Internal Medicine Residency - Curriculum

Curriculum

Our Internal Medicine Residency Program offers a multi-layered educational experience that combines clinical care with academic study and teaching opportunities.

Elective rotations, including subspecialty clinics and inpatient and outpatient consultations, provide concentrated specialty educational opportunities, with residents working with attendings on a one-to-one basis.
All residents attend noon conferences, where a broad range of cases and specialty topics are discussed. All activities are interactive and designed to develop residents’ active learning skills.
Journal Club occurs during both the inpatient and outpatient rotations.
Patient Safety Conference is held twice per month, attended by a cross-section of departmental faculty representing radiology, pathology, and other medical specialties.
Morning Report educational sessions are attended by the senior residents, the night float team, faculty members, and a chief resident.
Medical Grand Rounds, with presentations by Albany Medical Center faculty and guest experts on current topics in basic science and clinical medicine, is held twice per month.
Attending physicians participate in work rounds, providing a balance of bedside teaching and case-specific discussion.

Call Schedule
PGY-1 residents (interns) on ward teams are responsible for call every fourth night until 9 p.m. Interns work in the medicine units during their night float rotation or in the MICU during their night shifts.

PGY-2 and PGY-3 residents average every fourth night on call until 9 p.m. while on medicine unit rotations.

An admitting team, consisting of one resident and two interns, is scheduled from 6 p.m. to midnight.

There are no evening or weekend call responsibilities during elective or ambulatory clinic rotations.

Ancillary Services
Albany Medical Center and the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center both have extensive ancillary services, including phlebotomists and IV teams, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Both hospitals also have Rapid Response Teams that respond to urgent medical situations on the floors to help with expedited care.

Meal Allowance
A meal allowance, redeemable at the hospital cafeteria, is provided to on-call residents at Albany Medical Center. During night float rotations at the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center, meals are provided free of charge in the cafeteria.

Electives
Categorical residents receive an average of 34 total weeks of elective time during their training (approximately eight weeks during PGY-1, ten weeks during PGY-2, and 16 weeks during PGY-3). These include required experiences in Emergency Medicine, Neurology, and Geriatrics. Subspecialty electives are open to all PGY levels, including Rheumatology, Hematology/Oncology, Nephrology, Cardiology, Endocrinology, Pulmonology, Critical Care, Quality Improvement, Women’s Health, Dermatology, Infectious Diseases, and many others.

Floors (Medicine wards)
There are four inpatient teams at Albany Medical Center that are geographically located. Three of the teams see general medicine patients and the third is devoted solely to hematology/oncology patients. Each team includes a resident, two interns, third-year medical students, and a supervising attending.

There are two inpatient teams at Albany Stratton VA Medical Center. These teams consist of one resident, two to three interns, third-year medical students, and a supervising attending.

Night Float
We are fortunate to have a program that is large enough for a night float system at all levels of training. The night float house officer works Sunday through Saturday morning, from 8:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. Night float will be assigned at either Albany Medical Center or the adjacent Albany Stratton VA Medical Center.

PGY-1 residents are assigned up to six weeks of night float and upper-level residents do an average of four weeks per year. The night float team consists of one resident and two to three interns.

Ambulatory Learning
The outpatient experience is designed to prepare residents for excellence in diagnostic and therapeutic practice in General Internal Medicine and specialties. We recognize that at least 80 percent of clinical time for specialty faculty is spent in the ambulatory setting, and that outpatient General Internal Medicine practice is the most important experience in longitudinal management skill development. Faculty preceptors are assigned to each resident in General Internal Medicine clinics, and continuity for your individual panel of patients is stressed throughout the three-year experience.

We utilize a “4+1” system, with one-week clinic blocks every fifth week. This structure avoids interruptions from other clinical experiences, allowing residents to focus on learning and skill development. These ambulatory weeks include both primary care and subspecialty clinic experiences. There is a dedicated ambulatory curriculum focusing on General Internal Medicine topics and evidence-based medicine. Residents are not assigned call duty or weekend clinical responsibilities during clinic weeks.

As a categorical resident you will be assigned a continuity clinic for the entirety of your residency experience at either Albany Medical Center's Internal Medicine Group or the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center.

Scholarly Activity & Experiences
Our Internal Medicine residency is designed to assist all residents in meeting their career goals. Although scholarly activity is required of all residents, research is not the only form of scholarly activity. Depending on your career goals, you will learn to prepare and present for clinical education, develop high-level quality and safety programs, and design both prospective and retrospective investigations as well as actual hypothesis-driven research activities. Residents prepare poster, podium, and written presentations of their work under the mentorship of our faculty. Brief research electives can be made available for senior residents based on the quality of the work proposed after discussion among the resident, program director, and faculty mentor.

Evaluation Processes & Programs
The Internal Medicine Residency Program evaluates each resident for every experience or rotation using a milestone-based evaluation system. PGY-1 residents are evaluated by attending faculty and supervising residents. PGY-2 and PGY-3 residents are evaluated by attending faculty and the PGY-1 residents they supervise. 360-degree evaluations are completed by clinic staff on a semi-annual basis during the continuity clinic experiences. The program also conducts semi-annual, summative evaluations for each resident (performed by the program director or an associate program director). Milestone evaluations are summarized twice per year by the Clinical Competency Committee and results are forwarded to the ACGME.

We place a very high value on information from residents about their experiences in our program. This information facilitates program change. Residents are asked to evaluate attending faculty and clinical rotations after every experience. The results of faculty evaluations allow the program director to choose faculty for the upcoming academic year, in a process of continued improvement. In order to assure the resident staff of anonymity in this process, the residents have designed a Qualtrics evaluation which holds results accessible only to the chief residents, who provide the information to the program on a semi-annual basis.

At the end of each hospitalist team rotation, verbal and written performance feedback is provided to each resident. A Clinical Evaluation Exercise (CEX) is conducted once during the first year of training, and multiple times during the second or third postgraduate year in the continuity clinic setting. An in-training, knowledge-based examination is administered annually for all categorical residents. The results are used as a study guide for residents preparing for ABIM certification and as a curriculum development guide for the program.

Team-Based Learning
A medical knowledge curriculum in residency is traditionally taught in a noon conference lecture format. Lectures are considered passive learning and are gradually being supplanted in many educational settings by active learning methods such as Team-based Learning (TBL) or Problem-based Learning (PBL). These methods foster not just knowledge acquisition, but knowledge application, problem-solving, and teamwork.

Team-Based Learning Lesson Components:

Advance reading assignment for each topic
Small group work during the lesson including a Readiness Test and Application Exercises
Focus on problem-solving, patient cases, and interactive discussion with faculty facilitator

Team-Based Learning Objectives:

To impart essential medical knowledge in Internal Medicine and train residents how to apply it to patient care
To help residents become excellent general internists
To prepare residents to pass the ABIM board-certification exam
To help residents further their skills in communication, problem-solving, and teamwork

Team-Based Learning Research at Albany Medical College
We are pioneers in using TBL in graduate medical education (GME). Until 2018 there had been only about 10 studies published on TBL in GME. In February 2018, we published “Feasibility of a Comprehensive Medical Knowledge Curriculum in Internal Medicine Using Team-Based Learning” in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education. It is the first report of such a broad adaptation of TBL in a residency program.

Experience in Quality Improvement & Patient Safety
Aligned with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School, this program helps residents develop skills in systems-based practice, communication, and teamwork. As part of the program, residents, with guidance from a faculty mentor, will learn to:

Describe the difference between a Case Review and a Morbidity & Mortality Conference
Describe the concept of Case Review Triggers
Categorize the cause of a near miss or a suboptimal outcome into either a Process Issue or a Professional Practice Issue
Form multidisciplinary teams to improve flaws in processes
Enhance their leadership skills
Work with non-physician health care professionals
Mentor Albany Medical College students
Apply principles of “LEAN” to improve quality and reduce risk of harm; become LEAN-certified
Describe a problem, its analysis, and its corrective action on a single sheet of paper (A3 process)
Observe how Quality Improvement and Patient Safety integrates with:
- The microsystem of your working environment (e.g. nursing units, clinics)
- The mesosystem of the Department of Medicine
- The macrosystem of the Albany Medical Center enterprise and the community we serve
Scholarly presentation and publication of their Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Research

Recent Research

2022:
Khatim I, Albaba I, Hu K, Huggins T, Chopra A. Diagnosis of non-expandable lung using thoracic ultrasound. Respir Med Case Rep. 2022 Sep 29;40:101749. doi: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2022.101749. PMID: 36211531; PMCID: PMC9535404.

Ehtesham, M. , Shabbir, M. A. Black Women Demonstrate Worse CAD Burden and Clinical Outcomes When Admitted with First Acute Myocardial Infarction. American Society of Preventive Cardiology Session. July 29 -July 31, 2022.

Turshudzhyan A, Samuel S, Tawfik A, Tadros M. Rebuilding trust in proton pump inhibitor therapy. World J Gastroenterol. 2022 Jun 28;28(24):2667-2679. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v28.i24.2667. PMID: 35979162; PMCID: PMC9260870.

Kishnani S, Ottaviano K, Rosenberg L, Arker SH, Lee H, Schuster M, Tadros M, Valerian B. Diverticular Disease—An Updated Management Review. Gastroenterology Insights. 2022; 13(4):326-339. https://doi.org/10.3390/gastroent13040033.

Moiz Ehtesham, Anupama Tiwari, Rose Sneha George and Ruben A. Peredo. Perspective Chapter: Pulmonary System and Sjogren’s Syndrome; Submitted: October 25th, 2021. Reviewed: January 21st, 2022. Published: August 26th, 2022. DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.102803.

Chong WH, Chieng H, Tiwari A, Beegle S, Feustel PJ, Ghalib S, Al-Tarbsheh AH, Jain E, Mullins J, Keenan M, Chopra A. Incidence and risk factors for secondary pulmonary infections in patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia. Am J Med Sci. 2022 Jun;363(6):476-483. doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2021.04.007. Epub 2021 Apr 21. PMID: 33894182; PMCID: PMC8058139.

Riley M, Der Mesropian PJ, Maheshwari A, Arslan ME, Visrodia P, Salman L, Peredo-Wende R, Foulke L, Hongalgi K. Scleroderma Renal Crisis Associated With Microangiopathic Hemolytic Anemia in a Patient With Seronegative Scleroderma and Monoclonal Gammopathy. J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep. Jan-Dec 2022;10:232470962.

Tremblay J, Kim S, Philbin E, Beers K, Lightle A, Belov D. Late-onset Fabry disease: the cardiac sequela. BMJ Case Rep. 2022 Jun 9;15(6):e247917. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2021-247917. PMID: 35680278; PMCID: PMC9185384.

Tremblay J, Judson M, Torosoff M Effects of Imaging Studies and Revised Cardiac Sarcoidosis Diagnostic Criteria on Frequency of Cardiac Sarcoidosis Diagnosis. CHEST 27-29 June 2022, Bologna, Italy.

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

Abdelgyed, E.A., Gosmanov A.R. Adrenal crisis in elderly patients with adrenal insufficiency following Covid-19 vaccination. Endocr Pract. 2022; 28(5), S3. American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. May 12-14, 2022.

Ehtesham M, Fortune K, Shabbir MA, Peredo-Wende R. Sjogren syndrome presenting as atrioventricular block in an adult. BMJ Case Rep. 2022 Apr 8;15(4):e247337. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2021-247337. PMID: 35396234; PMCID: PMC8996011.

Tremblay J, Judson M, Torosoff M Evolution of Diagnostic Criteria and Gender Effects On The Prevalence Of Cardiac Sarcoidosis ACC 2022, Apr 2-4 2022, JACC 2022, 79:9, 527.

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.

Ehtesham M, Oweis J, Leamon A, Al-Tarbsheh A, Goodspeed K, Khorolsky C, Nasser U, Albaba I, Parimi A, Shkolnik B, Tiwari A, Chopra A, Torosoff M. Body Mass Index Is A Predictor Of Mortality And Adverse Cardiorespiratory Outcomes In Patients Hospitalized For SARS-COV-2 Infection. AHA QCOR 2022 May 2022 Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes Volume 15, Issue Suppl 11 A53 2022.

Kenitz, J, El Halbi I, Hagenbuch K, Elmanaseer O, Farrell M, Schwabkey Z, Shabbir M, Leso J, Gjyriqi G, Lee J. Likelihood of Physician Renewal of Chronically Prescribed Controlled Substances Based on Urine Drug Test Results, After Presenting Physicians with Their Previous Prescribing Habits. Society of General Internal Medicine; Orlando, FL; April 6-9, 2022.

Philip S, Safdar R, Malecki EA, Gemoets DE, Thalody VG, Mehdi S. Factors associated with survival and epidemiology of gastrointestinal stromal tumors of the stomach in the US Department of Veteran Affairs. Gastroenterology 2022; 162(7):S526.

Shabbir MA, Saad Shaukat MH, Ehtesham M, Murawski S, Singh S, Alimohammad R. Bifascicular block in unexplained syncope is underrecognized and under-evaluated: A single-center audit of ESC guidelines adherence. PLoS One. 2022 Feb 28;17(2):e0263727.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263727. PMID: 35226666; PMCID: PMC8884493.

Avelino AR, Elmanaseer O, Wrzesinski S, Raval M. T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia associated with immune checkpoint inhibitor (pembrolizumab). BMJ Case Rep. 2022 Mar 29;15(3):e245603. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2021-245603. PMID: 35351740; PMCID: PMC8966494.

Elmanaseer O, Avelino ARM, Azem A, et al Serum sickness reaction to obinutuzumab in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. BMJ Case Reports CP 2021;14:e245557.

Al-Tarbsheh AH, Leamon A, Chong WH, Chung JK, Oweis J, Vamshek S, Dawani O, Chopra A. Pericardial Effusion in Covid-19 Patients. Am J Med Sci. 2022 Mar 8:S0002-9629(22)00104-5. doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2022.01.024. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35276074.

Shabbir MA, Saad Shaukat MH, Ehtesham M, Murawski S, Singh S, Alimohammad R. Bifascicular block in unexplained syncope is underrecognized and under-evaluated: a single-center audit of ESC guidelines adherence. PLOS One. 2022 Feb 28;17(2):e0263727. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.026372.

Al-Tarbsheh A, Chong W, Oweis J, Saha B, Feustel P, Leamon A, Chopra A. Clinical Outcomes of Early Versus Late Intubation in Covid-19 Patients. Cureus. 2022 Jan 27;14(1):e21669. doi: 10.7759/cureus.21669. PMID: 35237472; PMCID: PMC8882044.

Clinical predictors of symptom improvement failure in gastroparesis. Waseem Amjada, Iliana Doycheva, Faisal Kamal, Adnan Malik, Asha Pandu, Muhammad Shabbir, Mirrah Mumtaz, Asra Batool, Andrew Ukleja. Albany Medical Center, NY; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; University of Chicago, IL; University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN; Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago, IL; Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Annals of Gastroenterology (2022) 35, 1-9.

Ehtesham M, Mahmood F, Shabbir MA, Peredo RW. Treatment Options for Interstitial Lung disease associated with Connective Tissue Disease. J Lung Health Dis. (2021) 5(2): 12-18. https://doi.org/10.29245/2689-999X/2021/2.1175.

Mahmood F, Ehtesham M, Bokhari SMMA, Peredo-Wende RA. Sjögren’s Syndrome and the respiratory system: A comprehensive approach. J Lung Health Dis. (2021) 5(2): 19-25. https://doi.org/10.29245/2689-999X/2021/2.1176.

Shawn Philip and Ramanathan Veerappan did a QI project that was accepted for presentation at NY ACP in May entitled "ADDRESSING Covid-19 VACCINE HESITANCY AND MISINFORMATION AMONG INCARCERATED PERSONS". They hosted a virtual info session for a local incarcerated population regarding Covid-19 vaccines, that also featured a Q&A with an Allergy/Immunology expert. The incarcerated persons did questionnaires before and after the session, and results were analyzed to see how effective we were at addressing their concerns. They concluded that the incarcerated do value opinions of health care workers and that more and longer sessions are needed to further address vaccine concerns.

Sualeha Khalid presented a poster at NY ACP in May titled 'Maxillary Sinusitis Due to Scedsporium Apiospermum in a Patient with AML Successfully Treated with Surgery and Voriconazole '.

Fatima Mahmood’s poster presented at Y ACP in May was titled, ‘Role of early autoantibodies in the diagnosis of atypical manifestation of Sjögren’s syndrome- A case series”. In this project it was demonstrated how diagnosis of SS was established based on presence of serum anti-SP1, anti-CA6 or anti-PSP antibodies levels. These markers are usually present in the early stage of the disease and can be detected in the blood earlier then anti-SSA levels. These markers can also be used to establish diagnosis in cars when patients do not present with the typical, “dry eyes and mouth”.

2021:
Jain E, Al-Tarbsheh AH, Oweis J, Jacobson E, Shkolnik B. Hodgkin's Lymphoma Presenting as Multiple Cavitary Lung Lesions. Eur J Case Rep Intern Med. 2021 Dec 1;8(12):003024. doi: 10.12890/2021_003024. PMID: 35059335; PMCID: PMC8765687.

Mahmood F, Ehtesham M, Bokhari SMMA, Peredo- ende RA. Sjögren’s Syndrome and the respiratory system: A comprehensive approach. J Lung Health Dis. (2021) 5(2): 19-25. https://doi.org/10.29245/2689-999X/2021/2.1176

Tuz Zahra F, Ajmal Z, Ghalib S, Shkolnik B, EBV-Associated atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome presenting with diffuse alveolar hemorrhage. CHEST, Volume 160, Issue 4, A2089.

Albaba I, Chopra A, Al-Tarbsheh AH, Feustel PJ, Mustafa M, Oweis J, Parimi SA, Santelises Robledo FM, Mehta S. Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes of Rhabdomyolysis in Hospitalized Patients With Covid-19 Infection. Cureus. 2021 Nov 22;13(11):e19802. doi: 10.7759/cureus.19802. PMID: 34956789; PMCID: PMC8693832.

Jain E, Al-Tarbsheh AH, Oweis J, Abdelwahab H, Shkolnik B. Incidental Discovery of Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma on CT Imaging. Eur J Case Rep Intern Med. 2021 Nov 24;8(11):002834. doi: 10.12890/2021_002834. PMID: 34912733; PMCID: PMC8668012.

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.

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.

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.

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, Westbury, 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.

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.

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, Westbury, NY; 2 Albany Medical Center, Cohoes, NY; 3 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 4Albany Medical College, 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.

A Rare Case of Isolated Collagenous Gastritis in the Adult Age Group Ahmad Abulawi, MBBS1, Asra Batool, MD2; 1 Albany Medical College, Albany, NY; 2 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.

Gastric Hyperplastic Polyp, Stubborn and Recurrent. Ahmad Abulawi, MBBS1, Asra Batool, MD2; 1 Albany Medical College, Albany, NY; 2 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.

Chronic Opiate Use in Diabetic Gastroparesis Is Associated with Malnutrition and Increased Mortality. Waseem Amjad, MD1, Adnan Malik, MD2, Joseph J. Alukal, MD3, Asha Pandu, MD, MCPS1, Eesha Gul, MBBS4, Muhammad Shabbir, MD1, Asra Batool, MD1; 1 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 2 Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL; 3 Valley Health System, Las Vegas, NV; 4King Edward Medical University, 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.

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.

Severe Gastroparesis: The Outcomes and Predictors. Waseem Amjad, MD1 , Mirrah Mumtaz, MD1 , Adnan Malik, MD2 , Ritu Singh, MD3 , Asha Pandu, MD, MCPS1 , Asra Batool, MD1 ; 1 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 2 Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL; 3 Indiana University Medical Center, Fort Wayne, IN. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.

Al-Ahmad M, Torosoff M. Effects of Chronic Statin Therapy on Left Atrial Structure and Function and Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation After Catheter Ablation. CHEST Oct 2021, 160 (4) A263 presented at CHEST 2021 annual meeting

Adhikari A, Harutyunyan M, Hamza M, Belov D, Torosoff M Acute Anemia and Outcomes in ACS Treated with Mechanical Circulatory Support. Circulation Nov 2021, 144 (Supplement 1): A9777 presented at AHA Scientific Sessions 2021.

Glycosylated Hemoglobin Relation With Gastric Emptying Study in Gastroparesis. Waseem Amjad, MD1 , Saad Akhtar, MBA1 , Joseph J. Alukal, MD2 , Adnan Malik, MD3 , Eesha Gul, MBBS4, Mirrah Mumtaz, MD1 , Asha Pandu, MD, MCPS1 , Asra Batool, MD1 ; 1 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 2 Valley Health System, Las Vegas, NV; 3 Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL; 4King Edward Medical University, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.

Ashraf MF, Trifonova R, Batool A. Obliterative Portal Venopathy Caused by Oral Contraceptive Pills: A Case Report. J Med Cases. 2021 Nov;12(11):446-450. doi: 10.14740/jmc3779. Epub 2021 Nov 5. PMID: 34804304; PMCID: PMC8577609.

Ashraf MF, Vipani A, Batool A. An Unusual Case of Gastric Outlet Obstruction After Embolization of Gastroduodenal Artery Pseudoaneurysm. J Med Cases. 2021 Nov;12(11):464-467. doi: 10.14740/jmc3786. Epub 2021 Nov 5. PMID: 34804308; PMCID: PMC8577608.

Predictors and Outcomes of Protein-Calorie Malnutrition in Gastroparesis. Waseem Amjad, MD1 , Michelle Tram2 , Mirrah Mumtaz, MD1 , Adnan Malik, MD3 , Muhammad Shabbir, MD1 , Asha Pandu, MD, MCPS1 , Seth Richter, MD4; 1 Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY; 2 Siena College, Loudonville, NY; 3 Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL; 4Albany Medical College, Albany, NY. AGA Oct 2021, Las Vegas, NV.

Leso J, Al-Ahmad M, Hand DO. Patient with systemic emboli in the setting of Klebsiella oxytoca tricuspid valve endocarditis and patent foramen ovale treated with NobleStitch and AngioVac. BMJ Case Rep. 2021 Aug 20;14(8):e243370. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2021-243370. PMID: 34417236; PMCID: PMC8381318.

Chopra A, Al-Tarbsheh AH, Shah NJ, Yaqoob H, Hu K, Feustel PJ, Ortiz-Pacheco R, Patel KM, Oweis J, Kozlova N, Zouridis S, Ahmad S, Epelbaum O, Chong WH, Huggins JT, Saha BK, Conuel E, Chieng H, Mullins J, Bajaj D, Shkolnik B, Vancavage R, Madisi N, Judson MA. Pneumothorax in critically ill patients with Covid-19 infection: Incidence, clinical characteristics and outcomes in a case control multicenter study. Respir Med. 2021 Aug;184:106464. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2021.106464. Epub 2021 May 13. PMID: 34044224; PMCID: PMC8116127.

Saha BK, Bonnier A, Chong WH, Chieng H, Ibrahim A. A 75-Year-Old Woman With Pulmonary Nodules and Dyspnea. Chest. 2021 Jul;160(1):e51-e56. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.02.022. PMID: 34246389.

Chong WH, Saha B, Ibrahim A, Smith TC. Dyspnea in a 57-Year-Old Man With Recent Viral Illness. Chest. 2021 Jul;160(1):e19-e24. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.01.012. PMID: 34246383.

Wang SC, Koutroumpakis E, Schulman-Marcus J, Tosh T, Volgman AS, Lyubarova R. Sex Differences Remain Under-Reported in Cardiovascular Publications. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2021 Sep;30(9):1253-1258. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2020.8561. Epub 2021 Mar 5. PMID: 33667122.

Derakhshesh MI, Joye E, Yager N. Unilateral renal artery stenosis causing hypertensive flash pulmonary oedema. BMJ Case Rep. 2021 Sep 12;14(9):e244402. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2021-244402. PMID: 34511412; PMCID: PMC8438749.

Ashraf MF, Richter S, Arker SH, Parsa N. A Rare Case of Esophageal Leukoplakia: A Potential Precursor to Esophageal Malignancy. Cureus. 2021 Aug 15;13(8):e17205. doi: 10.7759/cureus.17205. PMID: 34540432; PMCID: PMC8440086.

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.

Fatima Tuz Zahra, Zainub Ajmal; Abdul Moiz Khan; Darren E. Gemoets; Syed Mehdi: Racial Disparities in Treatment and Survival for Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Is Equal Access Health Care System the Answer? Oral Poster Presentation AVAHO 9/2021 National Conference.

Zainub Ajmal, Abdul Moiz Khan, Fatima Tuz Zahra, Darren E. Gemoets, Syed Mehdi, : Survival Analysis of Untreated Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in Veteran Population (NSCLC). Oral Poster presentation AVAHO 9/2021 National Conference.

Amin Azem, Lezah McCarthy; Raina Patel, Eugene Kim, Syed Mehdi: Bilateral Adrenal Metastasis in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: A Trouble Sanctuary Site in the Era of Immunotherapy. Poster presentation AVAHO 9/2021 National Conference.

Oday Elmanaseer; Alzira Avelino, Syed Mehdi; Mihir Raval: EBV-triggered HUS. Poster Presentation AVAHO 9/2021 National Conference.

Shawn Philips; Darnen Gemoets; Vimala Thalody; Elise Malecki; and Syed Mehdi: “Factors Associated with Survival and Epidemiology of Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors in the US Department of Veteran Affairs" Poster presentation AVAHO 9/2021.

Fatima Mahmood; Zainub Ajmal; Syed Mehdi: “JAK2V617F Positive Essential Thrombocytosis After 40 Years of Treatment for Immune Thrombocytopenia” Poster presentation NYACP 9/30/2021.

Matthew Derakhshesh, MD1; Zainub Ajmal, MD1; Abdul Moiz Khan, MBBS1; Darren Gemoets2, PhD; Vimala Thalody2, MD: A Single-Center Experience of Cardiac-related Adverse Events from Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: AVAHO 9/2021.

Fatima Mahmood1, MD, Fatima Tuz Zahra1, MD, Rafeh Safdar1, MD, Lezah Mccarthy2, MD, Vimala Thalody1,2, MD, Syed A. Mehdi: “Currents of metaplastic breast cancer after remission for 10 years” AVAHO 9/2021.

Hamza M, Kelly H. Beers. Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY. IgA Nephropathy Flare Following Covid-19 Vaccination. Abstract has been selected for poster presentation at the American Society of Nephrology Scientific Meeting (Kidney Week) November 4-7th, 2021.