The objective of the Graduate Medical Education Research Office is to create a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment to stimulate and support high quality scholarly activities within our department. Our ultimate goal is to advance quality of care and patient related outcomes by providing residents and faculty with the resources, knowledge and infrastructure to plan and conduct transformative biomedical research.
Got research questions? Contact the Center for Academic Research Excellence (CARE), our team is available to help you, residents and faculty, with all your scholarly activities, from protocol development and regulatory processes to statistical analysis and manuscript preparation.
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Collin Tully, MD
General Surgery Residency
Christopher L. Reeves, DPM, FACFAS
Podiatry Residency
Dwayne Gordon, MD
Internal Medicine Residency
Enrique Vega, MD
General Surgery Residency
Indrani Acosta, MD
Neurocritical Care Fellowship
Jeffrey C. Chiu, MD
General Surgery Residency
Joshua Goldberg, MD
General Surgery Residency
Mary McLean, MD
Emergency Medicine Residency
Raj Mehta, MD
Family Medicine Residency
Women’s Health Fellowship, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship
Sebastian G. de la Fuente, MD
Surgical Oncology, HPB Fellowship, General Surgery Residency
Steve Timothy McElveen, MD
HPB Fellowship
Brian Cardona, PA
PA Surgical Residency
GME Research Support Team Center for Academic Research Excellence (CARE)
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Julie Pepe, PhD
Senior Manager and Biostatistician
Monica Davila, MD, PhD
Academic Mentor Manager
Natalie Reyes, PhD
Academic Mentor
Alane Waters, RN, MS
Project Coordinator
Donna Shaver
Academic Research Coordinator
GME Research Day Award Winners
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Faculty: Fatma Levent, MD- Family Medicine, East Orlando
2022 Award Winners
POSTERS
Quality Improvement
3rdTIE
Chloe Kindred, MD- Family Medicine WP: Improving the Compliance to the A1c Quality Metric Among Our Clinic’s Patient Population
Yuliya Zamota, DO- Hospice and Palliative Care: Suboccipital Release as an Adjunct Therapy in Hospice patients
2nd Philip Jay Mendez Frayre, MD- Pediatrics: Identifying Communications Barriers in the Hospital: The Incorporation of iPASS into Family Centered Rounds
1st Kofi Sefah, Pharmacy and Karolina Kilowski, DO- Gynecologic Oncology: Addition of a Standardized Titration Protocol on the Incidence of Paclitaxel Infusion Related Hypersensitivity Reactions
Case Studies
3rdTIE
Rodrigo Urcia, DO- Family Medicine East Orlando: An analysis of an enlarging Mycotic Abdominal aortic aneurysm in the setting of Salmonella Enteritis
Jacob Friedman, MD- General Surgery: An uncommon cause of a common presentation: Right lower quadrant pain due to Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich Syndrome
2nd Michelle McCullers, MD- General Surgery: Dysphagia and Subcutaneous Emphysema as presenting signs of Perforated Diverticulitis
1st Katherine Carson, MD- General Surgery: Intussusception due to Meckel’s Diverticulum in an adolescent
Education
3rd Jennifer Jiang, MD and John Lenahan, MD- Family Medicine WP: The great general governing Gestalt for primary prenatal providers (G4P3)
2nd Lin Luo, MD- Family Medicine WP: Ectopic Pregnancy: Clinical management and imaging review of cases from AdventHealth
1st Allan Herman, MD- Family Medicine WP: Evaluating Primary Care Providers implementation of in office point of care Ultrasound to screen for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Podium Presentations
3rd Na Zhou, MD- Internal Medicine: A Case of Transient Hyperthyroidism of Hyperemesis Gravidarum Complicated by Acute Hepatic Injury Successfully Treated with Plasmapheresis
2nd Saleh Hasan, MD- Emergency Medicine: Effectiveness of Emergency Department Initiated Glycemic Control
1st Daniel Farinas Lugo, MD- General Surgery: Management of Complex Painful Postoperative Wounds
Basic and Clinical Research (less than 5 submissions – no award)
Central Florida Association of Physicians from The Indian Subcontinent (CAPI) Awards
Resident: Alberto Monreal, MD- General Surgery
Faculty: Andrew Little, MD- Emergency Medicine
2021 Award Winners
POSTERS
Basic and Clinical Research
1st Nnamdi I. Gwacham, DO, Gyn/Onc
Title: Feasibility of a telemedicine lifestyle-based rehabilitation program (HEAL) for gynecologic cancer patients.
2nd James Wert, MD, Internal Medicine
Title: The Mortality of MET Exon 14 Low and High Expression in Non-Small C.
3rd Joseph Reza, MD, General Surgery
Title: Incremental cost effectiveness of ECMO as a bridge to cardiac transplant or left ventricular assist device placement in patients with refractory cardiogenic shock.
Quality Improvement
1st Na Zhou, MD, Internal Medicine
Title: Cause Analysis of Loss to Follow Up in an Internal Medicine Resident Continuity Clinic.
2nd Alberto Monreal, MD, General Surgery
Title: General Surgery Training during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The AdventHealth Orlando General Surgery Residency Experience.
3rd Kathy Carson, MD, General Surgery
Title: Efficacy of a Mindfulness-based Program on Surgeon Quality of Life.
Case Studies
1st Melissa Zegarra Bustamante, MD, Pediatrics
Title: Cat scratch disease presenting as Parinaud’s oculoglandular syndrome in a pediatric patient.
2nd Eugene Bivins, Jr., MD, Radiology
Title: Delayed Radial Pseudoaneurysm Diagnosis and Management.
3rd Ashley Mila, MD, General Surgery
Title: Pediatric Pseudoappendicitis in cases of Coronavirus MIS-C, A Case Series.
Title: Over utilization of adjuvant chemotherapy in early onset Rectal Cancer patients: A National Profile
2nd Madhavi Manyam, DO, Gyn/Onc
Title: Intravenous Uterine Leiomyomatosis with Right Atrial Obstruction and Congestive Heart Failure: A Multidisciplinary Surgical Approach
3rd Matthew Goldstein, DO, Pediatrics
Title: Utilizing a standardized pain and agitation protocol for intubated patients in the pediatric ICU
Central Florida Association of Physicians From The Indian Subcontinent (CAPI) Awards
Excellence in Research - Resident: Cody J. Togher, DPM, Foot and Ankle Surgery
Excellence in Research - Faculty: Raj Mehta, MD, Family Medicine Winter Park
Medical Library
The AdventHealth Orlando Medical Library is a staffed, full-service library available to residents and clinicians alike. Through the library, you can access hundreds of online core clinical textbooks and journals from the top publishers. The library staff is here to help you with article delivery, literature searches, database instruction, and all of your information needs.
Additional Resources
These websites provide additional resources for our residents and faculty.
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