The Kentucky Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP) recently held its 2024 Fall Meeting. The event included keynote speakers, a poster competition for medical students and residents, a doctor dilemma challenge, as well as networking opportunities. Students from our Lexington, Bowling Green, and Northern Kentucky campuses represented our college well. 

Congratulations to our students, residents, and faculty who were recognized with awards this year! 


About the American College of Physicians 
ACP is one of the oldest medical societies in the U.S., offering free membership to medical students. Membership also includes a free subscription to the Annals of Internal Medicine journal and free attendance at annual chapter meetings, with the opportunity to present scholarly work.  The organization also offers numerous resources, including how to navigate internal medicine clerkships and residency searches.

 

Award winners were announced at the annual meeting and can be found in the list below: 
 
Medical Student Research: 

1st Place- Maribeth Stafford, University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Northern Kentucky CampusAcute Cannabis and Alcohol Effects on Simulated Driving Performance and Subjective Driving Confidence in Humans.

2nd Place- Jacqueline Leon - University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Bowling Green Campus. Deploying Enhanced Hearing Screening in Rural Kentucky Schools: a Qualitative Implementation Assessment of the Appalachian STAR Trial.

3rd Place- Brandon Chou - University of Louisville. Exploring the Relationship Between Sleep Disorders and Dementia Risk in Older Kidney Transplant Recipients.

Resident Research

1st Place- Syed Mufarrih, MD, University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Bowling Green Campus. Randomized trials of renal denervation for uncontrolled hypertension: an updated meta-analysis.

2nd Place- Fawaz Mohammed, MBBS, University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Bowling Green Campus.  KENTUCKY; WHAT BROKE YOUR HEART?

3rd Place- Nada Qureshi, MD, University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Bowling Green Campus. Implementing a Clinical Decision Support System in Meditech to Improve Orders for Pharmacological VTE Prophylaxis: A Quality Improvement Initiative.

Medical Student Clinical Vignette 

1st Place- Sara Bidarian, University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Lexington CampusA Messy Case of Mesothelioma: An Unusually Aggressive Case of Bilateral Extrapulmonary Pleural Malignancy.

2nd Place- Benjamin Cadle, University of Louisville School of Medicine. New onset insulin-dependent diabetes presenting as diabetic ketoacidosis in a patient with renal cell carcinoma treated with nivolumab and ipilimumab

3rd Place- Olivia Bosch, University of Louisville School of Medicine. Risk versus Reward Using Calcineurin Inhibitors Post-Transplant: A Clinical Vignette

Resident Clinical Vignette

1st Place- Zyad Smiley, DO, University of Louisville School of Medicine. Acquired methemoglobinemia in the setting of dapsone administration: a rather rare cause of acute hypoxic respiratory failure.

2nd Place- Chelsea Williams, DO, University of Kentucky College of Medicine- Lexington Campus. A Case of Adjuvant Chemotherapy after Double Lung Transplant for Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. 

3rd Place- Emily Haley, DO, Lake Cumberland. Chasing Zebras
 

Other awards given: 

**The Doctor Dilemma winning team this year was from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Bowling Green Campus. 

Team members include: Hamza Mufarrrih, MD, Nada Qureshi, MD, Patrick Stalcup, MD, and Jacob Barnes, MD

 

University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Lexington Campus

Faculty of the Year: Megan Wolak, MD
Resident of the Year: Chelsey Williams, DO
Medical Student of the Year: Evan Conder

University of Kentucky College of Medicine-Bowling Green Campus 

Faculty of the Year: Samrat Patel, MD
Resident of the Year: Patrick Stalcup, MD