Internal Medicine Residency News, June 7th, 2021

From the Director

Wow! My heart is so full…from the SAR-lebration to Chief Grand Rounds to seeing the grillmasters in action – what a week! We are excited to hear our beloved Chiefs recap the year at Grand Rounds on Friday as well. Massive thanks to Gregg Robbins-Welty for serving as sound engineer on Thursday.

Rising SARs, ERAS opens on JUNE 9th if you are applying to fellowship, this would be the time to get your token and start uploading your application.

Congratulations to Emily and Kyle Sikes on the birth of Anderson (Andy) Levi Sikes!!

Kudos

Kudos this week to our MELT (Medical Education Leadership Track) grads Nick Ashur, Ann Cameron Barr, Brittany Chapman, Michael Cosiano, Seabass Franco, Matt Harbrecht, Nathan Hirshman, and Ryan Slauer, and to our Appleseed Winners Seabass Franco, Cindy Pabon, Amber Meservey, Sean Chen, Aaron Hein, John Barber, Cameron Oswalt, Kristen Binz, Karina Mora Massad, Emory Buck, Nick Ashur, Tyler Couch, and Peggy Sahu.  More kudos to our Best SAR talk winner Alex Reddy, our Bruce Dixon Award Winner Ahmad Mourad, our Haskell Schiff Award Winner Lonnie Sullivan, our Amit Bhaskar Award Winner Yoli Guzman, our Adam Jennings Brock Award Winner Trent Wei, Our Community Service Award winner Cindy Pabon.  Thank you to our Faculty Award Winners Darsh Kothari, Neil Stafford, Katie Charles, Jason Katz, Greg Brown and Dan Katzenberger.  Also kudos to Joyce Hwang for a great chair’s conference, to Micah Schub from Chief Steph for cleaning out the VA Fridge, to Emmanuella Egbonim from Chief Hannah for nailing the MR diagnosis, and to Emily Romanoff from Emory Buck for going above and beyond for a patient.

Pubmed from the Program
This week’s pubmed from the program goes to our 2021-22 FRRG Recipients and mentors!

• Quality Improvement of Early Enteral Nutrition in Acute Pancreatitis
  Aaron Hein, MD; Mentor: Darshan Kothari, MD
• Influence of socioeconomic & psychological factors on treatment patterns in Black patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
  Allison Taylor, MD; Mentor: Thomas LeBlanc, MD

•  Early Identification of High Risk Cardiac Decompensation Phenotypes Via Real-time Electronic Health Record Data
  Aman Kansal, MD; Mentor: Manesh Patel, MD
• Inappropriate ICD Shocks in Patients with LVADS: Impacts and Mechanisms
  Andrew Andreae, MD; Mentor: Jonathan Piccini, MD
• Effect of Patient Health Literacy on Discordance between Patient and Physician Assessment of Lupus Disease Activity
  Ann Cameron Barr, MD; Mentor: Megan Clowse, MD
• Utilization of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy after Hospitalization: A Secondary Analysis of CONNECT-HF
  Brittany Chapman, MD; Mentor: Adam DeVore, MD
• Experiences of African American Individuals Treated in the Psychiatric Emergency Unit at Duke University Hospital
  Colin Smith, MD; Mentor: Jane Gagliardi, MD
• Visual Arts Training to Improve Internal Medicine Residents Observational Skills
  Emory Buck, MD; Mentor: Jenny Van Kirk, MD
• Identifying Perceptions of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Held by Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Identifying Individuals
  Hayley Cunningham, MD; Mentors: Carly Kelley and Mehri McKellar, MD
• The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease
  John Tanaka, MD; Mentor: Sunil Rao, MD
• Assessing risk factors for H. pylori negative chronic active gastritis
  Joseph Wawrzynski, MD; Mentor: Katherine Garman, MD
• Predictors and Barriers to Receipt a Cholecystectomy at Index Admission for Gallstone Pancreatitis
  Neesha Nama, MD; Mentor: Darshan Kothari, MD
• Event Adjudication in the Evaluation of Worsening Heart Failure: Insights from ASCEND-HF
  Ryan Keane, MD; Mentor: Robert Mentz, MD
• Disparities Between GU and Non-GU Cancer Patients Referred to Palliative Care
  Saad Atiq, MD; Mentor: Arif H. Kamal, MD
• Right Ventricular Dilation as a Predictor of Admission for Heart Failure in Patients with Corrected Tetralogy of Fallot
  Samantha Dizon, MD; Mentor: Richard Krasuski, MD
• Clinical outcomes for patients with stage III NSCLC and STK11 or KEAP1 genetic alterations
  Sean Taasan, MD; Mentor: Jeffrey Clarke, MD
• Flipped Class with Kidney Bass - Enhancing Engagement at Noon Conference with Nephrology Videos and Active Learning Exercises
  Sebastian Franco, MD; Mentor: Matthew Sparks, MD
• Characterization of Barrett's Surveillance Program at DUHS
  Shang Chung, MD; Mentor: Ziad Gellad, MD
• Genetics of Chronic Kidney Disease Risk
  Timothy Hopper, MD; Mentor: Svati Shah, MD

We would like to congratulate all our recipients that have been approved for funding and their research mentor(s). We would also like to thank all the Department of Medicine faculty reviewers who participated in approving these grants: Drs. Matthew Crowley, Rich Riedel, Stephen Greene, Brian Andonian, Marat Fudim, Matthew Sparks, David Edelman, Eileen Maziarz, Euguene Friedman, Brian Sullivan, Nicki Hastings, and Christopher Holley.

Have a great week!
Aimee