Not surprisingly, the entire Republican Convention was about trying to reinvent

Trump as being qualified, as opposed to what he is, and also demonizing Hillary. I

failed to hear anything about policy, especially when it comes to Health Care. But

there is a policy and it’s in the Republican Platform. It is a multi-component plan:

1. Vote to Abolish the Affordable Care Act

2. Vote again to Abolish the Affordable Care Act

3. Keep Voting to Abolish the Affordable Care Act

If such a vote passed, it would set back any advances towards Universal Coverage, as

it is estimated that 21 million Americans will lose their insurance and result in addi-

tional costs of nearly half a trillion dollars over 10 years. How would they pay for

this? By deporting 11 million illegals and enforcing the immigration laws, of course.

This would result in fewer people needing access to Medicaid. And by making Medi-

caid a block grant to states that is capped, when the money runs out, so does the

health care. So what if the numbers don’t add up? If that doesn’t work, they can al-

ways build a wall around every hospital to keep patients out.

Trump also said that he would allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. He would do

this because it “would save $300 billion a year.” The only problem is that Medicare

only spends $110 billion a year on prescription medication, but facts are too messy.

Take the yoke off the back of citizens. No person should be required to buy insurance

unless they want to, and if they get sick they will have no right to buy insurance

should they then decide they want to. Got it? Only the healthy should apply.

Their plan would change Medicare to an income-adjusted contribution for buying

private insurance. Why? “To promote competition and make health care more effi-

cient.” Translated this means, “more money to the private companies who donate

lots of money.” How popular do you think this plan would be?

This is the most anti-abortion platform in history. It calls for it to be a crime to trans-

fer body parts for research purposes and stops all Federal funding for Planned

Parenthood. We finally got away from W’s ban against fetal tissue research so here

we go again. And Rep. Marsha Blackburn said “Planned Parenthood doesn’t need the

money … 94 percent of their business … is (paid) abortion services.” The fact is that

abortions accounted for 3 percent of the nearly 10.6 million total services provided by

Planned Parenthood clinics in 2013. What they spend money on is: 4.5 million tests

for STD’s, 1 million cancer screenings, 1.1 million prenatal services, etc. But if it is

said on the floor of the House it must be true. An educated Representative from Ten-

nessee wouldn’t lie, but obviously Marsha Blackburn would.

If all else fails he will keep people healthy through nutrition. “Eat more steak,”

Trump steaks of course. If you can afford them after paying your tuition at Trump

University. He can always declare bankruptcy, which he is good at. What does

Hillary know about that?

August 2016 Volume 20, Issue 8

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

From the Chairman Congratulations to the following Full-Time Med-

icine Faculty on their academic promotions ef-

fective July 1, 2016:

Tenure

Eduardo Sotomayor, MD, Professor of

Medicine, Tenure

Associate Professor

Showkat Bashir MD, Associate Professor of

Medicine

Rahul Khosla MD, Associate Professor of

Medicine (VA)

Clinical Professor

Richard Elion, MD, Clinical Professor of Medi-

cine

Sands Irani, MD, Clinical Professor of Medi-

cine

Harvey Katzen, MD, Clinical Professor of

Medicine

John Powers, MD, Clinical Professor of Medi-

cine

Carol Salzman, MD, Clinical Professor of Med-

icine

Associate Clinical Professor

Angela Lee MD, Associate Clinical Professor of

Medicine

Also, Congratulations to the following Faculty

on their promotion to Emeritus status:

James Cooper, MD, Clinical Professor Emeri-

tus

David Goodman, MD, Clinical Professor Emer-

itus

Frederick Rickles, MD, Clinical Professor

Emeritus

Manuel Velasquez, MD, Clinical Professor

Emeritus

W. Scott Schroth, MD, Associate Professor

Emeritus

Alan G. Wasserman, M.D.

save the Date Faculty/housestaff

Holiday Party Friday, December 9, 2016

Academic Promotions 2016

Department of Medicine August 2016 Grand Rounds

Medicine Team Contacts

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WHITE TEAM (202) 715-5669 YELLOW TEAM (202) 715-6041 GREEN TEAM (202) 715-6062 RED TEAM (202) 715-6039 BLUE TEAM (202) 715-6156 SILVER TEAM (202) 715-6040 PURPLE TEAM (202) 715-6042 GOLD TEAM (202) 715-6044

ADMITTING RESIDENT 741-0161 pager

Resident Lecture Series August 2016 Noon Conference

MAR 1 Journal Club MAR 2 GME Core Lecture

MAR 3 Medicine Grand Rounds MAR 4 Chairman’s Rounds

MAR 7 “Oral Health in Primary Care”- Dr. Pierre Carter MAR 8 Mortality & Morbidity-

Drs. Dana Kay and JoeDelio MAR 9 “Genetic Screening”- Dr. Macri and Andrew Nance, MS4 MAR 10 Medicine Grand Rounds

MAR 11 Chairman’s Rounds MAR 14 TBD

MAR 15 “Chronic Disease Prevention and Management: A Dentist’s Perspective”- Dr. Pierre Carter

MAR 16 GME Core Lecture MAR 17 Medicine Grand Rounds

MAR 18 Chairman’s Rounds MAR 21 “Special Topics in Adult Oral Healthcare: Geriatrics,

Oropharyngeal Cancer, Infectious Disease Prevention, and Women’s Health”- Dr. Pierre Carter MAR 22 Clinicopathologic Conference-

Drs. Abeer Alfaraj and Rami Al Sharif MAR 23 TBD

MAR 24 Medicine Grand Rounds MAR 25 Chairman’s Rounds MAR 28 TBD MAR 29 TBD

MAR 30 TBD MAR 31 TBD

AUG 4 “Diversity and Inclusion: From Fairness

to Excellence”

Marc A. Nivet, Ed.D, MBA

Chief Diversity Officer

Association of American Medical Colleges

AUG 11 “LGBT Health”

Shane Snowden

Director, Health and Aging Policy at Human Rights

Campaign

Founding Director, Center for LGBT Health & Equity

at the University of California, San Francisco

AUG 18 “Hypermobility Disorders“

Pragya Singh, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Division of Rheumatology

Department of Medicine

GW Medical Faculty Associates

AUG 25 “Genetic Testing for Breast and

Ovarian Cancer: Where do we go from here?”

Susan Domchek, MD

Professor of Medicine

Basser Professor in Oncology

Director, MacDonald Women’s Cancer Risk

Evaluation Center

Executive Director, Basser Center for BRCA

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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).

JULY 1 JULY 4 HOLIDAY

JULY 5 “Intro to HIV”- Dr. Marc Siegel JULY 6 “Hospital Wound Care”- Kathleen Kurntke

JULY 7 Medicine Grand Rounds

JULY 8 “Oral Health”- Pierre Cartier JULY 11 “Sepsis”- Dr. Katrina Hawkins

JULY 12 Mortality and Morbidity- Drs. Sara and Tina JULY 13 “Thyroid Nodules”- Dr. Jill Paulson

JULY 14 Medicine Grand Rounds JULY 15

JULY 18 “Drug Allergies”- Dr. Richard Nicklas JULY 19 “TBD”- Dr. Khaled el-Shami

JULY 20 “Radiology”- Dr. Michael Burke

JULY 21 Medicine Grand Rounds JULY 22

JULY 25 “Reading CXR”- Dr. Jalil Ahari JULY 26 “Neutropenic Fever”- Dr. Afsoon Roberts

JULY 27 JULY 28 Medicine Grand Rounds

JULY 29

AUG 1 “Introduction to EKG's” - Dr. Mercader AUG 2 “Epilepsy”- Dr. Yamane Makke AUG 3 “DVT Prophy”- Dr. Sara Wikstrom AUG 4 Medicine Grand Rounds AUG 5 “Library Resources”- Laura Abate AUG 8 “Transfusion Medicine” - Dr. Elsie Lee AUG 9 Mortality and Morbidity- Drs. AUG 10 “Approach to Hypoxia”- Dr. Jeff Williams AUG 11 Medicine Grand Rounds AUG 12 NO Resident Lecture AUG 15 “Things we do for no reason”-Dr. Jason Prior AUG 16 “Glomerulonephritis” - Dr. Scott Cohen

AUG 17 GME AUG 18 Medicine Grand Rounds AUG 19 “Mgmt of CKD”- Dr. Ashte Collins AUG 22 “Anemia”- Dr. Shant Ayanian AUG 23 “Arrhymthia Management” - Dr. Solomon AUG 24 “Dyspnea/Bipap”- Dr. Jeff Williams AUG 25 Medicine Grand Rounds AUG 26 Chairman’s Rounds AUG 29 “Introduction to Heart Failure” - Dr. Panjrath AUG 30 Clinicopathologic Conference Drs. Lauren Choi and Nardos Temesgen

AUG 31 “STDs” - Dr. Popiel

CARDIOLOGY

GRAND ROUNDS

WILL RETURN

IN SEPTEMBER

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Music Therapy in the Management of Medical Conditions

Mandana Hashefi, MD—Editor

Bonita Coe, MD, proudly wearing her Cavaliers cap!

Please Join Us In Welcoming Our Newest

Additions to the Department of Medicine

Anna W. McLean, MD joins or rather returns as a full time

faculty in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep

Medicine. Dr. McLean earned her Medical Degree at Drexel

University College of Medicine. She completed her Internal

Medicine Residency at The George Washington University Hos-

pital, in 2013 and subsequently completed a Fellowship, here at

The George Washington University in Pulmonary Medicine &

Critical Care in June 2016. She is skilled in Bronchoscopy, Trans-

bronchial Biopsy, Endobronchial Ultrasound, Central Venous

Catheters, Arterial Lines and a number of other pulmonary &

Critical Care procedures.

Dr. McLean is board certified in Internal Medicine and is board

eligible in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine. She is licensed in

the District of Columbia.

She will also be replacing Dr. Possner as Director of CAP.

Anjeni Keswani, MD joins us as a full time faculty in the Division

of Allergy and Sinus Center. Dr. Keswani earned her Medical

Degree at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, where she

also completed a Residency in Internal Medicine. In 2013, she

completed a Master of Science Degree in Clinical Investigation at

the same institution. In 2014, Dr. Keswani completed the sec-

ond of two Fellowships in Allergy/Immunology Research. The

first was completed a year earlier in Allergy/Immunology.

Dr. Keswani is board certified in Internal Medicine and Allergy

and Immunology and is licensed in Illinois, North Carolina and

the District of Columbia.

Dr. Keswani comes to us from Duke University in Durham, NC,

where she held an academic appointment of Clinical Instructor

and was the Medical Director, Duke Asthma, Allergy and Air-

way Center.

Shelleta S. Pleasant, LICSW joined the Division of General Inter-

nal Medicine in July as a Licensed Social Worker. She received a

Bachelor of Science degree in Counseling Psychology at Colum-

bia Union College and earned a Master’s in Social Work at

Howard University. She is a Licensed Independent Clinical So-

cial Worker in the District of Columbia.

Chairman’s Rounds GWU Hospital Auditorium, 12:00

All Faculty Invited to Attend Aug 26 Dr. Cory Bolinger Dr. Freba Farhat

The George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates

Department of Medicine, Suite 8-416

2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20037

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Kudos and Congratulations

Kudos… to Dr. Neeral Shah, former Chief

Resident, on being awarded the All-

University Teaching Award from UVA.

Kudos… to J ill Paulson, MD, Endocrinolo-

gy, and Scott Cohen, MD, Renal, they were

approved by the GME Committee as the new

Fellowship Program Directors.

Kudos… to Dr. William Borden, Cardiolo-

gy; he was invited to serve as an Associate

Editor for the AHA Journal, “Circulation:

Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes”.

Kudos… to the Division of Rheumatology

on a grateful patient donation to fund Lupus

Research.

Kudos...to Zohray Talib, General Internal

Medicine; she was appointed Honorary As-

sociate Professor on the Faculty of Medicine

in the Service of Mbarara University of Sci-

ence and Technology (MUST).

Kudos… to Mihir Patel, MD, General Internal

Medicine; he received a letter of praise from a

patient “thank you for the extraordinary care

that you gave me, you are such a good doctor”.

Kudos… to Eduardo Sotomayor, MD who was

selected to receive a Doctor Honoris Causa from

one of the Major Medical Schools in Lima (San

Martin de Porras University).

Kudos… to the first response team, Terri Cher-

ry, Niurka Bernal, Maxine Gray, Ebony Taylor,

LaShawn McFadden, Eleanor McKoy, Terrchell

McQueen and Kashi Johnson, whose swift and

professional response aided in the care and re-

covery of a patient who was in medical distress

while in the clinic waiting area.

Kudos… to Royette Leatham, Faculty Affairs

Administrator, who received recognition from

Dean Lucas, for a job well done in her timely on

-boarding of new faculty.

Condolences…to the family of Dr. Lettia Carl-

son, General Internal Medicine, on the passing

of her father.