Many faculty members are engaged in a variety of research activities, ranging from medical education to clinical and basic science research. As part of a complete curriculum in Internal Medicine, all residents are required to complete an Academic Project under the guidance of a faculty member. The purpose of the project is to enhance residents’ overall understanding of the skills involved in academic research and to promote involvement in scholarly activity. Trainees have also presented their projects at both the state and national annual ACP-ASIM meetings. Residents are encouraged to develop project ideas as soon as possible in their first year of training. Those who have their project ideas organized may request a research elective month.
Faculty list for academic projects:
- Mary Ann Antonelli, MD: Rheumatology cases
- Richard Arakaki, MD: DM projects – General Endocrine Case Studies
- Steven Azuma, MD: Clinical Cardiology
- Denny Bales, MD: Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiomyopathy
- Gabriele Barthlen, MD: Sleep Medicine, Correlation between polysomnography and actigraphy
- Erlaine Bello, MD: Infection Control; Medical Education; Infectious Diseases
- Michael Bornemann, MD: DM; Thyroid; General Endocrine
- Rossini Botev, MD: Estimating the GFR for CKD classifications progression of CKD
- S. Kalani Brady, MD: Native Hawaiian Health Chronic Disease
- Joel Brown, MD: Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine (Strongyloidiasis; EBV and Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma)
- John Callan, MD: None specific – Pulmonary Disease
- Linda Chang, MD: HIV Brain Disease(s) – Brain abnormalities associated with drug use (ice, marijuana):: HIV, Substance abuse, Aging, Brain Development, Neurodegenerative diseases
- Dominic Chow, MD: HIV: Lipodystrophy & Autonomic Function: Metabolic & Cardiovascular Disease Associated with HIV disease
- John J. Cogan, MD: Cardiovascular Medicine
- Dan Davis, MD: Telemedicine, Quality improvement in private practice with the EMR
- Samuel Evans, MD: Critical Care Medicine
- David Fergusson, MD: Subjects related to invasive and/or interventional cardiology:
- David Finger, MD: SLE, RA
- Emilio Ganitano, MD: Critical Care Medicine
- John Houk, MD: Electronic Health records, primary care socio-economic issues
- Allan Izumi, MD: Dermatology-Core Department Curriculum
- Robert V Jao, MD: Colitis – IBD, Hepatitis, Clinical Research Cultural Medicine: Chinese/Thai/Japanese/S. Pacific Islanders
- David John, MD: Rheumatology
- Doug Johnson, MD:Alternative dosing schedule for use of Enbrel in treatment of psoriasis:
- Larry Kaufman, MD: Critical Care
- Richard Kasuya, MD: Medical Education, Curriculum Development Projects
- Sreenandh Krishnagopalan, MD: Critical Care, Sepsis
- Phillip I Kuo, MD: Allergy and Immunology
- William Lau, MD: Infectious Disease
- Steven MacBride, MD: Medical Education
- Kamal Masaki, MD: Dementia, Depression, Disability, Cardiovascular Epidemiology
- Curtis Nakatsu, MD: Medical Information
- Janet Onopa, MD: Quality Improvement, Altitude Sickness, CAM surveys
- Damon Sakai, MD: Topics in Medical Education
- Daniel Saltman, MD: Computer applications in medicine – Telemedicine
- Werner G. Schroffner, MD: Endocrinology and metabolism
- Todd Seto, MD: Quality Outcomes Cardiology Research
- Cecilia Shikuma, MD: HIV
- Ralph Shohet, MD: determined interest in basic science: Cardiovascular genetics and molecular biology. Cardiac response to stress (especially hypoxia and endothelin signaling); Endothelial gene regulation; Other cardiovascular projects – genetics, gene therapy (Residents who have some experience w/molecular biology would be most appropriate.)
- Bruce Soll, MD: Sleep, Cheyne Stokes Repirations/CHF
- Elizabeth Tam, MD: Idiopathic Pulm Fibrosis, Non TB Mycobacteria Asthma, COPD
- S.Y. Tan, MD: History of Medicine – Health Law & Ethics
- Naoky Tsai, MD: Chronic Liver Disease
- Alan Tice, MD: Infectious Diseases with specific interests in Staphylococci, Viral Hepatitis, outcomes research: Staphylococci - Access to Care, Viral Hepatitis - Outpatient IV antibiotic therapy.
- Michael Watters, MD: Marine Neurotoxins – Neurologic HIV:: Neurologic HIV, Marine Neurotoxins, Aging and Nervous System
- Barak Younoszai, DO: Alcohol withdrawal – Hospitalist medicine
Further reference at the UH Department of Medicine Faculty Research Web Page