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Resident Prize Essay Contest

Submission Guidelines:
  1. Only Residents and medical students presently in a Northeastern Section Residency Training Program or who have completed their training within the past six months may be listed as the primary author.
  2. The manuscript must be on a Basic Science or Clinical subject related to urology.
  3. Submissions per author are limited to two. Authors may submit one basic science manuscript and one clinical manuscript, however there is a maximum of one prize per author.
  4. The abstract shall not have been previously published. Papers that have been submitted for publication, but have not as yet been published are acceptable for submission.
  5. The manuscript shall not have been presented at any other sectional or national urological meeting.
  6. To enter the Prize Essay Contest, your manuscript must be submitted via the online Resident Prize Essay Contest Form by May 31, 2023. Acceptable file formats are Word Document and PDF.

The Resident Prize Essay Award is supported by the Section’s Foundation and Research and Education fund. All residents and medical students from the Section’s 16 Urology Training Programs are invited to enter their best basic science or clinical research project for consideration. Awards are presented at the Annual Meeting each year. Entries are limited to one (1) Basic Science manuscript and one (1) Clinical research manuscript per resident.

  • First Prize: $750 Cash Award
  • Second Prize: $500 Cash Award
  • Third Prize: $250 Cash Award

In addition to cash prize, winners are given 7 minutes to present their research during a plenary session at the Northeastern Section of the AUA Annual Meeting.


Award Winners

2022
1st Place
Charles Hesswani, MD, McGill University, Montréal, QC
External Validation of the Molecular Subtype Classifier by Immunohistochemistry for Muscle Invasive BC Patients
2022
2nd Place (tie)
Nicolas Vanin Moreno, MD, BMSc, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
Real-life Benchmarking Bladder Cancer Care, A Population-based Study
2022
2nd Place (tie)
David-Dan Nguyen, MPH, McGill University, Montréal, QC
Effect of Surgeon Volume and Facility Volume on Outcomes of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Surgery in the State of NY
2021
1st Place
Karen M. Doersch, MD, PhD, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Impact of Ureteral Stents on Factors Contributing to Stricture Pathogenesis
2021
2nd Place
David Bouhadana & David-Dan Nguyen, MPH, McGill University, Montréal, QC
Evaluating the Acceptability of an Online Patient Decision-Aid for the Surgical Management of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Secondary to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
2021
3rd Place
David T. Miller, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
The Costs of Delayed Generic Drug Entry: Evidence From A Controversial Prostate Cancer Drug Patent
2020
1st Place
Gregory Hosier, MD, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
Increased Risk of New Persistent Opioid Use in Pediatric and Young Adult Kidney Stone Patients Prescribed Opioids at Presentation
2020
2nd Place (tie)
Karen Doersch, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
The role of mTOR in differentiation of spermatozoa
2020
2nd Place (tie)
David-Dan Nguyen, MPH, McGill University, Montréal, QC
Association Of Suicidality And Psychological Adverse Events With Finasteride Use
2020
3rd Place
Côme Tholomier, MD, CM & Gautier Marcq, MD, McGill University, Montréal, QC
Optimizing Sequence Of PD-L1 Immune-Checkpoint Inhibitors And Radiation Therapy In Bladder Cancer