This year’s Research Day – the UF Health Science Center/Jacksonville’s annual research awards presentation and ceremony, held May 12, brought faculty, fellows and residents together to share their academic and scientific research accomplishments.
The program featured platform presentations, poster viewing and award presentations. Guest speakers and award presenters included Guy Benrubi, M.D., associate dean for clinical affairs; M. Peter Pevonka, MS, RPH, senior associate dean for research; Nancy Price Mendenhall, M.D., professor and chair of radiation oncology; and Robert C. Nuss, M.D., senior associate dean.
Earning the highest faculty research award – the Faculty Researcher/Scholar of the Year – was K.V. Chalam, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., associate chair and associate professor of ophthalmology. The honor, first awarded in 1996, is given to a faculty member displaying three scholarship qualities: discovery (research), dissemination (publication in journals) and application (presentation at regional and national professional meetings).
Of the 67 fellows and residents who submitted platform and poster presentations, five won platform presentation awards and six received poster awards for their excellence:
Platform Presentation Winners
- 1st place – Selina Lin, M.D., Department of Ophthalmology, Birthweight < 1250 Grams identifies Prethreshold Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) for Early Treatment
- 2nd place – Samuel Wolf, D.O., Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Sublingual Misoprostol for Labor Induction: A Randomized Clinical Trial
- 3rd place – Binu Jacob, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, The Impact of Renal Dysfunction in Outpatients with Heart Failure and Systolic Dysfunction
- 4th place – Marilyn Bui, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Pathology, Diagnostic Yield of Core Needle Biopsy of Non-Palpable Breast Lesions: A Radiological and Pathological Correlation
- 5th place – Satoshi Anai, M.D., Department of Surgery/Urology, The Mycoplasmal Protein, P37 & Its Effects on Human Tumor Invasion
- 6th place – Satoshi Anai, M.D., Department of Surgery/Urology, Adenoviral-Medicated Pten Transgene Expression Sensitizes BCL-2 Expressing Prostate Cancer Cells to Radiation
Poster Winners
- 1st place – Saeed N. Bajestani, MD, Department of Pathology, Ability of Cefoxitin Disk Testing to Predict the Presence of MRSA Directly from Blood Cultures
- 2nd place – Essam Kazmouz, MD, Department of Pathology, Biomarkers for Benign and Malignant Prostate Lesions
- 3rd place – Eric Ibegbu, MD, Department of Internal Medicine/Gastroenterology, Short Duration of Time from a Previous Colonoscopy Should Not Preclude a Clinically Indicated Repeat Colonoscopy
- 4th place – Adriana Slobodova, MD, Department of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, Acute Pacing, Sensing, and Defibrillation Thresholds in Right Ventricular Septal Versus Apical Locations in Patients receiving Defibrillators with Biventricular Pacing Leads
- 5th place – Binu Jacob, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, The Impact of renal Dysfunction in Outpatients with Heart Failure and Systolic Dysfunction
- 6th place – Christopher Klassen, MD, Department of Radiology, Rule Out of CAD: Coronary CT Angiography and Calcium Score in Chest Pain Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department