Congratulations to the winners of this year's Abstract Competition!

Orals

1st Place
Jordan Beam, BS
University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine 
“Metastatic Prostate Cancer Cells Effect on Tumor Microenvironment”

2nd Place
Meet Patel, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine 
“Portosystemic Shunt Occlusion as Treatment for Recurrent Hepatic Encephalopathy Secondary to Congestive Hepatopathy”

3rd Place
Amanda Hardy, MD
University of Tennessee Health Science Center Internal Medicine
“Collision Course: An Unusual Presentation of Fatal Mucormycosis After a Motor Vehicle Accident” 

Posters

1st Place
Poonam Patel, MD
Norton Community Hospital 
“An Unusual Side Effect of Acyclovir: Junctional Rhythm”

2nd Place
Grace Hover Howell, BS
University of Mississippi Medical Center 
“"Know Your Numbers": A Report of a Medical Student-Led Preventative Health Intervention in the State of Mississippi”

3rd Place
Vagharsh Antanesian, MD, MPH
Norton Community Hospital 
“Viper Insecticide (Cypermethrin) Cardiotoxicity”

Judges' Choice
Emana Sheikh-Kapadia, DO
Kettering Health Dayton
“Dystrophinopathy vs. Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy: A Winding Road to Neuromuscular Diagnosis”

Thank you to all of the physicians-in-training who presented abstracts this year and thank you to all of the medical schools and residency programs that supported their participation.

More than $9,000.00 was awarded to this year's abstract winners and these awards are made possible through contributions to SMA's Research and Education Endowment Fund. 

“It  was incredibly exciting to hear what these exceptional medical students and residents are doing across various fields in medicine,” noted SMA Executive Director Randy Glick. “All of the presenters did an outstanding job. Their preparation, professionalism, and knowledge of their material were apparent and I foresee they will do great things in the feature.”