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
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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
- First Place: Outcomes of Methotrexate Treatment for Ectopic Pregnancy: Inpatient vs. Outpatient Management
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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
- First Place: Porokeratosis Ptychotropica: Diagnostic Insights Into a Rare Dermatosis
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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
- Winner: High Rates of Avoidable Computed Tomography Angiography for Pulmonary Embolism Exclusion
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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
- Winner: Interprofessional neonatal resuscitation simulations: an in-situ assessment of pediatric readiness At a multi site academic center
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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
- Winner: When Innocent Becomes Malignant... Unmasking STEMI through PVCs
Memorial Health University Medical Center Research Day
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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
- Winner: 39 Week Labor Induction versus Expectant Management and Cesarean Section Rates in Low-Risk Multiparous Women
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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
- Winner: Rural Georgians’ Perspectives on Organ Donation
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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
- Winner: Breaking the Blockade: A Retrospective Analysis of Pediatric Constipation in Hospitalized Patients
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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
- Winner: A Case of DRESS Syndrome Following Placement of an Antibiotic Cement Spacer for Prosthetic Joint Infection of the Knee: Diagnosis, Management, and Recovery
Trident Medical Center Research Day
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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
- First Place: Introducing Transitional Care Management in Outpatient Setting for Emergency Department Discharge Follow Ups.
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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
- First Place:Rectal Lactulose Induces Hypernatremia and Increases Mortality in Patients with Cirrhosis and Hepatic Encephalopathy.
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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
- First Place: Pediatric Carotid Artery Dissection Following Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury.
* Denotes winners not available in Scholarly Commons.
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Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: A Case Report of Rapidly Progressive Dementia
Diane Olski, Karissa Charles, Cristin Grant, Courtnee Harpine, Shannon Leonard, and Sarah Puim
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A Case of Primary Gastric Diffuse Large B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma with Tumor Lysis Syndrome and the Warburg Effect
Sarah Barnhardt, Brooke Escoe, and Mary Carter
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Gastroparesis – an Often-Overlooked Sign of Multiple Sclerosis
Breveenn Kukan, Kaylee Brown, Minh Chung, Steven Veselsky, and Joshua Ferrell
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Rare Intercostal Herniation of Abdominal Organs in COPD Patient Managed Non-Operatively
Dalya Abdelmaged and Thomas Litton
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Severe Mitral Bioprothesis Stenosis, A Clinical Dilemma Solved By The SAPIEN 3 Valve
Haris Ahmed, Natalia C. Badillo-Velez, Awad Hammad, Andrea DeNeen, and Youssef Al Saghir
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Baroreceptor Activating Therapy and Subcutaneous Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: An Electrical Mismatch?
Eboselumen Aigbe, Gunjan Mundhra, Munachiso Egbo, and Yuhning Linda Hu
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A Rare Case of Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease with Transmural Wall Involvement
Ibrahim Al-Saadi, Shivam Kalra, Abhinav Rao, Laura L. Brant, Salvatore A. Moscatello, and Jose D. Espinal-Marriote
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Porokeratosis Ptychotropica: Diagnostic Insights Into a Rare Dermatosis
Layal Antoury, Sadia Salim, and Karthik Krishnamurthy
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Education Interventions Implemented to Increase Lung Cancer Screening Rates
Arpit Arora, Crystal Bharat, Sophia Zia, Pooja Paunikar, and Dana Simpson
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The Fluid Resuscitation Paradox: Refractory Shock in a Patient with Recurrent Ascites and Encapsulating Peritoneal Sclerosis
Chiraag Ashokkumar and Justin Gisel
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Enhancing Patient Safety: The Role of Interdisciplinary Teams in Reducing Blood Culture Contamination
Fady M. Awad, Austin Patrick-Eisenberg, Brian Watson, and Mohamed Faris
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Acute Ischemic Stroke in the setting of Lambl’s Excrescenses
Natalia C. Badillo, Jay Heckert, Yoan Rodriguez, and Ashu Dhanjal
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Improving Antibiotic Decision Making Amongst Medical Residents
Andrew Baird, Mina Guirguis, Brian Steiner, and Daniel Khashchuk
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Autism Prevalence and Appropriate Care Analytics
Brittany Bare, Final Patel, Peyton Dekle, and Jessica Donaldson
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Assessing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Addiction Assessing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Addiction Population
Yagmur Beaman, Paula Suarez, Srinidhi Manchiraju, Sanket Patel, Corey Hopkins, and Pooja Paunikar
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Effect of Implementing “Practical Strategies for Effective Lectures” in a Graduate Medical Education Internal Medicine Lecture Series
John-Michael Benson, Sarah Barnhardt, Brenden Pearce, Jilian Sansbury, Anna Cohen, and Jamie Campbell
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Retrospective Comparison of Emergency Department (ED) Length of Stay (LOS) between Marijuana and Alcohol Users
Paul Bomar, Jonathan Leggett, Lisa Persaud, Franklin Schaefer, Vanessa Knapp, Lauren Eisenberg, and Austin Johnson
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Maternal Retinoblastoma and Fetal Surveillance during Pregnancy: Is This Hereditary or Not?
Bethany Bowling, Shea McGrinder, Amanda Royek, Reese Groover, and Anthony B. Royek
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Contribution of Low Birthweight to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Admission Among Newborns Delivered at HCA Hospitals in the State of Georgia: A Mediation Analysis
Brinkley Bray, Bailey Brown, Katelyn Crumbley, Taylor Templeton-Jager, Anthony Royek, and Anthony Kondracki
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Optimizing Opioid Selection for Vaso-Occlusive Crisis: Identifying the Best Option to Reduce Hospital Length of Stay
Benjamin H. Bridges, Laura Strom, Eric Belcher, Winston Daniels, Ansley Connelly, and Joshua Ferrell
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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
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Use of Indocyanine Green Angiography to Reduce Postoperative Complications in Post-mastectomy Breast Reconstruction: An Umbrella Review
William R. Clifton, Phil Moon, Emily V. Clifton, Julia C. Stager, and Spencer R. Anderson
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Don’t Sweat It: A Case of Solid Cystic Hidradenoma
Anthony Concilla, Michelle Militello, Angelia Stepien, and Juan Rosario-Collazo
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Old Habits Die Hard: Why Surgeons Continue to Conduct Robotic Surgery Despite A Lack of Statistical Support
Ansley Connelly, Francheska Razalan-Krause, and Taylor Johnson
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The Critical Role of Early Diagnosis, Multidisciplinary Management, and Social Determinants in Eczema Herpeticum: A Case Study of a 24-Year-Old Man
Benjamin R. Cooper, Taha Rasul, Christian Castro-Ruiz, and Karthik Krishnamurthy
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Pericapsular Nerve Group (PENG) Block vs. the Fascia Iliaca Compartment (FIC) Block for Patients with Isolated Hip Fractures in the Emergency Department
Daniel Dagenhart, Taryn Hoffman, Matthew Carr, and Martin Wegman
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A Case of a Cough Unveiling Pulmonary Amyloidosis
Conner Dalton, Timothy Kocher, Chase Tenewitz, and Benjamin Goldsmith
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Rare Case Report: Scapholunate Ligament Tear with Isolated Scaphoid Dislocation
Nicholas Distefano and Jason Clark
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Ludwig’s Angina and a Complicated Course of Streptococcus constellatus Management
Kyle Distler, Awad Hammad, Elizabeth Ryder, and Shradha Pokharel
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Patients‘ Concerns for Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for Menopause
Kyle Distler, Denae Kappers, and Joshua Hollingsworth
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Case Report of Tricyclic Antidepressant Toxicity with Prolonged QT/QTc and Widened QRS on EKG
Alexandra Doan, Joshua Wilkes, Jonathan Leggett, and Jarratt Lark
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Anaphylaxis vs. Sepsis: A Case of Distributive Shock After Receiving Hemodialysis
William Downs, Benjamin H. Bridges, Trey Embrey, Logan Reid, and Meghan Rosenquist
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Concomitant Diagnoses of Lymphoma and PML in an HIV-positive Patient
Madelaine Duarte, Delon Altherr, and Mohamed Faris
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Chaos to Calm: Utilizing Checklists in the ICU to Improve Quality During Intubations
J Dunitz, Matthew Daniel, Will Hickman, Sarah Johnson, and Erik Porter
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Wandering Spleen with Intermittent Splenic Torsion
Brandon M. Epps, Margaret Carey, Nicholas Hrdlicka, William Boswell, and Miller Hamrick
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Appendicular Band Syndrome as a Cause of Infantile Small Bowel Obstruction
Brandon M. Epps and Alexis Smith
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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
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39 Week Labor Induction versus Expectant Management and Cesarean Section Rates in Low-Risk Multiparous Women
A Tanner Fincher, Brendon Cornett, Michael G. Flynn, Sylwia Blawat, Mikalah Maury, Anthony Royek, and Arthur M. Baker
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A Case of Twin Gestation in a Rudimentary Uterine Horn Resulting in Rupture: the Importance of Education and Imaging
Shelby Freeberg, Taylor Penny, and Joa Allen
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Pediatric Carotid Artery Dissection Following Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury
Eric Friedman, Iren Shabanova, and Arpit Arora
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Metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Nonsmoker Presenting with Pathological Humeral Fracture
Nicholas Fuerstenau, Grant Cookson, and Smit Jani