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Internal Medicine
The department recently held its Medical Research Day. Several medical students won awards, including:
Oral Presentations:

  • Rebekah Fayard for Single-Institutional Analysis of Post-Splenectomy Vaccine Administration and Infectious Complications in Trauma Patients
  • Aleena Kazmi for Almost gone but never forgotten: Scurvy with an initial presentation of hemarthrosis
  • Bryce Arata for A Hand in Madness: Psychiatric Effects of Lead Toxicity
  • Alison Schafer for Differential Blood Pressure and Heart Rate Response to 6-minute Walk Testing in Patients with Group 1 Vs. Group 2 Pulmonary Hypertension
  • Haley Beavers Khoury for Caring for the Incarcerated Patient: Provider Perceptions of Quality of Care     

Poster Presentation:

  • Hanna Almoaswes for An Unusual Genetic Etiology For Adult-Onset FSGS

Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology
Clayton Jacobs, an MD/PhD student in the MIP Department, volunteers with the student-run Community Clinic at Ozanam Inn as a tester for sexually-transmitted infections.