Winners of the 12th annual Department of Internal Medicine Research Day recently were announced. Diane Levine, M.D., WSU associate professor of internal medicine and the department's executive director for medical education, congratulated the winners. "Research day represents the culmination of the scholarly work of our trainees and serves as a stepping stone to presentations at regional and national meetings and publications," she said. Winners included:

Oral Presentation: Research

• First Place: Dr. Yelena Selektor for "Is Troponin Elevation as a Single Variable Sufficient to Refer a Patient for Cardiac Catheterization?"
• Second Place: Dr. Sabeena Misra for "Aging is Associated with Decreased Expression of Cell Cycle Apoptosis Regulatory Protein (CARP-1) in the Colonic Mucosa"

Oral Presentation: Clinical

• First Place: Dr. Neesha Griffin Berry for "Unusual Site of Internal Jugular Thrombosis Associated with Factor V Leiden Mutation"
• Second Place: Dr. Leandro Perez for "Michael's Thyroid Factor: More Than Just a Storm"

Poster Presentation

• First Place: Dr. Nirav Mamdani for "A Rare Case of ANCA-Negative Wegener's Granulomatosis"
• Second Place: Dr. Khaled Esmaeel Awad for "Aspirin-Induced Stevens-Johnson Syndrome"