Texas Chapter Abstract Competition Winners
(October 2022) The 2022 Resident and Medical Student Abstract Competition was held on Saturday, October 29th Thank you to all of the resident and student members who submitted abstracts, participated in the live competition, to the members who served as reviewers and judges. It was a terrific display of the scholarly work being done throughout the state of Texas.
Over 160 abstracts were received this year across the three categories, Clinical Vignette, Research, and Quality Improvement. The 1st Place posters will be invited to automatically advance to the National Poster Competition at IM2023 as a Texas Chapter Winner. Thank you for your participation and support of the Texas Chapter and congratulations to all of the winning abstract presenters!
2022 Resident Winners
Oral Vignette Winner
Zachary Wills, DO, Capt, USAF MC - SAUSHEC - A Rare Case of Primary Cardiac DLBCL Successfully Treated with DA EPOCH R
Clinical Vignette
1st place TXN – Ariane Lemieux – Baylor University Medical Center Program – Pour Your Heart Out: Group A Streptococcus Purulent Pericarditis in an Immunocompetent Adult
2nd place TXN – Sameera Muqueet - HCA Medical City Fort Worth Program – Transverse Myelitis Following COVID-19 Infection
1st place TXS - Laura O'Keefe - San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium - Non-Operative Management of Functional Insulinoma
2nd place TXS - Meera Kapadia - University of Texas at Houston Program - Multidisciplinary Approach to Care with the Rise of Monkeypox Virus Pandemic
Quality Improvement
1st place TXN – Adeel Chaudhry - Baylor All Saints Medical Center Fort Worth – Sanitized Data? Auditing Hand Hygiene Adherence
2nd place TXN - Joud Enabi - Texas Tech University (Odessa) Program - Training in Calling Consults: A Team Based Learning Workshop for Incoming Residents on Effective Interprofessional Communication
1st place TXS - Simisola Kuye - University of Texas at Austin Dell Med School - End-of-life Planning in Primary Care: A Resident-led QI Initiative at the Austin VA
2nd place TXS - Benjamin Heriford - University of Texas Health Sciences Center Program - Improving the Patient Discharge Process by Targeting Delays in Medication Delivery Through an Interdisciplinary Approach
Research
1st place TXN - Mausam Patel - UT Southwestern Medical Center Program - Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Liver Transplantation for Alcohol-Associated Liver Diseases in the United States
2nd place TXN - Christopher Tanabe - Houston Methodist Hospital - MIDODRINE AS A NOVEL TOOL TO OPTIMIZE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION THERAPIES
1st place TXS - Benjamin Iliff - San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium - Effects of Particulate Matter Inhalation on Chest Imaging During Deployment to Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR)
2nd place TXS - Jong Kun Park - University of Texas at Houston Program - SHIFTING PARADIGMS IN RHYTHM VERSUS RATE CONTROL IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: A META-ANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS
2022 Medical Student Winners
Oral Vignette Winner
1st Place - Umer Khan - Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin - Scratch that Diagnosis: Systemic Bartonella Henselae Mimicking Metastatic Malignancy in a Patient with History of Breast Cancer
2nd Place - Tiffany Ho - McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - Sipping on a Bloody Mary: A Case of Murine Typhus
Clinical Vignette
1st place - Asma Syed - University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine Edinburg - Double Seronegative Neuromyelitis Optica: A Case of Optic Neuritis Confounding Stage III Cervical Carcinoma
2nd place - Carlos Chavez - University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston - Sarcoidosis: More than a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Imitator - A Case Report
Honorable Mention - Anthony Pham - Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of Medicine, Lubbock - Intrauterine Demise - A rare complication of Wernicke Encephalopathy Secondary to Hyperemesis Gravidarum
Honorable Mention - Katherine Goodfellow - Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin - A Rare Case of Hypereosinophilic Syndrome Presenting with Pleural and Pericardial Effusions
Honorable Mention - Vincent Phan - University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston -
A Rare Case of Primary Angiosarcoma in an Elderly Woman With No Radiation Exposure
Quality Improvement
1st place - K. Bates Gribbons - John & Katherine McGovern Medical School, Houston - Get A GRASP: A Piloting a Novel Framework to Help Medical Students Address Vaccine Hesitancy
2nd place - John Biebighauser - John & Katherine McGovern Med School, Houston - Impact of Geriatric prescribing educational intervention on hospitalists' confidence and prescribing practice