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13th Annual

Department of Medicine

Research Day

2015

Oral Presentations

Yucai Wang
Prognostic Role of Androgen Receptor Expression in Triple NegativeBreast Cancer

Theodore Markou
Colistin and its Effect on Renal Function: A Retrospective Review at an Urban Hospital

John Kileci
Variation in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Presentation Among Diabetics

Jason Zucker
Assessment of HIV Screening Process in a High Prevalence Emergency Department

Jill Konowich
A foil to itself: TLR2 signaling protects and damages host tissue
during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

Poster Session

• Comparison of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) tumor size at diagnosis in patients followed in a large academic liver center vs. patients identified and referred from the community
  Nneoma Okoronkwo MD, Raj Edula, MD, George Protopapas MD, Jackie Moore, Yucai Wang MD, PhD, Lizza Bojito-Marrero MD, Maliha Ahmad MD, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos MD, PhD, MBA
  

• Ascending Aortic Thrombus Presenting as Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
  Frank Wang, Nneoma Okoronkwo, Gabriele Di Luozzo

• Anticonvulsant Hypersensitivity Syndrome (AHS) Associated with a Symptom Free Period
  Shreya N. Patel, MD; Alan Wolff, MD
  

• Usefulness of Procalcitonin in Detection and Monitoring of Bacterial Infections
  Chawla, H.; Smith, S.M.; Eng, R.H.K.
  

• Pulmonary Sarcomatoid Carcinoma: Clinical Characteristics and Survival
  Narjust Duma MD, Martin Gutierrez MD
  

• Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in Women: Clinical and Pathologic Features
  Narjust Duma MD, Mohleen Kang MD, Martin Gutierrez MD

• Not All Myeloid Sarcomas Have a Liquid Friend!
  Narjust Duma MD, Stephan Faderl MD
  
  
• Effect of Body Mass Index on Patients with Late Stage Lung Cancer
  Narjust Duma MD, Harry Harper MD, Martin Gutierrez MD
  

• Are We Following the Guidelines for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Surveillance in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B at East Orange VA Medical Center?
  Natalie Cedeno MD, Yucai Wang MD PhD, Tekchand Ramchand MD, Nneoma Okoronkwo MD, Henry Scott Dinneen DO, Neil Kothari MD, Mirela Feurdean MD
  
  
• Acquired Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return as a Feature of Intra-Pulmonary Vaso Dilatation in End-Stage Liver Disease
  Hayder Hashim MD, Atish Mathur MD, Yulanka Castro MD, Shashank Jain MD, Saurabh Kapoor MD, Christine Gerula MD, Marc Klapholz MD
  

• Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Blood Isolates: Discordance in Ceftriaxone Susceptibilities
  Fernando Calero, MD, Shin-Pung Jen, PharmD, Lisa L. Dever, MD
  
  
• Post - Infusion Myocardial Infarction in a Patient Receiving IVIG
  Draikiwicz, S.; Arakali, S.; Capitle, E.
  
  
• Everything That Swells......Is Not Angioedema
  Reenal Patel MD, Alan Wolff MD
  
  
• Endocarditis and Mucormycosis in an elderly lady after Intravitreal Kenalog (Triamcinolone Acetonide) Injection
  John Arek Kileci, MD; Anthony Kim, MD; and Rafael Teran-Varga MD
  
  
• Creeping Vancomycin Resistance in MRSA and Impact on Duration of Bacteremia on Vancomycin Treatment
  Erina Khadka Kunwar, MD, Sharon Smith, PhD, Robert Eng, MD
  
  
• Outcomes of unsuccessful ERCPs at a Tertiary Care Center
  Sami Samiullah, Henry S. Dinneen, Gustavo Churrango, Hadi Bhurgri, Atuhani Burnett, Nneoma O. Okoronkwo, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos, Sushil Ahlawat
  
  
• Prognostic Role of Androgen Receptor Expression in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
  Yucai Wang, Yanru Wang, Fang Yang, Fengming Zhong, Xiaoxiang Guan
  
  
• Rutgers –NJMS HIV Screening Compliance: Are We Missing Opportunities?
  Joseph DeRose, DO; Jason Zucker, MD; David Cennimo, MD; Shobha Swaminathan, MD
  
  
• Follicular Thyroid Cancer Presenting as Massive Skull Metastasis
  Shira Eytan MD, David Bleich MD, James Liu MD, Maya Raghuwanshi MD, MPH
  
  
• Assessing Alarm Symptoms in Patients with GERD in the Outpatient Setting
  Pavan Patel MD, Jason Ross MD, Michael Agnelli MD, Nitasha Bhatia MD, H. Scott Dinneen DO, Neil Kothari MD, Mirela Feurdean MD
  
  
• An Evaluation of Routine HIV Screening in an Urban Hospital Setting
  Aileen Tlamsa, MD, Jason Zucker, MD, David Cennimo, MD
  
  
• The Cat’s in the Bag (of Dialysate)
  Daniel Pievsky DO, Igor Eyzner DO, Leia Rispoli MD, Samit Desai MD
  
  
• Risperidone unmasking an accessory pathway
  Tasnim F. Imran, MD, Osama T Niazi, DO, Ritesh Amin, MD, Victor Mazza, MD, Marc Klapholz, MD
  
  
• Adherence to Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines: Analysis of current practices in the VA New Jersey Health Care System
  Daniel Bodek DO, Margaret Duffy MD, H. Scott Dinneen DO, Mirela Feurdean MD, Neil Kothari MD
  
  
• Chronic periaortitis, a known cause of obstructive uropathy
  Margaret Duffy, Nicholas Harrell, Chinonye Ogbonnaya-Odor, Smita Mahendrakar, Nina Brogle, Michael Yudd
  
  
• Hemorrhagic pericardial effusion with tamponade: a rare initial presentation of lupus
  Margaret Duffy, MD, Moaz Choudhray, MD, V. Velam, MD, Sanjeev Patel, MD
  
  
• Appropriateness of Transthoracic Echocardiograms Requested for Inpatients at University Hospital
  Sobia Nizami MD, Tasnim F. Imran MD, Shijia Zhang MD, Srikanth Thiruvarudsothy MD, James M. Maher MD, H. Scott Dinneen DO, Mirela Feurdean MD, Neil Kothari MD
  
  
• Readability of Patient Education Materials and Health Literacy Assessment in UMDCare Clinic
  R. Razi-Akmal, MD, I. Brotman, MD, S. Lee, MD, S. Patel, MD, H. Dinneen, MD, M. Feurdean, MD, J. Garmon, MPH, A. Natale-Pereira, MD, N. Kothari, MD
  
  
• Cost Effective Evaluation Of A Patient With Rapidly Increasing Thyroxine Requirements
  Nisha Suda MD, MHA
  
  
• A Rare Case Of Polyglandular Autoimmune Disease Type III
  Roopa Roy, MD, Maya Raghuwanshi, MD, Young IL Seo, MD
  
  
• A Case of Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) - diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) of the jejunum
  Eric Yoon MD, Richard Arrigo DO, Sami Samiullah MD, Sandra Rodriguez MD, Michael Demyen MD, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos MD PhD MBA
  
  
• Poor adherence to AASLD guidelines for suspected NAFLD in an urban hospital:
  under-evaluating an overly prevalent disease
  Eric Yoon MD, Jill Deutsch MD, Henry S. Dinneen DO, Jason Zucker MD, Mirela Feurdean MD
  
  
• Drug screening against the obligate intracellular parasite, Rickettsia spp.
  A Lemenze, J Occi, N Connell
  
  
• Clostridium difficile Infection: Are we Over Testing and Over Treating at the East Orange VA?
  Jacqueline Burnell MD, Jill K Deutsch MD, Enoc J Fernandez-Ginorio MD, Ipsit Pandya MD, H Scott Dinneen DO, Neil Kothari MD, Mirela Feurdean MD
  
  
• Statin-Related Myopathy in Veterans with Low Vitamin D Levels
  Sandra Aleksic MD, Nisha Suda MD, Elaine Zhai DO, Tamara Khaimchayev MD, RoseMarie Pasmantier MD
  
  
• Expecting the Unexpected: A Micropapillary Thyroid-Type Carcinoma Arising in Struma Ovarii
  Sandra Aleksic, MD, Shuchie Jain, DO, Arpita Patel, MD, Jennifer Maerki, DO, Michael Magnotti, MD
  
  
• Osteoarticular Tuberculosis in an Inner City University Medical Center: Epidemiology and Outcomes
  Margaret Aldrich MD, Mukaddes Yasar MD, Lisa L. Dever MD
  
  
• Colistin and its Effect on Renal Function: A Retrospective Review at an Urban Hospital
  Theodore Markou, MD, Jason Zucker, MD, Polly Jen, PharmD, David Cennimo, MD
  
  
• Early Enteral Feeding in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital-NJMS
  Khaled Abu-Ihweij, MD, Joyoung Choi, MD, John Kern, DO, Mubdiul Ali Imitaz, MD, Scott Dinneen, DO, Neil Kothari, MD, Mirela Feurdean, MD
  
  
• Oropharyngeal Histoplasmosis, the Truth is in the Biopsy
  Claudia Miranda, MD, Michael Jaker, MD, Valerie Fitzhugh, MD, Lisa Dever, MD
  
  
• Successful Management of MGUS Associated Neuropathy With Rituximab
  Vivek Joseph MD, Narjust Duma MD, Joshua Richter MD
  
  
• Antibiotic Stewardship: The de-escalation of antibiotics in bacteremic patients at University Hospital
  Rishabh Gulati MD, Jaimie Mittal MD, Xiaobing Wang MD, Margaret Mysliwiec MD, Mirela Feurdean MD
  
  
• Impact of Stewardship Interventions on Antiretroviral Medication Errors at University Hospital: a Three Year, Multi-Phase Study
  Jaimie Shah MD, Jason Zucker MD, Polly Jen PharmD, BCPS, AAHIVP, David Cennimo MD, FACP, FAAP, AAHIVS
  
  
• Gynecological Cancers and Evaluation of Screening in Female HIV/AIDS Patients at University Hospital
  Jaimie Mittal MD, Sobia Nizami MD, Aileen Tlamsa MD, Mohleen Kang MD, Jason Zucker MD, David Cennimo MD
  
  
• Enhanced susceptibility of helminth and Mycobacterium tuberculosis coinfected mice is dependent on M2 macrophages and increased iron availability
  Jillian Dietzold, Archana Gopalakrishnan, G. Marcela Rodriguez, William Gause, and Padmini Salgame
  
  
• Role of Toll-Like Receptor 2 in protection against the hypervirulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain HN878
  Archana Gopalakrishnan, Jillian Dietzold and Padmini Salgame
  
  
• Improving Outpatient Osteoporosis Screening at NHCAC
  Ramneek Nakai DO, Sunniya Khan MD, Enoc Fernandez MD, Joseph DeRose DO, Rahim Wooley MD, H Scott Dinneen DO, Neil Kothari MD, Mirela Feurdean MD
  
  
• Darkest Before Dawn: Esophageal Melanocytosis Mimicking Primary Esophageal Melanoma
  H. Scott Dinneen DO, George Protopapas MD, Valerie Fitzhugh MD, Sushil Ahlawat MD
  
  
• Variation in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Presentation Among Diabetics
  John Arek Kileci, MD; Henry S Dinneen, DO; Marian R. Passannante, PhD; and Alfred A Lardizabal, MD
  
  
• ISOLATED NECK PAIN: A VERY RARE PRESENTATION OF RENAL CELL CARCINOMA
  Sobia Nizami MD, Narjust Duma MD, Fengming Zhong MD PhD, Victor T Chang MD, Basil S Kasimis MD
  
  
• FIB-4: AN INEXPENSIVE MARKER OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA IN PATIENTS WITH HIV
  AND HEPATITIS C CO-INFECTION
  Sobia Nizami MD, Jason Zucker MD, Shobha Swaminathan MD
  
  
• A Case of an Increasing Problem due to Prolonged Survival in HIV
  Kalpesh Patel MD, Jacqueline Burnell MD, Shashank Jain MD, Victor Chang MD
  
  
• Esophageal Foreign Body: A case of Garlic Clove impaction with Strep throat, Thanks Dear!
  Richard Arrigo DO, Kalpesh Patel MD, Zamir Brelvi MD
  
  
• Msi1 in maintaining breast cancer stem cell involves the AKT/PI3K pathway
  George R. Nahas, Garima A. Sinha, Lauren S. Sherman, Steven J. Greco, Pranela Rameshwar PhD
  
  
• Influenza immunization among resident physicians in an urban teaching hospital
  Mubdiul Ali Imtiaz, MD; Lawrence Budnick, MD; Andrew R. Berman, MD
  
  
• Differential phagocytosis and altered cytokine expression induced by laboratory derived and clinical strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro.
  Carrie A. Flynn, Archana Gopalakrishnan, and Padmini Salgame
  
  
• Adherence to urine microalbumin/creatinine ratio screening in diabetes mellitus and appropriate intervention in the Medicine Ambulatory Care Center Clinic since the introduction of the smart-text “.dmres”
  Njambi Mathenge MD, Claudia Miranda MD, Frank Wang MD, Peter Ricketti DO,
  Yulanka Castro-Dominguez MD, Henry S. Dinneen DO, Mirela Feurdean MD, Neil Kothari MD
  
  
• Premedication in blood product transfusions: Is it an evidence based practice?
  Vishal Duggal MD, Luvkarnjit Singh MD, Muhammad Umair Hussain MD, H. Scott Dinneen DO, Arpita Gandhi MD, Mirela Feurdean MD, Neil Kothari MD
  
  
• An Evaluation Of Hcv Screening In An Urban Primary Care Clinic
  Richard May, MD, Aileen Tlamsa, MD, Daniel Matassa, MD, Genevieve Streb, MD
  
  
• In vivo characterization of two clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis associated with different transmission phenotypes
  Sheetal Verma, Kamlesh Bhatt, Rodrigo Ribeiro Rodrigues, Edward C. Jones López, Moises Palaci, David Alland, Reynaldo Dietze, Jerrold J. Ellner and Padmini Salgame
  
  
• Altered Mental Status in a Patient with Sinusitis
  Lauren Blackwell, MD Rahim Wooley, MD, Lauren Koniaris, MD
  
  
• A Patient with Dry Eyes and Cough
  Rahim Wooley, MD Lauren Blackwell, MD Anne Sutherland, MD
  
  
• A covert complication of arteriovenous fistulas
  Tasnim F. Imran, Hayder Hashim, Abdel-Kareem Beidas, Ralph Oriscello
  
  
• Diabetic education at our diverse ambulatory clinic: Does it make a difference?
  Eric Yoon MD, John Arek Kileci MD, Shuchie Jaggi DO, Kathleen Carstens MD, H. Scott Dinneen DO, Neil Kothari MD, Mirela Feurdean MD
  
  
• Clinic Wait Times as a Barrier to Follow-Up
  Daniel Pievsky DO, Igor Eyzner DO, Renjit Thomas MD, Sajid Mirza MD, H. Scott Dinneen DO, Mirela Feurdean MD
  
  
• Disseminated Tuberculosis with an elevated CA-125
  Tlamsa, A, Suda, N, Eyzner, I, Kapila, R, Dever, L
  
  
• Assessment of HIV Screening Process in a High Prevalence Emergency Department
  Jason Zucker MD, Gregory Sugalski MD, David Cennimo MD, Shobha Swaminathan MD
  
  
• Evaluation of Appropriateness of Progressive Care Unit Utilization at University Hospital
  Yulanka Castro, Vivek Joseph, Tanzila Razzaki, Sima Patel
  
  
• A Quality Assessment Project: Medicine Residents’ Practice Regarding Treatment of Hyperglycemia in Non-Critically Ill Inpatients
  Elaine Zhai, DO, Sandra Aleksic MD, Zhen Wang MD, Adam Kibola MD, H. Scott Dinneen DO, Neil Kothari MD, Mirela Feurdean MD
  
  
• Turnaround Time for STAT Laboratory Orders at University Hospital Medical Intensive Care Unit
  Tanzib Hossain MD MS, Chinonye Ogbonnaya-Odor MD, Anthony Kim MD, Leia Rispoli MD, Scott Dineen DO, Mirela Feurdean MD, Neil Kothari MD
  
  
• Developing Parameters for Modeling the Impact of Treating IDU, HCV and HIV Infections on Mortality and Morbidity in Newark, New Jersey
  Jacqueline Burnell, MD, Jason Zucker, MD, Ruthie Birger, Heidi Robbins, Bryan Grenfell,
  Shobha Swaminathan, MD, Anushua Sinha, MD
  
  
• Outcome of Hypothermia Protocol: Experience from a Single Academic Medical Center
  Adam Raskin MD; Menhel Kinno MD; Frank Wang MD; Sean Dikdan MS; Njambi Mathenge MD; Atish Mathur MD; Alfonso Waller MD; Marc Klapholz MD
  
  
• Indentifying new genes involved in Pyrazinamide resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  Subramanya Lingaraju, Hassan Safi, Soumitesh Chakravorty, Laura Smith, Veronique Dartois, David Alland
  
  
• Healthcare in Tanzania: Master of Science in Health Monitoring & Evaluation
  Adam Kibola, MD
  
  
• Could it be syphilis?
  Adam Kibola, MD; Xiabing Wang, MD; Reenal Patel, MD; Lisa Dever, MD; Michael Jaker, MD
  
  
• Minimizing Radiation Exposure during ERCP by Avoiding Live or Continuous Fluoroscopy
  Jill Deutsch MD, Gustavo Churrango MD, Henry S. Dinneen DO, Jose Churrango MD, Samiullah MD, Sushil Ahlawat MD
  
  
• Implementation of Educational Interventions to Improve Breast Cancer Screening Rates in a Resident-run Clinic
  Larysa Sanchez MD, Narjust Duma MD, Theodore Markou MD, George Nahas MD, Jessica Riggs MD, Aleksey Tentler MD
  
  
• Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Characteristics in Patients with HIV infection
  Narjust Duma MD, Jaimie Mittal MD, Sobia Nizami MD, Mohleen Kang MD, Dina Khateeb DO, Jason Zucker MD, David Cennimo MD
  
  
• Delayed onset profound thrombocytopenia after treatment with Eptifibatide
  Chinonye Ogbonnaya-Odor MD, Pallavi Solanki MD
  
  
• Gastric Sarcoidosis
  Sowjanya Kanna, MD, Stephen R. Peters, MD, Christian Curcio, MD, Sushil K. Ahlawat, MD
  
  
• Assessing Subjective and Objective Measures of Asthma Control in an Inner City Pediatric
  and Adolescent Patient Population
  Nabil Abou Baker MD, Priya Patel MD, Regina Travis MD, Aleksey Tentler MD, Evelyn Montalvo Stanton MD
  
  
• Hypoglycemia Induced Coronary Vasospasm Mimicking Diffuse Pericarditis
  Jain, Shashank, Hashim, Hayder, Shaikh Sultan, Ahmed
  
  
• To Tap or Not to Tap: Left Ventricular Wall Rupture with Cardiac Tamponade Treated with Emergent Pericardiocentesis and Emergent Repair
  O.T. Niazi, Hayder Hashim, Tasnim F. Imran, Umair Tariq, Justin Sambol, Marc Klapholz
  
  
• A foil to itself: TLR2 signaling protects and damages host tissue during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
  Jill Konowich, Sheetal Verma, Wasiulla Rafi, Archana Gopalakrishnan, Jillian Dietzold, and Padmini Salgame
  
  
• Gender Differences in Long Term Survival after Trans-Catheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis
  Atish P. Mathur, Ahmed M. Abdel-Razek, Yulanka Castro Dominguez, Thomas Cocke, Pranaychandra Vaidya, Paul Andrews, Jock N. McCullough, Elie Elmann, Gabriele Di Luozzo, Tammy Russo, Joseph Parrillo,
  
  
• Sister Mary Joseph Node Innocuous rash to diagnosis of cancer
  Rishabh Gulati MD, Iris Herrera MD
  
  
• Optimizing Diagnostic and Treatment Efficiency of Osteomyelitis: A Single-Center Analysis
  Amar Dixit, MD, Xiangli Li, MD PhD, Patrick Mitchell, MD PhD, Marcus Sandling, MD, Mirela Feurdean, MD, Neil Kothari, MD, Stephen Sperber, MD
  
  
• An Uncommon Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients With Portal Hypertension
  Sandra Rodriguez, MD, Richard Arrigo, DO, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos, MD
  
  
• Visual Aids for Improving Medication Compliance and its effects on hypertension and diabetes control
  Shashank Jain MD, Kalpesh G Patel MD, Reza Amerinasab MD, H. Scott Dinneen DO, Mirela Feurdean MD, Neil Kothari MD
  
  
• Implementation of CURB-65 Criteria Usage in an Urban Emergency Department
  Brenda Dorcely MD, Young IL Seo MD, Jason Conway MD, Nicholas Harrell MD, H. Scott Dinneen DO, Neil Kothari MD, Mirela Feurdean MD

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