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