Students shine at Surgery Research Day

Three students in the College of Medicine were selected to give oral presentations during NEOMED’s annual Surgery Residency Research Day, held June 9 via Zoom. A fourth student was recognized for his poster presentation.

The students’ work was selected through a vigorous initial round of scoring by surgeons, researchers and NEOMED faculty of deidentified abstracts. The top five case reports and the top six scientific study abstract scores were chosen to present their findings orally during the surgery research program.

Third-year medicine student Matthew Satariano presented a case report, titled “Robotic Seminal Vesiculectomy for Treatment of Refractory Hematospermia: A Case Report and Literature Review,” while second-year student Quan Lu and fourth-year student Patricia Sanchez Montejo presented oral scientific presentations, titled “Meningitis Following Otologic Surgeries” and “Relationship Between Anal Cancer Recurrence and Smoking,” respectively.

In addition, fourth-year medicine student Vardhan S. Avasarala was awarded second place for scientific posters for “Distraction Along the Posterior Border of the Ramus to Correct the Mandibular Deficiency in Pierre Robin Sequence.”

The students’ presentations were chosen from 41 abstracts submitted  by NEOMED students and surgical residents from Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Summa Health System, Steward/Trumbull Memorial Hospital and St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital for the Surgery Residency Research Day.