Congratulations Essay & Session Winners

Miley B. Wesson Resident Essay Contest Winners

1ST PLACE: Kai Wen Cheng, MD, Loma Linda Univ. Med. Ctr.

Cured but Not Healed: Persistent Suicide Risk in Survivors of Testicular Germ Cell Tumors.

2ND PLACE: Joel Rosenberg, MD, UC San Diego

The Urologist as a Vanguard of Men's Health: Expanding Horizons Beyond the Genitourinary Tract.

 

3RD PLACE: Lauren Poniatowski, MD, Univ. of WA
Implementation of a simulation curriculum for operating room nursing staff utilizing a high-fidelity physical simulator model for training pediatric urethral catheter insertion.

 

Joseph F. McCarthy Physician Essay Contest Winners

1ST PLACE: David Tzou, MD, Univ. of Arizona
Kidney Stone Endotoxin Concentration Correlates with Post-Operative Sepsis Following Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy.

 

2ND PLACE: Nathan Wong, MD, Univ. of British Columbia
From Paperwork to Patient Care: How AI is Transforming the Modern Urology Practice.

 

History Essay Contest Winners

1ST PLACE: Anosh Dadabhoy, MS, Univ. of So. Cal.

Origins of Urologic Practice in Ancient Persia.

 

2ND PLACE: Joel Rosenberg, MD, UC San Diego

The Evolution of Urinary Catheterization: A Story of Materials, Design, and Patient Care.

 

3RD PLACE: Mitchell O’Leary, MD, UC Los Angeles

Single-Port Robotic Urologic Surgery: A Brief History and Review.

 

Health Policy Presentation Winners

Anthony Middleton Grand Prize Award:
Marvin Carlisle, BS, UC San Francisco

Development and Validation of a Generative Artificial Intelligence-Based Pipeline for Automated Clinical Data Extraction from Electronic Health Records: Technical Implementation Study.

Jeffrey Kaufman Memorial Essay Award:
Isaac Kim Jr., MD, PhD, Stanford Univ.

Facility Medicaid Insurance Share and Guideline-Concordant Prostate Cancer Care.

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MODERATED POSTER SESSION WINNERS: - OVERALL WINNERS

1^st Place: #10 –  - Meera Chappidi, MD, MPH - Erdafitinib Use In Eligible Patients With Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma: Results From The Veterans Health Administration.

2^nd Place: #86 – Stephen Freedland, MD - Secondary Outcomes By Prior Definitive Treatment In Patients With High-risk Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer Treated With Enzalutamide Monotherapy: EMBARK Post Hoc Analysis.

3^rd Place: #107 - Issac Kim Jr., MD, PhD Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Survival of Prostate Cancer Patients.

 

POSTER SESSION 1 - Best of Session Winners

1st Place: #10 - Meera Chappidi, MD, MPH - Erdafitinib Use In Eligible Patients With Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma: Results From The Veterans Health Administration.

2^nd Place: #20 - Domenique Escobar, MD - Age-Specific Incidence, Age At Diagnosis and Years of Life Lost in Hispanic versus non-Hispanic White Patients with Testicular Cancer in the United States.

3^rd Place: #14 – Mimi Nguyen, MD - Subcentimeter Pulmonary Nodules In Clinical Stage I Non-seminoma Patients.

 

POSTER SESSION 2 - Best of Session Winners

1st Place: #38 - Anthony Galvez, BA Quality-of-Care for Urge Urinary Incontinence in Primary Care: Is There a Need to Intervene?

2^nd Place: #41 - Sevilla Durán, MS Assessing School Bathroom Environments and Their Impact on Student Bathroom Use: A Pilot Observation Study.

3^rd Place: #49 - Tyler Sheetz , MD Micro-CT Based Measurement Of Ablation Efficiency Among Moses 2.0, TFL, and Tm:YAG Laser Systems.

 

POSTER SESSION 3 - Best of Session Winners

1st Place: #86 - Stephen Freedland, MD - Secondary Outcomes By Prior Definitive Treatment In Patients With High-risk Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer Treated With Enzalutamide Monotherapy: EMBARK Post Hoc Analysis.

2^nd Place: #107 - Issac Kim Jr., MD, PhD Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Survival of Prostate Cancer Patients.

3^rd Place: #90 - Dan Luca, BS Prostate Ductal Anatomy as a Cancer Contrast Mechanism for Ultrasound.

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ROUND TABLE WINNERS

Barry Prince Award (Inaugural)

Rachel Sanford - #376 - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Is it Possible From The Operating Room?

The Hadley Award

Emily Hacker, MD - #382 - An Unintended Perfect Puncture.

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Resident Rock'n Roll Bowl Winning Team

Cork Dorks: Kevin Walsh, Jolie Shen, Ben Tooke, Adam Ostergar

 

Whova Meeting App Contest Winners

Community Leaderboard

·    1st Place: John C. Prince

·    2nd Place: Lauren Poniatowski

·    3rd Place: Matthew Johnson

·    4th Place: Katherine Rookstool

 

Exhibits Passport Contest

·    1st Place Trisha W. Kruger

·    2nd Place Philip Butler

·    3rd Place Richard Greene

·    4th Place Edward Wang