NMPRA Grants and Awards and 2012 Winners!

Each year the National Med-Peds Residents' Association presents several grants and awards to Med-Peds Residents.

1. The Gary Onady Award (recognizing significant contributions by a Med-Peds Resident physician to NMRPA and/or Med-Peds at the regional or national level): Thomas Heyne, PGY-1, Mass Gen/Harvard

2. The Howard Schubiner Award (recognizing significant contributions by a Med-Peds Resident physicians to NMRPA and/or Med-Peds at the local or state level): Loren Robinson, PGY-4, UNC Chapel Hill

3. Advocacy/Community Service Grants (up to $1000 for a project to help children and adults in a local community): Kingal Changela and Colleen Keough, PGY-1, Baylor College of
Medicine

4. Clinical Case Competition Awards (presentation awards for novel Med-Peds clinical cases to be presented at the NMPRA National Meeting):

A) Presenter: Ryan McAuley, PGY-4, UPenn/CHOP, “Bronchial carcinoid in a 20 year-old female presenting with recurrent, severe pneumonias”

B) Presenter: Marylee Dilling, PGY-4, Baylor College of Medicine, “Acute HIV Infection Presenting
as Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis”

C) Poster: Melania Sunita Poonacha, MD, MPH, PGY-3, University of South Florida, “Symptomatic
hypercalcemia due to a solitary parathyroid adenoma in a 16-year-old adolescent girl.”  

D) Poster: Peter Rogers MD, PGY-3, UMKC, “G6PD presenting as rhabdomyolysis”

E) Poster: Ann-Marie Tantoco MD, PGY-4, Ohio State University, “An adolescent masquerader: Hashimoto’s thyroiditis”

5. International Travel Grant: Emily Fisher, PGY-3, Medical College of Wisconsin, Destination: Nicaragua

The 2012-2013 NMPRA Executive Board

Benjamin Kinnear, MD

President

University of Cincinnati

Kim Paisley, MD

Immediate Past President

Indiana University

Our Newest Additions:

Tony Pastor, MD

President-Elect

Baylor COM

Cuogi Edens, MD

Secretary

University of Michigan

Sarah Cox, MD

Secretary

Georgetown University

Katie Jacobson, MD

Treasurer

University of North Carolina