Resident Research Day |
| Geisinger Health System and the Montour County Medical Society held their annual Resident Research Day May 18, 2007. Residents completed 119 projects this year with 61 of those having been presented at national meetings; 34 projects were selected for review in three categories. The following were the winning presentation entries. You can simultaneously listen to the podcast audio of each presentation while viewing the accompanying PowerPoint. |
| Poster Presentations |
Scott Girard, DO, Internal Medicine
Improving Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates at a Tertiary Care Center
Imad Iskandar, MD, Cardiovascular Medicine
Assessment of Left Ventricular Contractile Reserve Can Rescue Submaximal Negative Dobutamine Stress Echocardiographic Studies
Mykola Prykhodko, MD, General Surgery
Incidence of Thyroid Cancer in the Residents Surrounding the TMI Nuclear Facility |
Platform Presentations
Podcasting feed:  www.geisinger.org/shared/podcasts/geisingerRSS.xml |
Vlad Cotarlan, MD, Cardiovascular Medicine
Plasma B-Type Natriuetic Peptide, A Marker of short-Term Efficacy of Cardiac Resynchronization in Patients with Heart Failure |  | (.mp3) |  | (.ppt) |
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Mary Ann Kennesson, MD, Urology
Novel Adjuvants of Cryotherapy to Enhance Direct and Bystander Killing of Human Prostate Center Cells (PC3) | | (.mp3) | | (.ppt) |
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Ajay Marwaha, MD, Cardiovascular Medicine
Adenosine Perfusion Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Predicts Adverse Outcome in Chest Pain Patients suspected of Coronary Artery Disease | | (.mp3) | | (.ppt) |
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Pavlo Netrebko, MD, Cardiovascular Medicine
Left Ventricular Scar Burden Predicts Life-Threatening Arrhythmia in Recipients of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators | | (.mp3) | | (.ppt) |
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Christopher Wenger, DO, Internal Medicine
Quantification of Epicardial Fat Using Multi-Slice Computed Tomography | | (.mp3) | | (.ppt) |
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| Case Report Presentations |
Heather Pol Gerst, DO, Internal Medicine
Unusual B Cell Lymphoma Found on Routine Colonoscopy - What's Hiding in Your Colon? | | (.mp3) | | (.ppt) |
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Shivprasad Nikam, MD, Vascular Surgery
Native Superficial Femoral Artery Peripheral Atherectomy Site Pseudoaneurysm: A Case Report | | (.mp3) | | (.ppt) |
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Stacy Prall, DO, Gastroenterology
Endoscopic Ultrasound: A Useful Tool to Diagnose Masqueraders of Pancreatic Cancer | | (.mp3) | | (.ppt) |
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Waldemar Riefkhol, MD, Otolaryngology
Lingual Thyroid Carcinoma with Nodal Metastasis | | (.mp3) | | (.ppt) |
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