RESIDENCY & FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS - Specialties

Rhode Island Chapter, American College of Physicians Regional Conference (Radisson Airport Hotel, Warwick, RI, May 10, 2006)

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

(Unless otherwise noted, all presentations were affiliated with Roger Williams Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine)