Member Accomplishments

Internal Medicine 2008 Abstract Presenters

We are honored to have six Chapter Members represent our Chapter for the Associate and Medical Student Abstract Competition to be held during Internal Medicine.

  • Deborah L. Kem, MD, from the University of Louisville Program was selected in the Clinical Vignette Category for the Poster Bilateral Hilar Adenopathy: An Atypical Presentation Of Renal Cell Carcinoma
  • Matthew Satterly, from the University of Louisville was selected in the Clinical Vignette Category for the Poster Decreased Pain Of IV Catheterization
  • Payal Desai, MD, from the University of Louisville Program was selected in the Research Category for the Oral Presentation The Incidence Of Human Papillomavirus In Head And Neck Sqamous Cell Carcinomas
  • Ryan Hurt, MD, from the University of Louisville was selected in the Researh Category for the Poster Hemorrhage Induced Hepatic Injury
  • Viral D. Patel, from the University of Kentucky was selected in the Researh Category for the Poster Prevalence And Predictors Of Sexual Dysfunction In Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • B. Frazier Taylor, from the University of Louisville was selected in the Researh Category for the Poster Arsenite-Induced Mitotic Death Involves Stress Response And Is Independent Of Tubulin Polymerization

Congratulations to all the Chapter Meeting Award Recipients

2007 Laureate Award Recipient
Ewell G. Scott, MD, FACP was awarded the Laureate Award from the ACP Kentucky Chapter. The Laureate Award honors those Fellows or Masters of the College who have demonstrated by their example and conduct an abiding commitment to excellence in medical care, education, or research, and in service to their community, their Chapter, and the American College of Physicians.

Additional Chapter Award Recipients

  • Excellent Student Performance in Internal Medicine
    University of Louisville - Joel Warren
    University of Kentucky- - Amanda Smith
  • Excellent Resident Performance in Internal Medicine
    University of Louisville - Dawn Caster, MD
    University of Kentucky- Thomas C Knopp, DO
  • Outstanding Teacher in Internal Medicine
    University of Louisville- George R Aronoff
    University of Kentucky- Rolando Berger, MD FACP

Chapter Abstract Competition Winners
Associate Competition

  • Research Posters
  • 1st Place Research: Ryan Hurt - HEMORRHAGE INDUCED HEPATIC INJURY AND DYSFUNCTION CAN BE PREVENTED WITH DIRECT PERITONEAL RESUSCITATION
  • 2nd Place Research: Payal Desai - INCIDENCE OF HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS IN HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMAS
  • 3rd Place Research: Ryan Williams - HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA TREATED INITIALLY AS COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED MORTALITY
  • Clinical Vignette Posters
  • 1st Place Vignette: Deborah Kem - BILATERAL HILAR ADENOPATHY: AN UNUSUAL PRESENTATION OF RENAL CELL CARCINOMA
  • 2nd Place Vignette: Ryan Haulk - THROMBUS IN THE AORITIC ARCH
  • 3rd Place Vignette: Greg Reynolds – A CASE OF MASQUERADING POLYMYOSITIS

Student Competition

  • Research Posters
  • 1st Place Research: B.F. Taylor – ARSENITE-INDUCED MITOTIC DEATH INVOLVES STRESS RESPONSE AND IS INDEPENDENT OF TUBULIN POLYMERIZATION
  • 2nd Place Research: Jonathan Ballard – COLORECTAL CANCER INCIDENCE IN AN UNSCREENED POPULATION: TRENDS IN EAST ANGLIA, ENGLAND BY GENDER, AGE AND SUBSITE 1980 – 2002
  • 3rd Place Research: Viral Patel – PREVALENCE AND PREDICTORS OF SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONIN PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
  • Clinical Vignette Posters
  • 1st Place Vignette: Matthew Satterly - DECREASED PAIN OF IV CATHETERIZATION VIA JET INJECTION
Congratulations to Our New Kentucky-ACP Fellows!

Congratulations to our newest Chapter member who advanced to Fellowship in the American College of Physicians, on July 1, 2008:

  • Francis Y. Ouyang, MD, MPH, FACP - Louisville

Congratulations to our newest Chapter members who advanced to Fellowship in the American College of Physicians, on April 1, 2008:

  • Timothy S. Caudill, MD, MSPH, FACP - Lexington
  • Charles Griffith, III, MD, MSPH, FACP - Lexington
  • Visa H. Sivasubramaniam, MBBS, FACP - London
  • Khue N. Tran, MD, FACP - Elizabethtown

Interested in applying for Fellowship in the ACP? If you have any questions, and/or would like to request an application package, please feel free to contact Kentucky ACP Governor, Mary B. Duke, MD, FACP.

If you have any current news to share about yourself or a colleague that we can celebrate, please email it to Lindsay Phelps and specify that it is for the Member Accomplishments section of the Chapter Web site.

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Mary B. Duke, MD, FACP
Governor, Kentucky Chapter

Lindsay Phelps
ACP Kentucky Chapter
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Lexington, KY 40536
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Fax: 859-257-2605
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