Harlem Hospital Center offers a rich and comprehensive Fellowship training program in Gastroenterology. The program's core curriculum is designed to prepare the trainees for certification by the American Board of Infectious Diseases and an independent clinical and/or academic career.

 

The integral components of the training program at Harlem Hospital include:

  • Inpatient Gastroenterology Consultation Service
  • Inpatient Endoscopy Service
  • Outpatient Endoscopy and Cancer Prevention Service
  • Gastroenterology Clinic
  • Hepatology and Hepatitis C Clinic
  • Structured educational opportunities e.g. case conferences, journal club, research conferences etc.
  • Clinical research

Additional components:

  • Columbia Presbyterian Rotation - Liver Transplant
  • Metropolitan Hospital Rotation - Endoscopic Ultrasound
  • Metropolitan Hospital Rotation - Capsule Endoscopies

Learning Objectives:

  • To identify Gestroenterology diseases and their complications
  • To appropriately assess patients with these conditions by taking a thorough history and doing proper physical examination
  • To order appropriate investigations and interpret the results
  • To administer appropriate treatment and to monitor response to therapy
  • To be able to identify the need of an emergent intervention and to take necessary steps
  • To provide continuity of care for inpatients and outpatients
  • To develop management plans that take into account medical, social and psychological status of the patient
  • To work effectively as part of multidisciplinary team of providers
  • To identify local and community resources to assist in patient management
  • To successively retain patients in long term care

Harlem Hospital Center is a busy municipal hospital with an open door policy and a high utilization rate. It serves an indigent population with a wide array of serious health problems. The trainees at Harlem Hospital Center have a unique opportunity to gain broad clinical experience due to the wide array of Gastroentrological diseases treated in the hospital. The GI faculty plays an important role in ensuring that each trainee has an opportunity to see a diverse set of cases.

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  • Inpatient GI Consultation Service:

  • Inpatient Endoscopy & Liver Biopsy Service:

  • Outpatient Endoscopy and Cancer Prevention Service:

  • Capsul Endoscopy:

  • Endoscopic Ultrasound:

  • Liver Transplant Rotation:

 

Renal Journal Club
The Renal Journal Club is held once a week on Thursday afternoons at the 12th floor Conference Room. The renal fellows are primarily responsible for the journal club and is supervised by an assigned attending. This entails selecting an appropriate articles, researching the medical literature, and giving an in-depth summary and critique of the articles.

Physiology Conference
This conference is held twice a month on Monday mornings at the 12th floor conference Room and is presented by one of the fellows in rotation with a supervising attending.

Case Conference
This conference is held twice a month and interesting cases on the consult service are discussed. This conference is arranged by the fellow and the attending on the consultation service. The fellow also chooses the case for case conferences and either presents the case or supervises the resident/student in his presentation.

Vascular Surgery
The members of the Renal Division, including the renal fellows, meet on Tuesday mornings with the Vascular Surgery and Interventional Radiology Services to discuss problems with patient access for peritoneal and hemodialysis as well as access surveillance data. In addition recent interventions and their outcomes are discussed.

Renal Pathology
The Renal Division attends the biweekly Renal Biopsy Conference on Thursday mornings at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons (P&S). At this conference, the relationships between morphology and clinical findings are examined in detail. When one of our cases is to be discussed, the fellow presents the case history and the discussion. The members of the Division also attend the annual course in Renal Pathology (Renal Biopsy in Medical Diseases of the Kidney) at P&S.

Renal Radiology
The Renal Division attends the Renal Radiology Conference Monthly. At this conference renal sonograms, renal CT scans, excretory urograms, and radionuclide studies are presented and discussed. This conference is conducted by the Department of Radiology.

Department of Medicine Conferences
The fellow is also responsible for supervising residents when they are presenting renal cases at the weekly Department of Medicine Clinical Case Conference. The fellow is expected to present at least one Renal Grand Rounds to the Department of Medicine. This presentation is usually done late in the second year and is a topic of the fellow's choosing.

 

Velvie Anne Pogue, MD
Chief, Division of Nephrology and Program Director
Education: Harvard University School of Medicine
Residency: Harlem Hospital Center
Fellowship: Harlem Hospital Center

Jen-Tse Cheng, MD, FACP
Medical Director, Hemodialysis
Education: College of Medicine National Taiwan University
Residency: Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center
Fellowship: Bronx VA Medical Center, Mt. Sinai Univeristy

Herman Anderson, MD
Education: Boston University Medical School
Residency: Tulane University Integrated Residency
Fellowship: Harlem Hospital Center

Leroy Herbert, MD
Education: University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Residency: North Shore University Hospital
Fellowship: North Shore University Hospital

Sumit Mohan, MBBS, MPH, FASN
Assoc Program Director, IM Residency Program
Education: Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India
Residency: Harlem Hospital Center
Fellowship: Harlem Hospital Center

 

 

 

Current Fellows:

Machaiah Madhrira, MD
Muhammad Mujtaba, MD

Recent Fellows:

Mansvi Jaitly, MD
Sumit Mohan, MD, MPH
Behzad Alimohammadi, MD
Pratheep Arora, MD
Olodayo Sanusi, MD
Richard Gayle, MD