Awarding Residency Research at Virtual 2021 Symposium
Faculty, staff, judges, and residents recently gathered virtually to celebrate and recognize the countless hours of hard work that led to the presentations of various projects at the division’s fourth annual Internal Medicine Residency Research Symposium.
29 residents presented their projects, and 8 winners were chosen among them. The residency program is drawing on a rich research tradition: more than 75% of residents pursue at least 1 month of research or quality improvement projects, and even in a pandemic, in the past eight months residents have published 47 manuscripts and presented 21 poster or projects.
This year they also awarded the inaugural Internal Medicine Residency Research Award for Outstanding Mentorship to Joel Neal, MD, PhD, associate professor of oncology. The award was created in recognition of the amazing mentorship Stanford faculty provide to residents and is "designed to acknowledge a faculty mentor who has consistently gone above and beyond in providing support and mentorship for residents pursuing research."
The eight winning projects are detailed below.
Winning poster presentations:
Emily Liang
Lower respiratory tract infections and lung function in patients with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after hematopoetic stem cell transplant
Research mentor: David Epstein
Gabriela Spencer Bonilla
Statin use in older adults for primary cardiovascular disease prevention across a spectrum of cardiovascular risk
Research mentor: Fatima Rodriguez
Kathryn Cardoza
Canagliflozin Improves Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes Across Broad Geographic and Racial Groups: Results from CREDENCE
Research mentor: Kenneth Mahaffey
Kavitha Subramanian
Disparities in outcomes among homeless patients hospitalized with gastrointestinal bleeding: a propensity-matched analysis
Research mentor: Philip Okafor
Maggie Zhou
Plasma Cell-Free DNA for Detection of Molecular Residual Disease and Treatment Response Monitoring in Patients with Sarcoma
Research mentor: Kristen Ganjoo
Sarah Waliany
Pharmacovigilance analysis of cardiac toxicities associated with targeted therapies for metastatic non-small cell lung carcinoma
Research mentor: Joel Neal
Shaun Pienkos
Novel TNIP2 and TRAF2 Variants Are Implicated in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Research mentor: Vinicio de Jesus Perez
Theresa Dunham
Online Antibiotic Allergy Decision Support Tool Improves Management of Beta Lactam Allergies
Research mentor: Anne Liu