The Department of Medicine offers financial awards to residents to recognize their research achievements.
Califf Medicine Research Awards
The Califf Medicine Resident Research Awards are annual research prizes dedicated to promoting resident research. The Califf Award competition is announced in March of each academic year and abstracts are due in May. A faculty committee reviews each abstract entry and determines the winners.
Resident Research Day
Each spring, the Department of Medicine holds a Resident Research Day to highlight residents’ research projects; all residents should attend and present their research findings, case studies and quality improvement projects. After poster sessions and oral presentations, selected residents receive Califf Medicine Resident Research Awards.
View the 2020 Resident Research Day program
Califf Medicine Research Award Winners
Recipients of the Califf Medicine Research Awards are awarded $500 each, and an additional $250 is awarded to each of the three poster presentation winners, selected by the Chief Residents during the poster session.
| 2019 Califf Awards | ||
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| Recipient | Mentor | Project Title |
| Jordan M. Gales, MD | Richard A. Krasuski, MD | Emergency room evaluation of chest pain in adult congenital heart disease patients: Etiology, resource utilization, and outcomes compared with matched controls |
| Michael J. Grant, MD | Mitchell Horwitz, MD | Treatment with foscarnet after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant is associated with long-term loss of renal function |
| Benjamin L. Ranard, MD, MSHP | Kevin P. Shah, MD, MBA | You get what you pay for: an analysis of pay-for-performance in multi-site, academic primary care practice |
| 2019 Poster Winners | ||
|---|---|---|
| Recipient | Mentor | Project Title |
| Anmol Singh | Amit Patel | The Relationship between emotional distress and understanding of prognosis in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) |
| James Deardorff | The power of a strong handshake: Association of hand grip strength and cognitive function in older adults | |
| Shannon Niedermeyer | Joel Boggan | Bariatric metric improvement: Evaluating inpatient care of morbidly obese patients at Duke University Hospital |
| 2018 | ||
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| Recipient | Mentor | Project Title |
| Jared Lowe, MD, and Azalea Kim, MD | Lynn Bowlby, MD, and Lawrence Greenblatt, MD | A population health approach to advance care planning through primary care |
| Rebecca Lumsden, MD | Gerald Bloomfield, MD | Defining the burden of cardiac disease in pregnancy in western Kenya: A retrospective review of all cases from 2011-2016 |
| Claire E. P. Smith, MD | Michael Kelley, MD | Trends in end of life care for veterans with advanced cancer |
| 2017 | ||
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Recipient |
Mentor |
Project Title |
| First-Place Winner | ||
| Julia Xu, MD | Marilyn J. Telen, MD |
Factors Related to Progressive Renal Function Decline in Sickle Cell Disease |
| Second-Place Winner | ||
| Kahli Zietlow, MD | Mitchell Heflin, MD |
Comparative Outcomes of Patients with and without Cognitive Impairment, within a Comprehensive Perioperative Assessment Program |
| Third-Place Winner | ||
| Landon Brown, MD | Julia Scialla, MD, MHS |
Predictors of Net Acid Excretion in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study |
| 2016 | ||
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Recipient |
Mentor |
Project Title |
| Pascale Khairallah, MD | Acid-base and phosphorus homeostasis in chronic kidney disease: results from the chronic renal insufficiency cohort (CRIC) study | |
| Benjamin Peterson, MD | Majority of out of hospital cardiac arrests are preceded by recent physician encounter | |
| Nicholas Turner, MD |
Implications of reported penicillin allergies in treatment of MSSA bacteremia |
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| Michael Goldstein, MD, PhD |
Targeting nucleolin with an RNA aptamer as a novel cancer therapeutic |
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| 2015 | ||
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Recipient |
Mentor |
Project Title |
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Adam Z. Banks, MD |
Response to exercise training and outcomes in patients with heart failure and diabetes mellitus: Insights from HF-ACTION |
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Laura W. Musselwhite, MD, MPH |
Diabetes independently predicts interval advanced colorectal neoplasia after screening colonoscopy in a prospective, multi-center study |
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Andrea P. Sitlinger, MD |
Venous thromboembolism incidence and mortality among African-Americans compared to non-African Americans |
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Samuel M. Lindner, MD, Jenny M. Van Kirk, MD and Andrea P. Sitlinger, MD |
The effectiveness of an awareness intervention in decreasing unnecessary lab orders |
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| 2014 | ||
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Recipient |
Mentor |
Project Title |
| First-Place Winner | ||
| Nathan Thielman | Vitamin D, D-Dimer, IFNy and sCD14 Levels are Independent Predictors of IRIS in a Prospective International Study. | |
| Second-Place Winner | ||
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Mandar A. Aras, MD |
Svati H. Shah | Peripheral Metabolite Profiles Predict Cardiomyopathy in a Cohort of Cardiac Catheterization Patients |
| Third-Place Winner | ||
| Ryan Schulteis, MD, MS | A Simple Predictive Instrument to Rule Out Acute Coronary Syndrome | |
| Best Research Poster | ||
| J. Brice Weinberg | Molecular and Clinical Associations Between Vitamin D and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia | |
| Best Quality Improvement Poster | ||
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Tim Mercer, MD |
Jonathan Bae, MD | The Highest Utilizers of Care: Individualized Care Plans to Coordinate Care, Improve Healthcare Service Utilization, and Reduce Costs at an Academic Tertiary-Care Center |
| 2013 | ||
Recipient |
Mentor |
Project Title |
| First Place Winner | ||
| Eric Peterson | Effect of a Peer Assessment and Feedback Intervention on Blood Pressure Control in the Ambulatory Setting | |
| Second-Place Winner | ||
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Jason Rose, MD |
Geoffrey Ginsburg | Blood Gene Expression Profiling Reveals An Association Between Viral Infection, Platelet Function, and Acute Myocardial Infarction |
| Third-Place Winner | ||
| J. Brice Weinberg | Autoimmune Disorders in Patients with B-Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia | |
| 2012 | ||
Recipient |
Mentor |
Project Title |
| First-Place Winner | ||
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Stephen Sumner, MD |
Nathan Theilman, MD, MPH | Association between Earthquake Events and Cholera Outbreaks: A Cross-Country 15-year Longitudinal Analysis |
| Second-Place Winner | ||
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Joel Boggan, MD, MPH (Medicine Pediatrics) |
Ravi Jhaveri, MD | Pediatric-specific Antimicrobial Susceptibility Data Improve Empiric Antibiotic Selection |
| Third-Place Winner | ||
| Uptal Patel, MD, MHS | Comparative Efficacy of Revascularization Procedures for Severe CAD in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease | |
| 2011 | ||
Recipient |
Mentor |
Project Title |
| First-Place Winners | ||
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Ann Marie Navar-Boggan, MD, PhD (Medicine-Pediatrics) |
Eric Peterson, MD, MHS | Evaluating Outpatient Hypertension Control Among Patients of Duke Cardiology |
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C. Callie Coombs, MD, MS |
Mark Lanasa, MD, PhD | Race as a Determinant of Disease Biology and Outcomes in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia |
| Third-Place Winner | ||
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Seth Martin, MD |
Tracy Wang, MD, MHS | Modifiable Patient and Provider Factors Associated with Lipid Goal Nonattainment after Acute Myocardial Infarction: Insights from the Translational Research Investigating Underlying Disparities in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients’ Health Status (TRIUMPH) |