MIM & MIM-I ACADEMIC MENTORING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 2014-2015 mim.wustl.edu

Mentors in Medicine Provides Internal Medicine residents at Washington University with a comprehensive and structured career development program and mentoring relationships in all phases of their training. All interns are paired with faculty and upper level residents based on common interests. This allows the participants to closely interact with faculty to facilitate long-term career development. Upper level residents assist interns with integration and adaptation to the rigors of residency in the initial months of training. For those interested in a research project, faculty mentors provide research mentorship.

Mentors in Medicine International This program allows residents interested in global health research to conduct a research project in another country. Research projects are coordinated by the residents with assistance from Washington University faculty and international mentors.

Career Mentors Career mentors serve as advocate and advisor for the mentee. They offer support and help establish goals and develop a plan to help the resident succeed in their chosen career path. 

Mentors and mentees are encouraged to set three to four appointments during the course of the academic year to discuss goals and career plans and to develop a long-term relationship.

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The career mentor is expected to help expand the professional network for the mentee, suggest and provide resources, and foster the understanding of the academic, political and social environment at Washington University.

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The mentee should be willing to seek advice when needed and have realistic expectations of the mentor’s time.

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The rewards of mentorship are mutually beneficial: Mentors have the opportunity to share and observe their mentee’s growth in all dimensions and to feel the pride and satisfaction that comes as their career flourishes. The mentees will benefit through the personal and individualized interactions with their career mentor.

Resident Mentors Informal mentorship of interns by upper-level residents is an integral part of the program. The primary role of resident mentors is to help the intern make a successful transition into residency training. Resident mentors will offer both professional and social support to the new interns particularly through the first year of their training. Long-term professional relationships frequently develop.

Research Mentorship The program supports and encourages the pursuit of academic careers in the areas of basic, translational, clinical research, medical education, quality improvement, health policy and others. The program accomplishes these goals by: 

Providing research support through a competitive grant application program that fosters the development of critical thinking, grant writing skills and a mentored research experience.

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Providing exposure to successful faculty mentors and academic role models at Washington University and elsewhere.

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Encouraging mutually-beneficial research collaborations within and beyond the university community.

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Mentees will have opportunities for formal research presentations.

Steps to Submitting a Successful Application: 

Identify an appropriate research mentor.

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Identify an important research question and formulate an appropriate hypothesis.

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Provide specific background information and significance of the question to be addressed.

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Outline the project design, intervention (if any) and outcome measures.

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Describe the approach that will be taken to analyze the data.

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Provide a reasonable budget request.

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E-mail completed application to Mateusz Czernikiewicz at [email protected].

Important Dates July 30, 2014

Mentors in Medicine Reception

November 24, 2015

Project applications due

January 12, 2015

Scholars chosen

February 17, 2015

Annual progress reports due

June 3, 2015

Internal Medicine Scholars Symposium

June 8, 2015

Project applications due

July 31, 2015

Scholars chosen

2014-2015 Career M Intern Fizza Abbas , MD Ramzi Abboud , MD Neal Akhave , MD Amit Bery , MD Michael Biersmith , MD Jaimie Bolda , MD Steven Borson , MD Joseph Brancheck , MD Juan Calix , MD, PhD Jason Chan , MD, PhD Jacqueline Chen , MD Philip Chu , MD Tanya Devnani , MD Colin Diffie , MD Carol Faulk , MD Phillip Fejleh , MD Bamvi Fohtung , MD Jeffrey Friesen , MD Maté Gergely , MD Patrick Grierson , MD, PhD Alex Huh , MD Christopher Jones , MD Milan Kahanda , MD Asrar Khan , MD Theodore Kim , MD Jeffrey Koenitzer , MD, PhD

Career Mentor Tingting Li, MD Rizwan Romee, MD Morey A. Blinder, MD Mauricio Lisker-Melman, MD Brian R. Lindman, MD Brian F. Gage, MD, MSc Lukas Wartman, MD Gregory Sayuk, MD, MPH Jeffrey P. Henderson, MD, PhD Stephen Oh, MD, PhD Vladimir Kushnir, MD Timothy Yau, MD Roger D. Yusen, MD, MPH Alfred Kim, MD, PhD Tanya Wildes, MD Andrea Wang-Gillam, MD, PhD Majesh Makan, MD Ramsey R. Hachem, MD Thomas A. Kerr, MD, PhD Daniel C. Link, MD Jeffrey S. Crippin, MD Kevin M. Korenblat, MD Edward M. Geltman, MD Alan Zajarias, MD Anne C. Goldberg, MD Philip M. Barger, MD

Mentors For Interns Intern Benjamin Kopecky, MD, PhD Elena Kopeikin , MD Chien-Jung Lin , MD, PhD Jessica Ma , MD Justin Maxfield , MD Catherine McCarthy , MD, PhD Jonathan Mizrahi , MD Michael Paley , MD, PhD Dilan Patel , MD Jay Patel , MD David Pham , MD Niall Prendergast , MD Farhan Quader , MD Samuel Reinhardt , MD Benjamin Rogers , MD Lela Ruck , MD Joshua Saef , MD Maanasi Samant , MD Hirak Shah , MD Yeshika Sharma , MD Michael Tang , MD Connor Woodland , MD Derek Yee , MD Peter Yen , MD Danicela Younce , MD Kevin Yuan , MD

Career Mentor Abhinav Diwan, MD John P. Atkinson, MD Alan C. Braverman, MD Hilary Reno, MD, PhD Linda R. Peterson, MD Amy M. Joseph, MD Ramaswamy Govindan, MD Michael J. Holtzman, MD Nicholas O. Davidson, MD, DSc Martin Kerrigan, MD Derek Byers, MD, PhD Marin H. Kollef, MD C. Prakash Gyawali, MD, MRCP Steven J Lawrence, MD, MSc Walton Sumner, II, MD Angela Hirbe, MD, PhD Ari Cedars, MD Richard G. Bach, MD Joel Schilling, MD, PhD Alexandra Gutierrez, MD, MPH Steven Cheng, MD Shane LaRue, MD Angela L. Brown, MD Katherine Henderson, MD Mario Castro, MD, MPH Kaharu Sumino, MD, PhD, MPH

2014-2015 Resident M Intern Fizza Abbas , MD Ramzi Abboud , MD Neal Akhave , MD Amit Bery , MD Michael Biersmith , MD Jaimie Bolda , MD Steven Borson , MD Joseph Brancheck , MD Juan Calix , MD, PhD Jason Chan , MD, PhD Jacqueline Chen , MD Philip Chu , MD Tanya Devnani , MD Colin Diffie , MD Carol Faulk , MD Phillip Fejleh , MD Bamvi Fohtung , MD Jeffrey Friesen , MD Maté Gergely , MD Patrick Grierson , MD, PhD Alex Huh , MD Christopher Jones , MD Milan Kahanda , MD Asrar Khan , MD Theodore Kim , MD Jeffrey Koenitzer , MD, PhD

Resident Mentor Kiran Mahmood, MD Anthony Andriotis, MD Adam Fleddermann, MD Eric Nolley, MD Li Zhou, MD Stephanie Canham, MD Ian Ross, MD Craig Boddy, MD Brett Jagger, MD, PhD Albert Ding, MD Alex Dretler, MD John Joerns, MD Soo Park, MD Michael Daniel, MD Jennifer Davis, MD, MPH Jared Rosenfeld, MD Timothy Laux, MD Rajeev Ramgopal, MD Andrew Michelson, MD Aaron Ver Heul, MD, PhD Eric Huselton, MD Scott McHenry, MD Christine Lee, MD, MPH Daniel Rothschild, MD Indra Bole, MD Seth Bloom ,MD, PhD

Mentors For Interns Intern Benjamin Kopecky, MD, PhD Elena Kopeikin , MD Chien-Jung Lin , MD, PhD Jessica Ma , MD Justin Maxfield , MD Catherine McCarthy , MD, PhD Jonathan Mizrahi , MD Michael Paley , MD, PhD Dilan Patel , MD Jay Patel , MD David Pham , MD Niall Prendergast , MD Farhan Quader , MD Samuel Reinhardt , MD Benjamin Rogers , MD Lela Ruck , MD Joshua Saef , MD Maanasi Samant , MD Hirak Shah , MD Yeshika Sharma , MD Michael Tang , MD Connor Woodland , MD Derek Yee , MD Peter Yen , MD Danicela Younce , MD Kevin Yuan , MD

Resident Mentor Brian Pierce, MD Kristen Singer , MD Nathan Moore, MD Amber Zimmer, MD Ashish Rastogi, MD Lisa Zickuhr, MD Vaiibhav Patel, MD Jon Chatzkel, MD Brian Greenwell, MD, DSc Jake Goldstein, MD Patricia Litkowski, MD Charles Ginsberg, MD Dmitry Breytman, MD Gregory Ratti, MD, MSc Justin Sheehy, MD Jennifer Zelnik, MD Scott Goldsmith, MD Ami Patel, MD Yevgeniy Khariton, MD Amrita Padda, MD Mike Weaver, MD Michael Hesseler, MD Chris Rigell, MD Mark Gdowski, MD Anu Godishala, MD Brian Lumpkin, MD

Funded Projects 2013-2014 Resident Jason Burnham, MD

Research Mentor Michael Lane, MD , MSc Marin Kollef, MD

Project Title Comparison of Enterobacteriaceae sepsis and septic shock: attributable mortality in patients receiving initial appropriate antimicrobial therapy

Amy Cacace, MD

Warren Isakow, MD

Critical Care Ultrasound in a Resource Limited Public Guatemalan Hospital: A Needs Assessment of Interest, Feasability, and Barriers to Creating a Training Program for Internal Medicine Residents

Jonathan Chatzkel, MD C. Prakash Gyawali, MD

The Role of an Iron Absorption Test and Modified Gastric pH Monitoring in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Iron Deficiency Anemia

Alexandra Dretler, MD Hilary Reno, MD , PhD Stephen Liang, MD

STI presentation, treatment, and follow up in a large urban academic center emergency department

Brian Greenwell, MD

Mark Schroeder, MD

A retrospective study of outcomes following donor leukocyte infusion after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant

Michael Hesseler, MD

Michael Rich, MD

The Impact of Comorbid Depression on Long-term Survival in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure

Timothy Laux, MD

Marcos Rothstein, MD

A Cross Sectional Analysis of Patients Enrolled in Three Hemodialysis Units in Southern Guatemala through Guatemalan Social Security

Kiran Mahmood, MD

Linda Peterson, MD Andrew Coggan, MD, PhD

Effects of dietary nitrate (NO3-) on skeletal muscle function in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF)

Funded Projects 2013-2014 Resident Bill McCoy, MD, PhD

Research Mentor Jeffrey Henderson, MD, PhD Hilary Babcock, MD, MPH

Project Title Commensal Escherichia coli metabolome diversity in subjects without UTI

Eric Nolley, MD

Marin Kollef, MD

Can we WHAC VAC? A multifaceted educational intervention to decrease rates of ventilator associated complications

Soo Park, MD

Linda Peterson, MD Andrew Coggan, MD, PhD

The Effects of Dietary Nitrate Supplementation on Ventricular Contractile Function in Heart Failure

Rohan Patel, MD

Douglas Mann, MD

Evaluation of Damage Associated Molecular Patterns (DAMPs) as Predictive Biomarkers in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure

Shan Reddy, MD

C. Prakash Gyawali, MD

Symptomatic characterization of esophageal hypomotility disorders

Khoan Vu, MD

John Dipersio, MD, PhD Michael Rettig, PhD

A Phase I/II Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of POL6326 for the Mobilization and Transplantation of HLA-Matched Sibling Donor Hematopoietic Stem Cells in Patients with Advanced Hematological Malignancies

David Zhang, MD

Shane LaRue, MD

Impact of Traditional Heart Failure Pharmacotherapy on Cardiac Remodeling in a Population of Continuous Flow Ventricular Assist Device Recipients

Lisa Zickhur, MD

Alan Zajarias, MD David Murray, MD

The effect of simulation education in teaching internal medicine interns Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support at a public teaching hospital in Guatemala City, Guatemala

MiM Board of Directors Melvin Blanchard, MD, Chief, Division of Medical Education Victor G. Dávila-Román, MD, MiM Director Morey Blinder, MD William “Griff” Bowen, MD Angela Brown, MD Mario Castro, MD Robert Kleiger, MD Phillip Korenblat, MD Mauricio Lisker-Mehlman, MD Christopher Mallow, MD, MiM Chief Resident Marcos Rothstein, MD Sharon Morgan, Director, Corporate Education, Medical Education Basia Najarro, MBA, Business Director, Medical Education

MiM Application Review Committee Hilary Babcock, MD, MPH Brian Gage, MD, MSc Tom Bailey, MD Edward Geltman, MD Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi, MD Anne Goldberg, MD Morey Blinder, MD Warren Isakow, MD Richard Brasington, MD Susan Joseph, MD Lewis Chase, MD Marin Kollef, MD William Clutter, MD Marc Levin, MD, MS Philip Cuculich, MD Dan Link, MD Lisa de las Fuentes, MD Hector Molina-Vicenty, MD Clay Dunagan, MD Aubrey Morrison, MD Gerome Escota, MD Rodney Newberry, MD Bradley Evanoff, MD, MPH Rupa Patel, MD, MPH

Linda Peterson, MD William Powderly, MD Rachel Presti, MD, PhD Michael Rich, MD Tonya Russell, MD Greg Sayuk, MD Bradley Stoner, MD, PhD Brian Van Tine, MD Matt Walter, MD Keith Woeltje, MD, PhD Roger Yusen, MD, MPH

MiM Application Review Committee Joaquin Barnoya, MD, MPH Eduardo Gharzouzi, MD Warren Isakow, MD Carlos Mejia, MD

Rupa Patel, MD, MPH Len Peruski, PhD Marcos Rothstein, MD David Windus, MD