My time as a
@UChicagoMed
neurology resident is coming to an end, and what better way to end it than with a presentation at the Annual Barry G.W. Arnason Symposium on ReCCLAIM II, the potential use of hypothermia as a neuroprotectant for ischemic stroke. Glad that we were a part
They say home is where you have access to angio suites, which is why I’m staying at
@UChicagoMed
for my Vascular Neurology Fellowship in AY 2024-2025. I am deeply honored to continue to grow and be a part of this program.
#StrokeTwitter
Can't believe the day has come when I can finally say I am going to be a
#neurologist
! Thank you to everyone who supported me throughout this difficult process!
#Match2020
#neurology
#residency
*Stay tuned to find out where this coming Friday!
Breaking News: My first stroke-related project finally finds its well-deserved publication home! 🎉 Despite facing rejections from 6 journals, I learned a valuable lesson about persistence and finding the perfect fit. Check out my tweetorial below (/1)
I see doctors posting food pics on here, so I thought I’d give it a shot. I present to you homemade shakshouka, fattet hummus, manoushe, labneh and some Palestinian olives.
📜Fresh print📜 just in time after TESLA results were recently announced! Led with
@MohamedElfilMD
and
@hazemghaithMS
, under
@almuftifawaz
and
@TareqKass
's expert advice, we would like to share our paper published in Journal of Stroke. Tweetorial below: (1/)
1)🔥Hot off the press🔥 Our updated living systematic review paper on endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for large ischemic strokes is out now in Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 🧵👇
📜Publication alert📜 We are excited to share our latest paper, "Endovascular embolization of traumatic vessel injury using N-butyl cyanoacrylate: A case series." This was one of the first studies I worked on, and we were able to find a home for it despite facing 6 rejections. 1/
🎉Publication alert 🎉 Excited to share with you all results from our latest article, titled "Intravenous cangrelor use for neuroendovascular procedures: a two-center experience and updated systematic review" in
@FrontNeurol
! Tweetorial below (1/17)
So Marla, our program coordinator at
@NeuroUcmc
, kept this badge with her from when I was doing my sub-i
@UChicagoMed
. You know you’re at home when your program treats you like family ☺️
I have met a lot of beautiful, intelligent people during the interview trail! I genuinely hope everyone matches at their desired program!
#neurology
#Match2020
Finally done with intern year! I have met so many people, now my friends, and I thank the
@NorthShoreWeb
IM program for welcoming me into their family! For those coming interns, please find this thread of suggestions for how to survive intern year and what I learnt: (1/
🔥Hot off the press🔥Very thrilled to share our work, co-led with
@sachinkothari94
and under the guidance of
@TareqKass
, published in
@JNIS_BMJ
. Tweetorial below: (1/)
Had the best time in Arizona for the
#SVIN2021
#SVINAM
. Met the current and future pioneers of the field, made new friends, looking forward to next year’s meeting in LA! Some pics I took from our hike:
Excited to have contributed to the
@ASH_hematology
living guidelines for anticoagulation in critically ill
#COVID19
patients out in
@BloodAdvances
. Our latest conditional recommendation based on low certainty evidence favors prophylactic over intermediate dose anticoagulation.
(1/)🔥Fresh study from the forefront
@UChicagoMed
to start the year 🔥 Our case series on the use of the
@BIOTRONIK_News
PK Papyrus covered coronary stent for carotid reconstruction was just published in
@JNIS_BMJ
! To find out more, follow the tweetorial below 👇
Today was technically my actual first day back at the hospital. Long story short, I lost my pen 5 times, got extremely parched from not having time to get water, let alone figure out where to buy water from, and let’s not talk about how I need more EPIC training 🤷🏻
Took a flight from Boston to Chicago on
@AmericanAir
and I was surprised to be in a full flight. I get that it is
#MemorialDay
but this is unacceptable in
#COVID19
times. I would honestly be surprised if I haven’t been infected after this absurdity.
Hot off the press! 🔥 New paper out with
@OmarChehab1
@AmjadKanj
@RJRachwan
on nosocomial infections in patients with STEMI complicated by cardiogenic shock (CS), a specific population, but neverthless, important to look into! Tweetorial below (1/11).
PGY-2 year has almost come to an end. Would not have been able to make it without the support of my fellow graduating PGY-4 residents, John and Ribal. Good luck with your fellowships. Until we meet again!
@NeuroUcmc
Congratulations to the newly appointed chief residents in Neurology for the AY 2023-2024 (Julián, Munther and Rami), and we would like to wish the best of luck to the old chief residents! Thank you for your dedication and support!
1) 🔥And another one from the
@UChicagoMed
group 🔥 Our single-center experiencing using
@ImpCare_Vasc
Zoom 45 catheter for middle meningeal artery (MMA) embolization is out now in
@INR_WFITN
! 🧵👇
We are excited to welcome a brilliant new group of residents to the UChicago Neurology family! Congratulations to these amazing neurologists-to-be!
#Match2024
#NeuroMatch2024
#NeuroTwitter
Wrapping up SNIS 2023 with the Fellows Course, interesting talks on Robotic Interventions by Dr.
@PascalJabbourMD
, and on dural AV fistulas by Dr
@eytanraz
! It was a great pleasure to learn from this course!
Ended my first week of being an intern on a good note. Found a soft, systolic murmur on auscultation, which may have been overlooked given patient’s asthma history. This patient’s wheezing, orthopnea, dyspnea on exertion and murmur may be associated with HF!
#InternChronicles
Three years later, great to see our work on supratentorial brain tumors in the pediatric population published
@SNInt
! Brief tweetorial to follow (1/7)
📜Publication alert 📜Excited to announce our Short Communication article titled, "Hypertensive Emergency in Heart Failure: Trends, Risk factors and Outcomes from a Nationwide Analysis 2005–2014"
Your legacy will last forever Dr. Antoine Khabbaz and lest we forget all you have done for this special and vibrant community. You will be sorely missed - Rest In Peace
That feeling when your senior resident tells you they don’t want this to be your last day on general medicine floors service ☺️
#MedTwitter
#InternChronicles
Finally able to share with you a special
@HEI_mcmaster
@UChicagoMed
collaboration on endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) with or without intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) in patients with large vessel occlusion (LVO) AND cost-effectiveness comparing the two strategies. A 🧵below (1/)
Update: Rejected twice already within the span of one week. No responses, nothing. But I woke up at 3 am to resubmit, so looks like I'm fighting for it to get accepted.
Fantastic news,
@AminNassar92
for matching into the internal medicine residency program
@BrighamWomens
! I had a big feel all along! Congratulations! I am truly happy for you! Here's to many more accomplishments!
#MatchDay2019
Fantastic debate by
@TareqKass
and Dr Rishi Gupta on whether to stent or not to stent for stroke patients with ICAS? Previous trials, such as SAMMPRIS/VISSIT, provide discouraging results. Should we use better stents or time stenting better? Optimize medical therapy?
#ISC23
Great
@NeuroUcmc
#GrandRounds
presentation by
@willmeurer
discussing the adaptive clinical trial, ICECAP, and its objective in determining the optimal duration of hypothermia and its efficacy in neuroprotection for patients post-cardiac arrest.
#NCC
#NeuroTwitter
Excited to share the first report on variant detection in Lebanese patients with glioblastoma in
@PLOSONE
: Correlation of genetic alterations by whole-exome sequencing with clinical outcomes of glioblastoma ... . Tweetorial to follow (1/12)
Honored to be invited by
@CERENOVUS_HQ
to present on flow arrest for neuroendovascular stroke management. This would not be possible without the support of Sonam,
@TareqKass
, and the rest of the
@NeuroUcmc
team!
Our abstract on idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and its impact on clinical outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction was recently accepted for presentation at
@escardio
#ESCCongress2019
! Fantastic work from future cardiologist
@OmarChehab1
!
#hematology
#cardiology
🧵
#ISC24
Results from the multi-center STOP-CAD study: Exploring cervical artery dissection
#CAD
treatments, anticoagulation vs. antiplatelet therapy reveals a trend toward lower ischemic stroke risk with anticoagulation, mainly in those with occlusive disease.
Okay,
#MatchDay2020
#Match2020
is 24 days away BUT
@theweeknd
's releasing his new album on that same day! Side-note: Don't forget to certify your rank lists for tomorrow's deadline!
I introduced myself as
#Lebanese
to a patient’s relative and he told me he was good friends with
@UniofOxford
alumnus and father of
#transplantation
, Dr. Peter Medawar. They listened to Richard Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ only weeks before Medawar suffered a berry aneurysm rupture!
@AdrianoAguzzi
You basically described what I go through every day. I do not have any research opportunities within my field of interest so I compensate by working on unrelated projects for the sake of accomplishing ‘something’ even if that ‘something’ won’t get me on prestigious journals.
📜Publication alert📜 Excited to share with you a modified approach to anti-platelet therapy using reduced-dose ticagrelor in the neuroendovascular field. Tweetorial below (1/14)
Yesterday, I diagnosed my first
#multiplesclerosis
patient. Patient p/w ~1 month of numbness/tingling that started in the thighs bilaterally, moved up to the upper extremities bilaterally a/w blurry vision that dissipated over 1 week and L’hermitte’s phenomenon.
#NeuroTwitter
It was a great opportunity to work on this brief commentary related to the ATAMIS trial which investigated the effectiveness and safety of clopidogrel-aspirin vs aspirin alone in patients with acute mild to moderate stroke | via
@practiceupdate
Delighted to share our study straight out of
@waynestate
@waynemedicine
: Impact of immune thrombocytopenic purpura on clinical outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction
Tweetorial below (1/)
1/ FASTEN your seatbelts as we dive into our Factors Affecting Selection of TraineE for Neurointervention (FASTEN) survey looking into what programs directors (PDs) look for when selecting candidates for neuroendovascular fellowships. 🧵
Are you applying for Neuroendovascular/Neurointervention fellowship? How much do you know about what the program directors looking for in candidates? Please, share your insights below! 👇
Things are getting better overall, I write notes quickly, caught a pneumothorax early on, but when a pulmonary attending physician sent me a secure message about him getting called for a non-urgent chest CT for another pt, I told him “Don’t worry about it”😂
#InternChronicles