The Department of Internal Medicine received several accolades at the American College of Physicians Ohio Scientific Meeting held Oct. 19-20 in Columbus, Ohio.
Michael Tan, M.D. ('99), FACP, FIDSA, professor of internal medicine, received the Masters of the ACP award, one of only 36 Ohioans to have been recognized with this honor since it was first presented in 1923. According to the ACP website, selected fellows are "highly accomplished persons demonstrating impact in practice, leadership, or in medical research."
Mehool Patel, M.D., chair of internal medicine, was elected to the Governor's Advisory Council as an at-large member.
NEOMED presenters also took third place in the clinical research category for the poster “Efficacy of Paxlovid in moderate-severe chronic kidney disease with COVID-19: Real world data from 3,345 patients,” authored by Omer Ashruf (M3), Zara Orozco (M3), Imad Haq (M4), Razwana Khanam, David Kaelber, and Rupesh Raina, M.D., clinical assistant professor and M4 Course Director.
NEOMED was well-represented among conference presenters:
Oral Presentations
“Rural medical education: From high school to med school” -- presented by Brent Bostater (M3), Lindsey Colvin (M3), Natasha Salmen (M3) and Austin Fredrickson, M.D., FACP
“Management of soft tissue infections; HIV PrEP, PEP” -- presented by Dr. Tan
“Lessons from East Palestine train derailment” -- presented by John Weigand, M.D., and Dr. Fredrickson
Poster Presentations
“Herpes zoster pericarditis masquerading as myocardial infarction” -- presented by Nicole Price (M3)
“Uncommon presentation of vitamin B12 deficiency: An unprovoked DVT in a young Bhutanese refugee” -- presented by Amanda Tam (M4)
“Saccharomyces cerevisiae pneumonia complicating Adalimumab therapy for psoriatic arthritis status-post COVID-19 pneumonia” -- presented by Zara Angela Orozco (M3)
Congratulations to collaborators
The top winners in the Doctor's Dilemma Residency Competition were all partners of NEOMED. Congratulations to first place winner: Akron General, second place: Summa Health and third place: MetroHealth.