Joint Research Symposium
About the Symposium
The Joint Research Symposium is hosted annually by the AMA Medical Student Section (MSS), in coordination with the AMA Resident and Fellow Section (RFS), and with an educational grant from the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative.
The Symposium, which is held in conjunction with the AMA Interim Meeting, includes both poster and oral presentation competitions, with poster presentation prizes awarded in eight categories and oral presentation prizes awarded in two categories.
2009 Symposium Results
More than 200 physicians in training, including more than 70 medical students, participated in the Seventh Annual AMA-MSS/RFS Joint Research Poster Symposium, Nov. 6-7, 2009, at the AMA Interim Meeting in Houston.
Poster presentation winners
- Biochemistry/Cell Biology - Douglas Bentley, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
- Cancer Biology - Samuel Zidovetzki, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
- Cardiology/Vascular Biology - Mohammad Madani, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
- Clinical/Epidemiological/Health Care - Timothy Van Johnson, Emory University School of Medicine
- Immunology/Microbiology - Glorilee Balistrieri, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Neurobiology/Neuroscience - Nicholas Boehling, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine
- Radiology/Imagin - Elizabeth Copenhaver, West Virginia School of Medicine
- Surgery - Shaun Patel, University of Michigan Medical School
Shaun Patel was awarded the overall poster presentation prize and will receive a trip to the 2010 AMA-MSS Annual Meeting.
Oral presentation winners
- Basic Science - Kimberly Hoang, Ohio State University College of Medicine
- Clinical Research/Health Policy - Nathaniel Schuster, University of Michigan Medical School
The AMA-MSS congratulates these winners and all those who participated for their impressive research. The AMA-MSS would also like to extend a special thank you to our judges from the AMA Sections and Special Groups, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and Baylor College of Medicine.
2010 Symposium
The 2010 Joint Research Symposium will be held Nov. 5-6, 2010, in San Diego, with abstracts due in mid-September. Please join the AMA-MSS Announcements listserv to be notified when more information becomes available.
