Academic Scholarly Activity

• Journal Articles
• Abstracts
• Chapters/Books
• Presentations
• Grants
• Other Activities

Journal Articles

Ajay Agarwal

• Marmur JD, Poludasu S, Agarwal A Manjappa N, Cavusoglu E. High-Dose Tirofiban Administered as Bolus-Only During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Invasive Cardiology
• Derrickson A, Baber J, Agarwal A. A case of acute stress-induced ventricular tachycardia. Psychosomatic Medicine (accepted for publication)

Syed Ali

• Gul W, Arif Q, Barde C, Ali SA. Acute gastric dilation in a patient with spinal injury and multiple myeloma. Gastroenterology & Hepatology Journal. Accepted for publication.
• Krishnamurthy P, Varghese S, Hillman N, Gopalswamy N, Ali SA. Small bowel adenocarcinoma: a case report and review of literature on diagnosis of small bowel tumors. Gastroenterology & Hepatology volume 3, issue 2: 129-136. February 2007.

Michael Baumann

• Chennuru S, Baumann MA. Deep Vein thrombosis occurring upon erythropoietin treatment of patients receiving thalidomide. Int Med J 2007; 37:506-507.
• Chennuru S, Koduri J, Baumann MA. Risk factors for the development of symptomatic hypocalcemia complicating treatment with zoledronic acid. Int Med J (in press).

Michael Bonnet

• Bonnet MH, Doghramji K, Roehrs T, Stepanski E, Sheldon S, Walters AS, Wise MS, Chesson Al. The scoring of arousal in sleep: Reliability, validity, and alternatives. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 2007, 3, 133-145.
• Silber MH, Ancoli-Israel S, Bonnet MH, Chokroverty S, Grigg-Damberger MM, Hirshkowitz M, Kapen S, Keenan SA, Kryger MH, Penzel T, Pressman MR, Iber C. The visual scoring of sleep in adults. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 2007, 3, 121-132.
• Bonnet MH & Arand DL. EEG arousal norms by age. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 2007, 3k 271-274.
• Bonnet MH & Arand DL. Cardiovascular implications of poor sleep. Sleep Medicine Clinics, 2007, 2, 529-38.

Steve Burdette

• Downey D, OBryan M, Burette SD, Johnson R, Saxe J (2006). Ecthyema Gangrenosum in a Patient with Stevens-Johnson syndrome. The Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation, 28 (1):198-202.
• Baber J and Burdette SD (2007). Letter to the Editor. Infective Endocarditis Presenting as a Splenic Laceration. Southern Medical Journal, 100 (1): 83.
• Does the Nose Know? The odiferous diagnosis of C diff. Clinical Infections Diseases. Letter to the Editor. April, 2007.
• Burdette SD (2007). Electronic Tools for Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology. In Press: Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology.
• Approach to Positive Blood cultures. Written with Emilio Perez. Empiric.
• Association between acute pancreatitis and Strongyloides stercaralis. In Press: Southern Medical Journal. Perez and Burdette.
• Deep Infection with Mycoplasma Arginini in an Open Femur Fracture Secondary to an African Lion Bite: A Case Report. Prayson MJ, Venkatarayappa I, Srivastava M, Northern I, Burdette SD. In Press.

Gerald Crites

• Crites GE, Ebert JE, Schuster RJ: Beyond the Dual Degree: Development of a Five Year Program in Leadership for Medical Undergraduates, Academic Medicine 2008; 83(1): 52-8.

John Czachor

• See JRH, Czachor JS, Brown GR. Lactobacillus endocarditis: Case report and literature review. Inf Dis Clin Prac 2006;14(3):134-6.

Ronald Markert

• Lakkireddy D, Basarakodu K, Vacek J, Kondur A, Ramachandruni S, Esterbrooks D, Markert RJ, and Gowda M. Improving death certificate completion: a trial of two interventions. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 22: 544-548, 2007.
• Kahn M, Markert RJ, Johnson J, Owens D, and Krane NK. Psychiatric issues and answers following Hurricane Katrina. Academic Psychiatry, 31: 2000-204, 2007.
• Krane NK, Kahn M, Markert RJ, Whelton P, Traber P, and Taylor I. Surviving Hurricane Katrina: Reconstructing the educational enterprise of Tulane University School of Medicine. Academic Medicine, 82: 757-762, 2007.
• Landry M, Markert RJ, Kahn M, Lazarus C, and Krane NK. A new approach to bridging content gaps in the clinical curriculum. Medical Teacher, 29: e47-e50, 2007.
• Konstantokos E, Laughlin R, Markert RJ, Crosby. Follow-up on misrepresentation of research activity by orthopaedic residency applicants: has anything changes: Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American Edition), 89: 2084-2088, 2007.
• Raslich M, Markert RJ, Stutes S. Selecting and interpreting diagnostic tests. Biochemia Medica, 17: 151-161, 2007.

Gary Onady

• Raslich MA, Onady GM. (2007) Evidence-Based Medicine – Clinical Appraisal of the Literature (Appraisal Tools). Pediatrics Review. 28:132-138.
• Onady GM, Stolfi A (Original Publication 2005) Insulin and oral gents for managing cystic fibrosis-related diabetes. The Cochrane Database of System Reviews, 2005, Issue 4, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (Revised: Issue 5, 2007).
• Onady GM. (2007) Letter: In response to Henry SG, Zaner RM, Dittus RS. Viewpoint: Moving beyond evidence-based medicine. Acad Med. Submitted May 7, 2007.
• Onady GM. (2007) Letter: Developing improvisational proficiency. Reflections to Haidet P. Jazz and the Art of Medicine: Improvisation in the medical encounter. Ann Fam Med 2007; 5:164-169.

Marc Raslich

• Raslich MA, Onady GM. (2007) Evidence-Based Medicine – Clinical Appraisal of the Literature (Appraisal Tools). Pediatrics Review. 28:132-138.
• Raslich MA, Markert RJ, Stutes. Selection and Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests. Biochemia Medica. 2007; 17(2): 151-161.

W. Scott Richardson

• Richardson WS. We should overcome the barriers to evidence-based clinical diagnosis. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2007 Mar; 60 (3): 217-227.

Mohammad Saklayen

• Saklayen MG, Gyebi LK, Tasosa J, Yap J. Effects of Additive Therapy With Spironolactone on Proteinuria in Diabetic Patients Already on ACE Inhibitor or ARB Therapy: Results of a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind, Crossover Trial. J Investig Med. 2008 Apr;56(4):714-9. [Abstract]

Barbara Schuster

• Nettlemen M, Schuster BL. Internal Medicine Department Chairs: Where they come from, Why they leave, Where they go. Amer J Med 120:186-190, 2007.
• Schuster BL. Tough Times for Teaching Faculty. Arch Intern Med 167:1453-1455, 2007.
• Hemmer PA, Costa ST, DeMarco DM, Linus SL, Glazier DC, Schuster BL. Predicting for, and Creating the future: What will happen to Internal Medicine? Amer J Med 120:1091-1096, 2007.

Published Abstracts

Christiana Adesanya

• Adesanya CO, Yousuf K, Co C, et al Is Wider Worse? Increasing QRS duration predicts cardiac mortality in patient with complete and persistent Right Bundle Branch Block. J AM Coll Cardiol 2007; 49 (9) Suppl A :25A.

Michael Bonnet

• Bonnet MH & Arand DL. A within-night correlation of SWS with performance during recovery from sleep loss. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association of Professional Sleep Societies, Minneapolis, June, 2007. Sleep, 2007, 30 Abstract Supplement, A118.
• Bonnet MH & Arand DL. Arousals and sleep in primary insomnia patients compared to normals as a function of age. Paper presented at the 5th World Congress of the WFSRSMS, Cairns, Australia, September, 2007. Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 2007, 5 (Suppl 1), A163.
• Bonnet JP, Arand DL, Bonnet MH. Hourly distribution of EEG arousals in insomnia patients compared with normals. Paper presented at the 5th World Congress of the WFSRSMS, Cairns, Australia, September, 2007. Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 2007, 5 (Suppl 1), A163.

Steven Burdette

• Thakker N and Burdette S. Delirium following Levofloxacin Administration – a case report. DAGMEC Research Forum.
• Increased incidence of fungal infections in burn patients receiving sulfamylon as compared to Silvadene. Great Lakes Regional Burn Meeting.

Elvira Rosca-Jaballas

• McConnell E, Jaballas E, Stolfi A, Clasen M (2007) ICM I Educational Model in Teaching Pediatric Physical Exam in Community Setting – Pediatric Academic Societies.

Thomas Herchline

• Sabbagh W, Herchline T. QuantiFERON-TB Gold results in foreign-born persons applying for permanent residency. Rethinking the Epidemiology of Tuberculosis Infection – The First Global Symposium on Interferon-Gamma Assays, 2007.

Thomas Koroscil

• Thota N and Koroscil TM. An African American male with Vitiligo and Thryotoxic Periodic Paralysis: A Case report. Poster Session. American College of Physicians, Ohio Chapter Meeting, Columbus, OH, October.

Gary Onady

• Lemming C, Langdon LJ, DeGraff M, Huffman B, Onady G, Puckett A, Mueller G, Brown C, Sparks J, Thompson P, Snoft L, Royce F. (2007). Enhanced Pulmonary Care Through Quarterly Clinic Visits, 21st Annual North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Anaheim, California, October, 2007.
• Matthew TJ, Onady GM. (2007). Myocardial Infarction Secondary to Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia Purpura: Is There a Role for Aspirin Therapy? Army/Airforce ACP Associates Competition. San Antonio, TX.

Virginia Wood

• Basharmal AO, Wood VC, Tumefactive (Marburgs Variant) Multiple Sclerosis, Ohio Chapter, American College of Physicians, October, 2007.

Chapters/Books

Steve Burdette

• Perez-Jorge E and Burdette SD Approach to Positive Blood Cultures. In:Empiric. Yu V and Burdette SD editors. Online textbook. 2006. www.antimicrobe.org

John Czachor

• Czachor JS. Genital Ulcer Disease In:Empiric. Yu V and Burdette SD editors. Online textbook. 2006. www.antimicrobe.org

Thomas Herchline

• Staphylococcal Infections. In Zevitz ME, Plantz SH (eds): Emedicine: Medicine, OB/GYN, Psychiatry, and Surgery. St. Petersburg, Emedicine, Inc., 2007
• Tuberculosis. In Zevitz ME, Plantz SH (eds): Emedicine: Medicine, OB/GYN, Psychiatry, and Surgery. St. Petersburg, Emedicine, Inc., 2007.
• Herchline TE. Urethritis. In: Burdette SD, Yu VL (eds): Antimicrobe.org EMPIRIC. Pittsburgh, ESun Technologies, 2007.

Marc Raslich

• Raslich MA. Hypertension. In: The Pediatric Clinical Advisor. Garfunke LC, Christy C, Kaczoroski J (eds.) 2nd edition – St. Louis: Mosby, 2007; 292-294.
• Raslich MA. Sinusitis. In: The Pediatric Clinical Advisor. Garfunkel LC, Christy C, Kaczorski J (eds.). 2nd edition – St Louis: Mosby, 2007; 528-529.

Gary Onady

• Talente G, Onady GM. (2007) Evidence-based Medicine for the Pediatrician. Eds. Perkin Rm, Swift JD, Newton DA. Pediatric Hospital Medicine: Textbook of Inpatient Management. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. PA., 2nd Ed.
• Haidet P, Schneider V, Onady GM. (2007) Team-based Learning Research in Health Professions Education. Ed. Parmelee DX. Stylus Publishing, LLC. (In Press)

Virginia Wood

• Wolfsthal SD, Call S, Wood VC, Schultz HJ, Job Description of the Internal Medicine Residency Program Director, book chapter in the APDIM 9th Edition Toolkit for Internal Medicine Education Programs, 2007.

Selected Presentations

Christian Adesanya

• Clinical Importance of Marked QRS Prolongation in Right Bundle Branch Block. Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, March 2007.

Ajay Agarwal

• Capt Anjeli K. Nayar, Shobhana Gaur, Ajay Agarwal. Idiopathic Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Ventricular Tachycardia in a Young Female. Presented in combined Army and Air Force American College of Physicians Meeting, San Antonio, Texas; November 15 – 18, 2007.
• Polkampally P, Stultz D, Markert R, Agarwal A. Comparing efficacy of bare metal stents versus drug eluting stents in cardiac catheterization in Dayton VAMC population using various criteria. Dr Polkampally (Third year resident) presented our research in MVH resident research paper symposium (2007) and won third prize

Michael Bonnet

• Bonnet MH. Human sleep fragmentation and cognition. Symposium on the Contribution of Sleep Fragmentation to Sleep Functions: Human and Animal Studies presented at the meeting of the Association of Professional Sleep Societies, Minneapolis, June, 2007.
• Bonnet MH. EEG arousal scoring. Course on Advanced Polysomnography 2007: Understanding and Using the New AASM Sleep Scoring Manual presented at the meeting of the Association of Professional Sleep Societies, Minneapolis, June, 2007.
• Bonnet MH. Arousal versus sleepiness. Symposium presented at the meeting of he Association of Professional Sleep Societies, Minneapolis, June, 2007.

Steven Burdette

• Treatment of Staphylococcus bacteremia, Good Samaritan Hospital, Zanesville, OH, January
• Treatment options for MRSA, Dayton
• Treatment options for MRSA, St. Ritas Hospital, Columbus, OH, March
• Infectious Diseases Symposium: Empiric Therapy and Recent Advances. Clostridium difficile colitis. Sacramento, California, March
• Infectious Diseases Symposium: Empiric Therapy and Recent Advances. Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections. Sacramento, California, March
• Treatment options for MRSA, Bellfountaine Community Hospital, May
• Fungal Update 2007. Kettering Medical Center, Grand Rounds, June
• Formulary Update for GMH: Change to a new quinolone, June
• Clostridium difficile: an emerging pathogen. Good Samaritan Hospital, Grand Rounds, July.
• Community Acquired Pneumonia Update, Miami Valley Hospital, Grand Rounds, August.
• Community Acquired Pneumonia Update, Greene Memorial Hospital, Grand Rounds, September.
• Microbiology case presentations. SCACM. Columbus, OH, October.
• Electronic Tools for Infectious Diseases Practitioners, IDSA. San Diego, CA, October.
• MRSA Bacteremia. Dialysis Center of America. Las Vegas, NV, October.
• Treatment options for MRSA, Toledo
• Electronic Tools for Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Canadian Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Halifax, Nova Scotia, March
• IDSA IT Lecture

John Czachor

• Fever in the Returned Traveler, Kettering Medical Center, March
• Fever in the Returned Traveler 26th Annual Infectious Diseases Symposium, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE April 28, 2006
• Fever in the Returned Traveler, Good Samaritan Hospital, June
• Febrile Neutropenia 4th Annual Dayton Hematology-Oncology Symposium October 18, 2006
• GI Souvenirs of the World Traveler 16th Annual Dayton Gastroenterology Symposium November 1, 2006

Elvira Rosca-Jaballas

• Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 5-8, 2007. Obesity III: Clinical Advances, Parents Perceptions of Their Childrens Weight, Eating Habits, and Physical Activities at Home and at School.

Thomas Herchline

• Pandemics: Past and Future. Miami Valley Gerontology Council Annual Meeting, Dayton, OH April
• Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Staphylococcus aureus. Infectious Disease Society of Ohio Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, March
• Tuberculosis: diagnostic challenges and non-tuberculous mycobacteria. Ohio Department of Health World Conference, Columbus, OH, March.

Eric Halsey

• Physiologic Effects of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Agents, Armed Forces Institute of Technology, OH
• Biowarfare Agents, Anthrax and Botulinum Toxin, Centro por Enfermedades Tropicales; Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Thomas Koroscil

• Dyslipidemia, Grand Rounds, WPAFB, June
• Early Insulinization, Grand Rounds, WPAFB, July

Ronald Markert

• Burdette S, Johnson M, Markert RJ, Shapiro M, Beam W, Shapiro W, Downey D. Incidence of fungal infections associated with mafenide sulfate soaks in burn patients. Great Lakes Burns Association. Columbus, OH, Sept 2007. American Burn Association. Chicago, May 2008.
• Humphrey I, Strickland L, Colon R, Markert RJ. Osteoporosis screening in elderly men: a survey of Air Force patients. American College of Physicians Society of Air Force Physicians. San Antonio, November 2007.

Gary Onady

• 2007, June. Educational Scholarship and MeEdPORTAL: Providing Online Resources to Advance Learning in Medicinal Education, Scholarship of Teaching & Research in Medical Education, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
• 2007, July. Jazz Improvisation and Physician-Pt Communication Workshop. Ohio State University Rural Family Medicine Program, West Liberty, OH
• 2007, October. Key Note Address to NMPRA: How Jazz Improvisation Has made me the Best Med-Peds Physician Possible. 11th Annual Meeting.
• 2007, October. Improvisation in Medical Communication Series. Allentown, NJ

Marc Raslich

• Raslich MA, Stutes SA, Noordsij-Jones M. Searching New Articles for Understanding: An Alternative to the Traditional Journal Club. Oral Presentation at SGIM Regional Meeting. Chicago, IL. Fall 2007

W. Scott Richardson

• Richardson WS, McGinn T, Nishikawa J. Teaching Evidence-Based Diagnosis, Plenary given during McMaster Universitys course on How to Teach EBCP, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, June 24-29, 2007.
• Richardson WS, EBHC: What it is, Why we need it, and How to learn it, Plenary presented during University of Colorados course on How to Practice EBHC, Colorado Springs, CO, August 4-10, 2007.
• Richardson WS. Teaching EBM with Our Learners Questions, Plenary presented during Oxford Universitys How to Teach EBM Course, Oxford, UK, September 10-14, 2007.
• Straus SE, Richardson WS. Practicalities of Teaching EBM, Plenary presented during Oxford Universitys How to Teach EBM course, Oxford, UK, September 10-14, 2007.

Jeffrey Schnader

• Comprehensive Overview: Pulmonary Vascular Disease, American College of Chest Physicians, International Meeting, Chest 2007, Chicago, IL
• Pulmonary Vascular Physiology, in Post-Graduate Course, Comprehensive Overview: Pulmonary Vascular Disease, American College of Chest Physicians, International Meeting, Chest 2007, Chicago, IL
• Hemoptysis, Grand Rounds, VAMC, Dayton, OH
• Pulmonary Function Testing. Grand Rounds, VAMC, Dayton, OH
• Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Grand Rounds, VAMC, Dayton, OH

Barbara Schuster

• Presidential Address – APM meeting, March, 2007, Scottsdale, AZ
• University of Kansas, Wichita – Resident Graduation Speech, topic: Leadership, June 2007

Virginia Wood

• Faculty Development workshop on Curriculum Development in Residency Training, Dayton, January 2007

Grants

Michael Baumann

• Licensing of AML 14.3D10 cell line. $10,000, Astra Zeneca

Steven Burdette

• DAGMEC Research Grant: Septic arthritis and PCR: evaluation of clinical utility. Dr. Shefaili Kapadia.

Thomas Herchline

• Susceptibility testing of Neisseria gonorrheae

Elvira Rosca-Jaballas

• Reach Out and Read, Medical Director, UMP Program

Thomas Koroscil

• $24000 research grant from Bayer

Gary Onady

• CF Center Grant, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, $80,370, 2007-2008.
• Altus 767: An Open-Label Clinical Study Evaluating the Long-Term Safety of ALTU-135 for the Treatment of Patients with Cystic Fibrosis-Related Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency, Sub Investigator, $65, 000, 2007-2008.
• Altus 726: A Phase III Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of ALTU-135 Treatment in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis-Related Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency, Sub Investigator, $162,000, 2006-2007.
• Protocol CP-AI-006: A Phase 3, Open-Label, Follow-on Study of Multiple Courses of Aztreonam Lysinate for Inhalation (AI) in Cystic Fibrosis Patients (AIR-CF3), Sub Investigator: $26,263, 2006-2007.

Mohammad Saklayen

• Host study (Homocystenemia in Kidney and End State renal Disease Trial). $35,000 per year
• ONTARGET/TRANSCEND –a follow up of the HOPE study, $10,000 per year

Other Activities

Christiana Adesanya

• Member: VAMC Special Care Committee
• Member: VAMC Quality Council
• Faculty adviser: Resident research project

Ajay Agarwal

• Reviewer: The Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
• Member: VAMC Informatics Committee

Mamle Anim

• Maintains the web based womens health curriculum
• Conducted a survey on attending physician work hours and their knowledge of the ACGME work hour.
• Provide academic guidance for medical students and residents
• Member: Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, Survey Task Force
• Member: Evaluation and Promotion Committee
• Member: Primary Care Internal Medicine Work Group
• Member: APD/CR
• Member: APD
• Member: Curriculum Committee
• Member: WPMC Student Education Committee
• Member: GSH Ambulatory Care Committee
• Member: GSH QI Committee for ambulatory centers
• Member: GSH Medical Staff Quality Committee
• Member: Planning committee for Ob/Gyn NJT Womens Health Conference

Michael Bonnet

• Consultant: Jazz Pharmaceuticals; Sanofi-Aventis
• Associate Editor: Journal of Sleep Research
• Editorial Board: Sleep
• Editorial Board: Behavioral Sleep Medicine
• Chair: VAMC R&D Committee
• Chair: AASM Sleep Scoring Committee Task Force

Michael Bauman

• Chair: Department of Medicine Faculty Development Committee
• Member: Division Chiefs Committee
• Member: Fellowship Directors Committee
• Chair: VAMC Cancer Committee
• Chair: VAMC Tumor Board
• Member: VAMC Colorectal Cancer Collaborative Committee
• Member: Cancer Committee, Dayton Clinical Oncology Program

Ronald Beaulieu

• Chair: VAMC Performance Improvement Committee
• Chair: VAMC Clinical Informatics Committee
• Chair: VAMC Medication Usage Subcommittee
• Member: National VA Performance Measure Workgroup

Steven Burdette

• Editor: Empiric
• Editor: Antimicrobe.org
• Master of Ceremonies for Resident Medical Challenge
• Reviewer: Infectious Diseases and Clinical Practice
• Reviewer: Clinical Infectious Diseases
• Advisor: Internal Medicine Club
• Member: SOM Faculty Affairs Committee
• Member: SOM Student Promotion Committee
• Member: SOM Nominating Committee
• Member: WSP EMR Committee
• Member: GMH P&T Committee
• Advisor: for several residents research projects
• Advisor: Cedarville premed students
• Head: GMH Infection Control
• Member: GMH Medical Executive Committee
• Member: MVH Effectiveness Committee
• Member: MVH Disaster Committee
• Member: MVH Library Committee
• Member: MVH Transplant Committee
• Consultant: MVH Microbiology Lab
• Consultant: Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners ID consultant
• Consultant: Eprocrates
• Consultant: Cubicin, Pfizer
• Consultant: Miami Valley Transplant Team
• Member: ODH Directors Advisory Committee on Emerging Infections

Gerald Crites

• Volunteer: Reach Out of Montgomery County
• Consultant: Boonshoft Physician Leadership Development Program
• Reviewer: DEFT Project
• Chair: WSU-BSOM Assessment and Evaluation Subcommittee
• Appointed member: Faculty Curriculum Committee
• Member: LCME Self-Study Group on the Educational Program
• Director: WSP Board of Directors
• Member: EBM Task Force, Society of General Internal Medicine
• Reviewer: Journal of General Internal Medicine
• Reviewer: BioMedCentral Medical Education
• Recipient: A. Robert Davies, M.D. Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence

John Czachor

• Advisor: Year III/IV Medical Students
• Mentor: Boonshoft Physician Leadership Development Program
• Director: Infectious Diseases Journal Club
• Board Member, WSU-BSOM Global Health Initiative
• Chair: WSP Compliance Committee
• Member: WSP Executive Committee
• Member: WSP Board of Directors
• Member: WSP Risk Management Committee
• Member: MVH Infection Control Committee
• Member: WSU-BSOM Faculty Development Committee
• Member: WSU-BSOM Internal Medicine Resident Selection Committee
• Reviewer: Clinical Infectious Diseases
• Reviewer: Annals of Pharmacotherapy
• Reviewer: Heart and Lung
• Reviewer: Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice
• Reviewer: Doody Publishing Company
• Member: WSU-BSOM Year 1 Course Content Group POD: Infectious Diseases:
• Consultant: Community Blood Center, Tissue Bank

H. Bradford Hawley

• Member: American College of Physicians (Ohio Chapter) Awards Committee
• Reviewer: Heart & Lung
• Reviewer: American Journal of Critical Care
• Annals of Internal Medicine
• American Journal of Infection Control
• Clinical Infectious Diseases
• Editorial Consultant: American College of Physicians PIER, Osteomyelitis module

Thomas Herchline

• Course Director: Health Care in Developing Countries
• Advisor: MPH student culminating project
• Advisor: MPH student practice placement
• Reviewer: Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice
• Reviewer: Clinical Infectious Diseases
• Member : MVH Library Committee
• Member: MVCTC Allied Health Tech Prep Advisory Committee
• Member: WSU Institutional Review Committee
• Chair: MVH Institutional Review Committee
• Member: Resident Applicant Review Committee
• Civil Surgeon: US Citizen and Immigration Services
• Advisor: 2-3 medical students per year
• Editor: WSU Infectious Diseases Newsletter

Eric Halsey

• Member: WPMC Internal Medicine Resident Education and Clinical Competency Committee
• Member: WPMC Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
• Chair: WPMC Internal Medicine Resident Research
• Section Editor: Head and Neck Infections in In A Page: Infectious Disease, 1st edition

Elvira Rosca-Jaballas

• Member: UMP Process Improvement Committee
• Member: SOM IM/Peds Education Committee
• Member: National Reach Out and Read campaign
• Director: Med/Peds Journal Club

Thomas Koroscil

• Vice-chair: IRB, Wright State University
• Member: SOM Admissions Committee
• Chair: Human Investigation and Research Committee, Good Samaritan Hospital
• Volunteer: Reach-Out in Dayton

Geetika Kumar

• Physician liaison: VAMC Cancer Committee

Ronald Markert

• Chair: DAGMEC Resident Research Grant Project
• Member: Internal Medicine Clerkship Steering Committee
• Member: Internal Medicine Faculty Development Committee
• Chair: Internal Medicine Scholarship Advisory Group for Residents
• Member: BSOM Research Committee
• Reviewer: Teaching and Learning in Medicine
• Reviewer: Academic Medicine
• Consultant: Internal Medicine = 47 faculty and residents on 51 different projects
• Consultant: Orthopaedic Surgery = 29 faculty and residents on 30 different projects
• Consultant: Surgery = 10 faculty and residents on 12 different projects
• Consultant: 8 projects for various other departments.
• Education consultant: Evidence Based Clinical Decision Making Course
• Education consultant: Internal Medicine Year 4 electives
• Academic advisor: IM resident, IM/Peds residents, clerkship students

Michael Markus

• Advisor: Medical Students
• Physician Advisor: GSH Quality & Resources Management Committee
• Chair: GSH CME Committee
• Member: GSH Resident and Student Education Committee
• Member: GSH Library Committee
• Chair: BSOM Y2 Resp Course Steering Committee
• Member: BSOM Y2 CV Course Steering Committee
• Member: BSOM ICM Course Steering Committee
• Chair: BSOM Student Promotion and Evaluation Committee
• Chair: DOM Residency Curriculum Committee
• Chair: BSOM Biennium 1 subcommittee
• Member: BSOM Faculty Curriculum Committee
• Member: WSU Building and Grounds Committee

Gary Onady

• Director: Team-Based Learning MBM/CATOS
• Consultant: Doctor Evidence, Evidence-bases Quality Assessment Tool of Evaluating the Literature
• Consultant: Optum-United HealthCare Guidelines Review Committee
• Reviewer: Diabetes Care
• Advisor: Medical Students
• Member: BSOM Faculty Curriculum Committee
• Member: WSU Instructional Technology Committee
• Member: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation LLCV Quality Improvement Committee

Marc Raslich

• Judge: DAGMEC resident poster session
• Section Editor: AAP Grand Rounds, Med-Peds Section
• Member: WSU Information Technology Committee
• Member: BSOM CME Committee
• Member: MVH Directors of Education
• Member: DAGMEC
• Member: WSP Marketing Committee
• Member: GIM Division meeting, teachers report
• Member: West Central Ohio Sickle Cell Advisory Council
• Member: DOM Associate Program Directors/Chief Residents Committee
• Member: DOM Associate Program Directors Committee
• Member: DOM Evaluation and Promotion Committee
• Member: UMP Practice meeting and Oversight Committee
• Chair: Med-Peds Faculty Committee
• Chair: Med-Peds Program Committee
• Chair: Med-Peds Business meeting
• Chair: Med-Peds Program Directors Committee
• Member: Med-Peds Interest Group
• Volunteer: Reach-Out

W. Scott Richardson

• Associate Editor: ACP Journal Club
• Deputy Editor: Journal of General Internal Medicine
• Reviewer: Journal of General Internal Medicine
• Reviewer: Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
• Member: Biennium I Curriculum Committee
• Member: Biennium II Curriculum Committee
• Chair: Steering Committee of Internal Medicine Clerkship
• Past Chair: Society of General Internal Medicine Task Force on EBM
• Member: Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
• Leader: Diagnostic Evidence Finding Team (DEFT)

Mohammad Saklayen

• Reviewer: AJKD and Kidney International and McMaster University Online Rating of Evidence (MORE)
• Volunteer: Reach out Montgomery Clinic
• Advisor: Mentoring several residents
• Chair: Dialysis Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of VISN 10 for VAMC
• Member: VA Program Planning Committee for ESRD network 9 (OH,IN,KY,IL)
• Member: VAMC DUI Committee
• Member: Dept of Medicine Faculty Development Committee

Jeffrey Schnader

• Organizer: Dayton City Lung Club and city-wide Case Conference
• Frequent special guest: WMUB Sound Health series
• Reviewer: Chest
• Vice Chair: Clinical Pulmonary NetWork, American College of Chest Physicians
• Chair: VA Pulmonary Workgroup, VISN 10
• Chair: Home Oxygen Service for VAMC
• Past-President: Ohio Thoracic Society
• Review: American College of Chest Physicians
• Past-Chair: Pulmonary Vascular Network, American College of Chest Physicians
• Past-Trustee: Board of Trustees, Chest Foundation, American College of Chest Physicians
• Member: Steering Committee, Clinical Pulmonary Medicine Network, American College of Chest Physicians
• Vice-Chair: Clinical Pulmonary Medicine Network, American College of Chest Physicians
• Reviewer: COPD Guidelines, VHA-Department of Defense from Dr. Gellman
• Tuberculosis Officer: VAMC, Dayton

Barbara Schuster

• Member: Planning committee for the Kettering Medical Center Cardiology Symposium
• Consultantship: University of Kansas, Kansas City, Consultant to Division of General Internal Medicine.
• Editorial Board: Internal Medicine News
• Editorial Board: Resident and Staff Physician
• Associate Editor: American Journal of Medicine
• Member: BMJ Advisory Group
• Member: WSP Finance Committee
• Member: WSP Board of Trustees
• Member: BSOM Executive Committee
• Member: BSOM VA Deans Committee
• Member: BSOM Faculty Curriculum Committee
• Chair: Subcommittee on Assessment and Evaluation
• Member: DAGMEC Graduate Medical Education Committee
• Member: all residency committees
• Chair: Fellowship Program Directors
• Member: Associate Clerkship Directors
• Member: Faculty Development Committee
• Chair: Division Chiefs
• Member: Community Blood Center Medical Advisory Committee
• Member: Partnership Committee – Jewish Federation
• Member: Ohio ACP Governors Advisory Committee
• President: APM
• Past-President: APM
• Representative: CAS
• Member: APM Program Planning Committee
• Chair: APM Nominating Committee
• Co-Chair: AAIM Board of Directors
• Member: AAIM Future of Internal Medicine Task Force
• Member: ACGME Appeals Panel for Internal Medicine
• Member: ACP Foundation Health Communications Initiative Conference Planning Sub-committee
• Chair: ACP Foundation Programs Committee
• Advisor: WSU medical students
• Career advisor: medical students and residents

John Shrader

• Member: KMC Graduate Medical Education Committee
• Member: KMC Clinical Competency Committee, Internal Medicine/Transitional Year Residencies
• Member: KMC Graduate Medical Education Research Committee
• Member: KMC Medical Library Advisory Committee
• Member: KMC Continuing Medical Education Advisory Committee
• Chair: Transitional Year Institutional Coordinating Committee
• Member: DAGMEC Residency Operations Council/Graduate Medical Education Committee
• Member: Ohio Chapter of American College of Physicians Program Directors Committee
• Judge: 8th Annual DAGMEC Resident Research Forum
• Volunteer: Good Neighbor House, Primary Care Physician

Grant Starrett

• Member: GSH Disaster Committee

Virginia Wood

• Judge: DAGMEC Resident Research Forum, poster abstracts
• Advisor: WSU medical students
• Member: Search Committee, Dept of Medicine Chair position
• Member: Geriatrics Advisory Committee
• Member: GMEC Council
• Member: DAGMEC Graduate Medical Education Committee
• Chair: WSU MVH/VAMC Internal Medicine Residency Evaluation and Promotion Committee
• Member: WSU Med/Peds Residency Evaluation and Promotion Committee
• Member: WSU Med/Peds Faculty Committee
• Member: WSU Internal Medicine Residency Curriculum Committee
• Chair: WSUIM Associate Program Director/Chief Resident Committee
• Member: WSUIM Fellowship Directors meetings
• Member: WSUIM Division Chiefs meetings
• Member: GSH Resident and Student Education Committee
• Member: GSH Internal Medicine Faculty/Education Committee
• Member: MVH Directors of Education
• Member: MVH Bylaws Committee
• Member: MVH ad hoc Brain Death Criteria Committee
• Member: MVH ad hoc meetings regarding admissions process
• Member: MVH ad hoc Medical Surgical Health Center
• Member: WPMC Internal Medicine Education Committee
• Judge: Associates abstract competition, Ohio ACP meeting, 10-07
• Reviewer: Associates abstract competition, National ACP
• Recruiter: resident participants for Reach Out community clinics

Research

Christian Adesanya

• Study on the clinical importance of marked QRS prolongation in Right Bundle Branch Block

Ajay Agarwal

• Comparing Efficacy of Bare Metal Stents versus Drug Eluting Stents Used in Cardiac Catheterization in Dayton VAMC Population Using Various Criteria.

Syed Ali

• Modafinil for fatigue antiviral treatment of chronic hepatitis C
• A randomized controlled trial to detect the efficacy of Botulinum toxin injection in patients with symptomatic diffuse esophageal spasm.

Steven Burdette

• Septic arthritis and PCR-with Dr. Kapadia
• Sulfamylon and Fungal Infections in the Burn Unit-with Dr. Sabbagh
• Nebulized Tobramycin and systemic absorption
• Daptomycin and Clostridium difficile diarrhea
• Predicting complicated bacteremia by identifying bactiuria

Eric Halsey

• Site Principal Investigator, Department of Defense Contingency Protocol for Emergency Use of Cidofovir as a Treatment of Smallpox, 2004-2007
• Therapy of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease using intraventricular pentosan polysulfate
• Seroprevalence of Rubella in Mexican migrant and seasonal farm workers
• Incidence of neuropsychiatric events in military deployers taking prophylactic mefloquine
• A new Gondonia species associated with an infected orthopedic device

Elvira Rosca-Jaballas

• Obesity, population-based research initiatives
• Survey of parents perceptions, attitudes, and concern about overweight in their children.

Michael Markus

• Dayton Oscillometry in PAD Study, PAD/risk factor screenings held in collaboration with Medicine Shoppes Pharmacies

Mohammad Saklaye

• Spironolactone for reducing proteinuria in diabetic patients
• A study to examine the efficacy and safely of Darbepoetin.
• Antioxidant study to examine the efficacy of mucomyst in reducing the oxidant stress in patients with diabetic proteinuria .
• Antioxidant study in patients with hepatitis C.
• Use applanation tonometry (SphygmoCor//HEM-90001A) to check central blood pressure to examine differential effect on such BP by different class of antihypertensives
• Retrospective study to examine the effect of AV access creation in CKD patients on the progression of renal failure
• Study using Ca receptor blocker (Cinecalcit) in dialysis patients with secondary hyperpara (EVOLVE study)
• NIH study (TOPCAT) on diastolic CHF using Spironolactone