Congratulations to Camden Scholars’ Forum Contest Winners

This year’s contest winners and their project titles are listed below. All winners are invited to attend the Winners’ Forum on Friday, April 26, 2019, to be recognized for their hard work.

First place winners will present their project in a five-minute oral presentation (and two minutes for questions) at the forum.

Camden Scholars’ Winners’ Forum
Friday, April 26, 2019
7 a.m. to 8 a.m., refreshments to follow
CMSRU Auditorium

Please join us at the forum to congratulate these research and PI principals!

Clinical Research

1st Brian Chinai, DO, Medicine: Implementation of the Affordable Care Act: A comparison of outcomes in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock using the National Inpatient Sample 

2nd  Justin Baptist, MD, Medicine: Time to reconsider using clindamycin for preoperative prophylaxis in megaprosthetic total joint reconstruction

3rd  Dylan Oliver, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University: Treating septic arthritis in intravenous drug users costs more than total joint arthroplasty

Basic Research

1st  Huan Wang, MD, Surgery: The effect of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells delivered in fibrin glue on the early phase of anastomotic healing in rats

2nd  Shefali Sharma, MD, OB/GYN: Alteration of ceramide metabolism in pelvic organ prolapse

3rd  Jennifer Schweinsburg, MD, Surgery: The effect of cannabidiol on ovarian cancer in the presence and absence of classic chemotherapy

Case Study Research

1st  Melissa Olsakowski, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University: ALK+ large B-cell lymphoma involving the jejunum in a thirteen-year-old boy

2nd Haley Brown, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University: Actinomyces endometritis after cerclage

3rd Meghan Morley, MD, Bone and Joint Institute: Hybrid fixation of open distal humerus fracture with acute loss of lateral articular condyle

Medical Student Research

1st  Christopher Rivera-Pintado, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University: Improving orthopaedic equipment performance in the operating room

2nd Melissa Olsakowski, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University: ALK+, large B-cell lymphoma in the jejunum in a thirteen-year-old boy

3rd Yunyoung Kim, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University: Appropriateness of initiation and de-escalation of Vancomycin in Cooper University Hospital cancer patients with neutropenic fever 

Performance Improvement

1st Huan Wang, MD, Surgery: How implementation of a multidisciplinary, perioperative early recovery pathway safely transitions a low volume elective esophagectomy program to an effective high-volume practice

2nd Dana McCloskey, MD, Surgery: Risk factors associated with postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy

3rd Christopher Rivera-Pintado, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University: Improving orthopaedic equipment performance in the operating room

Nursing Research

1st  Christa Schorr, RN, Medicine: The association of increasing hospice utilization with decreasing hospital mortality: An analysis                                                                                              of the national inpatient sample