FSP Announces Winners of 2026 FSP Poster Competition

The FSP announced the winners of the FSP Poster Competition on Saturday, February 14 during the annual business meeting. There were over 100 posters submitted for inclusion in the FSP Poster Hall and the top 44 posters were selected from residents and fellows from across the state of Florida to be included in the Poster Competition. New this year, the FSP also accepted medical student poster submissions. The top 6 posters submitted by medical students were selected for presentation.

FSP Poster Committee Chairs, Diane Davey, MD and Robert Seifert, MD announced the winners as follows:

RESIDENT AND FELLOW POSTER COMPETITION 

FIRST PLACE:

Immunohistochemical Evaluation of FGFR2b and FGFR3 in Gynecologic Malignancies: Correlation with Molecular Status
Author: Yasamin Mirzabeigi, MD
University of Miami 

View poster here. 

SECOND PLACE:

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated gastrointestinal carcinomas morphologic diversity and EBV presence beyond tumor tissue
Author: Amr Masaadeh, MD
University of Florida Gainesville

View poster here. 

THIRD PLACE:

Benign Signet Ring Cell Change: A Diagnostic Pitfall
Author: Anne Dharamraj, MD
University of Florida Gainesville
View poster here. 

MEDICAL STUDENT POSTER COMPETITION 

FIRST PLACE:

Long-Read Sequencing of Acute Leukemias Allows for Rapid Genome-Wide Copy Number and Methylation 
Author: Valentina Lopez-Gomez
University of Miami 

View poster here. 


Thank you to the following Florida residency and fellowship programs that submitted posters for inclusion:

  • University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital - 14 posters submitted
  • University of Florida - 10 posters submitted
  • Moffitt Cancer Center/University of South Florida - 10 posters submitted
  • Mount Sinai Medical Center Miami Beach - 11 posters submitted
  • HCA Westside - 8 posters submitted
  • Orlando Health - 8 posters submitted
  • HCA Brandon - 6 posters submitted

Thank you to the FSP Poster Committee members that assisted in the judging process:

Chairs: Diane Davey, MD and Robert Siefert, MD

  • Marilyn Bui, MD, PhD
  • Evita Henderson-Jackson, MD
  • Rebecca Johnson, MD
  • Hatem Kaseb, MD
  • Jesse Kresak, MD
  • Vatsal Patel, MD
  • Adrian Palmer, MD
  • Sana Tabbara, MD

Thank you to the following residents for assisting with the medical student poster judging: 

  • FNU Mahjabin, MD
  • Yasamin Mirzabeigi, MD
  • Mandy Zhang, MD
  • Gul Wymer, MD