The top resident presentations at the annual meeting will be recognized with the awarding of Resident Awards to the top three oral and the top mini oral presentations at the annual meeting. All residents are eligible to be considered for these prizes. Judging is based on the abstract submitted, the presentation at the meeting and how the residents respond to questions. Herein listed are the winners from the SIS 2018 meeting in Westlake Village, CA.
2019 Oral Presentation Awards
1st Place
Jared Forrester, MD
Stanford Health Care
An Adaptive Surgical Infection Prevention Program in Ethiopia Improves Quality and Reduces Postoperative Infections
2nd Place
Nichole E. Starr, MD, MPH
University of California, San Francisco
Comprehensive improvement of infection prevention practices in Ethiopia: Further refining the Lifebox Clean Cut program
3rd Place
Brian T. Young, MD
MetroHealth Medical Center
Trauma Center Ratings in Hospital Compare: Poor Performance or Biased Modeling?
2019 Mini Oral Awards
1st Place
Christina X Zhang, MD
Washington University St. Louis
Temporary Abdominal Closure is Associated with Increased Risk for Fungal Intraabdominal Infections in Trauma Patients
2nd Place
Shalwa Mohidul, MD
Grand Strand Medical Center
An analysis of mortality in patients with colorectal carcinoma undergoing elective versus emergent colectomies
3rd Place
Javier E. Rincon, MD
Washington University School of Medicine
Acute Acalculous Cholecystitis associated bacteremia has worse outcomes