Dothan, Ala. (WDNews) — Southeast Health System has announced the winners of an annual scientific poster competition hosted by the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) Wiregrass Chapter at the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOM) in Dothan.
According to Southeast Health, the competition brought together ACOM medical students, internal medicine residents from Southeast Health’s Graduate Medical Education program and hospitalists from Southeast Health Medical Center.
The competition also attracted entries from institutions outside the Wiregrass, reflecting growing regional interest in the event.
Four ACOM students received honors in different research categories.
Sarah Yoon, a fourth-year ACOM student, won the Clinical Vignette category for her research titled “Cough-Induced Spontaneous Intercostal Lung Herniation in a Woman with Asthma: A Rare Cause of Acute Back Pain.”
Ana Villegas, a second-year ACOM student, received the Narrative Review award for “Association Between Childhood Eczema and Difficulties in Attention, Cognition, and Learning.”
David Boose, a third-year ACOM student, won in the Medical Education, Outreach, Clinical Innovation and Clinical Research category for his poster titled “Concurrent Brachial Plexus and Muscular Variations of the Arm: A Rare Cadaveric Observation.”
Christian Constable, a second-year ACOM student, received the Population Health award for his research titled “Preoperative Opioid Use and Outcomes After Total Joint Arthroplasty: A Literature Synthesis with Geographic Cross-Referencing of Opioid Claims and Orthopedic Surgeon Density.”
In addition to the category winners, Athena Zhang, a first-year resident at Southeast Health, was selected for nomination to the SHM National Conference.
Zhang’s research focused on Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease mimicking Guillain-Barré syndrome in a patient with high-grade cervical stenosis.
Southeast Health recognized the participants for their research and accomplishments.
“Congratulations to all the winners on their outstanding achievement,” the health system stated in its announcement.
