14th Annual Research Day 2016

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14th Annual

Department of Medicine

Research Day

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2016

 


 

Oral Presentations

Yucai Wang
A Measure of Intratumor Heterogeneity Predicts Metastasis and Metastasis-Free Survival in Patients with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Tanzib Hossain
The Effect of Volunteers on STAT Lab Turnaround Times in the University Hospital Medical Intensive Care Unit

Jacqueline Burnell
Using Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcal Aureus Nares Screening Data to Guide Initial Empiric Antibiotic Therapy

Alexander L. Perryman
A Novel, cell-trained approach to biological target-guided chemical tools and its application to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Alexander Lemenze
Novel anti-Rickettsial compounds identified through high throughput screening and computational machine learning algorithms.

Breanne E. Biondi
Clinical Epidemiology Insights from Large Cohort Studies: Focus on Liver Disease Outcomes in HCV-Infected Adults

 


 

Poster Session

  • An Evaluation of HCV Screening in an Urban Primary Care Clinic
    Daniel Matassa MD, Genevieve Streb MD, Hyunseok Kim MD, MPH, Richard May MD, Neil Kothari MD, Mirela Feurdean MD
  • Targeting IRF5 Activation for the Treatment of Lupus
    Steven Draikiwicz, MD; Saurav De; Eugenio Capitle, MD; Betsy Barnes, PhD
  • A Measure of Intratumor Heterogeneity Predicts Metastasis and Metastasis-Free Survival in Patients with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
    Yucai Wang, Fang Yang, Yanru Wang, Victor Chang, Xiaoxiang Guan
  • Effectiveness of Clinical Reminders in Primary Care Practice in the VA New Jersey Health Care System
    Riju Banerjee, Natalie Cedeno, Yucai Wang, Richard May, Mirela Feurdean, Neil Kothari
  • Time trends in the prevalence of Celiac disease and Gluten-free diet in the US population:
    Results from the National Health And Nutrition Survey (NHANES) 2009-2014
    Hyun-seok Kim, Kalpesh Patel, Evan Orosz, Neil Kothari, Michael Demyen, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos, Sushil K. Ahlawat
  • Characteristics of People without Celiac Disease and Avoiding Gluten: A population-based study
    Hyun-seok Kim, Kalpesh Patel, Evan Orosz, Jose Churrango, Jill Deutsch, Neil Kothari, Michael Demyen, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos, Sushil Ahlawat
  • Impact of Dietary Patterns on Obesity in the United States
    Hyun-seok Kim, Evan Orosz, Genevieve Streb, Natalie Cedeno, Kalpesh Patel, Neil Kothari, Michael Demyen
  • Survival prognosis of MGUS patients by clinical and risk subgroup: a result from a nationally representative prospective cohort
    Hyun-seok Kim, Jieqi Liu, Brittany Gladney, Neil Kothari, Noa Biran, Victor Chang, David Siegel
  • Optimizing the Use of Gene Expression Profiling in Early Stage Breast Cancer
    Hyunseok Kim, Christopher Umbricht, Peter Illei, Ashley Cimino-Mathews, Soonweng Cho, Nivedita Chowdhury,
    Maria Christina Figueroa-Magalhaes, Catherine Pesce, Stacie Jeter, Charles Mylander, Martin Rosman, Lorraine Tafra, Bradley Turner, David Hicks, Tyler Jensen, Dylan Miller, Deborah Armstrong, Roisin Connolly, John Fetting, Robert Miller, Ben Ho Park, Vered Stearns, Kala Visvanathan, Antonio Wolff, Leslie Cope
  • Implementing Pneumococcal Vaccination Guidelines in UH ACC: A Retrospective Analysis
    Khaled Abu-Ihweij, MD, Eman Rashed, MD, PhD, Ahmad Al-Turk, MD, Richard May, MD, Neil Kothari, MD, Mirela Feurdean, MD
  • Lung Cancer Prevention Through Application of a Lung Cancer Screening Program (LCSP)
    Ricardo Parrondo, MD, Veronica Mariotti, MD, Larysa Sanchez, MD, Narjust Duma, MD, Richard May, MD, Mirela Feurdean, MD, Neil Kothari, MD
  • A Case of Rapidly Growing Adrenal Mass and Hyperpigmentation Caused by Disseminated Tuberculosis
    Roopa Roy, MD, David Bleich, MD, Maya Raghuwanshi, MD
  • The Use of Impella RP for Recovery from Acute Right Ventricular Failure
    Elena Dolmatova, Kasra Moazzami, Elie Elmann, Pranay Vaidya, Arthur Ng, Kumar Satya, Rajeev Narayan
  • Chordae Tendineae Rupture in the United States: Trends of Outcomes, Costs and Surgical Interventions
    Elena Dolmatova, MD, Kasra Moazzami, MD, MPH, James Maher, MD, Marc Klapholz, MD, Justin Sambol, MD, Alfonso Waller, MD
  • Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in High Risk and Complicated Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
    Elena Dolmatova, Kasra Moazzami, Thomas Cocke, Elie Elmann, Pranay Vaidya, Arthur Ng, Kumar Satya, Rajeev Narayan
  • Predictors of Cardiac Tamponade from Permanent Pacemaker Implantation: Analysis of 1,014,713 Procedures
    Elena Dolmatova, MD, Kasra Moazzami MD, MPH, Victor Mazza, MD, Marc Klapholz, MD, Alfonso Waller, MD
  • Trends in Permanent Pacemaker and Implantable Cardioverter Defi brillators among Patients with Sarcoidosis in the United States: From 2000 to 2012
    Elena Dolmatova, Kasra Moazzami, Victor Mazza, Marc Klapholz, Alfonso Waller
  • In-Hospital Outcome and Complications of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in the U.S. between 2008 & 2012
    Kasra Moazzami, Elena Dolmatova, James Maher, Christine Gerula, Marc Klapholz, Justin Sambol, Alfonso Waller
  • Successful Use of Surgically Placed Impella and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Circuit in a Patient with Cardiogenic Shock
    Kasra Moazzami, Elena Dolmatova, Thomas Cocke, Elie Elmann, Pranay Vaidya, Arthur Ng, Kumar Satya, Rajeev Narayan
  • Comparison of In-Hospital Outcomes and Complications between Transfemoral and Transapical Approaches for Patients Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in the United States: Analysis of 8,903 Procedures
    Kasra Moazzami, MD, MPH; Elena Dolmatova, MD; Marc Klapholz, MD; Justin Sambol, MD; Alfonso Waller, MD
  • Left Ventricular Mechanical Support with Impella during Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
    Kasra Moazzami, Elena Dolmatova, Thomas P Cocke, Elie Elmann, Pranay Vaidya, Arthur F Ng, Kumar Satya, Rajeev L Narayan
  • Trends in Cardiac Tamponade Among Recipients of Permanent Pacemakers in the United States: 2008 to 2012
    Kasra Moazzami, MD, MPH, Elena Dolmatova, MD, Victor Mazza, MD, Marc Klapholz, MD, Alfonso Waller, MD
  • Clostridium difficile: Are We Following Treatment Guidelines?
    Rishabh Gulati, Seth Lichtenstein, Luke Chong, Jaimie Shah, Xiaobing Wang, Richard May, Mirela Feurdean, Neil Kothari
  • Isolated direct hyperbilirubinemia from Cytarabine arabinoside: A case report
    Seth Lichtenstein, Rishabh Gulati, Michael Silverberg
  • Efficacy of Influenza Vaccination Awareness in a Resident Run Clinic
    Komal Patel MD, Elizabeth Tam MD, John Kileci MD, Eric Yoon MD, Richard May MD, Neil Kothari MD, Mirela Feurdean MD
  • A Case of Multiple Autoimmune Conditions Following Accidental Exposure to Hydrazine
    Lena Shalem, MD, Roopa Roy, MD, RoseMarie Pasmantier, MD, John Shin, MD
  • Quality of Life in Eosinophilic Esophagitis
    S. N. Patel MD, J Oppenheimer MD, T Feldman MD, A Langseder, O Koslowe MD, P Wilmot MD, M Perez MD, A Leiby MD, J Rosh MD, B Verga MD, N. Pandey MD
  • Appropriateness of Cardiac Testing for Preoperative Risk Assessment in Resident Clinic
    Daniel Pievsky DO, Igor Eyzner DO, Renjit Thomas MD, Ramya Undamatla MD, Rich May MD, Neil Kothari MD, Mirela Feurdean MD
  • Staphylococcus lugdunensis presenting as Dacryoadenitis in an HIV positive Female Patient
    Haimavathi Bhat, DO, MPH, Rajendra Kapila, MD, Neena Mirani, MD
  • Blood Glucose Screening Rates in Patients with Hypertension at the North Hudson Community Action Center (Hackensack, NJ)
    Rahim Wooley MD, Joseph DeRose DO, Arooj Babar MD, Rima Panchal MD, Richard May MD, Mirela Feurdean MD, Neil Kothari MD
  • The Effect of Volunteers on Turnaround Time for STAT Laboratory Orders at University Hospital Medical Intensive Care Unit
    Tanzib Hossain MD MS, Chinonye Ogbonnaya-Odor MD, Camille Johnson MD, Richard May MD, Mirela Feurdean MD, Neil Kothari MD
  • Assessing Alarm Symptoms in Patients with GERD in the Outpatient Setting
    Michael Agnelli, Nitasha Bhatia, Sejal Kothadia, Jieqi Liu, Richard May, Mirela Feurdean, Neil Kothari
  • Advanced Planning Discussions in the Medicare Population of the Medicine/Pediatrics Primary Care Clinic
    Natasha Piracha MD, Abeer Siddiqi MD, Rahool Davé MD, Aleksey Tentler MD
  • The Use of a Reduced-Intensity Conditioning (RIC) Regimen in Patients Ages 2-30 Undergoing Allogeneic Transplantation for Sickle Cell Disease
    Natasha Piracha, MD, Alfred P. Gillio, MD, Nancy Durning, APN, CBMT, Jeanette Haugh, RN, APN, CCRC, Melanie Hankewycz, APN, CPHON, CPNP-PC, Barbara Adler-Brecher, MS, CHTC, Jennifer Krajewski, MD
  • Coexistence of Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia and parathyroid adenoma in a family: A case report
    Ramya Undamatla MD, Maya Raghuwanshi MD, Joshua Kaplan MD
  • Hepatitis C Virus Screening in Baby Boomers at a Resident-Led Ambulatory Care Center
    Nyneju Nmah MD, Olawale Onibile MD MPH, Patrick Mitchell MD PhD, Amar Dixit MD, Richard May MD, Mirela Feurdean MD, Neil Kothari MD
  • Analysis of Venom Hypersensitivity Reactions and Subsequent Preventative Management in a VA Patient Population
    Priya Patel MD, Alan Wolff, MD
  • Demographic evaluation of Veteran users of secure messaging
    Shaun Shahani, Pearl Korenblit, Richard Carr, Pauline Thomas, Lynn Davis
  • Isolated anomalous left main coronary artery presenting as aborted sudden cardiac death in an elderly patient
    Njambi Mathenge; Monali Patel; Osama T. Niazi; Sheila Sherzoy; Martha L. Castro; Louis E. Teichholz; Alfonso Waller; James Maher
  • Guidelines Compliance in the Practice of RBC Transfusion and Associated Patient Outcomes
    Zhen Wang MD, Elaine Zhai DO, Sandra Aleksic MD, Adam Kibola MD, Teja Ganta, Richard May MD, Neil Kothari MD, Mirela Feurdean MD
  • Ocular Toxoplasmosis in the Immune-Competent Adult: Horse or Zebra?
    Eman Rashed MD, PhD, Neil Kothari MD
  • Golimumab Induced CNS/Pulmonary Sarcoidosis
    Z. Wang, E. Capitle, M. Jaker, S. Mahendrakar, R. Banerjee, C. A. Curcio
  • Nighttime onsite fellow coverage of medical intensive care unit (MICU): Impact on patient outcomes
    Yuriy Takhalov MD, Stanley Weiss MD, John Kileci, MD, Anne K. Sutherland, MD
  • Therapeutic Hypothermia outcomes comparison in Ventricular Fibrillation/Ventricular Tachycardia Arrest patients versus Pulseless Electrical Activity Arrest
    Monali Patel, DO; Carlos Osorio, MD; Maulin Patel, MD; Moaz Choudhry, MD; Richard May, MD; Mirela Feurdean, MD; Neil Kothari, MD
  • Unstable hemoglobins: A case report of Koln’s hemoglobinopathy?
    Rishabh Gulati, Seth Lichtenstein, Nisha Suda, Venkatabharti Velam, Mark Pascal
  • Thoracentesis in Cirrhotics (TiC Study) – Incidence of Hemorrhagic Complications of Thoracentesis in Cirrhotic Patients
    Rahim Wooley MD, Steven Kim MD, Keith Guevarra DO
  • RNA binding protein Musashi 1 interacts with HuD in breast cancer cells to stabilize the TAC1 transcript: Implication for cancer stem cells
    Veronica Mariotti, Garima Sinha, Pranela Rameshwar
  • Role of Toll-Like Receptor 2 in protection against the hypervirulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain HN878
    Archana Gopalakrishnan, Jillian Dietzold, Padmini Salgame
  • Internal Medicine Residents’ Knowledge, Perceptions, and Barriers Regarding Treatment of Hyperglycemia in Non-Critically Ill Inpatients With Diabetes
    Sandra Aleksic MD, Tanzila Razzaki MD, Elaine Zhai DO, Zhen Wang MD, Adam Kibola MD,Neil Kothari MD, Mirela Feurdean MD
  • Vitamin D Replacement Practices in Veterans With Vitamin D Insufficiency/Deficiency: Are We Accomplishing Our Goals?
    Tanzila Razzaki MD, Sandra Aleksic MD, Nisha Suda MD, Tamara Khutorskoy MD, Elaine Zhai DO, RoseMarie Pasmantier MD
  • Assessing Pediatric Medical Transition Readiness in an Urban Environment
    Nabil Abou Baker, Priya Patel, Pauline Yi, Celestine Odenigbo, Evan Orosz, Kristin Wong
  • Identifying biomarkers of exit from TB latency in HIV-infected using whole blood transcriptional signatures
    Sheetal Verma, Peicheng Du, Samantha Leong, David Lewinsohn, Yukari Manabe, Jerrold Ellner, Padmini Salgame
  • Residents’ and Fellows’ Perception of Patient Safety and Use of Patient Safety Event Reporting at University Hospital
    Sarah Ramer, MD, MS, Mary Elizabeth Swift-Taylor, MD, Aleksey Tentler, MD
  • Effect of Smart-Text Implementation on Adherence to Outpatient Adult HIV Screening Guidelines
    Njambi Mathenge, MD; Claudia Miranda, MD; Frank Wang, MD; Brittany Gladney, MD; Yucai Wang, MD; Richard May, MD; Neil Kothari, MD; Mirela Feurdean, MD
  • Palliative Care Consult in Non-ICU Patients: An Unmet Need
    Mohleen Kang MD, Nisha Suda MD, Hussam Eltoukhy MD, Sejal Kothadia MD, Komal Patel MD, Yulanka Castro MD, Richard May MD, Susanne Walther APN, Neil Kothari MD, Mirela Feurdean MD, Anne Sutherland MD
  • Analysis of Use of CT Head in Pediatric Emergency Department using Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) Guidelines
    Mok, E., MD; Munir, F. DO; Buczynski, P., MD; Connors, J., MD; Meshkati, M., MD; Banugaria, S.; Tentler, A., MD; Kondamudi, N., MD
  • Referral for Pulmonary Function Testing in the Ambulatory Care Clinic After Resident Education and Introduction of Unified Screening Technique
    Dennis Villegas, MD, Chi Chi Ezeonu, MD, Elena Dolmatova, MD, Edrik Acevedo, MD, Richard May, MD, Mirela Feurdean, MD
  • Evaluation of Appropriateness of Progressive Care Units Utilization at University Hospital
    Yulanka Castro MD, Vivek Joseph MD, Tanzila Razzaki MD, Natalija Odanović MD, Richard May MD, Neil Kothari MD, Anne Sutherland MD, Mirela Feurdean MD
  • Compliance of Statin Therapy with ACC and AHA Guidelines Before and After Resident Education
    Christopher Estiverne, MD; Tamara Khaimchayev, MD; Gustavo Churrango, MD; Kevin Hou, MD; Richard May, MD; Neil Kothari, MD; Mirela Feurdean, MD
  • Chemosensitization of Dormant Breast Cancer Stem Cells by Dual Inhibition of g-Secretase and Notch
    Hussam Eltoukhy, Garima Sinha, Pranela Rameshwar
  • Using Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcal Aureus Nares Screening Data to Guide Initial Empiric Antibiotic Therapy
    Jacqueline Burnell, MD, Melanie Valentin-Torres, MD, Sharon M Smith, PhD, Robert H K Eng, MD
  • Utility of Elevated Procalcitonin Level in Patients with Acute Kidney Injury
    Sobia Nizami MD, Shijia Zhang MD, Kasra Moazzami MD, Srikanth Thiruvadsothy MD, Richard May MD, Mirela Feurdean MD, Neil Kothari MD
  • Examining the effect of intracolonic instillation of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus and Micavibrio aeruginosavorus in a rat model
    Kenneth Shatzkes, Eric Singleton, Chi Tang, Michael Zuena, Sean Shukla, Shilpi Gupta, Sonal Dharani, Daniel E. Kadouri, Nancy D. Connell
  • A Novel, cell-trained approach to biological target-guided chemical tools and its application to Mycobacterium tuberculosis
    Alexander L. Perryman, Xin Wang, Shao-Gang Li, Steven D. Paget, Thomas P. Stratton, Arthur J. Olson, Sean Ekins, Joel S. Freundlich
  • A Different Ticking Time Bomb: A Case of Babesiosis with Petechial Rash
    Aileen Tlamsa, MD; Ariadne Panagiotou, BA; Patrick Mitchell, MD, PhD; Steven Sperber, MD
  • Head and Neck Malignancies Associated with HIV
    E. Liliana Kim, MD; Ishita Sheth, MD; Rajendra Kapila, MD
  • Novel anti-Rickettsial Compounds Identified Through High-Throughput Screening and Computational Machine Learning Algorithms
    Lemenze A, Perryman A, Freundlich J, Connell N
  • A Unique Presentation of Disseminated Histoplasmosis Infection Following TNF-Alpha Therapy
    DeRose J, DO, Tlamsa A, MD, Babar A, MD, Patel K, MD, Mannion C, MD
  • Clinical Epidemiology Insights from Large Cohort Studies: Focus on Liver Disease Outcomes in HCV-Infected Adults
    Breanne Biondi, Daniel Rosenblum, PhD, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos, MD, Stanley Weiss, MD
  • Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma Presenting as Chylothorax and Chylous Ascites
    H. Scott Dinneen DO, Priya Patel MD, Sean Sullivan DO, Hadi Bhurgri MD, Rich Arrigo MD, Jose Churrango MD, Raj Edula MD, Sowjyanna Kanna MD, Matthew Kutner MD, Bingru Xie MD, Christopher Lenza MD, Thomas Park MD, Isabella Rellosa MD, Sima Vossough MD
  • Appropriate Use of Endoscopy: A Quality Improvement Study
    Matthew Kutner DO, Mitchell Kim MS3, Michael Demyen, DM, Zamir Brelvi, MD,
    Sushil Ahlawat, MD, PhD, MBA, FACP, AGAF
  • ACETAMINOPHEN TOXICITY CAUSING HEMOLYSIS IN G6PD DEFICIENCY
    Annu Gupta MD, Sirish Sanaka MD, Vivek Lingiah MD, Phoenix Fung MD, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos MD
  • HEPATIC ANGIOMYOLIPOMA MIMICKING HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA
    Annu Gupta MD, Sirish Sanaka MD, Vivek Lingiah MD, Phoenix Fung MD, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos MD
  • Ampullary GIST: The Utility of Endoscopic Ultrasound
    Hadi Bhurgri, MD
  • An interesting case of refractory ascites after Orthotopic Liver Transplantation managed with antiviral therapy
    Imad Asaad, MD,Raj Edula, MD, Vivek Lingiah, MD, Phoenix Fung, MD, Vrushak Deshpande, MD, Annu Gupta, MD, Neena Mirani, MD, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos MD
  • New Techniques: The AXIOS Stent and Electrocautery-Enhanced Delivery System in Cystgastrostomy
    Richard J. Arrigo, DO, Rosario Ligresti, MD, FASGE
  • Cecal Intubation Rate for Screening Colonoscopies at an Inner-City University Hospital
    Churrango, Jose; Kim, Ki-Yoon; Ghadiali, Jay; kim, Hyunseok; Johnson, Camille; Demyen, Michael
  • Cystic Duct Remnant Mucocele Developed after Cholecystectomy: A Case Report and Systemic Review
    Bingru Xie, Michael Demyen, Weizheng Wang, Zamir Brelvi, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos, Sushil Ahlawat
  • Fluoroscopic Technique in ERCP Matters More Than Experience for Radiation Exposure
    Jill K. Deutsch, Gustavo Churrango, Henry S. Dinneen, Jose Churrango, Sami Samiullah, Sushil K. Ahlawat
  • Hematemesis in a Patient with a Bariatric Intragastric Balloon
    Hadi Bhurgri, MD
  • Not all Hepatic Encephalopathy is Cirrhosis
    Sowjanya Kanna MD, Vivek Lingiah MD, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos MD
  • Racial and Economic Inequality Trends in Esophageal and Colorectal Malignancies in the US from 1992-2007
    Daniel Bodek, Pavan Patel
  • A Rare Case of a Poorly Differentiated Neuroendocrine Rectal Tumor With Shared CLL Histology
    Daniel Bodek, Thomas Park, Shahida Ahmed, Nitasha Bhatia, Mubdiul Ali Imtiaz, Shanthi Srinivas
  • Impact of Hospital Teaching Status on Mortality, Length of Stay and Cost among Patients with Cardiac Arrest in the United States
    Elena Dolmatova, MD, Kasra Moazzami, MD, MPH, Marc Klapholz, MD, Neil Kothari, MD, Mirela Feurdean, MD, Alfonso Waller, MD
  • Abdominal Aortic Aneurism Screening in the East Orange Veterans Affairs Hospital
    Vishal Duggal MD, Edward Rojas MD, Muhammad Hussain MD, Richard May MD, Mirela Feurdean MD, Neil Kothari MD
  • Classifi cation of Asthma in a Resident Based Primary Care Clinic
    Sima Patel, DO; Saritha Kartan, MD; Yulanka Castro, MD

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