Division of General Internal Medicine Report

Division of General Internal Medicine

Division Chief David Ansell,MD, MPH

Vice Chair Christine Veres, MD, Chief General Internal Medicine/ Primary Care, Mount Sinai Hospital

Hospital Chiefs Chris Veres, MD, Mount Sinai Hospital

• Program Chiefs- Lori Broutman, MD, Director of Undergraduate Education

Ermias Tilahun, MD, Associate Program Director, Chicago Medical School/FUHS Internal Medicine Residency Training Program

Stuart Kiken, MD, Associate Program Director, CMS/FUHS Primary Care Residency Program- Urban Primary Care

Division Faculty listed by Name, Rank and Hospital

David Ansell, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, MSH

LAST NAME	FIRST NAME	RANK	HOSPITAL
AVRAMIDIS	JOHN	ASSISTANT	NCVAMC
BADER	IFTEKHAR	INSTRUCTOR	NCVAMC
BELL	PETER	INSTRUCTOR	MOUNT SINAI
BERLAND	DANIEL	ASSOCIATE	MOUNT SINAI
BROUTMAN	LAURIE	ASSISTANT	FUHS/CMS
BUTLER	PAULA R.	ASSISTANT	MOUNT SINAI
CLEARY	JOSEPH P.	CLINICAL LECTURER	NORWALK
FLOCH	MARTIN H.	CLINICAL LECTURER	NORWALK
GUERRERO	MAYRA	CLINICAL LECTURER	NCVAMC
HUSKINS	DENNIS	CLINICAL LECTURER	NORWALK
IRONS	JOYCE	CLINICAL LECTURER	NCVAMC
KUMAR	GIRIJA	CLINICAL ASSISTANT	MOUNT SINAI
KUSEL	KATHLEEN	CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR	NCVAMC
LIPSCHULT	STEPHEN	CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR	?
LIPSON	BRIAN	INSTRUCTOR	NCVAMC
MACHAELSON	STEPHEN	CLINICAL ASSISTANT	NORWALK
NG	HAN CHUH	INSTRUCTOR	NCVAMC
NWAOKOCHA	EMMANUEL	CLINICAL ASSISTANT	MOUNT SINAI
PERLIN	MARTIN	CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR	NORWALK
PINTO	JACK V.	INSTRUCTOR	NCVAMC
SKLUTH	MYRA	CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR	NORWALK
SOKOL	NORTON	ASSOCIATE	MOUNT SINAI
TILAHUN	ERMIAS	ASSISTANT	MOUNT SINAI
URBAN	GEORGE J.	CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR	?
VERES	CHRISTINE	ASSOCIATE	MOUNT SINAI
WASCHOWS	DIANE	CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR	NCVAMC
XANTHOPO	JOHN	INSTRUCTOR	NCVAMC
ZAFFER	SHELIA	CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR	N/A

Divisional Programs & Committees

Members participate in the following departmental committees:

Undergraduate medical education committee: Drs. Ansell, Veres, Alvarez, Broutman, Kumar

Graduate Medical Education Committee- David Ansell, MD, Ermias Tilahun,MD

Research- David Ansell, MD

Senior Executive Committee- David Ansell, MD

MEC- David Ansell, MD

Education

• Training Sites- 3rd year Internal Medicine Clerkship and Medical Sub internship:

Mount Sinai Hospital, NCVAH, Lutheran General Hospital, Illinois Masonic Hospital, Cook County Hospital, Christ Hospital, Hines VA Hospital, Norwalk Hospital

• Internal Medicine Residency training sites- Mount Sinai Hospital, NCVAH and Cook County Hospital- 60 trainees

• Resident Clinic Sites- Mount Sinai, North Chicago VA, Chicago Medical School

• Ambulatory Care Rotation- Participating institutions- Mount Sinai, NCVAH, Lutheran General Hospital

• Numbers of 3^rd Year and 4^th year students in General Internal Medicine rotations each month- Mount Sinai Hospital- 15-17, NCVAH 6- 10, Lutheran General Hospital 10- 12

• Participation in ICM, Med-Core, and resident/student conferences.

National Meetings, Conferences or Seminars

Members of the Division participate in a number of national organizations/meetings

David Ansell, MD, MPH- Association of Professors in Medicine, American College of Physicians, Society for General Internal Medicine, American Public Health Association

Drs. Daniel Berland and Ermias Tilahun- Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians

Dr. Hugo Alvarez- Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine

Presentations

Chris Veres, MD, Medicine Grand Rounds, Mount Sinai Hospital, February 9, 2001, Travelers Immunizations

• Norton Sokol, MD, Medicine Grand Rounds, Bioethics and Managed Care

May 24, 2000, Mount Sinai Hospital

• David Ansell, MD, Medicine Grand Rounds, Case Studies in Early Breast Cancer, June 14, 2000 Mount Sinai Hospital
• Steven Whitman, PhD, Medicine Grand Rounds, Medicine Grand Rounds, Disparities in Health Care in Chicago, September 20, 2000

Grants

• $ 171,000- Primary Care Internal Medicine Training Grant, Bureau of Health

Professions (2^nd of 3 years of funding)

• $ 150,000- Woman to Woman Program, Service Club of Mount Sinai Hospital
• $ 80,000- Partners in Care, Michael Reese Health Trust

Ongoing Research Activities

Urban Health Institute- established 2000. Steve Whitman, PhD, Director, and Epidemiology Staff of 3 (See Epidemiology Division report for details)

Health Disparities in Chicago- David Ansell, Steven Whitman

Pain Management, Clinical Pathways - Daniel Berland

Access to Health Care for Patients with Communication Disorders- David Ebert, Gary Kaufman

Colorectal cancer screening knowledge and practice Faisal Saghir, David Ansell

Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Screening, Stage and Mortality- David Ansell, Steven Whitman, Abigail Silva

Impact of a Geriatric Social Worker on identification and referral of patients with cognitive impairment in a general medicine clinic Steven Whitman, David Ansell

Publications

• Ansell David, Hiremath Prabhu, Understanding and Applying Common Clinical Reasoning Strategies, Seminars in Medical Practice, 4 (1), March 2001, 19-26.
• Ansell David, Goldberg David, Schiff Robert, et. al, Access to primary care decreases non emergent walk-in in visits to a public hospital, Health Care for the Poor and Uninsured (in press)
• Whitman Steven, Dell Jade, Silva Abigail, North Lawndale: Chicago Community Health Profiles, Sinai Health System, March 2001.
• Berland Daniel, Pain Management in Patients with Advanced Cancer, Letter to the Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine, 2000.

Publications (under review, in progress, other)

• Berland Daniel, Montanez Alicia, Results from a Pilot Program for the management of acute sickle cell pain. (in review, Archives of Internal Medicine)
• Ebert David, Heckerling Paul, Cobo Juan, Readmission for Patients with Disabilities affecting communication ( in preparation)

• Tilahun Ermias, Ansell David, Diagnostic testing strategies, Seminars in Medical Practice (accepted for publication, Fall 2001)
• Whitman Steve, Ansell David, Silva Abigail Health Disparities in Chicago for an issue of Public Health Reports, Aug/Sept 2001. This whole issue is edited by Drs.Whitman and Ansell.

Abstracts

• Ebert David, Fortwendel, Kaufman Gary, et al Establishing Medical Services for people who are deaf, American Public Health Association, Annual Meeting, October 2001.

Other Presentations

• Ebert David, Panel Moderator, Health care for people with disabilities, Annual Meeting Society for Disability Studies, Chicago, IL, Summer 2000.
• Alvarez Hugo, Thomas Cynthia, Cultural Competency- Workshop at the Annual Meeting of the American College of Physicians- Illinois/Southern Region, Springfield, IL, October 2000.

Division Assessment/Goals

• Need to increase faculty appointments

• Research development/Grant writing
• Faculty Development