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Lee Health Research Day

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You’re invited to the inaugural gathering on March 11 at HealthPark Medical Center!

Lee Health Research Day | Tuesday, March 11 | HealthPark Medical Center

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Join us for Lee Health Research Day, a dynamic campus-wide event celebrating innovation, collaboration, and the power of research. This exciting day offers a unique opportunity to explore research projects across our campuses and communities, with a focus on how these projects affect our academic and clinical environments.

Research Day will bring together faculty, health professionals, and leadership from Florida State University/Lee Health Internal Medicine and Family Medicine residency programs, as well as experts from various Lee Health specialties. You’ll have the chance to engage in meaningful discussions and share knowledge that ultimately benefits our patients and their families.

Beginning at 10 a.m., HealthPark Medical Center’s atrium will host a curated collection of visual exhibits showcasing the latest research initiatives. Additional displays will be available at other hospitals. Join us to meet with the researchers for casual discussion or take part in more structured presentations in the Sanibel & Captiva conference rooms. The event ends at 4 p.m.

Don’t miss this engaging event, made possible by Lee Health Foundation.

For more information, contact [email protected] or visit our page on VirtuaLee

Event Time Schedule / Agenda

  • Additional venues: Gulf Coast Medical Center, Golisano Children’s Hospital, Cape Coral Hospital, Lee Memorial Hospital
  • Self-directed review and opportunity to engage with the researchers.

Speaker:

  • Elvin Mendez MD, Medical Director, Academics, Clinic Research & Precision Medicine

Event Details:

  • Impact of Pharmacist-Led Interventions on Aztreonam Utilization in Adult Patients in a Community Healthcare System

  • The Effects of Triaging Patients in an Acute Care Setting for Potential Physical Therapy Needs

  • Optimizing Women’s Health: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase Breast Cancer Screening Rates 

  • Quality Improvement in Echocardiography Reporting and Predicting Performance: Value Added of National Board of Echocardiography Certification 

  • Evaluation of Benzodiazepine and Antiepileptic Drug Utilization in Emergency Department Patients with Status Epilepticus: Impact on Airway Protection and Treatment Outcomes

  • Shifting Burdens: Gender Disparities and Evolving Trends in Liver Cirrhosis Across Low SDI Countries

  • Impact of COVID-19 in Pregnancy on Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes During the Delta Variant Period: A Comparison of the Delta and Pre-Delta Time Periods, 2020–2021

  • Lunchtime and break for 30min 

Speaker:

  • Elvin Mendez MD, Medical Director, Academics, Clinic Research & Precision Medicine

Speaker:

  • Richard A. Chazal MD, MACC, Medical Director, Center for Cardiovascular Quality Transformation & Innovation at Lee Health Heart Institute 

Speakers:

  • William Carracino MD, VP & Chief Digital Health Executive, Information Systems at Lee Health

  • Jonathan Witenko, System Director Virtual Health and Telemedicine, Information Systems at Lee Health

Speakers:

  • Maja Delibasic MD, Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency 

  • Alfred Gitu MD, Program Director, Family Medicine Residency 

Speaker:

  • John Armistead, MS RPh, FASHP

Event Details:

  • The Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance in Heart Failure Readmission Rates: A Pilot Single-Center Retrospective Analysis

  • Cost Effectiveness of Coronary Plaque Analysis in a Prevention Program 

  • Heart Failure in the Geriatric Population: Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy Use in Septuagenarians, Octogenarians, and Nonagenarians with Reduced Ejection Fraction

  • Leveraging Ambient AI Scribe Technology to Reduce Documentation Burden: Enhancing Efficiency in Clinical Practice  

  • Evaluation of Pediatric Restricted Antimicrobial Orders

  • Optimizing HbA1c Monitoring in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes via Pre-charting Protocols in a Family Medicine Residency Clinic 

  • Reducing Inappropriate Antihypertensive Prescribing in a Community Hospital: Insights from a 2023-2024 Educational Initiative 

  • Prophylactic Antibiotic Use for Maxillofacial Fractures at a Level II Trauma Center

  • Does Remote Patient Monitoring Improve Blood Pressure Control in Adults with Uncontrolled Hypertension?  

  • Evaluation of Albumin Duration of Therapy and Indication in a Community Health System 

  • Poster removal begins thirty minutes prior to the end of the event.

All research initiatives from the Oral Presentations will be available to view.

  • Multidisciplinary Treatment Team of Chronic Total Occlusion with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

  • Valsartan Induced Severe Hypoglycemia in a Nondiabetic Patient

  • Patent Foramen Ovale Closure Device Endocarditis 

  • Pharmacologic Surveillance Study of FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) Events of Atorvastatin, Rosuvastatin, and Pravastatin

  • Incidence of Venous Thromboembolism Post-Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage

  • Evaluate Time to Therapeutic Levels in Adult Patients Receiving Intravenous Unfractionated Heparin for Treatment of Venous Thromboembolisms in a Community Healthcare System

  • Reaching Over the Counter for Relief: A Literature Review of N-Acetylcysteine in SLE Symptomatology

  • Refractory Hypercalcemia Secondary to Hypervitaminosis D: A Case Report

  • Pharmacologic Surveillance Study of FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) Events of Empagliflozin and Canagliflozin

  • Case: Unraveling Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy After a Minor Car Accident

  • The Overlooked Culprit-Patent Foramen Ovale and Its Role in Respiratory Failure 

  • Heart Failure or FSGS? Highlighting the Risk of Anchoring Bias in Diagnosis

  • Early GDMT in Alcohol-Induced HFREF: A Case of Rapid Recovery

  • A Rare Presentation of Ulcerative Colitis with Abscess Formation

  • Vestibular Rehab for an Individual with a Non-Operative Acoustic Neuroma

  • Cutaneous Reaction Following Antibiotic Treatment

  • A Rare and Spontaneous Hereditary Angioedema Mutation in SERPING1

  • Modified-CCTA Protocol: Coronary Assessment in Morbidly Obese Patients 

  • Mitral Valve Prolapse and Mitral Annulus Disjunction: A Silent Risk 

  • Hepatic Fibrosis After Fontan Procedure: A Predictable Pathophysiological Preponderance

  • Transcatheter Relief for Lipomatous Hypertrophy or Interatrial Septum Obstructing Superior Vena Cava in an Elderly Patient 

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