AMA Research Challenge co-winners

Victoria Danan and Shamsh Shaikh were announced the night of Jan. 13 as co-winners of the first AMA Research Challenge!

Top-voted five participants from the AMA Research Symposium poster competition presented their research to a panel of judges at the first ever event.

Finalists & research topics

Victoria Danan (co-winner)

• Poster: Winning the Ventilator Lottery: A comparison of five scarce resource allocation protocols in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic (PDF)
• School: Charles E. Schmidt COM at Florida Atlantic University

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Eli Levitt

• Poster: High Emotional Intelligence is Associated with Lower Medical Student Burnout in the Clinical Year (PDF)
• School: FIU Herbert Wertheim COM

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Heerod Malekghassemi

• Poster: Should Healthcare Workers Treat COVID-19 Patients Despite the Inadequate Personal Protective Equipment? (PDF)
• School: Touro University Nevada Coll of Osteo Med

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Shamsh Shaikh (co-winner)

• Poster: The Effect of Pod-based Electronic Cigarettes (“JUUL”) on Endothelial Phenotype: Preliminary Results (PDF)
• School: Boston University SOM

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Aimen Vanood

• Poster: Neurological Manifestations of COVID-19 in 1156 Hospitalized Patients in Michigan, United States (PDF)
• School: Oakland University William Beaumont SOM

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Panel of judges

Howard Bauchner, MD: Editor-in-chief, JAMA and the JAMA Network™

Mira Irons, MD: AMA chief health and science officer

Clyde Yancy, MD, MSc, MACC, FAHA, MACP, FHFSA: Vice dean of diversity and inclusion, professor of medicine and medical social sciences, and chief of the Division of Cardiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine  

Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP: Assistant dean for scholarship and discovery, Herbert T. Abelson professor of medicine at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine