Dr. Vijay Kannan, PGY-2, wins top honors for his efforts to track the spread of influenza in the Phoenix area

Kudos to Dr. Vijay Kannan, an Emergency Medicine Resident at Maricopa Medical Center, who recently won top honors for developing a disease surveillance project that identified a very dense pocket of flu patients in a neighborhood just southeast of the hospital. “We intend to vaccinate and educate as many residents of the area as possible, with the end goal of reducing the burden of this very preventable disease.” Read more here.