2025 Mid-Atlantic Clinical Research Symposium
RAP-EMCC hosted its third annual Mid-Atlantic Clinical Research Symposium on October 4th, 2025. This event was co-sponsored by both the Departments of Emergency Medicine from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and The George Washington University School of Medicine in an effort to help undergraduate and medical students present their clinical research. Participants and winners from this symposium can be found below!
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2025 Judges
Dr. Quincy Tran
As a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Program In Trauma of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. I work clinically in the Emergency Department and the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center. My academic interest is to improve the care for critically ill patients who are in the Emergency Departments. Besides my clinical work, I also manage a Research mentorship program that involves multiple faculty mentors from different institutions, many pre-health undergraduate students and medical students. Our goal is to improve our students’ competitiveness for their applications, while learning the research process. 
Dr. Jennifer Walker
Dr. Walker is currently a Critical Care and Emergency Medicine physician in the Baylor Scott and White Health System in Texas and is also an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University. |
Dr. Ali Pourmand
Dr. Pourmand is a professor of emergency medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on the current understanding of evidence-based medicine and clinical medicine through multidisciplinary collaboration across the School of Medicine and across the GWU campus. Current projects and research interests span medical education, point of care ultrasound, evidence-based medicine, and critical care medicine. His work has helped over 200 medical students and approximately 100 residents and fellows in peer review publications. Recently, his research team has published more than 20 systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Link to Projects: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=pourmand+a&sort=pubdate 
Dr. Trager Hintze
Dr. Trager D. Hintze is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine and a board-certified critical care pharmacist. He previously practiced in the emergency department, where he combined frontline clinical care with teaching and mentorship. His current scholarship centers on medical education practices and pharmacology for critically ill patients. |
Event Participants
Please join us in celebrating the winners: Marco Esteban, So Takagi, Sreekrutha Pochampally, Ronaldo Pichardo, Saniya Zackariya, Shannon Amy Kelly, Aayush Sachdev, Jeffery Bao, Luke Garcia, Qamar Mohammad Ayoub!
Patrick McGinnis
2024 Mid-Atlantic Clinical Research Symposium
RAP-EMCC hosted its second annual Mid-Atlantic Clinical Research Symposium on October 12th, 2024. This event was co-sponsored by both the Departments of Emergency Medicine from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and The George Washington University School of Medicine in an effort to help undergraduate and medical students present their clinical research. Participants and winners from this symposium can be found below!
2024 Judges
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Dr. Quincy Tran
Dr. Tran is currently an attending physician for the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center. As a faculty member at the School of Medicine and given his PhD in Biochemistry, he is interested in developing the next generation of physician scientists. |
Dr. Ali Pourmand
Dr. Pourmand is an emergency medicine physician practicing at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C. He has a strong interest in clinical research and helping advise the next crop of future physicians. |
Dr. Jennifer Walker
Dr. Walker, MD, FACEP completed her residency in Emergency Medicine and Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is currently a Critical Care and Emergency Medicine physician at Baylor Scott and White All Saints Medical Center Fort Worth, Texas, USA and is also an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University. Her interests include medical and community education, quality improvement and evidence-based care, resuscitation outcomes, and post-intensive care syndrome. She is actively involved in the Research Subcommittee of the Emergency Medicine Section of SCCM. |
Dr. Hintze
Dr. Hintze is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Texas A&M University, Rangel College of Pharmacy. His current practice site is in the emergency department where he works closely with other healthcare professionals. He is passionate about pharmacist response to critically-ill patients, neurocritical care, and student and resident development. He also serves as the residency program coordinator and enjoys aiding the residents with their major research projects. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Idaho State University College of Pharmacy in 2019. He then completed a PGY1 Pharmacy Practice Residency at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Dr. Hintze then completed a PGY2 in Critical Care at University Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. |
Event Participants
Please join us in celebrating the winners: Hassan Khan, Arya Harikrishna, Samira Mudd, Catherine Drovetsky, and Kate Kelly.
1st Annual Mid-Atlantic Clinical Research Symposium (2023)
RAP-EMCC hosted the first annual Mid-Atlantic Clinical Research Symposium on September 9th, 2023 in an effort to help students present their clinical research. It was co-sponsored by both the Departments of Emergency Medicine from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and The George Washington University School of Medicine with the hopes of continuing to host this in the future.
Introducing the Judges
Dr. Quincy Tran
Dr. Tran is currently an attending physician for the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center. As a faculty member at the School of Medicine and given his PhD in Biochemistry, he is interested in developing the next generation of physician scientists. |
Dr. Ali Pourmand
Dr. Pourmand is an emergency medicine physician practicing at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C. He has a strong interest in clinical research and helping advise the next crop of future physicians. |
Organizing Committee
Aditi Singh
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Abigail Kim
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Event Participants
Click on each of the photos to see their associated abstracts.
Winners
1. Ella Rastegar (Research Associate Picture): "Using Trauma Video Review to Find the Goldilocks Pre-Activation Time"
2. Joesph Landers: "Are we on the same page? Assessing Inter-rate Reliability of Video Recorded Cardiac Arrest Review"
3. Nikki Emamian: "Association between Resuscitation in the CCRU and In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients with Sepsis"
3. Brendan Sweeney: "Comparing Midlines vs Central Line Venous Blood Gas Oxygen Saturation: A Novel Single Center Study"
2. Joesph Landers: "Are we on the same page? Assessing Inter-rate Reliability of Video Recorded Cardiac Arrest Review"
3. Nikki Emamian: "Association between Resuscitation in the CCRU and In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients with Sepsis"
3. Brendan Sweeney: "Comparing Midlines vs Central Line Venous Blood Gas Oxygen Saturation: A Novel Single Center Study"
