Wellstar-GMANews-Sept-2022

GME
NEWS
GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
JULY | AUGUST | SEPTEMBER | 2022 • VOLUME 4 | ISSUE 3
On behalf of the all the program directors, faculty and staff, I am delighted to welcome the
incoming class of residents and fellows to the Wellstar Healthcare System and the department
of Graduate Medical Education at Kennestone Hospital. At Wellstar, we are committed
to high quality patient-centered care, community service, medical education, and pursuit
of scholarly activities. We are a community hospital and offer a personalized, collaborative,
cordial work environment, cohesive programs, with dedicated and highly qualified program
directors, all within an accessible and friendly GME staff that is here to support you and your
growth in medicine. Additionally…
• We are committed to the education and development of outstanding physicians who
acquire the necessary skills for their chosen career.
• We seek to train physicians who embrace the compassion and humanistic qualities to not
only treat the disease, but to respect and care for the patient with the illness, their families,
and caretakers.
• We work to actively promote our physicians’ own health and well-being, and foster
interprofessional training and education.
Dr. Louis Lovett
I look forward to working with each of you. Welcome to Wellstar!
Louis Lovett, M.D.
Designated Institutional Official
Wellstar Kennestone Regional Hospital
2022-2023 Emergency
Medicine Chief
Residents
Thomas Baker, M.D.
James Infanzon, M.D.
Deborah Talley Sharp, M.D.
Emergency Medicine
Interns
Alaa Alghalayini, D.O.
Rebecca Beaudry, D.O.
Aaron Bowersox, D.O.
Charity Bray, M.D.
Alexander Cantral, M.D.
Reymualde Danger, D.O.
Tianyi Li, M.D.
Omar Lopez, M.D.
Thomas “Logan” Martin, M.D.
Yashaswani Moparthi, D.O.
Joshua Sylvan, M.D.
Jay Tyson, M.D.
Jacob Rosenfield, M.D.
2022-2023 Family
Medicine Chief
Residents
Mahvish Masood, M.D.
Tyler Reynolds, M.D.
Family Medicine
Interns
Edson Alexis, M.D.
Hanna Assefa, M.D.
Maria Buhl Leon, M.D.
Becky Choung, D.O.
Jeena George, D.O.
Samuel Khair, D.O.
Sydney Lipskind, D.O.
Jordan Vaughn, M.D.
2022-2023 Internal
Medicine Chief Residents
Ayesha Khanduri, D.O.
Blair Smith, M.D.
Internal Medicine
Interns
Paloma Alvarez Cordoliani, M.D.
Rachel Check, D.O.
Deepthi Gangaram, D.O.
Zaina Gowani, D.O.
Vandana Grover, M.D.
Jennifer Hamm, M.D.
Vuk Lacmanovic, M.D.
Ana Mahmoudabadi, M.D.
Sanil Modi, M.D.
Parth Patel, M.D.
Tushar Patel, M.D.
Vedika Rajasekaran, M.D.
Nasser Rizvi, M.D.
Kirsten Schofield, M.D., M.S.
Samah Syed, D.O.
Larsen Vaughn, M.D.
Mandy Wachtel, M.D.
Obstetrics &
Gynecology Interns
Cedrick Anson, M.D.
Kristin Ezeude, M.D.
Ashley Lall, M.D.
Clara Wynn, M.D.
Transitional Year
Interns
Jonah Adler, M.D.
Alind Amedi, M.D.
William Anderson, M.D.
Timothy Arleo, M.D.
Devon Barrett, M.D.
Roy Chen, M.D.
Vivien Chen, M.D.
Reid Collis, M.D.
Robert “Warren” Floyd, M.D.
Shantelle Griffith, M.D.
Joseph Kim, M.D.
Troy Kieber, M.D.
Arturo Lopez, M.D.
Roshan Nayak, M.D.
Linda Phung, M.D.
Natalie Sanders, M.D.
Camara Sharperson, M.D.
Neal Shukla, M.D.
Jennifer Su, M.D.
Andrew “A.J.” Winkelman, M.D.

Congratulations on your
Fellowship!
Audrey Fonkam, M.D., M.S.
Hematology Fellowship
Mercy Medical Center Hepatology
Fellowship Program
Adero Z. Francis, M.D., M.S.
Infectious Diseases Fellowship
Medical University of South Carolina
Matthew Traylor, M.D.
ApolloMD, EM Fellowship
Welcome and congrats to
the grads staying in the
Wellstar Family
Emergency Medicine
Jay Bhula, M.D.
Wellstar West Georgia
Medical Center
Jillian Blalock, D.O.
ApolloMD, EM Fellowship
Family Medicine
Danielle Logan, M.D.
Morehouse School of Medicine
William Nichols, M.D.
Wellstar GME Family Medicine
Faculty
Safia Siddiqui, M.D., Hospitalist
Wellstar Douglas Hospital
Internal Medicine
Sahra Ahmadi, M.D., Hospitalist
Wellstar
Kennestone RMC
Ryan Gibson, D.O., M.S., Hospitalist
Wellstar
West Georgia Medical Center
Suvi Jain Mandawat, M.D., Ambulatory
Wellstar
Smyrna Primary Care
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Kaitlin Hufstetler, M.D.
CDC Larry Gilstrap Fellowship
Palliative Medicine
Wellness
Corner
Familiarize yourself with
E-Source.wellstar.org and the
internal wellness resources,
including…
• Center For Best Health
• Eat Right Atlanta
• Eat Well
• Employee Fitness Centers
• Get Well @ Work Clinic
• Headspace
• SharePoint
• Spring Health
• Wellness Specialists
• Wellstar Employee Fitness
• Wellstar Walking Routes
Building resilience in residency…
Each issue of the GME newsletter will offer tips and resources from the
American Medical Association (AMA). These quick reads and videos will
provide golden nuggets to support you!
Nervous about your intern year? Three resident
physicians offer insight
The transition to residency is one of those drinkingfrom-the-firehose
situations, but you’re not the first
to go through it and here, you can learn essential
tips to succeed.
The Well-Being Index
To better support our team members, Wellstar has
joined hundreds of healthcare organizations to
provide The Mayo Clinic’s Well-Being Index – an
online self-assessment tool that measures five
dimensions of distress and well-being in just
nine questions.
• Anonymously measure well-being in less than
1-minute
• Predict risk of distress over six dimensions
• Provide immediate resources to participants
• Deliver comprehensive reporting to wellness leaders
• Track individual and organizational progress over time
James Eun, M.D.
Rossitza Lordanova, M.D.
Kevin Isaak, M.D.
Alisa Kim, D.O.
GME NEWS

ACGME AWARE
Well-Being Resources promotes well-being among residents,
faculty members, and the entire GME community. Check it
out here, https://dl.acgme.org/pages/well-being. You can
also download the app for Android and Apple devices.
We’re listening!
If you think something needs changing or have an idea,
you’re probably not alone. Drop your suggestion in the
box conveniently located in the resident lounge. You can
shoot an email or talk to a coordinator, as well. Help us
help you! We don’t know what we don’t know, ya know?
Ahhhmazing Acts of Kindness
If there’s a resident who has gone out of their way to make someone’s day
a little brighter, please share! Just drop an email to Kennestone GME IM
Coordinator, Lori Murphy, Lori.Murphy@wellstar.org, with any act of
kindness toward a patient, intern, resident,
or other creature. #whoknew? #ahhhhmazing
you! #kennestoneresidentsrock!
Blair Smith, M.D., Chief Resident
Internal Medicine
Chief IM Resident, Blair Smith, M.D.
The ICU can be a not so fun place to be—and
that’s for the doctors (just kidding), so you
can only imagine how tough it is for the
patients that have to stay there for days…
weeks…months. I think that sometimes
making patients feel better requires things
outside of medicine. One of my passions
outside of medicine is music, so to share some
joy I played three songs for three different
patients while I was in ICU. Lucky Man by the
Verve, Wonderwall by Oasis, and Chasin You
by Morgan Wallen. Honestly, I messed up a
few different times with all of the songs but it
seemed to bring some joy to my patients and
that’s all that mattered to me at the time.
In other news…
The new and improved GME workspace affords computer stations, comfy
chairs, and great lighting. As we adapt to the acoustics, new interns, new
chiefs, and a new coordinator, please…
Speak softly when sharing information with your fellow residents. When two
or three people start talking, voices get louder making it difficult for others to
concentrate. Although you might be at the end of your shift and ready to talk
about your last patient, someone else may be coming off a difficult rotation
with complicated notes to scribe. Be mindful of your surroundings…if the
conversation goes beyond ten minutes or you’re catching up on a non-clinical
matter, consider moving to your resident lounge for snacks, drinks, and plenty
of “leftovers” for noshing while you catch up on that complicated patient
or the TikTok video produced by your undergrad roommate’s cousin’s sister.
Finally, KEEP IT CLEAN. Wellstar Kennestone GME used its funding to provide
this space for you. Those empty cups, cans, water bottles, and chips don’t
clean up themselves. Be respectful, please.
Congratulations
to our 1st Annual
GME Research Day
Award Winners!
Oral Presentations:
1st Place:
Christine Castater, M.D.
Roberto Taarea, D.O.
“Initial Success with Novel
Biologic Wound Matrix for
Treatment of Complex and
Diverse Traumatic Wounds”
2nd Place:
Joshua Hall, D.O.
Nauman Rashid, M.D.
“Torsades de Pointes after
Olanzapine use for agitation”
3rd Place:
Michael Cranford, M.D.
“Increasing Controlled
Substance Agreement
Utilization in an Outpatient
Palliative Medicine setting”
Poster Presentations:
1st Place:
Rudiona Hoxhaj, D.O.
Usha Anand, M.D.
“The Conundrum of
Crocodile Skin”
2nd Place:
Phillip Lavigne, M.D.
Thomas Baker, M.D.,
Nauman Rashid, M.D.
“Longest Recorded First Degree
Heart Block with Progression
to Complete Heart Block”
3rd Place: Rudiona Hoxhaj, D.O.
Usha Anand, M.D.
“An Idiosyncratic duo: A Case of
COVID-associated Pulmonary
Aspergillosis (CAPA) in an
immunocompetent patient”

Got plans?
September 17 – Roswell Arts Festival
September 23-25 – Atlanta Greek Festival
September 24-25 – 39th Annual Duluth Fall Festival
September 30-October 30 – Oktoberfest in Helen
October 1-2 – Candler Park Fall Fest
October 8-9 – Chalktoberfest
November 5-6 – Chastain Park Arts Festival
November 12 – Veteran’s Day Parade
Discover Dahlonega
Explore Georgia’s Film Industry
GME Professionals Day
Lightning Speed Spotlight
GME Ob/GYN Coordinator: Jarrell Marcus
1. If you could rule the world, who would be your
second in command? My Mom
2. How long have you lived in metro Atlanta? 27 years
3. What’s your favorite restaurant? Houston’s
4. Tell us about your family. I have 4 siblings
5. Your favorite destination? Florida
6. Favorite band: I love music! The S.O.S. Band
7. Where are you dreaming to visit? Bora Bora
8. Favorite quote: Psalm 139:23-24
“Search me, O God, and know my heart;
try me and know my thoughts.
See if there is any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.”
GME Coordinators:
Front row (l-r): Rosa Gomez, Amy Ice-Gipson
Back row (l-r): Ricardo Forest, Lori Murphy,
Jarrell Marcus, Tiffany Donald
(not pictured: Keisha Chandler and Tammy Hamm)
“Jarrell is diligent and a self-starter. She knows how to get things done and is always helping
others. She has a quiet disposition and is very caring. Jarrell took over this position at the onset of
the pandemic. Despite that, she quickly learned what needed to be done and took control. She is
dependable and always 2 steps ahead of me. She anticipates what I need, often without me having
to tell her. She is a joy to work with and I hope she continues to work with me for a long time.”
-Teresa T. Byrd, M.D., Residency Program Director, Obstetrics and Gynecology
“Jarrell is an awesome member of our GME Team! She is very capable, a self-starter, and her smile
is infectious. We are lucky to have her working with the Ob/Gyn residency program.”
- Jim Shehy, Institutional Program Manager, Wellstar Kennestone GME
Newsletter contact information: Lori Murphy, IM GME Coordinator: Lori.Murphy@wellstar.org
We’ve made every effort to include names, with correct spelling, credentials, and other pertinent information.
If something is not correct, it was not intentional and please accept our apologies. Kindly email Lori Murphy,
Lori.Murphy@wellstar.org and we’ll make it right in the next issue.