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Welcome to Dayton!
On behalf of the entire Graduate Medical Education (GME) community - welcome to our new residents and fellows. Welcome to Dayton! is a document that will help you find some of the hot spots you might to need to know about in the Dayton area.
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2026 DAGMEC Virginia C. Woods Resident & Fellow Research Forum Posters & Winners
Case Report/Case Series
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First Place Awards
CR-44 – Abby Sferrella, D.O., (KH-Dayton Orthopedic Surgery) - Acute pseudoaneurysm after retrograde intramedullary nailing of a periprosthetic distal femur fracture
CR-42 – Ajay Saraf, M.D., (WSU_WP Internal Medicine) – The Silent Tear: Unmasking Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection
CR-14 – Shane Devine, D.O., (WSU_WP Internal Medicine) - A Case of Alopecia Universalis Following Secukinumab
Second Place Awards
CR-33 – Elizabeth Kiriri, M.D., (WSU_WP Internal Medicine) – A rare case of colorectal cancer presenting with gait disturbance
CR-32 – Samantha Josselyn, D.O., (KH-Dayton Internal Medicine) – Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma Mimicking Retroperitoneal Fibrosis
CR-29 – Ahmad Iskandarani, D.O., (WSU Internal Medicine) – Low-Dose Methotrexate Toxicity Presenting as Oral Mucosal and Cutaneous Ulceration in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Patient Safety/Quality Improvement
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First Place Award
PS-59 – Gregory Payne, M.D., (WSU Internal Medicine) - Development of a Teaching Service Readmission Risk Score to Predict and Prevent 30-Day Readmissions in an Internal Medicine Residency Program
Second Place Award
PS – 61 – Samuel Shepard, D.O., (KH-Dayton Orthopedic Surgery) - A Three-Year Analysis of Hip Fracture Care Following Regional Trauma Center Closure: Volume Expansion and Decline in Timely Surgical Management
Research
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First Place Award
R-86 – Nicholas Rotsching, M.D., (WSU Neurology) - Spoke hospital presentation does not significantly impact thrombectomy outcome.
Second Place Award
R-65 – Emma Clark Grzelak, M.D., (WSU General Surgery) - Trabectedin with IL-15 promotes NK cell-driven immune response in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Fellows
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First Place Award
F-97 – Harveen Kaur (WSU Geriatrics) - "Wet, Wobbly, and Wacky”: When Dementia Isn’t Dementia — Shunt-Responsive Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Second Place Award
F-101 – Bryn Thatcher, M.D., (WSU Addiction Medicine) - A Case of Kratom Use Disorder Successfully Treated with Buprenorphine
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Full Accreditation
All Residency and Fellowship programs are fully accredited.
Congratulations to the entire GME community on this accomplishment!
DAGMEC
The DAGMEC office is located with the offices of the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. Our mission is to support all of the Dayton-area residency and fellowship programs. Randy Woods, M.D., serves as the director. The contact information is below.
Lisa Boydston, MA
Email: lisa.boydston@wright.edu
Phone: 937.208.6171
Taunia Robinson, M.B.A, HCM
Email: dagmec@wright.edu
Office location
Center for Graduate Medical Education
30 E. Apple Street, 3rd Floor
Dayton, Ohio 45409