Jamaica Hospital and Flushing Hospital Medical Center recently held their Annual Research Conference and Poster Competition, during which members of each hospital showcased research and scholarly activity completed during the academic year. Over 200 attendees participated in the event. Additionally, there were more than 120 submissions between both hospitals.
This is the second time Research Day has been held as a formal, hospital-wide event. This year, it was sponsored by the Department of Research Education and Innovation and the Department of Clinical Research.
The posters featured as part of this event focused on rare or interesting clinical cases and data collected from ongoing studies or quality improvement initiatives within our health system. Many of them were presented at conferences throughout the past year by residents, fellows, faculty, or staff members representing our hospital network in the scientific community, though some were designed specifically for this event.
At Jamaica Hospital, the first-place winner for Case Reports was “Isolated Left Ventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy Presenting with Atrial Fibrillation” by Tetyana Okan, Homayoon Lodeen, Saliman Esmati, and Kaushik Doshi, as well as “Empiric Treatment with High Suspicion: A Rare Case of GAD-65 Autoimmune Encephalitis” by J. Smith, Ateaya Lima, Soniya Marwaha, and M. Anise.
The first-place poster for Empirical Research was “A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Pilot Veto Intervention: Barriers and Facilitators to the Enrollment and Retention of GSW Patients in a Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program” by Naa Djama Attoh-Okine, Ariel Cebelinski, and N. Addasi.
The winning Quality Improvement poster at Jamaica Hospital was “Post-Pulmonary Embolism Care at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center: A Quality Improvement Project” by Faria Nitol, M. Raja, H. Li, Fabiano Das Gracas, and Craig Thurm.
At Flushing Hospital, the first-place winning poster for Case Reports was “Staphylococcus Pasteuri Neonatal Sepsis” by Tashalee McGrath-Blagrove, L.Q. Lew, and Esra Fakioglu.
For Empirical Research, the first-place winner was “Using Latent Class Analysis to Identify Differences in Clinical Presentation, Functional Status, and Healthcare Service Use” by Abdi Deressa, Ashraf Sliem, Andrew Miele, A. Spinelli, M. McDonald, R. Jonathan Robitsek, Robert Mendelson, and Kelly Cervellione, as well as “Utilization of Osteopathic Manipulation Treatment in Wound Healing of Pressure Ulcers: A Pilot Study” by C. Bodden, Stephens Griner, M.A. Louis, M. Khan, Samantha Yasin, H. Rao, A. Khan, and P. Sawhney.
For Quality Improvement, the winning poster was “Evaluating the Long-Term Impact of Standardizing the Sign Out Process” by Taikchan Lildar, Falak Sana, W. Thu, Andrew Miele, Kelly Cervellione, and Tamar Toronjadze.
Congratulations to all Research Day winners, and thank you to everyone who participated in this event!
On Friday, May 24th, over 30 research posters and additional published works were displayed in print and electronic forms in Jamaica Hospital’s auditoriums. The following week, on Thursday, May 30th, Flushing Hospital showcased nearly three dozen posters on the walls of the auditorium. All of the posters on display were presented at professional conferences within the last year.
Many passed through and admired the posters at both events, which included submissions from various departments including family and internal medicine, ob/gyn, orthopedics, pathology, pediatrics, psychiatry, pulmonology, surgery, and trauma.