Internal Medicine Abstracts

2026 Presentations

Order	Authors / Presenters	Title of Presentations
1.	Volha Chapiolkina, Neha Maithel, Basak Basbayraktar, Harshit Khosla, Mallory E Irion, Myra Kurjee, Gabriella Salazar, William H Otte, Kenedi I Lynch, Khyati Malik, Mihai Bendea	Emergency Department Utilization and Digital Engagement Among Oncology Patients Enrolled in a Symptom Monitoring Platform: A Real-World Comparative Analysis
2.	Beena Sattar MD, Yunbo Xie, Yen-Chi Le PhD	QI initiative in primary care, to improve Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) screening in men aged 65-75, who ever smoked
3.	Pushan Jani, MD; Sharv Jadawala, MBBS; Suessan Person, RT	Closing the Loop: A Quality Improvement Initiative to Address Missed Follow-up of Incidental Pulmonary Nodules
4.	Timothy La, MD	Improving Empathy Through Humanities-Based Reflection and Discussion
5.	Dalia Arredondo, MD, Jay Garza, MD, Jarrett Rong, MD, Fehintola Soetan, MD, Blaine Abraha, MD, Jason Lin, MD, Zachary Hunzeker, MD, Jillian Smith, MD	Improving Physician Communication with Patients in Cullen 3 Teaching Services
6.	Faraz Jafri, MD; Sarah Shaker, MD; George Matar, MD; Stephanie Soewito, MD; Rachel Mortan, MD; Varun Vemulapalli, MD; Omar Alaina, MD; Vishalakshi Lakshmanan, MD; Keving Hwang MD	B12 Screening in Patients on Metformin and Proton Pump Inhibitors: Baseline Data for A Quality Improvement Project
7.	Ann Pongsakul DO, Achin Khanna MD, Jessica Lee MD, Rachel Murray MHA, Rohan Dwivedi PharmD, MS, Maureen Beck DNP	Evaluation of the Efficacy of the Harris Health House Call Service on Reducing Emergency Room Utilization and Hospital Admissions
8.	Mary-Catherine Nesby MD, Evan Leung MD,Samuel Hong MD, Sydney Smithhart MD, Matt Smithhart MD, Esthelory Lopez Hidalgo MD, Ayesha Safdar MD, John Beetz MD, Aiden Strother MD, Natalie Bush MD, Jeffrey Cleaver MD, Adrienne DaGue MD, Rose Yeh MD, Jiaqi Gu MD, and Jeffrey Chen MD	Hypoglycemia Reduction on Medicine Floors at Memorial Hermann Hospital – Texas Medical Center.
9.	Nunez Matthew, Batch Stephanie, Rama Kush, Khetan Ryan, Shin John, Aisenberg Gabriel	Appropriateness of octreotide use in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding
10.	Mariam Rizvi MD, Clara Benjamin MD, Amrit Gonugunta MD, Ali Ibrahim MD, Ugonna Nwoko MD, Ysaith Orellana Ascencio DO, Jinni Tang PhD, Kathleen Hanley PhD, Yen-Chi Le PhD	Increasing Patient Engagement of Epic MyChart Messaging at UT Physicians Victory Clinic
11.	Isabela Bumanlag, Julie Neil, Sam Liao, Brandon Sarver, Nia Green, Areeba Khwaja, Ngwe Fultang	Increasing Variance Reporting by Internal Medicine Residents
12.	Jacob Herstein, Sharon Pan, Emily Sargent, Emerald Zaw, Andrew Thomas, Justin McCormack, Ramsha Asim	Assessing Trainee Knowledge of Immunotherapy Toxicities
13.	Joyce Varkey MD, Linda Pang MD, Katie Elias CCLS	Improving Child Life Utilization Through Provider Education.
14.	Sura Alqaisi, MD, Nikita Dhir, MD, Marc Cillo, MD	Nondiagnostic Results in Thyroid FNA Clinic
15.	Marienellys Delgado, MPH, Abigail Ghorbani, BA, and Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, MD	Diagnostic Stewardship in Long COVID (LC)
16.	Russell Welton, Rishi Anarkat, Sriram Nathan, Manish Patel, Marwan Jumean, Bela Patel, Biswajit Kar, Bindu Akkanti	Outcomes and Predictors of Mortality in Cardiogenic Shock: A Quality Analysis at a Tertiary Care Center
17.	Jiaqi Gu, MD, Tong Han Chung, PhD, Heath Goodrum, MS, Kevin Hwang, MD,MPH	Missed Opportunities for Primary Aldosteronism Screening
18.	Sergio Abraham Candiales, Richard Johnson, Kevin Chiu, Bryson Hoover-Hankerson, Naa Korkor Koppoe, Nina Quirk, Jesse Uduma, Nicholas Villalobos, Michael Boyars	Improving POCUS proficiency in UTH Internal Medicine Residents
19.	Elysa M. Cortez, Judy Al-Sayyad, George Ishac, Ikram Rostane, Elissa Nguyen, Aidan Strother, Clay Smithhart	Reducing Oncology Admission Recurrence (ROAR)
20.	Austin Bolay DO, Jasmine Urquidi MD, Natalie Bush MD, Cristina Natha MD, James Wesley Hill MD, Ajah Williams MD, and Gabriel Arevalo MD	Comprehensive Sexual Health at UT Physicians (UTP) Victory Clinic
21.	Becky Choung, Linda Pang, Ezenwa Onyema, Maureen Beck	Evaluating Medical Power of Attorney Documentation Rates in a Geriatric Inpatient Unit
22.	Chua Steven, Chaudhari Leela, Abraha Blaine, Ganim Jiries, Toy Yasmin, Hafeez Areeba, Hasapes Joseph, Aisenberg Gabriel	Understanding CT Resolution Timeline in Acute Pyelonephritis: A Framework for Clinical Practice
23.	Rhorer Legendre, MD; Saloni Sharma, MD; Dion Kevin, MD; Amina Aslam, MD; Sarah George, MD; Zachary Loomer, DO; Elizabeth Rodriguez, MD; Jerry Yin, MD; Ariana Klein, MD; Jillian Smith, MD	TRAQ to the Future: Improving Pediatric-to-Adult Care Transitions
24.	Som Singh, MD; Afsana Islam, MD; Pamela Horton Embrey, MD; Sergio Abraham, MD; Carissa Huq, MD	Implementation of a Procedures Curriculum Program to Improve Internal Medicine Resident Confidence in Bedside Procedures