NEWS
Baystate Residency Academic Seminar Series (BRASS)
Covers Core Interdisciplimary Topics Across all Residencies
BRASS is a Graduate Medical Education Committee-led effort to ensure that all Baystate residencies and fellowships cover all ACGME core educational requirements. The combined lecture series also gives residents an opportunity to interact across disciplines. The spectrum of topics is broad and includes challenging issues such as professionalism concerns regarding physician fatigue; sexual harassment; medical errors and apology; teaching skills; and the role of the IRB in resident research.
| "Instead of just teaching about medical errors in the abstract, this is a way to make it real. For example: Your patient is in a johnny, scared and vulnerable–you are sleep deprived. In this situation, how might you change your behavior to avoid medical errors?" |
According to Dr. Samuel Borden, Chair of GMEC's Resident Curriculum Committee, BRASS "offers us an economy of scale, so that each residency and fellowship doesn’t have to put together individual lectures to cover these topics." On the other hand, each program can decide which sessions will be required for their residents, allowing a program with a strong curriculum in a particular area to forego requiring their residents to attend the corresponding BRASS session. However, Dr. Borden anticipates that the majority of programs will require their residents to attend the majority of seminars.
BRASS's first session will be held on August 20 and repeated on September 3. The full schedule is available on the Academic Affairs area of eWorkplace. For more information, contact Toni Bruso, Academic Affairs Staff Assistant, by phone at 413.322.4243 or by email.
CIS Offers Clinical Trial Alert
New Tool Promotes Communication Between Care Providers and Investigators
Effective July 9, 2008, CIS offers a new clinical trials tool designed to alert care providers to a patient’s participation in a clinical trial, notify investigators and research staff of admissions, transfers, and discharges of trial participants, and to provide a means for investigators to provide care providers with important trial information such as contraindicated medications and contact information.
Web-based training for this feature is available on eWorkplace by going to Departments → CIS → CIS WBT Training Modules → Clinical Trials. You can also download a quick summary brochure in pdf format.
How To Utilize The CIS Clinical Trials Alert Tool
The first step to utilize this feature for your IRB approved trial is to provide the HRPP/IRB staff with the information necessary to “build” the trial in the system. For details, please contact either Maureen Noftall by email or phone at 794-8102, or Karen Christianson by email or phone at 794-5714.
106 Residents and Fellows Started July 1st
Anesthesiology Department |
| Name |
Program |
| Ghassan Aljafar, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Shawn Campbell, MD |
Residency-PGY2 |
| Juichung Hung,MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Ryan Joyce, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Aaron Kalin, DO |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Kelley Kalin, DO |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Matthew Kaplan, DO |
Pain Management Fellowship |
| Katrina Lewis, MD |
Pain Management Fellowship |
| Deevia Patel, MD |
Residency-PGY2 |
| Jared Riehl, DO |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Anna Slomkowska, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Rajeev Verma, MD |
Critical Care Anesthesia Fellowship |
| Amarjit Virdi, MD |
Pain Management Fellowship |
| Rushton Zepernick, DO |
Residency-PGY2 |
Emergency Medicine Department |
| Name |
Program |
| Cara Brown, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Jonathan Glick, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Bridgit Mennite, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Richard Misiaszek, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Matthew Murray, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Agnieszka Nicora,MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Wilson Pyle, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Wyatt Rivas, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Jeremy Sautner,MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Trinh Tran, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Kelvey Wilson, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Clayton Wood, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
|
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Internal Medicine Department |
| Name |
Program |
| John Abboud, MD |
Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship |
| Ronan Ali, MD |
Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship |
| Abdulrahman Alkabbani, MBBS |
Medicine Residency-PGY2 |
| Sufana Al-Khunaizi, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Curtis Andrews, DO |
Medicine-Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Emily Baiyee-Ebot, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Amit Bhargava, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Melody Brewer, MD |
Medicine-Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Evan Burke, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Charalambos Demetri, DO |
Endocrinology Fellowship |
| Ranjit Dhelaria, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Anneta Golubchik, MD |
Infectious Disease Fellowship |
| Emmanuel Gonzalez, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Ella Gupta, DO |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Michelle Haggar, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Heather Harrison, MD |
Medicine-Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Jaime Hernandez, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Shams Ilahi, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY2 |
| Loren Inigo-Santiago, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Vasanth Kainkaryam, MD |
Medicine-Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Ejaz Khalid, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY3 |
| Daniel Landry, DO |
Nephrology Fellowship |
| Chandravathi Loke, MD |
Hematology-Oncology Fellowship |
| Alejandra Marin-Ruiz, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Kelly McMenimen, MD |
Medicine-Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Nessa Meshkaty, MD |
Medicine-Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Ngina Muigai, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Kavitha Nidamanuri, MD |
Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship |
| Peter Ofman, MD |
Electrophysiology Fellowship |
| Sanjeev Patel, MD |
Interventional Cardiology Fellowship |
| Michael Payette, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Srikanth Penumetsa, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY2 |
| Douglas Porter, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Ajay Puri, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Kathryn Rooth, DO |
Medicine-Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Aashish Samat, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Manmeet Singh, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Ashita Talsania, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Joshua Toll, MD |
Medicine Residency-PGY1 |
| Chirag Vaidya, MD |
Nephrology Fellowship |
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Obstetrics-Gynecology Department |
| Name |
Program |
| Jayme Bosler, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Eug Hong, MD |
Residency-PGY2 |
| Amol Malshe, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Oscar Martinez, DO |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Cara Robinson, DO |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Kimberly Thompson, DO |
Residency-PGY1 |
|
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Pathology Department |
| Name |
Program |
| Olga Chajewski, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Amal Fadaili, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Brooke Henninger, MD |
Cytopathology Fellowship |
| Michael Kuperman, MD |
Residency-PGY3 |
| Rebecca Levy, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Peter Saunders, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Namrata Setia, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
|
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Pediatrics Department |
| Name |
Program |
| Curtis Andrews, DO |
Medicine-Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Hanna Awkai, MD |
Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Judith Blumhofer, MD |
Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Melody Brewer, MD |
Medicine-Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| PaoLin Chi, MD |
Pediatrics Residency-PGY3 |
| Henry Chicaiza, MD |
Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Michael Ferguson, MD |
Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Mary Gregory, MD |
Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Heather Harrison, MD |
Medicine-Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Tanya Henry, MD |
Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Karine Issa-El-Khoury, MD |
Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Vasanth Kainkaryam, MD |
Medicine-Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Kelly McMenimen, MD |
Medicine-Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Nessa Meshkaty, MD |
Medicine-Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Kathryn Rooth, DO |
Medicine-Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Christina Sadler, MD |
Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
| Ksenia Tonyushkina, MD |
Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship |
| Thomas Wadzinski, MD, MPH |
Pediatrics Residency-PGY1 |
|
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Radiology Department |
| Name |
Program |
| James Canoy, MD |
Residency-PGY2 |
| Jonathan Cogley, MD |
Residency-PGY2 |
| Peter Ghobrial, MD |
Residency-PGY2 |
| Roozbeh Houshyar, MD |
Residency-PGY2 |
|
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Surgery Department |
| Name |
Program |
| Nuha Alogla, MBBS |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Thampi Ampadi, MD |
Residency-PGY2 |
| John Cope, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Lindy Davis, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Sofiane El Djouzi, MD |
Residency-PGY3 |
| Jessica Evans, MD |
Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship |
| Rachel Jones, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Abdulaziz Khiyami, MBBS |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Kristina Potanos, MBBS |
Residency-PGY1 |
| Ramanathan Seshadri, MD |
Residency-PGY3 |
| Ruchi Thanawala, MD |
Residency-PGY1 |
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