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2025 Mid-Atlantic Resident Research Symposium Winners
First Place
Julia Retzky, MD
Hospital for Special Surgery
Early Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Mitigates the Development of Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis in a Murine Anterior Cruciate Ligament Rupture Model
Second Place
Zachary J. Herman, MD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Overhead Athletes Have Comparable Intraoperative Injury Patterns and Clinical Outcomes to Non-Overhead Athletes Following Surgical Stabilization for First-Time Anterior Shoulder Instability at Average 6-year Follow-up
Alexander E. White, MD
Hospital for Special Surgery
The Effect of Posterior Tibial Slope on Tibiofemoral Joint Biomechanics: An In-Vitro Analysis
Third Place
Alexander Berk, MD
University Hospitals/Case Western Reserve University
Patients with Vitamin D Deficiency are More Likely to Develop Complex Regional Pain Syndrome After Extremity Fractures: A Large Database Propensity-Matched Cohort Study
Alexandra Baker Lutz, MD
University of Maryland
Impact of Obesity on Patient-Reported Outcomes Two Years After Multiple Ligament Knee Reconstruction
Margaret Sinkler, MD
Case Western Reserve University
To Fix or to Replace? An Analysis of Geriatric Periprosthetic Distal Femur Fractures Treated with Open Reduction Internal Fixation, Retrograde Intramedullary Nail, or Distal Femoral Replacement
Presenters’ Choice
Alexander P. Hoffman, MD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Intraoperative Evaluation of Sarcoma Surgical Margins with Indocyanine Green Fluorescence Imaging
