Member Accomplishments

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The Chapter recognizes and congratulates the following Tennessee physicians who were elected to Fellowship in the College on April 1, 2008:

Adejoke F. Aina-Babalola, MBBS, FACP , Brentwood
Samuel R. Bastian, MD, FACP, Franklin
David H. Beals, MD, FACP, Johnson City
Randall T. Curnow, Jr, MD, MBA, FACP, Knoxville
Brian P. Donovan, MD, FACP, Johnson City
Jeannine Z. Engel, MD, FACP, Brentwood
David O. Hollis, MD, FACP, Franklin
Jerry F. London, MD, FACP, Kingsport
Michael K. Smith, MD, PhD, FACP, Madison
Jo G. Sweet, MD, FACP, Johnson City

The Chapter recognizes and congratulates the following Tennessee physicians who were elected to Fellowship in the College on July 1, 2008:

Robert S. Boger, MD, FACP, Memphis
Michael D. Floyd, MD, MSCI, FACP, Nashville
Sylvester D. Nicol, MD, FACP, Bolivar

Fellowship is an honor achieved by those recognized by their peers for personal integrity, superior competence in internal medicine, professional accomplishment, and demonstrated scholarship.

2008 Internal Medicine Abstract Presenters

Congratulations to Tennessee Chapter Associate Isaac Thomsen, MD from Vanderbilt University for being a winner in the Associate Clinical Vignette Poster Competition held during Internal Medicine 2008 for his poster entitled A Case Of Thoracic Spinal Gout.

Congratulations and thanks also go to the additional Chapter members who represented our Chapter at the national Associate and Medical Student Abstract Competitions in DC in May, 2008:

  • Fadee Abu Al Rub, MD from the University of Tennessee Program was selected in the Clinical Vignette Category for the poster, An Unusual Case of Biliary Obstruction From Mississippi River Valley.
  • Nishant Gupta, MD from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine - Chattanooga Unit Program was selected in the Clinical Vignette Category for the poster, What Is Burning Under The Skin?.
  • Michael B. Humble, MD from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine - Chattanooga Unit Program was selected in the Clinical Vignette Category for the poster, How Common Is Common?.
  • Michael B. Humble, MD from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine - Chattanooga Unit Program was selected in the Clinical Vignette Category for the poster, Can Yellow Be Red?
  • Ali Jafari Mehr, MD from the University of Tennessee Program was selected in the Research Category for the poster, Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 (Mmp-9): One Enzyme, Multiple Actions.
  • Sushma Pai, MD from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine - Chattanooga Unit Program was selected in the Clinical Vignette Category for the poster, An Unusual Occupational Hazard Leading To Traumatic Hemiplegia.
  • Eleanor Pitt, MD from Vanderbilt University was selected in the Clinical Vignette Category for the poster, Chronic Q Fever In A Patient Requiring Anti-TNF-Alpha Immunotherapy.
  • Atta Ur Rehman Shahbaz, MBBS from the University of Tennessee Program was selected in the Clinical Vignette Category for the poster, Spontaneous Fracture And Embolization of Catheter To The Pulmonary Artery: A Rare Complication of Port-A-Cath.
  • Arshdeep Tindni, MD from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine - Chattanooga Unit Program was selected in the Clinical Vignette Category for the poster, Unrelenting Abdominal Pain: Did You Pull The Right Strings?

Page updated: 07-28-08

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Steven Miller, MD, FACP,
Governor, Tennessee Chapter

Wilma Cooley
Chapter Support Staff
Ph: 615-385-2100
E-mail: wilmac@tma.medwire.org