2006 Resident Prize Essay Winners

Program and Abstracts
Resident Prize Information

Clinical Investigation

• 1st Prize
  Updated Nomogram To Predict Pathologic Stage Of Prostate Cancer Given PSA, Clinical Stage and Biopsy Gleason Score (Partin Tables) Based On Cases From 2000-2005
  Danil V. Makarov, M.D.
   
• 2nd Prize
  A Critical Analysis Of the Interpretation Of Biochemical Recurrence In Surgically Treated Patients Using the Revised ASTRO Criterion ("Nadir + 2")
  Matthew E. Nielsen, M.D.
   
• 3rd Prize
  Evaluation and Management Of Gunshot Wounds Of the Penis
  David A. Kunkle, M.D.
   

Basic Science

• 1st Prize
  Increased Efficacy and Potency Of Carbachol In Inducing Increases In Intracellular Calcium ([Ca2+]i) In Overactive Bladder (OAB) and Interstitial Cystitis (IC) Bladder Urothelial Cells (BUC)
  Gopal Gupta, M.D.
   
• 2nd Prize
  Quantitative Tissue PSA mRNA Expression As A Predictor Of Outcome In Radical Prostatectomy and Alterations In the Androgen Signaling Pathway
  Joseph R. Sterbis, M.D.
   
• 3rd Prize
  On the Road To In Situ Tissue Regeneration: A Tissue Engineered Nanofiber Fibrinogen-Polydioxanone Composite Matrix
  Michael McManus, M.D.