General Internal Medicine: Previous GIM Research Day
2024 GIM Research Day
Date: April 17, 2024, 2:30 – 6:00 pm
Hart House, Debates Room
We are delighted to have Dr. Peter Singer, Former Special Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization, and co-founder Grand Challenges CA and also Adjunct Professor of Medicine at University of Toronto to be the keynote speaker for this year's GIM Research Day.
Keynote Speaker - Dr. Peter Singer
Find a problem and solve it: GIM as a career gateway
Award Winners:
1st Place Oral Presentation (Dr. Jack V. Tu Award for Research in General Internal Medicine): Sarah Malecki
2nd Place Oral Presentation: Wid Yaseen
1st Place Poster Presentation: (Dr. Murray Krahn Award for Research in General Internal Medicine): Zoe Lau
2nd Place Poster Presentation: Ray Prachi
2023 GIM Research Day
Date: June 2nd, 2023 at 12:00 – 1:30 PM
We are delighted to have Dr. Jeffrey Schnipper from the Harvard Medical School be the keynote speaker for this year's GIM Research Day. Please mark your calendars!
Keynote Speaker - Dr. Jeffrey Schnipper
Inpatient Diagnostic Errors: Frequency, Underlying Causes, and a Path Towards Prevention
Award Winners:
1st Place Oral Presentation (Dr. Jack V. Tu Award for Research in General Internal Medicine): Michael Colacci
2nd Place Oral Presentation: Leanne Kim
1st Place Poster Presentation: (Dr. Murray Krahn Award for Research in General Internal Medicine): Sarah Malecki
2nd Place Poster Presentation: Michael Colacci and Samiha Mohsen
2023 GIM Virtual Research day - Poster Session
Maham Bushra – Warm Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia in a Patient with IgG4 related Disease
Onyinyechukwu Esenwa – Evaluation of a Volunteer Program in General Internal Medicine
Xinglin (Lyn) Li – Improving Obstetric Medicine Education in Residency
2022 GIM Research Day
Date: June 24th, 2022 at 12:00 – 1:30 PM
We are delighted to have Dr. Vinny Arora (@FutureDocs) from the University of Chicago be the keynote speaker for this year's GIM Research Day. Please mark your calendars!
Keynote Speaker - Dr. Vinny Arora
Making IMPACT: Supporting Healthcare Workers to Tackle Misinformation and Advocate on Social Media
2022 GIM Virtual Research day - Poster Session
Nisreen Alnajjar - Residency Training During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Internationally Funded Trainees
Michael Beyaert - Current Point of Care Ultrasound Curricula Among Canadian Internal Medicine Training Programs
Orly Bogler - Functional decline during hospitalization and post-discharge physician follow-up
Steven Cho - Thinking beyond Steven-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis - a Case of Rare Cutaneous Drug Emergency
Steven Cho - IgG4-related Disease Masquerading as Giant Cell Arteritis: a case report
Michael Colacci - Creation of an inpatient diabetes cohort: Demographics, medication use, and admission characteristics of patients hospitalized with diabetes in Ontario, Canada
Alex Cressman - A Simple Electronic Medical Record Based Predictors of Illness Severity in Sepsis (SEPSIS) Score
Sally Engelhart - Resident Reflection Rounds for the Core Internal Medicine Residency Program
Sheliza Halani – “Acceptability and Feasibility of a Real-time Assessment Tool for Encounter- Based Teaching: MyTE (My Teaching Evaluation) App
Calandra Li - Quality Improvement Experiential Student Training (QuEST): Preliminary Results from a Novel Medical Education Pilot Program
Amanda Mac - Virtual Care Platform for Early Specialist Assessment Reduces Emergency Department Transfers from Long-Term Care
Sana Mohseni - Meta-analyses of C-Reactive Protein and Albumin as Nutritional Parameters in Nutritional Risk Assessment in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients
Amr Moustafa - A case of Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome and Thrombocytopenia
Kanza Naveed - Development of a Refined Eligibility Criteria for Transfers to the Seniors Care Unit (SCU)
Sunny Raval - Creating a Checklist for the Assessment of Discharge Summaries for Patients Admitted to the Seniors Care Unit (SCU): A Quality Improvement Initiative
Ayesha Rizwan - A Case of Isolated Secondary Adrenal Insufficiency
Lillian Saberian - Gas analyses comparisons (arterial vs venous), appropriateness, choices in metabolic vs. respiratory issues and alternatives. A systematic review
Ieta Shams - Polyarthritis and disseminated skin lesions in a patient receiving eculizumab for treatment of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome
Kimia Sheikholeslami – “Improving Prescribing Practices of High-dose Corticosteroids in General Internal Medicine Inpatients – A Quality Improvement Project”
William Silverstein - Effect of ward-based high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) oxygen therapy on critical care utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic
Vanessa Zannella - Hypertensive urgency: a QI project and clinical pathway of least resistance
2021 GIM Research Day
Date: May 28th, 2021 at 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom
This 6th annual research event welcomes Clinicians in Quality Improvement, Teachers, Educators, Investigators, Scientists and all medical learners. The Research Day provides a forum to showcase, connect and strengthen research excellence within our vibrant division. We hope that as many GIM and GIM-cross-appointed faculty and trainees as possible will be able to attend.
We are honoured to have Dr. Leora Horwitz, Director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science at NYU Langone Health, as our keynote speaker. Dr. Horwitz was recently named an Emerging Leader by the National Academy of Medicine. Her work focuses on improving the safety and quality of healthcare delivery. Her current research focus is on transitions in care and she has developed widely used quality measures for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
2021 GIM Virtual Research day - Poster Session
Tiffany Burger - A Traumatic Case of Pancreatitis
Magar Ghazarian - Critical left main myocardial infarction presenting as delirium and hypothermia
Magar Ghazarian - A case of biliary strictures: don’t be ‘narrow’ minded.
Cindy Kang - An Emerging Cause of Serotonin Syndrome: A Case Report
Juehea Lee - A case of brain metastases masquerading as cognitive decline
Dhruv Nayyar - Patient Experiences with Telephone Visits for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions
Kelvin Ng - Association of Socioeconomic Status with Medical Assistance in Dying
Laura Rodger - Rapid Titration of Opioid Agonist Therapy in Pregnancy
Ryan Sless - To See or Not to See: A case of multiple cranial nerve palsies
Sabrina Yeung - Exogenous lipoid pneumonia associated with oil-based topical oral and nasal products
Vanessa Zannella - Hypertensive urgency: a QI project and clinical pathway of least resistance
2020 GIM Research Day
Date: April 30, 2020 at 12:00 – 4:30 PM
Location: Hart House – Debates Room
CANCELLED
2019 GIM Research Day
Date: April 30, 2020 at 2:30 – 6:30 PM
Location: Hart House – Debates Room
Agenda
Award Winners:
1st Place Oral Presentation (Inaugural Dr. Jack V. Tu Award for Research in General Internal Medicine): Kieran Quinn
2nd Place Oral Presentation: Jonah Himelfarb
3rd Place Oral Presentation: Zeenia Aga
1st Place Poster Presentation: Michael Colacci
2nd Place Poster Presentation: Kevin Venus
2018 GIM Research Day
Date: June 14, 2018 at 2:30 – 6:30 PM
Location: Hart House – Debates Room
Agenda
Award Winners:
1st Place Oral Presentation: Kieran Quinn
2nd Place Oral Presentation: Laura Walker
1st Place Poster Presentation: Sagar Rohailla
2nd Place Poster Presentation: Ariel Lefkowitz