Medical student wins first prize at Swedish Hospital Research Symposium

Fourth-year graduate-entry MD student Eleanor Roy has been awarded first prize at the Swedish Hospital Research Symposium for her poster, ‘Ambient Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Morbidity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Acute and Long-Term Exposure’.

Eleanor, who is currently completing her clinical training at Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital in Chicago, is the first medical student to receive first prize at the Symposium.

Her poster was based on a study of the same title, co-authored by graduate-entry MD students Omar Itani and Amir Arshia Emam Jomeh, and undergraduate-entry MD students Waleed Hemdan, Sara Al Zoubi, Esther Clarke, Maryam Ejaz, and Teranne Morrison. The study was conducted under the guidance of faculty advisors Prof Photos Hajigeorgiou, Dr Nicoletta Nicolaou, and Dr Chloe Antoniou.

Supported by an internal University seed grant, the study is part of a wider series of systematic reviews currently being undertaken by the same research team and prepared for publication.