The Twelfth Annual MMS Research Poster Symposium for Residents, Fellows and Medical Students took place on Friday, December 1, 2017 in conjunction with the 2017 MMS Interim House of Delegates Meeting. 131 abstracts were submitted by residents, fellows
and students in four categories: Basic Research, Clinical Research, Health Policy/Medical Education and Clinical Vignettes. 69 of the abstracts were accepted to the symposium for display.
The MMS is proud to announce the following winners of the Twelfth Annual Poster Symposium:
Basic Research
First Place:
Mohammad Almeqdadi, MD
St. Elizabeth Medical Center and The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
Folate-targeted nanoparticles in
the diagnostics of colon cancer
Second Place:
Aditya
Mithal
Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center
Generation of an iPSC CDX2-eGFP
Reporter Line to Create an In-Vitro Model of Crohn’s Disease
Third Place:
Varsha Muralidhar, BS
Boston University School of Medicine
Exercise and Prostate Cancer:
Novel Method of Understanding the Anti-neoplastic Effects of Myokines
Honorable Mentions:
Peter Natov, BS
The Molecular Cardiology Research Institute and The Cardiovascular Center at Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine
Left Ventricular Pressure and Volume Reduction with a Trans-Valvular
Axial-Flow Pump During Acute Myocardial Infarction Promotes Cardioprotective
Signaling and Limits the Development of Ischemic Heart Failure
Ross Okazaki
Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine
Dysregulation of Peroxisome
Proliferator is Associated with Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction in Heart Failure
with Preserved Ejection Fraction
Julian Daniel Sunday Willett
Tufts University School of Medicine
The nucleoid of
antibiotic-tolerant cells widens more rapidly than antibiotic-susceptible cells
following rifampicin exposure
Clinical Research
First Place:
William L. Hwang, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Adjuvant versus early salvage
post-prostatectomy radiotherapy for prostate cancer with adverse pathologic
features: a multi-institutional analysis
Second Place:
Robert W. Regenhardt, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Delays in the Transfer of Patients for Endovascular Thrombectomy
Third Place:
Erica Haas
Tufts University School of Medicine
Cytomegalovirus reactivation in
patients with rheumatic disease
Honorable Mention:
Mahmoud Soliman, MD (presenter)
Israa Laklouk, MD (author)
Boston University School of Medicine/Medical Center
Predictive Accuracy of Thyroseq
v2 for Malignant Thyroid Nodules among Bethesda-III Cytology Subcategories:
Atypia of Undetermined Significance (AUS) And Follicular Lesion of Undetermined
Significance (FLUS)
Health Policy/Medical Education
First Place:
Travis R. Hallett, BA
Boston University School of Medicine
Cardiovascular Mortality
Improvement by State-Level Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion Status, 2012
to 2015
Second Place:
Brian W. Yang, BA
Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Harvard Medical School
Safely Increasing Capacity with a
Dedicated Satellite Orthopedic Trauma Operating Room
Third Place:
Anita Knopov
Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health
Analysis of the Differential
Effects of State-Level Firearm Laws on the Black and White Firearm Homicide
Rates in the United States, 1991-2015
Honorable Mentions:
Chelsea McGuire, MD
Boston University Family Medicine Residency Program
Evaluation of an International
Peer Partnership Program for Research Capacity Building Amongst Family Medicine
Specialty Training Program Registrars in Lesotho
Arielle Stopa
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Access to Perinatal Mental Health
Care: Patient and Provider Perspectives on MCPAP for Moms
Marian Younge
University of Massachusetts Medical School
The University of Massachusetts
Medical School - North High School Medical Professionals of Tomorrow Program
Clinical Vignettes
First Place:
Nkechi Chiugo Mbaebie, MD, MPH
Berkshire Medical Center Internal Medicine
“Chaos in an attempt to appease” -
A case of Mycophenolate Induced Supraventricular Tachycardia
Second Place:
Ammu T. Susheela, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
Unique cause of generalized edema
in a man from El Salvador - a clinical challenge
Third Place:
Deepali Pandey, MD
Saint Vincent Hospital
Easy to miss but treatable cause
of high anion gap metabolic acidosis
Honorable Mentions:
Amy Armstrong-Javors, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
A pediatric case of HaNDL
(Headache and Neurologic Deficits with cerebrospinal fluid Lymphocytosis)
syndrome: a rare stroke mimicker
Dara
Azuma, MD (author/presenter)
Abigail Scully, MD (co-presenter)
Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center
ABCDEOE: Spelling Out a Link
Between Rickets and Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Samira Reyes Dassum, MD (author/presenter)
Yahya Ahmad, MD(co-presenter)
Felipe Naranjo-Sanchez (co-presenter)
North Shore Medical Center
The Co-occurrence of Acute
Hepatitis E and Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Gordon X. Wong
Tufts University School of Medicine
Mycotic aneurysm of the superior
mesenteric artery: a rare complication of infective endocarditis
Copies of the abstract book from
the Twelfth 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 Twelfth Annual Research Poster Symposium:
Theodore A. Calianos, II, MD,
FACS
Medical Director
Medical Affiliates of Cape Cod (MACC)
Board Member
Coverys
Kristina Dzara, PhD, MMSc
Instructor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Research Staff
Massachusetts General Hospital
Curriculum Developer
HarvardX
Social Media Strategist
Harvard Macy
Institute
Julie R. Ingelfinger, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Senior Consultant in Pediatric
Nephrology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Deputy Editor
The New England Journal of
Medicine
James F.X. Kenealy, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of
Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Clinical Otolaryngologist
Reliant Medical Group
Glenn Markenson, MD, FACOG
Director of Maternal
Fetal Medicine
Boston Medical Center
Chair, IRB Panel
Green
Boston University School of Medicine
Sadeq A. Quraishi, MD, MHA, MMSc
Assistant Professor in Anesthesia
Harvard Medical School
Staff
Anesthesiologist-Intensivist
Massachusetts General Hospital
Board Member
Vitamin D Council
Caren G. Solomon, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Deputy Editor
The New England
Journal of Medicine
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH,
MPA, FAAP, FACP, FTOS
Instructor of Medicine and
Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Assistant
in Medicine and Pediatrics
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate
Disparities Solution Center
Affiliated Faculty
Mongan Institute of Health Policy
