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Texas Chapter Abstract Competition Winners

(October 2023) The 2023 Resident and Medical Student Abstract Competition was held on Saturday, October 28th  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!

Resident Abstract Competition

 

Oral Vignette Competition

First Place:

Ajay Lingireddy, MD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso

Nivolumab- Induced Diabetes Mellitus

 

Clinical Vignette Competition

First Place North:

Christina Chanthanivong, DO, Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center Fort Worth Program

Down to the Heart of the Matter: A Curious Case of Low SAAG Ascites

 

First Place South:

Faiza Khan, MD, Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas Program

Cosmetic Catastrophe: How Contaminated Epidural Anesthesia Caused Fungal Meningitis in an Immunocompetent Patient

 

Clinical Research Competition

First Place North:

Phi Tran, MD, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine - Baylor Scott & White Temple

Importance of Post-Discharge Follow Up in Prevention of 90-Day Readmission Rates in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis

 

First Place South:

Riti Kotamarti, MD, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School

Characteristics of Hospitalizations and Outpatient Follow-up in Patients with SLE

The first-place resident poster competition winners advance to the National Poster Competition at the Internal Medicine Meeting in 2024

 

Quality Improvement/Patient Safety

First Place North:

Chia-Yuan (Steve) Hsu, Texas Health Presbyterian

Leukapheresis or Plasmapheresis? Lessons learned from an incorrect procedure

 

First Place South:

Ashmi Patel, MD, MEng, Houston Methodist Internal Medicine Residency

Impact of Telemetry Best Practice Advisory Implementation on Healthcare Spending 

 

Honorable Mention to the following posters for great onsite presentations

 

Miriam Sanchez, MD, Texas Health Resources HEB/Denton

A Unique Case of Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome: Anorexia Nervosa Complicated by Gastric Ischemia

 

Sameera Maqueet, DO, Medical City North Texas Consortium Graduate Medical Education Fort Worth

A Startling case of Myoclonus and Rigidity 

 

Jerapas Thongpiya, MD, Texas Tech University Health Science Center Lubock

ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Phlegmasia Cerulea Dolen as Presentations of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia

The first place Clinical Vignette, Clinical Research, and Quality Improvement/Patient Safety resident poster winners for TX Northern Region and TX Southern Region will automatically be submitted to compete in the national poster competition at the ACP Internal Medicine Annual Meeting next spring.

Medical Student Abstract Competition

 

Oral Vignette Competition

First Place:

Faiza Ahmed, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine

Stop the Bleed": A Case of Severe Acquired Hemophilia A Transformed by Emicizumab

 

Second Place:

Austin Guadarrama, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Coccidioidomycosis Masquerading as Lung Cancer

 

The first-place medical student oral vignette competition winner advances to the

National Poster Competition at the Internal Medicine Meeting in 2024.

 

Clinical Vignette Poster

First Place:

William Derrick, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Dysphagia and yspnea due to osteophyte formation in the cervical spine

 

Second Place:

Stephanie Batch, University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio

The Hospital to Home Program: One Year Addressing Social Determinants of Health at the Bedside Lung Abscess in Patient with Late Dysphagia after laryngeal Schwannaoma Resection

 

Quality Improvement

First Place:

Gabriella Becerra, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine

Importance of Assessing COgnitive Function in Medicare Heart Failure Patients

 

Second Place:

Pamela Horton Embrey, University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine

The Hospital to Home Program: One Year Addressing Social Determinants of Health at the Bedside

 

Honorable Mention to the following posters for great onsite presentations

 

Lokesh Nagineni, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine

Wound Botulism in a Subcutaneous Heroin User: An Increasingly Common Manifestation of a Rare Disease

 

George Li,  Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine

Amyopathic Dermatomyositis: An Evolving Rash Without Muscle Involvement

 

Ruayda Bouls, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine

Mycotic Aneurysyms in a Fungal Meningitis: The Management in a case of Fusarium Solani Meningitis

 

Elias Arellano Villanueva, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine

From Patch to Peril: Localized Asympotomatic Adenocarcinoma Arising within a Cervical Inlet Patch

 

Gaurav Gomber, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School

Importance of Screening for HCC in Vulnerable Patient Populations

 

Doctor's Dilemma

Texas Tech University Health Science Center El Paso

Lakshmi Kattamuri, MD - Sukhila Reddy, MD - Aditi Kothari, MD

 

The first place Doctor's Dilemma team will move on to represent Texas at the Internal Medicine Meeting in 2024

Medical Students: The first place Oral Clinical Vignette Podium Winner from the Chapter's Annual Meeting will automatically be invited to participate in the national poster competition at the ACP Internal Medicine Annual Meeting next spring.