The University of Florida Health Science Center – Jacksonville’s annual research awards presentation and ceremony, sponsored by the office of research affairs, brought together faculty, fellows and residents to share their academic and scientific research accomplishments.
The program, held May 21, 2009 in the Learning Resource Center Auditorium, featured platform presentations, poster viewing and award presentations. The keynote speaker for the event was William Mallon, Ed.D., senior director of organizational learning and research with the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Guest speakers and award presenters from UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville included the 2008 Faculty Research/Scholar of the Year, Dominick Angiolillo, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor for the department of medicine, Alan Berger, M.D., assistant dean for research and Constance K. Haan, M.D., M.S., senior associate dean for educational affairs. A special presentation was provided by Christopher Batich, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Florida.
Robert C. Nuss, M.D., professor, associate vice president for health Affairs and dean of the regional campus Jacksonville, introduced the 2009 Faculty Researcher/Scholar of the Year, Scott L. Silliman, M.D. Dr. Silliman is an associate professor, and program director for the neurology residency and the vascular neurology fellowship. 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 85 fellows and residents and 26 faculty who submitted platform and poster presentations, six won platform presentation awards and six received poster presentation awards for their excellence:
Platform Presentation Winners
- 1st Place: Haidee Custodio, M.D., fellow, pediatric infectious disease fellowship program, Decrease in Rotavirus Infections and Hospitalizations in Northeast Florida after Introduction to Rotavirus Vaccine
- 2nd Place: Tausef Qureshi, M.D., resident, internal medicine residency program, In Virtro Cytotoxicity of Gadolinium Contract Medium
- 3rd Place: Bestoun Ahmed, M.D., resident, general surgery residency program, Best Practice Development: Comparison of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Efficacy in Two Trauma Centers
- 4th Place: M. Kamran Aslam, M.D., fellow, cardiology fellowship program, Left Ventricular Pacing During Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Reduces Ventricular Arrhythmia Burden in Heart Failure Patients with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
- 5th Place: Darrell Graham, M.D., resident, general surgery residency program, Regionalization of Emergency Surgical Services: Predicting Florida’s Future
- 6th Place: Saeed Bajestani, M.D., fellow, cytopathology fellowship program, Systems-Based Practice in Pathology: Comparison of ThinPrep and Cytospin Preparations in the Evaluation of Exfoliative Cytology Specimens.
Poster Presentation Winners
- 1st Place: M. Sankarathi Balaiya, Ph.D., research post doctoral associate, department of ophthalmology, Ultraviolet Induced Oxidative Stress on Retinal Ganglion and Pigment Epithelial Cells
- 2nd Place: Dian Feng, M.D., fellow, cytopathology fellowship program, Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma with Metastasis to the Frontal Skull
- 3rd Place: Senan Sultan, M.D., fellow, endocrinology fellowship program, Uncoupling of Hyperglycemia-Induced Oxidative Stress and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Endothelial Cells
- 4th Place: Ravi Keshavamurthy, M.D., research post doctoral associate, department of ophthalmology, Evaluation of Modified Retinopathy of Prematurity Screening guidelines Using Birth-weight as Sole Inclusion Criteria
- 5th Place: Abdul-Razzak Alamir, M.D., fellow, endocrinology fellowship program, Regulation of Apolipoprotein A-1 Gene Expression by the Vitamin D Metabolite 124, 25-Dihtroxycholecalciferol
- 6th Place: Pratik Desai, M.D., resident, orthopaedic surgery residency program, Reamer-Irrigator Aspirator (RIA) for use in Femur Fractures: Radiographic Clinical Outcomes with one-year follow-up