Research Projects
Resident Publications and Projects
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Amha Weldehana (PGY-3), AHA 2025: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on CardioMEMS for Enhanced Heart Failure Management: Examining Randomized Controlled Trials and Observational Studies · Amha Weldehana (PGY-3), AHA 2025: Routine Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Screening in Underserved Primary Care Settings: A Quality and Improvement Study. · Rimsha Ahmad (PGY-2), AHA 2025: Myocardial Inflammation and Complete Heart Block in Anti-NXP-2 Dermatomyositis: An Unrecognized Cardiac Manifestation
Amha Weldehana (PGY-3), HFSA 2025 (Heart Failure society of America Annual Scientific Meeting 2025): The Highs and Hearts: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis on the Use of Cannabis and Arrhythmia
Amha Weldehana (PGY-2), SCAI 2025 (Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions Scientific Session 2025): Acute Coronary Syndromes Among Young Black Africans: A 5-year Multicenter Retrospective Study in Ethiopia · Amha Weldehana (PGY-2), CWHS 2025 (Canada Women’s Health Summit 2025): Contraception and Rheumatic Heart Disease in Ethiopia: A Tertiary Hospital Experience
Ashish Tripathi (PGY-2), ACC 2025 (American College of Cardiology Scientific Session 2025): Unmasking Chronic Eosinophilic Leukemia: A Rare Cause of Eosinophilic Myocarditis · Ashish Tripathi (PGY-2), ACC 2025 (American College of Cardiology Scientific Session 2025): Can A Pacemaker Lead Result in Tamponade Years After Implant? Unveiling A Rare Complication
Rimsha Ahmad (PGY-1), ACC 2025 (American College of Cardiology Scientific Session 2025): Constrictive Pericarditis and Pericardiectomy after Lung Transplantation: A Rare Phenomenon
Rimsha Ahmad (PGY-1), ACC 2025 (American College of Cardiology Scientific Session 2025): Comparison of Artificial Intelligence-Based ECG Age with Chronological Age in Predicting Cardiovascular Risk among a South Asian Cohort · Sanjana Arsha (PGY-2), ACC 2025 (American College of Cardiology Scientific Session 2025): Rare Case of Hepatic Encephalopathy Triggered by Cardiac Cirrhosis
Syed Sadam Hussain (PGY-2), SCAI 2025 (Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions Scientific Session 2025): Efficacy and Safety of Atherectomy in Elderly Population
Eshaan Parikh (PGY-2), ACC 2025 (American College of Cardiology Scientific Session 2025): Coronary Artery Vasospasm As An Initial Presentation Of Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis
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Maxwell Charlat (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Polypectomy Guideline Adherence Across 369 Colonoscopies at an Academic Center: A Quality Improvement Project
Maxwell Charlat (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Not Every Cyst Needs a Lumen-Apposing Metal Stent: Mesenteric Cyst Mimicking Peripancreatic Fluid Collection
Sarah Rahni (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Gastrointestinal Mantle Cell Lymphoma: Diagnostic Value of Endoscopic and Histologic Correlation
Sarah Rahni (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): When Immunosuppression Turns Inflammatory: Eosinophilic Colitis from Tacrolimus in a Liver Transplant Recipient
Sarah Rahni (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Megaesophagus Causing Respiratory Failure: Diagnosis of Achalasia via EndoFLIP
Daniel Basta (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): A Nationwide Analysis of Smoking and Hospitalization Outcomes in Clostridiodes Difficile Infection
Daniel Basta (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Clinical Outcomes of African American Patients with Clostridioides Difficile Infection: An 8 Year Retrospective Cohort Study
Daniel Basta (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Clinical Outcomes of Female Patients with Clostridioides Difficile Infection: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Elona Poltiyelova (PGY-3), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Biliary Peritonitis Without Luminal Perforation After Pan-Endoscopy
Elona Poltiyelova (PGY-3), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Chia Seeds for the Treatment of Chronic Constipation in Adults: A Randomized Multi-Armed Prospective Trial
Jesse Silverman (Chief Resident), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Noninvasive Assessment of Portal Hypertension and Provider Initiation of Non-Selective Beta-Blocker Therapy
Dafna Somogyi (PGY-3), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): A Case of Presumed Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy in the Second Trimester Progressing to Fulminant Liver Failure Requiring Liver Transplantation
Wei Tang (Chief Resident), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): An Unusual Duodenal Diverticulum Perforation During Diagnostic Endoscopic Ultrasound and Successful Endoscopic Rescue With an Over-the-Scope Clip
Wei Tang (Chief Resident), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): FLIP-Assisted Diagnosis and On-the-Spot Dilation of Achalasia With Inconclusive Manometry
Wei Tang (Chief Resident), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Safety and Predictors of Post-Polypectomy Bleeding in Cirrhotic Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Wei Tang (Chief Resident), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Vedolizumab-Associated Acute Pancreatitis After 5 Years of Use in a Patient With Ulcerative Colitis
Elona Poltiyelova (PGY-2), DDW 2025 (Digestive Disease Week 2025): Disaccharidase Testing and Clinical Outcomes: A Retrospective Study
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Kashish Magnani (PGY-1), SOHO 2025 (Society of Hematologic Oncology Annual Meeting 2025): Renal Failure as a Contributing Malignancy Deaths: A Nationwide Mortality Trend Analysis (1999-2020)
Kashish Magnani (PGY-2), SOHO 2025 (Society of Hematologic Oncology Annual Meeting 2025): Age- and Sex-Based Inequities in the Global Burden of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Across WHO High-Income Countries: 1990-2021
Christopher Poletes (PGY-2), ASH 2025 (Annual Hematology Meeting 2025): Thrombotic Microangiopathy among Hospitalized Patients: Demographic Characteristics, Diagnostic Trends, and Resource Use from a National Database Study
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Amha Weldehana (PGY-3), AHA 2025: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on CardioMEMS for Enhanced Heart Failure Management: Examining Randomized Controlled Trials and Observational Studies · Amha Weldehana (PGY-3), AHA 2025: Routine Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Screening in Underserved Primary Care Settings: A Quality and Improvement Study. · Rimsha Ahmad (PGY-2), AHA 2025: Myocardial Inflammation and Complete Heart Block in Anti-NXP-2 Dermatomyositis: An Unrecognized Cardiac Manifestation
Amha Weldehana (PGY-3), HFSA 2025 (Heart Failure society of America Annual Scientific Meeting 2025): The Highs and Hearts: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis on the Use of Cannabis and Arrhythmia
Amha Weldehana (PGY-2), SCAI 2025 (Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions Scientific Session 2025): Acute Coronary Syndromes Among Young Black Africans: A 5-year Multicenter Retrospective Study in Ethiopia · Amha Weldehana (PGY-2), CWHS 2025 (Canada Women’s Health Summit 2025): Contraception and Rheumatic Heart Disease in Ethiopia: A Tertiary Hospital Experience
Ashish Tripathi (PGY-2), ACC 2025 (American College of Cardiology Scientific Session 2025): Unmasking Chronic Eosinophilic Leukemia: A Rare Cause of Eosinophilic Myocarditis · Ashish Tripathi (PGY-2), ACC 2025 (American College of Cardiology Scientific Session 2025): Can A Pacemaker Lead Result in Tamponade Years After Implant? Unveiling A Rare Complication
Rimsha Ahmad (PGY-1), ACC 2025 (American College of Cardiology Scientific Session 2025): Constrictive Pericarditis and Pericardiectomy after Lung Transplantation: A Rare Phenomenon
Rimsha Ahmad (PGY-1), ACC 2025 (American College of Cardiology Scientific Session 2025): Comparison of Artificial Intelligence-Based ECG Age with Chronological Age in Predicting Cardiovascular Risk among a South Asian Cohort · Sanjana Arsha (PGY-2), ACC 2025 (American College of Cardiology Scientific Session 2025): Rare Case of Hepatic Encephalopathy Triggered by Cardiac Cirrhosis
Syed Sadam Hussain (PGY-2), SCAI 2025 (Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions Scientific Session 2025): Efficacy and Safety of Atherectomy in Elderly Population
Eshaan Parikh (PGY-2), ACC 2025 (American College of Cardiology Scientific Session 2025): Coronary Artery Vasospasm As An Initial Presentation Of Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis
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Maxwell Charlat (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Polypectomy Guideline Adherence Across 369 Colonoscopies at an Academic Center: A Quality Improvement Project
Maxwell Charlat (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Not Every Cyst Needs a Lumen-Apposing Metal Stent: Mesenteric Cyst Mimicking Peripancreatic Fluid Collection
Sarah Rahni (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Gastrointestinal Mantle Cell Lymphoma: Diagnostic Value of Endoscopic and Histologic Correlation
Sarah Rahni (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): When Immunosuppression Turns Inflammatory: Eosinophilic Colitis from Tacrolimus in a Liver Transplant Recipient
Sarah Rahni (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Megaesophagus Causing Respiratory Failure: Diagnosis of Achalasia via EndoFLIP
Daniel Basta (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): A Nationwide Analysis of Smoking and Hospitalization Outcomes in Clostridiodes Difficile Infection
Daniel Basta (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Clinical Outcomes of African American Patients with Clostridioides Difficile Infection: An 8 Year Retrospective Cohort Study
Daniel Basta (PGY-2), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Clinical Outcomes of Female Patients with Clostridioides Difficile Infection: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Elona Poltiyelova (PGY-3), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Biliary Peritonitis Without Luminal Perforation After Pan-Endoscopy
Elona Poltiyelova (PGY-3), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Chia Seeds for the Treatment of Chronic Constipation in Adults: A Randomized Multi-Armed Prospective Trial
Jesse Silverman (Chief Resident), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Noninvasive Assessment of Portal Hypertension and Provider Initiation of Non-Selective Beta-Blocker Therapy
Dafna Somogyi (PGY-3), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): A Case of Presumed Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy in the Second Trimester Progressing to Fulminant Liver Failure Requiring Liver Transplantation
Wei Tang (Chief Resident), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): An Unusual Duodenal Diverticulum Perforation During Diagnostic Endoscopic Ultrasound and Successful Endoscopic Rescue With an Over-the-Scope Clip
Wei Tang (Chief Resident), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): FLIP-Assisted Diagnosis and On-the-Spot Dilation of Achalasia With Inconclusive Manometry
Wei Tang (Chief Resident), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Safety and Predictors of Post-Polypectomy Bleeding in Cirrhotic Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Wei Tang (Chief Resident), ACG 2025 (American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting): Vedolizumab-Associated Acute Pancreatitis After 5 Years of Use in a Patient With Ulcerative Colitis
Elona Poltiyelova (PGY-2), DDW 2025 (Digestive Disease Week 2025): Disaccharidase Testing and Clinical Outcomes: A Retrospective Study
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Kashish Magnani (PGY-1), SOHO 2025 (Society of Hematologic Oncology Annual Meeting 2025): Renal Failure as a Contributing Malignancy Deaths: A Nationwide Mortality Trend Analysis (1999-2020)
Kashish Magnani (PGY-2), SOHO 2025 (Society of Hematologic Oncology Annual Meeting 2025): Age- and Sex-Based Inequities in the Global Burden of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Across WHO High-Income Countries: 1990-2021
Christopher Poletes (PGY-2), ASH 2025 (Annual Hematology Meeting 2025): Thrombotic Microangiopathy among Hospitalized Patients: Demographic Characteristics, Diagnostic Trends, and Resource Use from a National Database Study
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Curie Ahn (PGY-3), ACAAI 2025 (American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting 2025): Hypereosinophilic Syndrome Masquerading as a Drug Rash in the Primary Care Clinic
Vihanga Perera (PGY-3), AAAAI /WAO 2025 (American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology & World Allergy Organization Joint Congress 2025): When Invasive Infection Met Immune Dysfunction
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Christopher Fu (PGY-2), AMIA 2025 (American Medical Informatics Association): Mere Medical: An open-source personal health record
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Curie Ahn (PGY-3), NYACP 2025 (New York American College of Physicians 2025): Case of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Secondary to Gastroenterological Illness In A Young Male
Curie Ahn (PGY-3), KAMA 2025 (Korean-American Medical Association Scientific Convention 2025): High Pressure Care: Improving Rates of Hypertension Control in the Resident Continuity Clinic
Elona Poltiyelova (PGY-3), 5th Congress on Primary Healthcare and Medicare Summit: Co-occurrence of Gastric Xanthoma and Numerous Large Hyperplastic Polyps as Complication of Argon Plasma Coagulation in GAVE
Eshaan Parikh (PGY-2), SGIM 2025 (Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting 2025): A Case of a Life-threatening Pacemaker Pocket Hematoma After Aggressive Thrombolysis and Anticoagulation of a Massive Pulmonary Embolism
Elona Poltiyelova (PGY-2), SGIM 2025 (Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting 2025): A Rare Case of Upadacitinib Induced Liver Injury
Elona Poltiyelova (PGY-2), SHM 2025 (Society of Hospital Medicine Converge 2025): Guillain-Barre Syndrome in a Crohn’s Disease Patient Treated With Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitors
Elona Poltiyelova (PGY-2), SHM 2025 (Society of Hospital Medicine Converge 2025): A Rare Case of Lisinopril-induced Liver Injury in A Patient with Concurrent Semaglutide Use
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Ashley Covatto (PGY-2), ASCIP (Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals Annual Conference): Autonomic Dysreflexia as a Diagnostic Indicator of Underlying Complications in Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Report
Ashley Covatto (PGY-1), ASIA (American Spinal Injury Association Annual Scientific Meeting): Overcoming Diagnostic Oversights in a Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Patient with Delayed Diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma: A Case Report
Ashley Covatto (PGY-1), ASIA (American Spinal Injury Association Annual Scientific Meeting): Neurological Sequelae of Restrictive Dietary Practices: The Role of Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation, Education, and Primary Care