State of the Department of Medicine Faculty, Resident and Staff Accomplishments and Activities 2013-2014 Michael P. Madaio, M.D. Sydenstricker Professor & Chairman Georgia Regents University Department of Medicine Chairman’s Office Department Organization Department of Medicine VICE CHAIR OFFICE OF THE CHAIR CLINICAL AFFAIRS AND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT Michael P. Madaio, MD Laura Mulloy, DO Sydenstricker Professor and Chairman ASSOCIATE VICE CHAIR FOR TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH N. Stanley Nahman, MD ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Audrey Forbes RESIDENCY PROGRAM DIRECTOR Lee Ann Merchen, MD CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR OF INTERNAL MEDICINE Pam Fall, MD BUSINESS OPERATIONS SPECIALIST Ashley Dutton DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATOR Justin Pantano ACCOUNTANT 1 Velinda Thomas AMBULATORY MEDICAL DIRECTORS Alyce Oliver, MD Namita Mohanty, MD CARDIOLOGY Accolades and Awards Adam Berman, MD Best Doctors in America 2013, 2014 GRU/GRHS Leadership Academy. Executive Leadership Excellence Program ’13-‘14 GRU Masters in Public Health Graduate Program; 2013-2014 (Honors Society) Sheldon E. Litwin, MD “America’s Top Doctor” (top 1%) William Maddox, MD Fellow of Heart Rhythm Society Winner of the GRU Raft debate, 2014 Gyanendra Sharma, MD MCG Faculty Senate Robert Sorrentino, MD “America’s Top Doctors” (top 1% by specialty) Creel Professor of Medicine and Director of the Heart Rhythm Center John W. Thornton, MD Extraordinary contributor to GRU Admissions Committee, FY13-14 In the News Adam Berman, MD Augusta Chronicle Cardiac Stem Cell Feature. June, 2014 Newsmax health –Cardiac Stem Cell Report. March, 2014 WJBF TV News Segment – Stem Cells and the Heart. March, 2014 GRU Board Membership/Officer Positions Adam Berman, MD GRMA Secretary/Treasurer, 2014-16,Ways and Means Committee 2013-2014, Chair 2014-2016 Audit, Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management Committee GRMA, 2013-2014 Chair Audit, Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management Committee GRMA, 2014-2016 Clinical and Translational Sciences Experienced Investigator Committee. GRU, 2013- 2014 Director of Leadership Development Search Committee, GRUMC Regents, 2013 – 2014 GRMA Chief Operating Officer, Search Committee, 2013 –2014 GRU Chair Physiological and Technological Nursing Department Search Committee, 2012 –2014 National Committee Memberships Founding Member Robotic Electrophysiology Society Steering Committee; 2013 Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society. Guidelines Writing Committee, 2014 – Present. American College of Cardiology; Maintenance of Certification Test Question Writing Committee Duke University Cooperative Cardiovascular Society Research Committee. Section Head. Regenerative Medicine Focus Group, 2014 – present Sheldon E. Litwin, MD Editorial Board Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Editorial Board and Research Committee, Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. Program planning committee for annual scientific sessions, Society for Cardiac Computed Tomography. Neal Weintraub, MD Editorial Board of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Associate Editor of Translational Research Major Presentations Adam Berman, MD “Risk Stratification of Ventricular Arrhythmias” American Council of Life Insurers Medical Directors Section Annual Meeting. GA. 2013 Deepak Kapoor, MD “Heart Health” at the Senior Citizens Group, Trinity Hospital - Augusta, 2014 EKG Findings Mimicking Left Main Coronary Disease in a Patient with Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism, American College of Caridology, 2014 Comparison of Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque burden and composition of culprit lesions between cigarette smokers and non-smokers by in-vivo virtual histology intravascular ultrasound. SCAI, 2014 Rotational Atherectomy: A Single Center Experience; ACC, GA Chapter Meeting. 2013 Complex Two Vessel Rotational Atherectomy with Impella for Hemodynamic Support. Presented at the C3 Endovascular and Advanced Coronary Intervention Global Summit, FL. 2014 Sheldon E. Litwin, MD “Changing CT protocols based on clinical indications”; “Indications For Cardiac CT In Patients With Strong Family Hx of CAD: “The Obesity Epidemic: Implications For Cardiac CT” Society For Cardiac Computed Tomography Annual Meeting, Quebec. 2013 “Interesting And Instructive Cardiac Imaging Cases” ACC, GA. 2013 Diagnostic Imaging Test: The Emerging Role Of Cardiac Computed Tomography” ACC Alaska 2014 “Bariatric Surgery: Effect Of Cardiac Function And Long-Term Mortality.” ACC, Symposium: Obesity And Cardiovascular Risk Focus On Bad Fat. Washington, DC. 2014 “Role Of Echocardiography For Diagnosis: Beyond LVEF” Am. Soc. Echocardiography, Oregon. 2014 “Now What Do You Do? An Asymptomatic Worried Well Patient With Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease” Soc. Cardiac Computed Tomography, CA. 2014 “The Chest Pain Pathway: Current Practice And How (And Why) It Should Be Improved” Soc. Cardiac Computed Tomography, The Use Of CT In The Emergency Department, Part I. CA. 2014 Paul Poommipanit, MD EKG Findings Mimicking LM Coronary Disease in a Patient with Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism. ACC. 2014 ASD and PFO Closure” at the Update in CV Disease Management conference held at the Augusta Marriot Convention Center. GA. 2013 Poommipanit, P Update in CV Disease Management – ASD and PFO Closure. 2013 Poster ACC 2013: EKG Findings Mimicking Left Main Coronary Disease in a Patient with Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism. ACC. 2014 Vincent Robinson, M.D. Ibebuogu U, Kapoor D, Robinson VJ., Comparison of Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque burden and composition of culprit lesions between cigarette smokers and non-smokers by in-vivo virtual histology intravascular ultrasound. Scientific Sessions. NV. SCAI, 2014 Gyanendra Sharma, MD 30th Ann. Int. Conf.- Recent Advances in Echocardiography and Allied Techniques (MRI, CT scan, Nuclear). 2014 Diastolic Function Assessment during Myocardial Perfusion Imaging By Two Frequently Used Software Platforms. Oral presentation at ACC Georgia Chapter. 2013 Neal Weintraub, MD “Oxidative stress as a target for pharmacotherapy in abdominal aortic aneurysm.” Boston U., Boston, MA. 2013 “Turning atherosclerosis inside out: role of perivascular adipose tissue.” Emory U. Atlanta, GA. 2014 “Proinflammatory phenotype of perivascular adipocytes.” Invited speaker, Cardiovascular Symposium, Experimental Biology Meeting, CA. 2014 Publications Feher, Attila, Chen Stephen, Arora V. Prevention and treatment of no-reflow phenomenon by targeting the coronary microcirculation. Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine. 15(1):38-51, 2013 Khan EM, Frumkin W, Ng G, Neelagaru S, Abi-Samra FM, Lee J, Giudici M, Gohn D, Winkle RA, Sussman J, Knight BP, Berman A, Calkins H. First experience with a novel robotic remote catheter system: Amigo™ mapping trial. J Interv Card Electrophysiol. 37 (2):121-9, 2013 Triedman JK, Pfeiffer P, Berman A, Blaufox AD, Cannon BC, Fish FA, Perry J, Pflaumer A, and Seslar S. COMPASS: A Novel Risk-Adjustment Model for Catheter Ablation in Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Patients. Congenit Heart Dis.; 8(5):393-405, 2013 Berman AE, Burleson HD, Oglesby CO, and Sorrentino RA. Successful Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Parahisian Ventricular Tachycardia using Remote Magnetic Navigation and an Open Irrigation Catheter: An Initial Case Series. J Innovations CRM; 4:1434-8, 2013 Hammond DA, Deremer CE, Killough DM, Berman AE. Safety of Enoxaparin Dosing Regimens after Cardiac Ablation Procedures. Journal of Hypertension and Cardiology; in press, 2014 Napier R, Berman AE. Stem Cell Therapy and the Heart: A Contemporary Review of the Literature. Invited Review, Journal of Cardiobiology. in press, 2014 Litwin SE. Good fat, bad fat. The increasingly complex interaction of adipose tissue and the cardiovascular system. J Am Coll Cardiol. 62:136-137, 2013 Litwin SE. Diabetes and the heart: Is there objective evidence of a human diabetic cardiomyopathy? Diabetes. 62:3329-3330, 2013 Litwin SE. Diabetes and the heart: is there objective evidence of a human diabetic cardiomyopathy? Diabetes. 62(10):3329- 30. 2013 Aditya Mandawat, MD; Anant Mandawat, MD; Mahendra K. Mandawat, MD, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention After ST- Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Nonagenarians: Use Rates and In-Hospital Mortality, J Am Coll Cardiol. 61(11):1207-1208, 2013 Poommipanit P, Amin Z. ASD Closure: Preventing & Managing Complications. Cardiac Int. Today. 8: 30-39, 2014 Pratik Choksy, MD; Harry C. Davis, MS; James Januzzi, MD; Julian Thayer, PhD; Gregory Harshfield, PhD; Vincent Robinson, MD; Gaston K. Kapuku, MD, PhD “Brain Natriuretic Hormone Predicts Stress Induced Alterations in Diastolic Function” In press, Am J Med Sci, 2014 Sharma GK, Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia (ARVD), Medscape Reference. 2013 Park S, Lu KT, Liu X, Chatterjee TK, Rudich SM, Weintraub NL, Kwitek AE, Sigmund CD. Allele-specific expression of angiotensinogen in human subcutaneous adipose tissue. Hypertension.62:41-47, 2013 Chen L, Pan Y, Zhang L, Wang Y, Weintraub N, Tang Y. Two-step protocol for isolation and culture of cardiospheres. Methods Mol Biol. 1036:75-80, 2013 Wang Y, Zhang L, Pan Y, Chen L, Weintraub N, Tang Y. Identification of stem cells after transplantation. Methods Mol Biol. 1036:89-94, 2013 Tang YL, Wang YJ, Chen LJ, Pan YH, Zhang L, Weintraub NL. Cardiac-derived stem cell-based therapy for heart failure: progress and clinical applications. Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 238:294-300, 2013 Weintraub NL, Rubinstein J. Cooling the Fire of Atherosclerosis with Heat