Release Date: January 17, 2025
Ochsner Academics recently named the recipients of the 11th Annual Award for Outstanding Research by Trainees. The Outstanding Research by Trainees award encourages high quality research activity by Ochsner trainees and provides for regional dissemination of trainees’ research results. The award is also designed to promote recognition of Ochsner as a leader in clinical, translational, and health services research. UQ-Ochsner MD Program medical students and Ochsner residents and fellows are eligible to apply for this award.
The awards cover the cost of abstract submission and registration to attend and present at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (SSCI), which is held in conjunction with the Southern Regional Meetings (SRM) of the American Federation for Medical Research. This meeting will be held in New Orleans on February 13-15, 2025. This year, SSCI selected the following “Outstanding Research by Trainees” award recipients for presentation of their research study at the annual conference:
Sneha Centala, MD, Rheumatology Fellow, Ochsner Health
LONGITUDINAL IMMUNE CELL PROFILING AND CLINICAL FEATURES IN OBESE LUPUS PATIENTS. Sneha Centala, Chandana Keshavamurthy, Alexandra Reese, Samantha C. Ahrens, Douglas Reeves, Shivani Shah, William E. Davis, Robert Quinet, Jerald Zakem, Qingli Wu, Eric Xiang, Teresa Leeth, Sarwat Umer, Samina Hayat, Daniyal Nadeem and Xin Zhang.
* SSCI Trainee Research Award Winner and SSCI Poster Award Finalist
Alexander Crowley, MD, Orthopedics Resident, Ochsner Health
OUTCOMES OF ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC FOLLOW-UP FOR CLOSED NONDISPLACED METACARPAL FRACTURES PRE AND POST EMERGENCY MEDICINE RESIDENCY INCEPTION BASED ON SOCIOECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH: A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OVER 8 YEARS. Alexander Crowley, John-Henry Lambin and Ross Dunbar.
Srikanth Mudiganty, Sports Medicine Fellow, Ochsner Health
0 VS. 30: A DIAGNOSTIC MANUAL MUSCLE TESTING TECHNIQUE FOR DETECTING FULL OR PARTIAL THICKNESS SUPRASPINATUS MUSCLE TEARS. Srikanth Mudiganty, Arjun Verma, Justin Kim, Osman Kazan, Jack Song and Misty Suri.
Christopher Zumwalt, MD, General Surgery Resident, Ochsner Health
HEARTMATE 3 IN PEDIATRIC PATIENT WITH LIMB-GIRDLE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY-KEEPING MINDS AND DOORS OPEN IN COMPLEX PEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED HEART FAILURE. Christopher M. Zumwalt, Katerina Boucek and Dennis Wells.
Kayla Baker, MD, 2024 graduate of the UQ-Ochsner MD program
BRIDGING THE GAP: TRAINING STUDENTS TO ADVANCE AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL AS A SOLUTION FOR STANDARDIZING NASAL CAVITY LANDMARKS AMONG OTOLARYNGOLOGISTS. Kayla Baker, Layla Babahaji, Cheyenne Low, Jonathan Bidwell and Edward McCoul.
Montana Ellis, Student, UQ-Ochsner MD Program
PRECIPITOUS ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY IN ASSOCIATION WITH VANCOMYCIN EXPOSURE: A COHORT STUDY. Montana D. Ellis, Dustin R. Chalmers, Ghaith Hashem, Kirsten Johnson, Danielle N. Aliano, Vipin Varghese, Swetha Kanduri and Juan Carlos Velez.
Paige Guia, MD, 2024 graduate of the UQ-Ochsner MD Program
DELAYED GASTRIC EMPTYING AFTER RESECTION OF CANCER OF THE ESOPHAGUS AND ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION----AN UNCOMMON BUT IMPACTFUL COMPLICATION. Paige Guia, Nicholas Meyers, Russell Brown and John Bolton
Nathaniel Untch, MD, 2024 graduate of the UQ-Ochsner MD Program
A DOUBLE DILEMMA: A NOVEL CASE SERIES OF CONCOMITANT ANTERIOR AND LATERAL CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEAKS AMIDST IDIOPATHIC INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION. Nathaniel Untch, Joseph Keen, Adam Master, Marcus Ware and Blair Barton.
Read more about the Southern Regional Meeting.
For more information, contact Courtney Parke, PhD at courtney.parke@ochsner.org.
