On Friday, April 30, we held our 14th Annual Department of Medicine Virtual Research Symposium. The annual Research Symposium uses oral and poster presentations to showcase current research by the Department of Medicine’s junior faculty, fellows, residents, graduate, and medical students. A total of 52 abstracts were presented at this year’s virtual program, including 4 from junior faculty, 4 from postdoctoral fellows, 24 from residents/fellows, 8 from graduate students, and 17 from medical students. Of those abstracts, five were selected for oral presentation awards (highlighted below).
Additionally, our keynote speaker, Jeremy Reiter, M.D., Ph.D., gave a wonderful presentation on his research on “How Cilia Signal, and How I Got so Fascinated by this Organelle.” He is the chair of the Department of Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco.
I would like to thank all of the participants for sharing their innovative research as well as those who attended this year’s event and gave constructive feedback. I want to give special thanks to Catherine Bennett, MHA, Natalie Wilson, and Phallan Robbins, MHA, for their tireless efforts toward making this symposium a success despite difficult circumstances.
In addition, I would like to especially thank and recognize this year’s judges (listed below) who contributed their time and effort to make the 14th Annual Department of Medicine Research Symposium a successful event. They include the following:
Ruth Adekunle, M.D.
Emily Brennan, MLIS
Thomas Di Salvo, M.D., MBA
Gary Gilkeson, M.D.
Hamza Hashmi, M.D.
Joshua Lipschutz, M.D..
Diane Kamen, M.D., MSCR
Margaret Markiewicz, M.D.
Paul McDermott, Ph.D.
William Moran, M.D., MS
Zengdun Shi, M.D.
Charlie Strange, M.D.
Catherine Bennett
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