Internal Medicine Housestaff Research Opportunities

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	Research Area and Potential Project outline

The Internal Medicine program at UT Southwestern is interested in providing its house staff a wide range of opportunities to conduct research. The listings on this page are designed to facilitate an overview of faculty interested in having Internal Medicine house staff work with them on projects that they are conducting. The leader of each section is intended to serve an advisor who may be able to identify opportunities not yet listed.

General Internal Medicine Research Sites: By Faculty By Project
Research Contact: Ethan Halm

Mentor(s)	Title	Type of Research	Mentor CV
Ethan Halm	Systematic review of the impact of social factors on mortality and hospital readmission in patients with heart failure, myocardial infarction and pneumonia
Padmashri Rastogi	Magellan: Multicenter randomized, parallel group Efficacy superiority study in hospitalized medically ill patients comparing rivaroxaban with enoxaparain Bronchitis and Emphysema Advice and Training to Reduce Hospitalization (BREATH) CSP # 560

Endocrinology and Metabolism
Research Contact: Michael McPhaul

Mentor(s)	Title	Type of Research	Mentor CV
Richard Auchus	Steroid biosynthesis in health and disease	Basic, translational, and clinical
Michael McPhaul	Androgen Action Pituitary Disease	Basic and Translational Clinical

Cardiology
Research Contact: Darren McGuire

Mentor(s)	Title	Type of Research	Mentor CV
Emmanouil Brilakis	The SOS (Stenting Of Saphenous vein grafts) multicenter randomized controlled trial of a paclitaxel-eluting vs. a similar bare metal stent in saphenous vein graft lesions

	Overall listing of opportunities in the division

Pulmonary
Research Contact:

Mentor(s)	Title	Type of Research	Mentor CV
Christine Garcia	Pulmonary Fibrosis and Telomerase Dysfunction

Liver and Digestive Diseases
Research Contact: Don Rockey

Mentor(s)	Title	Type of Research	Mentor CV
Don Rockey	Studies in Gastrointestinal Bleeding Studies in Chronic Liver Disease
Marlyn Mayo	Causes of jaundice in the pregnant patient

Mineral Metabolism
Research Contact:

Mentor(s)	Title	Type of Research	Mentor CV
Naim Maalouf	Projects in Mineral Metabolism

Center for Human Nutrition
Research Contact:

Mentor(s)	Title	Type of Research	Mentor CV
Scott M. Grundy	Center for Human Nutrition studies
Gloria Vega	Center for Human Nutrition studies
Abhimanyu Garg	Genetic and Metabolic basis of familial lipodystrophies Therapeutic Interventions in HAART-Associated Lipodystrophies

Nephrology
Research Contact: Robert Toto

Mentor(s)	Title	Type of Research	Mentor CV
Robert Toto - Jula Inrig	Blood Pressure, endothelial cell dysfunction and outcomes in dialysis patients	Patient based	Robert Toto Julia Inrig
Peter Igarashi	Pathogenesis and Treatment of Polycystic Kidney Disease
Robert Reilly	Thiazide diuretic use in the treatment of patients with nephrolithiasis

Infectious Diseases
Research Contact:

Mentor(s)	Title	Type of Research	Mentor CV
Mamta Jain	Observational Study of HIV/HBV and HIV/HCV to Examine Clinical Outcomes	Patient based

Internal Medicine
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