Three physician residents and three medical physics residents were named winners of the Emory Department of Radiation Oncology's 27th Annual Resident Research Day.
November 13, 2023
Three physician residents and three medical physics residents were named winners of the Emory Department of Radiation Oncology's 27th Annual Resident Research Day. Guest speaker Daniel Golden, MD, MHPE, an associate professor of radiation oncology at Rush University, presented "Research and the Butterfly Effect" at the event, held on November 1, 2023, at Emory's Health Sciences Research Building.
Resident Research Day is held each year to give residents the opportunity to present research they have been working on with a faculty mentor. Participating residents give a 10-minute presentation to an audience of Winship faculty, staff, and peers.
This year's physician resident awardees are:
- Jacob Wynne, MD (First Place)
"Rapid unpaired CBCT-based synthetic CT for CBCT-guided adaptive radiotherapy" - Jimmy Patel, MD PhD (Second Place)
"Impact of immunotherapy time-of-day infusion on survival and immunologic correlates in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a multi-center cohort analysis" - Rachel Tobillo, MD (Third Place)
"Immune Profiling of Non-Smoking, Non-Drinking Patients with HPV-Negative Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma"
This year's medical physics resident awardees are:
- Yang Lei, PhD (First Place)
"Volumetric Image Reconstruction from Few Projections" - Moeen Meftahi, PhD (Second Place)
"A Novel Direction Modulated Brachytherapy Technique for Urethra Sparing in High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy of Prostate Cancer" - Qian Wang, PhD (Third Place)
"Automated Pre-Diagnosis for Multi-Label Thorax Disease By Deep Learning from Chest X-Ray Images"