2022 Annual Meeting Roundup

South Florida Chapter 2022 Annual Meeting and Resident Competition
Saturday November 5, 2022
Renaissance Hotel, Fort Lauderdale

The SFACS 2022 Annual Meeting and Resident Competition had a great turnout of more than 100 attendees.

Congratulations to our award winners!

ORAL FIRST PLACE:  Deepika Sharad from NCA Northwest Hospital
ORAL SECOND PLACE: Lisa Ngo, Memorial Healthcare System
ORAL THIRD PLACE:  Michelle Dugan, FAU
BEST VIDEO:  Zoe Garoufalia, Cleveland Clinic Florida
BEST POSTER:  Rene Aleman, Cleveland Clinic Florida

SURGICAL JEOPARDY:
Obteene Azimi-Ghomi and Jack Ehrhardt from Kendall Regional Medical Center

We wish to thank our guest speakers, Dr. Michael Rosen from Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and Dr. Martin Newman, from Cleveland Clinic Florida for their outstanding presentations and for supporting the South Florida Chapter

We also wish to thank all of our speakers and their institutions for their presentations:

Baptist Health South Florida
Shohab Virk, MD, MBA; Joseph Marcotte, MD
Broward Health Center
Samantha M. Cleveland, MD; Crista E. Horton, MD; Shelley Warner, MD;
Vincent Athas, MD; Grant Schalet, MD
Cleveland Clinic Florida
Zoe Garoufalia, MD; Joel Frieder, MD; Rene Aleman, MD; Luis Felipe Okida, MD
Florida Atlantic University, Schmidt College of Medicine
Michelle M. Dugan, MD, Spencer Berman MD, Stephanie Yakoubovitch, MD,
Anna Weinand, Roberto Lorenzi, MD
Kendall Regional Medical Center
Jaclyn T. Kliewer, MD
Memorial Healthcare System/Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital
Lisa Ngo, MD, MPH; Zaineb Shatawi, MD
Memorial Healthcare System
Azalia Avila, MD; Natalie Ceballos, MD; Lucia Castro Hernandez, MD;
Chelsea Spector, MD; Rachel Pruett, MD; Arielle Higgs, MD;
Tessa Henry, MD; Mamun Mohiuddin, BS
NCA Northwest Hospital
Deepika Sharad, DO
Nova Southeastern University
Heli Patel, Anastassia Shifchik
Tower Health
Justin Camacho
University of Miami
Rainya Heath, MS; Kelley N. Benck; Nicole Lyons, MD; Walter Ramsey, MD;
Sara Solano, MD; Lauren Thompson, DO; Brianna L. Cohen, MD; Carlos T. Huerta, MD; Christopher O’Neil, MD
University of Miami-JFK Palm Beach Regional Campus
Kara Bowers, MD