The Department of Medicine’s annual Resident/Fellow Research Symposium held on May 22, 2019, in Montefiore’s Grand Hall, featured 76 outstanding posters presented by clinical trainees, with awards going to the top 10 abstracts in the areas of clinical and basic science research, dermatology and case reports.

This year’s Research Symposium brought together residents from the three internal medicine training programs at Moses, Wakefield, and New Rochelle campuses, with the goal of enriching the training experience and creating new collaborations across Montefiore and Einstein. Fellows from the division of Dermatology, Cardiology, Endocrinology and Metabolism and other sub-specialties also presented their research.

“This was an opportunity for cross-campus sharing of medical knowledge and ongoing research projects at Montefiore,” said event organizer Dr. Johanna Daily, a Professor in the departments of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology and Immunology. “The residents met other residents, fellows, and faculty for networking, career development and identification of research projects.”

Following the lively poster session, keynote speaker Sameul Sigal, MD, transplant hepatologist and professor of Medicine (Hepatology), presented the keynote address on participating in a research project during medical residency.

This year’s Research Symposium judges were Drs. Yelena Averbukh, Osman Bhatty, Jamie Galen, Meredith Hawkins, Grace Kajita, Marla Keller, Aileen McGinn, Beth McLellan, Olena Slinchenkova, Jonathan Ross, and Kristin Swedish.

This year’s Mentorship Awards went to Dr. Daniela Levi, Chair of Medicine, Mount Vernon Hospital; Drs. Michal Melamed, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Population Health; and Nephrology Fellowship Director; Colette Knight, Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical Site Director of Wakefield;

Drs. Yaron Tomer and Johanna Daily presented awards to the prizewinners. Winners Drs. Ross Merkin, Diego Adrianzen Herrera, Galina Glazman-Kuzaj, and Fred Cohen presented their research at the Medicine Grand Rounds on Thursday, June 6, 2019.

Research and Quality Improvement Symposium Winners

Resident Clinical Vignette

First Prize
Ross Merkin
Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation as A Bridge To Recovery From Clozapine-Induced Myocarditis
Ross Merkin MD, Stephen Forest MD, Ulrich Jorde MD

Second Prize
Tao Wang
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Endocarditis--An Unusual Presentation
Tao Wang, Hui-Hui Liu, Ahmed Abdulameer, Ihsan Al Sabbagh, Sulakshana Barua, Yun Wang, Velitchka Mihaleva, Ronald Mitchell, Markos Asamenew, Geetha Naik, Munazza Afzal, Muhammad Qadir, Harish Moorjani, Thomas Price, James Pullman, Daniela Levi

Third Prize
Galina Glazman-Kuczaj, MD
A Case of Ulcerative Colitis-Associated Bronchiectasis
Galina Glazman-Kuczaj, MD, Krystal L. Cleven,MD, Ian G. Harnik, MD, Divya B. Reddy, MD
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Resident Clinical and Basic Research and QI

First Prize
Fred Cohen, MD
Prevention of Heparin Re-Exposure In Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia
Fred Cohen MD, Christopher Leyton MD, Ifeanyi Okoli BA, Lucia Wolgast MD, Henny Billett MD, Sarah Baron MD, MS; Division of Hospital Medicine, Division of Hematology, Department of Pathology - Laboratory Medicine

Second Prize
Anthony Guzman, MD
Topical Cantharidin Revisited: A Phase 2 Study Investigating A Commercially-Viableformulation Of Cantharidin (Vp-102) For the Treatment of Molluscum Contagiosum
Anthony K. Guzman, MD, Jessica L. Garelik, DO, Steven R. Cohen, MD, MPH

Third Prize
Kimberly Lynch, MD
Improve Communication Between Inpatient And Outpatient Providers Through Discharge Summaries
Kimberly Lynch MD, Karen Yang MD, Sharon Rikin MD, MS, Sarah Baron MD, Brian Dorsey MD, Carol Kelly MD

Honorable Mention
Rai Budhan
Improving wait times to specialty care in the primary care setting through econsults
Ravi Budhan, Anna Broder, Joseph DeLuca, Eric Epstein, Raphael Hulkower

Fellows Clinical Vignette and Research

First Prize
Diego Herrera, MD
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (Mds) Are An Independent Risk Factor For Cardiovascular Disease (Cvd) And Mortality in Older Adults: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (Seer) Tumor Registry Analysis
Diego Adrianzen Herrera, MD; Kith Pradhan, PhD; Siddharth Karanth, MBBS, MPH, DrPH; Ira Braunschweig, MD; Murali Janakiram, MD, MS; Ioannis Mantzaris, MD, MS; Santosh B. Murthy, MD, MPH; Amit Verma, MD; Aditi Shastri, MD

Second Prize
Devika Rao
CT-Guided Biopsies Should Not Replace the Bedside Approach: Clinico-Pathologic Features Associated with Optimal Bone Marrow Procedures
Devika Rao, MD, Ana Acuna Villaorduna, MD Yanan Fang, MD, PhD, Joshua Heisler, MD, Shirin Attarian, MD, Todd Miller, MD, Louis Juden Reed, MD, Yanhua Wang, MD, PhD and Ellen W. Friedman, MD

Third Prize
Sandra Aleksic, MD
Central Katp Channels Modulate Glucose Effectiveness
Sandra Aleksic, William G. Mitchell, Eric Lontchi-Yimagou, Sarah A. Reda, Michelle Carey, Kehao Zhang, Derek Huffman, Meredith Hawkins