The following is reprinted from the October 10 issue of the UI Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Holden Highlights newsletter. Investigator Spotlight: Karima Ait-Aissa, PhD Research Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine – Cardiovascular Medicine Program Affiliation: Free Radical Metabolism and Imaging Karima Ait-Aissa is originally from Bejaia, Algeria, in North Africa. She is the oldest of […]
Article: Implementing PrEP Services in Diverse Health Care Settings Authors: Elissa Z Faro, Joanne E Mantell, Tatiana Gonzalez-Argoti, Susie Hoffman, Zoe Edelstein, Benjamin Tsoi, Laurie J Bauman Journal: J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2022 Jul 1;90(S1):S114-S128 Abstract: Background: Uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the US has been limited. Evidence for why and how PrEP […]
Internal Medicine’s Virtual Grand Rounds presentation for Thursday, October 6, 2022, will be: LaBrecque Lecture: Liver Disease Circa 2022: Not Just a Hepatologist’s Problem Anymore 12:00-1:00pm Thursday, October 6, 2022 Anna Mae Diehl, MD, Professor of Medicine, Florence McAlister Distinguished Professor of Medicine Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine Click […]
In what is now officially an annual tradition, members of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism gathered on a recent Saturday evening to celebrate a number of achievements, anniversaries, promotions, and to say farewell to one valued but departing member. About two dozen faculty, staff, and their loved ones met in the Courtyard by Marriott, […]
We are pleased to present the next in our weekly series introducing you to Internal Medicine’s Advanced Practice Providers. In addition to sharing information about where they work in the department, we asked them each to tell us a little bit about their “Why” (the sustaining pull for their work) and what relaxes them. (Read […]
Article: Impact of Infectious Diseases Consultation on the Outcome of Patients With Enterococcal Bacteremia: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis Authors: Joseph Tholany, Takaaki Kobayashi, Alexandre R Marra, Marin L Schweizer, Riley J Samuelson, Hiroyuki Suzuki Journal: Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022 Apr 12;9(7):ofac200 Abstract: Background: Enterococcal bacteremia carries significant mortality. While multiple studies have […]
The 56th Internal Medicine Research Day will take place with afternoon sessions on Tuesday, October 11. [add to Outlook calendar] The in-person event will feature a Keynote Lecture, invited short talks, and poster session. Schedule: 12:00-1:00pm Keynote Presentation – Prem Sahai Auditorium, MERF Molecular Epidemiology of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: From Body Colonization to Global […]
Physicians must be able to present a case efficiently and with expertise. Clinical experiences lead to research and to deeper understanding and communicating that to peers expands the benefits gained from one to many. This in part is why the American College of Physicians (ACP) hosts a clinical vignette competition each year, to give physicians […]
Hilary Humphrey, MBA, has been named Division Administrator for the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. She replaces Mazin Abu-Ghazalah, who was also Operations Director for the Digestive Health Clinic, a position for which Tara Clark, LISW, MBA will fill on an interim basis while a search for a permanent replacement is conducted. Humphrey has been […]
Recently, every one of our twelve fellows in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship program got the day off from their usual clinical duties in order to attend a new training session designed by Kevin Doerschug, MD, Director of UI Health Care’s Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU), and Allison Wynes, ARNP, Lead APP in the MICU. […]