Submissions from 2025
A Tale of Two Burdens: Chronic Illness and Mental Health in Pediatrics, Kelly Gao MD
Outcomes of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms in older adults and who should be offered surgery., Colby Meinke and Kristina Giles
Postoperative outcomes of antireflux surgery in lung transplant recipients., Jacob Parker, William N Doyle, Pavani Peddi, Monica Stevens, Michael Rogers, Rahul Mhaskar, Kapilkumar Patel, and Christopher DuCoin
Pneumomastia: A Rare but Benign Mammographic Finding, Krucial Styslinger and Christina Cinelli
Pneumomastia: A Rare but Benign Mammographic Finding, Krucial Styslinger and Christina Cinelli
May 14th, 2025: Resident Research Week, Rami Waked MD, Camille Ezran MD, Samuel Pettit DO, and David Ngala MD
It Takes a Village (and Sometimes a Ventilator): Partnering with Parents in an ICU Setting, Christina Frazier
Rigid Sternal Fixation Alone Does Not Result in a Reduction in Postoperative Opiod Administration Following Cardiac Surgery, Jane Branch, Chinedu Okoli, Kyla Wigant, Jaime Rabb, Robert S. Kramer, Anne Hicks, and Ansar Hassan
Shortage as a Catalyst for High-Value Care: Evaluation of a Bloof Culture Stewardship Intervention Driven by Supply Chain Disruption, Lesley B. Gordon, Camille Ezran, Elizabeth Herrle, Christina Yen, Nicholas J. Mercuro, and Daniel J. Diekema
Characterization of Contributors to Pleural Fluid Viscosity, YuJai Lin, Megan Rushmeyer, Christopher G. Roy, Shannon Donovan, Rachel Cutting, Matthew Buttarazzi, Charlotte Crist, Ted Sears, and J B. Zuckerman
What Happens in the End: A Review of Pediatric Concurrent Hospice Care, Jasmine Landry
The role of social relationships in recovery court programs, Emma Katherine Dudley, Barbara Andraka-Christou, Alexandra Boland, Danielle N. Atkins, and Ekaterina Pivovarova
Update on Psychiatry Residency Training in Personality Disorders: Becoming a Good Psychiatrist Through Becoming "Good Enough" at Treating Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders, G Price Daniel, M Quayle William, and T Unruh Brandon
Improving Early Detection and Intervention of Pediatric Sepsis Throughout MaineHealth, Christina Tsui
Period Poverty: Breaking the Cycle, Jessica Iyer MBBCh
Submissions from 2024
Will It Change Management? High Value Care in Pediatrics, Jacob Cooper
Resident Physicians Can Promote Environmental Health and Climate-Informed Health Care, Jacob Rha, Camille Ezran, Katherine T. Liu, and Lesley B. Gordon
Herpes Gladiatorum in College-Aged Wrestler, Joseph M. Minichiello, TImothy Fleming, Karen Olson, Brian Malley, and Lauren Wendell
Association of inpatient and outpatient pediatric palliative care with healthcare utilization and end-of-life outcomes in pediatric oncology, Rebecca L. Shamah and Elizabeth George
Woman With Leg Pain, Matthew Peters, David C. Mackenzie, Christina N. Wilson, Peter E. Croft, Annie Huyler, and Margarita Popova
Chylous Ascites as a Contributor to Severe Malnutrition in Advanced Cirrhosis: A Case Report, Catherine M. Call, Michael Gilleo, and Zhyldyz Kabaeva
Adipocytes and metabolism: Contributions to multiple myeloma, Heather Fairfield, Michelle Karam, Allyson Schimelman, Ya-Wei Qiang, and Michaela R. Reagan
A Perplexing Purple Rash, Jesse Butler, Sarah Hirner, Charlotte Crist, and Michelle Crispo
An Assessment of the Needs of Maine Primary Care Providers Relating to Tobacco Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment of LGBTQIA+ Youth and Young Adults, Logan Gerchman, Sarah M. Gabrielson, Toni Eimicke, and Brandy Brown
Characteristics Associated with Persistent Opioid Use Following Total Joint Arthroplasty, Meredith Peck, Blaire Beers-Mulroy, Janelle Richard, Robert Krulee, Henry Stoddard, Kristin Kostka, John DiPalazzo, and Aurora Quaye
Perinatal outcomes of pregnancies complicated by prenatally resolved fetal growth restriction, Luke N. Roberts, Haley Perkins, Wendy Y. Craig, and Joseph R. Wax
The Mental Health Crisis: Evolving Role of Primary Care Pediatricians, Makenzie Zidek
Retrograde Tibio-Pedal Access for Endovascular Interventions for Treating Peripheral Arterial Disease, Donald McGuirl and Kristina A. Giles
Evaluating a Training Program for Rural Doctors and Nursing Home Staff on Safe Medicine Use for Patients with Dementia and Nursing Home Residents, REACH Dissemination Committee, Maine, USA
Effectiveness of Community Education for Breast Cancer Screening, Nadia Zafar, Andrea B. Wolf, Julia L. Kepniss, Ashley C. Teal, and Rachel F. Brem
Novel Therapeutics for Hemophilia, Sarah Lazur
Pain management in hidradenitis suppurativa: a retrospective analysis of cross-sectional data from Black and White patients demonstrates racial disparity, Matthew Helm, Stephanie Golub, Calista Long, Junjia Zhu, Joslyn S. Kirby, and Lauren C. Hollins
Medical School Curricula and the Role of Third-Party Resources in Medical Student Urology Education, Jonathan Capelin, Adam Cole, Elizabeth Ferry, and Matthew Mason
Antibiotic Usage and Optimization Using Rapid Diagnostics in NICUs, Hannah Yeomans
2024-2025 Maine Medical Center House Staff, Maine Medical Center
Submissions from 2023
Investigating infectious outcomes in adult patients undergoing solid organ transplantation: A retrospective single-center experience, Paris, France, Hassan Tarhini, Rami Waked, Mayda Rahi, Nihel Haddad, Richard Dorent, Christine Randoux, Vincent Bunel, Sylvie Lariven, Laurene Deconinck, Christophe Rioux, Yazdan Yazdanpanah, Veronique Joly, and Jade Ghosn
Feedback in Medical Education: A Review of the Literature and Best Practice Reccomendations, Stephen Long
Racial disparities in complications following elective colon cancer resection: Impact of laparoscopic versus robotic approaches, Vanita Ahuja and Lucero G. Paredes
Commentary on the current state of perioperative and critical care buprenorphine management, Aurora Quaye, Charlotte Crist, Simba Matoi, and Yi Zhang
Needs Assessment for a Resuscitative Thoracotomy Curriculum for General Surgery Residents in the Northeast Region, Caroline Ricard, Deanna Plewa, Jack Vernamonti, Erin M. Scott, Dmitry Nepomnayshy, and Eric Benoit
Neuregulin-1: A Tonic for Cardiorenal Syndrome? And All Else That Ails Us?, Andrew K. Geissler and Douglas Sawyer
Protecting the Beans: A Case Based Presentation of Post-Transplant AKI, Micah Ludwig
Textbook outcome as a composite measure of quality in hepaticopancreatic surgery, Abdimajid Mohamed, Laura Nicolais, and Timothy L. Fitzgerald
A 9-Year-Old Boy With Fever and Cranial Swelling, Joseph M. Minichiello, Matthew T. Peters, and Rachel J. Williams
Utilization of the Fordham Risk Screening Tool for violence risk assessment in an emergency department, Christopher W. Racine, Douglas N. Johnston, Kerry M. Quigley, Tania D. Strout, Linda S. Durst, Ben J. Guido, and Lee A. Wolfrum
Distance to Treatment with Radical Cystectomy in a Rural State: Long Car Rides, Equivalent Outcomes, Randie E. White, Joshua A. Linscott, Matthew T. Hayn, Stephen T. Ryan, Jeffrey Howard, Evelyn James, Moritz H. Hansen, and Jesse D. Sammon
There's No Place Like Home: The Present, Past, and Future of Pediatric Anesthesia and the Pediatric Surgical Home at MMC, Jonathan Meserve
Cirrhosis-related sarcopenia may not resolve after liver transplantation, Sara Brown, Brooks Richardson, Erin Bouquet, Elise Reid, Evan Mercer, Michael Goncalves, Ashley Spann, and Jeffrey Annis
New Onset, Refractory Hyperglycemia with Diabetic Ketoacidosis After Enfortumab Vedotin Treatment: A Case Report, Ross E. Heinrich and Marie Caldwell
Referral Patterns for Pediatric Sports-Related Concussion in One New England Health Care System, Joseph Benert, Amy Haskins PhD, Christina T. Holt, and Krystian Bigosinski
Contemporary Treatment Paradigms are Associated with Improved Survival in Pancreatic Cancer, Bridget N. Kelly, Laura Nicolais, Abdimajid Mohamed, and Timothy L. Fitzgerald
How Are Our Athletes Doing? A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Student-Athlete Mental Health in Fall 2022 at a Maine Division III University, Emma Cronk, Adriana Isacke, Amy Haskins, Christina Holt, and Krystian Bigosinski
Evaluating Technologies to Identify Fentanyl and Adulterants in Street Drug Paraphernalia: Qualitative Perspectives of Service Providers and Their Clientele, Claudia Santelices, Atsushi Matsumoto, Mathieu Boulad, and Thomas J. Stopka
Educational Value of Surgical Residents Operating as Teaching Assistant, Nicole Heidt, James Whiting, Carolyne Falank, Bridget Olsen, Heidi Miller, and Jaswin Sawhney
Man in Cardiac Arrest, Weeden Bauman, Christina Wilson, Erik Christensen, Hillary McKinley, Peter Croft, Hadley Gunnell, and Andrew Fried
Ocular Findings Aid in Diagnosis of West Nile Virus, Brandon K. Winward, Justin L. Gottlieb, Jonathan S. Chang, Luke Bradbury, Nenita Maganti, Chintan Pathak, and Benjamin J. Fowler
Outcomes of Protocol-Driven Venous Thromboembolic Chemo-Prophylaxis in Trauma Patients: A Trauma Quality Improvement Project Analysis, Peter N. Kyros, Forest R. Sheppard, Jaswin S. Sawhney, Daniel C. Cullinane, Carolyne R. Falank, Kathryn E. Smith, Julianne B. Ontengco, Elizabeth Turner, Bruce Chung, Eric Shurtleff, and Bryan C. Morse
Clinical outcomes of elective robotic vs laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer utilizing a large national database, Vanita Ahuja, Lucero G. Paredes, Ira L. Leeds, Melissa F. Perkal, and Joseph T. King
Improved Overall Survival of Patients with Pancreatic Cancer through Multiagent Chemotherapy and Increased Rates of Surgical Resection, Laura M. Nicolais, Abdimajid Mohamed, Dougald Macgillivray, Nicholas Verdini, Roger Inhorn, Matthew Dugan, Cynthia M. Hayward, and Timothy L. Fitzgerald
Current State of Perioperative Buprenorphine Management-A National Provider Survey, Aurora Quaye, Niayesh Mardmomen, Grace Mogren, Yussr Ibrahim, Janelle Richard, and Yi Zhang
A Case of Pediatric Rash, Elizabeth B. Albert, Nathan Mick, and Tania D. Strout
An Unusual Cause of Coronary Occlusion During an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: Reperfusion With Diagnostic Angiography Only, Omkar Betageri, Hassan Ashraf, Adam Hafeez, Richard Kerensky, Thomas S. Huber, and Michael Massoomi
Pathologic Tumor Regression is Associated With Improved Survival in Pancreatic Cancer, Laura M. Nicolais, Molly Caron, Nicholas Verdini, and Timothy L. Fitzgerald
Combating Bias in Medical Education, Aaron Wallace
Evaluation Management of Acute Asthma Exacerbations, Amanda Gagnon
One Year Later: Family Members of Patients with COVID-19 Experience Persistent Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Melanie Ambler, Sarah Rhoads, Ryan Peterson, Ying Jin, Priscilla Armstrong, Priscilla Collier, Margaret Hope Cruse, Nicholas Csikesz, May Hua, Ruth A. Engelberg, Karin Halvorson, Joanna Heywood, Melissa Lee, Keely Likosky, Megan Mayer, Donald McGuirl, Marc Moss, Elizabeth Nielsen, Olivia Rea, Wendy Tong, James Wykowski, Stephanie Yu, Renee D. Stapleton, J Randall Curtis, and Timothy Amass
An Educational Intervention to Improve Pediatric Inter-rater Reliability of the Hospital Asthma Severity Score (HASS), Anne Coates, Amanda Gagnon, and Noah Diminick
Simulation-Based Resuscitative Transesophageal Echocardiography Training for Emergency Medicine Residents, August Felix, Andrew Fried, Jessica Hathaway, and Tania D. Strout
Healthy Links – Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Improving Cardiac Health with Medically Tailored Meals, Emily Follo, Katherine Sharp, and Mylan Cohen
How to address health misinformation? Using focus groups to understand the experience and needs of Interprofessional undergraduate health professionals, Leah Mallory, Jennifer Hayman, Shelley Cohen Konrad, Linda H. Chaudron, Christine Mallar, Grace Price, Brendan Prast, and Julia Safarik
Obstetric Outcomes Assessment for New Mainers, Brendan Prast, Christina T. Holt, Amy Haskins, and Debra Rothenberg
Mystery at the meatus, Ben Pare, Robert Link, Isaak Jones, and Samir Haydar
Commotio Cordis and Pediatric Cardiac Arrest, Jay Vance
Venous Sinus Stent Placement Reduces Dosage Requirements for Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors in Patients with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, Jesse Martin and Matthew R. Sanborn
Revisiting the Pancreatic Fistula Risk Score: Clinical Nomogram Accurately Assesses Risk, Abdimajid Mohamed, Laura Nicolais, and Timothy Fitzgerald
Preoperative downstaging of pancreatic cancer is associated with improved survival after multi-agent chemotherapy, but not after radiation, Laura Nicolais, Austin W. Brown, Abdimajid Mohamed, David E. Clark, and Timothy L. Fitzgerald
Simplifying Care for Our Complex Patients: A look at children with medical complexity, Danielle Doctor
HIV Screening Among Immigrants Establishing Care in Maine, 2017-2021, Elizabeth Mazzeo, Elizabeth Danielson, Benjamin Felix, Kimberly Toomire, Elizabeth Eisenhardt, Evelyn Roach, Katlyn Breton, Karen Thompson, Stephen DiGiovanni, and Kathleen M. Fairfield
Weekly Review of an Academic Checklist to Operationalize Improvements to a Surgical Residency Program, Sean Francois, James Whiting, Kartikey Pandya, and Jaswin Sawhney
Geography of Pediatric Primary Care, Heather Reiley
Male Adolescent With Syncope and Abnormal Chest X-Ray, Josh A. Swenson, Rebecca Bloch, and Peter Croft
Uncomplicated Streptococcal Bacteremia: The Era of Stepdown to Oral Antibiotic Therapy?, Rami Waked, Wendy Craig, Nicholas J. Mercuro, Minkey Wungwattana, Emily Wood MD, and Kristina E. Rokas
Pediatric Penicillin Allergy De-Labeling: Barriers and Opportunities, Russell Behmer
Man With Abdominal Pain, Cynthia Gaudet, Christina Wilson, and Peter Croft
2023-2024 Maine Medical Center House Staff, Maine Medical Center
Validation of Panoramic Ultrasound Measurement of the Cross-Sectional Area of the Vastus Medialis, Kaitlin S. Minnehan, William W. Dexter, Christina T. Holt, Liz Scharnetzki, James P. Alex, Kaitlyn E. Chin, and Dirk J. Kokmeyer
Submissions from 2022
Longitudinal Mental Health Outcomes of Third-year Medical Students Rotating Through the Wards During COVID-19, Emma R. Stanislawski, Alexandra Saali, Elizabeth B. Magill, Richa Deshpande, Vedika Kumar, and Chi Chan
The Cultural Burden of Obesity: Obesity and Overweight in Children from Refugee Families, Sarah DiBrigida
Everything old is new again: a case series of pediatric cutaneous leishmaniasis in Portland, Maine, Jennifer Jubulis, Amanda Goddard, Elizabeth Seiverling, Marc Kimball, and Carol A. McCarthy MD
A prospective, randomized trial of the effect of buprenorphine continuation versus dose reduction on pain control and post-operative opioid use, Aurora Quaye, Kristen Silvia, Janelle Richard, Yussr Ibrahim, Wendy Craig, and Clifford J. Rosen
Scheduling practices for pregnant emergency medicine residents, Casey Z. MacVane, Madeleine Puissant, Megan Fix, Tania D. Strout, Caitlin Bonney, Laura Welsh, Andrew Mittelman, Jana Ricker, and Isha Agarwal
Implementation Science Fundamentals: Pediatric Surgery Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocol for Pectus Repair, Allison R. Thompson, Hannah Glick, Nathan S. Rubalcava, Jack P. Vernamonti, and K Elizabeth Speck
Getting There Safely: A Review of Car Seat Safety Through the Years, Haley Pelletier
The Endourological Society Inaugural Census Report, Hannah Moreland, Loren Smith, Victoria Stowasser, Ahmed Ghazi, Maria Chiara Sighinolfi, Matthew Bultitude, Amy E. Krambeck, Bernardo Maria Rocco, Justin B. Ziemba, and Timothy D. Averch
Boy With Wheezing, Weeden J. Bauman, Alexander R. Lange, Josh A. Swenson, Christina Wilson, and David C. Mackenzie
Alcohol Withdrawal in Young Adults, Rute Rothwell
Prostate Specific Antigen Testing Behaviors for Prostate Cancer Screening Among U.S. Immigrants: A Cross-sectional Analysis Using the National Health Interview Survey, Nathaniel F. Hansen, Joshua A. Linscott, Matthew H. Hayn, Stephen T. Ryan, and Jesse D. Sammon
Unknown Case: Spontaneous Breast Bruising, Zachary R. Zaniewski and Elizabeth Pietras
Awake Craniotomy Without Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring, Jeffrey E. Florman, Anand I. Rughani, Russell Kizor, Gina Pardi, and Emma England
Infant With Respiratory Distress, Joshua L. Rehberg, David C. Mackenzie, Page Mieritz, and Christina N. Wilson
