On Friday, April 29, we held our 15th 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 43 abstracts were presented at this year’s virtual program, including four from junior faculty, two from postdoctoral fellows, 18 from residents/fellows, three from graduate students, five from staff scientists, research specialists, or program coordinators, and 11 from medical students. Of those abstracts, four were selected for oral presentation awards (highlighted below).
Additionally, our keynote speaker, Ellen Gravallese, M.D., gave a wonderful presentation titled “Bones of Contention: Controversies in Rheumatic Diseases and Bone.” She is Chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation and Immunity at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is the Theodore Bevier Bayles Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
We 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. We 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, we would like to especially thank and recognize this year’s judges (listed below) who contributed their time and effort to make the 15th Annual Department of Medicine Research Symposium a successful event. They include the following:
Prince Anand, M.D., FACP
Galina Bogatkevich, M.D., Ph.D.
Marc-Andre Cornier, M.D.
Melissa Cunningham, M.D., Ph.D.
Toros Dincman, M.D., Ph.D.
Thomas Di Salvo, M.D., MBA
Susan Dorman, M.D.
Dee Ford, M.D., MSCR
Gary Gilkeson, M.D.
Andrew Goodwin, M.D., MSCR
Hamza Hashmi, M.D.
Harsha Karanchi, M.D.
Joshua Lipschutz, M.D.
Margaret Markiewicz, M.D.
Paul McDermott, Ph.D.
William Moran, M.D., MS
Justin Van Beusecum, Ph.D.
Xian Zhang, Ph.D.
Natalie Wilson
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