Winners of Resident/Medical Student Poster Competition Announced


The Resident/Medical Student Poster Competition is an APA Annual Meeting tradition that allows residents and medical students to attend the meeting, present their research, and be recognized for quality work. Eligible participants can submit abstracts for posters in five categories: Clinical Case Studies, Psychosocial and Biomedical Research Projects, Patient-Oriented Care and Epidemiology, Community Development and Service Projects, and Curriculum Development and Educational Projects. Submitted abstracts are evaluated by a panel of judges. All submitted posters are presented at the Annual Meeting, and winners receive a medal and bragging rights for themselves and their institutions.

Clinical Case Studies
Marie Lyse Turk, M.D.
University of Virginia
Poster Title: “A Case of Human Rabies Encephalitis and a Review of Neuropsychiatric Symptomatology”

Community Psychiatry
Robert Peterson, D.O.
University of Southern California
Poster Title: “Manualized Group Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): Delivery to an Uninsured Community Population”

Curriculum Development and Education
Michelle Trieu
Florida International University
Poster Title: “Improving Mental Health Care Outcomes Through Empathy Training: The Role of Virtual Patients”

Patient-Oriented Care and Epidemiology
Daniel Borota
Johns Hopkins Medical Institute
Poster Title: “Increasing Prevalence of Opiates in Maryland Suicides by Objective Testing (2006–2017)”

Psychosocial and Biomedical Research
Nick Bormann
The University of Iowa
Poster Title: “Delirium Prediction Utilizing Text Mining and Machine Learning Algorithms”

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