In a highly competitive year for the 2022 Deborah C. Leary Award, Daniel “Dan” Bacon’s journal article titled “COVID-19 related olfactory dysfunction prevalence and natural history in ambulatory patients” took the top spot.
In a highly competitive year for the 2022 Deborah C. Leary Award, Daniel “Dan” Bacon’s journal article titled “COVID-19 related olfactory dysfunction prevalence and natural history in ambulatory patients” took the top spot. Bacon’s paper was published on Aug. 13, 2021, through Rhinology Online. Adam J. Kimple, MD, PhD, served as Bacon’s preceptor on this study.
Bacon completed a longitudinal study to investigate Olfactory Dysfunction (OD) among COVID-19 ambulatory patients compared to symptomatic controls who test negative. Through the study, they came to the conclusion that Ambulatory COVID-19 patients exhibited OD significantly more frequently than symptomatic controls, with most patients regaining normal olfaction by 1 month.
Nicole Chang’s paper “Loss to follow-up and health care utilization after initial diagnosis of eosinophilic esophagitis” and Michael Hendrickson’s paper “Prevalence, Predictors, and Prognostic Implications of Reduced Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Among Patients with STEMI in India: Insights from the Prospective NORIN-STEMI Registry” received honorable mentions among the many submissions.
Thank you to all the students who submitted their wonderful work for this award.