Submissions from 2024
2024-2025 Maine Medical Center House Staff, Maine Medical Center
Adipocytes and metabolism: Contributions to multiple myeloma, Heather Fairfield, Michelle Karam, Allyson Schimelman, Ya-Wei Qiang, and Michaela R. Reagan
Antibiotic Usage and Optimization Using Rapid Diagnostics in NICUs, Hannah Yeomans
Effectiveness of Community Education for Breast Cancer Screening, Nadia Zafar, Andrea B. Wolf, Julia L. Kepniss, Ashley C. Teal, and Rachel F. Brem
Evaluating a Training Program for Rural Doctors and Nursing Home Staff on Safe Medicine Use for Patients with Dementia and Nursing Home Residents, Handout by the REACH Research Dissemination Committee
Medical School Curricula and the Role of Third-Party Resources in Medical Student Urology Education, Jonathan Capelin, Adam Cole, Elizabeth Ferry, and Matthew Mason
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
Perinatal outcomes of pregnancies complicated by prenatally resolved fetal growth restriction, Luke N. Roberts, Haley Perkins, Wendy Y. Craig, and Joseph R. Wax
Retrograde Tibio-Pedal Access for Endovascular Interventions for Treating Peripheral Arterial Disease, Donald McGuirl and Kristina A. Giles
The Mental Health Crisis: Evolving Role of Primary Care Pediatricians, Makenzie Zidek
Woman With Leg Pain, Matthew Peters, David C. Mackenzie, Christina N. Wilson, Peter E. Croft, Annie Huyler, and Margarita Popova
Submissions from 2023
2023-2024 Maine Medical Center House Staff, Maine Medical Center
A 9-Year-Old Boy With Fever and Cranial Swelling, Joseph M. Minichiello, Matthew T. Peters, and Rachel J. Williams
A Case of Pediatric Rash, Elizabeth B. Albert, Nathan Mick, and Tania D. Strout
An Educational Intervention to Improve Pediatric Inter-rater Reliability of the Hospital Asthma Severity Score (HASS), Anne Coates, Amanda Gagnon, and Noah Diminick
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
Chief Resident Presentation; Heavy Menstrual Bleeding in the Adolescent, Patricia Giafagna
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
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
Combating Bias in Medical Education, Aaron Wallace
Commentary on the current state of perioperative and critical care buprenorphine management, Aurora Quaye, Charlotte Crist, Simba Matoi, and Yi Zhang
Commotio Cordis and Pediatric Cardiac Arrest, Jay Vance
Contemporary Treatment Paradigms are Associated with Improved Survival in Pancreatic Cancer, Bridget N. Kelly, Laura Nicolais, Abdimajid Mohamed, 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
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
Educational Value of Surgical Residents Operating as Teaching Assistant, Nicole Heidt, James Whiting, Carolyne Falank, Bridget Olsen, Heidi Miller, and Jaswin Sawhney
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
Evaluation Management of Acute Asthma Exacerbations, Amanda Gagnon
Evidence Based Medicine; Gynecology, Patricia Giafagna
Evidence Based Medicine; Maternal Fetal Medicine, Luke Roberts
Evidence Based Medicine; Oncology, Rachel Cerone
Evidence Based Medicine; Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Courtney Hargreaves
Feedback in Medical Education: A Review of the Literature and Best Practice Reccomendations, Stephen Long
Geography of Pediatric Primary Care, Heather Reiley
Healthy Links – Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Improving Cardiac Health with Medically Tailored Meals, Emily Follo, Katherine Sharp, and Mylan Cohen
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
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
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
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
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
Male Adolescent With Syncope and Abnormal Chest X-Ray, Josh A. Swenson, Rebecca Bloch, and Peter Croft
Man in Cardiac Arrest, Weeden Bauman, Christina Wilson, Erik Christensen, Hillary McKinley, Peter Croft, Hadley Gunnell, and Andrew Fried
Man With Abdominal Pain, Cynthia Gaudet, Christina Wilson, and Peter Croft
Mystery at the meatus, Ben Pare, Robert Link, Isaak Jones, and Samir Haydar
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
New Onset, Refractory Hyperglycemia with Diabetic Ketoacidosis After Enfortumab Vedotin Treatment: A Case Report, Ross E. Heinrich and Marie Caldwell
Obstetric Outcomes Assessment for New Mainers, Brendan Prast, Christina T. Holt, Amy Haskins, and Debra Rothenberg
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
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
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 N. Turner, Bruce Chung, Eric Shurtleff, and Bryan C. Morse
Pathologic Tumor Regression is Associated With Improved Survival in Pancreatic Cancer, Laura M. Nicolais, Molly Caron, Nicholas Verdini, and Timothy L. Fitzgerald
Pediatric Penicillin Allergy De-Labeling: Barriers and Opportunities, Russell Behmer
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
Protecting the Beans: A Case Based Presentation of Post-Transplant AKI, Micah Ludwig
Racial disparities in complications following elective colon cancer resection: Impact of laparoscopic versus robotic approaches, Vanita Ahuja and Lucero G. Paredes
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
Revisiting the Pancreatic Fistula Risk Score: Clinical Nomogram Accurately Assesses Risk, Abdimajid Mohamed, Laura Nicolais, and Timothy Fitzgerald
Simplifying Care for Our Complex Patients: A look at children with medical complexity, Danielle Doctor
Simulation-Based Resuscitative Transesophageal Echocardiography Training for Emergency Medicine Residents, August Felix, Andrew Fried, Jessica Hathaway, and Tania D. Strout
Textbook outcome as a composite measure of quality in hepaticopancreatic surgery, Abdimajid Mohamed, Laura Nicolais, and Timothy L. Fitzgerald
There's No Place Like Home: The Present, Past, and Future of Pediatric Anesthesia and the Pediatric Surgical Home at MMC, Jonathan Meserve
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
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
Venous Sinus Stent Placement Reduces Dosage Requirements for Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors in Patients with Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, Jesse Martin and Matthew R. Sanborn
Weekly Review of an Academic Checklist to Operationalize Improvements to a Surgical Residency Program, Sean Francois, James Whiting, Kartikey Pandya, and Jaswin Sawhney
Submissions from 2022
2022-2023 Maine Medical Center House Staff, Maine Medical Center
A Commentary on "Factors Contributing to Efficient Recanalization Procedures for Chronic Total Occlusion of the Superficial Femoral Artery", Robert E. Beasley and Jesse Martin
A Formative Mixed-Methods Study of Emotional Responsiveness in Telepalliative Care, Rebecca N. Hutchinson, Eric C. Anderson, Mollie A. Ruben, Noah Manning, Liam John, Ava Daruvala, Donna M. Rizzo, Margaret J. Eppstein, Robert Gramling, and Paul K. Han
Alcohol Withdrawal in Young Adults, Rute Rothwell
Alternating bilateral Horner's syndrome during continuous thoracic epidural analgesia., Guilherme Holck and Aurora Quaye
A Multicenter Pilot Study to Evaluate the Effect of EVOO on Lipid Parameters, Caroline Knight, Ralph Hamill, Katherine Brady, and Stacia Kozidis
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
A Retrospective Study of Acute Postoperative Pain After Cesarean Delivery in Patients With Opioid Use Disorder Treated With Opioid Agonist Pharmacotherapy, Johanna Cobb, Wendy Craig, Janelle Richard, Elizabeth Snow, Heather Turcotte, Robert Warters, and Aurora Quaye
A Sight For Sore Eyes, Cynthia Gaudet, Michelle Crispo, Xiangyu Wang, Michael Leslie, and Matthew Kerr
Assessment of Obstetric Outcomes Graphs and Figures for New Mainers, Amy Haskins, Brendan Prast, and Tina Holt
Awake Craniotomy Without Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring, Jeffrey E. Florman, Anand I. Rughani, Russell Kizor, Gina Pardi, and Emma England
Behavioral Support Checklist Making MMC More Autism Friendly, Rachel Coffey and Sarah Reynolds
Boy With Wheezing, Weeden J. Bauman, Alexander R. Lange, Josh A. Swenson, Christina Wilson, and David C. Mackenzie
Bronchial penetration of migrated Temporary Epicardial Pacing Wire with bronchoscopic extraction, Christopher G. Roy and Nicholas A. Pozzessere
Cardiovascular disease associated with methamphetamine use: a review, Jared Tobolski, Douglas B. Sawyer, Sharon J. Song, and Maxwell Eyram Afari
Current Barriers in Robotic Surgery Training for General Surgery Residents, Robert D. Shaw, Mark A. Eid, Josh Bleicher, Justine Broecker, Ben Caesar, Ryan Chin, Courtney Meyer, Anastasios Mitsakos, Allan E. Stolarksi, Lauren Theiss, Brigitte K. Smith, and Srinivas J. Ivatury
Development of a Codebook for A Prospective Mixed Methods Study Focusing on Experiences of Mindfulness Intervention in Patients Undergoing Colorectal Surgery, Laura Nicolais, Rebecca Brown, Julie Fitzgibbons, and Rachel Farrington
Early Disseminated Lyme Disease: Cranial Neuropathy, Meningitis, and Polyradiculopathy, Tyler Crissinger and Kelly Baldwin
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
Facial Plethora and Markedly Elevated Central Venous Pressure After Mitral Valve Repair, Maze, and Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Procedures, Obieze C. Nwanna-Nzewunwa, Paul Lennon, Brian R. Gebhardt, Gregory Couper, and Michael P. Robich
Getting There Safely: A Review of Car Seat Safety Through the Years, Haley Pelletier
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
Improving Car-Bed Discharge Process and Follow up, Haley Pelletier and Gina Trachimowicz
Infant With Respiratory Distress, Joshua L. Rehberg, David C. Mackenzie, Page Mieritz, and Christina N. Wilson
Isolated Fallopian Tube Torsion in an Adolescent - A Case Report, Nadi Kaonga, Laura Nicolais, Toby Fitzgerald, and Kartikey Pandya
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
Maine Medical Center Experience with Left Ventricular Device Explantation, Laura Onderko, Lauren Vickerson, and Andrew Schwartzman
Myocarditis Following Immune Checkpoint Inhibition With Pembrolizumab: Management in a Context of Steroid Intolerance, Laura L. Onderko, Ross Heinrich, Katalin Gosling, Tim Downs, and Maxwell Eyram Afari
Myopia in the Diagnosis of Marfan Syndrome: An Important Early Sign of a Systemic Condition., Bhavini B Prajapati and Jennifer Monti
Pain Management Considerations in Patients With Opioid Use Disorder Requiring Critical Care, Kathryn Smith, Michelle Wang, Ruslan Abdukalikov, Amy McAullife, Dena Whitesell, Janelle Richard, William Sauer, and Aurora Quaye
Predicting loss of independence after high-risk gastrointestinal abdominal surgery: Frailty vs. NSQIP risk calculator., Abdimajid Mohamed, Laura Nicolais, and Timothy L Fitzgerald
Pre-operative anxiety related to major urogynecologicsurgery, Nadi Nina Kaonga, Mary C Brandes, and Caroline Foust-Wright
Prospective Validation of Sedation Scale Scores That Identify Light Sedation: A Pilot Study, Caitlin Brown, Pasquale Joseph Marotta, Richard R. Riker, Ashley D. Eldridge, Gilles L. Fraser, and Teresa L. May