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In the first half of 2023, trainees in the BMH-NM Internal Medicine residency program attained quite a few accomplishments in scholarly activity. 

Kicking off the Spring, Baptist North Mississippi was well represented at the Baptist Memorial Medical Education’s annual Scholarly Symposium. There were 17 individual submissions from local resident and faculty physicians to the event, which was held virtually this year. For each case, posters were presented in the online platform, as well as an oral presentation. Over 70% of the current trainees made a submission. 

One case was selected as part of the symposium’s Grand Rounds series. Faculty members Dr. Nathan Bell and Dr. Samuel Harris, residents Dr. Mahmoud Elshawwaf and Dr. Johnny Green, as well as WCUCOM 3rd-year medical student Alfred Bayaton contributed to the case - “ANCA Vasculitis in the Setting of Hydralazine Use – Vague Complaint on Presentation.” Dr. Elshawwaf led the presentation on the day of the event. 

Dr. Swetha Priyadarshan, Dr. Simra Kiran, and Dr. Bilal Abaid flexed their scholarly muscles at the 2023 American College of Physicians Alabama / Mississippi Chapter Meeting in Meridian, MS. The organization selected Dr. Priyadarshan to provide an oral presentation on her abstract titled, “Mifepristone in Exogenous Cushing’s Syndrome,” while Drs. Kiran and Abaid were chosen to display their poster titled, “Takayasu Arteritis causing Subclavian Steal Syndrome and presenting as Syncope: A case report.”

To close out the summer, Dr. Priyadarshan traveled to Chicago to present at the Endocrine Society's ENDO2023 annual conference, the top global meeting on endocrinology research and clinical care. Her case - “Mifepristone in Exogenous Cushing’s Syndrome” - was accepted from submissions across the globe.