Three house officers in UNMC’s Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology were honored for their presentations at the 2026 Graduate Medical Education Research Symposium.
The eighth annual symposium was held May 12 at the Truhlsen Events Center and featured 33 oral presentations and 127 poster presentations. Three of the oral presentations and 11 of the poster presentations were made by house officers in the department.
Winners were:
- Sabrina Turner, DO, first-year resident, Best Oral Presentation (AP), Simplified Prognostic Classification of C4d Immunostaining in Cardiac Allograft Biopsies: A Large Academic Institutional Experience With Follow-up Data
- Ahmed Ahmed, MBBCh, hematopathology fellow, Best (AP) Poster/Abstract, CD24 Expression in Bone Marrow CD10-Positive Mature Granulocytes Correlates With JAK2 Mutation Status and Patient’s Overall Survival in Primary Myelofibrosis
- Kristina Sevcik, MD, third-year resident, Best (CP) Poster/Abstract, Technical Validation of Insulin Immunoassay for Cross-Reactivity of Veterinary Insulins
Dr. Chandra Are, senior associate dean for graduate medical education at UNMC, congratulated all the presenters and said, “I wish I had this resource when I was a resident. When I was doing my residency, we had a statistics happy hour at 4 p.m. on Friday. What are the chances I’m going to make that?”
Dr. Bradley Britigan, dean of the College of Medicine, said: “I’m always incredibly impressed with the quality of research that you all do. How in-depth and the high-quality nature of the research you’re presenting. As someone who has spent much of his professional time doing research, I can very much appreciate the time and effort that you all have put into this in spite of having very many other responsibilities.”
Dr. Britigan said the research work “will make you better clinicians. Just the process of having to identify a problem, create an approach to experimental design, analyzing data, is something that you have to do on a daily basis in terms of taking care of patients. So they complement one another.”