Congratulations to the 2024 Eastern Region Award Winners

Presented November 16, 2024

2024 Regional Doctors Dilemma Winner: Gesinger Central 

Professionalism Award for Trainees  

  • Abuzar Siraj, MD
  • Phillip Croce, DO
  • Bijay Phuyal, MBBS
  • Bharani Pusukur, DO
  • Shane Stone, DO
  • Armelle Corrine Simo Gounoue, MD
  • Harsh Bhalala, MD
  • Maria Nawaz, MD
  • Tirumala Nischal Jasty, MD
  • Asigul Yimit, MD
  • Sneha Reddy, DO
  • Clinton Sonier, MD

Top Scoring Posters

Clinical Vignette:

  • First Place - Jenna Sapone -  Atypical Presentation of Lemierre’s Syndrome with Complicated Sequelae of Parotiditis: A Comprehensive Case Report
  • Second Place - Alexis Janoczkin - Myotonic Dystrophy Disaster: An Outside Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Quality Improvement:

  • First Place - Tristan Nguyen-Luu - Sepsis Alerts, A Guide or Siren?
  • Second Place - Mahmood Danishwar - Initiation of SGLT-2 Inhibitors in Eligible Diabetic Patients: A Quality Improvement Project

Research:

  • First Place - Ayesha Anwar - From Screening to Reality—Translating the In-Patient Gathered Social Determinants of Health Information to the Post-Discharge Care of Our Patient
  • Second Place - Chukwuemeka Aghasili - County-Level Social Vulnerability and Hypertension-Related Hospitalizations in Medicare Beneficiaries in the Northeastern United States