Internal Medicine Residency Program Research

Publications

Conference Presentations

National Initiative

• CHEST 2022: Dr. Muhammad Aleem – Melanoma of Unknown Primary Origin Presenting with Malignant Pleural Effusion
• CHEST 2022:  Dr. Suchetha Jagan
• CHEST 2023:  Dr. Rashmi Subramani – The Art of Self-Management in Chronic Lung Disease
• ENDO2023:  Dr. Rashmi Subramani – Persistent Hypocalcemia After Thyroidectomy
• ENDO2023:  Dr. Sundas Zahra – Surgical Management for Persistent Symptoms with Pituitary Apoplexy
• ENDO2023:  Dr. Sundas Zahra – Insulinoma as a Cause of New Onset Hypoglycemic Episodes

Guthrie Annual Research Day, April 28, 2023

Oral Presentations

1. All work and no play makes Dr Jack a dull boy!  A novel approach of targeted wellness initiatives for each year of IM residency
   Suchetha Jagan MD, Lavanya Dondapati MD, John Pamula MD
2. Quality Improvement: A multi-disciplinary care team model to improve diabetic bundle compliance in Internal Medicine Clinic
   Pooja Jaisawal MD, Shraddha Bhattarai MD, John Pamula MD

Research Posters

1. ** Third Place Award** The Future of Medicine – Ensuring Health Equity for All. Understanding our patients better by improving SDOH screening
   Suchetha M Jagan, MD; Charu D Bajracharya, MD; Pooja Jaisawal, MD; Noor Fatima, MD; Shashank Bhattarai, MD; Nadiya Dukhnych, MD; Sravan Ponnekanti, MD; John Pamula, MD, FACP; Victor Kolade, MD, MS, FACP
2. Viewing Health Equity through SDOH Lens in the Inpatient Setting
   Muhammad A Khan, Ghanshyam Bhatta, Rabin Adhikari, B Lamichhane, Sohaib K Shabih, Muhammad S Aleem, Oneeb Sanaullah, Balkishan Malviya, Sneha Singh, Manas, Tanya Gupta, John Pamula, Victor Kolade

Quality Improvement Projects

1. Promising actions for safer opioid prescribing in IM clinic 
   Rabin Adhikari MD, Asnia Kauser MD, John Pamula MD
2. Increasing COPD Pathway Utilization for Patients Admitted with AECOPD
   Muhammad Sarmad Aleem, Daebin Im, Sri Harsha Vardhan Senapathi, Muhammad Aslam Khan, Ayesha Anwar, John Pamula
3. Witness the Fitness; Don’t wait to lose weight! 
   Charu Darshan Bajracharya, Nimmi Ravindranath, Sneha Singh, John Pamula
4. ** Honorable Mention** Iron Shield for the Weak Heart -IV Iron therapy for in-hospital heart failure with reduced ejection fraction patients
   Ghanshyam Bhatta, MD, Kunduru Mahathi, MD, Sneha Singh, MD, John Pamula, MD
5. Preventable, Treatable, Beatable-Colorectal Cancer Screening
   Shashank Bhattarai MD, Rashmi Subramani MD, Sravan Ponnekanti MD, John Pamula MD
6. Quality Improvement: Medication Reconciliation in Internal Medicine Clinic 
   Nadiya Dukhnych, MD, Sundas Zahra, MD, John Pamula, MD MHA FACP CPHQ
7. Are you due for breast cancer screening?
   Noor e Fatima MD, Ayesha Anwar MD, John Pamula MD
8. ** First Place Award** All work and no play makes Dr Jack a dull boy!  A novel approach of targeted wellness initiatives for each year of IM residency
   Suchetha Jagan MD, Lavanya Dondapati MD, John Pamula MD
9. ** Second Place Award** Quality Improvement: A multi-disciplinary care team model to improve diabetic bundle compliance in Internal Medicine Clinic
   Pooja Jaisawal MD, Shraddha Bhattarai MD, John Pamula MD
10. A Mission to Prevent CHF Readmission (CHF Pathway usage improvement, Quality Improvement Project)
    Muhammad Aslam Khan MD, K.Y. Hassan MD, M S. Aleem MD, C. Bajracharya MD, G. Bhatta MD, John, Pamula, MD
11. ** Second Place Award** Teamwork is Dream work, & Care team is dream team- QI project to identify communication barrier and improve engagement of Inter-disciplinary team in Unit based Interdisciplinary round. 
    Bikal Lamichhane, MD, Bijay Phuyal, MD, John Pamula MD
12. Early Capture Prevents Fatal Rupture- A QI Project to Improve AAA Screening
    Sohaib Shabih MD, Imran Anwar MD, John Pamula, MD

Case Reports

1. A Rare Case of Bowel Perforation Secondary to Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) Stent Placement
   Muhammad Sarmad Aleem, Michelle Bernshteyn, Sravan Ponnekanti, Subash Ghimire, Ukorn Srivatana, Jagadeesh Hathwar
2. Spontaneous Adrenal Hemorrhage: A rare presentation but not one to miss
   Imran Amer MD, Shraddha Bhattarai MD, Tejaswini Maganti MD, Violeta Zeykan MD
3. A Gastrointestinal Bug Causing Spontaneous Empyema-A Rare Case
   Ayesha Anwar, MD; Sundas Zahra, MD; Melina Irizarry-Acosta, MD; Eric Macapinlac, MD; Violeta Zeykan, MD
4. Tracheo-Bronchial Calcification with Prolonged Warfarin Use
   Dr. Shraddha Bhattarai, Dr. Lavanya Dondapati, Dr. Shashank Bhattarai, Dr. Sravan Ponnekanti, Dr. Violeta Zeykan 
5. A Wild No(CARD)iosis Entry In Chronic Steroid Use
   Dr. Lavanya Dondapati, Dr. Shraddha Bhattarai, Dr. Acosta Irizarry, Dr. Eric Macapinlac, Dr. Violeta Zeykan
6. Sclerosing Mesenteritis: When the best of pain medication doesn’t work
   Khwaja Yousuf Hasan, MD, Tejaswini Maganti, MD
7. Acute Spontaneous Tumor Lysis Syndrome in a Metastatic Adenocarcinoma 5 months after Wedge Lobectomy
   Daebin Im, MD, Katie Alsheimer, DO, Joyson Poulose, MD, Violeta Zeykan, MD
8. PVC Induced Cardiomyopathy in a Young Adult
   Mahathi Kunduru MD, Violeta Zeykan MD, Saurabh Sharma MD
9. A rare case of Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma presenting as a rapidly growing pleural-based mass
   Bikal Lamichhane MD, Sandhya Dhital, Saral Lamichhane MD, Mansur Assaad MD, Faraz A Siddiqui MD
10. Portal-Splenorenal shunt causing Hyperammonemia in a non-cirrhotic patient
    Bijay Phuyal, MD, Basit Achakzai, MD, Violeta Zeykan, MD
11. Primary peritoneal low grade serous carcinoma in a male- a rare occurrence and presentation
    Sravan Ponnekanti MD, Joshua Mathews, Michelle Bernshteyn, Subash Ghimire, Michael Georgetson, Jagadeesh Hathwar
12. A Rare Case of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Myocarditis
    Nimmi Ravindranath MD, Sravan Ponnekanti MD, Violeta Zeykan MD
13. A Broken HEART due to Excess THYROID
    Rashmi Subramani MD, Sudhir Pasham MD, Violeta Zeykan MD
14. Surgical Management for Persistent Symptoms With Pituitary Apoplexy
    Sundas Zahra MD, FNU Manas MD, Sehzene Yavuz MD, Violeta Zeykan MD