Three students in the College of Medicine were selected to give oral presentations during NEOMED’s annual Surgery Residency Research Day, held June 9 via Zoom. A fourth student was recognized for his poster presentation.
The students’ work was selected through a vigorous initial round of scoring by surgeons, researchers and NEOMED faculty of deidentified abstracts. The top five case reports and the top six scientific study abstract scores were chosen to present their findings orally.
Third-year medicine student Matthew Satariano presented a case report, titled “Robotic Seminal Vesiculectomy for Treatment of Refractory Hematospermia: A Case Report and Literature Review,” while second-year student Quan Lu and fourth-year student Patricia Sanchez Montejo presented oral scientific presentations, titled “Meningitis Following Otologic Surgeries” and “Relationship Between Anal Cancer Recurrence and Smoking,” respectively.
In addition, fourth-year medicine student Vardhan S. Avasarala was awarded second place for scientific posters for “Distraction Along the Posterior Border of the Ramus to Correct the Mandibular Deficiency in Pierre Robin Sequence.”
The students’ presentations were chosen from 41 abstracts submitted by NEOMED students and surgical residents from Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Summa Health System, Steward/Trumbull Memorial Hospital and St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.
The 2023 NEOMED Regional Surgery Research Day was chaired by Vincent Vanek, M.D., professor of surgery at NEOMED and associate program director, General Surgery Residency, St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.
Congratulations to the following students and residents who took top honors following the program:
ORAL PRESENTATIONS SCIENTIFIC STUDIES
1st place
Emily Su, M.D., Summa Hospital
Significant Healthcare Cost Savings Through Improved Regulated Medical Waste Handling
2nd place
Erin Gray, M.D., Cleveland Clinic Akron General
Prophylactic Use of Tranexamic Acid in Cesarean Delivery to Reduce Postpartum Blood Product Administration
ORAL PRESENTATIONS CASE REPORT
1st place
Gianmarino Gianfrate, D.O., St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital
Global Surgery and the Surgical Intervention of a Heteropagus Twin in Rural Burundi, East Africa: Case Report
2nd place
Sara Peterson, M.D., Cleveland Clinic Akron General
Prolapsed Vaginal Fibroid Requiring Cesarean Delivery and Myomectomy: A Case Report
SCIENTIFIC POSTER
1st place
Brandon M. Larson, M.D., Summa Health Systems
Burned But Not Broke: The Cost-Effectiveness and Improved Outcomes of a Poly-Lactic Acid Dressings in Acute Burn Care
2nd place
Vardhan S. Avasarala, M4, NEOMED
Distraction Along the Posterior Border of the Ramus to Correct the Mandibular Deficiency in Pierre Robin Sequence
CASE REPORT POSTER
1st place
Sidney Spencer, M.D., Elizabeth Boardman Hospital
A Rare Case of Spontaneous Epiglottic Hematoma Due to Supratherapeutic INR
2nd place
Hamid Wardak, M.D., Cleveland Clinic Akron General
Combined Video-assisted Thorascopic and Laparoscopic Approach to Morgagni Hernia Repair