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