Teaching Faculty on the Wards:
Teaching Hospitalists & Distinguished Subspecialists
There
are no non-teaching services at Tulane: every patient admitted to one of
our three hospitals receives care from a Tulane resident who is staffed
by one teaching attending. There are no private physicians barking orders
without explanation to the Tulane residents. And there certainly isn’t
the “follow me around and watch me write orders” shadowing
on the part of our attendings. This is important, because you cannot
learn medicine without being in the position of making the critical decisions
for your patients. And this decision-making cannot come by proxy:
you only learn the indications and contraindications for an intervention
when you are responsible for the outcomes of the decision. Tulane is about
autonomy: learning to make decisions and to be comfortable with that role
that will define you as an internist. Tulane is about preparing yourself
as a first-rate internist, prepared to handle anything and everything that
comes through the door.
This is not to say that Tulane residents do not have supervision, to the
contrary, we have hand-picked some of the best clinician educators in the
country to serve as our teaching hospitalists. Their role, and they have
been extensively trained in this role, is to provide guidance and coaching….
Not to overstep the resident’s station of primarily managing the
patient.
All
of the teaching services at Tulane are staffed by Teaching Hospitalists.
These are individuals who attend on the wards from six to eight months
per year, so they become very good in knowing the intricacies of the system,
and very adept at the art of teaching residents in the context of clinical
care. Furthermore, they have no afternoon obligations (e.g., a colonoscopy
clinic) that prompt them to rush through morning rounds so that they can
get to their clinic. The morning attending rounds are from 10 to 12 noon
each day, and they are devoted to education during this time; there is
no rush. In addition, they are around in the afternoon to supervise procedures,
often times rounding a second time with the senior residents to do advanced
level teaching and patient planning. The final benefit is that the hospitalist
each staff a discharge follow-up clinic that allows the ward teams to discharge
patients without the anxiety of worrying about whether the patient will
be ok until their next clinic visit.
For those interested in a career in hospitalist medicine, the extensive
hospitalist system provides a great opportunity to work with mentors performing
hospitalist-based research: quality improvement, patient-care protocols,
and systems improvement projects.
All of our Hospitalist Faculty are required to undergo a month-long formal
course in medical education. In addition to having world-class clinicians
as your mentors, you can count on the fact that they are also world-class
educators. We are excited to have these new faculty as part of the Tulane
mission for years to come.
Come be a part of the rebuilding of New Orleans and Tulane. There is no better time to redesign a healthcare system for the betterment of one of the greatest cities on earth.
For our residents, opportunities abound to participate in subspecialty
rotations or research months in subspeciality labs or projects during their
three to four elective months per year. Check out the subspecialty that
most interests you below...
Cardiology
Dermatology
Endocrinology
General
Medicine
Gastroenterology
Hematology
/ Oncology
Infectious
Diseases
Nephrology
Immunology/Allergy/Rheumatology
Pulmonary
Critical Care
Tulane Internal Medicine Faculty
The
RRC requires that a program of Tulane’s size have 6 Key Clinical Faculty
Members. A KCF member is defined by a faculty who spends at least 15 hours
per week directly involved with the residents. Tulane has 12 Key Clinical
Faculty members, and we are a young, energetic group.
At a ratio of 1 KCF to 8 residents, you can be assured that you will receive personal coaching and mentorship from someone who has the knowledge, skill and experience to make you great. For people looking for female mentors in medicine, note the strong female mentorship available at Tulane.
Personal Coaches: The Faculty Residency Support
Committee
For as good as our residents are, there are occasions where a resident
realizes he or she that one of his seven core skills is weaker than others.
To shore up this weakness, the program has a committee of faculty with
expertise on how to personally coach each of these seven skill areas. Below
are the faculty that sit on this elite committee devoted to ensuring that
each Tulane graduates with no weaknesses.
Jeffrey Wiese, MD, Residency Program Director
Eboni Price, MD, MPH, Associate Residency Program Director
Chad
Miller, MD, Associate Residency Program Director
Alys
Alper, MD, MPH, Associate Chief, Medical Education and Administration
Lydia Bazzano,
MD
Chayan Chakraborti,
MD
Princess
Dennar, MD
Blackwell
Evans, MD
Domnica
Fotino, MD
Marcia
Glass, MD
Michelle
Guidry, MD
Lumie Kawasaki, MD, MBA,
Associate Chief, Geriatrics
Mike
Landry, MD, MSc, Director of the VA Medical Residency Clinic
Marlow
Maylin, MD
Geraldine E. Ménard, MD, Associate Chief of Inpatient Programs, Director of Hospitalist & Consultative Medicine
Anjali Niyogi, MD, MPH
Ben
Rothwell, MD
David
Spruill, MD
Research Coaches
No program offers the one-to-one research mentorship like Tulane…. Check out the research opportunities on our Research Page. It is one of the many reasons that Tulane has the most national resident presentations in the country, and the reason the residents do so well in the fellowship match.
Allergy,
Immunology and Rheumatology
Manuel
Lopez, M.D.
Mittie
Kelleher Doyle, M.D
Jane
Maroney El-Dahr, M.D.
Laurianne
G. Wild, M.D.
Samuel
B. Lehrer, Ph.D
Karen A. Sullivan,
Ph.D.
Cardiology (practice
website)
Patrice
Delafontaine, MD
Asif
Anwar, MD
Salman
A. Arain, MD
Drew
Baldwin, MD, MPH
Gerald
Berenson, MD
Mark
Cassidy, MD
John
Cook, MD
Michael
Finn, MD
Thomas
Giles, MD
Corey
Goldman, MD
M.
Azam Hadi, MD
Albert
L. Hyman, MD
Stacy
Ducombs-Isa, ACNP
Anand
M. Irimpen, MD
Thierry
H. Le Jemtel, MD
Roberta
McDuffie, MSN
James
J. McKinnie, MD
Lawrence
P. O'Meallie, MD
John
Pigott, MD
Gary
Sander, MD
Michael
Weaver, MD
Eckhard
U. Alt, MD, PhD
Yusuke
Higashi, PhD
Reza
Izadpanah, PhD
Shaw-Yung
Shai, PhD
Sergiy
Sukhanov, PhD
Endocrinology
Vivian
Fonseca, MD, FRCP
Tina
Thethi, MD
Jennifer
John-Kalarickal, MD
Subramanyam
Murthy, PhD
Roberta
McDuffie, APRN
Cyril
Y. Bowers, M.D.
Gastroenterology
Luis A. Balart, M.D.
Robert S. Bulat, M.D.
Virendra Joshi, M.D.
Jordan Karlitz, M.D.
Frederic G. Regenstein,
M.D.
Rajesambhaji Borade,
M.D.
Chaithanya Mallikarjun,
M.D.
Abdominal
Transplant Faculty
Sander S. Florman,
M.D.
Mary T. Killackey,
M.D.
Douglas P. Slakey,
M.D., MPH
Anil S. Paramesh, M.D.,
FACS
Rubin Zhang, M.D.
General Medicine
Lydia
Bazzano, MD, PhD
Karen
Desalvo, MD, MPH, MSc
Timothy
Harlan, MD
Eboni
Price, MD
Jeff
Wiese, MD
Geriatrics
S.
Michal Jazwinski, PhD
Lumi
Kawasaki, MD, MBA
Infectious Disease
David
M. Mushatt, MD, MPH&TM
Rodrigo
Hasbun, MD
Vidya Mave, MD, MPH&TM
Susan
McLellan, MD, MPH
Richard
S. Witzig, MD, MPH
Pierre
Dejace, MD
Christiane
Hadi, MD, MPH&TM
Newton
E. Hyslop, Jr., MD
Shanker Japa, PhD
Nephrology
L.
Lee Hamm, MD
Eric
E. Simon, MD
Arnold
B. Alper, Jr., MD, MPH
Vecihi
Batuman, MD, FACP, FASN
Jing
Chen, MD
N.
Kevin Krane, MD, FACP
Ivo
Lukitsch, MD
Rubin
Zhang, MD
Kathleen Hering-Smith,
Ph.D.
Min
Li, Ph.D.
Nazih Nakhoul, Ph.D
Neurology
Cola,
Monique, PhD
Colon,
Patricia, MD
Martin-Schild,
Sheryl, MD
Nicholl,
Jeffrey, MD
Redmann,
Gregory, MD, PhD
Shamsnia,
Morteza, MD
Traylor,
Angela N, MD
Pulmonary/Critical
Care
Joseph
A. Lasky, MD
Francesco
Simeone, MD
Robert
N. Jones, MD
Dean
Ellithorpe, MD
Nereida
Parada, MD
Supat
Thammasitboon, MD
Jaime
Palomino, MD
Ross
C. Klingsberg, MD
Henry
W. Glindmeyer, III, D.Engr
Jay
Shames, MD
Bin
Shan, PhD
Tinofa
Muskwe, MD
Women’s
Health
Jeanette
H. Magnus, Md, PhD
Leadership Coaches…Getting Connected
on a National Level
If you have the desire to get involved with national organizations,
you have come to the right place. Tulane faculty are leaders in their respective
organizations. Take the following as a few examples….
Patrice
Delafontaine, Chair, NIH’s Vascular Cell & Molecular Biology
Study Section
Lee
Hamm, MD President, Southern Society of Clinical Investigation
Karen
DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc; ACGIM President
Jeff
Wiese, MD: Board of Directors, President Elect, Society of Hospital Medicine
Jeff
Wiese, MD: Council, Assoc. of Program Directors in Internal Med.
National Recognitions
Wiese
receives the ACGME Parker Palmer Courage to Teach Award
Wiese
receives the AAMC’s Robert J Glaser Distinguished Teaching Award
Wiese
receives the ACP’s Walter McDonald Award
Wiese receives
the SGIM’s Mentorship Award