Internal Medicine Residency
Resident Publications and Presentations
Conferences
Our residents have presented at many conferences across the country and the world! The residency program provides a financial stipend for all residents who want to show their scholarly work.
Conferences people have presented at:
- American College of Physicians, North California Chapter Competition
- American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting
- Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine's Alliance Skills and Leadership Conference
- The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions Scientific Sessions
- The Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Meeting
- American Society of Hematology's Annual Meeting & Exposition
- American Association for The Study of Liver Diseases' The Liver Meeting
- The World Congress of Gastroenterology at ACG Scientific Meeting
- American Thoracic Society Conference
- American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions
- American College of Chest Physicians Joint Congress
- Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting
- Annual Western Medical Research Conference
- California Thoracic Society Conference
A sampling of some of the publications produced by residents of our program.
Vu J, Swartzman I, Pecha RL, Crabtree S, Holliday J, Rachakonda V. Impact of Intestinal Colonization with Clostridioides difficile on Clinical Outcomes in Alcohol-associated Hepatitis. Clin Transl Gastroenterol. 2026 Aug 17. doi: 10.14309/ctg.0000000000001084. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42607186.
Vu J, Aggarwal A, Morshedi M, Medici V. Refractory Esophageal Varices Requiring Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Placement in Oxaliplatin-Induced Portosinusoidal Vascular Disorder. ACG Case Rep J. 2026 Aug 13;13(8):e02280. doi: 10.14309/crj.0000000000002280. PMID: 42598378; PMCID: PMC13472661.
Takagi MA, Mohammed AS, Yasmeen U, Li HT, Patel NJ, Farooqi MA, Bhimani S, Begum I, Al-Sabbagh INM, Desai R, Chaudhry SA, Dev S. Cognitive Impairment Amongst Older Adults With Heart Failure: A Global Pooled Meta-Analysis. Heart Lung Circ. 2026 Jun;35(6):832-844. doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2026.04.012. Epub 2026 May 12. PMID: 42120247.
Takagi MA, Xu J, Diaz AP, Vicks W, Pham T, Takeda P, Low R. Isolated Right Ventricular Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy: Beyond the Left Ventricle. JACC Case Rep. 2026 Apr 15;31(15):107389. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2026.107389. Epub 2026 Mar 16. PMID: 41837924; PMCID: PMC13104374.
DePledge L, Shi LZ. Soft Tick Relapsing Fever. N Engl J Med. 2026 Mar 12;394(11):e18. doi: 10.1056/NEJMicm2514982. PMID: 41812195.
Yan, Y., Narayan, A., Mazinani, M. et al. CRYβB2 is a biomarker for poor prognosis and response to CDK4/6 inhibitors in breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res 28, 42 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-025-02188-2
Narayan, A., Leibrandt, R. C., Lee, J. S., Dall’Era, M. A., Whitson, J. M., Chandrasekar, T, Parikh, M. (2026). A Phase I trial of PLZ4-coated paclitaxel-loaded micelles in patients with refractory non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Nanomedicine, 21(12), 1707–1712. https://doi.org/10.1080/17435889.2026.2674162
Firoz A, Ebong I, Cadeiras M, Jimenez S. Characteristics, Trends, and Outcomes of Heart Donation After Circulatory Death: An Early Analysis of the United Network for Organ Sharing Database. Am J Cardiol. 2026 Jan 1;258:83-88. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2025.08.061. Epub 2025 Sep 2. PMID: 40907853.
Takagi, M.A.; Mehmood, H.; Hoque, A.R.; Ragina, N. The Usage-Trust Gap: Information Sources, Trust, and COVID-19 Knowledge Among American Indian and Alaska Native Adults in Rural Michigan. COVID 2026, 6, 80. https://doi.org/10.3390/covid6050080
Vu J, Pecha RL, Yen AW, Rachakonda V. Fully Covered Self-Expandable Metal Stent Placement for Management of a Perforated Duodenal Ulcer With Persistent Leak in a Decompensated Cirrhotic. Case Rep Gastrointest Med. 2025 Dec 22;2025:1608984. doi: 10.1155/crgm/1608984. PMID: 41438514; PMCID: PMC12721336.
Firoz A, Devera J, Lam M, Nakache YP. Aortic Bioprosthetic Stenosis Leading to Heyde Syndrome. JACC Case Rep. 2025 Dec 10;30(40):105828. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2025.105828. Epub 2025 Oct 23. PMID: 41128693; PMCID: PMC12861668.
Mohammed AS, Ahmed H, Singh S, Munguti CM, Subramanian L, Srikanth S, Kodali LSM, Takagi MA, Yasmeen U, Imtiaz H, Jain A, Chaudhry S, Desai R. Impact of Metabolically Healthy Obesity on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Older Adults with HFpEF: Insights from a Nationwide Sample. J Clin Med. 2025 Aug 4;14(15):5495. doi: 10.3390/jcm14155495. PMID: 40807115; PMCID: PMC12346940.
Le T, Vu J, Atencio A. Trigeminal Trophic Syndrome of the Forehead: The Art of Observation in Clinical Diagnosis. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 Sep;40(13):3244-3247. doi: 10.1007/s11606-025-09753-7. Epub 2025 Jul 25. PMID: 40715958; PMCID: PMC12508317.
Richter YS, Kenny DX, Semon SB, Meiklejohn KM, Bays DJ, Damon LE. Hidden Histoplasmosis: Adrenal and Central Nervous System Mycosis in an Immunocompetent Patient. Cureus. 2025 Aug 23;17(8):e90831. doi: 10.7759/cureus.90831. PMID: 40988787; PMCID: PMC12453453.
Hideshima KS, Goupil J, Haffner M, Tse S, Simister SK, Bhale R, Wise BL, Fitzpatrick E, Soles GL, Campbell ST, Saiz AM, Lee MA. Increased Rates of Unplanned Return to the Operating Room in Socioeconomically Deprived Orthopaedic Trauma Patient Populations. J Am Acad Orthop Surg Glob Res Rev. 2025 Jun 11;9(6):e25.00143. doi: 10.5435/JAAOSGlobal-D-25-00143. PMID: 40505132; PMCID: PMC12168695.
Firoz A, Remer D, Zhao H, Lu X, Hamad E. Racial and ethnic disparities on the heart transplant waiting list. Int J Cardiol. 2025 Mar 15;423:132971. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2025.132971. Epub 2025 Jan 13. PMID: 39814184.
Kenny D, Martin S, Quimby D. Post-infection Symptomatology of Human Metapneumovirus Infection. WMJ. 2025;124(2):135-137. PMID: 40690632.
Robinson CA, Tso J, Rivera L, Ghasemiesfe A, Schaefer S. Can Fractional Flow Reserve-Computed Tomography (FFR-CT) Overestimate the Severity of Coronary Stenoses in the Presence of High Calcium Burden? Cureus. 2025 Oct 17;17(10):e94826. doi: 10.7759/cureus.94826. PMID: 41257131; PMCID: PMC12620092.
Destache CJ, Isern R, Kenny D, El-Herte R, Plambeck R, Palmer C, Inouye BS, Wong M, North EJ, Sotelo MR, Velagapudi M. Impact of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) on Serum Concentrations of Cefepime. Antibiotics (Basel). 2024 Oct 30;13(11):1024. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics13111024. PMID: 39596718; PMCID: PMC11591452.
Firoz A, Yanagida R, Kashem M, Toyoda Y, Hamad E. Assessing the Role of Primary Heart Failure Etiology on Cardiac Transplant Outcomes. Clin Transplant. 2024 Sep;38(9):e15450. doi: 10.1111/ctr.15450. PMID: 39215432.
Shih MC, Wang AL, Radosta S, Mushatt DM. Retrospective cohort study comparing two versus three blood culture sets in people who inject drugs. Infect Dis (Lond). 2024 Mar;56(3):183-192. doi: 10.1080/23744235.2023.2284884. Epub 2023 Nov 22. PMID: 37991992.
Swaney R, Jokomo-Nyakabau R, Nguyen AAN, Kenny D, Millner PG, Selim M, Destache CJ, Velagapudi M. Diagnosis and Outcomes of Fungal Co-Infections in COVID-19 Infections: A Retrospective Study. Microorganisms. 2023 Sep 15;11(9):2326. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms11092326. PMID: 37764170; PMCID: PMC10535039.
Olagunju A, Martinez J, Kenny D, Gideon P, Mookadam F, Unzek S. Virulent endocarditis due to Haemophilus parainfluenzae: A systematic review of the literature. World J Cardiol. 2022 Oct 26;14(10):546-556. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v14.i10.546. PMID: 36339888; PMCID: PMC9627352.
Creech ZA, Truong GTD, Kenny DX, Butt DN, Li C, Cavalieri S, El-Herte R. Unusual Freshwater-Related Infections Caused by Haematospirillum jordaniae. Cureus. 2022 May 30;14(5):e25480. doi: 10.7759/cureus.25480. PMID: 35800845; PMCID: PMC9246461.
Arms L, Johl H, DeMartini J. Improving the utilisation of medication-assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder at discharge (PDF). BMJ Open Quality 2022;11:e001899. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2022-001899
Leung, M., Aronowitz, P.B. and Medici, V., The Present and Future Challenges of Wilson’s Disease Diagnosis and Treatment. Clinical Liver Disease, 17: 267-270. 2021
Chan, S & Aronowitz, P. Cutaneous clue to HIV infection (PDF) Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. 2020.
Piao, C & Aronowitz, P. Beau's Toes Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2020.
Milliron, A, Burk-Rafel, J, Harris, K, Heath, J, Savage, D & Skochelak, S. Students as catalysts for curricular innovation: A change management framework Medical Teacher. 2020.
American College of Physician's Northern California Meeting, November 2015, San Francisco, California
Lily Chen, M.D. "A Real Sweetheart"
Ho-hin Choy, M.D. "A DRESS Size Up: Organomegaly in Vancomycin Related DRESS Syndrome"
Steve Cocciardi, M.D. "A Shiny New Weakness; A Case of Post-Bariatric Surgery Copper Deficiency Myeloneuropathy"
Geoffrey D'Cruz, M.D. "A Curious Case of Bubbles in the Bladder"
Timothy Dempsey, M.D., Chhavi Bajaj, M.D. "Navigating the Deadly ALPS: A Case of Alcoholic Leukopenic Pneumococcal Sepsis"
Stacey Howell, M.D. "Elusive Eosinophilia: A Clinical Vignette"
Ania Lang, M.D. "Diagnosis of Exclusion: An Unexpected Casue of Adrenal Insufficiency"
Sarabdeep Mann, M.D. Fender Bender to Metastatic Gastric Cancer"
John McClain, M.D. "Autoimmune Enteropathy: Flush Out the Facts"
Janelle Minter, M.D. "A Lyte at the End of the Tububle"
Alana Puro, M.D., "More than Pneumonia: A Fatal Case of Mycoplasma Associated Cryoglobulinemia"
Maha Sami, M.D., Su Liu, M.D. "Recreational Sounding as a Mechanism for Acute Renal Failure"
Vivian Tien, M.D., Willis Bowman, M.D. "A Sweet, Sweet Rash: Azathioprine-Induced Sweet Syndrome in a Patient with Ulcerative Colitis"
William Wung, M.D. "Hearts Wide Closed - A Case of Familial Restricted Cardiomyopathy"
Clara Yang, M.D. "Masquerading as Mucor:Nocardia, Yet Another Great Imitator"
Michelle Yu, M.D. "Sniffing Out Ectopic Cushings Syndrome: A Rare Case of an ACTH-Secreting Olfactory Neuroblastoma"
American College of Physician's Northern California Meeting, November 2014, San Francisco, California
Runalia Bahar, M.D."A Rare Cause of Gastrointestinal Bleeding" (PDF)
Chhavi Bajaj, M.D."Pott Disease: A Rare Disease with Devastating Consequences" (PDF)
Albert Bui, M.D."Beer Potomania: Don't Just Stand There, Do Nothing" (PDF)
Jennifer Chen, M.D."Zebra in Sheep's Clothing: A Case of PUS Masquerading as Echinococcus" (PDF)
Erica Heiman, M.D. "An Unexpected Cause of Back Pain" (PDF) Finalist, Clinical Vignette Competition
Angie Hood-Medland, M.D."A Neurological Analog of the Dynamic EKG? Fluctuating Aphasia in a Cocaine User" (PDF)
Mohammad Khan, M.D."A Shingle Week in the Life of a Student of Medicine: Zoster A to Z" (PDF)
Neha Maheshwari, M.D."Losing Your Power Forward" (PDF)
Madina Mohammadi, M.D."Catastrophic Hemorrhoids" (PDF)
Shaheen Najafi, M.D."Cavo-tricuspid Isthmus Ablation Triggered Cardiac Hemangioma" (PDF)
Shiv Sab, M.D."Zebras Among Zebras: A Rare Complication of a Rare Disease" (PDF)
Tiffany Shaw, M.D."Weathering a Cytokine Storm: A Case of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis" (PDF) Finalist, Clinical Vignette Competition
Annual Western Medical Research Conference, January 2018, Carmel, California
Priyanka Teckchandani, M.D. "Ratio of Alveolar Ventilation to Total Lung Capacity (VA/TLC) is an Independent Marker of COPD Severity"Winner of a WAFMR/WAP/WSCI Outstanding Resident Research Award
60th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition, December 2018, San Diego, California
Nisha Hariharan, M.D. "Incidence of Bleeding in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: A Population Based Study (#114223)"Winner of the ASH Abstract Achievement Award
Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, January 2019, Los Angeles, California
Shelby McLaughlin-Patel, M.D. “Provision of Preventative Health Services to US Women”
California Thoracic Society, January 2019, Monterey, California
Josh Hoerger, M.D. “Immunosuppression choices in hydralazine-associated vasculitis with pulmonary-renal syndrome”
Nick Klimberg, M.D. “Factors Affecting the Diagnostic Performance of Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Sarcoidosis”
Reika Miyokawa, M.D. “Typical Symptoms, Atypical Diagnosis: Sarcoidosis with Subsequent Lymphoma Development”
Jin Sol Lee, M.D. “Getting around the gut: Management of thyroid storm precipitated by amphetamine associated nonocclusive mesenteric ischemia and duodenal perforation”
Katie Wick, M.D. “Fulminant Hepatic Failure in a Woman with Hyperleukocytosis”
Janelle Pugashetti, M.D. “Weight Loss as a Predictor of Mortality in Patients with Interstitial Lung Disease” Winner of the CTS President's Award and CTS Best Research Award
Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, May 2019, Washington DC
Kirti Malhotra, M.D. “Prognostic Accuracy and Discordance among Patients, Caregivers, and Physicians in Advanced Cancer”