Medical students from the Wayne State University School of Medicine dominated the American College of Physicians Michigan Chapter’s annual Scientific Meeting.

WSU students presented 37 percent of the abstracts submitted for the meeting, held Oct. 14-17.

The ACP is the professional home for internists and internists-in-training.

Two students won awards for their presentations.

Manar Edriss, a fourth-year student, won second place in the Research category for “Roles of Demographics in Stress-Induced Hair Loss: An Assessment.”

Shabber Syed, a third-year student, won third place in the Clinical Vignette category for “Preventing Shock in NSAID-Induced BRASH Syndrome.”

“The American College of Physicians provides an opportunity for students to disseminate their scholarly work. Student participation in scholarship is so important to the development of our students as health professionals,” said Diane Levine, M.D., professor of Internal Medicine and vice chair for Education. “We are training students to become physicians who not only consume research but contribute to the advancement of health care to achieve the quadruple aim. Our students are making a difference and we are so proud of them!”

Other WSU students who presented at the meeting include:

Hassan    Al-Fanharwi, fourth-year student, “An Unusual Presentation of Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy”

Naomi Cret, fourth-year student, “Edema, Proteinuria, and Thrombosis in a Pregnant Woman”

Geoffrey Ginter, fourth-year student, “Gastrointestinal Bleeding Masked by Sequelae of Alcohol Use Disorder”

Brian Gutermuth, fourth-year student, “Elevated D-dimer and Acute Kidney Injury: A Diagnosis in Serendipity”

Andrew Kao, third-year student, “To Err is Human: An Inpatient Near Miss Event”

Aisha Kazeem, third-year student, “Case Report of a Reversible Left Bundle Branch Block in the Setting of COVID-19”

Mindy Kim, third-year student, “Prevalence of STK11 Mutation and its Association With Prognosis of Solid Tumor Malignancies”

Vivian Liu, fourth-year student, “New-onset and Exacerbation of Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus After the COVID-19 Vaccine”

Joshi Mugdha, fourth-year student, “Self-Resolved EBV Encephalitis”

Syed Nabi, fourth-year student, “Atypical Presentation of Drug-Induced Liver Injury”

Amanda Najor, fourth-year student, “Synthroid-induced Liver Toxicity: a case report”

Amer Tamr, third-year student, “A Rare Presentation of CNS Polyarteritis Nodosa in a patient with Cutaneous PAN”

Krishna Vemulapalli, fourth-year student, “Recognition of Hepatopulmonary Syndrome in a Young Alcoholic Cirrhosis Patient”

Rahul Vyas, fourth-year student, “Sensory Guillain-Barre Syndrome in the Context of Recent COVID-19 Infection”

Ho Jun Yun, second-year student, “Central Cord Syndrome: Where It Went Wrong When to Decide Treatment Options”