NYS AUA Annual Resident Essay Contest

 

Program Chairs: Gina Badalato, MD
Alexander Small, MD
Judge(s): Stephen Boorjian, MD
Candace Granberg, MD
Kevin Koo, MD
 
Debate Winners:
Urologic Oncology:
1st Place Oncologic Outcomes of Testosterone Therapy in Men on Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer: A Population-Based Analysis
Elie Kaplan-Marans
Maimonides Medical Center
2nd Place Potential Anticancer Effect of Bioactive Extract of Monk Fruit (Siraitia Grosvenori) on Prostate and Bladder Cancer Cells
Rogerio Huang
New York Medical College
3rd Place Partial Gland Cryoablation Outcomes for Localized Prostate Cancer in Patients With MRI-Visible and MRI-Invisible Lesions
Alec Zhu
NY Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell Med. Center
Honorable Mention Impact of Genomic Testing on Urologists’ Treatment Preference in a High-Risk Population: A Randomized Trial
Samuel Carbunaru
New York University Langone Medical Center
Benign Urology:
1st Place Maximizing Penile Prosthesis Length: Our Technique and Outcomes
Shirin Razdan
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
2nd Place The Exchangeability of KUB in the Workup of Bladder Bowel Dysfunction
Patrick Ho (Presented by Alexandra Siegal)
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
3rd Place Male-First Evaluation Reduces Costs and Time to Pregnancy: A Theoretical, Discrete-Time Markov Model of Infertile Couples with a Varicocele
Albert Ha
Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surg.
Clinical Practice and Quality Management:
1st Place Predictors of Care-Seeking Behavior for Treatment of Urinary Incontinence in Men
Dora Jericevic
New York University Langone Medical Center
2nd Place Practice Patterns Affecting Delays in Care of Testicular Torsion
Jennifer Lu
SUNY at Stony Brook
Socioeconomics (Including Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives):
1st Place Racial Disparities in Complications after Surgical Treatment of Pelvic Organ Prolapse: An Analysis of Medical Comorbidities and Type of Surgery
Arshia Aalami Harandi
SUNY at Stony Brook
2nd Place Predictors of Timely and Delayed Urologic Evaluation Following Referral for Elevated PSA in a Diverse, Urban, High-Risk Population
Priya Dave
Einstein/Montefiore Hospital
3rd Place Urologists and LGBTQ Patients: A Qualitative Study of the Practice Patterns, attitudes and knowledge base of urologists toward their LGBTQ Patients
Alex Xu
New York University Langone Medical Center

Program Chairs: Jane Cho, M.D.
Gina Badalato, M.D.
Judge(s): Isaac Y. Kim, M.D., Ph.D.
Adam Hittelman, M.D., Ph.D.
Daniel Petrylak, M.D.
 
Debate Winners:
Clinical Category:
1st Place Patterns of Antibiotic Resistance in Men Undergoing Serial Prostate Biopsy
Alex Xu, MD (New York University Langone Medical Center
2nd Place Utility of Bandemia in Evaluation of Patients with Obstructive Urolithiasis
Matthew Mikula, MD (Northwell Health)
3rd Place Predicting Major Ischemic Priapism: A Novel Dynamic Nomogram Based on Recurrent Ischemic Priapism Risk Factors
Laurence Hou, MD (Hackensack Meridian Health
Honorable Mention Predictors and Trends of Opioid-Sparing Radical Prostatectomy from a Large National Cohort
Aaron Brant, MD (NY Presbyterian Hosp/Cornell Med. Ctr.)
Honorable Mention Concurrent Systematic Biopsy may be Omitted in Men with PI-RADS 4/5 MRI undergoing MRI-fusion Targeted Prostate Biopsy
Zachary Feuer, MD (New York University Langone Medical Center)
Socioeconomic Category:
1st Place Low Reporting and Enrollment of Minorities in Genitourinary Oncology Trials
Igor Inoyatov, MD (SUNY at Stony Brook)
2nd Place Race Trends in Patients Pursuing Minimally Invasive Sacrocolpopexy
Annie Chen, MD (SUNY at Stony Brook)
Miscellaneous Category:
1st Place Urology Resident Autonomy in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System
Anh Nguyen, MD (Rutgers – New Jersey Medical School)
2nd Place Phosphodiesterase-5 Inhibitor Use and Progression to Heart Failure in Men with Coronary Artery Disease and Erectile Dysfunction
Albert Ha, MD (Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surg.)
3rd Place Comparing the Cost-Effectiveness of Telemedicine versus Traditional Pathways for Outpatient Evaluation of Hematuria
Kavita Gupta, MD (Einstein/Montefiore Hospital)
Laboratory Category:
1st Place Anticancer Effect of Bioactive Extract of Poria Mushroom on Renal Cell Carcinoma: Alternative Therapeutic Implication
Ashley Dixon, MD (New York Medical College)

Program Chairs: Tricia Greene, M.D.
Jane Cho, M.D.
Judge(s): Daniel Barocas, M.D.
Sam Chang, M.D.
Nicole Miller, M.D.
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN
 
Debate Winners:
Clinical Category:
1st Place The Impact of Preoperative Oral Health on Buccal Mucosal Graft Histology
Jane Kurtzman (Columbia Univ. Phys & Surgeons)
2nd Place Risk Stratification in Advanced Non-seminomatous Germ Cell Tumors
(NSGCT): Validation of Age and Metastatic Disease Site to Improve the
Traditional IGCCCG Risk Groups
Arnav Srivastava (Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School)
3rd Place The Effect of Pregnancy on Ureteral Decompression in Women with
Obstructive Pyelonephritis from Nephrolithiasis: A Population-Based Analysis
Connie Wang (Columbia Univ. Phys. & Surgeons)
Honorable Mention Teardrop Urethral Mobilization and Advancement Repair for Distal Hypospadias
Quincy Nang (New York Presbyterian/Cornell)
Honorable Mention Using Competing Risk of Mortality to Inform the Transition from Prostate Cancer
Active Surveillance to Watchful Waiting
Borna Kassiri (New York University)
Socioeconomic Category:
1st Place Factors Associated with Clinical Trial Participation for Patients with Renal Cell
Carcinoma
Brian Shinder (Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School)
Miscellaneous Category:
1st Place Robotic Surgery Simulation League: Using Gamification to Increase Resident
Engagement in Surgical Training
George Moran (Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surgeons)
2nd Place Patient Safety in the Operating Room During Urologic Surgery: The OR Black Box
Experience
Leah Beland (Northwell Health)
3rd Place Feasibility of Skill Assessment Tool (C-SATS) At Health System Level –
Implementation, Score Distribution, Skill Breakdown, and Trends in Participation
Brian Dinerman (Lenox Hill Hospital)
Honorable Mention Current Over-The-Counter Remedies for Urinary Tract Infection
Treatment, Prevention, and Symptom Management
Beth Edelblute (Mount Sinai)
Laboratory Category:
1st Place Potentiation of Anticancer Effect by Combination of Mushroom Extract and Grapeseed
Extract on Human Bladder Cancer Cells
Jason Y. Elyaguov (New York Medical College)
2nd Place CYP21A2 Expression and Cortisol Production in a Human Adrenal Cell Line
Kiersten Craig (New York Presbyterian/Cornell)
3rd Place Using CT-guided stereotactic prostate radiation therapy (CT-SPRT) to
assess sustained murine prostate ablation
Ali Zahalka (Mount Sinai)

Resident Essay Chairman: Sven Wenske, M.D.
Resident Essay Co-Chairman: Reza Mehrazin
Judge(s): Chris M. Gonzalez, M.D. – Loyola University Medical Center
David F. Penson, M.D. – Vanderbilt University
J. Stuart Wolf, M.D. – Dell Medical School of the University of Texas at Austin
 
Debate Winners:
Clinical Category:
1st Place Follow-up of Men with PI-RADS 4 or 5 Regions of Interest on Prostate MRI and
Non-Malignant Pathologic Findings on Initial Targeted Prostate Biopsy
Xiaosong Meng (New York University Langone Medical Center)
2nd Place Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Ultrasound Fusion Biopsy Provides No Additional Benefit
Compared with Systematic Biopsy that Includes Two Anterior Cores
Joshua Sterling (Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical Sch.)
3rd Place (Tie) Time to Decompression of Stone Related Obstructive Pyelonephritis is Associated
with Increased Odds of Death in the National Inpatient Sample
Christopher Haas (Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surg.)
3rd Place (Tie) The Impact of Complete TURBT for Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Prior to
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy on Subsequent Response and Downstaging
Jamie Pak (Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surg.)
Honorable Mention Patterns in Dropout Rate for Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Tibial Nerve
Stimulation
William T. Berg (SUNY at Stony Brook)
Honorable Mention Prognostic Value of Histologic Subtype and Treatment Modality for T1a Kidney
Cancers
Michael Siev (New York University Langone Medical Center)
Miscellaneous Category/Socioeconomic:
1st Place Evaluation of Asymptomatic Microscopic Hematuria: Risk of Malignancy and Estimated
Medicare Cost Based on Hematuria Risk Index
Daniel Rabinowitz (Maimonides Medical Center)
2nd Place Impact of Actue Care Urology Service on Care of the Acute Stone Patient
Nina Mikkilineni (Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surg.)
3rd Place Cost Comparison of Intra-Detrusor Injection of Botulinum Toxin Versus Augmentation
Cystoplasty for Refractory Neurogenic Detrusor Overactivity in Children
Soo Jeong Kim (NY Presbyterian Hosp/Cornell Med. Ctr.)
Basic Science Category:
1st Place Prevention of Calcium Oxalate Stone Formation with Poria Mushroom Extract with
Antioxidant Activity
Neel Patel (New York Medical College)
2nd Place A Chemical-Genetic Approach to Identify Drugs for Inducing CYP21A2 Expression
Kiersten Craig (NY Presbyterian Hosp/Cornell Med. Ctr)

Resident Essay Chairman: Lee Richstone, M.D.
Resident Essay Co-Chairman: Sven Wenske, M.D.
Judge(s): David W. Lin, M.D., John L. Gore, M.D., Jonathan Harper, M.D.
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington
 
Debate Winners:
Clinical Category:
1st Place Postoperative pain management with ketamine in living donor nephrectomies:
Preliminary results from a double-blind placebo-controlled randomized control trial
Wai Lee – SUNY at Stony Brook
2nd Place The Role of Inheritance in the Development of Adolescent Varicoceles
Luke Griffiths – Northwell Health
3rd Place Discordance Between Ureteroscopic Biopsy and Final Pathology for Upper Tract
Urothelial Carcinoma
Justin Matulay – Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surg.
Honorable Mention Comparison of Precision and Speed in Laparoscopic and Robot-Assisted Surgical Task
Performance
Jaime Cavallo – Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Honorable Mention Does the Use of Antibiotic prophylaxis in Patients over 70 Years of Age Prior to
Urodynamic Testing Reduce the Rate of Symptomatic Urinary Tract Infection?
Anika Ackerman – Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surg.
Basic Science Category:
1st Place Prophylactic Effect of Ethyl Pyruvate on Renal Ischemic/Reperfusion Injury in Rats
Roger Yau – New York Medical College
2nd Place Identifying differential mRNA and miRNA expression patterns in dilated and
collapsed seminiferous tubules reveals unique “niche” for spermatogenesis in men with severe forms
of infertility
Sameer Mittal – NY Presbyterian Hosp/Cornell Med. Ctr.
3rd Place Oxidative Stress-Mediated Anticancer Effect of Mushroom Extract on Bladder Cancer
Cells
Cristina Fox – New York Medical College
Socioeconomic Category:
1st Place PSA Screening of Black Veterans Before, During, and After Implementation of the
2012 US Preventative Services Task Force Recommendations
Tope Rude – New York University Langone Medical Center
Miscellaneous:
1st Place The National Resident Matching Program Code of Conduct: What is the Degree of
Compliance During the Urology Match Process?
Elisabeth Sebesta – Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surg.
2nd Place Patterns of resource utilization in men with metastatic prostate cancer and their
associated outcomes
Ron Golan – NY Presbyterian Hosp/Cornell Med. Ctr.

Moderator(s): Ephrem Olweny, M.D. Lee Richstone, M.D.
Judge(s): Manoj Monga, M.D. Michael Gong, M.D. Courtenay Moore, M.D. The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
 
Debate Winners:
Clinical Category:
1st Place Increasing Incidence of High Grade Prostate Cancer Among Veterans After the United
States Preventive Services
Task Force Recommendation Against Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening
Michael Piecuch – Rutgers – New Jersey Medical School
2nd Place Learning Curve of MRI-US Fusion-Targeted Biopsy: Improvements in Cancer Detection
Over Time
Xiaosong Meng – New York University Medical Ctr.
3rd Place Bulbocavernosus Muscle Area as a Novel Quantitative Measure for Androgen Deficiency
Sandeep Gurram – Northwell Health
Honorable Mention Assessment of Physicians’ Practices in Screening and Treating Women with
Bacteriuria
Erica Ditkoff – Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surgeons
Honorable Mention Role of Personality in Reported Stent-Related Quality of Life Following
Ureteroscopic Stone Extraction
Rachel Davis – Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Med Sch
Basic Science Category:
1st Place Combination of Hexaminolevulinate (Cysview®) and Blue Light Irradiation Induce Cell
Death in Patient-Derived
Bladder Cancer Organoid Model: A Pilot Study
Justin Matulay – Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surgeons
2nd Place Is Ethyl Pyruvate a More Effective Agent for Prevention of Oxidative Renal Cell
Injury?
Jonathan Bloom – New York Medical College
3rd Place Pilot Study Results Using Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting of Spermatozoa from
Testis Tissue: A Novel
Method for Sperm Isolation after TESE
Sameer Mittal – NY Presbyterian Hosp/Cornell Med. Ctr.
Socioeconomic Category:
1st Place Healthcare Disparities: Do Medicaid Patients Have Longer Wait Times for Outpatient
Urological Evaluation?
Wai Lee – SUNY Stony Brook
2nd Place Patient Race and Clinical Benefit are Associated with Receipt of Definitive
Prostate Cancer Treatment in
the Veterans Health Administration
Temitope Rude – New York University Med. Center
Miscellaneous:
1st Place Frequency, Quality and Utility of Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection for Low-Risk
Prostate Cancer
Parth Modi – Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Med Sch
2nd Place A Historical Comparison of the Preeminent Urology Textbooks of 1917 and 2017: 100
Years of Urology
Alon Mass – New York University Med. Center
3rd Place Gender Differences in Academic Productivity and Promotion Among Top Urologists
Marissa Theofanides – Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surgeons

Moderator(s): Danil Makarov, MD, MHS Ephrem Olweny, M.D.
Judge(s): Aria F. Olumi, MD Cidgem Tanrikut, M.D. Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard
Medical School Boston, Massachusetts
 
Debate Winners:
Clinical Category:
1st Place Alon Mass – New York University Langone Medical Center
2nd Place Daniel Lee – NY Presbyterian Hosp/Cornell Med. Ctr.
3rd Place Brenton Armstrong – New York University Langone Medical Center
Transitional (Research) Category:
1st Place Aryeh Keehn – Einstein/Montefiore Hospital
2nd Place Sandeep Mehta – Northwell Health
3rd Place Aaron Bernie – NY Presbyterian Hosp/Cornell Med. Ctr
Honorable Mention:
1st Carrie Mlynarczyk – Columbia Univ. Phy. & Surg
2nd Dmitry Volkin – New York University Langone Medical Cente
3rd Xiaosong Meng – New York University Langone Medical Center
4th Daniel Sagalovich – Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Program Chairman: John Phillips, M.D.
Program Vice-Chairman: Danil Makarov, M.D., MHS
Judge(s): Jaime Landman, M.D. and Edward Uchio, M.D., University of CA, Irvine Jeffrey
Cadeddu, M.D., UT Southwestern
Medical Center
 
Debate Winners:
1st Place Laboratory Neal Patel (Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson)
2nd Place Laboratory Jennifer Reifsnyder (Cornell)
3rd Place Laboratory Amul Bhalodi (New York Medical College)
 
1st Place Clinical Matthew Pagano (Columbia)
2nd Place Clinical Christopher Hartman (North Shore/LIJ Health System)
3rd Place Clinical Ghalib Jibara (Brookdale)
Honorable Mention Jennifer Ahn (Columbia) Alison Levy (Columbia)
 
1st Place Misc. Danny Lascano (Columbia)

Program Chairman: Ivan Colon, M.D.
Program Vice-Chairman: John Phillips, M.D.
Judge(s): Stephen Nakada, M.D., Daniel Williams IV, M.D., Sara L. Best, M.D., Univ. of
Wisconsin Sch. Of Medicine
 
Debate Winners:
1st Place Laboratory Lamont Barlow, M.D. (Columbia)
2nd Place Laboratory Nikhil Waingankar, M.D. (North Shore/LIJ Health System)
3rd Place Laboratory Eric Moskowitz, M.D. (New York Medical College)
 
1st Place Clinical Nicholas Hauser, M.D. (Cornell)
2nd Place Clinical Sameer Mittal, M.D. (Cornell)
3rd Place Clinical Blake Wynia, M.D. (NYU)
Honorable Mention Jason Van Batavia, M.D. (Cornell) Joshua Gonzalez, M.D. (Mount Sinai)
 
1st Place Misc. Blake Alberts, M.D. (Columbia)
2nd Place Misc. Simpa Salami, M.D. (North Shore/LIJ Health System)
3rd Place Misc. Geoffrey Gaunay, M.D. (Beth Israel)
Honorable Mention David Peters, M.D. (Brookdale)

Program Chairman: Douglas Scherr, M.D.
Program Vice-Chairman: Ivan Colon, M.D.
Judge(s): Glenn Preminger, M.D., John Wiener, M.D., Brant Inman, M.D., Duke Univ. Med. Ctr.
 
Debate Winners:
1st Place Clinical Lamont Barlow, M.D. (Columbia)
2nd Place Clinical Joshua Gonzalez, M.D. (Mount Sinai)
3rd Place Clinical Kara Watts, M.D. (Montefiore)
 
1st Place Laboratory Jason Van Batavia, M.D. (Columbia)
2nd Place Laboratory Drew Freilich, M.D. (New York Medical College)
3rd Place Laboratory Christopher Barbieri, M.D. (Cornell)
 
1st Place Misc. Steven Weissbart, M.D. (Mount Sinai)
2nd Place Misc. Benjamin Katz, M.D. (Beth Israel)
3rd Place Misc. Gina Badalato, M.D. (Columbia)

Program Chairman: David Shin, M.D.
Program Vice-Chairman: Douglas Scherr, M.D.
Judge(s): Ballentine Carter, M.D., Robert Getzenberg, M.D., Alan Partin, M.D., Johns Hopkins
Univ. Sch. Of Medicine
 
Debate Winners:
1st Place Clinical/Misc Christopher Deibert, M.D. (Columbia)
2nd Place Clinical/Misc Puneet Masson, M.D. (Cornell)
3rd Place Clinical/Misc Kelly C. Johnson, M.D. (UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson)
Honorable Mention Ranjith Ramasamy, M.D. (Cornell) Dara Holder, M.D. (Columbia)
 
1st Place Laboratory Yongpeng Gu, M.D. (Brookdale)
2nd Place Laboratory Bobby Alexander, M.D. (New York Medical College)
3rd Place Laboratory Soroush Rais-Bahrami, M.D. (North Shore/LIJ Health System)
Honorable Mention Piruz Motamedinia, M.D. (Columbia)

Program Chairman: Sovrin Shah, M.D.
Program Vice-Chairman: David Shin, M.D.
Judge(s): Richard Babayan, M.D., David Wang, M.D., Mark Katz, M.D. – Boston Univ. Sch. Of
Med.
 
Debate Winners:
1st Place Clinical Timothy Siegrist, M.D. (Lenox Hill)
2nd Place Clinical Mark Silva, M.D. (Columbia)
3rd Place Clinical Boback Berookhim, M.D. (Mount Sinai)
Honorable Mention Elena Gimenez, M.D. (Cornell) Matthew Wosnitzer, M.D. (Columbia)
 
1st Place Laboratory Andrew Fishman, M.D. (NY Medical College)
2nd Place Laboratory David Green, M.D. (NY Medical College)
3rd Place Laboratory Bobby Alexander, M.D. (NY Medical College)
Honorable Mention Jonathan Schiff, M.D. (Cornell) Ricardo Gonzalez, M.D. (Cornell)
 
1st Place Misc. Justin Friedlander, M.D. (North Shore/LIJ)
2nd Place Misc. Ruben Pinkhasov, M.D. (Maimonides)
3rd Place Misc. Drew Freilich, M.D. (New York Medical College)

Program Chairman: John Phillips, M.D.
Program Vice-Chairman: Sovrin Shah, M.D.
Judge(s): Eric A. Klein, M.D., Daniel A. Shoskes, M.D., Sandip P. Vasavada, M.D. – Cleveland
Clinic
 
Debate Winners:
1st Place Clinical/Misc Jason Van Batavia , M.D. (Columbia)
2nd Place Clinical/Misc Piruz Motamedinia, M.D. (Columbia)
3rd Place Clinical/Misc Puneet Masson M.D. (Cornell)
Honorable Mention Brian Marks, M.D. (SUNY Downstate)
 
1st Place Laboratory Bobby Alexander, M.D. (NY Medical College)
Honorable Mention Peter Stahl, M.D. (Cornell)

Program Chairman: Jaspreet Sandhu, M.D.
Program Vice-Chairman: John Phillips, M.D.
Judge(s): Leonard Gomella, M.D., Edouard J. Trabulsi, M.D., Patrick J. Shenot, M.D. – Thomas
Jefferson Med. College
 
Debate Winners:
1st Place Clinical Puneet Masson, M.D. (Cornell)
2nd Place Clinical Gina Badalato, M.D. (Columbia)
3rd Place Clinical Benjamin Dillon, M.D. (Mount Sinai)
Honorable Mention Sylvia Montag, M.D. (North Shore/LIJ) Ranjith Ramasamy, M.D. (Cornell)
 
1st Place Laboratory Eric Kauffman, M.D. (Cornell)
2nd Place Laboratory Catherine Seager, M.D. (Columbia)
3rd Place Laboratory Stephen Poon, M.D. Columbia
Honorable Mention Peter Stahl, M.D. (Cornell)
 
1st Place Misc. Israel Nosnik, M.D. (Beth Israel)

Program Chairman: Robert Moldwin, M.D.
Program Vice-Chairman: Jaspreet Sandhu, M.D.
Judge(s): Ian M. Thompson, M.D., Carlos Bermejo, M.D., Dipen Parekh, M.D. – Univ. of Texas
HSC at San Antonio
 
Debate Winners:
1st Place Clinical Marc Feder, M.D. (Montefiore) Erica Lambert, M.D. (Columbia) Michael Schwartz M.D.
(Cornell)Andrew Hirsh,
M.D. (Columbia University)
2nd Place Clinical Michael Herman, M.D. (Cornell) Jonathan Kaye, M.D. (North Shore/LIJ)
Honorable Mention Stephen Poon, M.D. (Columbia)
 
1st Place Laboratory/Misc Eric Kauffman, M.D. (Cornell)
2nd Place Laboratory/Misc Shahab Hillyer, M.D. (Brookdale)
3rd Place Laboratory/Misc John Fitzgerald, M.D. (Brookdale)
Honorable Mention John Riordan, M.D. (UMDNJ-Robert Wood)

Program Chairman: Robert E. Weiss, M.D.
Program Vice-Chairman: Robert M. Moldwin, M.D.
Judge(s): Timothy Boone, M.D., Rodney Appell, M.D., Kevin Slawin, M.D. – Baylor College of
Medicine
 
Debate Winners:
1st Place Clinical Eric Kwon, M.D. (Lenox Hill)
2nd Place Clinical Stefan Samuelson, M.D. (Columbia)
3rd Place Clinical Jamie Kanofsky, M.D. (NYU)
Honorable Mention Jeremy Kaufman, M.D. (NYU) Joseph Feliciano, M.D. (SUNY Downstate) David Robbins,
M.D. (NYU)
 
1st Place Laboratory Gerald Wang, M.D. (Cornell)
2nd Place Laboratory Michael Schwartz, M.D. (Cornell)
3rd Place Laboratory Caroline Alvayay, M.D. (Montefiore)
Honorable Mention Joshua Ehrlich, M.D. (Cornell)

Program Chairman: Mantu Gupta, M.D.
Program Vice-Chairman: Robert E. Weiss, M.D.
Judge(s): Alan Partin, M.D., Ballentine Carter, M.D., Robert H. Getzenberg, Ph.D. – Johns
Hopkins Univ. Sch. Of Medicine
 
Debate Winners:
1st Place Clinical John Watson, M.D. (UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson)
2nd Place Clinical Daniel Barocas, M.D. (Cornell)
3rd Place Clinical Puneet Masson, M.D. (Columbia)
 
1st Place Laboratory Preston Sprenkle, M.D. (Columbia)
2nd Place Laboratory Kevin Bigelow, M.D. (Cornell)
3rd Place Laboratory Michael Ohebshalom, M.D. (Cornell)
 
1st Place Misc. Seth Strope, M.D. (Mount Sinai)
2nd Place Misc. John R. Carlucci, M.D. (Maimonides)
3rd Place Misc. Erica H. Lambert (Columbia)

Program Chairman: Doug Scherr, M.D.
Program Vice-Chairman: Mantu Gupta, M.D.
Judge(s): Michael Blute, M.D. – Mayo Clinic
 
Debate Winners:
1st Place Clinical Marco Camuzzi, M.D. (Brookdale)
2nd Place Clinical Stephen Boorjian, M.D. (Cornell)
3rd Place Clinical Michael Ohebshalom, M.D. (Cornell)
Honorable Mention Ying Hua, M.D. (Columbia University) Jamie Kanofsky, M.D. (NYU)
 
1st Place Laboratory Eric Smith, M.D. (Cornell)
2nd Place Laboratory Seth Strope, M.D. (Mount Sinai)
3rd Place Laboratory Grace Biggs, M.D. (Beth Israel)
Honorable Mention John Riordan, M.D. (UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson)
 
1st Place Misc. Lee Richstone, M.D. (Cornell)
2nd Place Misc. Jay Shah, M.D. (Columbia)
3rd Place Misc. Elan Salzhauer, M.D. (SUNY Downstate)
Honorable Mention Adam Berman, M.D. (Beth Israel) Mark Katz, M.D. (Columbia)

Program Chairman: Stephen Savage, M.D.
Program Vice-Chairman: Doug Scherr, M.D.
Judge(s): Karim Hamawy, M.D., Andrea Sorcini, M.D., Ingolf A. Tuerk, M.D. – Lahey Clinic
 
Debate Winners:
1st Place Clinical Carl Gjertson, M.D. (Columbia)
2nd Place Clinical Grant Disick, M.D. (Mount Sinai) Brent Yanke, M.D. (SUNY Downstate)
3rd Place Clinical Jay Shah, M.D. (Columbia University)
Honorable Mention Lee Schachter, M.D. (SUNY Downstate)
 
1st Place Laboratory Seth Strope, M.D. (Mt. Sinai)
2nd Place Laboratory Jason Hafron, M.D. (Montefiore)
3rd Place Laboratory Scott David, M.D. (Cornell)
Honorable Mention Jonathan Schiff, M.D. (Cornell) Ricardo Gonzalez, M.D. (Cornell)
 
1st Place Misc. Rupa Patel, M.D. (NYU)
2nd Place Misc. Robyn Rosenkopf-Leitner, M.D. (SUNY Downstate)
3rd Place Misc. G. De Castro, M.D. (Columbia)