Research Week 2020

Research Week presents an opportunity to celebrate and showcase the research and scholarly activities of NGHS investigators.

What can I do during Research Week?

View e-posters, watch videos highlighting work that nurses are leading, listen to physicians speak about the benefits of clinical trial research, and find links to publications from our healthcare researchers. Learn more about how research and scholarly activities build scientific understanding and the quality of healthcare practice.

Learn more about how to start a research study, apply to the IRB, and how to complete required research training by participating in the live events below. Live events will be recorded for viewing later. Many live events provide CE and CME credit!

John E Delzell, Jr MD MSPH Vice President for Medical Education and DIO introduces our inaugural system-wide research week 2020.

See Past Events

All events provide either CE or CME credit!

Ethics in Clinical Research Panel Discussion

Panel discussion
Oct. 12 2020, 12:00pm-1:00pm
View Recorded Session

CME & CE credits awarded

Human Subjects Research CITI Training Guide

Training & Webinar
Oct. 15 2020, 2:00pm-2:30pm
View Recorded Session

CME & CE credits awarded

Institutional Review Board Training Guide

Webinar
Oct. 14 2020, 12:00pm-1:00pm
View Recorded Session

CME & CE credits awarded

The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. is accredited by the Medical Association of Georgia to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Northeast Georgia Medical Center & Health System, Inc. designates this online activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Northeast Georgia Health System is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Alabama State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Research Showcase

Learn about highlighted research and scholarly activities happening across our organization.

Office of Research

Mission Statement

The Office of Research at Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) is responsible for overseeing the quality, scientific integrity, academic impact, regulatory compliance and financial responsibility of clinical research conducted throughout the health system.

The mission of the Office of Research is to support, oversee, and serve as the organizational home for all clinical research conducted within the NGHS system. Our physicians serve as principal investigators on a number of cutting-edge clinical research studies that have the potential to impact standard of care and to improve the care that patients receive. Through our high patient enrollments and high-impact study participation, research at NGMC offers patients and nationally recognized physicians the opportunity to improve the health of our community and beyond.

Research Team

Holly Jones, PhD, Director of Research
Calvin Robinson Jr., Research Finance Analyst
Cynthia Jackson, Research Business Operations
G. Brandon Powers, JM, Research Regulatory Specialist
Amanda Conner, JD, Research Regulatory Specialist
Heidi Ehrenreich, PhD, Multidisciplinary Research Coordinator

Cardiology Research Team

Donna Patrick, RN CCRC Research Nurse Manager
Terri Tolar, RN, Research Nurse Coordinator
Toni Mundy, RN, Research Nurse Coordinator

Oncology Research Team

Trena Davis, RN, CCRC Research Nurse Manager
Ashley Butler, Clinical Research Coordinator
Danielle Newman, Clinical Research Coordinator
Sharon Davidson, Research Data Coordinator
Stacey Lott, Research Data Coordinator

Holly Jones, PhD, Director of Research on Research Week 2020

Resources

GME Research Department

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known”

Carl Sagan

Our Mission

Our mission is to improve the health of our community through an engaged community of physician researchers who actively build evidence for the practices and processes of medicine.

Our Departmental Values

GME Research at Northeast Georgia Medical Center aligns our departmental values to the system Core Values. Building on these institutional values, GME research values guide our responses and processes:

Research Must Matter to Our Community
We advance our knowledge of patient care through compassionate identification of the most pressing health, social and economic concerns of our constituents. This situates our research goals and evidence of scientific merit.
Perspective Matters
We strive to understand our research through the lens of all stakeholders through open dialogue, peer review, ethical recruitment of participants and consideration of research impact on our community. This acknowledgement of understanding how we make meaning of knowledge as a social construct enriches our research agenda.
Intentional Focus Matters
We focus our resources and scholarship intentionally, building expertise in areas which honor our patients, our residents and the community-based focus of our health-system. Together, we will progress toward our community goals.
Ethical Rigor is Critical
We focus on quality not quantity of scholarship. We pursue rigorous design and implementation as more impactful on our community than number of publications, and more advantageous to our residents as they learn foundational research skills.

E-Posters

Salcin, Sameena., Chew, Christopher., Teshome, Molla. Breathing in urine: Is that even possible? A Case Report. CHEST Annual Meeting October 2020 (Poster)
Adewunmi, Comfort., Del Rio Lopez, Loida., Al-rubaye, Riyadh., Dastinab-induced recurrent pleural effusion in a 72-year-old man with a history of bone marrow transplantation. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Sykalo, Christine., Herrera, Martin., Adams, Alex., Kumar, Gagan., Raybon-Rojas-Rojas, Erine. Tricky papillary muscle rupture sequelae navigated by evidence-based therapies. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Sharpe, Brent., Sterling, Cash. Nitrous oxide offers superior patient satisfaction over opioids and benzodiazepines for analgesia and anxiolysis during outpatient urological procedures. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Del Rio Lopez, Loida., Adewunmi, Comfort., Odeh, Tariq., Al-rubaye, Riyadh. Severe encephalopathy with hyponatremia in a 34-year-old male secondary to Kratom toxicity. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Kaur, Aman., Flickinger, B., Large vessel inflammatory disease: A spectrum within a disease. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Parag, Sahil., Abdalla, Izzeldin., Vacuolar myelopathy presenting in an undiagnosed HIV positive patient. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Cormican, Michael., Richart, Charles., Horn, Jon., Schultz, Karl., McNamee, Molly., Gibson, Jesse., Jay, Jacob., Adoption of the Brain Injury Guidelines for management of traumatic brain injury at a community level II trauma center. Ongoing project. Poster Research Week 2020.
Chambers, James., Mirabile, Elaine., Jay, Jacob., Presentation of perianal condylomata lata with rapid manifestation in newly diagnosed secondary syphilis. A Case Report. Poster Research Week 2020.
Alimi, Yusuf O., Anderson-Reid, Marlene., Saleem, Sohail. Persistent hyperkalemia in an ESRD patient with recent colectomy. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Adams, Alex., Cho, Young Min., Phan, Ngoc., Lupus…Gasteroenteropathy: How should the general internist diagnose it? A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Adams, Alex., Herrera, Martin., Patel, Dhavel., Roebuck, Leslie., Kumar, Gagan. Can changes in inflammatory markers in patients with COVID-19 infection receiving Tocilizumab predict in-hospital mortality? Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Adams, Alex., Berry, Ryan., Kaur, Aman., Fombi, Jason. Streptococcus intermedius brain abscess secondary to persistent left superior vena cava. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Kaur, Aman., Comeaux, Shelby., Mannepalli, Supriya. Multiple cavitary pulmonary nodules and eposcleritis of the left eye: Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) masquerading as infection. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Sanchez, Cesar., Fadel, Celine., Kaur, Aman., Umana, Idopise. Pilomyxoid strocytoma of Thoracic Spinal Cord with Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Responsive to Neurosurgery and Chemotherapy. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Festok, Ahmer., Gross, Phillip. Excessive calcium carbonate use as a cause of hypercalcemic crisis. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Ahmed, Nayab., Gross, Phillip. Fluid balance tug-of-war in a case of chronic Giardiasis. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Ahmad, Hadia R., Kethireddy, Shravan., Kumar, Gagan. Disseminated Elizabtethkingia meningoseptica in a critically ill patient. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Chew, Christopher. COVID-19: No guaranteed protection from future infection after the initial diagnosis. Submitted to Hindawi’s Case Reports in Infectious Diseases 2020
Kim, Nathaniel. How urinalysis improves timely diagnosis and treatment of new onset DVT in the emergency room. Abstract. 2020
Rizvi, Shahraiz Shah., Baleguli, Vidya., Varghese, Merin., Ilyas, Jawad Ahmed. A rare case of esophageal dysphagia-secondary esophageal tuberculosis. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Odeh, Tariq., Dalley, Gary., Egolum., Ugochukwon, Kruer, James. Complete heart block (CHB) as an alerting symptom of wild-type ATTR Amyloid Cardiomyopathy. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020
Odeh, Tariq., Oberman, Robert., Patel, Dilesh. Greece and its cardiac sequalae. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2019
Odeh, Taroq., Grady, Jason., Atwell, Katie., Patel, Ankit., Dupont, Alison., Oshimura, Tomohiro., Tummala, Pradyumma., Ghasemzadeh, Nima. Obesity-paradox and short-term neurologic recovery in survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Asreb, Abdullah., Newcomb, Matthew Brian. Acute pulmonary edema: An uncommon presentation of nephrotic sysndrome. Poster Research Week 2020
Oberman, Rob., Newcomb, Matthew Brian., Odeh, Tariq. The metabolic mystery. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2019
Oberman, Rob., Cho, Young Min., Al-rubaye, Riyadh., newcomb, Matthew B. Mysterious Meningitis. A Case Report. Accepted Research Week 2020
Alimi, Yusuf., Ilyas, Jawad A., Kreur, James A. An atypical presentation of primary sclerosing cholangitis. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2019
Cho, Young Min., Adams, Alex., Han, Ernest., Patel, Dimpu. A rare case of a drug-induced vasculitis by hydralazine. A Case Report. Accepted GA-ACP Poster 2020

Published Papers & Presentations

Bautista GM, Ye P. Understanding the Hemingway Measure of Adult Connectedness Survey by Utilizing Data Analysis. Georgia Journal of Science. 2020;78(1):94.
Scully, T., Medepalli, L., Scully, TA., The complementary nature of multimodal imaging in the management of an anomalous aortic origin of the right coronary artery from the left coronary cusp. June 2020. J Nucl Cardiology.
Kruer, J., Dunahoo, L. We want to hear your voice: our promise to treat you not just your symptoms – healthy ageing virtual conference. September 19, 2020
Reece, S., Relationship Building with Legislators. Association of Diabetes Care and Education Annual Conference
Reece, S., Balancing Act: Mental Health, Cardiovascular and Diabetes Medication Needs. ADCES Illinois Coordinating Body Townhall. August 2020
Newton, M., NGHS at work in the community: addressing health equity and responding to community health needs. NGHS Townhall September 2020
Newton, M. Physicians urge steps against flu avoid worsening load in the health system. Gainesville times Op-Ed. September 4^th, 2020
Tabb, M., A letter to my community. Gainesville Times Op-Ed
Angel, A., Racism and Empathy GAFP Statewide Journal Club

Videos

John E Delzell, Jr MD MSPH Vice President for Medical Education and DIO introduces our GME Research Showcase for Research Week 2020

Dr. Phil Kimsey (Faculty) and Dr. Macy Tabb (PGY1 resident on community rotation) discuss innovative approach to medical education and potential for research

Trauma Surgeon Dr. Creel and Trauma and Acute Care Nurse Practioner, Kyle Gibson discuss their ongoing study focused on EMT use of live saving blood products prior to hospital arrival.

Dr. Charles Richart discusses the importance of research from the perspective of trauma and acute care services here at NGMC.

Medical Librarian, and Health Literacy Advocate, Ms. Shannon Glover and Dr. Brittany Barthelemy (PGY1) meet to discuss how Dr. Barthelemy could explore health literacy issues within her family medicine community.