A poster presentation, entitled, “Respiratory Distress Secondary to Toxocariasis” by Ravdeep Kaur, MS IV, Keyur Patel, PGY IV, and Safina Kureshi, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary, (with acknowledgements to Kevin Maupin, M.D., Raheel Khan, M.D. and Matthew Thomas, PGY III, Chief Resident in Pediatrics) was awarded 1st place for best case presentation in the Infectious Disease section of the CHEST International Conference, held in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 23, 2012.
Original research from Fellowship was presented at the 2012 AAP Meeting, held in New Orleans, Louisiana. Entitled, “Outcomes of Heterotaxy patients with and without ciliary dysfunction,” it won 2nd place in the AAP Cardiology Young Investigators Competition. It can be viewed by accessing the following reference:
Harden B, Leatherbury L, Giese R, Tian X, Nakhleh N, Francis R, Hanumanthaiah S, Kureshi S, Chatterjee B, Swisher M, Kuehl K, Sami I, Olivier K, Jonas R, Lo C. Increased Postoperative Respiratory Complications in Heterotaxy Congenital Heart Disease Patients with Respiratory Ciliary Dysfunction. Congenital Heart Disease. 2012;7:479-513.
