2023 Event Information
The Department of Pediatrics sponsored the 9th Annual Pediatrics Medical Student Research Forum on September 2, 2023, at Disney’s Yacht Club Resort in Orlando. This was a national stage, with over 70 students representing ten states, including the islands of Antigua and Barbados. We were impressed by the overall level of platform and poster presentations; many were superb! We hope each student left the forum inspired to better care for children and challenged to make discoveries to improve our understanding of pediatric illness. We also intensively recruited some future interns to our Pediatric Residency Program!
We sincerely appreciate our keynote speaker, Karen Young, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Holtz Children’s Hospital, for her amazing, inspirational message to the medical students.
This program was sponsored by the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FCAAP), the University of Florida Department of Pediatrics and College of Medicine, and the Society for Pediatric Research.
Awards
Of the many talks and posters, special recognition goes to the individuals from the UF College of Medicine listed below:
Oral Presentations
1st Place
Camila Sarcone
University of Florida
2nd Place
Bailey Hamner
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
3rd Place (co-awardee)
Jacob Strelnikov
Washington University School of Medicine
3rd Place (co-awardee)
Emily Hooker
University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine
Poster Presentations
1st Place
Anais Iglesias
FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
2nd Place
Morgan Lacken and DeMarria Miles
American University of Antigua
3rd Place (co-awardee)
Alex Culver
Eastern Virginia Medical School
3rd Place (co-awardee)
Janvi Agrawal
Eastern Virginia Medical School
About the Forum
The Pediatric Research Forum for Medical Students is an exciting opportunity for students to share their research with peers.
- The forum, open to all medical students, is in conjunction with the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics annual meeting.
- Oral and poster presentations were completed for basic science, case reports/series, and clinical research.
- Pediatrics is an ever-changing field of discovery and innovation. Today’s research will lead to tomorrow’s cures
Questions?
If you have any questions, please contact us at pedsresearchforum@peds.ufl.edu
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