Posters from 2026
Improving False Code Blue Rates in the Hospital, Edrianna Mae Ablola, Muhammad Siddiqi, Veronica Phung, and Sivatej Sarva
QI: Improving GDMT Among Discharge Patients with Heart Failure, Daniel Avila Castillo, Amar Kalidas, Parshvi Patel, and Khaled Khalaf
Pulse Check: IM Resident Wellness Initiative -- A Continuous QI Project, Jacqueline Bekhit, Ngoc Vu, Yasasvi Sabbineni, Nihar Raju, Parth Patel, and Teena Mathew
Percutaneous Pneumothorax Placement, Miranda Bingham and Christopher Houston
Reducing Surgical Site Infection After Colorectal Surgery: A Multidisciplinary Review of Process Improvement, Robin Daemmrich, Quentin DiPasquale, Deborah Klepac, Nick Mathers, and Travis Holloway
MME (Mini Medical Education): A Preliminary Study of a Targeted Curriculum to Improve Resident Knowledge and Clinical Confidence, Andrea Francis, Andres Vivar, and Paul Mathew
Reconsidering Routine Postpartum Complete Blood Count in Uncomplicated Vaginal Deliveries: A Quality Improvement Project, Mira Ibrahim, Katie Johnson, Isabella Sciacca, Ali Ohm, and Nicole Tenzel
A Quality Approach to Pneumococcal Vaccination, Nimmy Joy and Michaela Mckissack
Are You My Doctor? Impact of Role Identification Badges in Improving Resident Experience, Rasmeet Kaur and Laura Preece
Tackling Tele Box Shortage via Educational Initiative, Guntash Khasria and Bushra Ambreen
The Scope Effect: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Enhance Communication, Awareness, and Connection in Family Medicine Residency, Shana-Kay Lambert-Johnson, Amy Nguyen-Pham, and Tasaduq Mir
Devising a Protocol for MRI Clearance in Patients with Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices (CIED), Sienna Luk, Alvin Mathew, Darshan Bhatty, and Kamran Rizvi
Education for Residents and Patients on Pain Management for GYN Procedures, Claire Moen, Jeffrey Edwards, Dominique Rehl, and Kenyon Weidle
Making the MOST out of Advanced Directives: A QI Project, Brissa Mundo-Santacruz, Joseph Freeze, Jesus Dorado, and Nina Ball
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
Haynes County EMS Outreach Quality Improvement, Anna Parker and Linda Haddox
Cardiac Step-Down Unit (CSU), Two Failures Drive Suboptimal VTE Prevention: Quality Improvement, Jorim Parmar, Shakir Al-Ezzi, Anvi Manduva, Muhammad Suleman, Fahed Alsayed, and Debra Medsker
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
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
Improving the Utilization of Palliative Care Services at Medical City Fort Worth, Gennipher Smith, Shervin Sarji, Maanasa Palani, Samuel Chen, Mary Halm, Kristina Bowman, and Morvarid Rezaie
Improving Trauma Resuscitation Through Video Review: A Quality Improvement-Oriented Literature Review, Joshua Smith and Leena Iqbal
Expanding Waste Segregation Initiatives to Reduce Regulated Medical Waste: A Multi-Departmental Quality Improvement Project, Emily M. Su, Anuja L. Sarode, Mohammed Sami, David R. Nehring, Erica L. Laipply, and Mustafa Culcuoglu
Reducing Respiratory Viral Testing in a Pediatric Emergency Department: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Anna Suessman
After Hours, Faster Reperfusion: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce STEMI Door-to-Balloon Time, Suhas Tatapudi, Aarohi Parikh, Jeffrey Lesser, Alexander Rhodes, and M Daniel
2026 In-Person Presentation - I: After Hours, Faster Reperfusion: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce STEMI Door-To-Balloon Time, Suhas VV Tatapudi, Aarohi Parikh, Jeffrey Lesser, Alec Phodes, and Michael Daniel
A Joint Effort: Quality Improvement Using Joint Injection Drawers, Grant Thomas, Brissa Mundo-Santacruz, Joseph Freeze, Talon Aitken, and Nina Ball
Books from 2025
IDENTITY: Inpatient Dialogue & Engagement with Nurses to Improve Team dYnamics Final Results, Anna Maria Abi Nehme, Ashley Becker, Raheeq Mohamedsaleh, Shin Zaw, Vigneshwar K. Ramasamy, Richard Henriquez, Jorge Restrepo, and Ashwini Komarla
Enhancing End of Life Care Through Recognition & Flagging of Imminence to Increase Visits, Ali Ahmed, Guru Chinnaraj, Ana Goncalves, Ahad Ahmed, Ezekiel Ijaopo, Joseph Shega, and Diana Tren
Under-Utilization of Non-Selective Beta-Blocker in Patients with Clinically Significant Portal Hypertension & Esophageal Varices, Sohaib Ahmed, Ana Moraga, Syed Usman Mumtaz, Varun Mehta, Boran Mao, Juan Pablo Meruvia, Amar Mandalia, and Shamol Williams
The Implementation of an Artificial Intelligence-Based Software for Large Vessel Occlusion Stroke Improves Door-To-Puncture Time at a Comprehensive Stroke Center, Murtaza Akhter, Christine Ibrahim, Kara Nolan, Olivia Igoe, Christine Mae Anzardo, and Christopher J. Love
Education Interventions Implemented to Increase Lung Cancer Screening Rates, Arpit Arora, Crystal Bharat, Sophia Zia, Pooja Paunikar, and Dana Simpson
Clinical Outcomes and 30-day Readmission Following Heart Failure Hospitalization in Patients Previously Treated For Obesity With GLP-1 Agonist Versus Bariatric Surgery, Nameer Ascandar, Bobby Malik, Waqas Qureshi, Aysu Erdemir, Eduardo J. Lazaro, Olu Oyesanmi, Sabry Omar, Robert J. Subbiondo, and Michael Schandorf-Lartey
Enhancing Patient Safety: The Role of Interdisciplinary Teams in Reducing Blood Culture Contamination, Fady M. Awad, Austin Patrick-Eisenberg, Brian Watson, and Mohamed Faris
Postpartum Glucose Testing and Primary Care Follow-up for Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Quality Improvement Project, Madeline Bartram, Anusha Hussain, and Timothy Kremer
Quality Improvement Project to Increase Compliance with Standard 5.8: A Community Hospital Institutional Experience., Robert Bender, Nicole Sant 'Elia, and Susana Ferra
Improving Usage of Low-Dose Chest CT for Lung Cancer Screening Amongst Tobacco Users That Fall Within Certain Criteria per USPSTF Recommendations - A Quality Improvement Project, Karissa Charles, Evelyn Ogbomoh, and Anthony Shadiack
P.C.U. (Please Cut Unnecessary Use): Making Room for Better Care and Costs, Taylor Croteau, Emmanuella Gomez Martinez, Jafaar Abou-Ghaida, Nelson Reyes Perez, Katya Grovac, Shamol Williams, and Olga Karasik
Change the Culture: Blood Culture Utilization at the Orlando VAMC, Ajay Desai, Dylan Thibaut, Gabriel Rodriguez, Jennifer Vu, Marco Hernandez, Alfredo E. Palomino Abella, Minh Ho, and Shamol Williams
Streamlining Stroke Care: Optimizing In-House Stroke Alert Order Set Utilization, Drashti Desai, Joshua Shultz, Yu Ya Nway, and Hasib Ibne-Rasa
Chaos to Calm: Utilizing Checklists in the ICU to Improve Quality During Intubations, J Dunitz, Matthew Daniel, Will Hickman, Sarah Johnson, and Erik Porter
From Trial to the Prescription Pad: Quality Improvement of SGLT-2 Inhibitor Prescription Prevalence for Patients with Diabetes and Heart Failure, Grace Fawcett, Victoria Blaisdell, Riley King, William Hannah, and Eric Shaw
Approach to Documenting Weight Loss Efforts and Lifestyle Modifications Within HCA Florida Oak Hill Family Care, Daisy Gandhi, Jenna Latona, Cheyenne Pirrello, and Taylor Butts
Interprofessional Neonatal Resuscitation Simulations: An In-Situ Assessment of Pediatric Readiness at a Multi-site Academic Center, Jessyca C. Gibson and Petru C. Nemes
Initiation of Sterile Vaginal Preps Prior to Cesarean Sections: A Quality Improvement Project, Diane Gilbertson, Timothy Kremer, and Kimberly Udell
RX on the Rocks: Prescribing Solutions for Alcohol Use Disorder, Arisa Gonzalez, Laura Botero, Adlin Lawrence, Kenneth Jimenez, Eric Chen, Richard Henriquez, and Shamol Williams
A New Paradigm in Hospital Medicine: Evaluating the Effects of Geographical Cohorting on Health Care Delivery, Vasu Gupta, Bhupinder Singh, Kanishk Aggarwal, Ayushi Garg, Rhea Kanwar, FNU Anamika, Inder Preet Kaur, and Rohit Jain
To Bridge or Not to Bridge, Diane Habib, Negar Niknam, Mohammed Rajab, Lea El Achkar, and Mahyar Mahmoudi
Factors Associated with STD Hospital Admissions in South Carolina Hospitals (2020-2024), Darrell Holmes and Dennis Besong
Seizure Action Plan, Ian Holt and Sy Jama
Improvement in Prenatal Education and Involvement in Patient Care, Miranda Ibrahim, Christelle Reeves, and Timothy Kremer
Optimization of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) Prophylaxis in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period, Sereena Jivraj, Isabella Sciacca, Sherrie Dixon, and Timothy Kremer
Arts in Medicine: Created to Heal, Gbemisola Johnson, Dusk Gosney, Jessica Klingensmith, and Akil Augustus
Improving Patients’ Postpartum Contraception Plans and Access to Postpartum Contraception, Rebecca Johnson, Timothy Kremer, and Nicole Tenzel
Probiotics for the Primary Prevention of Inpatient, Antibiotic-Associated Clostridioides difficile Infection: A Multi-Center, Retrospective Study, Cooper Josephs, Taylor Templeton-Jager, and Julie Worthington
Closed VS Open ICU Models & Their Trauma Patient Outcomes A Level II Trauma Center & Community Hospital Perspective, Prabhleen Kaur, Amber Hendricks, Nicholas Druar, Roxanne Tapley, and Carina Biggs
Finding Grace with Advanced Cirrhosis: Improving Palliative Care Consult Utilization Final Results, Saud Khan, Samuel Kwiatkowski, Anjali Lukose, Amanda T. Rivera Miranda, Priscilla Phan, Ashwini Komarla, Sabiha Kazi, Diana Treu, and Amar Mandalia
Care Alert Program in Chronic Emergency Department Using Patients: Expanded Study, Jonathan Leggett, Kaitlyn Phelps, David Nuñez, Brent Wright, Erica Gibbons, Jonathan Bryan, and Brian Griggs
Painfully Obvious: Expanding Inpatient Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder, Aline Levy-Sitnoveter, Mark Delic, Jonathan Aires Pinheiro, Eleana Estrella, Sankalp Goberdhan, Lauren Hundley, Richard Henriquez, and Shamol Williams
Development and Validation of an Accurate and Precise Skin Color Scale, Henry Lim, Christina Guo, Reem Ayoub, Rafael do Valle, Kristina Kafle, Ysabelle Martinez, Dana Olsen, Marshall Hall, Christian Scheufele, Michael Carletti, and Stephen Weis
Assessing the Effectiveness of a Rapid Response Training Course, Nasima Mehraban, Caroline Brooke, Vivek Punjabi, and Veeranna Vibhuti
ReconciliACTION Ensuring Accurate Home Medication List, Juan Pablo Meruvia Garron, Saud Khan, Akash Patel, Anna Maria Abi Nehme, Jomaris Centeno Girona, and Olga Karasik
There’s a QR Code For That: Trauma Performance Improvement, Patient Safety, and Peer Review, April Miller, Luis Taveras, Elizabeth Kim, and Kathy Galt
Introducing Transitional Care Management in Outpatient Setting for Emergency Department Discharge Follow Ups, Radhika Mohan, Sanket Patel, Deepa Nuthalapati, Michael Smith, Valerie Sinkler, Dennis Besong, and Pooja Paunikar
Bridging Knowledge and Practice: Exploring the Medical City Arlington Internal Medicine Handbook, Laura Montoya, Evangelista Ezenduka, Shivani Agarwal, Mike Nguyen, Fatima Safi, Nikhil Madhav, Dallin Beus, George Yeung, and Hayan Kundi
Has the Elimination of Mandatory Buprenorphine X-Waiver Increased Presciptions of this Medication Upon Discharge from the Hospital?, Kendall Moore, Robyn Meadows, Robyn Hoelle, and Matthew Calestino
Improving Communication and Follow Up for Incidental Findings from PanScan Imaging, MaKenzie Morrissey, Kristen Payne, Randall Rittmann, Chris Robert, Joseph Lim, and Danielle Pigneri
Never Admit or Release without Considering A Naloxone script (NARCAN), Farid Mughni, Mustafa Ibrahim, Dante Janolo, Samuel Ramos, Emma Rivas, and Olga Karasik
Improving Colon & Rectal Cancer Screening at Medical City North Hills Clinic, Basil Nduma, Sharvani Raguthu, Gurunath Subrahmanyam, and John Sturgeon
Closing the Communication Gap: A Quality Improvement Approach to Safer Shift Changes and Transfers, Stephanie O'Kresik Jewette and Annette Santiago
Unbreak My Heart: Improving the Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral Rate, Akash Patel, Samer Khalil, Iman Squires, Abed Naser, Eric Vargas, Manuel Carrazana, and Olga Karasik
Portable Head Computed Tomography Protocol for Trauma, Christian Quinones, Alexander Bolufer, Cory Hewitt, and Sagun Tuli
Improving Skin Cancer Screening in a FM Residency: Dermatoscope Utilization, Aleksandra Radzio, Navina DeLight, and Aniruddha Logan
Assessment of Patient Satisfaction Through the Introduction of a Post-Procedure Pamphlet in an Outpatient Clinic, Mohammad Rashik, James Aston, and Sajid Surve
Improving Internal Medicine and Emergency Department Communication - The ED MAP Project, Syed Raza, Srinidhi Shyamkumar, Eric Riha, and Zuhair Ali
Effective Communication in the Pronunciation of Brain Death, Sumanth Reddy, Artur Amirkhanyan, Jeremiah Avarana, Praneetha Arge, and Alicia Lay
Breaking the Blockade: A Retrospective Analysis of PediatricConstipation in Hospitalized Patients, Yenamala Reddy, Jaicy Pottokaran, Eric K. Shaw, Aimee Behnke, Jean B. Wiggins, Lauren Hebert, and Norman Taylor Parks
Defend the Season: A Quality Approach to Influenza Vaccination, Robert Reinhart and Michaela McKissack
Improving Sleep Quality and Quantity in Hospitalized Patients With Melatonin: A Quality Improvement Project at HCA (Hospital Corporation of America) Oak Hill Hospital., Tong Ren, Alisher Hamidullah, Sophia Samaranayake, Alexander Answine, Salman Muddassir, Rahul Mhaskar, Olu Oyesanmi, and Mohamad Eid
Improving MMR Vaccine Administration Among Rubella Non-Immune Postpartum Women – A Quality Improvement Project, Renée Ricci, Erika Olsen, Final Patel, Stephanie Tootle, Dina Linfoot, Anthony Royek, and Eric Shaw
Reducing Time to Heparin Administration in a Cardiac Center, Shai Ring, Shafaq Jawed, Taylor Teshon, and Siva T. Sarva
Real Time Non-targeted Renal Biopsy Adequacy Evaluation: A Successful Quality Improvement Activity, Astrid Sacasa and Susana Ferra
Top Quality Metric Articles in Myocardial Ischemia: A Bibliometric Study, Abdullah Sahyouni, Amanda Feliciano, Vishakha Sharma, Maya Khodor, Christian Zellner, Michael Tedla, Robert Subbiondo, Yizhi Lin, and Laura Murray
Improving Gout Therapy in Patriot Clinic Final Results, Jerativat Satayarekha, Vigelo Servera Jr, Nicholas Maggio, Nathaniel Rosa Santiago, Fariha N. Mirza, and Sahar Safavi
No Patient Left Behind: Improving Transition of Care in Coronary Artery Disease and Heart Failure Patients, Rebecca Schuyler, Gunjan Mundhra, and Mubbasher Syed
Development of a Continous Renal Replacement Therapy Protocol for a Midsize Community Hospital, Srinidhi Shyamkumar, Eric Riha, Crystal Ike, Rachel Wright, D Villareal, Justin Shanks, and Damon Cao
Compression Gloves for Postoperative Hand Edema After Dermatologic Surgery, Vixey Silva, George M. Jeha, Umer Nadir, and Stanislav N Tolkachjov
Inpatient vs. Outpatient Management Outcomes of Ectopic Pregnancy with Methotrexate, Courtney Smith, Taryn Hoffman, Kavya Davuluri, Ashley Brodrick, Taylor Penny, Robyn Meadows, and Martin Wegman
Pre and Post-Distribution Outcomes of the Intern Guidebook, Joyce Smith and Sam Mellits
Enhancing Resident Education in the Clinic, Catherine Soodi, Arshiya Fatima, Renu Thomas, and Daniel Avila Castillo
Enhancing Patient Safety through Simulated Safety Event Analysis (SSEA) in Graduate Medical Education, Mustafa Tahir, Anthony Furiato, Salman Muddassir, and Olu Oyesanmi
Teaching Ultrasound-Guided Knee Injection & Aspiration in a Family Medicine Residency Clinic, James Wesley, Dauwd Farooqi, and Christopher Bazemore
Improving Annual Wellness Visit Documentation in Clinic, Chak Lam Yeung, Gurunath Subramanyam, Krishna Ramesh, Mohammad Nadim, Jasmyne Bowser, and John Sturgeon
Daily Weights, Better Outcomes: The Positive Impact of Daily Weight Tracking in Hospitalized Patients on the Telemetry Floor, Sophia Zia, David Ortega, Lailany Agront-Davo, Merid Moqattash, William Lopez, Sirin Khajaviyan, Yagmur Beaman, and Michael Craig
Books from 2024
An Evaluation of Resident Confidence in Conducting Ultrasound Guided Peripheral IV Placement Before and After Hands-on Workshop, Gerges Abdelsayed, Rishabh Agrawal, Jake Francisco, Christopher Reguyal, Geeth Kondaveeti, and Jilian R. Sansbury
Improvement for Cerclage Placement in Relation to Cervical Length in Patients Undergoing Cerclage Placement at Memorial Health and Relationship with Preterm Birth, J Elise Abernathy, Anthony Royek, A Tanner Fincher, Sai Nagula, Alyssa Moffitt, Abby Unger, Cullen Smith, and Eric K. Shaw
IDENTITY: Inpatient Dialogue and Engagement with Nurses To Improve Team dYnamics, Anna Maria Abi Nehme, Ashley Becker, Raheeq Mohamedsaleh, Shin Zaw, Vigneshwar K. Ramasamy, Raj Shah, Victoria Odeleye, Jorge Restrepo, and Ashwini Komarla
Successful Implementation of Pulmonary Embolism Response Team at Oak Hill Hospital, Shaikh Afaq, Michael Cox, Jaafar Hamdan, and Hayder Abidali
Implementation of Common Emergency Department Procedure Checklists to Improve Resident Provider Efficiency Background, Abigail Alorda, Alexa Ragusa, Natalie Diers, Taylor Cesarz, Shayne Gue, and Latha Ganti