2024 Winners

Poster presentation winners

1st Place – “A Workshop to Improve Resident Knowledge and Confidence on EOL Care Topics” – by Jane Tuttle, Ambika Ramesh D.O., Rachel Salyer Ph.D., Michelle Hartzell D.O., Melissa Roberts M.D., Hiba Khan M.D., Sarah Sofka M.D., Katie Seachrist M.D.

2nd Place – “Impact of a Tiered Clinical decision Support System for Acute Kidney Injury in Cardiac Surgery Patients” – by Christopher Justice

3rd Place – “The Dirt on Blood Culture Contamination Staying Sterile with Diversion Devices and Draw Teams” – by Katie Anthony

Oral presentation winners

1st Place – Embrace the HUSH: “Help Us Support Healing” – by Kenneth Phares, Project Manager, Center for Quality Outcomes, Terry Kisner, Aubrey Montgomery, Jeff Schiffbauer and Phares

2nd Place – Narcotics at Bay Keeps the Vent Away: Multimodal Pain Control Pathways Lead to High Rates of Early Extubations in the Surgical Congenital Heart Disease Population by – M.  Kyle Ritchie, MD, Assistant Professor, WVU Department of Anesthesiology, David A. Rosen, MD, Professor, WVU Department of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, lyssa Fazi, MD, Assistant Professor, WVU Department of Anesthesiology, Veronica Godsey, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, WVU Department of Pediatrics, Jai Udassi, MD, Professor, WVU department of Pediatrics, Dhaval Chauhan, MD, Assistant Professor, WVU Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, and Christopher Mascio, MD, Professor, WVU Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

3rd Place – Tranexamic  Acid in Postpartum Hemorrhage – by Christopher Woodard, M.D., Anna Zukowski B.S., Christa Lilly Ph.D., and Manuel Vallejo M.D., D.M.D.