RWMC: Internal Medicine Residency: Presentations

"Rhode Island Chapter, American College of Physicians Regional Conference, Radisson Airport Hotel, Warwick, RI, Jun 13, 2006"
(Unless otherwise noted, all presentations were affiliated with Roger Williams Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine)

Oral Presenters and ACP Associate's Forum Winners
THE SURFER WITH SUDDEN HEMIPLEGIA
Elise McCormack, M.D., Oscar Bernal, M.D. Roger Williams Medical Center/Boston University Medical Center

ESTROGEN INHIBITS CARDIOMYOCYTE HYPERTROPHY BY MODULATING CALCINEURIN SIGNALING PATHWAY
Feng Wang, MD, Associate, Roger Williams Hospital, Providence, RI and Richard Patten, MD, Tufts University, Boston, MA Roger Williams Medical Center/Boston University Medical Center

INHIBITION OF GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE (GSK) – 3ß ATTENUATES PROFRESSIVE RENAL INFLAMMATION IN RATS WITH UNILATERAL URETERAL OBSTRUCTION
Dr. Thejaswini Kempananjappa,MD, Dr. Lance Dworkin,MD, Dr. Rujun Gong,MD,PhD. Dept of Internal Medicine, Roger Williams Medical Centre, Boston University School of Medicine Division of Kidney Diseases, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown Medical School

Poster Exhibition

TRANSIENT THROMBO-EMBOLIC EVENTS IN A 31 YEAR OLD FEMALE WITH STABLE SLE WITH CONCURRENT USE OF A HORMONAL METHOD OF CONTRACEPTION
Crisostomo R. Baliog, JR. MD.

PRIMARY LYMPHOEPETHELIOMA OF ESOPHAGUS
Bassel Choufani MD, Zeina Elamil MD, Nabil Toubia MD.

HYPOKALEMIA IN A 19 YEAR OLD LAOTIAN
Patricia Jimenez MD, Pallavi Guddeti MD, Sonia Shahid MD.

CARDIAC TAMPONADE DUE TO RENAL FAILURE
Melhem Jabbour MD, Michael Macko, MD.

BIRT-HOGG-DUBÉ SYNDROME (BHDS) PRESENTING WITH SHORTNESS OF BREATH AND BULLOUS EMPHYSEMA
Luiz Malini, MD, Associate, Frankie Alvarado, MD, Associate, Michael A Passero, MD, FACP.

THE PATIENT IS NOT ALWAYS RIGHT – NECROTIZING FASCIITIS MASQUERADING AS GOUT
Daniel Alwood Mendez MD, Bernard Zimmermann MD, FACP.

SURGERY FOR TOPHACEOUS GOUT
Michelle Costa DO and Bernard Zimmermann MD, FACP.

INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE IN A PATIENT WITH PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS TREATED WITH INFLIXIMAB AND AZATHIOPRINE
Haidee Zamora,MD, Marc Zarraga MD, Michael A Passero, MD, FACP.

AN ACCIDENTAL FINDING: PAPILLARY FIBROELASTOMA OF THE MITRAL VALVE
Pradeep Wardhan, M.D., M.P.H., Paras Patel, M.D.

CYCLICAL VOMITING SYNDROME
Shishir Ojha, MD, MPH and Sangeeta Pal, MD

INFLIXIMAB THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH RENAL INSUFFICIENCY
Imad Bitar, MD, Bernard Zimmermann, MD, FACP.

OBESITY AND VANCOMYCIN
Elena Isenbergh MD, Gail Skowron, M.D.

"Rhode Island Chapter, American College of Physicians Regional Conference, Radisson Airport Hotel, Warwick, RI, May 10, 2006"
(Unless otherwise noted, all presentations were affiliated with Roger Williams Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine)

Oral Presenters and ACP Associate's Forum Winners
EPIGENETIC CHANGES IN BONE MARROW CELLS CO-CULTURED WITH RADIATION-INJURED LUNG
Luiz M. Kolankiewicz MD, Jason M. Aliotta MD, Michael A. Passero MD FACP, Fermin Sanchez-Guijo MD Phd, Peter J. Quesenberry MD FACP

ROLE OF YY1 IN REGULATING HUMAN BNP GENE EXPRESSION IN CARDIAC MYOCYTES
Feng Wang MD, Associate, David Gardner MD (University of California, San Francisco, CA)

Poster Exhibition

UNUSUAL OSTEOARTHRITIS AND WAGNER-STICKLER SYNDROME
Foluso Ogunleye MD, Michael Passero,MD,FACP

A CASE OF LIMBIC ENCEPHALITIS
Jingjing Hu, M.D., M.S, Julie Nissim, D.O, Kristen M Michalopoulos B.S., Abderrahim Khomani, M.D., Oscar Bernal M.D.

DYSPHAGIA AND FOOD IMPACTION: THINK EOSINOPHILIC ESOPHAGITIS!
Kapil Kohli MD (ACP Associate), Nabil Toubia MD

INTRAVENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULIN INDUCED "ASEPTIC MENINGITIS"
Jingjing Hu, M.D., M.S, Ursula Reusch, M.D, Nuha Elsayed, M.D. Francis Cummings, M.D.

ADULT CELIAC DISEASE IN A PATIENT WITH TRANSIENT SMALL BOWELL INTUSSUSCEPTION DIAGNOSED BY SMALL BOWEL VIDEO CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY.
Vernon Chiu MD and Cristobal Sanchez Metz MD

CARDIAC LIPOTOXICITY: THE ROLE OF MYOCYTE STEATOSIS
Feng Wang MD, Associate, David Gardner MD, (University of California, San Francisco)

CASE REPORT OF BIAPICAL LUNG INFILTRATES
Feng Wang MD, Associate, Jody Meharg MD

HYPOGLYCEMIA FOLLOWING GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY
Traci L. Tupper MD, Associate; Joseph R. Tucci MD, FACP (BROWN MEDICAL SCHOOL, PROVIDENCE, RI)

A CASE OF SEVERE HYPOCALCEMIA IN A MALE WITH A HISTORY OF IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA
Alexandra Greene MD, Associate, Joseph Tucci MD, FACP (Brown Medical School, Providence, RI)

THE HADJU-CHENEY SYNDROME IN A 19-YEAR-OLD MALE
Rebecca J. Lifchus-Ascher MD, Associate; Joseph R. Tucci MD, FACP

THROMBOCYTOPENIA AS A MANIFESTATION OF LUPUS IN THREE PATIENTS
Michelle Costa DO, Bernard Zimmermann MD

INFLIXIMAB INDUCED SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
Lieberman-Maran, L MD, Hall, HA MD

A CASE OF REFRACTORY DERMATOMYOSITIS UNRESPONSIVE TO EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY WITH RITUXIMAB DESPITE ADEQUATE B CELL DEPLETION
Irene Orzano MD, Bernard Zimmermann MD

CASE OF BRONCHIAL NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR
Jill McClory MD, Pallavi Guddeti MD, Sirisha Vytla MD, Michael Passero MD

INFECTIOUS VERSUS MALIGNANT PROCESS
Paras Patel, M.D., Elise McCormack, M.D.

EXTREME HYPERLYMPHOCYTOSIS
E.McCormack, MD, D.Berz, MD, N.Feeman, MD, FACP

A RARE CASE OF WEST NILE VIRUS IN RHODE ISLAND
Naga Sirisha Vytla MD, Julie Nissim DO, Sonia Shahid MD, Michael B Macko MD

IDIOPATHIC ATAXIA: THINK CELIAC DISEASE (CD)
Anand Gupte MD, Naga Sirisha Vytla MD, and Oscar Bernal MD

STEVEN JOHNSON SYNDROME-A RARE ENTITY
Sangeeta Pal, Paras Patel, Basmaa Ali

CASE OF ANASARCA
Pallavi Guddeti MD, Sonia Shahid MD

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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Stem Cells- First published online June 7, 2007

“ALTERATION OF MARROW CELL GENE EXPRESSION, PROTEIN PRODUCTION AND ENGRAFTMENT INTO LUNG BY LUNG-DERIVED MICROVESICLES: A NOVEL MECHANISM FOR PHENOTYPE MODULATION”
Jason M. Aliotta 1*, Fermin M. Sanchez-Guijo 2, Gerri J. Dooner 1, Kevin W. Johnson 1, Mark S. Dooner 1, Kenneth A. Greer 2, Deborah Greer 2, Jeffrey Pimentel 2, Luiz M. Kolankiewicz 2, Napoleon Puente 2, Sam Faradyan 2, Paulette Ferland 3, Elaine L. Bearer 3, Michael A. Passero 2, Mehrdad Adedi 2, Gerald A. Colvin 1, Peter J. Quesenberry 1

http://stemcells.alphamedpress.org/cgi/content/abstract/2007-0128v1?ck=nck

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Medicine & Health Rhode Island- Publication of Rhode Island Medical Society- Volume 89 No.11 November 2006

“EPIGENETIC CHANGES IN BONE MARROW CELLS CO-CULTURED WITH RADIATION-INJURED LUNG”
Luiz M. Kolankiewicz MD, Jason M. Aliotta MD, Michael A. Passero MD FACP, Fermin Sanchez-Guijo MD Phd, Peter J. Quesenberry MD FACP, Roger Williams Medical Center/Boston Uiversity, Providence, RI.

“ROLE OF YY1 IN REGULATING HUMAN BNP GENE EXPRESSION IN CARDIAC MYOCYTES”
Feng Wang MD, Associate, David Gardner MD (University of California, San Francisco, CA)

http://www.health.state.ri.us/publications/medhealthri/RIMed_Nov06.pdf