Residents Compete in Academic Excellence Day

Monday, May 24, 2004

Media Contact:
Lynn Closway
Mayo Clinic
480-301-4222
closway.lynn@mayo.edu

For Immediate Release - May 24, 2004

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Residents, fellows, graduate students and staff from Mayo Clinic, Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix Children's Hospital and St. Joseph's Hospital & Medical Center participated in the eighth annual joint Academic Excellence Day on May 1, at Wyndham Phoenix.

The competition included more than 110 posters and 25 oral presentations focusing on clinical research produced by students and staff who were invited to submit abstracts.

The collaborative relationship among the medical centers serves to widen the exposure of students to a variety of patients and research opportunities and broadens their research and educational experience. This was the first year the competition was expanded to include five medical centers.

Winners in each category were:

Oral Presentations:
Clinical Research
First Place: Debra Acord, M.D., Mayo Clinic - Radiology
First Runner Up: Bradford H. Jones, M.D., Mayo Clinic - Gastroenterology
Second Runner Up: Akil Loli, M.D., Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center - Cardiology
Case Report/Series: Joel Hahnke, M.D., Phoenix
Children's Hospital - Pediatrics

Poster Presentations:
Clinical Research:
First Place: David Yao, M.D., Maricopa Integrated Health System - Surgery
First Runner Up: Seth E. Larson, M.D., Mayo Clinic - Neurology
Case Report/Series: David Watts, M.D., Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center - Medical Toxicology

Mayo Clinic is a private group practice of medicine dedicated to providing diagnosis and treatment of patient illnesses through a systematic focus on individual patient needs. As a leading academic medical center in the Southwest, Mayo Clinic focuses on providing specialty and surgical care in more than 65 disciplines at its outpatient facility in north Scottsdale and at Mayo Clinic Hospital. The 202-bed hospital is located at 56th Street and Mayo Boulevard (north of Bell Road) in northeast Phoenix, and provides inpatient care to support the medical and surgical specialties of the clinic, which is located at 134th Street and Shea Boulevard in Scottsdale.

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