Congratulations to the 2024 Western Region Award Winners
Presented November 16, 2024
2024 Regional Doctors Dilemma Winner: UPMC Mercy
Professionalism Award
- Alaa Sayed, MD
- Rachel Dileo, DO
- Joseph Murphy, MD
- Shahrzad Tehranian, MD
- Ahmed Mahmoud, MD
Top Scoring Posters
Clinical Vignette Case Study/Series:
- First Place - Ria Mehta - Lateral Medullary Infarction: Uncommon culprit of Cardiac Arrest?
- Second Place - Caleb Smith - When the Shoe Doesn’t Fit: Cocaine-Induced Mesenteric Ischemia with Recent Exposure to Gastroenteritis
Quality Improvement:
- First Place - Alaa Sayed - Title: Resident physicians’ adherence to American Diabetes Association cardiovascular risk reduction guidelines: Lessons from a resident-run academic based clinic (Quality Improvement)
- Second Place - Himsikhar Khataniar - Reassessing Prophylactic Antibiotic Use in EUS-FNA for Pancreatic Cysts: A Quality Improvement Study (Quality Improvement)
Basic/Clinical Research:
- First Place - Anjali Byale - Latent Cluster Analysis of Gastrointestinal Symptoms, Diet, Psychosocial and Quality of Life Parameters in People with Bloating and/or Distension Revealed 6 Distinct Clusters
- Second Place - Himsikhar Khataniar - Comparative Long-Term Outcomes of Mavyret and Epclusa in Chronic Hepatitis C: A Propensity-Matched Cohort Study