors: Isait Alvarado; Brian Childs, PhD; Caroline Anglim, PhD
• Best Quality Improvement Poster
  
  • Winner: Breaking the Blockade: A Retrospective Analysis of Pediatric Constipation in Hospitalized Patients
    Presenter: Jaicy Pottokaran, MD; Program: Pediatrics
    Authors: Yenamala Reddy; Jaicy Pottokaran MD, Eric Shaw, PhD; Aimee Behnke, MD, MBA; Jean Wiggins; Lauren Hebert, MD; Norman Taylor Parks, MD
• Best Case Report Poster
  
  • Winner: A Case of DRESS Syndrome Following Placement of an Antibiotic Cement Spacer for Prosthetic Joint Infection of the Knee: Diagnosis, Management, and Recovery
    Presenters: Cooper Josephs, DO & Himani Patel; Program: Internal Medicine
    Authors: Cooper Alden Josephs, DO; Himani Patel, BS; James Everhart, DO

Trident Medical Center Research Day

• Best Quality Improvement
  
  • First Place: Introducing Transitional Care Management in Outpatient Setting for Emergency Department Discharge Follow Ups.
    Family Medicine & Transitional Year: Radhika Mohan, Sanket Patel, Deepa Nuthalapati​, Michael Smith, Valerie Sinkler, Dennis Besong, Pooja Paunikar
  • Second Place: Assessing the Role of Negative Troponin Tests in Discharge Decisions and Long-Term Outcomes for ED Chest Pain Patients.
    Transitional Year: Rajiv Shah, Nicholas Pennington, Julia Iman, Dominic Juarez, Akriti Arora, Dennis Besong
• Best Research
  
  • First Place:Rectal Lactulose Induces Hypernatremia and Increases Mortality in Patients with Cirrhosis and Hepatic Encephalopathy.
    Internal Medicine: Abhinav K. Rao, Don C. Rockey
  • Second Place: Assessing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Addiction Assessing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Addiction Population.
    Transitional Year: Yagmur Beaman, Paula Suarez, Natalie Yang, Srinidhi Manchiraju, Sanket Patel, Corey Hopkins, Dennis Besong, Pooja Paunikar
• Best Case Report
  
  • First Place: Pediatric Carotid Artery Dissection Following Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury.
    Emergency Medicine & Family Medicine: Eric Friedman, Iren Shabanova, Arpit Arora
  • Second Place: COVID-19 Induced MDA5-associated Necrotizing Myositis.
    Internal Medicine: Sarah Steadman, Amit Sikder, Harsh R Desai, Bradley Collins, Tiffany Baker, Julie Worthington

* Denotes winners not available in Scholarly Commons.