Here are some examples of the abstracts presented or published by our residents recently:

An Echocardiographic Predictive Model for Assessment of Cardiovascular Outcome in Patients Undergoing Renal Transplantation, Qiangjun Cai, Ricardo Serrano, Jamshid Shirani,  Poster Presentation at the American College of Cardiology 57th Annual Scientific Session, March 29-April 1, 2008, in Chicago, Illinois

Hospital Characteristics and ICU Organization Influence the Assessment and Treatment of Septic Shock in the United States. Djurkovic S, Baracaldo JC, Guerra JA, Haupt MT

Poster Presentation during Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Congress, Hawaii, 2008

Genetic Predisposition to Severe Asthma, Nadkarni A, Salgado JC, Al-Agha M, Carey D, Geisinger - Weis Center for Research, Ongoing

Analysis of patients at high risk of developing Contrast Induced Nephropathy, Christopher Good, James Blankenship, Tom Scott, Brian Carey, Jeremy Patterson, Rachel Wywadis, Kimberly A Skelding,  SCAI's 30th Annual Scientific Sessions in Orlando from May 9-12, 2007. 

Predictors of periprocedural creatine kinase-myocardial band elevation complicating elective percutaneous coronary intervention. Cai Q, Skelding KA, Armstrong AT Jr, Desai D, Wood GC, Blankenship JC. Am J Cardiol. 2007 Mar 1;99(5):616-20.

Propionibacterium acnes as a cause of prosthetic valve aortic root abscess. Hinestrosa F, Djurkovic S, Bourbeau PP, Foltzer MA J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Jan;45(1):259-61.

Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates in a Tertiary Care Center. Girard S, Bulger JB – Poster Presentation during Geisinger’s Resident Research Day 2007

MRSA Native Valve Endocarditis treated with Daptomycin – A Case Report. Serrano R, Girard S, Poster Presentation during ACP Annual Meeting, San Diego 2007

A Clinical Prediction Rule for Early Emergency Department Discharge of Lower Risk Patients with Chest Pain. Cotarlan V, Ho D, Pineda J, Netrebko P, McConnell T, Qureshi A, Shirani J. Podium Presentation during American Heart Association Meeting, Florida 2007

A rare cause of Hypotension. Velagapalli MS, Poster Presentation  Mid- Atlantic meeting  of the Society of General Internal Medicine. March 2007.
Quantification of Epicardial Fat using Cardiac Multi-Slice Computed Tomography. Sarin S, Wenger C, Marwaha A, Qureshi A, Go D, Woomert K, Clark K, Shirani J. Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography 2007;Vol 1;No.1 (suppl): S16-17

A Reticular Rash. Salgado JC, Gutknecht DR. American Journal of Medicine. 119(7):577-8, 2006

Outpatient Erythropoietin Administered via a Protocol Driven, Pharmacist Overseen Program is Associated with Significant Patient and Economic Benefit, Gwendolyn Akers, DO, Maria C Bermudez, MD, Roshan Mainali, MD, Barbara L Brown, PharmD, Stephanie S Roberts, Pharm D, Ion D Bucaloiu, MD, James E Hartle, MD. Poster Presentation American Society of Nephrology, 2006

Duration of Screening Colonoscopies; Comparing Sedation with Propofol vs. Meperidine and Midazolam, Wang A, Mourad W, Suvock E, Komar M, Poster Presentation at American College of Gastroenterology, 2006

Obesity Is Associated With Improved Survival In Critically Ill Patients With Blood Stream Infections, Luis Carlos Murillo, Alejandro M. Restrepo, Federico Hinestrosa, Craig G. Wood, Marilyn T. Haupt, and Svetolik Djurkovic. Annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) CHEST 2006, Salt Lake City, UT, October 21-26, 2006.

Trends In Hypertension-Related Mortality in the United States from 1995-2004. Farhan Aslam MD American Society of hypertension 21st annual scientific meeting, New York NY May 2006