Melhem Solh, M.D., and Vikas Veeranna, M.D., both residents in the Sinai-Grace Hospital Internal Medicine Program, made winning presentations at the Associates Abstract Competitions at the American College of Physicians Annual Meeting in San Diego in April. About 2,200 abstracts were submitted with 20 selected oral presentations and 109 selected posters. Sinai-Grace internal medicine residents who presented included:

Vikas Veeranna, M.D., PGY2
Oral Case Report Presentation: "Asystole During Dipyridamole Administration"

Saad Usmani, M.D., PGY3
Poster Basic Science Research Presentation, "Interplay of Nuclear Factor kappa B & RhoC GTPase in Inflammatory Breast Cancer"

Ziad Zaky, M.D., PGY2
Poster Basic Science Research Presentation, "Biochemical Analysis of Amyloid Protein of Percutaneous Renal Biopsies"

Krithi Ramesh, M.D., PGY2
Poster Clinical Research Presentation, "Effectiveness of Exenatide Therapy in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in Ambulatory Practice"

Melhem Solh, M.D., PGY2
Poster Basic Science Research Presentation, "Vitamin D3, Seocalcitol Differentiation In Breast Cancer Cell Lines and Quinine : Apoptosis and Differentiation In Breast Cancer Cell Lines"