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DOM Annual Research Day 2021
April 27, 2021
Congratulations to the 2021 plenary presenters and oral presentation winners!
- Plenary Presenters
- Vasilii Bushunow, MD
- Reed Doerfler, MD
- Rachael Gordon, MD, PhD
- Sarah Jones, MD, MS
- Timothy Kim, MD
- Chantal Lemoine, MD
- Vinny Negi, PhD
- Georgios Triantafyllou, MD
- Haylee Baxendell, BS
- Syed Bukhari, MD
- Callie Drohan, MD
- Tumader Khouja, BDS, MPH, PhD
- Justin Sui, BA
Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE
Research Day 2021 Guest Speaker
Katrina Armstrong, MD, MSCE, is the Jackson Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Physician-in-Chief, Department of Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Armstrong is a graduate of Yale University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She was a resident and chief resident in Medicine at Johns Hopkins and completed a general internal medicine fellowship and Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1998, she joined the faculty at Penn and became Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine in 2008. At Penn, she also served as Associate Director of the Abramson Cancer Center and Co-Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. In April of 2013, she was appointed as physician-in-chief of the Mass General Department of Medicine. Dr. Armstrong is an internationally recognized investigator in the areas of medical decision making, quality of care, and cancer prevention and outcomes. For her work, she received the Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine, the Outstanding Investigator Award from the American Federation of Medical Research, the Alice Hersh Award from Academy Health, and election to the American Society of Clinical Investigation, Association of American Physicians and National Academy of Medicine. In addition to her career in health policy and disparities research, Dr. Armstrong is a dedicated practicing internist with a longitudinal primary care practice and rotations as the Bigelow visit on the inpatient general medicine services. Over her career, Dr. Armstrong has prioritized her role in medical education, including developing and leading courses on clinical decision making at Penn and at Mass General and founding multiple innovative educational programs including the Master of Science program in Health Policy Research at Penn and the Center for Educational Innovation and Scholarship at Mass General. Diversity and inclusion are central to Dr. Armstrong’s leadership, including her award-winning roles in the advancement of women, her commitment to programs to support diversity across faculty and trainees at the MGH, and her research leadership in health disparities and community-based research. Dr. Armstrong oversees a Department of more than 1,100 faculty members who span ten clinical divisions and six research units, as well as the Department’s educational program in undergraduate and graduate medical education.
Plenary Presenters

Vasilii Bushunow, MD
Resident, General Internal Medicine
Palliative Care Attitudes and Experiences Among Resident Physicians at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Watch Dr. Bushunow’s presentation

Reed Doerfler, MD
Chief Medical Resident, General Internal Medicine
Molecular Alterations in Hurthle Cell Nodules and Preoperative Cancer Risk

Rachael Gordon, MD, PhD
Resident, Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology
B Cell and Macrophage NADPH Oxidase is Protective in Murine Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Watch Dr. Gordon’s presentation

Sarah Jones, MD, MS
Junior Faculty, General Internal Medicine
Training Internal Medicine Residents to Perform Telemedicine Video Visits: A Novel Skill-Based Curriculum

Timothy Kim, MD
Decreased Cerebellar Volume and Functional Connectivity Identify Novel CNS Alterations in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Chantal Lemoine, MD
Early Patterns of CPAP Usage as Predictors of CPAP Adherence

Vinny Negi, PhD
Targeting Epigenetic Readers Preserves β-cells by Modulating Inflammatory Pathways in Diabetes

Georgios Triantafyllou, MD
Mitochondria Targeted Reactive Oxygen Species Scavenging with MitoTEMPO Improves Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension in A Novel Rat Model of Combined Pre- and Post-Capillary Pulmonary Hypertension
Oral Presenters
Adeyinka Adejumo, MD, MSClinical Fellow, A6Category: Health Services | Anna LaRosa, MDClinical Fellow, CardiologyCategory: Health Services |
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Reem Alameer, MBBSClinical Fellow, Infectious DiseasesCategory: Clinical | Travis Lear, PhDPost-Doctoral Fellow, Aging InstituteCategory: Bench or Basic Science |
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Nameer Al-Yousif, MDResident, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care MedicineCategory: Clinical | Yang Li, PhDPost-Doctoral Fellow, Rheumatology and Clinical ImmunologyCategory: Bench or Basic Science |
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Heather Ballance, PhDPost-Doctoral Fellow, Aging InstituteCategory: Bench or Basic Science | Jacob Lloyd, MDResident, Endocrinology and MetabolismCategory: Quality Improvement |
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Aditi Bawa, MDResident, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and NutritionCategory: Clinical | Abigail MaloyLab Staff/Technician, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care MedicineCategory: Translational |
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Adipong Brickshawana, MD, PhDClinical Fellow, CardiologyCategory: Bench or Basic Science | Stephanie Maximous, MD, MSJunior Faculty, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care MedicineCategory: Medical Education |
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Carlos Caballero, MDPost-Doctoral Fellow, Renal-ElectrolyteCategory: Translational | Maureen Mburu, MDLab Staff/Technician, Vascular Medicine InstituteCategory: Translational |
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Jeffrey Chen, BAMedical Student, Endocrinology and Metabolismcrinology and MetabolismCategory: Bench or Basic Science | Nilay Mitash, PhDPost-Doctoral Fellow, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care MedicineCategory: Bench or Basic Science |
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Ana Clemente-Sanchez, MD, PhDPost-Doctoral Fellow, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and NutritionCategory: Translational | Raja Gopal Reddy Mooli, PhDPost-Doctoral Fellow, Endocrinology and MetabolismCategory: Bench or Basic Science |
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Sarah Clifford, BSMedical Student, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care MedicineCategory: Clinical | Sridesh Nath, MBBSClinical Fellow, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care MedicineCategory: Translational |
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Callie Drohan, MDJunior Faculty, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care MedicineCategory: Translational | Jessica Oh, MDResident, General Internal MedicineCategory: Clinical |
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Shumail Fatima, MDJunior Faculty, General Internal MedicineCategory: Clinical | Soumojit Pal, PhDPost-Doctoral Fellow, CardiologyCategory: Bench or Basic Science |
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Jonathan Florentin, PhDJunior Faculty, Vascular Medicine InstitueCategory: Bench or Basic Science | Shulin Qin, MD, PhDJunior Faculty, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care MedicineCategory: Translational |
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Haritha Gandicheruvu, MDResident, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and NutritionCategory: Clinical | Cody Rutledge, MD, PhDPost-Doctoral Fellow, Vascular Medicine InstituteCategory: Bench or Basic Science |
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Eli Goshorn, MDClinical Fellow, InfectiousCategory: Quality Improvement | Leslie Scheunemann, MD, MPHJunior Faculty, Geriatric MedicineCategory: Health Services |
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Rebecca Green, MDClinical Fellow, General Internal MedicineCategory: Medical Education | Erin Schikowski, MDResident, CardiologyCategory: Health Services |
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Lara Groetzinger, PharmD, BCCCPClinical Pharmacist, Quality ImprovementCategory: Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine | Sanjay Sridaran, MDResident, General Internal MedicineCategory: Health Services |
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Mara HartoyoUndergraduate Student, Rheumatology and Clinical ImmunologyCategory: Clinical | Josiah Strawser, MDResident, General Internal MedicineCategory: Medical Education |
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Ronan Hsieh, MDClinical Fellow, HemoncCategory: Clinical | Kelly StrongUndergraduate Student, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care MedicineCategory: Translational |
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Filip Istvanic, MDResident, CardiologyCategory: Clinical | Charit Taneja, MDClinical Fellow, Endocrinology and MetabolismCategory: Clinical |
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Sagar Kale, PhDPost-Doctoral Fellow, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care MedicineCategory: Translational | Kazuya Tanimura, MD, PhDPost-Doctoral Fellow, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care MedicineCategory: Epidemiology |
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Tumader Khouja, BDS, MPH, PhDPost-Doctoral Fellow, General Internal MedicineCategory: Health Services | Roger Tieu, BSMedical Student, Renal-ElectrolyteCategory: Bench or Basic Science |
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Minjung Kim, MSLab Staff/Technician, Rheumatology and Clinical ImmunologyCategory: Bench or Basic Science | Sathish Vasamsetti, PhDPost-Doctoral Fellow, Vascular Medicine InstituteCategory: Bench or Basic Science |
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Corrine Kliment, MD, PhDJunior Faculty, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care MedicineCategory: Bench or Basic Science | Katherine Wood, PhDJunior Faculty, Vascular Medicine InstituteCategory: Translational |
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Matthew Lapa, MDPost-Doctoral Fellow, CardiologyCategory: Epidemiology | Rachel Zhuang, MDResident, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and NutritionCategory: Clinical |
Poster Presenters
Tiba Abdulwahid, MD | Mohanad Hamandi, MD | Cristina Padilla, MD, MS | ||
Felix Aggor, PhD | Allexa Hammond, MD | Anurag Paranjape, PhD | ||
Tahreem Ahmad, MBBS, MD | Rawan Hammoudeh, MD | Akruti Patel, PhD | ||
Wafaa Albalawy, MS | Emmy Han, BS | Jennifer Peugh, MD | ||
Waqas Ali, MBBS, MD | Randall Harley, BS | Aimee Pickering, MD | ||
Henin Alsamarraie, MD | Yusra Hasan, MD | Matthew Pittappilly, MD | ||
Diana Alvarez Davidek, MD | Beth Hoffman, MPH | Nicole Ponde, PhD | ||
Muhammad Wahab Amjad, PharmD, PhD | Ato Howard, MD | Gerard Portela, MPH | ||
Sindhana Anbalagan | Qianjiang Hu | Michael Porter, MD | ||
Alexis Andreas | Joseph Ibrahim, MD | Rachel Powell, MD | ||
Martina Anto-Ocrah, PhD, MPH, MT(ASCP) | Youko Ikeda, PhD | Andres Pulgarin, PhD | ||
Amitha Avasarala | Susan Jacob | Thomas Radomski, MD, MS | ||
Michael Bashline, MD | Zaineb Javed, Bsc | Arun Rajaratnam, MD | ||
Rebecca Beacham, BS | Jiating Jiang, MD | Richard Ramonell, MD | ||
Matthew Bittner, MD | Sarah Jones, MD, MS | Vatsala Rangachar Srinivasa, MPH | ||
Corry Bondi, PhD, MS | Yujung Jung, MD | Mayumi Robinson, MA | ||
Marta Bueno, PhD | Spencer Keil, MD | Eva Roy, BS | ||
Alexandra Bursic, MD | Anamil Khiyami, MD | Diana Samberg, MD, MS | ||
Nikhita Chahal, MD | Andrew Knight, MD | Jewel Scott, PhD, RN, FNP-C | ||
Muhammad Umar Cheema, PhD | Yandong Lai, PhD | Manasi Sejpal, MD | ||
Edwin Chen MD, PhD | Bowa Lee, MD | Dheepa Sekar, MD | ||
Cheng Chen, PhD | Jeongkyung Lee, PhD | Shujie Shi, PhD | ||
Raad Chowdhury, MD | Kathryn Leyens, MD | Cary Shiwarski, MD, PhD | ||
Grace Conway, BS | Dedong Li, PhD | Puneeth Shridhar, MD, MS | ||
Malamo Countouris, MD, MS | Xiuying Li, PhD | Jorna Sojati, MS | ||
Abigail Cox, BS | Becky Lin | Carly Sokach, MD | ||
Rolando Cuevas, PhD | Michael Lu, MD | Madison Stellfox, MD, PhD | ||
Marianela Dalghi, PhD | Tony Macedonia, MD | Justin Sui | ||
Anjali Das | Neha Mehrotra, MD | Yujie Sun, MD | ||
Sudipta Das, PhD | Matthew Metzinger, MD | Priscilla Tang | ||
Rushikesh Deshpande, MS | Soheb Anwar Mohammed, PhD | Aylin Tansel, MD, MPH | ||
Susan Devaraj, PhD, MS, RD | Nicolas Montalbetti, PhD | Tiffany Taylor, BS | ||
Mehak Dhande, MD | Jeffrey Moorhead, DPT | Subhanudh Thavaraputta, MD | ||
Samuel Duvall, PhD | Erica Motter, MA | Sara Van Meerbeke, MD | ||
Amal Elhaw, BPharm | Anjana Murali | John Villandre, BS | ||
Adriana Estrada-Bernal, PhD | Stephanie Mutchler, PhD | Xueping Wang, PhD | ||
John Evankovich, MD | Simin Nasr, MD | Brittany West, DO | ||
Faizan Ali Faizee, MD | Niranjana Natarajan, PhD | Xi Yang, MD | ||
Nadim Farhat, MSc | Vinny Negi, PhD | Minting Yu, MD | ||
Stephanie Gambino | Jennifer Newitt, MD | Irina Zabbarova, PhD | ||
Josh Garfein, MPH | Andrew Nickerson, PhD | Maryam Zamanian, MD | ||
Marc Gauthier, MD | Hayley Nordstrom, BS | Michael Zhang | ||
Gillian C. Goobie, MD, FRCPC | Lee Ohayon | Qian Zhang, MD, MS, PhD | ||
Brittaney-Belle Gordon, MD | Chukwudi Onyemekwu, DO | Paul Zhou, BS | ||
Matthew Gorgone, DO | Rebeca Ortiz Worthington, MD | Maryam Zia, MD | ||
Amir Gougol, MD | Rachel Pace, MD | Richard Zou, MD |