The 5th annual Gulf Coast Division Research Symposium was hosted on April 16th 2025 at HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood and on WebEx. It combines GME programs from cities in the Gulf Coast Region of Texas: Kingwood, Houston, Clear Lake, and Corpus Christi. The symposium is specialty agnostic, providing an opportunity for residents and fellows to network with others in healthcare outside of their area of expertise.
New this year the Research Team wanted to recognize the Residents and Faculty that have excelled in research from each of our main campuses. The 2025 Research Residents and Faculty are below.
- HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake
- Resident – Nilay Bhatt, MD
- Faculty – John Byrne, MD
- HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood
- Resident – Suhas Tatapudi, DO
- Faculty – Mike K. Liang, MD, FACE
- Corpus Christi Medical Center
- Resident – Nova Mebane, DO, MS
- Faculty – Brandi Addison, DO, FACE
In 2025, we received 97 poster submission and of those 8 projects made it to the oral stage. The results of the 2025 symposium are below.
Oral Presentation Competition Winners
- 1st Place: Sarah Davis, PharmD from Houston Healthcare Clear Lake Pharmacy, Ticagrelor vs Clopidogrel post-PCI and re-admittance with gram-positive infections*
- 2nd Place: Shai Ring, MD from HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood Pharmacy, Reducing Time to Heparin Administration in a Cardiac Center
- 3rd Place: Anila Punjwani, MD from HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood General Surgery, Medical Reversals in the Management of Patients with Ventral Hernia Following Publication of Randomized Control Trials
Poster Competition Winners
- 1st Place: Suhas Tatapudi, DO from HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood Internal Medicine, Not Your Typical Chest Pain: Anomalous RCA
- 2nd Place: Napat Rangsipat, MD from HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood Internal Medicine, Not So SLE-ghtly Bloody
- 3rd Place: Ashkan Nasr, DO, MPH from Corpus Christi Medical Center Internal Medicine, Left Sided Mitral Valve Thrombosis in a Young Patient: Successful Thrombolytic Management
* Denotes a poster or presentation not currently available on Scholarly Commons.
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Health Inequities in an Undocumented Immigrant Woman with Scleroderma: A Case Report of Uninsured Care Challenges
Jorge Aboytes, Jose Loayzam, and I Cantu
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Strategies to Enhance Involvement in Research and the Use of HIV Prevention Services in Black Men Who Have Sex with Men (BMSM): The Voices of BMSM
Chijoke Anyaehie, Brittany L. Gardner, Paris Green, John Bonelli, Hong Van Tieu, and Melonie Walcott
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An Atypical Presentation of Pheochromocytoma
Ali Asghar, Neil Maithel, Ibrahim Musa, Hasnan Ijaz, and Thomas Alexander
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Successful Treatment of Mirizzi Syndrome with SpyGlass-guided Electrohydraulic Lithotripsy
Bushra Bangash, Aakriti Soni, Galvin Dhaliwal, and Ahmed Ouni
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Prevelence Odds of Melanoma in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: An Observational Cross-Sectional Study
Nilay Bhatt and Kumail Rizvi
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Atypical Presentation of Moyamoya Disease Presenting with Severe Headache: A Case Report
Nilay Bhatt and Tirth Vyas
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Improving Knowledge and Confidence on Interpreting and Analyzing Dexcom CGM data among Residents
Ashley Charales, Anusha Putta, Aashka Patel, Renu Thomas, and Syed Basit Haider
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From Dermis to Digestive Tract: When Skin Flaps Do More Than Expected
Supritha Chintamaneni, Bilal Ashraf, Galvin Dhaliwal, Aakriti Soni, and Amandeep Kaur
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When Leukemia Takes a Bite: Unusual Gastric Involvement in B-ALL
Supritha Chintamaneni, Bilal Ashraf, and Sushovan Guha
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Atypical Stroke-Like Presentation in a Patient with Mucormycosis
Joseph Crutison, Yasser El-Daour, and Dominique Pean
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Beyond Appearances: A Case Report of Mistaken Identity in Dialysis Access
Ephrem D. Demie, Shahin Owji, Mohammad Shafiq, and Srikanth Raayasa
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An Unexpected Source of GI Bleeding: Enteric Muco-Submucosal Elongated Polyp in the Proximal Jejunum with Literature Review
Galvin Dhaliwal, Dev Patel, Ashvin Singh Dhaliwal, Aakriti Soni, Bilal Ashraf, Shane Sweeney, Sushovan Guha, and Ahmed Ouni
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Resident and Fellow Call Schedule: Implementation and Analysis
Joshua Gelber, DJ Jiang, and Syed Basit Haider
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The Demographics of Vasopressor Requirements in COVID-19 Patients
Sammy R. Ghaoui, Paloma A. Molina, Romina Flores, Adela Bazbaz, Daryelle Varon, and Joseph Varon
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A Case of Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis in the Setting of Adalimumab Therapy for Treatment of Crohn's Disease
Ferris Ghosh, Kinsey Lano, and Dina Zamil
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A Case of Carcinoma en Cuirasse
Nadeen Gonna, Giancarlo Moscol, Woo Cheal Cho, Constance T. Albarracin, and Hung Q. Doan
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Prehospital Diagnosis of Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infraction in a Patient with Situs Inversus Totalis
Victoria Gordon, Jason Jones, Brad Ward, and Casey Patrick
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To Bridge or Not to Bridge
Diane Habib, Negar Niknam, Mohammed Rajab, Lea El Achkar, and Mahyar Mahmoudi
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The Gut Feeling: Diagnosing the Unexpected Ogilvie’s Syndrome
Sakina Haider, Jenny Cherenfant, Supritha Chintamaneni, and Rama Laxman
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Almost Partial Colectomy for Suspected Malignant Stricture, Ultimately Saved by Intraoperative Findings
Mahnoor Hashmi, Bushra Bangash, Asad Rehman, Muhammad Durrani, and Ismail Hader
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Rapid Adaptation of Intra-Operative Strategies for Transurethral Cystoscopic Procedures in Response to Intravenous Fluid Shortage
Emily Y. Huang, Rijul Nandi, Kevin P. Nguyen, and Ricardo R. Gonzalez
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Incidental Discovery of Bilateral Pheochromocytoma in a Patient with Lifelong Hypertension
Umema Irfan, Sara Shahid, and Anam Zara
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Not your Average Syncope: A Case of Bifascicular Block
Shuchita Jhaveri, Maria Amigo, Zahoor Khan, and Marloe Prince
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Primary Hepatic Tuberculosis Mimicking Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cholangiocarcinoma
DJ Jiang, Aarohi Parikh, Eric Riha, and Kevin Garnepudi
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Severe Right Ventricular Dilation Due to Selenium Deficiency in a Post Gastric Bypass Patient - A Rare but Life Threatening Complication
Arjun Kamath, Jorge Garza, Ethan Goldberg, A Syed, Deekshita Valiveti, Abhay Vakil, Zuhair Ali, A Ashgar, Luay Alalawi, Heriberto Cantu, and Thomas Alexander
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An Extremely Rare Case of Group C Streptococcal Cavitary Pneumonia in Young Female
Arjun Kamath, Jorge Garza, Ethan Goldberg, Deekshita Valiveti, Abhay Vakil, and Zuhair Ali
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Cardiac Tamponade by Perforated Ventricle Post TAVR - A Rare but Life Threatening Case
Arjun Kamath, Jorge Garza, Ethan Goldberg, Deekshita Valiveti, Abhay Vakil, and Zuhair Ali
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Reverse Halo Sign on Imaging - What Can it Be?
Arjun Kamath, Jorge Garza, Ethan Goldberg, Deekshita Valiveti, Abhay Vakil, and Zuhair Ali
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A Rare Case of Pulmonary Amyloidosis Causing Cystic Lung Disease in Sjogren's Syndrome
Suhas Kandimalla, Jordan Torres, Ramesh Kesavan, and Siva T. Sarva
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Mechanical Ground Level Fall with Incidental Findings of Suspected Multiple Myeloma: A Case Report
Mohammed Irfan Khan, Jeffrey Lesser, Shuchita Jhaveri, Neethu George, Shai Ring, Kaylah Perez, and Julian Nguyen
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The Benefit of Protected Time Before Emergency Medicine Didactic
Stevley M. Koshy, Garrett Reber, and David Lindow
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A Flea-Borne Mystery: Unraveling Murine Typhus in a Patient with Unexplained Encephalopathy
Jose Loayza Pintado, Jorge Aboytes Trevino, and Ceasar Uribe
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A Rare Case of Brucellosis Relapse
Rabia Mahfooz, Grant Patterson, Annmary Behanan, and Babivigasan Gunasegaran
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A Rare Case of Pseudo-Pseudo Meigs Syndrome with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Rabia Mahfooz, Grant Patterson, Neil Maithel, and Daniel Kim
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From Resistance to Remission: Transforming Recalcitrant Plaque Psoriasis with Secukinumab and Methotrexate
Rabia S. Mahfooz, Annmary Behanan, Amita J. Dsouza, and Naser Elkhalili
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An Atypical Case of EPEC-HUS in An Adult
Rabia S. Mahfooz, Annmary Behanan, Babivigasan Gunasegaran, and Amita J. Dsouza
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Unveiling the Mystery: Infected Endocarditis Masquerading as Right Atrial Thrombus in a Port-A-Catheter Patient
Rabia S. Mahfooz, Annmary Behanan, Babivigasan Gunasegaran, Srikrishnan Pichuthirumalai, and Hannan Chaugle
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Efficacy of Pegloticase in Combination with Methotrexate in Tophaceous Gout: Case Report
Rabia S. Mahfooz, Amita J. Dsouza, Neil Maithel, and Naser Elkhalili
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Effective Managment of Relapsing Henoch-Schonlein Purpura with Nephropathy in an Adult with long-term use of Azathioprine
Rabia S. Mahfooz, Neil Maithel, Loiacono Agostina, Minha Aslam, and Naser Elkhalili
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Unmasking Multicentric Reticulonodular Histiocytoma: A Rare Impostor of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rabia S. Mahfooz, Neil Maithel, Annmary Behanan, and Naser Elkhalili
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SLE and APS Synergy: Aortic Dissection
Neil Maithel, Ali Asghar, Rabia Mahfooz, Ibrahim Musa, Hasnan Ijaz, and Thomas Alexander
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A Novel Triad: Ulcerative Colitis, Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis, and Antiphospholipid Syndrome in a Single Patient
Neil Maithel, Rabia Mahfooz, and Sean Alloju
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Two is Not Always Better than One: An Intersting Case of Inflammatory Myositis with Dual Myositis Specific Antibodies
Neil Maithel, Rabia Mahfooz, Ali Asghar, and Paul S. Bongat
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When Osteoporosis Masks Multiple Myeloma: A Diagnostic Pitfall
Neil Maithel, Rabia Mahfooz, Easlie Chen, Ali Asghar, and Aftab Mahmood
