And the Winners Are …

Cooper University Health Care and Cooper Medical School of Rowan University held its Third Annual Camden Scholars’ Forum Poster Contest on April 18 through April 20. Over 100 research and performance improvement project posters submitted by residents, fellows, nurses, medical students, and allied health and technical staff were reviewed and judged by Cooper and CMSRU faculty.

The contest winners from each category are listed below.

Each first-place winner will give a short oral presentation about his or her project at the Winners’ Forum.

Everyone is welcome to attend the Winners’ Forum for the presentations and award announcements on Friday, April 29, 2016, at 7 a.m. in the CMSRU auditorium.

Congratulations go to:

Clinical Research

1^st  Nisha Agasthya, MD, Pediatrics – Best Overall: Short Term Respiratory Effects of Inhaled Nitric Oxide in Preterm Infants
2^nd Kristi Maso, MD, MPH, Medicine: Fluid Resuscitation in Septic Shock Patients Perceived At-Risk for Volume Overload
3^rd Eben Eno, MD, Medicine: Racial Differences in Heart Failure Outcomes: A Get-With-The-Guidelines Heart Failure Study
 

Basic Research

1^st Ashleigh Rapp Hagaman, MD, Surgery: The Effects of Chemotherapy on Adipose Derived Stem Cells in Breast Cancer Patients
2^nd Marc Fromer, MD, Surgery: The Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cell Secretome as a Novel Treatment to Prime Adipose-Derived Stem Cells for Improved Wound Healing in Diabetes
3^rd Marcia Hernandez, MD, Surgery: Expression of Programmed Cell Death Ligand 1 (PD-L1) in ovarian cancer cells after treatment with Carboplatin

Case Study Research

1^st Margaret Manus, MD, Medicine: Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy in an Asymptomatic Athlete
2^nd Sanya Naware, MD, Medicine: Just a URI or Something More? A Case of Viral Myocarditis
3^rd Sarah Aluning, MD, Pediatrics: Hyperglycemia in A 5 Year Old Severe Persistent Asthmatic

Nursing Research

1^st Christa Schorr, RN, MSN: Lack of Fluid Administration or Lack of Documentation? Evaluating Fluid Resuscitation in Septic Shock
2^nd Pam Crabtree, RN: Quality, Informatics and Research Align to Help Nurses Improve Outcomes in Severe Sepsis
3^rd Deborah Cutrona, MSN, RN, CCRN: Does A Surgical Virtual Tour Influence Adult Preoperative Anxiety And Understanding Of The Surgical Process

Medical Student Research

1^st Stephen Stopenski, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University: After chemotherapy treatment for maternal cancer during pregnancy, is it safe to breast feed
2^nd Christian Nguyen, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University: Fluid Resuscitation In Elderly Septic Shock Patients
3^rd Sandra Pena, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University: Hemorrhagic Stroke Following Cannabis Abuse in a Young African American Male

Performance Improvement

1^st Priya Kamath, MD, Medicine: Transitions of Care: Discharging a Patient on Warfarin
2^nd Linda Valenti, RN, MSN/MBA/HCA, Process Improvement: Decreasing MRI Lag Times for Breast Cancer Patients
3^rd Anju Bieler, MD, Pediatrics: Pediatric Vaccines-For- Children (VFC) Vaccine Error Reduction: A Process Improvement Project

Allied Health/Technical

 1^st Joshi Shreya, University of the Sciences: Cost reduction of inhaled corticosteroids in children admitted for acute asthma exacerbation with a practice guideline