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BMC Resident and Fellows Provide Leadership at Annual American Geriatric Society Meeting
Indicating the growing national prominence of BMC's geriatric medicine program, seven residents presented nine posters -- about a quarter of all resident papers accepted -- at the American Geriatric Society's recent annual meeting in Chicago. Two geriatric fellows also presented posters.

In photo with Dr. Maura Brennan, second from right, head of the geriatric medicine residency track, among the BMC residents and fellows at the meeting were, from left, Drs. Eileen Kehoe, Arnulfo Deray, Rosette Odulio, Reham Shaaban, William Ortiz, and Carmel Celestin.

Faculty members were active as well. Sandra Bellantonio, M.D moderated a symposium, “Overcoming Obstacles to Integrating Geriatrics into a Residency Program,” and Maura Brennan, M.D headed a residency recruitment initiative.

Recognizing Baystate as a leader in recruitment and geriatric education of residents, AGS leaders turned to a core group of BMC trainees over the past year for advice on how to best meet the needs of residents and recruit young physicians into geriatrics.

BMC’s program was also well-represented at the inaugural meeting of a special interest group for residents, which was convened in Chicago and met with the president and senor staff of AGS. Half of the house officers present, and the resident leader, were from Baystate.

Baystate appreciates the outstanding efforts of the geriatric faculty and fellows, and program director, Kevin Hinchey, and commends the leadership, initiative and commitment of the following residents and fellows. Abstracts of their research are published in the April supplement of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Residents: 
• Eileen Kehoe: “Depression with psychosis masquerading as delirium”
• Venkata Kodali: “Creuzfeldt Jakob disease and myasthenia gravis presenting as delirium in an octogenarian” and "Purple urinary catheter and bag syndrome in a nonagenarian"
• David Robertson: “Reversible motor impairment in a 65 year old patient with posterior fossa dermoid cyst”
• Gabby Graham and Rosette Odulio: “Acute transverse myelitis (ATM) in an elderly woman”
• Carmel Celestin: “A case of spontaneous subdural hematomas caused by VP shunt drainage for normal pressure hydrocephalus”
• Rosette Odulio : “An HIV positive elderly woman with a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor”
• Duha Shaheen: “Left bundle branch block partial reversal with l-thyroxine administration in a hypothyroid patient” and “Severe left ventricular dysfunction mimicking acute myocardial infarction”

Fellows:
• Arnulfo Deray:“Cadasil: cognitive decline in a 35 y/o woman”
• William Ortiz: "Lost in translation?"