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Medical Student Wins First Place in Research Poster Competition
Pictured are Stephanie Hernandez, a fourth-year NSU College of Dental Medicine student, with her victorious husband, Marlow Hernandez, a third-year NSU College of Osteopathic Medicine student.
Marlow Hernandez, a third-year NSU College of Osteopathic Medicine student, received first-place honors in the Clinical Poster Competition at the Florida Chapter American College of Physicians (ACP) Scientific Meeting held between Nov. 4 and 6 at the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six Resort in Fort Lauderdale. The winning poster, which he coauthored, was entitled “Development of the ‘Health Index’ (HI) Statistical Equation as an Alternative Clinical Parameter to Body Mass Index.” He also presented two additional coauthored posters entitled “Awareness of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and the HPV Vaccine Among at-Risk African American Women” and “Comparison of Cervical Block to General Anesthesia for Carotid Endarderectomy.”