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Internal Medicine Residency Faculty and Staff

Our Faculty and Staff Put Our Residents First

Meet Our Program Director

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Sonia Sugumar

Program Director

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Ram Bhutani

Kasturba Med College

 

PGY-4 Chief Resident

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Harshit Narula

King George Medical University

 

PGY-4 Chief Resident

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Carolyn Dallas

Residency Program Administrator

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Ikia Means

Program Operations Coordinator

Meet the GME Faculty

Allergy and Immunology

Cardiology

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Sunal Suresh Makadia, M.D.

Staff Physician

Distinctions

  • Rated one of the top 50 U.S. hospital heart programs in U.S. News & World Report

Special Programs

  • Cardiac noninvasive laboratory (stress tests, transthoracic and transesophageal echos, holters)
  • Cardiac Diagnostic Center (Cardiac catheterization, electrophysiologic testing, ablation, angioplasty, pacemaker therapy, defibrillator implantation, tilt table testing)
  • Coronary Care Unit
  • Cardiac Progressive Care Floor
  • Open Heart Surgery Center
  • Cardiovascular Research Laboratory
  • Heart Station (electrocardiography)

Research Activities

  • Arrhythmia, sudden death, automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator
  • Transesophageal echocardiography
  • Angioplasty device trials
  • Multicenter drug trial in heart disease prevention

Critical Care

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Robert Reed, MD

Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit

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Robert Stephens, MD

Faculty Lead for Medical Education in Critical Care

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Namrata Nag

Endocrinology

Distinctions

  • Rated one of the top 50 U.S endocrinology programs in U.S. News & World Report (2007)

Special Programs

  • Diabetes Resource Center (ADA Certified)
  • Metabolic bone disease
  • Thyroid nodule clinic
  • Inpatient Diabetic Services

Gastroenterology

Special Programs

  • G.I. Diagnostic Center (endoscopy, G.I. motility studies, ERCP, esophageal pH monitoring), video capsule endoscopy, ultrasonic ERCP (EUS), fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)

Research Activities

  • Role of salivary growth factors in esophageal epithelial integrity
  • Role of vitamin A in esophageal cancer
  • New drug therapy in esophageal cancer
  • Markers of neoplastic transformation in human colonocytes for detection of colon cancer
  • HIV disease and pancreatitis
  • Markers of pancreatic carcinoma
  • Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)

General Medicine

Special Programs

  • Ambulatory Care Center
  • Several satellite sites for general internal medicine practice in Greater Baltimore area available for elective rotations

Geriatrics

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Myron Miller, M.D.

Academic Director, Division of Geriatrics

Hospital Medicine

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Sonia Sugumar

Program Director

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Bamlak Haile, MD

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Sheena Moorthy, MD

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Shashi Yalamanchili, MD

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Badal Thakkar, MD

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Aaron Shim, MD

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Micaela Paz, MD

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Asha Tilley, MD

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Justin Ling, MD

Special Programs

  • Dedicated inpatient medical consultation service
  • Inpatient teaching hospitalist program

Infectious Disease

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Vishal I. Sethi, M.D.

Staff Physician

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Anna Winslow, MD

Special Programs

  • Infectious Disease Ambulatory Center
  • Office of Infection Control
  • HIV program

Research Activities

  • HIV sentinel surveillance study (with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  • New drug therapies for opportunistic infection in AIDS
  • Pathogenesis, complications and treatment regimens of decubitus ulcers

Nephrology

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Manju Mavanaur, MD

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Jasmine Manley, MD

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Nicholas Niazi, MD

Special Programs

  • Inpatient Dialysis Unit
  • Outpatient dialysis facilities and offices
  • Consultation services

Pulmonology

Special Programs

  • Pulmonary function laboratory
  • Pulmonary Inpatient Unit
  • Sarcoidosis clinic (The Johns Hopkins Hospital)
  • Sleep Disorders Center
  • Twenty-bed medical/surgical ICU
  • Four-bed cardiac ICU
  • State-of-the-art monitoring equipment

Pulmonary Research Activities

  • Immunologic mechanisms in sarcoidosis

Medical Oncology

Hospice/Palliative Care

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Alexander Loreck, MD

Addiction Medicine

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Devang Ghandi, M.D.

Staff Physician