In an impressive demonstration of collaborative medical prowess, faculty members and trainees with the Department of Medicine were recognized during the 2017 Wisconsin American College of Physicians (ACP) Conference in the Wisconsin Dells on September 8-9.

Fourteen residents and six medical students participated in the Oral and Poster Case Vignette competitions. Matt Brunner, MD, internal medicine resident, received first place for his Oral Research Vignette entitled “Fluoroquinolone Restriction Decreases Rates of Clostridium difficile: Results of a Mixed-Methods Study” and Yaoli Yang, MD, internal medicine resident, received first place for her Poster Vignette entitled “When Pulse Oximetry Lies.”

A team (pictured at right) comprised of residents Matt Brunner, MD, Jesse Maupin, MD, and Sam Murray-Bainer, MD also won the Scott Sprtel Doctor’s Dilemma Jeopardy Competition. The trio will represent the Wisconsin ACP Chapter at the 2018 National ACP Conference in New Orleans.

Additionally, three faculty members (pictured at right) were selected for awards in recognition of clinical excellence.

Elizabeth Trowbridge, MD, clinical professor and head, General Internal Medicine and Philip August and Sarah Neely Herrmann Professor in General Internal Medicine, was named Helen Dickie Woman Physician of the Year.

"It is absolutely fitting that Dr. Trowbridge was selected for this award, which was named for former Department of Medicine pioneer Dr. Helen Dickie," said Richard Page, MD, George R. and Elaine Love Professor and chair, Department of Medicine.

The Young Internist of the Year Award was presented to Sean O'Neill, MD, clinical assistant professor, Hospital Medicine. Dr. O'Neill serves as physician lead for UW's main teaching ward and co-chairs the ward's quality improvement steering committee as well as the ACP-Wisconsin Hospitalist Committee, among others.

A comment from a resident studying under his guidance stated, "Dr. O'Neill gave the team complete autonomy and is an excellent and enthusiastic teacher. His emphasis on communication to hospital staff, patients, families, and primary care providers is over the top."

A Community-Based Physician and Mentor Award, which recognizes outstanding community-based practitioners of internal medicine who demonstrate commitment to mentoring the next generation of physicians, was presented to Amy Muchow, MD, clinical assistant professor, General Internal Medicine.

Dr. Muchow began a comprehensive internal medicine practice at the UW Health Internal Medicine Clinic in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin in 2006. In addition to her full-time practice, Dr. Muchow provides consultative services in hospice and palliative care, serves as medical director for nursing homes in Dodge County, and has served as a preceptor for fourth-year medical students in UW School of Medicine and Public Health for over a decade.

A complete list of residents and medical students who presented at the meeting is below:

Oral Presentations

• Alex Hristov, MD — Thrombocytopeni, Fever, Rash, and Hypotension
• Jesse Maupin, MD and Siddique Akram, medical student — Guillain-Barre Syndrome in a Patient with Pneumococcal Meningitis: An Uncommon Complication of a Common Infection
• Matt Brunner, MD — Fluoroquinolone Restriction Decreases Rates of Clostridium difficile: Results of a Mixed-Methods Study

Posters

• Inga Melvinsdottir, MD — Sneddon Syndrome Complicated with Primary Antiphopholipid Syndrome and Non-Bacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis
• Saad Arain, MD — A Case of Gastric Erosion From a Left Ventricular Assist Device
• Talar Kharadjian, MD — Two Cases of Coxsackie Arthritis: Reactive or Infectious
• Kenny Coggins, MD and Iris Vuong, medical student — Ipilimumab-Associated Colitis: Another Indication for Anti-Tnf Antibodies?
• Yaoli Yang, MD — When Pulse Oximetry Lies - Dapsone and Methemoglobulinemia
• Samantha Murray-Bainer, MD — Trusting Your Clinical Instincts: A Case of a False Negative Procalcitonin
• Matthew Caldis, MD — Acute Florid Heart Failure in a Lymphoma Patient
• Peter Haigh, MD and Weston Nadherny, medical student — An Unusual Case of Renal Failure
• Matthew Rafn, MD — Segmental Arterial Mediolysis: An Uncommon Etiology for a Common Complaint
• Andrew Lang MD — An Uncommon Presentation of Polymyalgia Rheumatica
• Peter Stadmeyer, MD — Ciguatera Fish Poisoning: Atropical Illness in the Midwest

Medical Student Presentations

• Mitch Biermann (Poster) — Enhanced Cardiac Progenitors from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
• Nicole Fennimore (Oral Presentation) — Recognizing the Clinical and Laboratory Presentation of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis
• Dana Ley (Poster) — A Case of Rapidly Progressive Pneumonia due to Blastomycosis
• Shahrose Rahman — (Poster) Icodextrin: A Case of Peritoneal Dialysis Induced Exfoliative Dermatitis