JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium held its annual Research Day April 23 at San Antonio Military Medical Center.
Army and Air Force residents and fellows from SAMMC and Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center participated in presentations highlighting their original research in their specialties of study.
The competition featured oral or poster presentations showcasing research in Trauma, Infectious Disease, Neonatology, Immunology, General Surgery, Internal Medicine and many other specialties.
"It is truly a wonderful effort that everyone produced. Whether you win or not, you are all winners because research is so crucial to the advancement of medicine and health in general," said Col. Glenn Yap, vice commander, 59th Medical Wing. "I do truly appreciate how valuable and how difficult research is. Hopefully for many of you this is just your first stage of your research careers."
Brooke Army Medical Center has more than 35 graduate medical education programs that train more than 600 resident physicians.
"We are blown away with your work as residents and fellows here," said BAMC Commander Col. Evan Renz. "There was a wide variety of topics, very applicable topics most of which can be translated into care within a clinical setting very easily."
Renz challenged the residents to publish their work and he committed resources to help accomplish that goal.
"You are advancing the science of medicine, no matter how small you think it is, you just never know what your research will eventually evolve to in the future," Yap said.
The first, second and third winners in each category were:
Fellow Podium Presentations
First Place: Maj. Karen Bruner -- Allergy/Immunology
The Glycerin Associated Pain (GAP) Study
Second Place: Capt. Bradley Doles -- Neonatology
Effect of Bias Flow and Mean Airway Pressure on CO2 Elimination During High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation in a Neonatal Piglet (Sus scrofa) Model
Third Place: Capt. David Chang -- Infectious Disease
Antimicrobial Activity of Gallium III Compounds Against Biofilms of Multidrug-Resistant Isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii
Resident Podium Presentations
First Place: Capt. Clayton Lewis -- General Surgery
Tranexamic Acid Administration and Association with Post-Trauma Infections
Second Place: Capt. Thomas Mitchell -- General Surgery
Auto-transfusion of Hemothorax Blood is Prothrombic but Inhibits Platelet Aggregation: A Potentiator of Disseminated Intra-vascular Coagulation
Third Place: Capt. Geoffrey Carlson - Internal Medicine
Evaluation of ACEi/ARB Therapy in Immunotherapy-Associated Systemic Reactions
Resident Research Poster Presentations
First Place: Capt. Alicia Pallett - OB/Gynecology
Informed Consent for Hysterectomy: Does a Video Presentation Improve Patient Comprehension?
Second Place: Capt. Joseph Yabes - Internal Medicine
In vitro Activity of Manuka Honey and Polyhexamethylene Biguanide on Filamentous Fungi and Toxicity to Human Cells
Third Place: Capt. Michelle Buehner - General Surgery
Exsanguination Shock in the Combat Zone
Clinical Vignette Poster Presentations:
First Place: Capt. Alisa Miller - Internal Medicine
Humoral Hypercalcemia of Uterine STUMP During Early Pregnancy
Second Place: Capt. Nam Nguyen - Internal Medicine
Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma: An Aggressive Disease Presenting as Weakness
Third Place: Capt. Paola Rosa - OB/Gynecology
Klinefelter Syndrome can be Detected by Prenatal Genitalia Development
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