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12th Annual

Department of Medicine

Research Day

2014

Oral Presentations

George R. Nahas, DO
"Mustache 1 stabilizes TAC1 transcript in breast cancer cells
to increase the production of onco-substance P"

Yucai Wang, MD, PhD
"Adding VEGFR-TKIs to Chemotherapy and/or Hormonal Therapy in
Advanced Breast Cancer Patients: Results of A Meta-Analysis"

Larysa Gromko, MD
"Breast cancer screening in a resident-run clinic: racial differences in breast cancer screening rates and compliance"

Atish Mathur, MD
"Predictive Value of Selvester Score in Estimating Infarct Size in
Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention"

Mahaa Umapathi, MD
"Hyperoxia and autophagy in cardiac myocytes"

Kate Miro, MD
"Analysis of a Subset of Patients with Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) with Hypogammaglobulinemia and/or Declining Immunoglobulin (Ig) Levels"

Poster Session

• The Effects of Anti-seizure Medications on Patients With Antibody Deficiency Syndrome
  Tatyana Gavrilova, MD, Harumi Jyonouchi, MD

• Musashi 1 stabilizes TAC1 transcript in breast cancer cells to increase the production of onco-substance P.
  George R. Nahas, Raghav Murthy, Shyam Patel, Teja Ganta, Steven Greco, Pranela Rameshwar PhD

• Early Donor Cell Chimerism After Allogeneic Transplantation Predicts Probability Of Relapse For Patients Treated For Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, & Non-Hodkgin’s Lymphoma
  George R. Nahas, Arpita Ghandi, Michele Donato, Themba Nyirenda, David H. Vesole, Andrew Pecora, Stuart Goldberg, Andre Goy, Tatyana Feldman, Anthony Mato, Pritish Bhattacharryya, Melissa Baker, Phyllis McKiernan, Brenda Diaz, Scott D. Rowley

• Localized Facial Cold Urticaria: A Case Presentation and Literature Review
  Reenal Patel, MD; Alan Wolff, MD

• Hepatitis C Treated with an Added Protease Inhibitor-Realistic SVR rate
  A. Sheth, T.S. Chiang, S.M. Smith, R.H. Eng

• Value of Emergency Room Blood Cultures in an Urban VA Medical Center
  C. Koper, S.M. Smith, R. Kothari, R.H.K. Eng

• Plasmid Transferability of KPC into Virulent K2 Serotype Klebsiella pneumoniae
  Catherine Koper, Kris Siu, Robert Eng, Tom Chiang

• Pituitary Tumor Excision and Associated Perioperative Cardiovascular Complications: A Study of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample
  Raymond Malapero MD MPH, Sergey Pisklakov MD, Alex Bekker MD

• A Case of Thyroid Cancer Where it is Least Expected
  Shuchie Jaggi DO, Nisha Suda MD, Maya Raghuwanshi MD

• Resistant Nocardia abscessus Pleural Infection in a Patient with AIDS
  Rahim Wooley, MD, Rajendra Kapila, MD, and Andrew Berman, MD

• Anaplasmosis in a Deer Hunter
  Joseph DeRose, D.O.

• Persistent Right Axillary Sestimibi Uptake in a Patient with Normocalcemic Primary Hyperparathyroidism Evolving from Secondary Hyperparathyroidism
  Marlyn Fernandez, John J. Shin, Rosemarie Pasmantier, Mark B. Zimering

• Pseudohypoparathyroidism in a Mother and Osteogenesis Imperfecta in her Offspring, an Unusual Case
  Marlyn Fernandez MD, David Bleich MD, Maya Raghuwanshi MD, FACP, FACE

• Mucormycosis Pansinusitis
  Sandra Aleksic MD, Shira R. Saul MD, Michael Magnotti MD

• Leukocytosis as a Biomarker for the Development of Acute Chest Syndrome
  John Arek Kileci, MD; Mubdiul Ali Imtiaz, MD; Michael Mirzoyan, MD and Andrew R Berman, MD

• Outcomes after Surgery and Radiotherapy for Spinal Myxopapillary Ependymoma
  Yucai Wang, Chiaojung Jillian Tsai, Pamela K. Allen, Paul D. Brown, Jing Li

• Adding VEGFR-TKIs to Chemotherapy and/or Hormonal Therapy in Advanced Breast Cancer Patients: Results of A Meta-Analysis
  Yucai Wang, Zexing Wang, Victor Chang, Xiaoxiang Guan

• Analysis of a Subset of Patients with Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) with Hypogammaglobulinemia and/or Declining Immunoglobulin (Ig) Levels
  Miro, K. L.; Geng, L.; Alghanmi, R.; Jyonouchi, H.

• IgG4-Related Tubulointerstitial Nephritis with Minimal Change Disease
  Khorsandi S, Behl N, Abbasi A, Chillemi S, Amerinasab R, Michaud, J, Sheshan SV, Reddi A, Baskin S, Kaplan JM

• Adolescent Viral Load in an Urban Hospital in Newark, New Jersey 2007-2010
  Jason Zucker, MD, Helen Fernandes, PhD and David Cennimo, MD

• Characteristics of Virologic Failure in an Urban Hospital in Newark, New Jersey 2001-2010
  Jason Zucker, MD, Helen Fernandes, PhD and David Cennimo, MD

• Idiopathic Constrictive Pericarditis
  Sajid Mirza MD, Puneet Ghayal MD, Chris Di Giorgio MD, James Maher MD, Marc Klapholz MD

• Adherence to Treatment Guidelines for Osteoporosis in Women Age 65 Years and Older
  H Scott Dinneen DO, Rishi Mehta MD, Anuja Mohla DO, Chongwei Cui MD, PhD,
  Rabail Razi-Akmal MD, Mirela Feurdean MD, Aleksey Tentler MD, Matthew Michaels DO

• Are We Approporiately Screening Patients for Osteoporosis?
  Ramneek Nakai DO, Sunniya Khan MD, Enoc Fernandez MD, Joe DeRose DO, Rahim Wooley MD, Aleksey Tentler MD, Matthew Michaels DO, Mirela Feurdean MD

• An Unusual Presentation of Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis in a Patient with Lupus
  Reenal Patel, Garikiparthy Jyothirmayi, Susana Tapia, Hector Aguilar, Eugenio Capitle

• Esophageal Metastasis from colonic adenocarcinoma: a rare occurance, presenting as a fungating mass with dysphagia
  Vinnidhy Dave, DO, Hadi Bhurgri, MD, Sami Samiulluh, MD, Arpita Gandhi, MD, Christopher Lenza, MD

• TSH Independent Metastatic Follicular Cancer Presenting as Hot Nodule
  Shira Etan MD, David Bleich MD, Maya Raghuwanshi MD

• Severe Scoliosis: Classic Consequences
  Morium Akthar MD, Sevag Bastian MD, Marc Lavietes MD

• Aspergillus and Mucormycosis Pneumonia in an Immunocompromised Patient
  Theodore Markou, MD

• Comparison of Colorectal Cancer Patients by Reasons for Colonoscopy at Diagnosis
  Nneoma Okoronkwo MD, Fengming Zhong MD PhD, Ying Tang MD, Neal Patel MD, Victor Chang MD, Trent Wang DO, Tanganyika Barnes DO, Basil Kasims MD.

• Not all pregnancies are uneventful: Fulminant hepatic failure due to Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy (AFLP)
  Nneoma Okoronkwo MD, Vivek Lingiah MD, Lizza Bojito-Marrero MD, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos MD PhD

• An Unusual Case of Adult-Onset Homocystinuria with Neurologic and Psychiatric Symptoms
  Aleksey Tentler, Garikiparthy Jyothirmayi, Angel Monserrate, Devorah Segal, Zubeidah Sheikh, Kevin Shahbahrami, Machteld Hillen, Ling Yu Shih, Beth Pletcher

• Evaluation of Prevention of Opportunistic Infections in Inpatient HIV Population at University Hospital
  Lucy Cheng MD, Christopher Estiverne MD, Gustavo Churrango MD, Tamara Khaimchayev MD, Mirela Feurdean MD, Matthew Michaels DO, Aleksey Tentler, MD

• Predictive Value of Preoperative Pulmonary Function Tests and Model for End Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score for Postoperative Pulmonary Complications in Liver Transplantation Patients
  Dina Khateeb DO, Marc Lavietes MD, Baburao Koneru MD, Zeeshan Khan DO,
  Narjust Perez-Florez MD, Andrew Berman MD

• Acute Tubulointerstitial Nephritis Secondary to Sarcoidosis
  Mitesh Shah DO, Jennine Michaud DO

• Demographics Affecting Glycemic Control In Diabetic Patients
  Kathleen Carstens MD, Shuchie Jaggi DO, Eric Yoon MD, John Arek Kileci MD, Aleksey Tentler MD, Matthew Michaels DO, Mirela Feurdean MD

• Recording ADA Guidelines for the Outpatient Management of Type 2 Diabetes
  Richard May, MD, Daniel Matassa, MD, Shashi Kapadia, MD, Shira Saul, MD, Matthew Michaels, DO, Mirela Feurdean, MDAleksey Tentler, MD, Neil Kothari, MD

• Case Report:“Black Ant” Induced Autoimmune Hepatitis
  Phoenix Fung MD, Raja GR Edula MD, Vivek Lingiah MD, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos MD, MBA,
  Lizza Bojito-Marrero MD, Maliha Ahmad MD, Arun Samantha MD

• Blood Cyst on Mitral Valve Papillary Muscle in an Adult
  Osama Tariq Niazi DO, Yulanka Castro MD, Steve Tsai MD, Ralph G. Oriscello MD, Marc Klapholz MD

• CURBing Admissions for Pneumonia: Moving Toward Appropriate Cost-Conscious Care
  Osama Tariq Niazi DO, Nicholas Harrell MD, Brenda Dorcely MD, Aleksey Tentler MD,
  Mirela Feurdean MD, Matthew Michaels DO

• Prevalence of Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return in patients undergoing Evaluation for Orthoptic Liver Transplantation
  Hayder Hashim, Atish Mathur, Saurabh Kapoor, Christopher DiGiorgio, Shashank jain, Yulanka Castro, Margaret Mysliwiec, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos, Marc Klapholz

• Classification of Asthma in a Resident Based Primary Care Clinic
  Yulanka Castro MD, Sima Patel DO, Saritha Kartan MD, Mirela Feurdean MD, Matthew Michaels DO, Aleksey Tentler MD

• Hypereosinophilic Syndrome associated with Membranous Nephropathy
  Khorsani S, Abbasi A, Behl N, Chillemi S, Karanam D, Haider M, Gavrilova T, Amerinasab R, Yudd M

• Azathioprine-Induced Life-Threatening Myelotoxicity: Are We Utilizing TPMT Activity Testing to Identify Susceptible Individuals?
  Larysa Gromko MD, Machteld Hillen MD, Michael Jaker MD

• Breast Cancer Screening in a Resident-Run Clinic: Racial Differences in Breast Cancer Screening Rates and Compliance.
  Larysa Gromko MD, Narjust Perez-Florez MD, George Nahas MD, Jessica Riggs MD, Theodore Markou MD, Mirela Feurdean MD, Matthew Michaels DO, Aleksey Tentler MD

• Syphilis: A Great Imitator Flourishes In Neglect
  Sunniya Khan MD, Rahim Wooley MD, Abdullah Khan MD, Saurabh Kapoor MD, V. Subbarao Boppana MD, Christine Gerula MD, Marc Klapholz MD

• Don’t Panic: The Unusual Case of Chilaiditi’s Syndrome
  Shanchita Ghosh MD, Aileen Tlamsa MD, Slawomir Sender, MD

• Eustachian Valve Papillary Fibroelastoma as a Cause for Paradoxical Embolism
  Saurabh Kapoor MD, Adam Raskin MD, Hayder Hashim MD, Pierre Maldjian MD,
  Justin Sambol MD FACS, James Maher MD FACC

• Rare case of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension in a 29 year old African American male
  Vivek K. Vadehra, Garikiparthy Jyothirmayi, Dorothy Castro

• Incidental Ectopic Thyroid Follicular Adenoma on Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
  Adam Raskin MD, Neena Mirani MD, Nasrin Ghesani MD

• Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome in a Patient with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleed, Portal
  Hypertension, Deep Venous Thrombosis, and Cardiogenic Shock
  Mubdiul Ali Imtiaz, MD; Peter Ricketti, DO; Dina Khateeb, DO; Eugenio Capitle, MD; Andrew Berman, MD

• Extrapulmonary tuberculosis presenting as a cavernous sinus syndrome
  S Kapadia M.D., A Patrawalla, M.D.

• Incremental benefits of Hemodialysis on Left Ventricular Systolic Function in Patients with Chronic Systolic Heart Failure and Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease
  Fatima Samad MD, Atish Mathur MD, O.T. Niazi DO, Sukhjeet Singh DO, James Maher MD,
  Marc Klapholz MD

• Caseous Mitral Annual Calcification: Not Only in the Elderly
  V. Subbarao Boppana MD, Adam Raskin MD, Hayder Hashim MD, Steve Tsai MD FACC,
  Ralph Oriscello MD FACC

• Percutaneous Management of a Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysm
  Puneet Ghayal MD, Adam Raskin MD, Hayder Hashim MD, V. Subbarao Boppana MD,
  Preet Randhawa MD, Marc Klapholz MD

• Predictive Value of Selvester Score in Estimating Infarct Size in Patients Undergoing Primary
  Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
  Atish Mathur MD, Hayder Hashim MD, Puneet Ghayal MD, Adam Raskin MD, Christopher Di Giorgio MD, Victor Mazza MD, James Maher MD, Christine Gerula MD, Marc Klapholz MD

• DRESS Syndrome: The Great Masquerader
  Aileen Tlamsa MD, Gaurav Gandhi MD, Eugenio Capitle MD, and Rajendra Kapila MD

• Got milk? A rare cause of unexplained hypercalcemia: Burnett’s Syndrome
  Tasnim Imran, MD, Bailey Su, MS, Sweta Chandra, MD

• Pulmonary kaposi’s sarcoma as the initial presentation of human immunodeficiency virus
  Tasnim F. Imran, MD, Ziyaad Al-Khateeb, MD, Jin Jung, BA, Lisa Dever, MD

• Predictors of Cardiac Arrest on the Floor After MICU Stay at University Hospital
  Sarah Ramer MD MS, Margaret Aldrich MD, Ogbugo Emeh MD, Aleksey Tentler MD, Neil Kothari MD

• Are We Following USPSTF Recommendations for Breast Cancer Screening in Our Internal Medicine Outpatient Clinic
  Vinnidhy Dave, DO, Sean Sullivan, DO, John Kern, DO, Elaine Zhai, DO, Matthew Michaels DO, Aleksey Tentler MD, Mirela Feurdean, MD

• Integrating a Residency Longitudinal Quality Improvement Program with an 8+2 Ambulatory Block Schedule
  Aleksey Tentler MD, Mirela Feurdean MD, Mathew Michaels DO, lauren Blackwell MD,
  Steven Keller PhD, Neil Kothari MD

• Rapidly Progressing Renal Disease in a Patient with Chronic Polymyalgia Rheumatica
  Anthony Kim, MD; Michael Yudd, MD

• Treating Osteopenia in a Resident Run Clinic
  Leonard Genovese MD, Anthony Kim MD, Roopa Roy MD, Chinonye Ogbonnaya-Odor MD,
  Mirela Feurdean MD, Aleksey Tentler MD, Matthew Michaels, DO

• Hyperoxia and autophagy in cardiac myocytes
  Mahaa Umapathi MD; Narayani Nagarajan MSc; Sebastiano Sciarretta MD; Junichi Sadoshima MD, PhD

• Premedication in blood product transfusions: Is it an evidence based practice?
  Arpita Gandhi MD, Luvkarnjit Singh MD, Vishal Duggal MD, Lata Cherath MD, Matthew Michaels DO, Aleksey Tentler MD, Mirela Feurdean, MD

• Methanol Poisoning – A time sensitive diagnosis
  Luvkarnjit Singh MD, Nitin Behl MD, Jennine Michaud DO

• Adherence to HIV Screening Guidelines University Hospital Medical Clinic
  Sunil Kanwal MD, Gaurav Gandhi MD, Aleksey Tentler MD, Matthew J Michaels DO, Mirela Feurdean MD

• Measuring Resident Knowledge and Comprehension of the Affordable Care Act
  Ramneek Nakai DO, Marcus Sandling MD, Mariam Wassef DO, Jessica Riggs MD, Sunniya Khan MD, Cordero Floyd MD, Mirela Feurdean MD

• Referrals for Pulmonary Function Testing in the Ambulatory Care Clinic
  Aesha M Jobanputra, MD, Neal Patel, MD, Sergey Blintsovskiy, MD, Mitesh Shah, MD,
  Dennis Villegas, MD, Matthew Michaels, DO, Mirela Feurdean, MD, Aleksey Tentler, MD

• Assessment of Continuity in the Internal Medicine Residency Clinic
  Priya Umapathi, MD; Christine Orlowicz, MD; Ziyaad Al-Khateeb, MD; Sajid Mirza, MD; Mentors: Mirela Feurdean, MD; Matthew Michaels, DO, Aleksey Tentler, MD

• A case of rare transformation: Mycosis Fungoides to Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma, NOS with Natural Killer cell features.
  Arpita Gandhi M.D. and Victor Chang M.D.

• Molly Muscles
  Garikiparthy Jyothirmayi, Marijesmar Gonzalez, Nirav Patel

• Evaluation of Anti-Tuberculosis Medication Errors at a University Hospital with High Prevalence of Tuberculosis
  Patrick Buczynski MD, Celestine Ogenigbo MD, Jason Zucker MD, Shin-Pung Jen PharmD, David Cennimo MD, Amee Patrawalla MD

• Thyroid Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma
  Garikiparthy Jyothirmayi, Nirav Patel, Laurie Sanchez, Shail Maingi

• Mirizzi Syndrome and malignancy: case report
  Weredeselam Olango, MD, PhD, Aileen Talamsa, MD, Isis Herrera, MD, Nogba Pawoo, DO,
  Stephen Peters, MD

• Assessing Subjective Measures of Asthma Control in an Inner City Pediatric and Adolescent Population
  Nabil Abou Baker MD, Priya Patel MD, Regina Travis MD, Aleksey Tentler MD, Evelyn Montalvo Stanton MD

• Adherence to Aspirin Therapy for Primary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease and Cerebrovascular Accidents
  Tasnim Imran, MD, Mandeep Samra, MD, Srikanth Thiruvarudsothy, MD, Stephanie Kim, MD, Mirela Feurdean, MD, Aleksey Tentler, MD, Matthew Michaels, DO

• Advancing Drug Discovery Against XDR-TB: Novel Mtb InhA Inhibitors Identified Through a New
  Docking + Machine-Learning Paradigm
  Alexander L. Perryman, Xin Wang, Shao-Gang Li, Mi-Sun Koo, Pradeep Kumar, Arthur J. Olson, Sean Ekins, Joel S. Freundlich

• Evaluation of the Cost Effectiveness and Clinician’s Compliance with ACG Guidelines in the Diagnosis of Acute Pancreatitis: A Comparison between University Hospital and Hackensack University Medical Center
  Ying Margie Tang, MD, Pavan Patel, MD, Jason Ross, MD, Michael Agnelli, MD, Matthew Michaels, DO, Aleksey Tentler, MD, Mirela Feurdean, MD

• Recalling a Rare Case of Myonecrosis
  Sima Patel, Dr. Kapila, Dr. Raghuwanshi

• Cushing’s Syndrome- A Missed Diagnosis
  Margaret Duffy, M.D., Ruchi Kumari M.D., V. Velam, M.D., Peter Hannoush, M.D

• Reducing Length of Hospitalization for Osteomyelitis Patients While Improving Care and Reducing Costs
  Marcus Sandling MD, Xiangli Li MD, Amar Dixit MD, Mirela Feurdean MD, Matthew Michaels DO, Aleksey Tentler, MD

• The Philia of Thrombophilia Workup: The Laboratory Evaluation of Hypercoagulable State in a University Hospital
  Malgorzata Mysliwiec, MD; Sandra Aleksic, MD; Dina Khateeb, DO; Mubdiul Ali Imtiaz, MD; Hadi Bhurghri, MD; Michele Burday, PhD; Aleksey Tentler, MD; Matthew Michaels DO; Mirela Feurdean, MD

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