NMPRA competition winners!

Thank you to everyone who emailed a case presentation or grant application. There were a LOT of excellent submissions and interesting cases. Congratulations to all of the winners!

• Elimarys Perez-Colon at University of South Florida - case competition winner with "NMDA receptor antibody associated limbic encephalitis in a 14 year-old female with bilateral mature ovarian teratomas"
• Andrew Nickels at University of Chicago - case competition winner with "Hidden internal medicine in pediatrics. A 10 year-old girl with leg swelling"
• Heath Wilt at University of Missouri Kansas City - case competition runner-up with "Pott's Puffy tumor: A subtle clue in a 19 year-old male convinced he has migraines"
• Agnes Sundaresan at Geisinger Medical Center - case competition runner-up with "From childhood to adulthood: a story of the overlooked phagocyte"
• Marcus Carden at Virginia Commonwealth University - case competition runner-up with "A gastric duplication cyst with an infant presenting in hypovolemic shock"
• Caroline Presley at Vanderbilt University - advocacy grant winner with "Improving access to specialty care in low income population by increasing completion of referrals"
• Karla Testa at Christiana Care Health System - travel grant winner with project to go to Nepal.

We look forward to having many of our winners and runners-up present at the national meeting!

New 2011-2012 NMPRA Executive Board

Kim Paisley, MD

President

Indiana University

Jennifer McEntee, MD

Immediate Past President

University of North Carolina

Our Newest Additions:

Benjamin Kinnear, MD

President-elect

University of Cincinnati

Jenny Olges, MD

Secretary

Loyola University

Vasanth Kainkaryam, MD

Secretary

Baystate Med Peds

Syrividya Bhadriraju, MD

Treasurer

Baylor University

We appreciate all that applied and for all who voted. It was a tough election this year with multiple outstanding applicants. We are thrilled by the response and quality of applications. It is exciting to see such an active, strong Med-Peds community.