Inside IM
News from the Department of Internal Medicine
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This is an exciting time of year! We have just finished the 2018-19 academic year with some wonderful celebrations (residency and fellowship banquets and annual research awards) and we welcome the new academic year and our new residents, fellows, faculty, and staff. The June resident banquet focused on our graduating residents and several awards were announced. Please take a look at the story to learn more.
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Wigton Heritage Groundbreaking Ceremony
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On June 24th the campus community gathered to ceremonially break ground on its own campus welcome center -- the Wigton Heritage Center -- as well as launch the renovation of Wittson Hall and the McGoogan Library.
Robert Wigton, MD
, is a 1969 alumnus of the College of Medicine who served as professor in internal medicine at UNMC and in several key administrative areas in the College of Medicine, including associate dean for graduate medical education. The Wigton legacy spans three generations with several physicians within the family serving UNMC.
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Veteran's Affairs Research Week
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The Veteran's Affairs (VA) of Nebraska celebrated the National VA Research week during the second week of May. The VA medical Center hosted a special research seminar at the Omaha VA honoring prominent clinical scientist
James O'Dell, M.D.
, Stokes Shackleford Professor, vice chair of the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine, and chief of rheumatology at the Omaha VA Medical Center. To learn more about this event
click here
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New fellowship to train physicians in hospice, palliative medicine approved
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Al Fisher, MD, PhD
., Chief of the division of Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Palliative Medicine shares that the new one-year fellowship program will help alleviate a shortage of physicians trained in hospice and palliative medicine. The fellowship will also expand educational capacity for additional learning including medical students, nursing students and resident physician in the end-of-life care. To read the article
click here
and
click here
for more information on how to apply.
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Nebraska Medical Center designated as a Blue Distinction Centers+ for Cardiac Care
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This national designation recognizes health care facilities that demonstrate expertise in delivering quality specialty care – safely, effectively and cost efficiently.
“Our Heart and Vascular Network is very proud to receive the Blue Distinction Center+,” says
Daniel Anderson, MD
, interim chief for the Heart and Vascular Network. “The designation is a great acknowledgement of our commitment to provide high-quality care in an environment that remains mindful of costs to deliver outstanding care and value to our patients.”
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Poonam Velagapudi, MD, Program Committee Member for ACC.20
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Congratulations to
Poonam Velagapudi, MD,
for being selected to serve as a member of the ACC.20 Program Committee. The ACC.20 takes place in Chicago in March 2020.
The Program Committee has the responsibility for developing and finalizing the overall education program for ACC.20 and ensuring that it is current, cohesive and complimentary. Dr Velagapudi was asked based upon her experience in education and live programing from a large group of nominees.
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Medical School Honors Convocation & Hooding
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During the medical school honors convocation & hooding on May 3rd,
Scott Neumeister, MD
, Associate Professor, Internal Medicine Division of General Medicine was one of two UNMC faculty chosen to be a Marshall for the ceremony.
Allison Ashford, MD
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Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine/Pediatrics
was one of two faculty selected to do the hooding and was the recipient of the Clinical Hirshmann Prize for teaching excellence (Golden Apple) which was selected by the graduating class. Thank you for your dedication!
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Internal Medicine - 2019 Graduating Class Banquet Awards
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Congratulations to
Marwa Hegagi, MD
, Ass Professor in General Internal Medicine, as she received the Sir William Osler Resident Teaching Award from the graduating residents.
Congratulations to our graduating class as well! To see a list of outstanding residents recognized with awards at the resident graduating banquet
click here
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2019 UNMC Department of Internal Medicine Graduating Class
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2019-2020 Chief Residents
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Mollie Brittan, MD
VA Chief Resident
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Tate Johnson, MD
UNMC Chief Resident
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Kate-Lynn Muir, DO
Quality and Patient Safety Chief Resident
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Jill Wagoner, MD
Ambulatory Chief Resident
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Golden Apple Winner - Daniel Hershberger, MD
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Congratulations to
Daniel Hershberger, MD
, assistant professor, internal medicine-pulmonary and critical care, who received the Golden Apple Award from first-year medical students (Class of 2022).
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Internal Medicine - Fellowship Top Teachers for 2018
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Click
here
to view the 2018 Fellowship Top Teachers awards. Congratulations teachers!!
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IM Resident & Fellow Poster session winners
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Internal Medicine Fellows and Residents submitted posters for original research or clinical vignettes for the Resident & Fellow Poster session. Judging commenced on May 24th and winners were announced. Thanks to our judges for their expertise and help. Congratulations to
Tate Johnson, MD
, Rheumatology, as the Resident Poster Winner and
Thiyagarajan Thangavelu, MD
, DEM, as the Fellow Poster Winner.
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Resident Poster Winner
Tate Johnson, MD with Ted Mikuls, MD
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Fellow Poster Winner
Thiyagarajan Thangavelu, MD with
Ted Mikuls, MD
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National ACP Scientific Meeting in Philadelphia
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At the National ACP Scientific meeting in Philadelphia this past April,
Chris Smith, MD,
FACP,
won the Early Career Poster Competition in the Clinical Research category.
Poster title: “It makes me respect what they do a whole lot more.” Evaluation of how interprofessional point-of-care ultrasound education impacts participants’ perceptions of interprofessional learning and stereotypes.
Great job Dr. Smith!
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eQuips - Top Performer Award
Nebraska Medical Center has qualified as a top performer by the Society of Hospital Medicine in the Spring 2019 Glycemic Control eQUIPS Benchmark Report in both critical care and non-critical care categories. Top performers, such as
Andjela Drincic, MD,
and her team, met strict criteria in achieving this award. Congratulations!
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Yiannis Chatzizisis, MD,
cardiology received formal notification of receiving an R01 grant last month (more information coming soon!). He also recently received an industry grant from Bonston Scientific for 180k for one year. The title of the study is "Computational Testing of a Novel Purpose-Built Everolimus-Eluting Stent" and the goal is to integrate patient-specific coronary artery bifurcation anatomy, with an individualized and innovative computational modeling approach, to virtually test the properties of a novel stent platform. Congrats!
Kelly Cawcutt, MD
, was recently published in Journal of Women's Health. The topic was how the
Use of a Coordinated Social Media Strategy to Improve Dissemination of Research and Collect Solutions Related to Workforce Gender Equity.
To read the article,
click here
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Saurabh Chandan, MD
,
fellow in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, received notification that she was published in Healio Gastroenterology for an article on POEM effective in spastic esophageal disorders. To read the article,
click here
. Great job!
Andrew Goldsweig, MD,
division of cardiology, recently-published paper for his Mentored Scholars Program thesis project and received press coverage online from
TCTMD.com,
an interventional cardiology news organization.
Click here
to read more.
Internal Medicine
Notable Publications
reported with ADIS and Scopus for the 3rd Quarter of 2019. Publication of the Quarter has been awarded to
Tom Porter, MD
and the Honorable Mention to
Kaleb Michaud, MD.
Please email
Shannon Thomsen
to obtain the full list pulled from SCOPUS and ADIS.
View the latest Internal Medicine faculty publications (in descending order by publication year and title) on
Research Nebraska.
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Welcome to the SURP/SUARP students who started their program on June 3rd. Students are matched with a mentor in research in different divisions. They take a hands-on approach to learning in almost every aspect of research, from IRB to publications. Say hello if you see them in the halls!
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Al Spanel, MD,
and
Stephen Sexauer, MD
presented posters during the annual 2019 SGIM (Society of General Internal Medicine) meeting in Washington DC.
On April 26th there was a standing-room-only crowd at the symposium that explored shared diseases in rheumatology, dermatology.
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Elizabeth Schnaubelt, M.D.
, of the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine's Division of Infectious Diseases, was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force in April. Congratulations!
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Our UNMC faculty members,
Brian Lowes, M.D., Ph.D.
, Angle Presidential Chair of Cardiology, and
John Um, M.D.
, surgical director of cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory support programs, were contributing authors for the
UNMC study: New heart pump improves on previous models. T
he study's results have been published in a recent edition of
The New England Journal of Medicine and you
can view the article on the NEJM website
here
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Leslie Eiland, MD,
leads and is part of a national consultant panel for one of the Tele-ECHO projects. To read more about Project ECHO (Extension of Community Healthcare Outcomes)
Click here.
Jasmine Marcelin, MD and Kelly Cawcutt, MD
, efforts to raise awareness and funds for Antimicrobial Stewardship Education through SHEA are pretty impressive. Learn more from the
ID blog
for the top ten reasons they entered the race against resistance and how you can help by donating via their
Crowdrise
website.
Allergies, asthma on the farm was the focus of June 13 program on RFD-TV; UNMC chancellor, allergist
Jill Poole, MD
were featured guests.
Read more.
Sarah Richards, MD
and
Jason Shiffermiller, MD
discuss managing patient's pain and how providers can talk to patients about pain.
Read more
and
watch video
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Andrew Goldsweig, MD
, cardiology, talks about the Watchman device and the study that could help millions with common heart problem.
Read more.
Review this fantastic op-ed piece written by our very own
Raj Kartanak, MD
. The piece addresses violence against physicians in india. In it, he shares context, a personal story, and actionable items to address it. It is very well written, and
Jasmine Marcelin, MD
, shared that she is very proud that writing for the UNMC ID blog has inspired Raj to write for the lay press and do it so well!
Click here
to read the article. He also wrote the following article with fierce defense against propaganda and fear-mongering associated with vaccine-preventable diseases,
click here
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Drs. James Lawler, Jasmine Marcelin, and Kelly Cawcutt
, wrote a compelling article in the Omaha World Herald regarding
"Disease and deception: How not to combat epidemics."
Read the article
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The Center for Patient, Family & Community Engagement in Chronic Care Management (CENTRIC) is hosting PANEL: Fitting Recruitment Strategies for your population on July 11th from 12:00 - 1:00 pm. It is being held at the College of Nursing , Room 2018. Keynote Speakers are
Dr. Nancy Waltman, Kara Smith, Dr. Robin M. Lally, Lisa Spellman & Kevin Epperson.
You can also join by clicking the following for the zoom link:
https://UNMC.ZOOM.US/J/4025522260
On July 19th at noon the Center for Heart and Vascular Research Forum is presenting "Scientific Rigor & Reproducibility" in DRC 1002. You can also listen live by clicking
here.
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New Faces or Committee Involvement
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Please welcome Jessica Quick, who started July 1st, as the Infectious Disease Division Administrator and Specialty Care Clinic Manager. For the past 8 years, Jessica was the Administrator of Colon and Rectal Surgery Inc and The Colonoscopy Center Inc. Prior to her roles at Colon and Rectal Surgery Inc., Jessica was the Central Business Office Manager at the Health Inventures OAIC. She brings with her solid experience in clinical operations, finance, human resource management, revenue cycle and administration of a fellowship program. Jessica has a MBA from the University of Nebraska Lincoln and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management from UNO. She will be a terrific asset to the division as well as the department and the overall organization. Jessica's office is located in the Infectious Disease Division on the 5
th
floor of MSB.
Kelly Caverzagie, MD, recently was elected to serve on the American Medical Association’s Council on Medical Education. Read more in
UNMC's For the Record
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The list of new faculty appointments and promotions can be seen by clicking
here.
Did you know that as a UNMC employee you can receive a discount on personal purchases, including services, at Office Depot/Max with a Store Purchasing Card?
Click here
for the link to sign up and receive your card.
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UNMC Department of Internal Medicine
983332 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-3332
402-559-6315 (phone)
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