Posters from 2026
Dry Gangrene Following AV Fistula Ligation for Vascular Access-Induced Steal Syndrome: A Case Report, Marium Batool Abbas, Umema Ifran, and Marelle Montanez
Cultivating Humanity: A Scalable Blueprint for Celebrating Humanism in Graduate Medical Education, Edrianna Mae Ablola, Grace DesRochers, Shuchita Jhaveri, A Charales, L Tatineni, Marelle Montanez, Shane Jenks, and Rajeev Raghavan
Improving False Code Blue Rates in the Hospital, Edrianna Mae Ablola, Muhammad Siddiqi, Veronica Phung, and Sivatej Sarva
Sweet Drop to Lung Pop: Sertraline-Induced Pneumothorax in AEP, Jeanette Adereti, Laaraeb Nadeem, Azad Patel, Ariana Azimi-Shooshtari, and Ramesh Babu Kesavan
Unexpected Culprit Revealed After Mechanical Aspiration Thrombectomy: High Thrombus Burden Presenting With Junctional Rhythm Due To Occlusion Of Sinoatrial Node Artery, Originating From Left Circumflex Artery, Anush Agrawal, Dilesha D. Kumanayaka, and Anusha Putta
Not Just Cholecystitis: Cancer with Cholecystitis, Saira Ahmed, Joseph Daodu, Anila Punjwani, Shane Sweeney, Pierre Khoury, John Hardaway, and Mike K. Liang
Emergent TANDEMHEART-Extracorporal Membrane Oxygenation for Refractory Ischemic Ventricular Arrhythmia, Mukhtar Al-Saadi, Aswin Srinivasan, Mohammed Rajab, Alexander Rhodes, Negar Niknam, and Pranav Loyalka
QI: Improving GDMT Among Discharge Patients with Heart Failure, Daniel Avila Castillo, Amar Kalidas, Parshvi Patel, and Khaled Khalaf
A Case of Flash Pulmonary Edema Secondary to Acute Mitral Regurgitation Masquerading as Atypical Pneumonia, Gunasegaran Babivigasan and Bahaeddin Shabaneh
Cauda Equina Syndrome Secondary to Lumbar Stenosis in a Patient with Coexisting Peripheral Arterial Disease, Abboud Batri, Nawras Ibrahim, and Hina Mannan
Accelerating quality improvement in CABG surgery: A real-time rapid-cycle process improvement tool guided by the publicly available STS risk calculator, John G. Byrne, Farhaan Chaugle, Waleed Asger, Aaliyah Willis, Shelby DeRose, Rachel Jones, and Hannan Chaugle
A Predictive Tool Using the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Risk Calculator for Safe Operating Room Extubation after Coronary Bypass Surgery, John G. Byrne, Farhaan Chaugle, Thomas Kessinger, Prince Thommen, Ali Asghar, Shahistha Hyder, Curtis Dickey, Nicole Blatt, and Hannan Chaugle
Medical Toxicology: a Safety Net for Snakebite Victims, Braden Capt, George Warpinski, Sharan Campleman, Anne-Michelle Ruha, and Spencer Greene
2026 In-Person Presentation - A: Bridging the Gap: Gender Disparities in General Surgery, Christine Castillo
Bridging the Gap: A Review of Gender Disparity in General Surgery, Christine Castillo, Rachael Wong, Mike Liang, Julie Holihan, Devi Bavishi, Kush Brahmbhatt, Rebecca Franks, Karla Bernardi, and Michele Loor
Determinants of Successful Neurosurgery Match Among DO Graduates: A Retrospective Analysis of 111 Matched Applicants, Ankush Chandra, Alexander Hayes, Cameron Ehsan, Laura Zima, James Trippett, Angel Bueno, Jun Kim, Walter R. Johnson, and Manish Aghi
Advancements in Treating Stretch Marks in People of Color: A Comprehensive Review of Therapeutic Modalities, Hannah Chaudhury, Nicole York, Helen Chen, and Michelle Tarbox
A Greasy Imposter: A Case of Profound Hypertriglyceridemia Mimicking Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Severe Hyponatremia, Shania Chishti, Elaheh Boroujeni, Mohammad Hussan Shafiq, and Jonathan Xian
Incidental Bladder Dermoid Cyst in a 39-Year-Old Female: A Rare Extragonadal Presentation of Mature Cystic Teratoma, Bryce Dennis
Carotid Artery Stenting Outcomes in Comprehensive Stroke Hospitals (CASSH): A Prospective Multicenter Study, Mohamad Ezzeldin, Ameer E Hassan, Rime Ezzeldin, Kaho Adachi, Youssef Soliman, Amer Alshekhlee, M Shazam Hussain, Muhammad Niazi, Faheem Sheriff, Saif Bushnaq, Kaiz Asif, Omar Tanweer, Ali Alaraj, Ramesh Grandhi, Nazli Janjua, Daniel Vela-Duarte, Chaubal Varun, Alzahra'a Al Matairi, Osman Mir, LeighAnn Mealer, Chizoba Ezepue, Mohammand AlMajali, Amit Chaudhari, Maria Martucci, Mohammad Ammar Abdulrazzak, Alberto Maud, Gustavo Rodriguez, Samantha Miller, Darko Quispe-Orozco, Pichatorn Suppakitjanusant, Musaab Froukh, Navpreet Bains, Ibrahim Bhatti, Jordan Xu, Tatiana Abou-Mrad, Walid Salah, Omid Shoraka, Zuhair Ali, Osama Zaidat, and Farhan Siddiq
Toxicity Following Antiemetic Ingestions Reported to the Toxicology Investigators Consortium Core Registry, Jacob Fisher, Spencer Greene, and Sharan Campleman
Non-Traumatic Back Pain in the Emergency Department: An Uncommon Diagnosis of Intradural Schwannoma in a Young Adult, Tori Freeman
Case Report: Rare Neuropsychiatric Manifestations Seen in a SLE Patient, Ra'phael Freeney and Angel Ryals
Hidden in the Hilum: A Rare Case of Mediastinal Mucormycosis in a Patient with Uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus, Neethu George, Anusha Putta, and Harikaran Ragireddy
Isolated Clonidine Ingestions in Pediatric Patients, Spencer Greene, Caleb King, and Sharan Campleman
Invasive Aspergillosis in an Immunocompetent Patient, Grant Haden, Alexis Lopez Cruz, Julianna Vecchio, Munanchui Poudel, Sahista Kapadia, and Zuhair Ali
A Rare Interaction: SSRI Induced Rhabdomyolysis, Sakina Haider and Syeda Alisha Johar
2026 Gulf Coast Division GME Research Day Agenda, HCA Healthcare
6th Annual CGD Research Symposium Results page 1, HCA Healthcare
6th Annual CGD Research Symposium Results - page 2, HCA Healthcare
Right Upper Quadrant Pain with Perihepatitis, Morgan D. Homan, Jake Valentine, and Edwin R. Malone II
Unwrapping the Candy Cane: An Underrecognized Cause of Postoperative Abdominal Pain, Priscilla Itua, Uzma Ali, Mohammad Mahdi, Osamah Salim, and Sarib Sultan
Acute Aortic Dissection Three Days After Starting Ciprofloxacin: A Case of Fluoroquinolone-Associated Vascular Catastrophe, Victoria Jackson, Bryan Kharbanda, and Derrick Huang
The Great Imitator: A Subtle Case of Syphilis in the Emergency Department Amid Rising National Incidence, Jyotirmaya Jain, Michael Flanders, and Manzoor Bevinal
A Rare Case of Left Ventricular Free Wall Rupture Following Mechanical Circulatory Support in STEMI, Jyotirmaya Jain, Hasnan Ijaz, Heriberto Cantu, Mohamad Mubder, and Thomas Alexander
2026 In-Person Presentation - E: Seconds Matter: Rapid POCUS Diagnosis of Ruptured Type B Aortic Dissection with Left Hemothorax, Jeby Kalathoor and Derrick Huang
Seconds Matter: Rapid POCUS Diagnosis of Ruptured Type B Aortic Dissection with Left Hemothorax, Jeby Kalathoor and Derrick Huang
A South Texas Mousetrap: a Case Report of Murine Typhus and Diagnostic Dilemmas, Arjun Kamath, Jose Garza, Matthew Wagner, Deekshita Valiveti, Percy Thomas, Christopher Ganson, Abhay Vakil, and Zuhair Ali
Drug-induced ILD requiring ECMO, Arjun Kamath, Jose Garza, Matthew Wagner, Deekshita Valiveti, Percy Thomas, Christopher Ganson, Abhay Vakil, and Zuhair Ali
The Many Faces of Lupus: Rhabdomyolysis And Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome in a Diagnostic Maze Ending in SLE, Sravani Karuchola, Kumail Razvi, and Faizan A. Khan
Disseminated Cryptococcal Meningoencephalitis in a Severely Immunocompromised Patient With Lupus Nephritis, Sumon Khalique, Emaan Ul Haque, Randy Vo, and Bayan Zafar
Colonic Perforation in a Patient on GLP-1 Agonist Therapy: A Case Report, Mohammed Irfan Khan, Shuchita Jhaveri, Azad Patel, Bilal Ashraf, Ahmed Ouni, John Paek, and Sivatej Sarva
Oral N-Acetylcysteine in Hepatitis C - Induced Acute Liver Injury: A Case Report, Mohammed Irfan Khan, Shuchita Jhaveri, Renu Thomas, Kevin Garnepudi, Galvin Dhaliwal, Ahmed Ouni, Shane P. Sweeney, and Julian Nguyen
Tackling Tele Box Shortage via Educational Initiative, Guntash Khasria and Bushra Ambreen
Left Out of Place: Surgical Revision of Anomalous Left Main Coronary Artery, Guntash Khasria, Salman Islam, Amar Kalidas, Zuhair Ali, and Okechukwu Mgbemena
High Suspicion of Congenital Long QT Syndrome Diagnosis in a Polypharmacy patient, Alexis Lopez Cruz, Grant Haden, Julianna Vecchio, Hasnan M. Ijaz, and Thomas Alexander
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Induced Colitis, Alexis Lopez Cruz, Praise Ohabor, and Zuhair Ali
Severe Hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) in pregnancy, especially with nephrotic syndrome, Alexis Lopez Cruz, Praise Ohabor, and Zuhair Ali
Watery Diarrhea and Hypotension: A Missed Clue to Adrenal Crisis in a Patient with Addison's Disease, Wafa Mehboob, Umema Irfan, and Keyaben Patel
Undiagnosed Placenta Accreta and Severe Postpartum Hemorrhage in a Jehovah’s Witness, Victoria Mousa
Becoming the Silence, Yves Najm Mrad
AI ECG Screening Reduced LVEF and Structural Heart Disease: Diagnostic Performance and Trial Level Yield, Yves Najm Mrad and Molham Aldeiri
Multimodal AI for ED Chest Pain Triage: Prediction Performance and Operational Impact, Yves Najm Mrad and Molham Aldeiri
2026 In-Person Presentation - F: Automated AI Echocardiography: Agreement with Experts and Workflow Impact Across EF, GLS, and Volumes, Yves Najm Mrad, Ahmad Al-Taweel, and Bahaeddin Shabaneh
AI Assisted Structural Heart Planning (TAVR/TEER): Faster Workflows, High Sizing Concordance, and Simulation Informed Strategy, Yves Najm Mrad, Ahmad Al-Taweel, and Bahaeddin Shabaneh
AI-Powered Chatbot for Structural Valve Education and Shared Decision-Making: A Pilot Simulation Study, Yves Najm Mrad, Ahmad Al-Taweel, and Bahaeddin Shabaneh
Automated AI Echocardiography: Agreement with Experts and Workflow Impact Across EF, GLS, and Volumes, Yves Najm Mrad, Ahmad Al-Taweel, and Bahaeddin Shabaneh
Cerebral Embolic Protection During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Contemporary Randomized Evidence on Clinical and Disabling Stroke, Yves Najm Mrad, Ahmad Al-Taweel, and Bahaeddin Shabaneh
Complications of Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support: Device-Specific Risk Profiles & Meta-analytic Estimates, Yves Najm Mrad, Ahmad Al-Taweel, and Bahaeddin Shabaneh
Contemporary Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Bicuspid Anatomy and Younger Patients, Yves Najm Mrad, Ahmad Al-Taweel, and Bahaeddin Shabaneh
Contemporary Transcatheter Therapies for Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation, Yves Najm Mrad, Ahmad Al-Taweel, and Bahaeddin Shabaneh
Environmental Footprint of Aortic Valve Replacement: A Comparative Life-Cycle Analysis of Surgical and Transcatheter Procedures, Yves Najm Mrad, Ahmad Al-Taweel, and Bahaeddin Shabaneh
Redo-TAVR vs TAVR Explant vs Redo-SAVR: Comparative Outcomes in Failed Transcatheter Bioprostheses, Yves Najm Mrad, Ahmad Al-Taweel, and Bahaeddin Shabaneh
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Moderate Aortic Stenosis in Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: A Randomized Comparison with Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy, Yves Najm Mrad, Ahmad Al-Taweel, and Bahaeddin Shabaneh
Under-Representation of Women and Minorities in Structural Heart Trials and Practice: A Systematic Review, Yves Najm Mrad, Ahmad Al-Taweel, and Bahaeddin Shabaneh
Aspirin Monotherapy Versus Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After TAVR in Patients Without an Indication for Oral Anticoagulation: Randomized Evidence and Meta-analystic Estimates, Yves Najm Mrad and Snehalkumar Patel
Bivalirudin Versus Unfractionated Heparin for Anticoagulation During ECMO: Systematic Review and Random-Effects Meta-analysis of Observational Comparative Studies, Yves Najm Mrad and Snehalkumar Patel
Contemporary Nonfemoral Access for TAVR: Comparative Outcomes of Transcarotid, Transsubclavian/Transaxillary, and Transcaval Approaches, Yves Najm Mrad and Snehalkumar Patel
Direct Oral Anticoagulants Reduce CT-Detected Subclinical Leaflet Thrombosis After TAVR, but Clinical Benefit Remains Uncertain: Systematic Review and Random-Effects Meta-analysis of Randomized Trials, Yves Najm Mrad and Snehalkumar Patel
Neurologic Complications in Adult VA-ECMO: Incidence, Phenotypes, and Mortality from Contemporary ELSO Registry Analyses and Meta-analytic Evidence, Yves Najm Mrad and Snehalkumar Patel
Predictors of Permanent Pacemaker Implantation After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Contemporary Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Adjusted Risk Factors, Yves Najm Mrad and Snehalkumar Patel
Predictors of Successful Weaning from Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: Systematic Review and Random-Effects Meta-analysis, Yves Najm Mrad and Snehalkumar Patel
Prophylactic Distal Perfusion Catheters in Femoral VA-ECMO: Association with Lower Limb Ischemia and Major Limb Outcomes (Systematic Review & Meta-analysis), Yves Najm Mrad and Snehalkumar Patel
Unloading the Left Ventricle on VA ECMO: Comparative Effectiveness of ECPELLA, IABP, and Venting, Yves Najm Mrad and Snehalkumar Patel
Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy in a Patient on Enzalutamide Therapy: A Case Report, Mohamed Mubder, Luay Alalawi, Heriberto Cantu, Hasnan Ijaz, and Thomas Alexander
Aleukemic Philadelphia-Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Presenting as FDG-Avid Skeletal Disease Mimicking Multiple Myeloma: A Diagnostic Pitfall, Roy Muriu and Asif Lakhani
When Arteries Twist and Kidneys Shrink: A Case of FMD with RUQ Pain, Brian Nguyen, Ephrem Demie, Jeffrey Lesser, and Rajeev Raghavan
2026 In-Person Keynote: The Responsible Researcher in the Age of AI: Updates on Ethics and Accountability in GME Research, O Daniel Odutola
Euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis (euDKA) is a rare but serious, potentially fatal complication of SGLT2 inhibitors, Praise Ohabor, Alexis Lopez Cruz, and Zuhair Ali
Closing the Post-Discharge Gap: Implementing a Structured Transitional Care Management Workflow to Improve Follow-Up Rates, Anikita Ojha, Sakina Haider, Uzma Ali, and Daniel Odutola
When CKD Isn't What It Seems: A Case of LECT2 Amyloidosis, Ankita Ojha and Banshi M. Rathi
2026 In-Person Presentation - B: Benign Hepatic Pneumatosis (Portal Venous Gas): A Case Series and Literature Review, David Ortiz, Joseph Daodu, Mike Liang, Samin Arianpour, and Nabeeha Naeem
Benign Hepatic Pneumatosis (Portal Venous Gas): A Case Series and Literature Review, David Ortiz, Joseph Daoudu, Mike Liang, Samin Arianpour, and Nabeeha Naeem
Retrospective Analysis of High Flow Nasal Cannula Use in the Emergency Department: Association with Intensive Care Unit Admissions and Emergency Department Throughput, Raj Patel, Jesus Tamayo, James Duong, Nathaniel Banet, Hengameh Pajer, Anita Datta, and Jake Valentine
2026 In-Person Presentation - G: Effect of Mupirocin Decolonization on the Negative Predictive Value of MRSA Nasal Screening, Chuong Pham, Ashitha Jayachandran, and Clynton Musngi
Caught Between Two Barriers: A Case of Thrombus Formation on a Dual-LAA Occluder, Veronica Phung, Daniel Tabares, Edward Baptista, and Zuhair Ali
Fournier Gangrene Incidentally Found and Caused by Actinomyces Odontolyticus, A Rare Finding, Munanchu Poudel, Manzoor Bevinal, and Brandi Addison
A Case Report of A Rare Skin Lesion: Malignant or Benign?, Anila Punjwani, Shane Sweeney, Pierre Khoury, and Mike Liang
Catheter Ablation in Unstable Patients with Atrial Tachyarrhythmias & Decompensated Heart Failure Requiring Mechanical Circulatory Support, Hytham Rashid, Alexander Rhodes, Hafez Golzarian, Suhas Tatapudi, Austin Howard, Brian Greet, Christian Sohns, and David Burkland
A Question of Imaging: Percutaneous Closure of Ruptured Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm Presenting As Suspected Ventricular Septal Defect, Alexander Rhodes, Aswin Srinivasan, Mukhtar Al-Saadi, Amar Kalidas, Hafez Golzarian, and Pranav Loyalka
2026 In-Person Presentation - D: Association of Sodium Levels and Acute Kidney Injury with the Use of Hypertonic Saline for Cerebral Edema, Samantha Richardson and Rhea Soltau
Rapid Diagnosis of Hemorrhagic Shock Due to Upper GI Bleeding with Point-of-care Ultrasound in the Emergency Department, Tamari Ronen and Derrick Huang
Early Detection and Interventions for Delirium, Angel Ryals, Aneesha Shaju, Veronica Phung, and Ijeoma Arubaleze
Reducing Pressure on Pressure Ulcers; A Study to Educate and Improve Skin Ulcers in the Hospital, Jakob Schnell, Victoria Suh, and Peng Tang
When Analgesia is Contraindicated: Non-Pharmacologic Resolution of Pain Enabling Rehabilitation Participation, Zane Shah and Anand Allam
Stroke to Spread: Pachymeningeal Carcinomatosis in a 40-year-old with Metastatic Breast Cancer Confirmed via Dural Biopsy, Aneesha Shaju, Thomas K. Hoang, Grace DesRochers, and Woondong Jeong
Improving Sepsis Order Set Utilization Through Targeted Resident Education: A Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Quality Improvement Project, Sarah Sheikh, Puneeth Shridhar, Bushra Bangash, Valerie Chukelu, Tonya Meirhofer, Arunima Jose, Zainab Shakir, Shane Jenks, Augusto Sepulveda, Trung Nguyen, and Rajeev Raghavan
Pre-existing Bifascicular Block with Wide QRS and/or Prolonged PR in Patients undergoing TAVR: Case Series and Review, Puneeth Shridhar, Dhavalkumar Patel, Saumya Sharma, Pranav Loyalka, Michael Daniel, and Justin Saunders
Septic Shock and Cardiac Arrest Secondary to Delayed Traumatic Jejunal Transection, Esra Shurbjy and Rasheed Lawal
Beware of Bears: Severe Hydronephrosis & Urinary Retention Hidden Behind a UTI, Bjorn Sorensen, Victoria Jackson, and Carissa Ford