Article: Optimization of RNA Aptamer SELEX Methods: Improved Aptamer Transcript 3′-End Homogeneity, PAGE Purification Yield, and Target-Bound Aptamer RNA Recovery Authors: Chandan Narayan, Suresh Veeramani, William H Thiel Journal: Nucleic Acid Ther. 2022 Feb;32(1):74-80. Abstract: Since its inception in the early 1990s, SELEX remains the gold standard for discovering RNA aptamers specific for proteins and […]
It would be nice if recent events were not so eventful and that we could talk about other things, but you must play the cards in front of you. I am grateful for your attention to this forum to help respond to and hopefully allay concerns. So let’s address the biggest change in leadership since […]
Though the collection’s actual final poem is one he dictated by phone from his hospice bed, the last poem that Dick Stahl wrote on his own with pen to legal pad, “Life, Loving and Living,” closes with these words: “I want the last words in this book to include / what we all aspire to—a […]
Internal Medicine’s Virtual Grand Rounds presentation for Thursday, February 24 will be: COVID-19 Lung Pathology: Lessons Learned from Autopsies 12:00-1:00pm Thursday, February 24, 2022 Marina Ivanovic, MD, Clinical Professor, Department of Pathology Dennis Firchau, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pathology Stephanie Stauffer, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology Click this link on […]
Kevin Dellsperger, MD, PhD, Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Field Representative, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) What is your most recent institutional affiliation? I retired from Medical College of Georgia and Augusta University Health as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for AU Health System. I served as Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs […]
Article: Hospital Variation in Non-Invasive Ventilation Use for Acute Respiratory Failure Due to COPD Exacerbation Authors: Spyridon Fortis, Yubo Gao, Amy M J O’Shea, Brice Beck, Peter Kaboli, Mary Vaughan Sarrazin Journal: Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 2021 Nov 17;16:3157-3166. Abstract: Background: Non-invasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) use in patients admitted with acute respiratory failure […]
“Communicating with patients is a procedure. Something you’ll do somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 times in your career. And yet it’s the one thing as clinicians you get so little training to do, in comparison to everything else.” Alan Gunderson, MD, associate professor in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, offered this insight at the beginning of the […]
The Internal Medicine Research Seminar Series, enters its sixth year providing a unique forum to showcase the broad array of discovery being conducted within the department, as well as invited presenters from across the country. The typical format is composed of two presenters who each describe their individual work for 20 minutes and reserve 10 […]
In December 2021, after more than ten years as Director of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational Medicine, Joseph Zabner, MD, stepped down from the role. David Stoltz, MD, PhD, was named as his successor. After a couple of months spent “keeping a low profile,” as Zabner put it, we sat down to […]
Internal Medicine’s Virtual Grand Rounds presentation for Thursday, February 17 will be: CPC: Anthracycline – (+ radiation therapy-) induced cardiotoxicity 12:00-1:00pm Thursday, February 17, 2022 Taylor Becker, MD, Second-year Resident, Internal Medicine Rofieda Alwaqfi, MBBS, Third-year Resident, Pathology Isabella Grumbach, MD, PhD, Interim Chair and Department Executive Officer, Department of Internal Medicine; Kate Daum Endowed […]