EXCEPTIONALISM FLOURISHES DURING LECOM RESEARCH DAY 2020 Rounding out the deeply penetrating purpose of a superlative education, unmatched clinical care, and unflagging community service, research comprises a key component of the LECOM mission. The LECOM Interprofessional Research Day, held in late October of 2020, boasted 120 abstract submissions offered by participating resident physicians, faculty, and students. The College takes great pride in the assiduously honed scholarship put forth by the student participants as well as by their mentors. LECOM extends its hearty congratulations to the winners of the LECOM Research Day 2020 Poster and Lecture Sessions and it offers grateful acknowledgement to Dr. Speelman, the College of Medicine Director of Research, for organizing the sessions; to the judges of the poster and the oral presentations; and especially, to the students and resident physicians for their quality submissions. Many compelling, probative, and revealing pieces of work were showcased during the event with the following presentations being awarded prizes:
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS Lecture Session Winners 1st Prize ($500) Alyson Burchell Investigation of a Long-Range Glycinergic Projection from Brainstem Interneurons to the Thalamus Alyson Burchell; Yusra Mansour; Randy J. Kulesza Jr., PhD 2nd Prize ($250) Prutha Mehta Liver Metabolic Dysfunction in PCOS Rats Prutha Mehta; Patrick Pasqualicchio; Diana Speelman, PhD 3rd Prize ($100) Zachary Weisner, MS Association of Pre-Hospital Hypocarbia and Hypercarbia with Outcomes with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Patients Zachary Weisner, MS; David D Salcido, PhD; Francis X Guyette, MD; Christian Martin-Gill, MD; Hinnah Siddiqui, MPH; Jessica Salerno, MPH; and Jonathan Elmer, MD Poster Session Winners 1st Prize ($500) Ian Koch Characterization of the Auditory Brainstem Response in Hyperandrogenic Rats Ian Koch; Michael Furey; Diana Speelman, PhD; and Randy J. Kulesza Jr., PhD
2nd Prize ($250) Aaron Grossberg Diagnosing Coronary Artery Disease by Palpation Aaron Grossberg OMS-II, MS; and Kevin Thomas, DO 3rd Prize ($100) Yusra Mansour Virtually the Same? The Comparison of InPerson and Virtual Drawing Sessions on the Structural and Clinical Anatomy of the Vagus Nerve Yusra Mansour; Randy J. Kulesza Jr., PhD CLINICIAN PRESENTATIONS Lecture Session Winners 1st Prize ($500) Farhan Ali, DO Metformin as Adjunctive Therapy in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Farhan Ali, DO; Sowmyia Srinivas, MD; Dayakar Reddy, MD; and Pallavi Kamjula, MD 2nd Prize ($250) Shane Lohss, DO Improving Colorectal Cancer Screening Compliance Rates Through Marketing and Performance of a 2 for 1 Combined Colonoscopy-Prostate Screening Exam Shane Lohss, DO; Dustin Wong, OMS-III
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