Use of Bezlotoxumab for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West Haven, Connecticut.  Adaora Okoli

Transmission Dynamics of Zika Virus post-Introduction: Long-term Longitudinal Study in a Vulnerable Urban Community in Salvador, Brazil.  Nivison Nery, Jr.

Implementing Electronic Case Reporting in Connecticut, 2024 Suzanne Speers, MPH

Improving Capture of Reportable Laboratory Results in Non-Standard Formats Using Casetivity Christina Meneo, MPH

Paxlovid Utilization and Social Vulnerability: Trends in Connecticut from 2022-2023  Laura Hohenstein, BS

When it Rains it Pours: Rainfall and Legionnaires’ Disease Risk in Connecticut, 2013–2022.   Chris Heneghan

A Case of Epstein-Barr Pneumonitis in an Immunocompetent Adolescent Female Laura Victoria

Syphilitic Hepatitis: An Atypical Presentation of an Uncommon Disease Type (A Case Report)  Johanna Gleason-Vergadoc, MD

Trends in the Incidence of Clostridioides difficile Infection (CDI) in New Haven County—Connecticut,2011–2022  Cameron Davis, MPH

A Rare Case of Acute Epiglottitis from Pasteurella multocida in an Immunocompetent Patient.  Melissa Colaluca, MD

TB or Not TB: A Case of Atypical Tuberculosis  Shrimahitha Duraiyarasan, MD

Young Investigator Award for Residents & Fellows

Antibody responses against the SARS-CoV-2 BQ.1 variant in a highly exposed Brazilian Cohort.  Mariam Fofana

Compliance Rates to Updated CDC STI Guidelines and an Automatic Communication Intervention Following Positive STI Results in the ED  Noor Taweh

Is It Really Hepatitis A? Hepatitis A Surveillance in Connecticut 2019–2023 - Elena Washington

A Call of Vigilance: Reigniting Awareness of the Forgotten Nemesis in Patients with AIDS  Esravila A. Wibisono, MD

Risk factors for community-acquired candidemia in Connecticut (2019-2022)  Maria A. Correa, MPH

The association between the timing of prior natural infection and vaccination and subsequent risk of COVID-19-related hospitalization among individuals with hybrid immunity to SARS-CoV-2.  Karthik Rohatgi

Andriole Award For Basic Research

The Potential Impact of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines on Antibiotic Resistant Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Connecticut.  Htet Htet Wrigley

Thornton Award For Clinical Research

​Prevalence of Hepatitis B Core Antibody in IVIG product by Chemiluminescent Microparticle Immunoassay (CMIA)  Anu Maharjan, PhD

Adolescent vaccination rates, Connecticut and the United States, 2022  Monica Brackney, MS

Impact of Air Quality on COVID-19-Associated Hospitalizations, New Haven County, October2022–April 2023  Julie Plano, MS

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Education for Internal Medicine Residents (PRIMER) – Preliminary Report.  Brenton Nash, MD

Emphysematous Pyelonephritis  Lara Kim Rotter, MD

Twenty Years of Foodborne Disease Outbreaks in Connecticut, 2004–2023.  Eileen Flaherty

The Distribution of Emm Types and Antimicrobial Resistance in Invasive Group A Streptococcus Isolates in Connecticut, 2015-2022. Amanda Hickey, MPH

Histoplasmosis and Hemophagocytosis.  Blake Piepenbrink, DO

The association between prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and odds of emerging Omicron subvariant reinfection and associated hospitalization among unvaccinated individuals: a test-negative case-control study   Lianhan Shang

Sharing is Caring: Single vs. Multiple-Fellow Triaging Systems in a Large Academic Infectious Disease Service – A Quality Improvement Project.  Francisco Machiavello Roman, MD

Diagnostic Stewardship: Changing Behavior One Urine Culture at a Time  Beth Warne

Potential Averted Burden due to Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccines, New Haven and Middlesex Counties—Connecticut, October 2022–April 2023  Daewi Kim, MBS

Monitoring wMel introgression with oviposition traps as an alternative to adult trapping during Wolbachia-based vector control.  Elisabeth Nelson

Legionella micdadeipneumonia  Lara Kim Rotter, MD

Cerebral Toxoplasmosis Diagnosed by Cell Free Metagenomic Next Generation Sequencing As A Presentation of Initial HIV Infection  Ahmed Naseer, MD

Changes in mortality trends following the introduction of COVID-19 to Connecticut in 2020.  Margaret Lind     

A rare case of Lyme carditis complicated by severe tricuspid regurgitation Laura Victoria

Leptospirosis in Peru, 2006-2022 Paloma Carcamo

Avascular necrosis and osteoporosis, an unlucky combination in a 30-year-old HIV patient.  Blake Piepenbrink, DO

Does Vaccination Status drive SARS-CoV-2 viral within-host diversity in COVID-19  Sindiso Nyathi

Mass SARS-CoV-2 testing and contact tracing in a correctional system during the pandemic  Charlotte Kim

Promoting Understanding and Enrollment in the Ryan White Program, a Quality Improvement Project.  Catherine Pulaski, DO

Provider cost of leptospirosis treatment at a rural hospital in Sri Lanka  Udayani Prabha Kumar

​​Clinical and Economic Impact of BioFire® Blood Culture Identification 2 Implementation in Patients with Staphylococcus Bacteremia. Colin Duell,PharmD

Friedland Award For international Research

Challenges in Diagnosis and Management of Disseminated Mycobacterium chelonae Infection  Lara Kim Rotter, MD

Baseline HIV Genotypic analysis and Drug-Resistance Mutations in Hartford, Connecticut Nishka Umesh Shetty

RSV-Associated Mortality in Connecticut(CT), 2013–2019  Emily Zmek, MPH