The winners of the ninth annual Camden Scholar’s Forum Poster Contest have been chosen. The contest, presented by Cooper University Health Care and Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU), recognizes outstanding achievement in research and performance improvement. CMSRU clinical and biomedical science faculty judged and scored the posters for the abstract, poster design, title clarity and completeness, methods, results, and discussion/conclusions.
Congratulations to the winners in each category.
Clinical Research
First Place:
Branden Wright, Medical Student, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University – “Unnecessary Preoperative Workup in Healthy Patients with Isolated Orthopedic Trauma: An Area of Healthcare Waste”
Second Place:
Vineeth Romiyo, Medical Student, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University – “What Is the Incidence of In-Hospital Mortality After a Hip Fracture? Do Treatment Options Matter?”
Third Place:
Liam O’Neill, Medical Student, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University – “Medical Surgery O’Neill Liam Effects of Milkfat on the Gut Microbiome of Patients After Bariatric Surgery, a Pilot Study”
Fourth Place:
Alison Greidinger, MD, Department of Medicine – “A Population at Risk: Decreased COVID-19 Immunity in Patients with B-Cell Lymphoma”
Case Study Research
First Place:
Shivam Patel, Medical Student, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University – “Anesthesia Management for Total Hip Arthroplasty in a patient with Multiple Autoimmune Diseases”
Second Place:
Tiago Palmisano, Medical Student, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University – “Chronic Sclerosing Mesenteritis: An Uncommon Cause of Chronic Diarrhea”
Third Place:
Belle Lin, Medical Student, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University – “Evaluation and Treatment of Suspected Neurosyphilis with Negative CSF-VDRL”
Fourth Place:
Savina Reid-Herrera, Medical Student, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University – “Percutaneous Transesophageal Gastrostomy (PTEG) Use in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer”
Performance Improvement
First Place:
Stephanie Rivera Morales, MD, Department of Medicine – “Single-center pre-intervention evaluation of cancer genetics referral rates for pancreatic cancer patients in 2019-2020: A quality improvement project”
Second Place:
Natasha Mathur, Medical Student, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University – “Salvage Radiosurgery for Failure After Previous Whole Brain Radiation”
Third Place:
Christine Kurian, MD, Department of Medicine – “Comparison of Ifosfamide Toxicity in DHAP vs ICE regimens”
Fourth Place:
Meghan Gorski, DO, Department of Medicine – “An Exploratory Stepwise Approach to Identifying and to Improving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Disparities Within the Division of Critical Care Medicine and Our Clinical Practice”
2022 Camden Scholars’ Forum “BEST READER AWARD”
Andrew Myers, “The Incredible Hulk,” Medical Student, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University – “Do Outpatient Podiatry Evaluations Reduce the Risk of Falls in Elderly Patients With Diabetes Mellitus?”
The following contestants also displayed superior reading skills:
- Nikhil Bhavesh Bhana – Iron Man
- Byron Lu, MD – Wanda Maximoff
- Leslie Abraham – Captain America
- Abhrarup “Abe” Roy – Strange
- Srishti Dhar – Captain America
- Eena Lin – Black Panther
- Briar Rose Ginn – Iron Man
- Olivia Homer – Thor
- Elizabeth Richards – Ant Man
- Mahir Qureshi – Iron Man
- Lucinda Lau – Iron Man
- Ryan Moazamian – Iron Man
- Manisha Koneru – Captain America
- Jagathi Kalluru – Black Widow
- Rohan Paturu – Strange
- Larissa Pastore – Captain America
- Morgan Epley – Spiderman
2022 Camden Scholars’ Forum “ROCKSTAR AWARD”
Alla Kushnir, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University; Director of the Center for Fetal Care; Director of Pediatric Research;
Neonatology M3 and M4 Clerkship Director; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Robert W. Johnson Medical School of Rutgers University, Children’s Regional Hospital, Cooper University Health Care