Albany Medical Center Inpatient Experience: During this experience, fellows see a wide variety of emergent and non-emergent consults throughout the hospital. As a tertiary care center, complex cases are referred to Albany Medical Center, giving fellows an opportunity to manage challenging endoscopic as well as clinical cases such as GI bleeds, food impactions, foreign body ingestion, acute liver failure, complications of cirrhosis, inflammatory bowel disease, biliary diseases and more.
Albany Medical Center Outpatient Clinic: Fellows have their own panel of patients, experiencing a wide variety of pathology ranging from simple GI cases to complex second- and third-opinion consultations. This rotation provides fellows the opportunity to learn to integrate other health and behavioral aspects of patient care as well as managing patients’ GI conditions.
Ambulatory Rotation: Fellows are trained in GI motility, including esophageal manometry, anorectal manometry, 24-hour Ph/impedance testing and Bravo and SmartPill studies. They are also responsible for reading all the small bowel capsule endoscopies. During this experience, the fellow also arranges monthly Pathology and Radiology conferences and participates as a member of the outpatient IBD team.
Biliary: This experience allows fellows to participate in inpatient biliary consults. Fellows learn to understand biliary pathology and the basics of EUS, ERCP and other advanced endoscopic procedures with hands-on experience based on the interest and ability of individual fellows.
Hepatology Experience: Fellows on this rotation spend a month learning outpatient Hepatology with our hepatologist. They have their own panel of patients. They also perform endoscopic procedures in this exclusive population and learn the pathology. They are involved in interpretation of fibro scans and learning pathology slides of interesting cases with the GI pathologist.
Elective Options: Fellows can choose to do electives with other services such as nutrition, radiology or colorectal surgery, or they can request an away elective to enhance a particular area of interest such as IBD, transplant hepatology or motility.
Research: Fellows are expected to participate in scholarly activity such as initiating their own research projects, writing case reports, manuscripts and book chapters. Our fellows have presented several posters each year at the ACG, DDW and other national and local conferences. Our trainees are encouraged to attend the postgraduate courses at these meetings.
Albany VA Medical Center VA Experience: During this experience, fellows are responsible for inpatient consults as well as outpatient endoscopies. They are exposed to a slightly different pathology and get strong hands-on experience with different endoscopic procedures as well as sedation techniques using procedural sedation.
Conferences and Didactics:
- Core Curriculum
- Board Review
- Interesting clinical case presentation
- Journal Club
- Radiology Conference
- Pathology Conference
- Tumor Board
- Medicine Grand Rounds
2022
Abulawi A, Al-Tarbsheh AH, Bui R, Richter S. Massive Gastric Bleed 20 Years After Splenopneumopexy. ACG Case Rep J. 2022 Sep 1;9(9):e00862. doi: 10.14309/crj.0000000000000862. PMID: 36072360; PMCID: PMC9439819.
Tempera PJ, Michael M, Tageldin O, Hasak S. Gastric Cancer Due to Chronic H. pylori Infection: What We Know and Where We Are Going. Diseases. 2022 Aug 25;10(3):57. doi: 10.3390/diseases10030057. PMID: 36135213; PMCID: PMC9498082.
Abomhya A, Clemetson E, Khan F, Tageldin O, Abdulsada Z, Hamad H, Gayam V, Etienne D. Prevalence and Impact of Acute Pancreatitis on Hospitalization Outcomes in a Cohort of Patients With Crohn's Disease. J Clin Med Res. 2022 Aug;14(8):293-299. doi: 10.14740/jocmr4761. Epub 2022 Aug 27. PMID: 36128005; PMCID: PMC9451556.
Philip S, Tageldin O, Mansoor MS, Richter S. Successful Fecal Microbiota Transplant Delivered by Foley Catheter Through a Loop Ileostomy in a Patient With Severe Complicated Clostridioides difficile Infection. ACG Case Rep J. 2022 Jul 12;9(7):e00801. doi: 10.14309/crj.0000000000000801. PMID: 35919409; PMCID: PMC9278911.
Abulawi A, Al-Tarbsheh A, Tageldin O, Batool A. Acute portal venous thrombosis as an extrahepatic manifestation of acute hepatitis A infection. BMJ Case Rep. 2022 Jun 28;15(6):e250177. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2022-250177. Erratum in: BMJ Case Rep. 2022 Jul 14;15(7): PMID: 35764336; PMCID: PMC9240822.
Abulawi A, Liu J,Philip S, Josephson M, Abdelwahab H, Feustel P, Batool A; High-Resolution Esophageal Manometric Features in Eosinophilic Esophagitis Patients: A Retrospective Study; Gastro Hep Advances Volume 1, Issue 5, 2022, Pages 703-708; May 02, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gastha.2022.04.020.
Amjad W, Doycheva I, Kamal F, Malik A, Pandu A, Shabbir MA, Mumtaz M, Batool A, Ukleja A. Clinical predictors of symptom improvement failure in gastroparesis. Ann Gastroenterol. 2022 Mar-Apr;35(2):119-126. doi: 10.20524/aog.2022.0696. Epub 2022 Feb 14. PMID: 35479589; PMCID: PMC8922264.
2021
A Presidential Poster Award was won for the following presentation: Gastroscope Meeting the Colonoscope: A Rare Complication of Billroth II Gastrojejunosotomy. Ahmad Abulawi, MBBS1 , Rosa Bui, MD2 , Asra Batool, MD2; 1 Albany Medical College, Albany, NY; 2 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Small Cell Metastatic Carcinoma to Liver and Spleen Mimicking Hepatosplenic T-cell Lymphoma After Initiating Adalimumab. Muhammad Farhan Ashraf, MD, Asra Batool, MD, Haider Rahman, MD; Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Role of Preoperative High Resolution Esophageal Manometry in Guiding Fundoplication Procedure Technique and Postoperative Outcome. Omar Tageldin, MD, Muhammad Farhan Ashraf, MD, Rosa Bui, MD, Asra Batool, MD; Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Index Case: Acute Portal Venous Thromboses in the Setting of Acute Hepatitis A. Ahmad Abulawi, MBBS1, Omar Tageldin, MD2, Asra Batool, MD2; 1 Albany Medical College, Albany, NY; 2 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Primary Small Cell Carcinoma of the Liver. Yes, It Exists! Ahmad Abulawi, MBBS1, Hala Abdelwahab, MD2, Omar Tageldin, MD2, Asra Batool, MD2; 1 Albany Medical College, Albany, NY; 2 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Gastroscope Meeting the Colonoscope: A Rare Complication of Billroth II Gastrojejunosotomy: Presidential Poster Award Ahmad Abulawi, MBBS1 , Rosa Bui, MD2 , Asra Batool, MD2; 1 Albany Medical College, Albany, NY; 2 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
A Rare Case of Metastatic AFP and Beta HCG-Producing Gastric Carcinoma. Hala Abdelwahab, MD, Omar Tageldin, MD, Stephen Hasak, MD, Hwa Jeong Lee, MD; Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Epithelioid Angiosarcoma Presenting as Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Spyridon Zouridis, MD, Umer Ejaz Malik, MD, Stephen Hasak, MD; Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV
Sarcoidosis in the Pancreas: A Unique Presentation of Pancreatitis. Shawn Philip, DO1, Omar Tageldin, MD2, Arkar Htoo, MD2, Stephen Hasak, MD2; 1 Albany Medical Center, Westbury, NY; 2 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Recurrent Superficial Pancreatic Pseudocyst With Pancreatic Duct Leakage After Successful Cystogastrostomy. Shawn Philip, DO1, Omar Tageldin, MD2, Stephen Hasak, MD2; 1 Albany Medical Center, Westbury, NY; 2 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Index Case of Massive Gastric Bleed as a Complication of Splenopneumopexy. Ahmad Abulawi, MBBS1, Rosa Bui, MD2, Seth Richter, MD1; 1 Albany Medical College, Albany, NY; 2 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Methotrexate and Azathioprine-Induced Cholestatic Hepatitis Following Two Years of Therapy. Shawn Philip, DO1, Omar Merdan, MD2, Omar Tageldin, MD3, Cassidy Alexandre, MD3, Seth Richter, MD4; 1 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 2 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 3 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 4Albany Medical College, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
An Unexpected Cause of Hematochezia Matthew Josephson, MD, Michael Farrell, MD, Mandeep E. Bhamra, MD; Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Plummer Vinson Syndrome in a South American Patient Michael Farrell, MD, Neil Volk, MD, Matthew Josephson, MD; Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
A Rare Case of Intestinal Spirochetosis in an Immunocompetent Patient Ahmad Abulawi, MBBS1 , Umer Ejaz Malik, MD2 , Zhiyan FU, MD1 , Hwa Jeong Lee, MD2 , Seth Richter, MD1 ; 1 Albany Medical College, Albany, NY; 2 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Cocaine-Induced Non-Occlusive Mesenteric Ischemia (NOMI) Managed With Intra-Arterial Prostaglandins Rabia Rizwan, MD1 , Karthik Gnanapandithan, MD2 , Umer Ejaz Malik, MD3 , Abdelkader Chaar, MD4, Paul Feuerstadt, MD5 ; 1 Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT; 2 Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; 3 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 4Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT; 5 Yale University School of Medicine and PACT-Gastroenterology Center, Hamden, CT. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
A Rare Case of Hemobilia From a Large Hepatic Artery Pseudoaneurysm Caused by CT-Guided Liver Biopsy Muhammad Farhan Ashraf, MD1 , Spyridon Zouridis, MD1 , Umer Ejaz Malik, MD1 , Christopher Ashley, MD, MPH, FACG2 ; 1 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 2 Stratton Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Concomitant Cephalosporins or Vancomycin During or After Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infection Increases Risk of 3-Month CDI Recurrence John Damianos, MD1 , Abdelkader Chaar, MD2 , Rabia Rizwan, MD3, Muhammad Sohail Mansoor, MD4, Prabin Sharma, MD5 , Umer Ejaz Malik, MD6, Houssam Alnahhas,MD, MPH7 , Paul Feuerstadt, MD8 ; 1 Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; 2 Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT; 3 Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT; 4GI Specialists of Georgia, Marietta, GA; 5 NYU Langone Long Island, Mineola, NY; 6Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 7 Syria Public Health Network, London, England, United Kingdom; 8 Yale University School of Medicine and PACT Gastroenterology Center, Hamden, CT. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Clostridioides difficile Recurrence Is Highest Following Concomitant Antimicrobial Administration Within 30 Days of Treatment Abdelkader Chaar, MD1 , John Damianos, MD2 , Rabia Rizwan, MD1 , Muhammad Sohail Mansoor, MD3 , Prabin Sharma, MD4, Umer Ejaz Malik, MD5 , Houssam Alnahhas, MD, MPH6, Paul Feuerstadt, MD7 ; 1 Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT; 2 Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; 3 GI Specialists of Georgia, Marietta, GA; 4NYU Langone Health, Mineola, NY; 5 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 6Syria Public Health Network, London, England, United Kingdom; 7 Yale University School of Medicine and PACT-Gastroenterology Center, Hamden, CT. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
A Rare Bleed: Spontaneous External Umbilical Varix Hemorrhage Julian Remouns, DO, MS1 , Hadi Minhas, MD2 , Seth Richter, MD3 ; 1 Resident, Albany, NY; 2 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 3 Albany Medical College, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Cholangiocarcinoma Unmasked by Cholangitis Spyridon Zouridis, MD1 , Muhammad Farhan Ashraf, MD1, Hadi Minhas, MD1 , Christopher Ashley, MD, MPH, FACG2 ; 1 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 2 Stratton Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
New Onset Multiple Sclerosis Manifested as Facial Hypoesthesia After Initiation of Infliximab Therapy in Crohn’s Disease Shawn Philip, DO1 , Mary Strader, MD2 , Joseph Polito, MD2 ; 1 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 2 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Atypical Presentation of Ascending Cholangitis in a Patient with Cystic Fibrosis Spyridon Zouridis, MD, Omar Tageldin, MD, Cassidy Alexandre, MD, Joseph Choma, MD; Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Splenic Laceration With Intra-Abdominal Hemorrhage After Screening Colonoscopy: A Case Report Omar Tageldin, MD1 , Hau Chieng, DO2 , Lezah McCarthy, MD3 , Hala Abdelwahab, MD1 , Elise Malecki, MD, PhD4, Kristoffer Neu, MD4; 1 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 2 Albany Medical College, Albany, NY; 3 Albany VA Medical Center, Albany, NY; 4Stratton Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.
Campylobacter Enteritis in Immunocompromised Patient with Extended PPI Use. Zouridis, Spyridon; Josephson, Matthew; Gianotti. The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 116:S1448-S1449, October 2021.
A Case of Recurrent Pancreatitis in the Setting of CFTR Gene Mutation. Zouridis, Spyridon; Ashraf, Muhammad Farhan; Tageldin, Omar. The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 116:S1424, October 2021.
Atrial Flutter Controlled at the Cost of Acute Liver Injury. Remouns, Julian; Minhas, Hadi; Hasak, Stephen. The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 116:S1499, October 2021.
Risk of Liver Fibrosis in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease on Methotrexate. Zelman, Sara; Tageldin, Omar; Parsa, Nour; Batool, Asra. The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 116:S1402, October 2021.
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Patients with Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection: A Four-Year Single-Center Retrospective Chart Review. Ashraf, Muhammad Farhan; Tageldin, Omar; Nassar, Yousef; Batool, Asra. The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 116:S1330, October 2021.
Role of Stopping Antibiotics Before Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: A One Center Retrospective Review. Ashraf, Muhammad Farhan; Tageldin, Omar; Nassar, Yousef; Batool, Asra. The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 116:S1330-S1331, October 2021.
Ashraf MF, Tageldin O, Nassar Y, Batool A. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Patients With Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection: A Four-Year Single-Center Retrospective Review. Gastroenterology Res. 2021 Aug;14(4):237-243. doi: 10.14740/gr1436. Epub 2021 Jul 28. PMID: 34527093; PMCID: PMC8425798.
J Minhas H, Akiyama MJ, Norton BL, Heo M, Arnsten JH, Litwin AH. HIV And HCV adherence and treatment outcomes among people who inject drugs receiving opioid agonist therapy. AIDS Care. 2021 Sep 17:1-5. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2021.1973659. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34533062.
2020
A Tough WON: A Complicated Case of Walled-Off Pancreatic Necrosis. Julian Remouns, DO; Muhammad Farhan Ashraf, MBBS; Cassidy Alexandre, MD; Muhammad S Mansoor, MBBS; Sajid Hussain, MD; Domenico Viterbo, MD. Accepted; ACG 2020.
A Rare Case of Large Pancreatic Pseudocyst causing Right-Sided Pleural Effusion. Omar Tageldin MD, Rabah Areshq, Cassidy Alexandre MD, Nour Parsa MD. Accepted; ACG 2020.
Muhammad Farhan Ashraf, MD, Haider Rahman, MD, Rosa Bui, MD, Omar Tageldin, MD, Domenico Viterbo, MD. P0315 (S1559)- A Rare Case of Choledochoduodenal Fistula Presenting With Enterococcus faecalis Bacteremia and Hepatic Abscesses. Accepted; ACG 2020.
Muhammad Farhan Ashraf, MD, Rosa Bui, MD, Fatima T. Zahra, MD, Zainub Ajmal, MD, Haider Rahman, MD, Peter F. Ells, MD. P0624 (S1746)- An Unusual Case of Metastasis to Colon From Primary Breast Cancer With Subtle Colonoscopy Findings. Accepted; ACG 2020.
Muhammad Farhan Ashraf, MD, Haider Rahman, MD, Rosa Bui, MD, Jae K. Chung, DO, Domenico Viterbo, MD. P0355 (S1599)- An Unusual Presentation of a Klatskin Tumor After Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt. Accepted; ACG 2020.
Muhammad Farhan Ashraf, MD, Haider Rahman, MD, Jae K. Chung, DO, Rosa Bui, MD, Usman Naseer, MD, Seth Richter, MD. P0972 (S1921)- Atrioesophageal Fistula: A Rare and Fatal Complication of Atrial Ablation. Accepted; ACG 2020.
Muhammad Farhan Ashraf, MD, Muhammad Sohail Mansoor, MD, Nour Parsa, MD, Cassidy Alexander, MD. P2955 (S3030)- Gastric Mucosal Calcinosis in a Patient With End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), Eucalcemia, and Euphosphatemia. Accepted; ACG 2020.
Richter SJ. Continuing Medical Education Questions: February 2020: Checkpoint Inhibitor-Induced Colitis. Am J Gastroenterol. 2020;115(2):163. doi:10.14309/ajg.0000000000000525.
Mansoor MS, Batool A. Intestinal Lipomatosis. N Engl J Med. 2020;382(8):e12. doi:10.1056/NEJMicm1906117.
Li H, Ells P, Arslan ME, Robstad KA, Lee H. Hepatic Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH) Presenting as a Harbinger of Multisystem LCH. Cureus. 2020;12(6):e8591. Published 2020 Jun 13. doi:10.7759/cureus.8591.