Goodbye Delores (censored by HR)

Delores first arrived at GW with her white hat and nurse’s uniform in 1981 it took her

only 6 years to advance to the next position of Nurse Administrator for the Department

of Medicine. Then a short 5 years later she got rid of the Department Administrator and

combined the two jobs.

How do I describe the relationship between Delores and me? Tense, Contentious, Com-

petitive, Argumentative, but I had the better comebacks. She would just curse at me

when things got really heated but being a student of the old SNL shows my best line with

a small variation went something like “Delores, you ” Of course I would

never say this today. What I would say would be “ ”

I always thought that people didn’t appreciate what Delores did. I may have been some-

what responsible for this since if things went well I would take credit and if they didn’t

my line would be ‘you better see Delores’.

How much work did she have to do anyway? We are only a Department with $162 mil-

lion in charges, with 180 faculty and 300 staff, with 4 floors of clinics at 2150 and an

additional 2 at M St. We have 105 Interns and Residents as well as 75 or so fellows.

She is responsible for the Finances, the Administration and the Clinical operation of this

large department. And just for good measure, this year we added UMC to her portfolio

to keep her from being bored.

She has fought with every Division Director (maybe except Malakoff), every Program

Director and Clerkship Director and most of the faculty, because she is the one who has

to say NO. If it was up to me I would let people do whatever they want but I’m the good

guy.

How do I end this? It isn’t easy after spending 20 years with someone and since she is

going to Mississippi there is no chance of me visiting.

Thank you. On behalf of the Department and the MFA, Thank you, Delores! Thank you

for making my life a living hell and at the same time making me and our Department a

success. Whether anyone else knows, I know what she has done and I am in awe most

every day.

It is hard to believe that I will be coming into work and she won’t be there as she has

been for the last 20 years. I think it will take a while to get accustomed to not seeing her

there.

I will miss her, in a very strange way. She will always have my respect and admiration.

And of course I wish her all the best as long

as she didn’t leave anything undone.

January 2019 Volume 23, Issue 01

GW Medicine Notes A Monthly Publication of the GW Department of Medicine

From the Chairman

Alan G. Wasserman, M.D.

Dr. Gail Povar Retires

Gail completed her Residency in Internal

Medicine here at George Washington

University in 1980.

From 1980 to 1999, Dr. Povar was a full-

time faculty member in the Department

of Health Care Sciences. She rose to the

level of full Professor. Dr. Povar contin-

ued her association with GW after leav-

ing for private practice by being the

Chair Person of the Hospital Ethics

Committee since 1985. She has contin-

ued to mentor students and teach ethics

at GW until the present time.

She has lectured throughout the United

States on subjects related to health poli-

cy and ethics, from the physician’s obli-

gations in the context of managed care,

to end-of-life concerns, to ethical issues

in defining and delivering high quality

health care. She has served on commit-

tees of the Hastings Center for Ethics,

the National Institutes of Health, and

the Institute of Medicine, and the Na-

tional Council on Quality Assurance.

Dr. Povar has served the George Wash-

ington University, full-time and part-

time well for thirty-eight years. I hope

she continues to teach and lecture as

she is a brilliant physician.

SAVE THE DATE

END-OF-THE-YEAR PARTY

FRIDAY, JUNE 7th

RITZ CARLTON HOTEL

Department of Medicine January 2019 Grand Rounds

Page 2 GW Medicine Notes

Resident Lecture Series January 2019 Noon Conference

JAN 3 NO GRAND ROUNDS

JAN 10 Understein Lecture

“The Future of Cardiovascular Care: Advanced

Technologies, Affordable Care, and the Academic

Medical System”

Marvin Konstam, MD

Professor of Medicine

Tufts University School of Medicine

Chief Physician Executive

The Cardiovascular Center

Tufts Medical Center

JAN 17 “Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy”

Steven Zeddun, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Division of Gastroenterology

Department of Medicine

GW MFA

JAN 24 “Non-Invasive Cardiology”

Joseph Krepp, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Division of Cardiology

Department of Medicine

GW MFA

JAN 31 “Cancer Genetic Screening”

Elizabeth Stark MS, CGC

Division of Hematology/Oncology

Department of Medicine

GW MFA

The George Washington University Medical Center (GWUMC) is accredited by

the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to

sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. GWUMC designates this continuing medical education activity on an hour-for-hour basis in Category I of

the Physician’s Recognition Award of the American Medical Association.

(AMA).

JAN 1 HOLIDAY JAN 2 NO CONFERENCE JAN 3 NO CONFERENCE JAN 4 Interview Lunch JAN 7 Interview Lunch JAN 8 “Anorectal Disorders”- Dr. Bindu Umapathi JAN 9 Interview Lunch JAN 10 Medicine Grand Rounds JAN 11 Interview Lunch JAN 14 Interview Lunch JAN 15 CPC JAN 16 Interview Lunch JAN 17 Medicine Grand Rounds JAN 18 Chairman's Rounds– Drs. Chase Houghton and Huixia Wei JAN 21 Social Lunch JAN 22 “IBD”- Dr. Sam Kallus JAN 23 NEJM– mystery case JAN 24 Medicine Grand Rounds JAN 25 Chairman’s Rounds- Drs. Sirisha Tummala and Lauren Glikes JAN 28 Mystery Case– Dr. Simons JAN 29 Jeopardy JAN 30 “Resuscitation & Transfusion”- Dr. Sarani JAN 31 Medicine Grand Rounds

Medicine Team Contacts

Need to find a Resident on an

inpatient team?

Please use Tiger text to reach the appropriate physician. Go to

gwu.medhub.com/paging; password: GWUPublicCall; Select Internal

Medicine.

Alternatively

GWUH Defining Medicine Intranet: Go to Applications \ Inactive-Non-

Production \ Directory Contact System

GWUH Citrix Portal—https://gwportal.gwu-hospital.com/vpn/index.html

MFA URL— http://192.168.254.132/miTeamWebWA/Home (Logon) -

http://192.168.254.132/miTeamWebAL/Home (View Only)

If you have trouble with your MedHub account, please contact Deborah

Corvalan at dcorvalan@mfa.gwu.edu.

Cardiology Grand Rounds 5:00 PM, Ross Hall, Room # 227

JAN 2 M & M JAN 9 Understein Lecture Marvin Konstam, MD Professor of Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine Chief Physician Executive The Cardiovascular Center Tufts Medical Center Acute Heart Failure and the Cardio-renal Syndrome: Are We Making Progress JAN 16 William Weglicki, MD Professor of Medicine Former faculty in the Division of Cardiology– GW MFA Hypomagnesemia, Clinical Trial Results JAN 23 B. Hadley Wilson, MD ACC Secretary and Board of Governors Chair Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute Charlotte, NC ACC Global STEMI project JAN 30 Ramesh Mazhari, MD Associate Professor of Medicine/Division of Cardiology Shawn Sarin, MD Assistant Professor of Radiology Risk stratification in PAD Management

GW Medicine Notes Page 3

Please Join Us In Welcoming Our

Newest Addition to the

Department of Medicine

Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, MD joins the Division of Car-

diology as a Professor of Medicine. She will serve as the Medi-

cal Director of the MFA/GWUH Pulmonary Hypertension Pro-

gram and will build a comprehensive management program to

include outpatient and inpatient diagnosis and treatment, non-

invasive and invasive testing, and state of the art Pulmonary

Hypertension medication options.

She will represent and promote the MFA/GWUH Pulmonary

Hypertension Program to healthcare providers, patients, and

organizations outside the Hospital to encourage their participa-

tion for growth and development; coordinate and integrate out-

patient pulmonary hypertension services, including screening,

laboratory, and cardiac laboratory tests with hospital-based

testing and inpatient management; provide pulmonary vascular

screening and treatment for connective tissue disease patients;

Support management and provide leadership relevant to

achieving high quality and optimum efficiency in the delivery of

pulmonary hypertension services; participate in the develop-

ment and delivery of an ongoing public education and market-

ing program about pulmonary hypertension services; develop

MFA/GWUH Pulmonary Hypertension program into an interna-

tionally recognized premier tier 1 Pulmonary Hypertension

Center through leading clinical research, participating in phase

2 and 3 studies and independent programs within the institu-

tion; develop educational initiatives for patient safety; educate

nursing and pharmacy staff; as well as teaching our residents,

fellows and medical students.

Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, MD, MSc completed her Medical

Degree at Albert Einstein College of medicine, Yeshiva Univer-

sity, with a special distinction for Research in Cardiovascular

Medicine, 1996. She completed her Residency in Internal Med-

icine at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill-Cornell Medical

Center, 1999 and was accepted for Fellowship in Cardiovascu-

lar Diseases in 2002, at The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardi-

ovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Medical Center. For the period

of 2001-2002, Dr. Gomberg-Maitland was also a Visiting Fellow

in Critical Care Medicine at the New York Presbyterian Hospi-

tal/Weill-Cornell Medical Center. She is boarded in Internal

Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease and is licensed in the state of

New York, Illinois and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Dr. Gomberg-Maitland is an expert clinician and researcher in

the field of Pulmonary Heart Disease. She has participated in

dozens of multicenter, multinational research trials to explore

new therapies for Pulmonary Hypertension. She is currently

focusing on Pulmonary Arterial, Pulmonary Venous Hyperten-

sion/Diastolic Dysfunction, and Biomarker Development.

Dr. Gomberg-Maitland is nationally known for her work, has

had extensive grant funding and is extensively published with

over 150 articles, abstracts, reviews and chapters. She has pub-

lished in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of the

American College of Cardiology, JACC Heart Failure, Pulmo-

nary Circulation, European Respiratory Journal, Chest, and the

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Fellowship Match Results

We are proud to announce that we had a great match this year! Congratulations to all of our PGY3s, and thank you to the faculty and staff who supported and guided them along the way to this success! Please note that all our residents that sought a fellowship program were successful.

Our residents matched with the following fellowship programs:

Allergy/Immunology

Seemal Awan - NIH

Cardiology

Alex Aldrich – Ohio State

Tanuka Datta - Jefferson

Ari Faiwiszewski – GW

Lenny Genovese – Inova Fairfax

Tushina Jain – GW

Abdul Nuqali – Kansas University

Critical Care

James Mitchell - Stanford

Gastroenterology

Bedoor Alabbas – GW

Kerian Dodds - GW

Endocrinology

Connell Knight - Emory

Hematology & Medical Oncology

Amanda Nizam – Cleveland Clinic

Infectious Diseases

Sarah Alsamarai – Mt. Sinai

Kusha Davar - UCLA

Nephrology

Ameen Alahmadi - Northwestern

Pulmonary and Critical Care

John Gwizdala – Henry Ford

Jeff Lankowsky - GW

Rheumatology

Mayce Haj-Ali – NYU Ben Plotz - NYU

Vladislav Tsaltskan– UCSD

Sleep Qusai AlSaleh (2nd fellowship)- GW

The George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates

Department of Medicine, Suite 8-416

2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

GW Medicine Notes Page 4

Congratulations… to Jehan “Gigi” El-Bayoumi, MD, General

Internal Medicine, on receiving the 2018 Lolo Sarnoff Founder’s

Award presented by Arts for the Aging (AFTA). She received

the award for her humanitarianism, philanthropy, and thought

leadership in health, aging, and the arts.

Kudos…to Dr. Art Adhatamsoontra, PGY1, on a letter of

praise, “Art played an essential role in reuniting this family and

he truly provided this patient with the quality of care she

deserves despite difficult mental/social situations. I think Art's

exceptional dedication to patient care should be a role model for

us all."

Kudos…to Dr. Jalil Ahari, Pulmonary, on receiving praise and

thanks from a family of a recently deceased patient.

Kudos….to Dr. Matthew Petersen, PGY 1, on a letter of praise

from the hospital, “He has a wonderful bedside manner with

clear communication technique, professional yet personable

transparency that seemed to meet the families comprehension/

needs.”

Congratulations….to Dr. Tania Alchalabi, Geriatrics, on the

newest addition to her family, Zoya Maryam, born on December

15, 2018.

Kudos and Congratulations Rheumatology Academic Conference Schedule January 2019

2300 M Street, N.W., Suite 3-332

8AM—11:30 AM Questions: Call (202) 741-2488

JAN 10: 8:00-9:00 AM Journal Club Drs. McBride and Aggarwal JAN 10: 9:00-11:30 AM Patient Safety Monitoring + Knowledge Bowl JAN 17: 7:30– 9:00 AM Intra-City Grand Rounds WHC JAN 17: 10:00– 11:00 AM Patient Safety Monitoring JAN 24: 8:00– 9:00 AM: “Psoriatic Arthritis” Dr. Alexis Ogdie, MD (University of Penn) JAN 24: 9:00– 11:30 AM: Patient Safety Monitoring + Knowledge Bowl JAN 31: 8:00-9:00 AM Radiology Conference Dr. K. Brindle JAN 31: 9:00– 11:30 AM: Patient Safety Monitoring + Knowledge Bowl