POSTER SESSION I Monday, February 13, 2006   —  9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon Exhibit Level AUTOPSY AWARD COMPETITION 1 Primary and Immediate Causes of Death in Obese Versus Nonobese Hospital Patients (1) RA Abadeer, GR Krueger, J Liu, DS Zander - Univ of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 2 Survey of 160 Internal Medicine and Pathology Resident Physicians on the Importance and Acquisition of Autopsies (9) MJ Hull, RM Nazarian, AE Wheeler, WS Black-Schaffer, EJ Mark - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 3 Nursing Home Deaths Which Fall Under the Jurisdiction of the Coroner: An 11-year Retrospective Study (11) JL Lindner, BI Omalu, A Buhari, A Shakir, L Rozin, CH Wecht - Allegheny General Hospital, Allegheny County Coroner's Office, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 4 Ophthalmic Pathology Of Ataxia-Telangiectasia: Description Of The First Case (12) M McLaughlin, AG Saad - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 5 The Vitreous Proteome: An Autopsy Study (15) AV Rapkiewicz, M Lowenthal, DE Kleiner, LA Liotta - National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; George Mason University, Manassas, VA; University of Colorado, Aurora, CO 6 Intramyocardial Vascular Amyloid Deposition In Patients With Autopsy-Proven Cardiac Amyloidosis (17) PP Sharma, SH Litovsky - University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 7 Myocardial Interstitial Collagen Is Increased In Morbidly Obese Patients (18) Y Tadros, J Henegar, C Subramony - University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 8 Discrepant Major Diagnosis And Unexpected Additional Diagnoses Found At Autopsy: A Comparison Of University, Community, And Private Autopsy Practices. (19) FR Tavora, C Crowder, CC Sun, A Burke - University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD