Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
Ambulatory: New Colorectal Cancer Screening Health Maintenance The five Health Maintenance Colon Cancer screening types have been consolidated into one combined Health Maintenance topic called… Read More »Epic Tip of the Week: July 24, 2020
Dr. Garima Sharma, assistant professor in the Division of Cardiology, was nominated to be on the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Statement on Maternal Health… Read More »Sharma Nominated for AHA Guideline Panel
ARTICLE: Empirical Antituberculosis Therapy in Advanced HIV Disease - Too Much, Too Late AUTHORS: Richard E Chaisson JOURNAL: N Engl J Med. 2020 Jun 18;382(25):2459-2460.… Read More »Empirical Antituberculosis Therapy in Advanced HIV Disease – Too Much, Too Late
I am delighted to announce that the 2020 recipient of the Belding H. Scribner Lifetime Achievement Award is Josef Coresh, MD, PhD. The Scribner Award… Read More »Coresh Receives Scribner Award
On July 9, the Task Force on Women’s Academic Careers in Medicine hosted a virtual meet and greet and panel discussion. The virtual event was… Read More »Update from the Task Force on Women’s Academic Careers in Medicine
Congratulations to the below faculty members who were recently promoted. Associate Professor Monica Mukherjee, Cardiology Nazareno Paolocci, Cardiology Clare Rock, Infectious Diseases Assistant Professor Frederick… Read More »Faculty Promotions and Additions
ARTICLE: Association of Normal Systolic Blood Pressure Level With Cardiovascular Disease in the Absence of Risk Factors AUTHORS: Seamus P. Whelton, John W. McEvoy, Leslee… Read More »Association of Normal Systolic Blood Pressure Level With Cardiovascular Disease in the Absence of Risk Factors
Dr. Sanjay Desai, professor in the Division of Pulmonary, vice chair for education and director of the Osler Medical Residency, was named the inaugural Dr. Myron L.… Read More »Desai Named Myron L. Weisfeldt Professor
Dr. David Kass, professor in the Division of Cardiology, was selected to receive the 2020 the Louis and Artur Lucian Award from McGill University in… Read More »Kass Receives Lucian Award
COVID-19 has touched all of us in many ways. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has added powerful financial stresses to our university, school and department. In order to… Read More »Financial Impacts of COVID-19