2022 Highlights in Education

Successful Fellowship Match for Residents in the Southwest Internal Medicine Residency Program

Four of the inaugural class of residents from our Evansville program matched into high-tier fellowships–including one coming to Indianapolis.

Elizabeth Cho, MD
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Kidney Disease & Hypertension

Anthony El-Khoury, MD
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School-Baystate
Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine

Ana Salabasheva, MD
Geisinger’s Medicine Institute
Pulmonary Critical Care

Christopher Shrack, DO
Indiana University School of Medicine
Nephrology Fellowship Training Program

Faculty Educators Recognized By Students

W. Graham Carlos, MD, of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Occupational Medicine, received the Golden Apple award from the Class of 2022.

Zeb Saeed, MD, of the Division of Endocrinology, received the Outstanding Teaching Award in Internal Medicine from the Class of 2022.

Successful PRIME Grants

Four faculty projects were awarded PRIME (Primary Care Reaffirmation for Indiana Medical Education Program) grants. •

• “Widening the Bottle Neck: Exploring the Breast Screening Program as an Effective Bridge to Lung Cancer Screening and Smoking Cessation”
  Nasser Hanna, MD, and Ali Ajrouch, MD
• “Cardiovascular Equity to Address Segregation study (CEASe) 1.0”
  Khadijah Breathett, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA
• “Reducing Bias and Disparities in the Care of Patients with Obesity”
  Christen Dilly, MD, ME, and Ashley Gilmore, MD
• “Addressing Disparities in Lung Cancer: An educational curriculum for trainees, PCPs, and community stakeholders”
  Francesca Duncan, MD, MS, and Edwin Jackson, DO, MBA

New Alpha Omega Alpha Members

A significant number of Department of Medicine faculty and residents were inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) honor society this year.

Faculty inductees were Jennifer Hur, MD, who is the director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program in Indianapolis; Areeba Kara, MD, who is Associate Division Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics; and LeeAnn Cox, MD, who is Director of the Internal Medicine Clerkship.

Additionally, Internal Medicine residents Viviannne Alsop, MD; Matthew Coghlan, MD; Matthew Hodge, DO; Ahmed Khalid, MBBS; and Lauren Pavlik, MD, were inducted. Among residents from the Internal Medicine/Pediatrics program, Connor Parker, MD; Juhi Ramchandani, MD; Ishani Shah, MD; and Stephen Watty, MD, were also inducted.

Dr. Dilly Named Assistant Dean of Graduate Medical Education

Christen Dilly, MD, an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, was promoted to the role of Assistant Dean of GME.