Eastern Regional Meeting at a Glance

1. Effect of Periodic Staff Education on Performance Improvement in Assessment and Education of Heart Failure Patients Dheeraj Khurana, Nina Kukar, Nora Gashi, Jennifer Chen, Ofer Sagiv, Aditya Mangla, Sasha Vukelic, Deepinder Osahan, Kyle Gibson, Adam Bierzynski, Jennifer Sillar, Georgia Panagopoulos, Frank Messineo, Neil L. Coplan 1. Cardiology, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, United States. 2. Five Years Mortality Prediction Performance and Optimization of a New Artificial Intelligence Model for Cardiovascular Risk Oana Sandu, Iulian Nastac, Jaime Uribarri 1. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States. 2. UPB, Bucharest, Romania. 3. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, NY, United States. 3. Families with both Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Myeloma: Anticipation and Male Transmission Peter H. Wiernik, Janice P. Dutcher 1. Cancer Research Foundation, Chappaqua, NY, United States. 4. Sensitivity and Specificity of Empiric Treatment for Sexually Transmitted Infections in the Pediatric Emergency Department Kristen A. Breslin, Lisa Tuchman, Katie L. Hayes, Monika Goyal 1. Division of Emergency Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States. 2. Adolescent Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States. 3. Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States. 5. Racial Disparities in Narcotic Administration Among Pediatric Patients Diagnosed With Appendicitis in Emergency Departments Monika K. Goyal, Nathan Kuppermann, Sean Cleary, Stephen Teach, James Chamberlain 1. Pediatrics & Emergency Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States. 2. Pediatrics & Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States. 3. Biostatistics, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States. 6. Impact Of Obesity On Clinical Outcomes In Inner-City Children Hospitalized For Asthma Exacerbation Elena Aragona, Justin Wang, Tessa Scheckelhoff, Trevor Scheckelhoff, Assata Hyacinthe, Gustavo Nino, Dinesh Pillai 1. Hospital Medicine, Children, Washington, DC, United States. 2. Pulmonary Medicine, Children, Washington, DC, United States. 7. The Effect of Glucose and Alternative Sugars and Sugar Alcohols on the Anoxic Tolerance of the Peripheral Nerve Melanie L. Wegener, Mark Stecker, Matthew Stevenson 1. Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, United States. 2. Neuroscience, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, NY, United States. 8. Primary Payer Status is Associated with Mortality and Resource Utilization Among Liver Transplant Recipients: A Nationwide Study Nabila K. Mazumder, Nusrat Mujib, Marjan Mujib, Karen Beekman, John H. Kim 1. Medicine, Flushing Hospital Medical Center, Flushing, NY, United States. 2. Medicine, Cape Fear Valley Hospital, Fayetteville, NC, United States. 3. Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, United States.