The Tenth Annual MMS Research Poster Symposium for Residents, Fellows and Medical Students took place on Friday, December 4, 2015 in conjunction with the 2015 MMS Interim House of Delegates Meeting. 124 abstracts were submitted by residents, fellows
and students in four categories: Basic Research, Clinical Research, Health Policy/Medical Education and Clinical Vignettes. 71 of the abstracts were accepted to the symposium for display.
The MMS is proud to announce the following winners
of the Tenth Annual Poster Symposium:
Basic Research
First Place:
Yuk Ming Liu, MD, MPH
Massachusetts General Hospital
Secondary Wound Necrosis is Suppressed by Resolvin D2
Second Place:
Alexandra Michele Giantini Larsen
Boston Children’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Urinary biomarkers correlate with preoperative disease status, presence of transdural collaterals and predict 1-year angiographic
Third Place:
Sumi Sinha, BS
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Photosensitization of the Murine Cochlear Nucleus via Temporal Vein Injection of AAV2/9 for the Development of an Optogenetic-Based Auditory Brainstem Implant
Honorable Mention:
Andreas Varkaris, MD
Lahey Medical Center
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Downregulation of MET Signaling is Associated with Rapid De-repression of FGFR-1 Expression
Clinical Research
First Place:
Ammu Thampi Susheela, MD
Harvard Medical School
Elevated Lipoprotein(a) is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events in men – A meta-analysis of prospective studies for awareness of need to standardize screening
Second Place:
Mary E. Morales
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Food Insecurity and Cardiovascular Health in Pregnant Women: Results from the Food for Families Program
Third Place:
Anderson Lo, DO
Baystate Medical Center
The Impact of Uterine Artery Embolization and Bakri Balloon Tamponade on the Rate of Surgical Intervention for Postpartum Uterine Atony
Honorable Mentions:
Kristin D'Orsi, DO
University of Massachusetts Medical School
A Comparison of Proteinuria in Obese versus Normal Weight Women in Late Pregnancy
Natalie Erlich-Malona, MM
Tufts University School of Medicine
Tufts Medical Center
Can Patterns of Ganglion Cell Loss Help Distinguish Between Optic Neuritis and Ischemic Optic Neuropathy?
Anji Tang
Harvard
Medical School
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
The predictive value of endothelial shear stress to detect hemodynamically significant coronary atherosclerotic lesions
Katherine S.L. Tuttle MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
for Children
Mild Ocular and Nasal Symptoms Are Not Indicative of Reactions During Open Oral Food Challenges
Health Policy/ Medical Education
First Place:
Theresa R. Timmes (author & presenter)
Tyler Robinson (co-presenter)
Boston University School of Medicine
Integrating Advocacy Training into the Third-Year Surgery Clerkship
Second Place:
Matthew R. Naunheim, MD, MBA
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary & Harvard Medical School
Patient-Reported Value of Specialty Emergency Care using Contingent Valuation Analysis
Third Place:
Jorge Alberto Rodriguez, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Are Boston Healthcare Center Websites Linguistically Accessible?
Honorable Mentions:
Victoria E. Fox, BA
Boston University School of Medicine
Implementation of a Medical Student-led Service-learning Initative, PumpStart: CPR Education for Underserved High School Students
Clinical Vignettes
First Place:
Nimish Shah, B.S. (author & presenter)
Nura El Haj, M.D. (co-presenter)
Tufts University School of Medicine
Transfusion Alternative in a Jehovah’s Witness with Sickle Cell Crisis
Second Place:
Thomas F. Heyne, MD (presenter)
Edmond Chan, MD (author)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Eosinophils That Completely Stop the Heart: An Ejection Fraction of 0% After Eosinophilic Myocarditis
Third Place:
Laura D. Flannery, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Two Cases of STEMI after Anaphylaxis
Honorable Mentions:
Henrietta Afari, MD (presenter)
Utibe R. Essien, MD (co-presenter)
Philip Rosenstock (author)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Tufts University School of Medicine
A 73-Year Old Man with Syncope: An Uncommon Presentation of Anaplasmosis
Issra Jamal, MD
Baystate
Medical Center
Tufts University School of Medicine
When a Safe Alternative is Not So Safe
Rehan Mujahid, DO
Baystate Medical Center
Tufts University School of Medicine
Delayed Neuropsychiatric Syndrome in a Patient with Intentional Carbon Monoxide Intoxication
Anna Zenno, MD
Baystate
Medical Center
Tufts University School of Medicine
First report of Coombs positive thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura in a pediatric patient: an urgent diagnostic challenge
Copies of the abstract book from the Tenth Annual
Research Poster Symposium are available to MMS members. Please email Colleen Hennessey at chennessey@mms.org to request a copy.
Judges
The Massachusetts Medical Society would like to thank our prestigious panel of judges for the Tenth Annual Research Poster Symposium:
Sanjay K. Bansal, MD
Assistant Professor
Tufts University School of Medicine
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Floating
Hospital for Children
Tufts Medical Center
Kristina Dzara, PhD
Masters of Science in Medical Education Program
Harvard Medical School
James F.X. Kenealy, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Tufts
University School of Medicine
Clinical Otolaryngologist and Staff Physician
MetroWest Medical Center
Aaron P. Kithcart, MD, PhD
Chair, Resident and Fellow Section
Massachusetts Medical Society
Clinical Fellow in Cardiology
Brigham
and Women’s Hospital
Reid A. Maclellan, MD, MMSc
Instructor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Associate Director, Plastic and Oral Surgery Research Laboratory
Boston Children’s Hospital
Eric J. Reines, MD, FACP
Geriatrics Primary Care Physician
Elder
Service Plan of North Shore PACE
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, FTOS
Instructor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Assistant in Medicine and Pediatrics
Massachusetts General Hospital
Malissa J. Wood, MD, FACC
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard
Medical School
Co-Director
Corrigan Women's Heart Health Program
Massachusetts General Hospital
