Winners of the 2009 Poster Competition

Cinical Vignette

1st Place
Leslie Fields, MD, SLU
New HIV diagnosis presenting as AIDS-associated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

2nd Place
Gediminas Ruibys, MD, St Luke's
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) Associated with T-Cell Lymphoma

3rd Place
David Newton, MD, Wash U
Inverted Tako-tsubo Cardiomyopathy in a Young Male with Brain Injury

Patient Safety

1st Place
Christian Rojas, MD, UMC
Pneumococcal vaccination rate in adults younger than 65 years of age at high risk for invasive pneumococcal disease. The importance of clinical reminders

2nd Place
Nurry Pirani, MD, UMKC
Stress ulcer prophylaxis… Where are we going wrong?

3rd Place
Unnikrishnan Pillai, MD, St Mary's
Physician Awareness of the Presence of Urinary Catheters in Patients Hospitalized in a Community Teaching Hospital

Research

1st Place
Nadia Khoury, MD, Wash U
Changes in Insulin Sensitivity following Administration of the Clinically-Used Low-Dose Pressor, Norepinephrine

2nd Place
Dushyant Singh, MD, UMKC
Comparison of PCR versus EIA as a rapid diagnostic tool in patients with Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea

3rd Place
Anusha Madadi, MD, St Luke's
Doctor-Diagnosis of Asthma is not Associated with Increased Rate of Hospital Admission for Pain or Acute Chest Syndrome in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease

 

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