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#PCCM
fellowship?
Come hang with us in
#Naptown
- we train leaders in all aspects of pulmonary and critical care medicine. And our strength is our people.
#MedTwitter
#MedEd
Congrats to our recent faculty promotions! 🥳
Dr. Gabe Bosslet- Professor of Medicine
Dr. Catherine Sears- Assoc. Prof. of Medicine
Dr. Laura Hinkle- Assoc. Prof. of Medicine
Dr. Stephanie Stahl- Assoc. Prof. of Medicine
@gbosslet
@PulmOncSears
@LauraHinkle18
As the new academic year approaches, we have several new leadership announcements this week 📢
@LauraHinkle18
, long-time Hoosier and outstanding mentor, will be taking over as our new PD! First female PD in IU PCCM history. Please help us congratulate, Dr. Hinkle! 👏
Got my COVID vaccine today at
@IU_Health
. I was happily surprised to see that Dr. Bill Rutherford was there to give me my shot! He is one of our ER/critical care physician who retired from clinical service in 2014. Drove from Florida to help with the vaccine!
We have another new grad about take the helm as APD 🥳 Dr. Nick Iannazzo has been with us since his
@IUIntMed
residency/chief residency. He has then thrived in fellowship becoming a real ILD expert. Now he’ll be joining our leadership as the ambulatory APD. Congrats! 👏
Congratulations to Dr.
@DrSarahSeyffert
for winning the Sunnyside Guild Award! This is awarded to the first-year fellow that exhibits true leadership and fosters an environment of inclusion amongst her peers and patients.
We’re very excited to keep on rolling out our new leadership announcements! Next up is Dr. Brent Bagley, current chief fellow, lifetime Hoosier, and Med Ed enthusiast. He’ll be taking the reigns as our curriculum APD. Please help us congratulate,
@brentbagley
! 👏
The master educator himself,
@gbosslet
teaching our ICU residents about chest tubes! Remember the days when we had the three bottle setup over the single container Atriums we have know? 🧐
Stoked about the new fellows to join us in July:
Nancy Bethuel
Rosalyn Chi (
@chi_rosalyn
) (CCM)
Sushma Chinni
Kevin Hachey
Benjamin Lipanot
Sydney Schacht (
@sydneyschacht1
)
Evan Tomkiewicz (CCM)
Srikanth Vedachalam (
@DrVedachalamDO
)
Another batch of fine PCCM and CCM fellows graduated this weekend. We envision big things in all of your futures and are proud of all of you. Congrats Class of 2023! 🥳🎉
Congrats to our adult IP attending, Dr.
@ChrisKniese
for winning “Star of the Month” at
@RileyChildrens
. Apparently Chris Kniese is for the adults AND the children!
Fantastic talk by second-year GI fellow,
@FeenaliePatel
from
@IUGastro
on the management of acute pancreatitis in the ICU during our Fellow’s Conference today!
Super stoked that we are a site for the
@AstraZeneca
@UniofOxford
phase III vaccine trial, to start in a few weeks.
Faculty member (twitterphobe) Cindy Brown is the site lead.
We are the only site in Indiana.
Guiding our program and guiding trainees across campus.
@gbosslet
teaching how to train for, develop, and grow a career as a clinician-educator (and still pick up your kids at 530pm).
Had the opportunity to host
@IUIntMed
and
@IUMedPeds
residents last night at our pulmonary interest group meeting. All we can say is the future of pulmonary/critical care is bright! Watch out for these faces in an ICU near you soon!
@gbosslet
@RFPMachado
Learning about neuromuscular disease from none other than
@gbosslet
during our Fellow’s Conference today!
😷 Cough peak flow < 270 = cough assist device
🫁 Diaphargm pacing only for BILATERAL paralysis
🔺 High rates of malnourishment
🫁 Use volume modes during ventilation
When your program understands that kickin’ it with your co-fellows is important for wellness. Thanks
@GrahamCarlos
for providing us with lunch from
@clustertruck
and for organizing this moment in diastole.
In the rare moments when our ICUs simmer down, first-year fellow
@dpfeifleMD
is still hard at work teaching the residents and students of
@IUMedSchool
about vasopressors!
ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢
We are moving with the times (and w/
@gbosslet
) by expanding into Mastodon and Instagram. If you have enjoyed our content this past week, there will be plenty more, plus new segments yet to debut! Follow us!!
Mastodon:
@IUPCCM
@med
-mastodon.com
Instagram:
@IUPCCM
Congratulations to Dr
@Edwin_J_Jr
on being awarded the Golden Lung Award this year. This award is selected by the fellows and given to a faculty member who has made exceptional contributions to our education this past year.
We are thrilled to announce our new chief fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year! Please help us congratulate Sushma Chinni, DO and Ben Lipanot, MD as our PCCM chiefs, and Shelby Beil, MD as our FIRST EVER CCM chief.
@LauraHinkle18
@gbosslet
@RFPMachado
@IUMedSchool
While we love the hustle and bustle of the hospital, sometimes it���s nice when faculty and fellows (and even a future first year fellow!) can get out to teach the
@IUMedSchool
students. Name a better feeling than a learner getting their first flash on a central line?!
Regenstrief's Dr. Sikandar Khan received the prestigious Paul Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award, an initiative of
@NIHAging
,
@AFARorg
and
@JohnAHartford
. It provides up to 5 years of support for scientists to improve healthcare outcomes.
Our ICU teams had a “ball” working hard to take care of our patients while ringing in the New Year’s together. Happy New Year’s to all! 🥳
@IUIntMed
@IUMedPeds
@ForeverFancy17
Ready for another day at ATS! 👊🏽
@DrVedachalamDO
and
@GrahamCarlos
just put up their poster on an unusual case of pleural effusion created by our future first-year fellow,
@aly_bundy
!
Spending the morning going through ultrasound sim with Dr. Edwin Jackson. We regularly get access to both mannequins and standardized patients to perfect our US skills with thanks to Dr. Jackson!
“Patients don’t care what you know until they know that you care”. Flashback to earlier this month when the first-years underwent a 2-day seminar on difficult conversations in the ICU with Dr. Fettig of Palliative Care, and our own Drs. Bosslet and Smith.
Next up we’re thrilled to announce that Dr. Edwin Jackson, aka
@HoosierPocus
, will be joining our leadership as procedural competency APD! He comes to us from the outstanding program at
@OSUPCCM_Fellows
and has been appreciated by all for his mentorship and teaching!
@Edwin_J_Jr
While it’s always fun to teach our residents how to place CVCs, sometimes nothing beats being to place a good ultrasound-guided PIV….especially when they can place them in their favorite fellows 😂
Pulmonary Grand Rounds are in full swing! Every year our very own
@GrahamCarlos
takes fellows and staff with him to teach med students all over Indiana about the 🫁. Today was the IU Bloomington campus where third-year fellow, Nancy Bethuel and attending,
@ryanboente
joined him!
Teaching Assessment Committee (TAC) is a new initiative created by chief fellow,
@brentbagley
where fellows can provide enhanced feedback for our faculty members.
HAIL TO THE CHIEF!! Next up on our
#FellowSpotlight
is one of our chief fellows, Maria Srour. See which are her favorite outdoor activities, her current music tastes and where her VO2max ranks amongst her co-fellows over on our new Instagram page!
It’s official. Updating my CV. I’ll be joining IU Pulmonary Hypertension Program and working with
@RFPMachado
. We’re gonna do amazing things together. Very excited for this new chapter. As always, it’s
#AllAboutTheRV
Hey everyone, head over to Instagram (
@IUPCCM
)!
@DrSarahSeyffert
, second-year fellow, is doing a “A Day in the Life” of our Bronch/PFT rotation. It’s hilarious!
Great Chest Conference on nocardia by
@CoryPowers91
!
🕳️ Can cavitate
🤷🏽♂️ 2/3 immunocompromised
🦠 88% sensitive in sputum cx. Bx non-pulm lesions
🫁 Risk factors: SOT, COPD, HIV, alcohol and chronic steroids
💊Tx with Bactrim! +/- amikacin/imipenem for CNS and severe dx
Drs. Sushma Chinni and
@ForeverFancy17
cover the jarring realities of health disparities involving ILD-related care and transplant in this morning’s Chest Conference. The gaps are large and seemingly insurmountable for many.
Last but not least in our leadership announcements 📢 is our NEW critical care track PD, Dr. Omar Rahman! He will be taking over for
@tjelle13
. A revered award-winning educator, critical care researcher, and legend in the ICU. We are very excited to see what comes next! Congrats!
Four of our faculty members - Francesca Duncan, Lauren Nephew, Sacha Sharp and Glenda Westmoreland - are joining the Indiana Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha.
Interview season is in full swing!! Today started with an outstanding Chest Conference by third-year fellow
@DrVedachalamDO
and our PD,
@LauraHinkle18
teaching us about the management of massive hemoptysis, and sickle cell patients in the ICU.
We are most thankful for the amazing fellows at
@IUMedSchool
@IUIntMed
.
These are COVID heroes and continue to amaze us week after week through this pandemic.
Difficult airway simulation course put together by
@tjelle13
this week for the fellows! All the skills you never hope to use, but we’re well-prepared to do so now.
Excited to co-author a systematic review in the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine comparing the accuracy of the mini-BAL to the bronchoscopic BAL for diagnosing pneumonia in ventilated patients
@IUIntMed
@IUMedPeds
@IUPCCM
@SageClinMed
Lauren Pavlik was the IM chief resident at
@EskenaziHealth
just a few months ago and now she just finished her first ICU rotation at Eskenazi as a first-year fellow! 👊🏽 Check out her Instagram
#FellowSpotlight
🔦 at
@IUPCCM
.
To say that chief fellow,
@srour_maria
did an away rotation this year would be an understatement. Check out her trip to Kenya to see how PCCM is practiced elsewhere!
Congratulations to
@dpfeifleMD
and
@HIyer995
on being newly elected members of our Council on Constitution & Bylaws and Candidate for Council on Medical Service!
First year fellow,
@dpfeifleMD
walking us through managing aspergillomas during Chest Conference from PO/IV antifungals to embolization to surgery……to intracavitary Amphotericin B 😮
via
@gbosslet
: Final preparations for welcoming the new
#PCCM
fellows tomorrow and I'm reminded of the emotions of the first year of fellowship- I think this graph captures it well.
@IUMedSchool
@IUIntMed
Introducing our new first years is our
#FellowSpotlight
🔦 series! Matt Coghlan was an former IU chief resident, now fellow. Check out pictures his two little pups as he talks about his favorite movies, music and hometown. Find this all over at our Instagram
@IUPCCM
!
Stoked that
@IUSMDeptMed
just announced 2 of our faculty are new leaders within the department!
Cindy Brown will co-lead the Women in Medicine Group
@ForeverFancy17
will co-lead the Equity and Inclusion Committee
(both with
@drssotto
)