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🎖️ Northwest Arkansas Regional Meeting Recap: Poster Winners Poster presentations were a highlight of the evening at our recent AMS regional meeting in Springdale, cohosted by the Washington County Medical Society. We're excited to congratulate the following winners: FIRST PLACE: Sydney Jacob, DO - UAMS: Identifying and Addressing the Gaps in Procedure EducationMohamed Messouak-AWSOM: Early Interventional Radiology Drainage and 90-Day Mortality in Clinically Drainable Infections (A Retrospective Claims-Based Cohort Study)SECOND PLACELily DeSpain-UAMS: A Proposed Reassessment Framework for Persistent Tinea Pedis in Military Personnel (An Antifungal Stewardship Framework)Saso Krstovski Jr.-AWSOM: Level Up Focus: Gamifying ADHD Support for Children (Ages 6-12)THIRD PLACEArshdeep Gill-AWSOM: The Evolution and Future of Colorectal Cancer Screening: From Colonoscopy to Early DetectionSPECIAL PRIZE Emily Bunch-AWSOM: Polycthemia Secondary to a Sertoli-Leydig Cell Tumor in a Patient with Porphyria and Worsening Type 2 DiabetesThe Society appreciates all of our poster submitters and thanks our poster contest judges for sharing their time and expertise to evaluate the presentations. Are you an Arkansas medical student, resident, or practicing physician looking for poster submission opportunities? The Society is accepting poster submissions for our upcoming meeting in Hot Springs. Learn more at arkmed.org/events.Thank you again to our event sponsors and partners. (Poster winner photos courtesy of Macey Moghadam-AWS#amsregionalmeetinge#empoweringphysiciansc#improvingmedicinei#arkansasmedicalsocietyciety
The first AMS Insurance Conference of 2026 is in the books! Attendees heard directly from the carriers with updates on credentialing, prior authorization, claims best practices, and other important topics. The Society appreciates the provider relations and claims staff who worked the help desks and met face-to-face with attendees. Three conferences remain, starting tomorrow in Northwest Arkansas. REGISTER your staff TODAY to take advantage of this vital practice management benefit. Scan the QR codes shown in the final graphic or visit arkmed.org/events now.
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