NEW - Abstracts from the 2011 CHA Academic Poster Session submitted by the Internal Medicine Residency Program

- Abstracts from the 2010 CHA Academic Poster Session

Publication, Research

• News media coverage of medication research: Reporting pharmaceutical company funding and use of generic medication names

• Attitudes of preclinical and clinical medical students toward interactions with the pharmaceutical industry

• Teen interviewers in underserved populations: a new method of assessing breast cancer attitudes and screening practices in urban communities
  

Publication, Project

• HealthSTAT: A Student Approach to Building Skills Needed to Serve Poor Communities
  

Publication, Clinical Vignette

• Maria is still full of grace - a case of body packing in 2008 (Mayo Clin Proc, in press)
  

• Non-specific interstitial pneumonia as the initial presentation of biphenotypic acute leukemia: a case report
  

Publication, Commentary

• Building a Health-Peace Movement

Publication, Letter

• CHD risk-assessment tools may lead to inappropriate use of aspirin for primary prevention
  

Poster, Clinical Vignette

• Tubercula or egg: Concurrent pulmonary schistosomiasis and mycobacterial infection (winner of Society of General Internal Medicine 2009 Regional Resident Presentation of the Year Award)
  

• Disseminated histoplasmosis in a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome
  

• Pulmonary embolism in a patient with Hemoglobin Brockton: Hemoglobinopathy as a risk factor for thrombophilia
  

• The great imitator strikes again: syphilitic ascending aortic aneurysm in a Brazilian immigrant
  

Poster, Research

• The impact of a scorecard on the development of conflict of interest policies in academic medical centers
  

• Hand hygiene in the hospital setting - analysis of a public health problem

• Breast cancer data from the CHA Breast Center 2006

• Sub-clinical thyroid disease and high blood pressure in NHANES III

• Incidence and genetics of breast cancer in African immigrants living in the Boston area

• Prevalence and incidence of end-stage-renal-disease in Native American adults on the Navajo reservation

• Barriers to medical care for developmentally disabled adults

• Medication study on prevention of cancer relapse in bone marrow transplantation
  

Journalism

• Politics of embryonic stem cell research
  

• Air pollution and life expectancy
  

• Obama and health care
  

• (Letter to the Editor) Health care costs and technology
  

• (Op-Ed in Somerville Brazilian Journal), "7 Myths in Weight Loss"