Resident's and Fellows Lang Research Day 2009

Over the past eight years, New York Hospital Queens has taken a leadership position among community hospitals nationally by establishing a significant research capability for attending physicians and faculty. Most recently, the medical center has expanded its pursuit of its mission by offering an unusual learning opportunity to residents and fellows. In January 2007, the Lang Research Center launched a comprehensive educational program to introduce the essentials of research to physicians-in-training and, ultimately, to help them conduct and present research projects.

An innovative five-month curriculum complements a theoretical base with extensive practical experience, combining noon-time lectures with ongoing one-to-one mentoring. Participants are mentored throughout the program by research center staff in choosing a subject, designing a protocol, getting IRB approval, conducting the research, analyzing the results, and preparing a presentation for delivery on Residents and Fellows Day.

2009 Resident's & Fellows Research Abstracts

A Rare Complication After ICD Implantation, Can It Happen Twice? 

Antimicrobial Stewardship in a Community Hospital: An Effective Cost Reducing Strategy 

Changes in Exercise Capacity Following Cardiac Rehabilitation in Elderly vs. Younger Cardiac Patients 

Characteristics and Survival Data of Cerebellar Glioblastoma Multiforme: An Analysis of Data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Registry 

Correlation of Brachial and Central Aortic Blood Pressures with Left Ventricular Mass Assessed by Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Subjects with Pre-Hypertension 

Correlation of Electrocardiographic Criteria for Posterior Infarction to the Presence of Inferobasal Wall Infarction by Gated SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging 

Demographics of Acute Coronary Syndrome at New York Hospital Queens 

Detection of Hemopneumothorax Using Ultrasound - Clinical Case Report of a 58-Year-Old Female with a Lung Mass and Shortness of Breath 

Diabetic Cardiac Patients and Their Obvious Need for Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation 

Emergency Provider's Ability to Stratify Risk of Renal Calculi Prior to CT Scan Confirmation 

Ethnicity and Epidural Utilization for Labor 

Exertional Syncope as the Presenting Symptom in Cardiac Amyloidosis 

Faculty Supervised Morning Report: A Method for Measuring Resident Competency 

Heart Stroke! Elevated Troponin T and Global T-Wave Changes in an Acute Ischemic Stroke 

High Mortality Rate in Hospitalized Patients Who Develop Clostridium Difficile Associated Diarrhea 

Impact of Resident Focused Education and the Rapid Response Team on Severe Sepsis Patients: Outcomes and Compliance to Treatment Protocol 

Improving the Power of the ASA Classifcation System to Risk Stratify Vascular Surgery Patients: The NSQIP-Defined Functional Status 

Integrated Weight Management Program for Successful Weight Loss and Heart Disease Risk Reduction 

Is Routine Cardiac MRI Justifiable in Patients with Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy? 

Klebsiella pneumoniae Necrotizing Fascitis Associated with Lung Abscess 

Laparascopic vs. Open Colectomy for Sigmoid Diverticular Disease. 8 Years of Minimally Invasive Colorectal Surgery at a Community Hospital 

Levofloxacin-resistant Streptococcus mitis Endophthalmitis: A Unique Presentation of Bacterial Endocarditis 

Mortality Review of Multislice Cardiac CT Angiography in Patients with Known or Suspected Coronary Artery Disease- Single Center Observational Analysis 

Non-Dipping Phenomenon and Coronary Artery Disease in Men: An Association or an Independent Risk Factor? 

Outcomes in Patients with HER2 Overexpressing and Triple Negative Phenotypes Treated with Partial Breast Irradiation Using Mammosite Brachytherapy 

Performance Improvement Project to Identify Factors that Led to Employee Exposure to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis 

Pilot Study: Adequacy of Follow Up of Positive Blood Culture Reported by Microbiology Laboratory in an Urban Teaching Hospital 

Placement of Central Venous Line Using Simulation: A Resident-to Resident Teaching Model 

Radiation Therapy Increases Survival in Surgically Treated Localized Invasive Thymomas and Thymic Carcinomas: An Analysis of the SEER Database 

Refusals of Medical Aid in the Prehospital Setting 

Relationship Between Augmentation Pressure and LDL Cholesterol Levels in Normotensive Subjects 

Revealing the Etiology of a Left Ventricular Mass Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance 

Right Colon Diverticulosis In An Ethnically Diverse American Community 

Risk Factors for Clostridium Difficile Colitis Requiring Colectomy 

Risk Factors for Delayed Analgesia in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Long Bone Fractures 

Risk Stratification of Upper GI Bleeding Patients in the Emergency Room with "Real Time" Capsule Endoscopy- A Pilot Study 

Should Adult Emergency Department Patients with Suspicion for Sepsis Be Screened for Occult Hypoperfusion at Triage? 

Sialoblastoma of Intraoral Minor Salivary Gland Origin: A Case Report and Review of Literature 

Suprarenal Fixation Induces Renal Artery Neointimal Hyperplasia in Endovascular Aortic Aneurysm Repair 

Sustainability of a Performance Improvement Project: Inappropriate Use of GI Prophylaxis in Non-ICU Hospitalized Patients 

Systematic Review of Effect of Phosphate Binders on Coronary Vascular Calcification in End Stage Renal Disease 

The Association of Eosinophilia With Indolent Strongyloides in a Diversified Patient Population

The Case of a Female with "Sickle Cell Disease" 

The Use of Antiplatelet Agents Does Not Impact the Hosptial Course of Patients Admitted with GI Bleed 

There is No Such Thing as a Patient Who Is Prohibitively High-Risk for CEA Based on Medical Comorbidities 

Tobacco and Alcohol Habits of Immigrant Emergency Patients in Queens, N.Y. 

Utility of Sequential Blood Gas Testing in Medical Intensive Care Unit 

Variability of Arterial Supply to the Inferior Myocardial Wall 

Wenckebach Block and Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis: Case Report and Review of Literature