Medicine Residents' Posters Win Awards at Mass Medical Society Meeting

January 13, 2015

At the December 2014 Massachusetts Medical Society Meeting, two Internal Medicine residents received prizes for their posters.

Abid Shah MD, PGY2, won second place in the Clinical Vignette category for his poster, “Silent Manifestations of Anti CTLA-4 Therapy in a Patient with Metastatic Melanoma.”

Melissa Loh MD, PGY3, won Honorable Mention in the Clinical Research Category for her poster titled, "Antipsychotic Use in the Hospitalized Elderly."

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