The IIS Aragón presents the 'Research and Innovation Awards for Residents'

Research on 'The impact of hladqa1*05 and hladqa1*03 on the loss of response to anti-TNF and safety in patients with inflammatory bowel disease' (in the scientific communication category) and 'AI at the service of consultation patient blood management: efficiency and safety in preoperative treatment' (in the innovation projects category) were the winning proposals

These distinctions are included in the '5st Research and Innovation Conference for Residents in Aragon', organized this year by the IIS Aragón, taking over from the Miguel Servet University Hospital, which has been at the helm for the last XNUMX years.

The IIS Aragón has organized, throughout the month of May, the I Research and Innovation Conference for Residents in Aragon, following in the wake of the last five years of the Miguel Servet University Hospital. Within this event and as a culmination of this, yesterday the «Research and Innovation Awards for Residents».

The CIBA Assembly Hall hosted an intense day, with the inauguration featuring the Minister of Health of the Government of Aragon, José Luis Bancalero, stressed the importance of research for healthcare to advance and the need for conferences like these to promote research careers. 

Then Angel Lanas, scientific director IIS Aragón carried out a presentation on the research career. Precisely, the objective of these Conferences has been that the residents of Aragón, in addition to developing their healthcare work in their discipline, also commit to developing a research career. “It is important that the training of residents includes a baptism to do research and innovation because it is very important for their professional future. Furthermore, a doctor who has the ability to research is a professional who will ultimately provide a much more complete service: he will be a doctor who will increase his quality of care and, therefore, will benefit patients in the future. ”, highlighted Ángel Lanas.

Finally, they have presented the best scientific communications (9) and innovation project proposals (2), selected by a committee of experts from all 54 scientific communications and 11 innovation proposals that were presented. The first prize for the best scientific communication, endowed with €250, has fallen on Julia Lopez de la Cruz by 'The impact of hladqa1*05 and hladqa1*03 on loss of response to anti-TNF and safety in patients with inflammatory bowel disease'. Furthermore, in this category they have been distinguished with two second prizes to Verónica López Sáinz, 'Orthognathic surgery: surgical time and hospital stay with conventional technique vs. Customized', and Eva Martínez Marzo with 'Value of the clinical environment in the interpretation of angiogenic markers in the diagnosis of placental insufficiency', endowed with €150 each prize.

As for innovation projects has won the first prize (€250) David Guallar García with 'AI at the service of consultation patient blood management: efficiency and safety in preoperative treatment' and a second prize of €150 for Daniel Aparicio López with 'Me voy a casa'.

These Research and Innovation Conferences They began in May with three online sessions in which More than 100 residents have participated. The first session was on May 8 and topics such as the optimal writing of research articles, the doctorate as thesis vs compendium of articles or the ethical evaluation of research projects. For its part, the second session focused on research in Aragón with presentations on how to prepare a research project, the importance of being part of a research group at the IIS Aragón, calls for research projects and the importance of clinical research and clinical trials. Closing the online part, on May 22, easy innovation in the healthcare field, the CIR methodology, the protection of research and innovation results and transfer or the quadruple helix model of innovation were discussed.