EMRA Case-Con 2021

Case-Con 2021 - We Went Virtual

A huge success! Thank you to the 20+ participants. This year we were virtual at ACEP21 with both medical students and residents for our third annual case study presentation. Congratulations to our 2021 winners, who we hope to feature in an upcoming edition of EM Resident.

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Medical Student Champions:

  • First Place: Elizabeth Silverman (University of California, San Diego School of Medicine) presenting Incomplete Bell’s Palsy in a 7-month-old after Influenza Vaccine
  • Second Place: Shayan Ghiaee (Sidney Kimmel Medical College At Thomas Jefferson University) presenting Urine Trouble!: Bladder Distention-Induced Persistent Hiccups 
  • Third Place: Leyla Farshidpour (University of North Carolina School of Medicine) presenting Double Trouble: Bilateral Tubal Pregnancies Presenting 11 Days Apart
  • Best Verbal Presentation: Sarah Spelsberg (Mayo Clinic) presenting A Fatal Case of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning and Rising Toxins in The Bering Sea

Resident Champions:

  • First Place: Alexandra McGowen, MD (University of Tennessee College of Medicine at Memphis) presenting Atypical Presentation of Basilar Artery Occlusion
  • Second Place: Jacob Lenning, MD (Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University - Sinai Grace) presenting Point-of-care Echocardiography in the Tachycardic Patient
  • Third Place: Will Dewispelaere, MD (Denver Health Medical Center) presenting Targeting the cause: a case of abdominal pain
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