Published June 17, 2016 This content is archived.
Three residents and a generalist scholar received honors for outstanding poster presentations at the 19th Annual Graduate Medical Education Scholarly Exchange Day.
Recipients of Scholarly Exchange Day Research Awards are as follows:
Milind Chaudhari, MD, PhD
Internal medicine/preventive medicine resident
Basic science award winner
“The Effects of Experimental Sleep Apnea on Cardiac and Respiratory Functions in 6 and 18 Month Old Dystrophic (mdx) Mice”
Mentor: Gaspar A. Farkas, PhD, associate professor of exercise and nutrition sciences
Asma Mursleen, MD
Internal medicine resident
Clinical research award winner
“Most Common Sources of Health Information and Most Common Topics of Interest for Primary Care Clinic Patients”
Mentor: Nitu Kataria, MD, assistant professor of medicine
Arthur Chang, MD
Generalist scholar
Educational research award winner
“Kawasaki Disease in Western New York”
Mentor: Mark D. Hicar, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics
Ashish Arora, MD
Neurology resident
Quality Improvement award winner
“Increasing Yield of CSF Cytology and Flow Cytometry Analysis (FCA) for Detection of CNS Malignancies”
Mentors: Ping Li, MD, clinical assistant professor of neurology, and Nan Zhang, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and anatomical sciences
Other presenters were:
Basic research
Clinical research
Educational research
Other research
Scholarly Exchange Day provides participants an opportunity to deliver poster presentations and interact with other researchers and the school’s alumni.
It is held each year in conjunction with the UB Medical Alumni Association’s Spring Clinical Day.