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Susman Award
Paper 17. GUT BARRIER INJURY IS ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVATION OF ENTERIC GLIA CELLS (Resident)
Todd W Costantini MD, Carrie Y Peterson MD, James G Putnam BS, William H Loomis BS, Alexandra K Borboa BS, Andrew Baird PhD, Brian P Eliceiri PhD, Vishal Bansal MD, Raul Coimbra* MD, PhD - University of California, San Diego Medical Center

Resident Awards
Best Oral Presentations
Paper 13. PRE-B CELL COLONY-ENHANCING FACTOR (PBEF) PRIMES NEUTROPHIL (PMN) OXIDATIVE BURST BY ACTIVATING THE INSULIN RECEPTOR AND DOWNSTREAM MAPK'S

Zeenat Malam BSc, Jean Parodo BSc, Song H Jia PhD, Andras Kapus PhD, Ori D Rotstein* MD, PhD, John C Marshall* MD, PhD - St. Michael's Hospital

Paper 19. SYSTEMIC ADMINISTRATION OF MORPHINE SHIFTS THE PHENOTYPE OF P. AERUGINOSA TO SUPPRESS MUCUS PRODUCTION AND DISRUPT THE INTEGRITY OF THE INTESTINAL EPITHELIUM (Resident)
Trissa A Babrowski MD, Olga Zaborina* PhD, John Alverdy* MD, Christopher T Holbrook MD, Kathleen S Romanowski MD, Donald C Liu MD, PhD - University of Chicago

Paper 26. DOES IT MATTER IF WE GET IT RIGHT AN ANALYSIS OF WHO DIES WHEN EMPIRIC ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY IS INAPPROPRIATE (Resident)
Rosemarie Metzger MD, Brian R Swenson* MD, MS, Anna M Parker MD, Tjasa Hranjec MD, Traci L Hedrick* MD, Kimberley A Popovsky* RN, Robert G Sawyer* MD, Timothy L Pruett* MD - University of Virginia

Best Poster Presentations
Oral Poster 5. OPTIMAL GANCICLOVIR PROPHYLAXIS STRATEGIES TO PREVENT CYTOMEGALOVIRUS REACTIVATION DURING BACTERIAL SEPSIS (New Member, Resident)

Meghan Forster MD, Pete Zimmerman BS, Joanne Trgovcich PhD, Charles Cook MD - Ohio State University

Poster 50. OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS ON SYSTEMIC CHEMOTHERAPY HOSPITALIZED FOR ACUTE DIVERTICULITIS (Resident)
Fredric M Pieracci MD, MPH, Jaime Benarroch MD, Alexander Weiss BS, Soumitra R Eachempati, Cornel University Weill Medical Center

Poster 23. DEACTIVATION OF EEF2 IS ASSOCIATED WITH INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS IN RESPONSE TO SEVERE BURN INJURY (Resident)
Juquan Song MD, Darren Boehning PhD, David N Herndon* MD, Marc G Jeschke* MD, PhD - University of Texas Medical branch and Shriners Hospitals for Children

2009 Fellowship Recipients
SIS Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship

Melanie J. Scott, MD, University of Pittsburgh. Mentor: Timothy Billiar, MD

SIS Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship
Michael J. Morowitz, MD, University of Chicago. Mentor: John Alverdy, MD

Wyeth Evaluative Research Fellowship
Emmanuel Charbonney, MD, St. Michael’s Hospital. Mentor: John Marshall, MD

2009 Altemeier Lecture
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the p53 Pathway
Arnold J. Levine, PhD
, Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry, UMDNJ,Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

2009 Semmelweis Lecture
Infection and immunosuppression in laparoscopic surgery
Miguel A. Cuesta MD
, Professor in Surgery, Head of the Gastrointestinal and Minimally Invasive Units Department of Surgery, Academic Hospital Vrije Universiteit Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands


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