The Thirteenth Annual MMS Research Poster Symposium for Residents, Fellows and Medical Students took place on Friday, November 30, 2018 in conjunction with the 2018 MMS Interim House of Delegates Meeting. 103 abstracts were submitted by residents, fellows
and students in four categories: Basic Research, Clinical Research, Health Policy/Medical Education and Clinical Vignettes. 67 of the abstracts were accepted to the symposium for display.
The MMS is proud to announce the following winners of the Thirteenth Annual Poster Symposium:
Basic Research
First Place:
Sebastian Roque
Tufts University School of Medicine
Differences in Metabolomic
Profiles between Sedentary Men and Women after a 20 Week Aerobic Exercise
Intervention
Second Place:
Sina Foroutanjazi
Tufts University School of Medicine
Primary Left Ventricular
Unloading Enhances Collateral Blood Flow and Reduces Infarct Size: Implications
of Ventriculo-Coronary Interactions during Acute Myocardial Infarction
Third Place:
Nolan Condron, BS
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Dose-Ranging Study of
Intratumoral Pembrolizumab in Humanized Mice With PDX Melanoma Tumors
Honorable Mentions:
Ayan Purkayastha
University of Massachusetts Medical School
The Role of BRG1 Bromodomain on
Skeletal Muscle Differentiation
Clinical Research
First Place:
Samira Reyes Dassum, MD
North Shore Medical Center
Impact of Antibiotic Challenge
Dose Testing on Patient Care in a Community Hospital: a Prospective Study
Second Place:
Robert L. Parisien, M.D.
Boston Medical Center
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of
Opioid Prescribing Patterns in Orthopaedic Trauma
Third Place:
Jennifer A. Blumenthal, MD
Boston Children's Hospital
Practice Improvement for
Standardized Evaluation and Management of Acute Tracheitis in Mechanically
Ventilated Pediatric Patients
Honorable Mention:
Rachel Gomes Casseres, BA
Tufts University School of Medicine
Secukinumab in the Treatment of
Moderate-to-Severe Hidradenitis Suppurativa: Interim Results of an Open-Label,
Investigator-Initiated Trial
Prithwijit Roychowdhury
Baystate Medical Center
Spirometry Underutilization in an
Urban Health Center
Fan Yun Lan (presenter)
Justin Yang (author)
Harvard School of Public Health
Push-ups as a predictor of future
cardiovascular events and functional capacity: a 10-year retrospective cohort
study
Health Policy/Medical Education
First Place:
Ashley Shaw, BA
Harvard Medical School
Developing a Database to Drive
Healthcare Innovations
Second Place:
Emily C. Cleveland Manchanda,
MD, MPH
Massachusetts General Hospital
Implicit Bias Among Emergency
Medicine Faculty
Third Place:
David T. Silverman (author/presenter)
Erin Smith (co-presenter)
Ian Benjamin (co-presenter)
Boston University School of Medicine
Impact of CALM Service Learning
Group on Medical Student Perspectives on Substance Use Disorder in Pregnancy
Honorable Mentions:
Laurel Banach
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Undergraduate Medical Student
Peer Mentoring: A Novel Model for Improving Support of Medical Student
Professional Development
Shirin Karimi, MD
Cambridge Health Alliance
Understanding Factors Leading to
Outmigration of Primary Care Patients to Out of Network Hospital Systems
Edwin Wang
Tufts University School of Medicine
A marked diversity of liver
function thresholds among clinical trials in cancer
Clinical Vignettes
First Place:
Rima Patel, MD
Tufts Medical Center
The vague complaint of fatigue in
a cancer patient
Second Place:
Tahnee Kaur Sidhu, MD, MPH
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
Colitis conundrum -
differentiating and treating Clostridium difficile colitis and immunotherapy
induced colitis: a case report
Third Place:
Rebecca L. Yanovsky, BS
Tufts University School of Medicine
Rapid response to isotretinoin
and pulsed-dye laser in a patient with Morbihan disease
Honorable Mentions:
Modupeola Diyaolu, MD
Summa Akron City Hospital
Alternative Approach to Removal
of a Retained Chest Tube
Niti Sharma, DO
Baystate Medical Center
Transverse Myelitis and
Radiculitis secondary to Neuro Borreliosis
Gemini Yesodharan, MD
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center
A rare case of coronary embolism
presenting as STEMI in a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy and atrial
fibrillation
Copies of the abstract book from
the Thirteenth Annual Research Poster Symposium are available to MMS members. Please email Colleen Hennessey at chennessey@mms.org to request a copy.
Past Symposium Winners:
Judges
The Massachusetts Medical Society would like to thank our prestigious panel of judges for the Thirteenth Annual Research Poster Symposium:
Donald E. Craven, MD, FIDSA
Chair of Infectious Diseases
Lahey Clinic
Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
James Feldman, MD, MPH, FACEP
Senior Investigator, Emergency
Medicine
Boston Medical Center
Chair, IRB Panel Blue
Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine
Professor of Emergency Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine
Mary Beth Hamel, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Faculty Member,
General Medicine & Primary Care
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Deputy Editor
The New England
Journal of Medicine
Glenn Markenson, MD, FACOG
Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine
Boston Medical Center
Director, Center for Military and Post Deployment Health
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH,
MPA, FAAP, FACP, FTOS
Physician in Obesity Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Instructor of Medicine and
Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Associate
Disparities Solution Center
Affiliated Faculty
Mongan Institute of Health Policy
Shreekant Vasudhev, MD, FACP
Practicing Internist
and Academic Hospitalist
Steward Carney Hospital
