June 2, 2025

Residents, fellows, faculty, staff and guests gathered for the fifth annual GME Awards Banquet, which celebrates the professional and personal achievements of residents, fellows and faculty. Congratulations to all the winners! Check out the award recipients below:

Excellence in GME Simulation-Based Learning Award: Dr. Samuel Dotson, Psychiatry

Community Engagement Award: Dr. Nate Grabill, General Surgery, PGY-4

Excellence in Education Faculty Awards

Outstanding Resident/Fellow of the Year: Dr. Ziad Faramand, Emergency Medicine, PGY-3

Research and Quality Improvement Symposium Awards

Best Podium Presentation: “Acute Heart Failure and its Mortality in Leukemia: A Nationwide Analysis 2016-2021” Barath Sivasubramanian, Rajat Gupta, Diviya Ravikumar, Ragavendar Saravanabavanandan, Aditya Ghosh, Yash Garg

Best Research Poster: “Predictors of In-Hospital Mortality among Prediabetes with Acute Pancreatitis: A National Inpatient Sample Study” Nawras Silin, Riaz Mahmood, Tahani Dakkak, Shane Robinson, Nelson Royall

Best Quality Improvement Poster: “Improving Resident Integration and Communication” Moonpreet Deol, Gurjinder Olekh, Peyton Whiston, Sankhya Amaravadi, Gopal Amin, Oliver Glass, Kalpana Prasad

Best Case Report Poster: “Complicated Diverticulitis: Diagnostic Precision and Surgical Solutions in a patient with Chronic Kidney Disease” Sharon Hsieh, Nathaniel Grabill, Mena Louis, Bradley Kuhn

Annual GME Research and Quality Awards

Most Promising Resident Researcher of the Year- Dr. Barath Sivasubramanian

Faculty Research Award- Dr. Nelson Royall

Faculty Quality Improvement Award- Dr. Phillip Gross

Resident Researcher of the Year- Dr. Nathan Boys

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