Poster Day Awards

24th Annual Resident Poster Day Presentation

October 12, 2021

Resident Poster Day is an annual event for any Medicine or Med/Peds residents to present clinical cases, QI projects, research or educational innovations. The event is open to the three city programs. This year, posters were presented in the Clinical Vignette and Research/QI categories. Posters were judged on the chosen topic, the poster arrangement and the oral presentation.

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Winners of Poster Day 2021

Clinical Vignette

1st Place: V. Bhalla, MD, Gaby Razzouk, MD (RRH). “Bouveret Syndrome: A Rare Complication of a Common Disease.”
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2nd Place: Tania Arous, MD; Sara Gianfagna, DO, MSMED; Jaydira Del Rivero, MD; Inga Harbuz-Miller, MD (URMC). “Tissue Is the Issue—A Case of Malignant Insulinoma.”
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3rd Place: Mohamed Salah Mohamed Kassem Mohamed, MD; Saarwaani Vallabhajosyula, MD; Jayesh Patel, MD; Abhimanyu Aggarwal, MD (RRH)."Atypical Cause of Thoracic Osteomyelitis Causing Acute Neurologic Dysfunction in an Immunocompetent Host."
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Honorable Mention: Ania Stolarczyk, BS; Minh Thu T. Nguyen, MD; Fatima Shahid, MD (URMC). “A Shocking Case of Fulminant Lupus Myocarditis.”
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Research/QI

1st Place: Joseph DiTursi, MD; Richard Rambuss, MD; Elizabeth Pope-Collins, MD; Emily Gore, MS-4; Kristi Filmore, NP; Megan Puls, RN; Meghan K. Train, DO (URMC). "Implementing a Process for Universal Food Insecurity Screening for Hospitalized Adults at Strong Memorial Hospital."
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2nd Place: Fatima Bawany, MD; Julie R. Wolf, MD; Francisco Tausk, MD (URMC). "Home Phototherapy: Improving Access to Dermatologic Care."
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3rd Place: Steven Park, Brent Albertson, Kole Niemi, Srinidhi Venkatesh, Leta Yi, John Grable (URMC). "Treating Tobacco Dependence in Hospitalized Patients with Pancreatitis."
Abstract | Poster

Additional Abstracts, Presentations and Posters Submitted

Clinical

Anima Ghimire, Jane Liesveld, Danielle Wallace, Janice Zhao, Richard Burak, John Bennett (URMC). “Case of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia with Basophilic Differentiation and an ETV6 Mutation.”
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Komisarof J, DiTursi J, Lipof J, Chowdhry A, Burack R, Choung G, Constine L, Passero F (URMC). “An Unusual Case of Multiple Myeloma with Light Chain Cast Nephropathy Secondary to a Very Large Plasmacytoma without Bone Marrow Involvement.”
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Laura Saldivar, MD; Tara Cicic, MS3; Dr. Adam Doyle, MD; Dr. Jeffrey Andolina, MD, MS (URMC). “A Case of a Missing IVC: Always Absent or an Adverse Event?”
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Alexandra France, MD (URMC). “What Happens in Burma Stays in Burma: A Case of Psoas Abscess Presenting a Diagnostic Challenge.”
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Tori Mattick, MD, Sara Rusnak, MD, Ramandeep K. Babbra, MD, Valerie Lang, MD, MHPE, Paul Barr, MD (URMC). “Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma, Not Otherwise Specified: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges.”
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Mohamed Salah Mohamed, MD, Saarwaani Vallabhajosyula, MD, Gabriel O. Vachon, DO (RRH). “Multifactorial Pneumopericardium.”
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Rebekah Roll, MD, Gregory Matos, MS4, Danielle Wallace, MD, Meghan K. Train DO (URMC). “Abdominal Distention, Fatigue, and Lower Extremity Edema in an Otherwise Healthy Young Male: A Case of HHV8-negative Multicentric Castleman’s Disease.”
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Saarwaani Vallabhajosyula, MD, Mohamed Salah Mohamed, MD, Gabriel O. Vachon, DO (RRH). “Chronic diverticulitis complicated by septic arthritis and subcutaneous emphysema.”
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Suman Biswas, MD; Richard L. Alweis, MD; Fadi Al Nimri, MD; Amir Hanafi MD (RRH). “Not all ‘thunderclap’ headaches are created equal: a case report.”
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Massiel Jimenez, MD, Kathryn Pearson, MD, Margaret Zambon, MD (RRH). “Diabetic Dilemma: a case of nonspecific abdominal symptoms.”
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Yumiko Esaki,MD;  Inga Harbuz-Miller, MD (URMC). “A Syndrome of Pheochromocytomas/Paragangliomas (PPGLs) Associated with Congenital Polycythemia and Ophthalmic Abnormality.”
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Samuel Weeks, Phoebe Huang, Angelo Pedulla (URMC).  “Left Ventricular Free Wall Rupture in a Patient with Anaplasmosis.”
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Le Yu Naing, MD; Varun Bhalla, MD; Joel McFarland, MD (RRH). “A Rare Case of Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury After Mesenteric Angiography and Stenting.”
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Varun Bhalla, MD; Le Yu Naing, MD; Jason P. Gutman, MD (RRH). “Caught Under the Hook – A Case of Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome.”
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Research/QI

Peihsuan R. Tsai, Daniel X. Gilroy, Thu H. Le, Erika R. Drury (URMC). “Treatment with IL-17 inhibitors is associated with reduced eGFR in patients with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis: a retrospective cohort study.”
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Karen Kruzer, MD, Gabriella Logroño, MD, Prishanya Pillai, MD, Shireen Usman, MD, Emilie Liddle, RD, Bernadette Malaret, NP, Melissa Mroz, MD, MPH (URMC). "An Innovative Approach to Food Insecurity in Medical Resident Clinics."
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Karen Kruzer, MD; Roberta Goncalves Marangoni, MD, PhD; Ilana Heckler, PhD; Aya Elhage, PharmD, MBA; John Varga, MD; Monique Hinchcliff, MD; Mary Carns, MS; Kathleen Aren, MPH; Amy Wielgosz, RN; Marc Nuzzo, BS; Iswariya Venkataraman, PhD; Benjamin Korman, MD (URMC). "Clinical and Autoantibody Associations in ANA-Positive Systemic Sclerosis Lacking Prototypic Autoantibodies."
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David Nguyen, MD, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics (URMC). "Impact of Medicine-Pediatrics Interest Group on Medical Student Residency Awareness and Selection."
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Samuel Weeks, Mobin Karimi (URMC). "Targeting ITK Signaling in T-cell Mediated Diseases: A Review."
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Past Award Winners

2022 Poster Day Award Winners

2020 Poster Day Award Winners

2019 Poster Day Award Winners

2018 Poster Day Award Winners

2017 Poster Day Award Winners