Meet Our Program Director
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Paul Stendahl Dy, MD, MBA
Chief Resident
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Sushrutha Sridhar, MD
Chief Resident
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Jean Sturdivant
Program Administrator
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Ikia Means
Program Operations Coordinator
GME Faculty
Allergy and Immunology
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Cardiology
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Mohammed Abuzhara, M.D.
Director of Cardiology, LifeBridge Health
Learn More about Mohammed Abuzhara, M.D.![Darpan-Bansal.jpg](https://drupalprod1.lifebridgehealth.org/sites/default/files/styles/large_circle_200x200_/public/images/Darpan-Bansal.jpg?h=2a35d14f&itok=vwhDJdEH)
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Sunal Suresh Makadia, M.D.
Staff Physician
Distinctions
- Rated one of the top 50 U.S. hospital heart programs in U.S. News & World Report
Special Programs
- Cardiac noninvasive laboratory (stress tests, transthoracic and transesophageal echos, holters)
- Cardiac Diagnostic Center (Cardiac catheterization, electrophysiologic testing, ablation, angioplasty, pacemaker therapy, defibrillator implantation, tilt table testing)
- Coronary Care Unit
- Cardiac Progressive Care Floor
- Open Heart Surgery Center
- Cardiovascular Research Laboratory
- Heart Station (electrocardiography)
Research Activities
- Arrhythmia, sudden death, automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator
- Transesophageal echocardiography
- Angioplasty device trials
- Multicenter drug trial in heart disease prevention
Critical Care
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Jaime Simon, D.O.
Department Chair Sinai and Northwest, LifeBridge Health Critical Care
Learn More about Jaime Simon, D.O.![Talha-Mehmood.jpg](https://drupalprod1.lifebridgehealth.org/sites/default/files/styles/large_circle_200x200_/public/images/Talha-Mehmood.jpg?h=2a35d14f&itok=0rEyvAWs)
Endocrinology
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Asha Thomas, M.D.
Director, Division of Endocrinology; Associate Program Director, Medicine Residency
Learn More about Asha Thomas, M.D.![Henry-Fein.jpg](https://drupalprod1.lifebridgehealth.org/sites/default/files/styles/large_circle_200x200_/public/images/Henry-Fein.jpg?h=2a35d14f&itok=-kI7sXL-)
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Distinctions
- Rated one of the top 50 U.S endocrinology programs in U.S. News & World Report (2007)
Special Programs
- Diabetes Resource Center (ADA Certified)
- Metabolic bone disease
- Thyroid nodule clinic
- Inpatient Diabetic Services
Gastroenterology
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Special Programs
- G.I. Diagnostic Center (endoscopy, G.I. motility studies, ERCP, esophageal pH monitoring), video capsule endoscopy, ultrasonic ERCP (EUS), fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)
Research Activities
- Role of salivary growth factors in esophageal epithelial integrity
- Role of vitamin A in esophageal cancer
- New drug therapy in esophageal cancer
- Markers of neoplastic transformation in human colonocytes for detection of colon cancer
- HIV disease and pancreatitis
- Markers of pancreatic carcinoma
- Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)
General Medicine
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Stephanie Sharps, M.D.
Staff Physician, Program Director, Medicine Residency
Learn More about Stephanie Sharps, M.D.![Arhur-Harrow.jpg](https://drupalprod1.lifebridgehealth.org/sites/default/files/styles/large_circle_200x200_/public/images/Arhur-Harrow.jpg?h=2a35d14f&itok=X2nZftse)
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Special Programs
- Ambulatory Care Center
- Several satellite sites for general internal medicine practice in Greater Baltimore area available for elective rotations
Geriatrics
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Myron Miller, M.D.
Academic Director, Division of Geriatrics
Hospitalists
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Ravitej Khunkhun, M.D.
Associate Program Director, Sinai Hospitalist Group
Learn More about Ravitej Khunkhun, M.D.![Nilesh-Patel.jpg](https://drupalprod1.lifebridgehealth.org/sites/default/files/styles/large_circle_200x200_/public/images/Nilesh-Patel.jpg?h=2a35d14f&itok=AKHUH3uF)
Nilesh Patel, M.D.
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Eniola Adejumo, M.D.
Learn More about Eniola Adejumo, M.D.![Joshua-Birnbaum.jpg](https://drupalprod1.lifebridgehealth.org/sites/default/files/styles/large_circle_200x200_/public/images/Joshua-Birnbaum.jpg?h=2a35d14f&itok=K3dQPEZ8)
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Lekshminarayan Raghavakurup, M.D.
Staff Physician
Learn More about Lekshminarayan Raghavakurup, M.D.![Kanwal-Razzaq.jpg](https://drupalprod1.lifebridgehealth.org/sites/default/files/styles/large_circle_200x200_/public/images/Kanwal-Razzaq.jpg?h=2a35d14f&itok=Y0dxGxLK)
Special Programs
- Dedicated inpatient medical consultation service
- Inpatient teaching hospitalist program
Infectious Disease
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Vishal I. Sethi, M.D.
Staff Physician
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Special Programs
- Infectious Disease Ambulatory Center
- Office of Infection Control
- HIV program
Research Activities
- HIV sentinel surveillance study (with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- New drug therapies for opportunistic infection in AIDS
- Pathogenesis, complications and treatment regimens of decubitus ulcers
Nephrology
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Special Programs
- Inpatient Dialysis Unit
- Outpatient dialysis facilities and offices
- Consultation services
Pulmonology
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Special Programs
- Pulmonary function laboratory
- Pulmonary Inpatient Unit
- Sarcoidosis clinic (The Johns Hopkins Hospital)
- Sleep Disorders Center
- Twenty-bed medical/surgical ICU
- Four-bed cardiac ICU
- State-of-the-art monitoring equipment
Pulmonary Research Activities
- Immunologic mechanisms in sarcoidosis
Rheumatology
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Medical Oncology
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Hospice/Palliative Care
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Addiction Medicine
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Devang Ghandi, M.D.
Staff Physician