
June, 2009: 27th Annual
Research Awards
The UTCOMC and Erlanger Health System
presented this year’s residents research awards at dinner at the Pier 2 at
the Landing Riverboat, April 24, 2009. Twenty-five residents presented the
results of sixteen research and unique case study projects throughout the
day. The dinner and awards highlighted the week’s display of posters in the
Erlanger Medical Mall Atrium. Posters were judged in the morning and the
three best research projects were presented and judged at a session open to
the University community and public in the afternoon.
Awards were presented by the UTCOMC Dean,
David C. Seaberg, MD, and Mr. Jim Brexler, Erlanger President and CEO. The
top research award was presented to Sandy Varghese, MD (PGY 3, Department of
Pediatrics) by Robert C. Coddington, MD, the first Associate Dean for the
Chattanooga campus who founded the annual recognition of research. This
event is open to all resident and medical students visiting the UT COMC
campus. Dr. Varghese’s research was titled, "Demographic, metabolic, and
genomic description of neonates with severe hyperbilirubinemia." Christy
Lusk, MD, also from the Pediatrics Department (PGY 3), was second author on
the project.
Judges for the event were Beth A. Choby,
MD (Clerkship Director, Department of Family Medicine, UTCOMC), Steve J.
Schwab, MD (Executive Dean, UT HSC College of Medicine, Memphis), and Joseph
M. Van de Water, MD (Professor, Department of Surgery and Assistant Dean for
Research, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA). Robert Fore,
PhD, UTCOMC Associate Dean, Greg Heath, DHSc, MPH, UTCOMC Director of
Research, and Pamela Scott, UTCOMC Director of Graduate Education were also
instrumental in the day’s events.
Congratulations to all who participated in this notable
College of Medicine event.
2009 Resident Research Awardees
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Author(s)
Tatiana Jaconbson, MD
Brindusa Mocanu, MD
Arshdeep Tindni, MD
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Award
2nd Place Research Poster
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Title
Rapid Response Teams: The Impact on the rate of
cardiac arrests at the Baroness Erlanger Hospital of the UTCOMC
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Dept
Internal Medicine
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Collins Chijioke, MD
Seth Means, MD
Kurt Scherer, MD
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3rd Place Research Poster
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The frequency and significance of incidental
thyroid nodules on CT of the chest performed for reasons other than
Thyroid Disease: A retrospective study
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Transitional Year
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Brett Krummert, MD
Kurt Scherer, MD
Gautam Dutta, MD
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3rd Place Case Report Poster
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A rare cause of acute seizure in a young male
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Internal Medicine and Transitional Year
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June, 2009: The
Transitional Year Program Hosts the Fourth Annual "Press Out Domestic
Violence" Fundraiser
On May 21, 2009, the Transitional Year Program held their Fourth Annual
Press Out Domestic Violence fundraiser under the leadership of Amir Paydar,
MD, his fellow colleagues, and Mukta Panda, MD. This weight lifting
competition was held in the Erlanger Medical Mall and raised $2,015 for the
Partnership for Families, Children and Adults of Chattanooga. In addition to
the weight lifting, there was a blood drive through Blood Assurance, and a
Funky Shoe Contest in which women benched in the "interesting" shoes of
their choosing. There was very healthy competition between all of the
departments with the real winner clearly being the Partnership for Families,
Children and Adults of Chattanooga.
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Battle of the Titans
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David Seaberg, MD
UTCOMC Dean
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185 pounds
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James Brexler
EHS President and CEO
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135 pounds
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Robert Fore, PhD
UTCOMC Assoc. Dean
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150 pounds
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Cy Huffman, MD
EHS Chief Medical Officer
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150 pounds
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Individual Winners
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Weight Lifted (lbs)
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Award
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Chad Corrigan, MD
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325
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Most Weight Lifted by Individual Male
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Alexandra Martin, MD
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100
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Most Weight Lifted by Individual Female
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Residency
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Combined Weight Lifted
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Award
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Males
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Females
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Emergency Medicine
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275
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-
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Most Brave Male
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Family Medicine
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500
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95
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Most Brave Female
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General Surgery
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1075
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Most Competitive Attending/Resident Combo
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Internal Medicine
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-
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370
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Most Competitive Attending Match-up
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OB/GYN
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225
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240
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Most Determined Females
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Orthopaedic Surgery
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935
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-
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Largest Weight Lifted Per Number Competing (312 lbs avg/individual)
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Pediatrics
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1295
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435
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Most Weight Lifted by Females of Residency
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Plastic Surgery
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100 (75 reps)
90 (50 reps)
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-
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Most Repetitions Lifted
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Transitional
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1470
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85
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Most Weight Lifted by Residency Males
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Jason Croft, MD, Kurt Scherer, MD
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David Seaberg, MD, Jim Brexler, CEO
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Cy Huffman, MD, Robert Fore, PhD
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June, 2009: Internal Medicine News
Gary Malakoff, MD, was recently named new Clerkship Director for the
Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Malakoff joined the Internal Medicine
Faculty in March, 2009. He completed medical school and residency at the
George Washington School of Medicine in Washington, DC. He currently serves
as Associate Professor.
Catherine Payne, MD has been appointed Associate Program Director for
Internal Medicine. She graduated from the University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga with a Bachelor of Science Degree Magna cum laude. She completed
medical school at Meharry in Nashville, TN.
Lorna Birch, MD, clinical instructor in geriatrics, has recently become a
Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
Mandy Grubb, MD, has been awarded a scholarship by the Mayo Clinic for its
Internal Medicine Board Review, July 12-27, 2009, in Rochester, MN.
Molly Tveite, MD, received a scholarship from Boston University to attend
"Addiction Medicine: Improving Clinical and Teaching Skills for
Generalists--A Chief Resident Immersion Training Program," May 6-9, 2009 in
Cape Cod, MA.
Andrew Todd, MD, received a scholarship from the American Pain Society to
attend its 28th Annual Scientific Meeting and pre-course entitled
"Fundamentals of Pain Management: A Primer for Residents and Fellows," May
5-9, in 2009, San Diego, CA.
June, 2009: UTCOMC "Cans" Hunger
The UTCOMC sponsored the Second Annual Canned Food Sculpture Competition on
May 22, 2009 in the Erlanger Medical Mall. UTCOMC residents, faculty and
staff were encouraged to collect canned food donations and then were given
the opportunity to build a unique display. More than a ton of food was
donated to the Chattanooga Area Food Bank.
April, 2009: Congratulations
The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)
has announced that Catherine Payne, MD has earned the Fellow in Hospital
Medicine designation. Becoming a Fellow is an avenue for special recognition
for Society members who have distinguished themselves among their colleagues
and the hospital medicine specialty. To be designated as a Fellow In
Hospital Medicine, an applicant must be a hospitalist for five years, a
member of SHM for three years, demonstrate their dedication to quality and
process improvement, commitment to organizational teamwork and leadership,
as well as lifelong learning and education. In addition, Dr. Payne has been
appointed to the SHM Young Physicians Committee.
Ann Rybolt, MD and Lotika Pandit, MD were recently
recertified in Geriatric Medicine. Dr. Rybolt initially took the Geriatrics
certification test when it was first given in April of 1988 and had
recertified in 1998 and 2008. Dr. Pandit was originally certified in 1998.
Dr. Mukta Panda also received her recertification in Internal Medicine.
April, 2009: Publications and Presentations
Mukta Panda, MD led a team of Internal Medicine and Transitional Year
residents to complete 14 posters, 8 oral presentations, and 2 workshops at
the February 12-14, 2009 meeting of the Southern Society of General Internal
Medicine (SGIM) in New Orleans.
Kaako A, Panda M. Taking care of the Muslim patient: How
culturally aware are our health care providers. Presented at the Humanities
in Medicine Section of the National Conference for Physician-Scholars in the
Social Sciences and Humanities: Understanding the Past, Transforming the
Future, Philadelphia, PA, March 27-29, 2009.
February, 2009: UT Faculty Honored as Distinguished Physicians
Mukta Panda, MD was recently nominated as the Deputy
Editor for the Journal of Internal Medicine (JIM), the premier journal for
Internal Medicine with international recognition. JIM publishes original
clinical work with the broad field of general and internal medicine and its
sub-specialties. It features original articles, reviews, and case reports.
JIM also supports and organizes scientific meetings in the form of symposia
within the scope of the journal.
Roger Deversa received the 2008 Humanitarian of the Year Award from Jackson
State Community College. This is awarded in recognition of his humanitarian
service to the college.
February, 2009: Publications
Bhattarai N, Panda M. Uremic frost. Mayo Clin Proc. 2008 Dec 1;83(1):1309.
Estrada C, Panda M, Landry M. Why should I write a case report or clinical
vignette? SGIM Forum. 2008 Dec 1;31(12):5,9.
Gupta N, Patel C, Panda M. Hepatitis following famotidine: a case report.
Cases J. 2009 Jan27;2(1):89.
Pai S, Panda M. Limited Wegener’s granulomatosis presenting as lung nodules
in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis: a case report. Cases J. 2008 Dec
23;1(1):417.
Rahman AA, Panda M. Locked lung by looped hernia: a case report. Cases J.
2009 Jan 8;2(1):2
September, 2008: Welcome New Faculty
Catherine Payne Sutton, MD, joined the UT COMC at the rank of Assistant
Professor and Clerkship Director on Feburary 1, 2008. Dr. Sutton received
her MD degree from Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, May 2000.
She completed her Internal Medicine Residency training at UT COMC,
Chattanooga, Tennessee, June 1994. Prior to joining us she served as a
member of University Hospitalists, PLLC, Erlanger Medical Center,
Chattanooga, TN. Dr. Sutton is board certified in Internal Medicine.
Victor Kolade, MD, MS, FACP, joined the UT COMC at the rank of Assistant
Professor September 1, 2008. Dr. Kolade received his MD degree from
University of Ibadan College of Medicine, Ibadan, Nigeria, May 1994. He
completed his residency training at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center,
Brooklyn, NY, June 2004. He completed a General Internal Medicine Fellowship
at University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, July
2006. He received a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the University at
Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, June 2006. Prior to joining us Dr. Kolade served as an
Attending Physician, Hertel Elmwood Internal Medicine Center, Buffalo, NY.
Dr. Kolade is board certified in Internal Medicine.
May, 2008: 26th Annual Research Week
Awards
The UT College of Medicine Chattanooga honored medical residents for
excellence in research at the 26th Annual Awards Banquet held at the Hunter
Museum of Art. Forty-one abstracts were submitted for consideration and
twenty-eight were selected for judging in three categories: oral research
presentations, poster research presentations, and poster case report
presentations.
Judges were Steve J. Schwab, MD, executive dean of the UT College of
Medicine (Memphis), James J. Neutens, PhD, dean of the Graduate School of
Medicine (Knoxville), and R. Kent Hutson, MD, chairman and associate
professor in the Department of Radiology at the UT COMC (Chattanooga).
Dr. Coddington, who had served as associate dean of the UT College of
Medicine in Chattanooga, established the annual research awards event to
provide residents the opportunity to present research papers and case
reports to their peers, faculty and Erlanger hospital staff.
Oral Research Presentations
Honorable Mention Research
Azhar Shamas, MD, Department of Internal Medicine
Electrocardiographic Effects of Simultaneous Hypercalcemia and
Hyperkalemia on 12 lead ECG
Poster Research Presentations
Honorable Mention Research
Amy Estes, MD and B.J. Potsic, MD, Transitional
Year Program
Assessing Residents and Core Teaching Faculty Members Knowledge of Health
Care Charges Related to
Laboratory and Diagnostic Testing--Is Our Current Educational Training
Adequate?
Poster Case Study Presentations
1st Place Case Study
Umesh Yalavarthy, MD, Department of Internal
Medicine
Clincial and Genetic Studies in a Family with Colagenofibrotic
Glomerulonephropathy
May, 2008: Residents Give Back, Help (CAN) Hunger
UT COMC residents, faculty, and staff from the UT COMC deans office
participated in a food drive on May 16, 2008 in the Erlanger Medical Mall
Atrium. Food items were donated to the Chattanooga Area Food Bank. Shown at
left are Internal Medicine and Transitional Year residents (left to right):
front row: Drs. Hai-Yan Li, B.J. Potsic, Kristina Collins, Molly Tveite,
back row: Drs. Shazia Naib, Dawn Meadows, Akberet Hadgu, Chad Halford, Brian
Humble, and Department Chair and Program Director, Dr. Mukta Panda.

March, 2008: Congratulations
Dr. Roger DeVersa, Associate Program Director in Internal Medicine, has been
appointed to serve on two national committees for the Society of Hospital
Medicine: the Membership Committee and the Non-Physician Provider Committee.
Dr. DeVersa is a nominated member to the Council of Young Physicians for
Tennessee. He has also been appointed a member of the Board of Trustees
Budget and Finance Committee for Erlanger Health Systems.

Mukta Panda, MD, Transitional Year Program Director, was one of ten program
directors receiving this years Parker J. Palmer Teaching Award, sponsored
by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Dr. Panda is
shown here with William H. Hartmann, MD, Chair of the ACGME Board of
Director (to her left) and Thomas J. Nasca, MD, CEO of ACGME. The awards
dinner took place February 11, 2008 during the ACGMEs winter Board of
Directors meeting at the Westin OHare

March, 2008: Publications and Presentations
Gadadhar H, Hawkins S, Hufstutter JE, Panda M. Cutaneous mucormycosis
complicating methotrexate, prednisone, and infliximab therapy. J Clin
Rheumatol. 2007 Dec;13(6):361-2.
Gaurav K, Panda M. An uncommon cause of bilateral pulmonary pulmonary
nodules in a long-term smoker. J Gen Int Med. 2007 Nov;22(11):2627-30. Epub
2007 Sep 12.
Maddineni M, Panda M. Swallowing: is it a carotid massage equivalent causing
syncope in patients with neck masses? J Gen Intern Med. 2007
Dec;22(12):1778-80. Epub 2007 Oct 11.
The Internal Medicine Residents and Faculty were very well
represented at the Southern Chapter of the Society of General Internal
Medicine (SSGIM) meeting in New Orleans, 2/28 - 2/23/08. Twenty abstracts
were selected from which six were chosen as oral presentations. The
Residents represented were Doctors Rahman, Tindni, Humble Mocanu, Tveite,
Amil, Cincere, Gaurav, Cooley, Bhat-Pai, Chowdury, Strelnikova, Morrison,
and Shamas.
Faculty represented were Doctors Jones, Franklin, DeVersa,
and Panda. Dr. Panda led a workshop at the SGIM meeting on mentorship
titled, Take Them Under your Wings--What Are You Taking On? The Perils and
Pleasures of Mentoring. Collaborative staff included Dr. Jada Bussey-Jones
(Emory), Dr. Lisa Willet (UAB), and Dr. Jeff Weise (Tulane).
March, 2008: Welcome
The Department of Internal Medicine welcomes Dr. Catherine Payne Sutton as a
new full-time faculty member. Dr. Payne Sutton has worked as a hospitalist
and comes to us with great experience and leadership. She has been actively
involved in many hospital quality improvement projects and will also be
functioning as the clerkship director for Internal Medicine.
December, 2007:
Transitional Year and Internal Medicine Residents Share Their Care
The COMC transitional year
residency program has a great history of community service and philanthropy;
this year was no exception.
The transitional year
residents supported the Susan G. Komen Foundation which focuses on breast cancer
awareness and early screening. The residents raised money to fight breast cancer
and ran in the Race for the Cure. Thanksgiving brought another opportunity to
give back to the community. The residents provided a family in economic hardship
a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner. Over the past few weeks they have been
collecting canned food for the Chattanooga Second Harvest food bank. They have
also adopted a family this holiday season
Transitional year residents
teamed up with the internal medicine residents for their biggest event of the
year, the annual domestic violence fundraiser and awareness bench press
competition. The somewhat humorous interdepartmental competition, Press Out
Domestic Violence, donated all procees to the Partnership for Families.
Internal medicine residents
were involved in other various community activities. Dr. Mandy Cincere
participated in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, raising $500. Dr. Cooley
organized a Thank-A-Thon to all the donors for the Erlanger Baroness
Foundation. She also joined cardiologist Dr. Mitch Mutter on a medical mission
trip to Haiti and is hoping to participate in a larger scale childhood nutrition
project there later in the year. Residents also participated in this years
Minority Health Fair.
If you would like to
contribute to any of these events in the future, please feel free to contact
Joyce Poke, the transitional year program coordinator or Deborah Fuller, the
internal medicine program coordinator.
November, 2007: Department of Internal Medicine
The Department of Internal
Medicine was very well represented at the regional meeting of the American
College of Physicians. Mukta Panda, MD was a member of the scientific planning
committee and was re-elected to the council. Excellent workshop presentations
were delivered by Jon Cohen, MD and J. Boldt, MD.
Internal medicine residents
were well-represnted at the 2007 Tennessee Chapter meeting of the ACP.
Representing Internal Medicine in the poster and oral presentations were Drs.
Kumar Gaurav, Sushma Bhat-Pa, Arsdeep Tindni, Aparna Chowdhury, Gautam Dutta,
Brian Humble, and Dawn Meadows.
Also UT COMC Internal
Medicine Team won the Tennessee Chapter ACP jeopardy session and will compete in
the national ACP to be held in Washington, DC in May 2008.
October, 2007: Mukta Panda, MD
Dr. Mukta Panda is one of
ten program directors honored by The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
Education for their dedication to teaching new physicians.
The award, given annually
since 2001, is given to distinguished program directors, nominated by faculty
and residents, in recognition of their commitment to teaching and development of
innovative and effective residency programs. The award is named after Parker J.
Palmer, PhD, a senior adviser at the Fetzer Institute and the author of
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner
Landscape of a Teachers Life.
Parker Palmer reports that
we do not teach what we are, but instead teach who we are. It is especially
important at this time that the teachers of medicine live the values of
medicine, noted David C. Leach, MD, CEO and executive director of the ACGME.
The ACGME is very pleased to be able to identify and honor program directors
who lived divided no more, who demonstrate on the outside the deeply held and
authentic truths on the inside.
The recipients, their
specialties, and the institutions sponsoring their programs are:
Robert Brown, MD,
nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Steve Galetta, MD, neurology, Univesity of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Kalpalatha Guntupalli, MD,
pulmonary/critical care, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Karen Horvath, MD, general surgery, University
of Washington, Seattle, WA
Richard Lackman, MD,
orthopaedic surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
John Jane, MD, neurosurgery, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Mukta Panda, MD,
transitional year, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga, TN
Susan Promes, MD, emergency medicine, Duke
University, Durham, NC
Richard Shugarman, MD, pediatrics, University
of Washington, Seatlle, WA
William Sonis, MD, child
and adolescent psychiatry, Drexel University College of Medicine, Friends
Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Panda acknowledges that
her career in medicine and teaching would not be possible without the leadership
and generous support of her husband, Dr. Nil Panda, and her family. Dr. Nil
Panda is also a clinical faculty member in the UT COMC Department of Medicine
and practices in Dayton, TN. She states that she dedicates this award to Nil
since he is the teacher she most tries to emulate.
August 22, 2007: John Morgan, MD
Dr. John Morgan stepped down
as Chair of the EHS/UT Institutional Review Board as of the August 22nd meeting.
Dr. BW. Ruffner has been appointed as new IRB Chair.
Dr. Morgan served in this
position for over ten years, reviewing hundreds of protocols and counseling
research nurses, medical students, residents, staff and community physicians,
and faculty both from the College of Medicine and the UTC campus. We are very
grateful for his patience and leadership. Dr. Morgan will stay on the Board as a
voting member.
July, 2007: Mukta Panda, MD
Dr. Mukta Panda has been
named Interim Chair of Internal Medicine. Dr. Panda joined the UT COMC faculty
in 1998 after she completed her residency here.
In addition to clinical
responsibilities, she has served as Transitional Year Program Director, Vice
Chief of the Erlanger Medical Quality Improvement Committee, and has served on
many EHS and UT COMC committees. She has received Outstanding Teacher Awards
both in Internal Medicine and the Transitional Year Program. Dr. Panda serves on
several national boards and is a champion of resident research and
presentations. She will continue to serve as Transitional Year Program Director.
May 31, 2007: "Press Out Domestic Violence"
Transitional Year Program Hosts the Second Annual
Press Out Domestic Violence Fundraiser.
A weight lifting
competition was held in the Erlanger Medical Mall on May 31st to benefit the
Partnership for Families, Children and Adults, as well as other hospital
charities. This is an annual event and all of our health care friends are
encouraged to start working out now so youll be ready to compete next year and
challenge the Surgery Departments success (they have won the Department title
both years of this event).
The primary winner of the
day was the Partnership for Families, but awards were also given to the
following:
Total Bench Pressed by Department: Department of
Surgery
Strongest Man: Phillip Smith, MD (Surgery)
Strongest Woman: Natalie Strelnikova, MD
(Transitional Year Program)
Lift/Body Weight: Paul Apyan, MD (Orthopaedic
Surgery)
Lift/Body Weight: Rozmond Lewis, MD (Family
Medicine)
Endurance Lift: Andy Wilson, MD (Graduate,
Transitional Year Program)
Endurance Lift: Mukta Panda, MD (Transitional
Year Program Director)
April 9, 2007: Christy Westmoreland
Christy Westmoreland
will be joining the University Surgical
Associates beginning April 9, 2007 as the Administrative Manager of Clinical
Research. She will be managing primarily the business aspects of the research
department, including compliance, budgets, and contracts. She joins Pat Lewis,
Karen Reed, and Emily Kirk in the UT office. Christy worked in the UT office as
a research nurse from 2000 through 2003. We are looking forward to her return.
March 27, 2007: Harsha Vardhana, MD
Dr. Harsha Vardhana
(formerly Harsha Gadadhar) was selected by the American Society of Clinical
Oncology (ASCO) to receive the prestigious Young Investigator Award, an honor
which includes a $50,000 research grant. He won the award in the category of
Health Disparities.
During the coming months,
Vardhana and his research team will interview patients and listen to their
personal accounts of receiving a cancer diagnosis and the dialogue that
subsequently results with their physician.
Dr. Vardhana was a resident
in the Internal Medicine Program who graduated in 2006 and is now a
hematology/oncology fellow at East Tennessee State Universitys James H. Quillen
College of Medicine.
[from East Tennessee State
University website News and Events, 3/27/07]
March, 2007: Ronald Goulet, PhD and T. Bain Ervin, BSE
Ronald U. Goulet, PhD,
and
T. Bain Ervin, BSE,
recently joined the UT College of Medicine
Chattanooga adjunct faculty. Each holds an appointment with the Department of
Orthopaedic Surgery.
Dr. Goulet is an Associate Professor with the College of Engineering and
Computer Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He obtained his
BS in Civil Engineering at Northwestern University and his PhD in Mechanical
Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. He is an active member of the
Research Committee of the Chattanooga Orthopaedic Education and Research
Foundation. Dr. Goulet has co-authored a number of published articles on
biomechanical research with the residents and faculty.
Mr. Ervin is the Director of
the Basic Science Research Laboratory in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery.
He obtained his BS in Engineering at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Mr. Ervin is a member of the Research Committee of the Chattanooga Orthopedic
Education and Research Foundation and is actively involved in conducting
biomechanical research projects with the residents and faculty. He also manages
the arthroscopic skills laboratory and performs statistical analysis for the
department.
February 8-10, 2007: Mukta Panda, MD
Mukta Panda, MD,
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine,
served as the CME Director for the Society of General Internal Medicine-Regional
Chapter Meeting. The regional chapter is comprised of Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, and held a three day
meeting, February 8-10, 2007 at the Hotel Inter-Continental in New Orleans, LA.
This meeting provided a
stimulating forum to discuss and gain insight into a number of issues including
recent medical advances, clinical evidence-based quality and safe patient care,
local and national issues affecting the practice and teaching of internal
medicine, and recent general internal medicine research. In addition, attendees
were able to develop and broaden their network of colleagues in the area.
Among the high points of the
program was the special pay for performance symposium that focused on the pay
for performance (P4P) incentive programs at the Veterans Administration and
other health systems that are impacting clinical and academic medicine.
Participants learned about quality measures aimed at improving care quality and
participated in multiple workshop sessions addressing practical questions
encountered in daily medical practice relating to clinical care, education,
faculty development, research and administration. The clinical vignette sessions
by the associates provided an opportunity to discuss interesting and unusual
cases. Medicine jeopardy was a new event that was fun and well represented by
the residency programs in the region. Individuals participating in Panel
Mentoring sessions were able to discuss their current situation with a panel of
senior clinicians and develop ideas to further their careers. The chapter
business meeting provided updates on council activities as well as those of
chapter committees.
Februrary, 2007: Southern Regional Meeting of the Society of General
Interest Medicine
Internal Medicine residents
of the UT COM Chattanooga were once again well represented at the 2007 Southern
Regional Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Mukta Panda
served as a co-author and faculty mentor for 24 presentations. Other faculty
members included Drs. Staton, Holden, Gefter and Poole. Nine oral and sixteen
poster presentations were included. Representing the department were: Shazia
Amil MD, Shadi Ayyoub MD, Sushma Bhat MD, Mandy Cincere MD, Gautam Dutta MD,
Kumar Gaurav MD, Chad Halford MD, Asma Khan MD, Manogna Maddineni MD, Supriya
Mannepalli MD, Brindusa Mocanu MD, Arshdeep Tindni MD, and Umesh Yalavarthy MD,
as well as Jason Hill MD and Olga Suarez MD, representing the Transitional Year
program. Additionally, Drs. Ayyoub and Yalavarthy were awarded the Jeopardy
Prize. Congratulations to all who presented.
March 11, 2004: Clifton Cleaveland, MD
Dr. Clif Cleaveland, Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Department
of Medicine, has published a book, Healers and Heroes: Ordinary People
in Extraordinary Time. The book is a collection of true stories about
ordinary men and women who, through courage and fortitude, exemplify
what it means to love life. The book will be available in mid-April.
Dr. Cleaveland is also the author of another book, Sacred Space.
Feb. 26, 2004: Lotika Pandit, MD
Dr. Lotika Pandit, Clinical Instructor in the
Department of Medicine, has recently passed the Hospice and Palliative
Medicine certification examination. Dr. Pandit is now certified as a
Diplomate of the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
Jan. 28, 2004: James Creel, MD
James Creel, MD, Chief of the Division of Emergency
Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine, was recently certified
in the subspecialty of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.
Dec. 19, 2003: Outstanding Teacher Award
Dr. John Gunter received the Award for Outstanding
Teaching from the Internal Medicine Housestaff at the 2003 Annual House
Staff Christmas Awards Banquet. Dr. Mukta Panda also received the Award
for Oustanding Teaching from the Transitional House Staff at the
Banquet. At the end of each medical student rotation, individual
students vote for one faculty member who demonstrated excellent
teaching skills and make a significant impact on the student's
education.
Nov. 6, 2003: Research Presentations
Nine residents from the Department of Internal
Medicine presented their research studies at the 97th Annual Scientific
Assembly of the Southern Medical Association in Atlanta, Georgia. The
Assembly, held from November 6-8, is considered to be a premier event
whose mission it is to foster professional development. Drs. Lindsay
Crawford, Vanessa Dixon, Deborah Duffield, Amir Kaki, Carl Narducci,
Catherine Payne, Phillip Rayers, John Tapp, and Murad Salaita
participated in oral and poster presentations during the three-day
event. Faculty mentors for these residents included: Drs. Raymond
Enzenauer, Roger Jones, Robert Magill, Mukta Panda, Ann Rybolt and
Colleen Schmitt.
Sep. 1, 2003: Faculty Development Leadership Program
Leslie Herman, MD has been accepted to the Faculty
Development Fellowship Program at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. Dr. Herman is a member of the Division of Hospital
Medicine and an Instructor in the Department of Medicine.
Aug. 1, 2003: Editorial Board
Dr. Norman A. Desbiens, Professor of Medicine and
Chair of the Department of Medicine at the UT College of
Medicine-Chattanooga Unit, has been recently asked to join the Editors
Board of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Dr. Desbiens
is also on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Medical
Decision-Making.
July 1, 2003: Faculty Promotions
Congratulations to the following faculty members for their recent promotions in the Department of Medicine: Mukta Panda, MD to Associate Professor of Medicine
Larry Nagle, MD to Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
Larry Schlabach, MD to Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
July 1, 2003: Publications
Dr. Francis Fesmire has had an article accepted for
publication in the July issue of the American Journal of Emergency
Medicine, “Early use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors in the ED
treatment of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: a local
quality improvement initiative.” Dr. Fesmire is a Clinical Assistant
Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Medical
Director of the Heat-Stroke Center at Erlanger. 2002
graduate, Tye B. Young, DO and faculty members John Paty, MD; Mukta
Panda, MD; and Raymond Enzenauer, MD published an article, "Takayasu's
Arteritis: Isolated Aoritis", in the November 2003 issue of The Journal
of Rheumatology.
"A Novel Use for the Word "Trend" in the
Clinical Trial Literature" by Norman A. Desbiens, MD was published in
the August 2003 issue of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences.
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