Research Administration

• Holly Jones, PhD, Director of Research
• Cynthia Jackson, MA, CRA Research Business Operations Coordinator
• Jennifer Williams, BA, Research Finance Specialist
• Stephany Park, BS, Research Regulatory Specialist
• Elizabeth Ivie, MS, RD, LD, CDCES, Multidisciplinary Research Coordinator
• Shahana Sulaiman, Research Regulatory Specialist

Heart & Vascular Clinical Trial Research

• Donna Patrick, BSN, RN CCRC Research Nurse Manager
• Amanda Dang, MSN, RN, Research Nurse Coordinator
• Sharon Davidson, Research Medical Assistant
• Monica Pozowicz, MSN, BSN, CNE-cl, CCRN, CEN, CFRN, Research Nurse Coordinator
• Karen Miller, JD, MBA, BSN, RN
• Donna Cooper, BSN, RN

Oncology Clinical Trial Research

• Trena Davis, BSN, RN, CCRC Research Nurse Manager
• Elisha Curry, BSN, RN, CCRC, Clinical Research Nurse Coordinator
• Jessica Hunt, BSN, RN, CPN, Clinical Research Nurse Coordinator
• DeAnna Finnessy, BS, Research Data Coordinator
• Shamel Smith, BS, Research Data Coordinator

Posters & Articles

• Developing Guidelines to Risk Stratify Patients that Would Benefit from VTE Prophylaxis Upon Discharge
  Elaine Lelli, MD | General Surgery Resident
• The Sequelae of Lynch Syndrome
  Rahul Patel, DO | Internal Medicine Resident
• TB or not TB – The Many Masks of Esophageal Cancer
  Sana Ahmed, MD | Internal Medicine Resident
• Searching for the Lost Volatile Alcohol
  Aleksandros Mihilli, MD | Internal Medicine Resident
• SGLT2 Inhibitors a Potential cause of Hyponatremia
  O’Connell Penrose, MD | Internal Medicine Resident
• Who “SIADH” Malaria Doesn’t Cause Hyponatremia?
  Sandus Khan, MD | Internal Medicine Resident
• Elective Over Emergency: The Role of Precise Diagnosis in Managing Giant Bullae in COPD Patients
  Mena Louis, DO | General Surgery Resident
• A Rare Case of a T2D patient with Hemitongue Atrophy
  Ghosh A, Toledo D, Wilson-Patino C, Singh H and Jones L.
• A Rare Case of Idiopathic Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome
  Muhamed S, Sehapovic V, Singh H and Jones L
• A Case Study of on a Differential Diagnosis of a Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
  Valdovinos J, Toledo D, Strike A, Singh H and Jones L.
• Case Report: A Novel Presentation of Diplopia in Tianeptine and Phenibut Abuse
  Silverstein HA, Oliver EG, Jones L, Singh H and Vemuri PK.

Publications

• Palacios, Franco, Jacob, Jeffrey, Hoxhaj, Rudiona, Thigpin, Catlyn, Saberi, Asif, Bhatnagar, Atul et al. “Outcomes of patients with COVID-19 requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and continuous renal replacement therapy in the United States.” Acute and Critical Care, vol. 38, no. 3, 2023, pp. 308–314.
• Louis, M., Gibson, B., Jones, L., & Singh, H. (2023). Mechanical Small Bowel Obstruction Due to Gallstone Ileus Diagnostic Challenges and Surgical Management. Cureus, 15(8). 
• Ketcham E, Glass OM, Hermida AP. Electroconvulsive Therapy in Heart Transplant Patients: To Avoid or Embrace? J ECT. 2023 Aug 3. doi: 10.1097/YCT.0000000000000954. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37561916.
• Dodoo SN, Kwapong YA, Agyemang-Sarpong A, Amoran E, Egolum UO, Ghasemzadeh N, Ramadan R, Henry G, Samady H. Comparative Healthcare Resource Utilization of percutaneous mechanical circulatory support using Impella versus intra-aortic balloon pump use for Patients with Acute Coronary syndrome and Cardiogenic Shock Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: Insights from National Inpatient Sample. Current problems in cardiology. 2023, August. PMID: 37640173.
• Mori M, Parsons N, Krane M, Guy TS, Grossi EA, Dearani JA, Habib RH, Badhwar V, Geirsson A. Robotic Mitral Valve Repair for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2023, August. PMID: 37595861.
• Dodoo, S. N., Moyine, C. Y., Agyemang‐Sarpong, A., Ismail, A., Le, N., Patel, F., … & Parastatidis, I. (2023). The role of multidetector CT scan in the management of prosthetic aortic valve thrombosis: A case report. Clinical Case Reports, 11(9). 

Research Team

• Louise Jones, Ph.D., M.Ed.
  Director of GME Research & Scholarly Activity

Resources

• Graduate Medical Education
• Canvas Course

Research Team

• Zachary Taylor, MD | Director, District 2 Public Health Department
• Dipal Patel, MD | Outpatient Core Faculty, PAR Internal Medicine, GME
• Zahraa Rabeeah, MD | Associate Program Director, PAR Internal Medicine, GME

Foothills AHEC Leadership & Staff

• Missy Lochstampfor | Foothills AHEC Center Director
• Jenn Dunahoo, Foothills AHEC Special Projects Director
• Lana Brand, MLIS | Foothills AHEC Clinical Training Coordinator

Posters & Abstracts

• Descriptive Analysis of Patients at the Georgia Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Prevention, Metabolism, and Lipids.
  Biggins, A.
• Comparison of Allometric Scaling Patterns for Estimating Coronary Flow.
  Azarnoosh J, Molony D, Komilian K, Soriano L, Dornback A, Jalal S, Lee B, Shaw L, Dunham S, Lin F and Samady H.
• Association of OCT derived wall shear stress and neointimal healing in stented coronary arteries;
  Komilian K.
• Evaluation of Deep IVUS for Automatic IVUS Image Analysis
  Azarnoosh J, Molony D, Komilian K, Soriano L, Dornback A, Jalal S, Lee B, Shaw L, Dunham S, Lin F and Samady H.

Publications

• Yost, C. C., Rosen, J. L., Mandel, J. L., Wong, D. H., Prochno, K. W., Komlo, C. M., … & Guy, T. S. (2023). Feasibility of Postoperative Day One or Day Two Discharge After Robotic Cardiac Surgery. Journal of Surgical Research, 289, 35-41.
• Dodoo, S. N., Okoh, A. K., Aggarwal, T., Osman, A. F., Nkansah, E., Oseni, A., … & Egolum, U. (2023). Disparities in health and healthcare: Impact of race on resource utilization and costs following transcatheter edge-to-edge repair. Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine.
• van Rosendael, S. E., van den Hoogen, I. J., Lin, F. Y., Andreini, D., Al-Mallah, M. H., Budoff, M. J., … & Bax, J. J. (2023). Clinical and coronary plaque predictors of atherosclerotic nonresponse to statin therapy. Cardiovascular Imaging, 16(4), 495-504.
• Hakim, D., Coskun, A. U., Maynard, C., Pu, Z., Rupert, D., Cefalo, N., … & Stone, P. H. (2023). Endothelial shear stress computed from coronary computed tomography angiography: A direct comparison to intravascular ultrasound. Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.
• Balkhy, H. H., Grossi, E. A., Kiaii, B., Murphy, D., Geirsson, A., Guy, S., & Lewis, C. (2023, March). A Retrospective Evaluation of Endo-Aortic Balloon Occlusion Compared to External Clamping in Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery. In Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. WB Saunders.
• Yost, C. C., Rosen, J. L., Mandel, J. L., Wong, D. H., Prochno, K. W., Komlo, C. M., … & Guy, T. S. (2023). Feasibility of Postoperative Day One or Day Two Discharge After Robotic Cardiac Surgery. Journal of Surgical Research, 289, 35-41.
• Park, H. B., Lee, J., Hong, Y., Byungchang, S., Kim, W., Lee, B. K., Lin, F. Y., Hadamitzky, M., Kim, Y. J., Conte, E., Andreini, D., Pontone, G., Budoff, M. J., Gottlieb, I., Chun, E. J., Cademartiri, F., Maffei, E., Marques, H., Gonçalves, P. A., Leipsic, J. A., … Chang, H. J. (2023). Risk factors based vessel-specific prediction for stages of coronary artery disease using Bayesian quantile regression machine learning method: Results from the PARADIGM registry. Clinical cardiology, 46(3), 320–327.
• Rosen, J. L., Yost, C. C., & Guy, T. S. (2023). The Methodology of the Virtual Clinic in Cardiac Surgery in the Era of COVID-19: Adapting to the Future. American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality, 38(1), 63–65.
• Round, K. J., Yost, C. C., Rosen, J. L., Haenen, F. W. N., Komlo, C. M., Wong, D. H., Mandel, J. L., Prochno, K. W., Ott, N. Y., & Guy, T. S. (2023). Feasibility of Robotic Mitral Valve Repair Using Barbed Nonabsorbable Sutures: A Preliminary Single-Center Experience. Innovations (Philadelphia, Pa.), 15569845231174228. Advance online publication.
• Sykalo, C., Egolum, U., & Ling, H. (2023). The Daily Activity of Patients With Heart Failure During COVID-19 Pandemic. Cardiology research, 14(3), 240–242.
• Ikedum, I., Asreb, A., Egolum, U., & Ling, H. (2023). Experience in Initiating Vericiguat in an Advanced Heart Failure Program. American journal of therapeutics, 10.1097/MJT.0000000000001613. Advance online publication.
• Guddeti, R. R., Sanina, C., Jauhar, R., Henry, T. D., Dehghani, P., Garberich, R., … & Garcia, S. (2023). Mechanical Circulatory Support in Patients With COVID-19 Presenting With Myocardial Infarction. The American Journal of Cardiology, 187, 76-83.
• Haenen, F. W. N., Laga, S., Guy, T. S., & Rodrigus, I. (2023). The Automatic Locking Purse String Suture Technique in Minimal Invasive Surgery Automatic Locking Purse String Suture Using Barbed Suture. Surgical innovation, 15533506221149885. Advance online publication.
• Fudim, M., Yazdi, D., Egolum, U., Haghighat, A., Kottam, A., Sauer, A. J., Shah, H., Kumar, P., Rakita, V., Centen, C., Ozonat, K., Smith, S., & DeVore, A. D. (2023). Use of a Cardiac Scale to Predict Heart Failure Events: Design of SCALE-HF 1. Circulation. Heart failure, 16(5), e010012.
• Samuel, E., Watford, M., Egolum, U. O., Ombengi, D. N., Ling, H., & Cates, D. W. (2023). Inclisiran: A First-in-Class siRNA Therapy for Lowering Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol. The Annals of pharmacotherapy, 57(3), 317–324.
• Molony, D., & Samady, H. (2023). Vascular Biomechanics: The True Apex of the Cardiovascular Risk Pyramid?. Cardiovascular Interventions, 16(9), 1050-1053.
• Ghasemzadeh, N., Kim, N., Amlani, S., Madan, M., Shavadia, J. S., Chong, A. Y., … & Dehghani, P. (2022). A Review of ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction in Patients with COVID-19. Cardiology Clinics, 40(3), 321.
• Veillet-Chowdhury, M., Dabbagh, G. S., Benton Jr, S. M., Hill, A. M., Lee, J. H., Singleton, M. J., … & Chahal, C. A. A. (2023). CT-Guided Direct Current Cardioversion for Atrial Arrhythmias During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Cardiovascular Imaging, 16(1), 135-137.
• Badhwar, V., Wei, L. M., Geirsson, A., Dearani, J. A., Grossi, E. A., Guy, T. S., … & Chitwood, W. R. (2023). Contemporary robotic cardiac surgical training. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 165(2), 779-783.

Case Reports

• Rosen, J. L., Yost, C. C., Prochno, K. W., Komlo, C. M., Mandel, J. L., Wu, M., & Guy, T. S. (2023). A New Frontier: No Working Port for Robotic Mitral Valve Repair. Innovations (Philadelphia, Pa.), 18(2), 200–203.
• Ahoussougbemey Mele, A., Chew, C., Ruiz Vega, R., Mahmood, R., & AlRubaye, R. (2023). Naproxen-Induced Evans Syndrome. Cureus, 15(2), e34910.
• Asreb, A., & Ahn, J. (2023). Loss of His-bundle and Right Ventricular Septal Capture Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement-A Case Report. The Journal of innovations in cardiac rhythm management, 14(2), 5332–5337.
• Mok, J. Y., & Burkle, J. (2023). Lipoprotein-X: A Case of Falsely Elevated LDL Hypercholesterolemia. Case Reports, 13, 101799.

Abstracts

• Dodoo, S. N., Okoh, A. K., Aggarwal, T., Osman, A. F., Nkansah, E., Oseni, A., … & Egolum, U. (2023). Disparities in health and healthcare: Impact of race on resource utilization and costs following transcatheter edge-to-edge repair. Cardiovascular Revascularization.
• Sperry, B. W., Quan, D., Mauricio, E., Small, R. S., Ananthasubramaniam, K., Egolum, U. O., … & Freimer, M. (2023).
  Effect of RNAI on cardiomyopathy and polyneuropathy outcomes in patients with V122I variant hereditary transthyretin-mediated (HATTR or ATTRV) amyloidosis. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 81(8_Supplement), 343-343.
• Mahmood, R., Asreb, A., Alaws, H., Setzer, A. R., Winston, A. D., Ghasemzadeh, N., & Kansara, P. (2023). Correlation of aortic valve gradient obtained by catheterization and echocardiogram post transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 81(8_Supplement), 836-836.
• Dodoo, S., Apenteng, B., Okoh, A. K., Opoku, S., Ghasemzadeh, N., & Ramadan, R. (2023). In-hospital mortality following percutaneous coronary intervention of chronic total occlusion with and without chronic thrombocytopenia: A propensity weighted analysis of national inpatient sample. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 81(8_Supplement), 934-934.
• Mahmood, R., Iqbal, A., Adams, A., Moyine, C. Y., Dalton, D., Ehrenreich, H., … & Chandra, S. (2023). PO-01-135 Safety and tolerability of initiating oral sotalol as outpatient. Heart Rhythm, 20(5), S170.
• Dehghani, P., Singh, J., Mancini, G. J., Stanberry, L., Bergstedt, S., Madan, M., … & Henry, T. D. (2023). LB-11| Core-Laboratory Angiographic Characteristics and Mortality of Patients With STEMI and COVID-19: Insights from the NACMI Registry. Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions, 2(3).
• Kaneyuki, D., Yost, C. C., Round, K., Wu, M., & Guy, T. S. (2023). Endoaortic Balloon Occlusion in Totally Endoscopic and Percutaneous Robotic Cardiac Surgery. Innovations (Philadelphia, Pa.), 18(1), 90–96.
• Lv, R., Wang, L., Maehara, A., Matsumura, M., Guo, X., Samady, H., Giddens, D. P., Zheng, J., Mintz, G. S., & Tang, D. (2023). Combining IVUS + OCT Data, Biomechanical Models and Machine Learning Method for Accurate Coronary Plaque Morphology Quantification and Cap Thickness and Stress/Strain Index Predictions. Journal of functional biomaterials, 14(1), 41.
• Park, H. B., Arsanjani, R., Sung, J. M., Heo, R., Lee, B. K., Lin, F. Y., Hadamitzky, M., Kim, Y. J., Conte, E., Andreini, D., Pontone, G., Budoff, M. J., Gottlieb, I., Chun, E. J., Cademartiri, F., Maffei, E., Marques, H., Gonçalves, P. A., Leipsic, J. A., Lee, S. E., … Chang, H. J. (2023). Impact of statins based on high-risk plaque features on coronary plaque progression in mild stenosis lesions: results from the PARADIGM study. European heart journal. Cardiovascular Imaging, jead110. Advance online publication.
• Kumar, S., Molony, D., Khawaja, S., Crawford, K., Thompson, E. W., Hung, O., Shah, I., Navas-Simbana, J., Ho, A., Kumar, A., Ko, Y. A., Hosseini, H., Lefieux, A., Lee, J. M., Hahn, J. Y., Chen, S. L., Otake, H., Akasaka, T., Shin, E. S., Koo, B. K., … Samady, H. (2023). Stent underexpansion is associated with high wall shear stress: a biomechanical analysis of the shear stent study. The international journal of cardiovascular imaging, 39(7), 1375–1382.
• Zivan, T., Peters, A., & Guy, T. S. (2023). Multimodality imaging in a patient with an unexplained left ventricular mass undergoing robotic excision. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 81(8_Supplement), 2919-2919.
• Ling, H., & Egolum, U. (2023). Experience Of Initiating Vericiguat In An Advanced Heart Failure Program. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 29(4), 561-562.
• Dodoo, S., Apenteng, B., Okoh, A. K., Opoku, S., Ghasemzadeh, N., & Ramadan, R. (2023). Impact of chronic thrombocytopenia on health resource utilization and costs following chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention: A propensity weighted analysis of national inpatient sample. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 81(8_Supplement), 1082-1082.
• Mehran, R., Beerkens, F., sartori, S., Cao, D., Feng, Y., Kandzari, D. E., … & Horwitz, P. A. (2023). Impact of sex on outcomes among patients with a previous coronary artery bypass graft undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 81(8_Supplement), 970-970.
• Bergmark, B., Giugliano, G. R., Aparicio, A. A., Weng, S. C., Inderbitzen, B., & Croce, K. J. (2023). Preclinical evaluation of a novel solid core pressure guidewire. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 81(8_Supplement), 956-956.

Heart & Vascular Clinical Trial Research Team

• Donna Patrick, BSN, RN, CCRC
  Research Nurse Manager
• Amanda Dang, MSN, RN
  Research Nurse Coordinator
• Sharon Davidson
  Research Medical Assistant
• Monical Pozowicz, MSN, BSN, NE-cl, CCRN, CEN, CFRN, Research Nurse Coordinator
• Karen Miller, JD, MBA, BSN, RN
• Donna Cooper, BSN, RN
• Shahana Sulaiman, Research Regulatory Specialist

Posters

• Drs. Brian Gibson, Molly McNamee, and Michael Stolz: Management of Choledocholithiasis in a Community Hospital: Laparascopic Common Bile Duct Exploration VS Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography; SESC; February 2024
• Drs. Tyler Harvell and Molly McNamee: Missile Embolism from Left Ventricular Gunshot Wound; SESC; February 2024
• Dr. Molly McNamee: Identifying Barriers to Implementation of Modified Brain Injury Guidelines for Management of Traumatic Brain Injury; SESC; February 2024
• Dr. Matthew Vassy and REBOA collaborative team: pREBOA vs ER-Reboa: The Impact on Blood Utilization and Resuscitation Requirements: A Pilot Analysis; EAST; January 2024
• Morgan Krause and Dr. Matthew Vassy collaborative with Emory: Accuracy of Trauma Surgeons Prospective Estimation of the Injury Severity Score; SESC; February 2024
• Jessica Mantooth and Dr. Nathan Creel: Implementing Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of The Aorta in a Rural Level II Trauma Center; SESC; February 2024
• Jessica Mantooth, Morgan Krause, and Jessica Latimer: A multidisciplinary approach to implementing a standardized spinal cord injury order set; STN TraumaCon; April 2024
• Laura Roach, Morgan Krause, Ashley Davis, and Michelle Mair: What’s going on? A Journey to Implementing a Memory Journal for the TBI/SCI population; STN TraumaCon; April 2024
• Kyle Gibson: Pre-Hospital Whole Blood – STN Session: Innovations in Trauma Nursing; WTC/AAST. September 2024.
• Jesse Gibson, Linda Greene, and Nicole Moulder: Mental Health Screening: It’s Everyone’s Job; TQIP; November 2024.

Research Team

• Morgan Krause, MSN-Ed, RN, PCCN
• Emily Murdoch, BSRT, RRT
• Natasha Alvarado, BSN, RN, SANE

Publications

• Gibson, B., McNamee, M., & Stolz, M. (2024). Management of Choledocholithiasis in a Community Hospital: Laparascopic Common Bile Duct Exploration VS Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography. The American Surgeon
• Grabill, N., Louis, M., Akhtar, A., Ayinde, B., Sarmiento, D., Foxhall, E., & Murdoch, E. (TBD). Early Detection and Quality Indicators: Assessing the Clinical Impact and Effectiveness of Lowering the Colorectal Cancer Screening Age. Surgery Open Science
• Meyer, C., Beckett, A., Benjamin, E., Duchesne, J., Kundi, R., Dennis, B., Pandya, U., Lawless, R., Moore, E., Spalding, C., Vassy, M., & Nguyen, J. (2024). pREBOA vs ER-Reboa: The Impact on Blood Utilization and Resuscitation Requirements: A Pilot Analysis. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
• Mlaver, E., Meyer, C., Solomon, G., Sharma, J., Krause, M., Vassy, M., Dente, C., Todd, SR., & Ayoung-Chee, P. (2024). Accuracy of Trauma Surgeons Prospective Estimation of the Injury Severity Score; The American Surgeon
• Creel, N. and Mantooth, J. (2024). Implementing Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of The Aorta in a Rural Level II Trauma Center. The American Surgeon
• Louis, M., Gibson, B., & Krause., M. (2024). Impact of Surgical Residency Integration on Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Outcomes: A Retrospective Analysis. Journal of Surgical Education
• Vassy, M; Spalding, C; Moore, E; Beckett, A; Dennis, B; Kundi, R; and Duchesne, J. (2024). Partial Occlusion, Less AKI: an AORTA Registry Analysis of pREBOA-PRO. Shock
• Gondek, S., Hamblin, S., Raley, J., Nguyen, J., Pandya, U., Duchesne, J., Smith, A., Moore, E., Ammons, LA., Beckett, A., Vassy, M., Carlisle, P., & Dennis, B. (2024). A PROMPT Update on Partial REBOA: Initial Clinical Data and Overview of the DoD-Funded Partial REBOA Outcomes Multicenter ProspecTive (PROMPT) Study. Military Medicine
• Mlaver, E; Dente, C; Solomon, G; Krause, M; Vassy, M; Todd, SR; and Ayoung-Chee, P. (2024). Improving Trauma Surgeons Prospective Estimation of the Injury Severity Score; The American Surgeon