2020 Resident Competition

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Maressa Criscito 1st place

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Use of Adjuvant Radiation Therapy in SCC

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Jaehwan Kim 2nd place

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Unsupervised Single-cell Analyses of Human Psoriasis and Normal Skin with “Crawled-out” Methods Identify Subtypes of T-Cells, Dendritic Cells, and Keratinocytes with Pathogenic and Regulatory Gene Signatures

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Peter Hashim 3rd place

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Crisaborole 2% Ointment for Treatment of Intertriginous, Anogenital, and Facial Psoriasis

Other Entries

Rachel Cymerman

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

A Novel Melanoma Risk Assessment Tool

Attiya Haroon

Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Advances in Applications of Reflectance Confocal Microscopy

Amy Huang

SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

Preliminary Studies on the Pathogenesis of Atopic Dermatitis

Yasaman Mansouri

New York Medical College

PTU-Induced Vasculitis

Michael Tee

Weill Cornell Medical College

Examining the Potential of Serving Hawaii’s Population Melanoma Detection with Smartphone Applications

Dmitriy Timerman

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Biopsy Site Identification using Real-time Facial Recognition and Augmented Reality

Upcoming

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

2026 Annual Stritzler Resident Competition

6:00-7:00pm

7:00-9:00pm

Social Hour

Resident Competition

About the Competition

The Stritzler Competition is an annual event sponsored by the Dermatologic Society of Greater New York that invites residents to present their research to their peers and faculty. The presentations are evaluated by a panel of judges. Additional details about the competition can be found here. Past winners and presenters can be found here.

Sarah Gold
Weill Cornell Medical College
Lived experience of hirsutism in transgender individuals
June Moon
New York Medical College
Secondary re-closure versus secondary intention healing in postoperative cutaneous wound dehiscence: a systematic review
Nisrine Kawa
Columbia University of Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Characterizing the burden of skin-related quality of life among patients with hematological conditions
Erica Cohn
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Efficacy and safety of medical interventions for moderate to severe hidradenitis suppurativa: a living systematic review and network meta-analysis
Shahzeb Hassan
SUNY Downstate
The prevalence of nonmelanoma skin cancer in a population of patients with oculocutaneous albinisim in Haiti
Ronan Talty
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
BRAFV600E mutation rewires melanoma lipid metabolism and ferroptosis sensitivity
Grant Sprow
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Comparison of Mohs micrographic surgery and postoperative wound complication rates in non-Hispanic white and skin of color patients
Ziyang Xu
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Establishment of dermatopathology image encyclopedia DempathNet using artificial intelligence empowered workflow
Anusha Pasumarthi
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
JAK3/TEC kinase inhibition is safe and effective in cicatricial alopecias: results from a prospective clinical trial
Alison Romisher
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Beyond weight loss: GLP-1 receptor agonists as a novel therapeutic option for repigmentation in vitiligo
Madeline Kim
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Tape strip molecular profiling captures abrocitinib-induced normalization of immune, barrier, and itch skin biomarkers in moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis

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