Residency Research Symposium

Every spring we hold our annual Residency Research Symposium. Residents presented posters of their scholarly works and research to the Department of Medicine Chair, Vice Chair, Program Directors, faculty, fellows, residents, medical students, visitors and staff.

We believe that the key to successful scholarship during residency is mentorship from the department's faculty, and making sure resident-researcher connections are made early. As such, we work to link trainees with mentors starting in their intern year. Residents can also apply for one month of elective time dedicated solely to research during each of their PGY-2 and PGY-3 years.

Faculty, residents, staff and medical students view resident poster presentations

Dr. Teresa Liu presenting poster to Dr. Neera Ahuja

Dr. Harrington (DOM Chair) giving opening remarks

Dr. Shri Nallamshetty (Associate Program Director); Dr. Angela Rogers (Associate Program Director); Dr. Timothy Yen (R3); Dr. Tor Termglinchan (R2); Dr. Bo Wang (R2); Dr. Ronald Witteles (Program Director); Dr. Sonia Shah (R2); Dr. Robert Harrington (DOM Chair); Dr. Amrita Krishnamurthy (R2)

Dr. Sonia Shah (R2) and Dr. Ronald Witteles (Program Director)

Dr. Amrita Krishnamurthy

Dr. Tor Termglinchan

Dr. Mike Wei

Dr. Timothy Yen (R3) and Dr. Ronald Witteles (Program Director)

The judges

Faculty Mentors

Dr. Gilad Jaffe and his poster presentation

Dr. Maggie Ning (R2) discusses her research with Dr. Shri Nallamshetty (APD)

Dr. Chad Weldy (R1) and Dr. Robert Harrington (DOM Chair) review a presentation

Visiting Meharry students discuss presentations

Dr. Tor Termglinchan (R2) presents his research

Dr. Gilad Jaffe (R2) presents his research

Dr. Joy Wu speakes with a colleague

Faculty, residents, staff and medical students view resident poster presentations

Dr. Amrita Krishnamurthy presenting her poster to Dr. Witteles (PD) and Dr. Wendy Caceres (APD)

Poster presentation by Dr. Connie Chen (R3), Dr. David Svec, and Dr. Johnathan Chen (both are DOM Faculty and former residents)

Dr. Gilad Jaffe (R2), Dr. Ashish Sarraju (Chief Resident) and Dr. Abraham Verghese (DOM Vice-Chair)

Dr. Harrington (DOM Chair) and Dr. Witteles (PD) discuss presentations with faculty and fellows

Dr. Angela Rogers (APD) gives remarks

Dr. Tiffany Lee presenting research

Research Symposium Winners

Research Symposium 2024

Stav Cullum

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Reducing Interruptions from Non-Urgent Secure Texts in a Quaternary Care Medical Center

Mentor: Dr. Lisa Shieh

Andre Jove

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Clinical and Serologic features of Autoimmune Metaplastic Atrophic Gastritis: Results of an Electronic Health Records Cohort

Mentor: Dr. Robert Huang

Albert Park

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Performance Characteristics of Procalcitonin in the Inpatient Setting

Mentor: Dr. Cybele Renault

Wilson Tang

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Obesity Treatment Strategies in the Veterans Affair Healthcare System

Mentor: Dr. Celina Yong

Lauren Tagliaferro Epler

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Related Pneumonitis in Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Mentor: Dr. Joel Neal

Ishan Paranjpe

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Price variability of heart transplant and ventricular assist procedures across the United States

Mentor: Dr. Kevin Schulman

Sulaiman Somani

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Using Artificial Intelligence to Assess Public Perceptions of GLP-1-RAs on Reddit

Mentor: Dr. Fatima Rodriguez

Bruce Tiu

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Utility of CD123 as a Prognostic Marker of Survival and Minimal Residual Disease in Acute Myeloid Leuukemiat

Mentor: Dr. Gabe Mannis

Research Symposium 2023

Qingzheng Chen

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Endovascular versus surgical lower extremity revascularization among patients with chronic kidney disease

Mentor: Dr. Tara Chang

Stefan Torelli

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Ibrutinib Increases Ventricular Arrhythmia Burden Independently of Atrial Arrhythmia

Mentor: Dr. Paul Cheng

Chen Wei

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Variation in Hospital Prices for Outpatient and Inpatient Cardiovascular Services

Mentor: Dr. Alex Sandhu

Elisa Karhu

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: The Effect of a Plant Based Nutritional Supplement on Symptoms and Calorie- and Protein-Deficits in Patients with Gastroparesis

Mentor: Dr. Linda Nguyen

Benjamin Turturice

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Divergent Pulmonary Outcomes in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy: A Single Center Retrospective Study

Mentor: Dr. Lorinda Chung

Emily Woods

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Factors associated with COVID-19 outbreaks in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention Centers

Mentor: Dr. Jason Andrews and Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert

Research Symposium 2022

Matthew Alkaitis

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Developing a cell-free DNA assay for minimal residual disease in AML

Mentor: Dr. Tian Zhang

Ankita Devareddy

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Analyzing Progression of Disease in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Using Sequential Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing

Mentor: Dr. Matthew Wheeler

Alfonso Molina

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Epidemiologic Evaluation of Clinical Outcomes in Ethnic Minorities with Myelodysplastic Syndromes

Mentor: Dr. Peter L. Greenberg

Sharif Vakili

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Management of Insulin using a Voice AI

Mentor: Dr. Kevin Schulman

Evan Baum

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Predicts Clinical Outcomes in Patients with COVID-19

Mentor: Dr. Andre Kumar

Max McClure

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Assessing the risk of mortality from yellow fever at the time of admission

Mentor: Dr. Desiree LaBeaud

Christian O'Donnell

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Changes in NT-proBNP levels are Predictive of In-Hospital Mortality in Patients Admitted to the ICU for COVID-19

Mentor: Dr. Angela Rogers

John Wang

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Gastric Pre-Cancerous Lesions and Diffuse-Type Gastric Cancer: A Meta-analysis

Mentor: Dr. Rob Huang

Research Symposium 2021

Kathryn Cardoza

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Canagliflozin Improves Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes Across Broad Geographic and Racial Groups: Results from CREDENCE

Mentor: Dr. Kenneth Mahaffey

Emily Liang

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Lower respiratory tract infections and lung function in patients with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after hematopoetic stem cell transplant

Mentor: Dr. David Epstein

Gabriela Spencer Bonilla

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Statin use in older adults for primary cardiovascular disease prevention across a spectrum of cardiovascular risk

Mentor: Dr. Fatima Rodriguez

Sarah Waliany

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Pharmacovigilance analysis of cardiac toxicities associated with targeted therapies for metastatic non-small cell lung carcinoma

Mentor: Dr. Joel Neal

Theresa Dunham

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Online Antibiotic Allergy Decision Support Tool Improves Management of Beta Lactam Allergies

Mentor: Dr. Anne Liu

Shaun Pienkos

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Novel TNIP2 and TRAF2 Variants Are Implicated in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Mentor: Dr. Vinicio de Jesus Perez

Kavitha Subramanian

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Disparities in outcomes among homeless patients hospitalized with gastrointestinal bleeding: a propensity-matched analysis

Mentor: Dr. Philip Okafor

Maggie Zhou

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Plasma Cell-Free DNA for Detection of Molecular Residual Disease and Treatment Response Monitoring in Patients with Sarcoma

Mentor: Dr. Kristen Ganjoo

Research Symposium 2020

Sarah Wailany

Presented during PGY-1 year

Poster Title: Cardiotoxicity Surveillance with Troponin I during Treatment with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors

Mentor: Dr. Joel Neal and Dr. Ron Witteles

Eugenia Miranti

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Epidemiology of Invasive Fungal Infections During Induction Chemotherapy in Adults With Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia Without Antifungal Prophylaxis: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Mentor: Dr. David Epstein

Benjamin Weia

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Suboptimal Screening for Primary Hyperparathyroidism Among Veterans with Urinary Stones

Mentor: Dr. Alan Pao

Thomas Yang Sun

Presented in PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Comparative Genomic Analysis of High Grade Neuroendocrine Neoplasms Across Diverse Organs

Mentor: Dr. Pamela Kunz

Jason Batten

Presented during PGY-1 year

Poster Title: Variation in the Design of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders and Other Hospital Code Status Options: A Multi-Institutional Qualitative Study

Mentor: Dr. David Magnus

Erik Eckhert

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Assessing the Adequacy of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and STI Prevention in MSM at the Stanford Internal Medicine Clinics

Mentor: Dr. Wendy Caceres

Research Symposium 2019

Surbhi Singhal

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Variations in patient-reported outcome (PRO) collection and reporting in novel FDA approved anticancer therapies

Mentor: Dr. Lidia Schapira

Andrew Moore

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Validation of a 12-mRNA Score for Mortality Risk Stratification in Critically Ill Patients

Mentor: Dr. Angela Rogers

Jimmy Tooley

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Comparison of QT Interval Measurement Methods and Correction Formulas in Atrial Fibrillation

Mentor: Dr. Marco Perez

Ginger Yang

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Change is the Only Constant: Evaluating Resident Career Decisions Over Time

Mentor: Dr. Andre Kumar

Aaron Yeoh

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Cost-effectiveness of early initiation and/or more intensive colorectal cancer (CRC) screening in overweight and obese patients

Mentor: Dr. Uri Ladabaum

Chad Weldy

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Changes in circulating whole genome miRNA expression implicate inflammation as a key mediator of RV failure in adults with tetralogy of Fallot

Mentor: Dr. Sushma Reddy

Research Symposium 2018

Amrita Krishnamurthy

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Effects of electronic medical record-based advisories on Benzodiazephine and sedative-hypnotic prescriptions in elderly outpatients

Mentor: Dr. Jason Hom

Sonia Shah

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Sex differences in adenosine-free coronary pressure indexes (A CONTRAST substudy)

Mentor: Dr. William Fearon

Tor Termglinchan

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Dysregulation of PDGFRB contributes to the pathogenesis of LMNA-related dilated cardiomyopathy

Mentor: Dr. Joseph C Wu

Bo Wang

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Individualized selection of anticoagulation for non-valvular atrial fibrilation using a risk prediciton model: Dabigatran versus Warfarin

Mentor: Dr. Mintu Turakhia

Mike Wei

Presented during PGY-2 year

Poster Title: Validation of a clinical scoring system to predict risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) in an ethinically diverse cohort of patients with chronic Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection

Mentor: Dr. Mindie Nguyen

Timothy Yen

Presented during PGY-3 year

Poster Title: Does knowing one's estimated colorectal cancer risk influence screening behavior?

Mentor: Dr. Uri Ladabaum