16th Annual Surgical Resident and Fellow Research Presentation Day

Clinical Science:
Winner:	Hussain M.A. Abbas, MD (will also present at the 2009 NESS Annual Meeting) Saint Mary's Hospital - Yale Affiliate “Modified Clinical Scoring System Decreases Use of CT scan in Diagnosis of Pediatric Acute Appendicitis”
Runner Up:	Frank McCormick, MD Harvard Orthopedic Surgery “Modified Combating Fatigue in Surgical Residency Programs”
Basic Science:
Winner:	Jill K. Johnstone, MD (will also present at the 2009 NESS Annual Meeting) Rhode Island Hospital “The Role of VAV Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor in Dectin-1 Mediated Phagocytosis”
Runners Up:	John G. Schneider, MD University of Vermont “Pterostilbene Inhibits Lung Cancer through Induction of Apoptosis”
	Christopher G.B. Turner, MD Children's Hospital Boston “Prenatal Tracheal Repair with Cartilage Engineered from Amniotic Mesenchymal Stem Cells in an Allogeneic Ovine Model”