Attendees at the Graduate Medical Education Research Symposium this week got a good look at some of the amazing research being done at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
More than 130 research abstracts—in both oral and poster formats—were presented in all at the seventh annual event in the Sorrell Center’s Truhlsen Events Center. UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, UNMC College of Medicine Dean Bradley Britigan, MD, and Chandra Are, MD, senior associate dean of graduate medical education at UNMC, provided opening remarks.
Presenters on Tuesday included a number of residents and fellows in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology.
Oral presentations in one session, moderated by Dr. Joseph Khoury, the department chair, included:
- Thomas Auen, DO, third-year resident: “A Tough NUT to crack: An institutional review of multifocal NUT carcinomas” and “CAPNON: A rare case with long-term follow-up”
- Ahmed Sabri, MD, hematopathology fellow: “t(9:14Xp13;q32) lymphomas: Case series and review of the literature”
- Pauline Xu, MD, PhD, first-year resident: “Immunohistochemical analysis of the role of Wnt/β-Catenin signaling in pathogenesis of sclerosing angiomatoid nodular transformation” and “Clinicopathologic and molecular characterization of primary gastrointestinal melanoma” and “IgG4-positive plasma cells in cutaneous versus extra-cutaneous Rosai-Dorfman disease”
Poster presentations in another session, moderated by Drs. Jesse Cox and Subodh Lele, included:
- Thomas Auen, DO, third-year resident: “An autopsy case of polymicrobial cardiac abscesses with cultured K. Pneumonia in the setting of hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state”
- Ketav Desai, MD, molecular genetic pathology fellow: “A rare case of benign locally aggressive hamartoma-facial infiltrating hamartoma”
- Kayla Hoerschgen, MD, hematopathology fellow: “A single institutional experience of FLTE-ITD in genetically rearranged acute myeloid leukemias”
- Rori Li, DO, first-year resident: “Institutional review of outside pathology by experienced gynecologic pathologists results in improved patient care in a significant number of cases”
- Rebecca Manzo, DO, second-year resident: “Diagnostic accuracy of whole slide imaging of helicobacter pylori immunostains when rare organisms are present”
- Pranav Renavikar, MBBS, surgical pathology fellow: “Extent of primary gleason pattern 4 carcinoma predicts adverse outcome independent of tertiary pattern 5 in prostatectomy specimens” and “Institutional review of outside pathology by experienced breast pathologists results in improved patient care in a significant number of cases” and “High-yield grossing guides with one-on-one instruction prior to each rotation focused on error-prone areas significantly lowers errors in pathology trainees”