Texas Chapter News

Committee Interest Form

(November 2024) Interested in getting involved? Indicate your interest in our various committee and subcommittees here! ACP Texas has recently refreshed its committee structure and is looking to fill our new ranks with volunteers. From advocacy to wellness, women in medicine, or education, there's a place for you.

Congratulations to Texas Chapter Members on National Awards

(October 2024) We are pleased to announce that KoKo Aung, MD MPH MACP, Michael A Ainsworth, MD MACP, Julia D Andrieni, MD MACP, Eduardo Bruera, MD MACP, Fabrizia Faustinella, MD MACP, Paul S Mueller, MD MACP, Thomas F Patterson, MD MACP, Cynthia L Peacock, MD MACP FAAP, and Victor Simms, MD MPH MACP are recipients of Mastership.

The first MACP in the College was presented in 1923 to Dr. James M. Anders, who served the College as President for two terms. He was recognized for extraordinary service to the College and for being one of the most outstanding internists and medical teachers of his day.

Please join me in congratulating them and celebrating this accomplishment at Internal Medicine Meeting 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. To view the full list of national awardees, click here.

Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

Texas Northern

Byron L Cryer, MD FACP
Christina J Kuo, MD FACP
Beverly E White, MD FACP

Texas Southern

Nicolas A Melgarejo, MD FACP
Ana M Torres, MD FACP

(September 2024) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices.

2024 Chapter Excellence Award-Gold Level Winner

(August 2024) We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Gold Level of the 2024 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes truly extraordinary chapters that surpass excellence in chapter management. We are in the company of 59 other outstanding chapters. In order to achieve the Gold Level of the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet 20 Bronze criteria, 14 Silver criteria and multiple Gold level activities. Criteria include such activities as having a legislative action plan or agenda, holding a volunteerism/community service activity, holding multiple stand-alone meetings, having revenue sources outside of dues and meeting registration fees, implementing a strategic plan, implementing a formal recruitment and retention plan and measuring outcomes, conducting various activities for Medical Students, Residents and Early Career Physicians. We would like to extend a special thanks to those chapter members who assisted us in all of these endeavors! For their hard work and dedication, we received this award.

Empower Your Advocacy: Introducing Our Comprehensive Toolkit

(August 2024) We are excited to announce the launch of our Advocacy Toolkit: Using Your Voice as a Physician Advocate, a powerful resource designed to equip medical students and physicians with the skills and knowledge needed to become effective advocates for health care in their communities. This toolkit comprises five self-contained and independent modules, each presented as engaging voice-over PowerPoint presentations. Whether you're a seasoned advocate or new to the field, these modules offer valuable insights and practical guidance.

Module Highlights

Physician as Advocate

Discover advocacy tips and real-life examples that showcase how physicians can use their voice to drive positive health outcomes in their communities. This module emphasizes the pivotal role of physicians in advocating for public health.

Legislative Advocacy

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the legislative process at both state and federal levels. Learn about the opportunities available for physician advocacy within this process and how to navigate the legislative landscape effectively.

Print Media Advocacy

Explore the various types of print media, their audiences, and their scope in the realm of advocacy. This module provides insights into crafting compelling messages that resonate with readers and drive change through traditional media channels.

Social Media Advocacy

Delve into the dynamic world of social media and its potential as a powerful advocacy tool. Learn about the key features of different social media platforms and how to leverage them to amplify your advocacy efforts and engage a broader audience.

Audio Media Advocacy

Understand the motivations and uses of audio media in advocacy. This module focuses on the unique advantages of podcasts, radio, and other audio formats, offering strategies to effectively communicate your advocacy messages through these channels.

Each module begins with a standard introduction and overview, followed by an in-depth exploration of the topic, and concludes with a concise one-page outline to reinforce key points.

Toolkit: Using Your Voice As A Physician Advocate

By integrating these modules into your advocacy efforts, you will be better equipped to influence public health policy and drive meaningful change. Empower yourself and your community with the tools and knowledge provided in our Advocacy Toolkit.

Together, let's make a difference!

State Health Advocacy August Recess Grassroots Mobilization Challenge

(August 2024) Members of Congress are returning home to their districts during the August congressional recess. During this time, ACP is calling on internal medicine physicians to engage their representatives on important issues we need Congress to act on before the end of 2024.

To incentivize participation in this grassroots mobilization, the Advocates for Internal Medicine Network (ACP grassroots network) is challenging members to see which states will have the highest engagement. Advocates can score points for their states by choosing to take one or more advocacy actions identified in the campaign.

Access the August Recess Grassroots Mobilization Challenge Now!

Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

Texas Northern

Arti Ameet, MD FACP
Dipesh R Bista, MD FACP
Shawnta R Pittman-Hobbs, MD FACP
Cherese M Wiley, MD FACP

Texas Southern

Susan L Andrew, MD FACP
Scott W Clitheroe, MD FACP
Candice Dunn, MD FACP
Jocelyn Juarez, MD FACP
Deobrat C Mallick, MD FACP
Rebecca Nekolaichuk, MD FACP
Edward C Sankary, MD FACP

(July 2024) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices.

Call for Spring 2025 Resolutions

(July 2024) Are you concerned about a practice or clinical issue or have an idea you would like to suggest? If so, you might consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or chapter council.

Initiating a resolution provides ACP members an opportunity to focus attention at the ACP national level on a particular issue or topic that concerns them. Participating in the Board of Governors resolutions process provides the ACP grassroots member a voice and allows you to shape College policy that impacts the practice of internal medicine.

Not sure how to begin drafting a resolution? Researching the College's position on an issue can give you a start. The ACP Board of Governors Resolutions Guide for ACP Members is available to download and will help, too. The Guide was created to provide members a short overview of the resolutions process essentials and highlights critical ACP online resources you must use.

Once drafted, members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. Chapter council approval is required to move resolutions forward to ACP national. Although not official ACP policy, a resolution becomes property of the chapter once the chapter council approves forwarding it to national. If effecting change interests you, the deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the Spring 2025 Board of Governors Meeting is September 27, 2024.

Share your good idea with us. Draft a resolution.

We want to hear from you: Fall 2024 BOG Resolutions

(July 2024) The following resolutions are up for consideration at the Fall 2024 Board of Governors (BOG) Meeting. We invite you to review each resolution and share your support or opposition by completing the electronic response form by August 12.

Developing Policy to Address Consolidation in Healthcare
Gaining an Understanding of the 1-Year and 3-Year Mortality Rates of Patients that Have Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Stays
Supporting Patients’ Access to Documentation and Communications in their Preferred Language
Declaring Access to Equitable, Affordable Healthcare is a Human Right
Developing Policy on Reducing Traffic Fatalities and Injuries in the United States
Revising ACP’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Policy to Promote an Age-Friendly Professional Home and Create Engagement Opportunities for Senior and Retired Physicians
Advocating for Funding of a Direct Comparison of Two Highly Touted Dietary Approaches to Control Type Two Diabetes Clinical Measures and Costs

Resolutions provide our members an opportunity to focus attention at the national level on particular issues or topics that concern you and gives grassroots members a voice, allowing you to shape College policy that impacts the practice of internal medicine. Involvement in the resolutions feedback process is essential for maintaining a responsive and effective professional organization that truly represents its members.

Your feedback is valuable and will be forwarded to your Governor to assist in their testimony on behalf of the chapter. Thank you for your input.

(NOTE: Proposed resolutions should be considered confidential information and are intended to be viewed by ACP members only. Under no circumstances should proposed resolutions be shared with the news media or social networking media, nor should they be shared with other individuals and organizations. Proposed resolutions do not represent ACP policy.)

Happy Anniversary to our Chapter Members!

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5 Years

David H Taylor, MD FACP
Kimberly Johnson, DO
Dina Hazim, MD
Pushpa R Pathak, MBBS
Olutoyin O Abitoye, MBBS
Carlos Enrique Kummerfeldt, MD
Chen Li, MD
Mohammad M Ansari, MD
Shravan Katta, MD
Lee Edward Anderson, III, MD
Robert William Stewart
Beth Scholz, MD
Shane C Alexander, DO
Haritha Bellam, MD
Richard M Bliss, MD
Benjamin E Jones, MD
Robert H Streck, MD FACP
Crystal Hlaing, MD FACP
Paavani Komanduri, MD
Douglas R Bretzing
Leslie W Nelson, MD
Mohamed Ginawi Hussein, MD MBBS
Rahul Gill, MBBS
Manji Osifeso
Nadia Alawi-Kakomanolis, MD
Paul M Broker, MD
Maanit Kohli, MD FACP
Aymen Albaghdadi, MD
Katherina Avila, MD FACP
Robel Desta, MD
Gerard Martins, MD
Namitha Govinda, MD
Mohan Pamerla, MD
Michael Okoye, DO FACP
Hema P Bohra, DO FACP
Bennett W Schmidt, MD
Anna E Stein, MD
Ahmed H Qasim, MD FACP
Praveena Sunkara, MD FACP
Rashid Ali, MD
Barney Soskin, MD
Rohit Kumar, MBBS FACP
Abiodun Adefurin, MBChB FACP
Akhi Saha, MD
Sangita Bista, MD FACP
Tiffany Y Lee, MD
Jaimin Patel, MD
Ryan B Smithee, MD
Pooja Khatiwada, MD
Mamta K Jain, MD
Scott Ewing, DO
Nicole Oakman, MD
Valerie A Agena, DO FACP
Israel T Haile, MD
Nida Rasheed, MD
Lance Mandell, MD
Kristi J Garrett, MD
Aman U Buzdar, MD FACP
Kamlesh B Thaker, FACP MD
Leonardo C Profenna, MD
Fatima E Jaffer, MD
Mahendra G Jain, MD
Rito M Sauceda, MD
Lara M Colton, MD FACP
Juan J Olivero, MD
Jeevan Gowda, MBBS
Cristina C Murdock, MD
Erin A Reese, MD
Jade M Teakell, MD
Ravi Teja Kanuri, MD
Sayyed Jaffri, MBBS
Nabanita Basu, MD FACP
Hao Chi Joseph Zhang, MD
Slade Alan Hodges, FACP MD SFHM
Eduardo Alonso Yepez Guevara, MD FACP
Christopher T Haas, MD
Cleavon J Covington, MD FACP
Meghana Gore, MD
Gonzalo Huaman-Vargas, MD
Adam K Brittain, MD
James Carlos Saca, MD FACP
Cesar H Gutierrez, MD FACP
Rebecca L Watson, MD
Oforbuike Ewelukwa, MBBS
Diego H Granja Matovelle, MD
Kristopher Robert Koch, MD FACP
Jorge-Jayme Montes, MD
Michael T Nguyen, MD FACP
Muhammad B Abid, MD FACP
Pooja Pundhir, MD FACP
Robin Reister, MD FACP
Jocelyn Juarez, MD
John Marshall
Wendy A Podany, MD FACP
Brandon R Cantazaro, MD FACP
Luis C. Corral Guerrero, MD
Monica Arnell, MD
Darius Rutazaana, MD
Courtney Webre Hatcher, MD FACP
Sima Momin, MD
Syed Z Ahmed, DO FACP
Taylor D Jenkins, MD FACP
Balaguru Ravi, MD
Muhammad Yasser Alsafadi, MBBCh FACP
Eberechi Nwogu-Onyemkpa, MD
Shwe Win, MD
Ritik Tiwari, MD
William M Brode, MD FACP
Saurin Gandhi, DO FACP
Chau B Nguyen, DO
Chelsea A Therrien, MD
Joe Maalouf, MD
Gopal Katkoria, MD FACP
Jean Luis Cabrera, MD
ELVA NORA OSUNA SALAZAR, MD
Andrea Stark, DO FACP
Alyssa Mohammed, MD
Orlando E Garner, MD FACP
Sanjeeda Jabeen, MD
Prathik Kolluru, MBBS
Kelsey Shanahan-Prendergast
Shweta Kumar, MD
Shruti Sharma, DO FACP
Benjamin J Lee, MD
Kutayba Alsafadi, MD FACP
Peter Nutson, MD
Padmavati R Kumashi, MD
Barani Mayilvaganan, MD FACP
Alvin Shih, DOSaba Ansari, MD
Sofia Blinchevsky, MD FACP
Maliha M Beg, MD

10 Years

Alan J McBride, MD
Alfredo Garcia, MD
John G Flores, MD FACP
Yolanda Y Clay-Po, MD
Sita M Boppana, MD
Sajeela Malik, MBBS
Dayakar K Reddy, MD FACP
Lisa Aimee Hechanova, MD FACP
Prashanth K Reddy, MD
Michael J McNeal, MD FACP
Jaclyn L Albin, MD FACP
Enrique Gonzalez, MD
Bipin Barun, MD
Tapan Mehta, MBBS FACP
Bonnie Prokesch, MD FACP
Kyle L Gummelt, DO FACP
Khaled Ali B Sherif, MD FACP
Vijayadershan Muppidi, MBBS FACP
Katherine S Root, MD FACP
ASM M Islam, MD FACP
Megan Greene Newman, MD FACP
Sarat Jampana, MD
Ukana O Bassey, DO FACP
Asif Farooq, MD
Benjamin Wilson, MD
Sandra J Martinez Esparza, MD
Julie E Kennedy, MD
Cliff Omoregie, MD FACP
Edwin Olatunji Imiere, MD
Valerie K DeLuca, DO
Mihir V Patel, MBBS FACP
Ebere N Okeke, MD FACP
Bishwas Upadhyay, MBBS FACP
Awais Zaka, MBBS FACP
Jennifer Minadeo, MD FACP
Farah Tanveer, MBBS FACP
Dergham Alzubaidy, MD FACP
Tilahun W Belay, MD FACP
JUNIOR A .L . TAYLOR, MBBS
Brittany N Dawson, MD
Michael McPherson, MD
Vidushi Golla, FACP MD
Ayorinde Ogunbameru, MD FACP
Sandeep Sharma, MBBS
Alfredo Gonzalez, MD
Luis A Reynoso, MD FACP
Olugbenga B Ojo, MD FACP
Anne-Marie P Hajjar Chaftari, MD FACP
Cherice M Conley-Harvey, MD FACP
Rodrigo De La Cotera Jule, MD
Cory R Walker, DO
Lindsay K Sonstein, MD FACP
Chinelo I Okoye, MD FACP
Prathit A Kulkarni, MD FACP
Saraswathi Dopathi, MD
Christina U Austin, MD FACP
Jane Mathews, MD FACP
Hailey M Hogue, MD FACP
Dianne N Tran, MD
Chandrini Menaka Jayasundera, MD FACP
Hana Javaid, MD FACP
Jacqueline U Okere, MD FACP
Amith Skandhan, MD FACP
Claudia R Pereira Szych, MD FACP
Shane M Magee, MD FACP
Amitha Rao, MD FACP
Nneka Uzoamaka Edokpayi, MD
Mir A Ali, MD
Ismail M Hader, MD FACP
Nabil Barbara, MD
Giuseppe Annunziata, MD FACP
Leena L Samuel, MD
Pavithra Pattabiraman, MD
Muhammad Abdullah, MD
Sarah I Reichert, DO
Alison Wiesenthal, MD FACP
Doris Okotie, MD FACP
Stephanie A Ericson, MD
Jenny Thomas Jacob, MD
Robert Nathanson, MD FACP
Kimberly N Sims, MD FACP
Ambili Ramachandran, MD FACP
Monalee Patel-Chheda, MD
Saket Kottewar, MBBS FACP
Sandra I Ordonez Sanchez, MD
Seshanand P Rao, MD FACP
Li Sun, MD
Carl P Walther, MD
Ezenwa C Onyema, MD FACP
Jean Fotso, MD FACP
Mythri Sharma, DO
Michael J Tang, MD FACP
Min Liang, MD
Graciela M Leija, MD
Steven Huan-Ling Hsu, MD
Viresh Patel, MD
Anna Kagan, MD,PhD FACP
Manoj K Gogia, MBBS
Faisal S Uddin, MD
Elizabeth M Lee, MD
Jennifer Swails, MD FACP

15 Years

David M Webb, MD FACP
Salahuddin Kazi, MD FACP
Creed L Wait, MD
Beverly E White, MD
Sixta M Sotelo-Gumato, MD FACP
Rachel A Bonnema, MD FACP
Nichole K Johnson, MD FACP
MAJ Rupal M Mody, MC USA FACP
Michael S Valachovic, MD
Rahul Chandra, MBBS MD FACP
Jennifer M Bontreger, DO FACP
Saurabh B Kandpal, MBBS FACP
Maybelline V Lezama, MD FACP
Moulali Shaik, MBBS FACP
Sanjeev U Nair, MBBS FACP
Sanjeev M Pawar, MD FACP
Lav K Singh, MD FACP
Suguna K Neelakantan, MD
Mudassar M Malik, MD FACP
Amber M Lesley, MD FACP
Richard C Fuquay, MD FACP
Leslie R Cler, MD FACP
Linda L Alic, MD
Syed Ziauddin A Zaidi, MBBS FACP
Zachary Paul Mulkey, MD FACP
Suman K Sinha, MD FACP
Glenda L Coleman, MD
Heinrich Taegtmeyer, MD FACP
Alan K Silverman, MD FACP
Anne P Wagner, MD
Eugene V Boisaubin, MD FACP
Jimmie E Lewis, Jr, MD
Ralph E Yodaiken, MBBCh
Yolanda Marcos, MD FACP
Roberto R Del Cristo, MD
Antonia M Davidson, MD FACP
Kathryn G Barenberg, MD
Alexis A Wiesenthal, MD FACP
Jessica H Stotts, MD
Derek S Dawes, MD FACP
Nilam J Soni, MD FACP
Ebima C Okundaye, MBBS FACP
Benedict G Famori, MBBS FACP
Kwame Koom-Dadzie, MD
Manasi S Kekan, MBBS FACP
Manuel Estrada, MD
Gabriel M Aisenberg, MD FACP
Michael F Pellegrini, MD
Ronald L Reynoso Hernandez, MD FACP
Olayiwola A Salmon, MBBS FACP
Marina George, FACP FHM MD
Apoorv Broor, MBBS FACP
Robert L Duhaney, MD
Gregory D Bowling, MD FACP
Philip Orlander, MD FACP
Syed Ahsan Mujtaba Rizvi, MBBS FACP
Jinping Fan, MD FACP
Shreekant N Patolia, MD
Chinonyerem N Ndubueze, MD
Natasha N Harrison, MD

20 Years

Kenneth B Kummerfeld, MD
Chijioke David Ukoha, MD FACP
Kathleen Callender, MD
Melissa L Tompkins, MD
Stephen Hines, MD FACP
Mary T McGarry, MD FACP
Adriana M Urtubey, MD
Stephen J Sibbitt, MD FACP
Salvador Cruz-Flores, MD FACP
Jon S Tompkins, DO
Donatus M Egbonim, MBBS FACP
John D Myers, MD MACP
Vivyenne Roche, MD FACP
Heather P Shelton, MD
Maxwell P Kwaku, MD
Corbin Hunt, MD
Janet I Lin, MD
Rahul K Patel, MD FACP
Ruby E Kassanoff, MD FACP
Darrel W Dodson, MD FACP
Brett A McFadden, MD FACP
Kavitha Chereddi, MBBS
Madhukanth T N Reddy, MBBS FACP
John R Chandler, MD
Katrina Y Glover, MD
Santiago Giraldo, MD FACP
Neha Mittal, MD FACP
Piyush Mittal, MD
Zakari D Tanimu, MBBS
Charles M Godo, MBChB FACP
Charles O Orji, MD
Elena V Gurova, MD
Carminia E Davidsohn, MD
Liem C Du, MD
Priti S Jadav, MD
Pratibha R Kulkarni, MD
Shridhar Kotta, MD
Stephanie Mundy, MD FACP
Aslam Loya, MD FACP
Sunil K Sahai, FACP MD SFHM
Thomas N Masciangelo, MD
Sunil Shanker Naik, MD
Bruno P Granwehr, MD MS FACP
Monica S Horton, MD FACP
Joshua D Septimus, MD FACP
Alejandro Arizmendi, MD
Meen Misra, MBBS
Pendleton B Wickersham, MD FACP
Debasish Dasgupta, MBBS FACP
Nazli M Uppal, MBBS FACP
Marshall J Dawer, MD FACP
Ketti Awad, MD
Lee B Lu, MD FACP
Sarah E Lapey, MD FACP
Gurjit Kaur, DO FACP
Frederick F Castrow, MD FACP
Tejinder S Ahuja, MBBS FACP
Paul Evan Klotman, MD FACP
Adil Asaduddin, MD
Monte E Orahood, MD FACP
Maher Abbara, MD FACP
Marisel B Tindall, MD

(May 2024) Your ACP Chapter thanks you for your continued Membership and all you do every day to serve your patients and support the future of internal medicine. We’re proud that you’ve chosen us as your professional home, and we’re committed to remaining by your side—advocating for and supporting your professional journey.

BOR Action on Spring 2024 BOG Resolutions

(May 2024) A summary of Board of Regents (BOR) actions on resolutions debated at the Spring 2024 Board of Governors (BOG) meeting is now available. Resolutions initiated by ACP members and endorsed by a chapter council and the BOG become ACP policy when adopted by the BOR.

If you have an idea you would like to suggest to ACP, consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or local ACP chapter. Visit the advocacy section of your ACP chapter website for more information on how to propose a resolution.

Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

Texas Northern

Katherina Avila, MD FACP
Austin Baraki, MD FACP
Hema P Bohra, DO FACP
Srinivasa R Madhavan, MD FACP

Texas Southern

Johanna Busch, MD PhD FACP
Cynthia Cantu, AHP DO FACP
Vajeeha V Sadi, MD FACP

(April 2024) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices.

GIMSPP Student Application Summer 2024

(February 2024) GIMSPP stands for General Internal Medicine Statewide Preceptorship Program. By working with an assigned physician, students will gain insight into the rewards of a practice in internal medicine, and observe how a clinician functions as a member of his or her medical and non-medical community. GIMSPP staff work to place medical students with internal medicine physicians across the state for two, three, or four week preceptorships during the student's summer break. Although the preceptorship experience differs for every student, the objectives are designed so that each student will receive a well-rounded experience. The program’s emphasis is to familiarize medical students with the operation of a clinical practice and allow them to experience the full range of activities in the life of a General Internist. During this preceptorship students can develop skills in history taking, physical examination, early diagnosis, and treatment plan formulation, among others.

First- and second-year students enrolled in a Texas medical school are eligible to participate, if they have not participated in GIMSPP previously.

Tips , Tricks, and Things to Know

The more flexible your dates and locations, the easier it is for a match! We rely on volunteer preceptors and we work within their availability. We recommend listing the widest possible known availability at the time of application - you can always adjust your preferences later!
We do not match based on subspecialty requests. All of our volunteer preceptors practice at least 40% general internal medicine. We do not accommodate requests for placement in a particular subspecialty.
Make sure the email address you provide is one you check regularly! GIMSPP communicates primarily via email. A good email address is critical to not missing information about your match!
If you have changes to your application, please email us right away.
GIMSPP students and preceptors will have a post-program evaluation and outcome project. You can find the student evaluation here on this page closer to the summer.

YOU MUST CREATE A LOGIN TO BE ABLE TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION. Click here to start the process.

Member Feedback is Requested on Spring 2024 Resolutions

(February 2024) Twenty-one (21) resolutions will be considered at the Spring 2024 Board of Governors (BOG) Meeting. With the exception of Resolution 9-S24, which will not be debated because this resolution is slated for adoption as a reaffirmation, please review each resolution and then indicate your support or opposition by completing the electronic response form by the deadline your ACP Chapter Governor has requested or by midnight March 13, whichever comes first.

Your comments will be forwarded to your Governor to be used as part of his/her testimony on behalf of the chapter. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Giampietro, BOG Administrator, at chapter@acpmembership.org. Thank you for your input.

Call for Fall 2024 Resolutions

(February 2024) Are you concerned about a practice or clinical issue or have an idea you'd like to suggest? If so, you might consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or chapter council.

Not sure how to begin drafting a resolution? Researching the College's position on an issue can give you a start. The just released ACP Board of Governors Resolutions Guide for ACP Members is now available to download and will help, too. The Guide was created to provide members a short overview of the resolutions process essentials and highlights critical ACP online resources you must use.

Once drafted, members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. Chapter council approval is required to move resolutions forward to ACP national. Although not official ACP policy, a resolution becomes property of the chapter once the chapter council approves forwarding it to national. If effecting change interests you, the deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the Fall 2024 Board of Governors Meeting is March 29, 2024.

Share your good idea with us. Draft a resolution.

Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

Texas Northern

Jerry Fan, MD FACP
Abbi Johns, MD FACP
Paul M Linden, MD FACP
Ankit N Mehta, MD FACP
Douglas Paul Myers, MD FACP
Michael Okoye, DO FACP
Gowri Renganathan, MD FACP
Aaron Shanker, MD FACP

Texas Southern

Sai Achi, MD FACP
John C Berens, MD FACP
Samuel H Fantaye, MD FACP
Ronak D Ghiya, MD FACP
Gopal Katkoria, MD FACP
Bhavna Lall, MD FACP
Mercy W Misoi, MD FACP
Cody W Moore, MD FACP
Lindsey Welch Neill, DO FACP
Robert A Obeid, MD FACP
Milan P Patel, MD FACP
Sameer Prakash, DO FACP
Hadeel Sahar, MBChB FACP
Schamma Salomon, MD FACP
Ajit Thota, MD FACP
Naga Venkata Vura, MD FACP
Natalie Chavarria Walton, MD FACP
Nida Zehra, MD FACP

(February 2024) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices.

Chapter Speakers at Internal Medicine Meeting 2024

(December 2023) We’d like to bring attention to our local chapter members who will be presenting as faculty at ACP’s Internal Medicine Meeting 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts this April. Early-bird registration is available through January. For a full schedule or for more information on the meeting, click here.

Jack	Badawy	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Ultrasound-Guided Lumbar Puncture
Molly	Boyer	Texas	Clinical Workshop	Weight Management Woes: Assessment of Obesity in Primary Care	20-Apr-24
Biykem	Bozkurt	Texas	Meet the Professor	Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction: Guidelines-Directed Management	19-Apr-24
Christian	Cable	Texas	Pre-course	ACP Rapid Board Review 2024	16-Apr-24
Sarah	Candler	Texas	Panel	Entering Private Practice: Making the Choice	18-Apr-24
Sarah	Candler	Texas	Panel	Policy Strategies for Strengthening Physician-Led, Team-Based Care	20-Apr-24
Michael	Emmett	Texas	Meet the Professor	Sodium Disorders: Practical Cases	19-Apr-24
Fabrizia	Faustinella	Texas	Panel	Expanding Our Lane in Health Equity: This Is Me	20-Apr-24
Sherronda	Henderson	Texas	Clinical Triad	Clinical Triad: Cancer Screening Updates and Controversies	19-Apr-24
Sherronda	Henderson	Texas	Meet the Professor	Prostate Cancer Treatment Basics for the Primary Care Physician	18-Apr-24
Kevin	Kempf	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Arthrocentesis & Bursal Injection
Minh-Phuong	Le	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Ultrasound-Guided Lumbar Puncture
Terry	Lund	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Ultrasound-Guided Lumbar Puncture
Austin	Metting	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Ultrasound-Guided PICC Line Placement
Martha	Mims	Texas	Update	Update in Hematology	19-Apr-24
Curtis	Mirkes	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Ultrasound-Guided PICC Line Placement
Orson	Moe	Texas	Meet the Professor	Evaluation and Management of Kidney Stones for the Internal Medicine Physician	20-Apr-24
Alejandro	Moreno	Texas	Panel	Navigating the Ethics of Patient Portals, E-Communications, and Open Notes	20-Apr-24
Rebekah	Muenich	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Ultrasound-Guided Lumbar Puncture
Robert	Nathanson	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Ultrasound-Guided Lumbar Puncture
Megan	Newman	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Ultrasound-Guided PICC Line Placement
Jacob	Schmelz	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Ultrasound-Guided Lumbar Puncture
Noah	Stratton	Texas	Meet the Professor	Vitamins: Do We Need Supplements?	20-Apr-24
Noah	Stratton	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Ultrasound-Guided PICC Line Placement
Subhan	Tabba	Texas		Waxman Scholar
Subhan	Tabba	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Incision and Drainage of Abscesses
Carolina	Velez-Mejia	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Ultrasound-Guided Lumbar Puncture
Lara	Voigt	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Ultrasound-Guided Lumbar Puncture
Averi	White	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Ultrasound-Guided Lumbar Puncture
Andrew	Widmer	Texas	Clinical Skills Center	Ultrasound-Guided PICC Line Placement

BOR Action on Fall 2023 BOG Resolutions

(December 2023) A summary of Board of Regents (BOR) actions on resolutions debated at the Fall 2023 Board of Governors (BOG) meeting is now available. Resolutions initiated by ACP members and endorsed by a chapter council and the BOG become ACP policy when adopted by the BOR.

Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

Texas Northern

Dergham Alzubaidy, MD FACP
Mark A Casanova, MD FACP
Safa Hegazin, MD FACP
Satyam Nayak, MD FACP
Mohammed F Rahman, MD FACP
Praveena Sunkara, MD FACP

Texas Southern

Muhammad Yasser Alsafadi, MBBCh FACP
Fatimah O Bello, MD FACP
Brandon R Cantazaro, MD FACP
Arun Kumar Durgam, MD FACP
Linda A Feagins, MD FACP
Yaw B Frimpong-Badu, MBchB FACP
Arshad Ghauri, MBBS FACP
Caroline M Green, MD FACP
Michelle Lopez, MD FACP
Shane M Magee, MD FACP
Kamran Omidvar, MD FACP
Najma Parvez, MBBS FACP
Daniel Schatz, MD FACP
Eduardo Alonso Yepez Guevara, MD FACP
David M Washington, MD FACP

(November 2023) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP^® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices.

Texas Chapter Abstract Competition Winners

(October 2023) The 2023 Resident and Medical Student Abstract Competition was held on Saturday, October 28th Thank you to all of the resident and student members who submitted abstracts, participated in the live competition, to the members who served as reviewers and judges. It was a terrific display of the scholarly work being done throughout the state of Texas.

Over 160 abstracts were received this year across the three categories, Clinical Vignette, Research, and Quality Improvement. The 1st Place posters will be invited to automatically advance to the National Poster Competition at IM2023 as a Texas Chapter Winner. Thank you for your participation and support of the Texas Chapter and congratulations to all of the winning abstract presenters!

Resident Abstract Competition

Oral Vignette Competition

First Place:

Ajay Lingireddy, MD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso

Nivolumab- Induced Diabetes Mellitus

Clinical Vignette Competition

First Place North:

Christina Chanthanivong, DO, Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center Fort Worth Program

Down to the Heart of the Matter: A Curious Case of Low SAAG Ascites

First Place South:

Faiza Khan, MD, Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas Program

Cosmetic Catastrophe: How Contaminated Epidural Anesthesia Caused Fungal Meningitis in an Immunocompetent Patient

Clinical Research Competition

First Place North:

Phi Tran, MD, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine - Baylor Scott & White Temple

Importance of Post-Discharge Follow Up in Prevention of 90-Day Readmission Rates in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis

First Place South:

Riti Kotamarti, MD, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School

Characteristics of Hospitalizations and Outpatient Follow-up in Patients with SLE

The first-place resident poster competition winners advance to the National Poster Competition at the Internal Medicine Meeting in 2024

Quality Improvement/Patient Safety

First Place North:

Chia-Yuan (Steve) Hsu, Texas Health Presbyterian

Leukapheresis or Plasmapheresis? Lessons learned from an incorrect procedure

First Place South:

Ashmi Patel, MD, MEng, Houston Methodist Internal Medicine Residency

Impact of Telemetry Best Practice Advisory Implementation on Healthcare Spending

Honorable Mention to the following posters for great onsite presentations

Miriam Sanchez, MD, Texas Health Resources HEB/Denton

A Unique Case of Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome: Anorexia Nervosa Complicated by Gastric Ischemia

Sameera Maqueet, DO, Medical City North Texas Consortium Graduate Medical Education Fort Worth

A Startling case of Myoclonus and Rigidity

Jerapas Thongpiya, MD, Texas Tech University Health Science Center Lubock

ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Phlegmasia Cerulea Dolen as Presentations of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia

The first place Clinical Vignette, Clinical Research, and Quality Improvement/Patient Safety resident poster winners for TX Northern Region and TX Southern Region will automatically be submitted to compete in the national poster competition at the ACP Internal Medicine Annual Meeting next spring.

Medical Student Abstract Competition

Oral Vignette Competition

First Place:

Faiza Ahmed, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine

Stop the Bleed": A Case of Severe Acquired Hemophilia A Transformed by Emicizumab

Second Place:

Austin Guadarrama, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Coccidioidomycosis Masquerading as Lung Cancer

The first-place medical student oral vignette competition winner advances to the National Poster Competition at the Internal Medicine Meeting in 2024.

Clinical Vignette Poster

First Place:

William Derrick, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Dysphagia and yspnea due to osteophyte formation in the cervical spine

Second Place:

Stephanie Batch, University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio

The Hospital to Home Program: One Year Addressing Social Determinants of Health at the Bedside Lung Abscess in Patient with Late Dysphagia after laryngeal Schwannaoma Resection

Quality Improvement

First Place:

Gabriella Becerra, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine

Importance of Assessing COgnitive Function in Medicare Heart Failure Patients

Second Place:

Pamela Horton Embrey, University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine

The Hospital to Home Program: One Year Addressing Social Determinants of Health at the Bedside

Honorable Mention to the following posters for great onsite presentations

Lokesh Nagineni, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine

Wound Botulism in a Subcutaneous Heroin User: An Increasingly Common Manifestation of a Rare Disease

George Li, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine

Amyopathic Dermatomyositis: An Evolving Rash Without Muscle Involvement

Ruayda Bouls, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine

Mycotic Aneurysyms in a Fungal Meningitis: The Management in a case of Fusarium Solani Meningitis

Elias Arellano Villanueva, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine

From Patch to Peril: Localized Asympotomatic Adenocarcinoma Arising within a Cervical Inlet Patch

Gaurav Gomber, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School

Importance of Screening for HCC in Vulnerable Patient Populations

Medical Students: The first place Oral Clinical Vignette Podium Winner from the Chapter's Annual Meeting will automatically be invited to participate in the national poster competition at the ACP Internal Medicine Annual Meeting next spring.

Doctor's Dilemma

Texas Tech University Health Science Center El Paso

Lakshmi Kattamuri, MD - Sukhila Reddy, MD - Aditi Kothari, MD

The first place Doctor's Dilemma team will move on to represent Texas at the Internal Medicine Meeting in 2024

2023 Chapter Excellence Award – Gold Winner

(September 2023) We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Gold Level of the 2023 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes truly extraordinary chapters that surpass excellence in chapter management. We are in the company of 54 other outstanding chapters. In order to achieve the Gold Level of the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet nineteen Bronze criteria, seventeen Silver criteria and multiple Gold level activities. Criteria include such activities as having a legislative action plan or agenda, holding a volunteerism/community service activity, holding multiple stand-alone meetings, having revenue sources outside of dues and meeting registration fees, implementing a strategic plan, implementing a formal recruitment and retention plan and measuring outcomes, conducting various activities for Medical Students, Residents and Early Career Physicians.

We would like to extend a special thanks to those chapter members who assisted us in all of these endeavors! For their hard work and dedication, we received this award.