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Internal Medicine Residency Program

Resident Research

 

Temple University is rapidly expanding its research base and Temple residents benefit from this dedication to research. Despite maintaining a busy schedule, most of Temple's residents engage in clinical or basic research. We have had numerous residents successfully participate in regional, national, and international competitions, with prize-winning results. Each resident is encouraged to engage in scholarly activity, ranging from an evidence-based review of an assigned topic to a longitudinal bench project. Research electives are offered, allowing residents to focus on a topic under supervision of a faculty mentor during an elective block.

 

This section contains information for residents interested in clinical investigation opportunities, as well as resources for those nearing the publication or presentation stage. Take a look at some of the resident accomplishments for the 2008-2009 year below, and find inspiration in the results our residents have achieved.



PUBLICATIONS:

Resident

Journal Citation

Lalitha Parameswaran

Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening among African Americans, Linking Risk Perception to Interventions Targeting Patients, Communities and Clinicians. Journal of the National Medical Association 2008 Jun;100(6):748-58.  PMID: 18595582

Twee Sim

Complete Restriction of Fluoroquinolone Use to Control an Outbreak of Clostridium difficile Infection at a Community Hospital. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2009;30(3):264-72.

Julie Collins

With Man’s Best Friend, in: Infections of Leisure.  4th edition. Schlossberg D (ed).   ASM Press, Washington DC 2009. In press

Brett Laurence

Fishing for the cause of cellulitis. Consultant 2009. In Press.

Fran Burt

ECG Errors: Understanding And Rapid Identification Of Mistaken Lead Placement.  Submitted to Annals of Internal Medicine. 

Matt Bohm

Treatment of Eosinophilic Esophagitis:  Overview, Current Limitations and Future Direction. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 2009;103(10): 2635-2644. 

Kian Makipour

Dyssynergic Defecation:  Symptoms and/or physiologic tests.  Submitted and under review.

Gelsey Lynn

What’s the Take Home:  Severe Persistent Abdominal Pain in a Young Woman.  The Consultant 2008, 48(10): 804-807.

Orlando Escarcega Nishant Goel

The Brugada Syndrome.  Submitted and under review.

Brett Laurence

Fishing for a Cause of Cellulitis. Submitted and under review.

Amy Mackenzie

Controversies in communication of genetic risk for hereditary breast cancer.  The Breast Journal.  In press.

Y. Richard Wang

Trends of Heller myotomy hospitalizations for achalasia in the United States, 1993-2005: Effect of surgery volume on perioperative outcomes. American Journal of Gastroenterology 2008;103:2454-2464.

Y. Richard Wang

Do faster FDA drug reviews adversely affect patient safety? An analysis of the 1992 Prescription Drug User Fee Act. Journal of Law and Economics 2008:51;377-406.

Y. Richard Wang

Use of the Gastroparesis Cardinal Symptom Index in symptomatic patients referred for gastric emptying scintigraphy. Digestion 2008;78:144-151.

Orlando Escarcega

Accelerated atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus: perspectives towards decreasing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Lupus. 2009;18(5):383-6.

Orlando Escarcega

Ambulatory transradial angioplasty in Mexico: Is it possible? Arch Med Res. 2008 Jan;39(1):147-8.

Orlando Escarcega

Transradial percutaneous coronary intervention without on-site cardiac surgery for stable coronary disease and myocardial infarction: preliminary report and initial experience in 174 patients.  Submitted.

Vikram Paralkar

Population Characteristics and Prognostic Factors in Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Fox Chase Cancer Center Retrospective. Clinical Lung Cancer 2008; 9(2):116-121.

Vikram Paralkar

Worlds apart - Tuberculosis in India and in the United States.

New England Journal of Medicine 2008;358:1092-1095.

PMID: 18337599

Matthew Lammi

Candida krusei Lung Abscess in an Immunocompetent Man.  Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice. 2009;17(1):58-60 

Sophia Li

Effects of methotrexate use in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis.  J Clin Rheumatol. 2008 Aug;14(4):241-2. 

Sophia Li

Use of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) antagonists infliximab, etanercept, and adalimumab in patients with concurrent rheumatoid arthritis and hepatitis B or hepatitis C: a retrospective record review of 11 patients. Clin Rheumatol. March 2009. PMID: 19291350

Adrienne Freidl

Vitamin D Deficiency. Consultant 2009. In Press.

Brooke Worster

HIV in the Elderly: A case report and brief review.  Geriatrics.  In press.

Jose Torres

Difference on dominant frequency during human ventricular fibrillation with P shock vs burst pacing. Submitted.

Jay Litsky

The incidence of CAD in patients with severe COPD: utility of diagnostic testing and clinical implications.  Submitted.

Joe Franco

Right-Sided Chest Pain in a Woman with Diabetes.  Consultant. 2008;48(11):871-873.

Jay Litsky

The incidence of CAD in patients with severe COPD: utility of diagnostic testing and clinical implications.  Submitted.

Monik Kowalczyk

Cyclic Vomiting.  Submitted to Journal of General Internal Medicine.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Resident

Conference Attended

Project Title

Julie Collins

Shaden Eldakar

Jose Menajovsky

Conference on Retrovirus and Opportunistic Infections, Montreal, February 2009

Characteristics and Demographics of Undiagnosed HIV in an Urban Emergency Room.  Poster presentation.

Matt Bohm

Digestive Disease Week June, 2009

Chicago, IL

A long term follow up of 16 patients with eosinophilic esophagitis.  Poster presentation.

Umar Khayyam

Digestive Disease Week June, 2009

Chicago, IL

Simultaneous Assessment of Symptoms during Gastric Emptying Scintigraphy to correlate symptoms to delayed Gastric emptying. Oral presentation.

Jane Jaffe

Digestive Disease Week June, 2009

Chicago, IL

Characteristics of Nausea in Diabetic and Idiopathic Gastroparesis. Poster presentation.

Richard Walters

Digestive Disease Week June, 2009

Chicago, IL

Symptoms suggesting delayed gastric emptying in symptomatic patients undergoing gastric emptying scintigraphy. Poster presentation.

Joseph Kim

Digestive Disease Week June, 2009

Chicago, IL

Gastroparesis exacerbation in the setting of primary or secondary adrenal insufficiency. Poster presentation.

Richard Wang

Digestive Disease Week June, 2009

Chicago, IL

Trends and Outcomes of Hospitalizations for Peptic Ulcer Disease in the United States, 1993-2006.  Poster presentation.

Zubair Malik

Dinu Cherian

Digestive Disease Week June, 2009

Chicago, IL

Obesity and the Incidence of Post-Operative Complications.  Poster presentation.

Dana Kretschman

American Thoracic Society, 2009

San Diego, CA

Effect of Lung Volume Reduction Surgery on Body Mass Index. Poster presentation.

Brian Civic

American Thoracic Society, 2009

San Diego, CA

The effect of radiographic phenotype on dynamic hyperinflation in patients with COPC. Poster presentation.

Aaron Czysz

American Thoracic Society, 2009

San Diego, CA

Emphysema Burden & Distribution on CT in relation to Mortality in AECOPD.  Poster presentation.

Jason Krahnke

American Thoracic Society, 2009

San Diego, CA

Chronic bronchitis symptoms in severe COPD are associated with increased exacerbation frequency and less emphysema.  Poster presentation.

Ankur Gupta

European Society of Cardiology Conference EuroPrevent,

May 2009

Stokholm, Sweden

Statin/niacin combination therapy may be better than statin therapy alone in reducing low-density lipoprotein particle concentration as measured by nuclear magnetic resonance. - Poster Presentation.

Lalitha Parameswaran

American College of Physicians.  Regional Meeting.

October 2008.

Philadelphia, PA

A case of mistaken identity: Peritoneal Tuberculosis. Poster presentation.

Yu Sung Kim

American College of Physicians.  Regional Meeting.

October 2008.

Philadelphia, PA

A case of Panhypopituitarism due to Neurosarcoid.  Poster Presentation.

B12 Deficiency due to nitric oxyde intoxication.  Poster Presentation.

Regina Jacob

Society of General Internal Medicine

Regional Meeting, 2009

New Brunswick, NJ

Older Woman Affected by Family Violence:

Patient Perspectives on Provider Inquiry .  Poster presentation.

Leilani Lee

Society of General Internal Medicine

Regional Meeting, 2009

New Brunswick, NJ

Streptococcal Meningitis in an asplenic patient already immunized with pneumovax.  Poster presentation.

Vishnu Oruganti

Society of General Internal Medicine

Regional Meeting, 2009

New Brunswick, NJ

Reverse Munchies: A Case of Cannabanoid Hyperemesis.

Winner: Best Resident Presentation

Awarded Best Overall Resident Presentation

Ankur Gupta

Society of General Internal Medicine

Regional Meeting, 2009

New Brunswick, NJ

Beware of polypharmacy! Smoky tea colored urine developing suddenly in a kidney transplant recipient

Awarded Best Resident Oral Presentation

Julie Collins

Shaden Eldakar

Jose Menajovsky

Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting

Miami, Fl 

May 2009

Seroprevalence of HIV in an Urban Emergency Department. Special oral plenary session presentation.

Shabana Shahid

Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting

Miami, Fl 

May 2009

A case where the brain does not have all the answers.  Poster presentation.

Shaden Eldakar

Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting

Miami, Fl 

May 2009

The Prevalence of Black Market Prescription Drug Use Among an Urban Patient Population.  Poster presentation.

Courtney Lewis

Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting

Miami, Fl 

May 2009

 Wegener's Granulomatosis or Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis: Questioning the Diagnosis.  Poster presentation.

Colleen Hanley

Nishant Goel

Orlando Escarcega

American Heart Association 10th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke. April 2009.

Washington DC.

Hyperglycemic Treatment in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients Differs Based on Gender.  Poster presentation.

 

Available Resources:

Authorship Guidelines (pdf, 14.5 KB)

 

Resources for New Investigators (html).  This website at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) addresses the needs of young investigators applying for funding from the NIH for the first time. While NIH funding is not usually obtained by residents, the site has a wealth of information regarding grant-funded clinical investigation.

 

The 2007 SGIM presentation by Lisa Willett, MD titled “Getting your Vignette Published” (pdf, 28.5 KB) offers many tips, as well as a comprehensive list of publications which accept case reports.

 

How to write a case report: Anwar et al., BMJ (2003), 327:153-154 (html) .  There is also a presentation “Writing Case Reports” (pdf, 513.66 KB) by Atul Khasnis, MD from Michigan State University that may be of help.

 

An example of a vignette abstract submission (pdf, 29.6 KB).

 

The article “The Art of Oral Presentations" (pdf, 29 KB) provides tips on giving a successful presentation.  Additional tips are also available through the following article,"Oral Presentation Tips" (pdf, 33 KB).  An example of an award winning presentation given in 2007 by Dr. Jose Torres at the National SGIM meeting is also available (pdf, 1.06 MB).

 

Tips on creating a poster presentation (pdf, 40 KB) as well as an example for a poster template used at a recent national meeting (pdf, 91KB).

 

The Temple University Institutional Review Board has an informative website located at: http://www.research.temple.edu/irb/index.html.