Internal Medicine

Resident Publications

Our residents have a proud track record of participating in scholarly activity during residency. Our residents have published in NEJM, JAMA, Circulation, JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Cardiology, JAMA Oncology, The Journal of General Internal Medicine, among others.

Below is partial list of publications by our residents in the last five years, as well as notable conferences at which resident have presented their work. Residents' names are bolded. This list demonstrates the diversity of residents' scholarly output, and what one can achieve during residency at UT Southwestern. 

Publications

Allergy/ Immunology

Chen JR, Tarver SA, Alvarez KS, Tran T, Khan DA. A Proactive Approach to Penicillin Allergy Testing in Hospitalized Patients. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2017 May - Jun;5(3):686-693

Cardiology

Sumarsono A, Lalani HS, Vaduganathan M, Navar AM, Fonarow GC, Das SR, Pandey A. Trends in Utilization and Cost of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol-Lowering Therapies Among Medicare Beneficiaries: An Analysis From the Medicare Part D Database. JAMA Cardiol. 2020 Sep 9;e203723.

Segar MW, Vaduganathan M, Patel KV, McGuire DK, Butler J, Fonarow GC, Basit M, Kannan V, Grodin JL, Everett B, Willett D, Berry J, Pandey A. Machine Learning to Predict the Risk of Incident Heart Failure Hospitalization Among Patients With Diabetes: The WATCH-DM Risk Score. Diabetes Care. 2019 Dec;42(12):2298-2306

Segar MW, Patel KV, Berry J, Grodin JL, Pandey A. Generalizability and Implications of the H 2 FPEF Score in a Cohort of Patients With Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction Circulation. 2019 Apr 9;139(15):1851-1853.

Kabir R, Vasquez N, Keshvani N, Vongpatanasin W. A case of chemotherapy-induced coronary vasospasm in a patient with colorectal cancer. J Cardiol Cases. 2020 Jun 10;22(3):117-120.

Vasquez N, Joshi PH. Lp(a): Addressing a Target for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2019 Jul 31;21(9):102.

Vasquez N, Carter S, Grodin JL. Angiotensin Receptor-Neprilysin Inhibitors and the Natriuretic Peptide Axis. Curr Heart Fail Rep. 2020 Jun;17(3):67-76.

Kelly SA, Schesing KB, Thibodeau JT, Ayers CR, Drazner MH. Feasibility of Remote Video Assessment of Jugular Venous Pressure and Implications for Telehealth. JAMA Cardiol. 2020 Jul 1;e202339.

Harrington, J., Ayers, C., Berry, J., Omland, T., Pandey, A., Seliger, S., Ballantyne, C., Kulinski, J., deFilippi, C. and de Lemos, J. (2017). Sedentary Behavior and Subclinical Cardiac Injury. Circulation, 136(15), pp.1451-1453

Lew J, Sanghavi M, Ayers CR, McGuire DK, Omland T, Atzler D, Gore MO, Neeland I, Berry JD, Khera A, Rohatgi A, de Lemos JA. Sex-Based Differences in Cardiometabolic Biomarkers. Circulation. 2017 Feb 7;135(6):544-555

Gupta A, Das SR, Pandey A. B-Blockers in Myocardial Infarction: Issues with Standard Admission Order Sets. JAMA 2018;319(12):1269-70

Mehta A, Patel J, Al Rifai M, Ayers CR, Neeland IJ, Kanaya AM, Kandula N, Blaha MJ, Nasir K, Blumenthal RS, Joshi PH. Inflammation and coronary artery calcification in South Asians: The Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) study. Atherosclerosis. 2018; 270;49-56

Endocrinology

Segar MW, Patel KV, Vaduganathan M, Caughey MC, Butler J, Fonarow GC, Grodin JL, McGuire DK, Pandey A. Association of Long-term Change and Variability in Glycemia With Risk of Incident Heart Failure Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Secondary Analysis of the ACCORD Trial. Diabetes Care. 2020 Aug;43(8):1920-1928.

Gupta A, Arora N, Gruntmanis N. Unnecessary Thyroid Ultrasonography in the Evaluation of Laboratory Thyroid Abnormalities. JAMA Intern Med. 2017; 177(12):1851-1852

Hendren NS, Panach K, Brown TJ, Peng L, Beg, MS, Weissler J, Mirfakhraee S. Pasireotide for the treatment of refractory hypoglycemia from malignant insulinoma. Clin Endo 2017 88(2)

Song P, Zechner C, Hernandez G, Canovas J, Xie Y, Sondhi V, Wagner M, Stadlbauer V, Horvath A, Leber Bm Hu MC, Moe, OW, Mangelsdorf DJ, Kliewer SA. The Hormone FGF21 Stimulates Water Drinking in Response to Ketogenic Diet and Alcohol. Cell Metab. 2018; 27(6):1338-47

Harrington JL, Rocha N, Patel KV, Verma S, McGuire DK. Should Metformin Remain First-Line Medical Therapy for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease? An Alternative Approach. Curr Diab Rep 2018 Jul 14;18(9):64

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Sumarsono A, Wang J, Xie L, Chiang GC, Tielleman T, Messiah SE, Singal AG, Mufti A, Chen C, Leveno M. Prognostic Value of Hypochloremia in Critically Ill Patients With Decompensated Cirrhosis. Crit Care Med. 2020 Nov;48(11):e1054-e1061.

Osho A, Rich NE, Singal AG. Role of imaging in management of hepatocellular carcinoma: surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment response. Hepatoma Res. 2020;6:55. Epub 2020 Aug 27.

Nathani P, Gopal P, Rich N, Yopp A, Yokoo T, John B, Marrero J, Parikh N, Singal AG. Hepatocellular carcinoma tumour volume doubling time: a systemic review and meta-analysis. Gut. 2020 May 12;gutjnl-2020-321040.

Bangaru S, Thiele D, Sreenarasimhaiah J, Agrawal D. Severe Elevation of Liver Tests in Choledocholithiasis: An Uncommon Occurrence With Important Clinical Implications. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2017 Sep;51(8):728-733.

Gupta A, Johnson DH, Agrawal D. Devolution and devaluation of fecal leukocyte testing: A 100-year history. JAMA Intern Med 2018;178(9):1155-1156

Tzartzeva, K., Obi, J., Rich, N., Parikh, N., Marrero, J., Yopp, A., Waljee, A. and Singal, A. (2018). Surveillance Imaging and Alpha Fetoprotein for Early Detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients With Cirrhosis: A Meta-analysis. Gastroenterology, 154(6), pp.1706-1718.e1

General Internal Medicine

Saha S, Nathani P, Gupta A. Preventing Opioid-Induced Constipation: A Teachable Moment. JAMA Intern Med. 2020 Aug 24.

Hayek SS, Brenner SK, Azam TU, Shadid HR, Anderson E, Berlin H, Pan M, Meloche C, Feroz R, O'Hayer P, Kaakati R, Bitar A, Padalia K, Perry D, Blakely P, Gupta S, Shaefi S, Srivastava A, Charytan DM, Bansal A, Mallappallil M, Melamed ML, Shehata AM, Sunderram J, Mathews KS, Sutherland AK, Nallamothu BK, Leaf DE; STOP-COVID Investigators. In-hospital cardiac arrest in critically ill patients with covid-19: multicenter cohort study. BMJ. 2020 Sep 30;371:m3513.

Geriatrics

Gavinski K, Carnahan R, Weckmann M, Validation of the delirium observation screening scale in a hospitalized older population. J Hosp Med. 2016 Jul;11(7):494-7. doi: 10.1002/jhm.2580. Epub 2016 Mar 11.

Makris UE, Weinreich MA, Fraenkel L, Han L, Leo-Summers L, Gill TM. Restricting Back Pain and Subsequent Disability in Activities of Daily Living Among Community-Living Older Adults. J Aging Health. 2017 Sep 1:898264317721555

Hematology/ Oncology

Eule C, Gupta A, Nagalla S; JAMA Clinical Challenge: The Direct Antiglobulin Test for Evaluating Anemia. JAMA. 2018;320(24):2593–2594. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.14317

Brown TJ, Brennan MC, Li M, Church EW, Brandmeir NJ, Rakszawski KL, Patel AS, Rizk EB, Suki D, Sawaya R, Glantz M. Association of the Extent of Resection With Survival in Glioblastoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Oncol. 2016 Nov 1;2(11):1460-1469

Arora N, Gupta A, Zhu H, Christie A, Meyer JJ, Khan SA, Bed MS. Race- and Sex-Based Disparities in the Therapy and Outcomes of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Anus. J Natl Compr Canc Netw 2017;15:998-1004; doi:10.6004/jnccn.2017.0135

Gupta A, Wolfe HR, West H. I Have Neutropenia-What do I need to know? JAMA Oncol. 2018 Aug 2

Woldu SL, Moore JA, Ci B, Freifeld Y, Clinton TN, Aydin AM, Nirmish S, Krabbe LM, Hutchinson RC, Amatruda JF, Sagalowsky A, Lotan Y, Arriaga Y, Margulis V, Xie Y, Bagrodia A. Practice Patterns and Impact of Postchemotherapy Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection on Testicular Cancer Outcomes. Eur Uro Onc 2018; 1(3):242-51

Infectious Diseases

Hendren N, Sukumar S, Glazer C; Vibrio vulnificus septic shock due to a contaminated tattoo. BMJ Case Rep. 2017 May 27;2017
This has been featured by multiple news outlets such as the CNN and BBC.

Yek C, Gupta A, Mauskar M; JAMA Clinical Challenge: Fever and a pustular rash. JAMA. 2017 Feb 14;317(6):637-638

Keshvani N, Nijhawan A, Gupta A. Partner Therapy in Sexually Transmitted Infections: A Teachable Moment. JAMA Intern Med 2018;178(8):1108-1109

Yek C, Massanella M, Peling T, Lednovich K, Nair SV, Worlock A, Vargas M, Gianella S, Ellis RJ, Strain MC, Busch MP, Nugent CT, Richman DD. Evaluation of the Aptima HIV-1 Quant Dx Assay for HIV-1 RNA Quantitation in Different Biological Specimen Types. J Clin Microbiol. 2017 Aug;55(8):2544-2553

Yek C, de la Flor C, Marshall J, Zoellner C, Thompson G, Quirk L, Mayorga C, Turner BJ, Singal AG, Jain MK. Effectiveness of direct-acting antiviral therapy for hepatitis C in difficult-to-treat patients in a safety-net health system: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Med 2017 Nov 20;15(1):204

Medical Education

Gavinski K, Covin YN, Longo PJ. Learning How to Build Illness Scripts. Acad Med. 2019 Feb;94(2):293

Nephrology

Chindy S, Joshi P, Khera A, Ayers CR, Hedayati SS, Rohatgi A. Impaired Renal Function on Cholesterol Efflux Capacity, HDL Particle Number, and Cardiovascular Events. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018 Aug 7;72(6):698-700. Doi: 10/1016/j.jacc.2018.05.043

Patient Safety

Gupta A, Yek C, Hendler RS; Phenytoin Toxicity. JAMA. 2017 Jun 20;317(23):2445-2446

Rho J, Hompesch C, Patel T. Another meaningful end point for nighttime intensivist coverage. Chest 2015;148(2):e66.

Palliative care

Smith L, Rhodes RL et al. Predictors of Placement of Inpatient Palliative Care Consult Orders among Breast, Lung, and Colon Cancer Patients in a Safety Net Hospital System. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2018 Apr;35(4):586-591.

Rhodes RL, Tindall K, Xuan L, Paulk ME, Halm EA. Communication About Advance Directives and End-of-Life Care Options Among Internal Medicine Residents. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2015 May;32(3):262-8

Pulmonary and Critical Care

Le T, Gerber DE. ALK alterations and inhibition in lung cancer. Semin Cancer Biol. 2017 Feb;42:81-88

Schumacher RC, Nguyen OK, Desphande K, Makam AN. Evidence-Based Medicine and the American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guidelines. JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Feb 18

Sumarsono A, Brown TJ, Atkin S, Clark J. A 57 year-old man with subacute progressive hemoptysis and fevers. CHEST. 2018 Dec;154(6):e181-e185.

Weinreich M, Nguyen OK, Wang D, Mayo H, Mortensen EM, Halm EA, Makam AN. Predicting the Risk of Readmission in Pneumonia. A Systematic Review of Model Performance. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2016 Sep;13(9):1607-14

Quality Improvement

Shah UK, DiMura C, Agrawal D. When documentation supersedes patient communication: an example from an endoscopy unit. JAMA Intern Med. 2015 Jun;175(6):884-5

Gupta A, Rahman A, Alvarez KS, Gard JW, Johnson DH, Agrawal D. Drug shortage leading to serendipitous adoption of high-value care practice. BMJ Qual Saf. 2017 Aug 1. pii: bmjqs-2017-007015

Gupta A, Brown TJ, Shruti S, Sen A, Agrawal D, Li HL, Moriates C, Johnson DH, Sadeghi N. Applying the “COST” (Culture, Oversight, Systems Change, and Training) Framework to De-adopt the Neutropenic Diet. Am J Med 2019 Jan;132(1):42-47.

Pokala N, Singh S, Hu G, Brown TJ, Pandey A, Das SR, Gupta A. Promoting High-Value Change by Addressing the Structure of Order Sets: Lessons from the Cardiac Catheterization Lab. Am J Med Qual. 2019 May/June;34(3):312.

Rheumatology

Welsh TP, Yang AE, Makris UE. Musculoskeletal Pain in Older Adults: A Clinical Review. Med Clin North Am. 2020 Sep;104(5):855-872.

Scielzo SA, Stone L, Kazi S. Update in Rheumatology: Evidence Published in 2015. Ann Intern Med. 2016 May 3;164(9):W61-4

Mosher CA, Owen JL, Barker BR. Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Masquerading as Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis. Am J Med. 2016 May;129(5)

Lange AV, Kazi S, Chen W, Barnes A. Fatal case of macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) in a patient with dermatomyositis and cytomegalovirus (CMV) viraemia. BMJ Case Reports 30 July 2018

 

Posters and Presentations

Our residents have also presented abstracts at notable national and local meetings:

  • American College of Physicians – Annual and Texas Meeting (ACP)
  • American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting (ASH)
  • Texas and American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting (TxSCO and ASCO)
  • American Heart Association Meeting (AHA)
  • American College of Cardiology Meeting (ACC)
  • American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting (AAN)
  • American Society of Nephrology Annual Meeting (ASN)
  • American College of Gastroenterology Meeting (ACG)
  • Digestive Disease Week Annual Meetings (DDW)
  • International Lymphoma Symposium Chicago (ILS)
  • American Thoracic Society International Conference (ATS)
  • CHEST Annual Meeting
  • Annual and Texas Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM)
  • SLEEP Conference
  • Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)
  • American Society of Hypertension
  • Cardiovascular Innovations