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