Meet Our Program Director
Sonia Sugumar
Program Director
Hira Akhlaq, MD
PGY4 Chief Resident:
Ram Bhutani
Kasturba Med College
Harshit Narula
King George Medical University
Rida Ihsan
Services Institute of Medical Sciences
Carolyn Dallas
Residency Program Administrator
Ikia Means
Program Operations Coordinator
Meet the GME Faculty
Allergy and Immunology
Cardiology
Mohammed Abuzhara, M.D.
Director of Cardiology, LifeBridge Health
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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
Jaime Simon, D.O.
Department Chair Sinai and Northwest, LifeBridge Health Critical Care
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Ashwin Dharmadhikari, M.D., MPH
Chief Medical Officer
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Divyansh Bajaj, MD
Endocrinology
Asha Thomas, M.D.
Director, Division of Endocrinology; Associate Program Director, Medicine Residency
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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
Stephanie Sharps, M.D.
Staff Physician, Program Director, Medicine Residency
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Special Programs
- Ambulatory Care Center
- Several satellite sites for general internal medicine practice in Greater Baltimore area available for elective rotations
Geriatrics
Myron Miller, M.D.
Academic Director, Division of Geriatrics
Hospital Medicine
Ravitej Khunkhun, M.D.
Associate Program Director, Sinai Hospitalist Group
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Nilesh Patel, M.D.
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Program Director
Eniola Adejumo, M.D.
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Bamlak Haile, MD
Lekshminarayan Raghavakurup, M.D.
Staff Physician
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Sheena Moorthy, MD
Shashi Yalamanchili, MD
Badal Thakkar, MD
Aaron Shim, MD
Micaela Paz, MD
Special Programs
- Dedicated inpatient medical consultation service
- Inpatient teaching hospitalist program
Infectious Disease
Vishal I. Sethi, M.D.
Staff Physician
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
Manju Mavanaur, 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
Alexander Loreck, MD
Addiction Medicine
Devang Ghandi, M.D.
Staff Physician