Dawn M. Wahezi

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Wahezi

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<p>Dr. Wahezi attended medical school at the University of Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She completed her residency training in Pediatrics at The Children&rsquo;s Hospital at Montefiore, where she stayed on as the inaugural fellow in Pediatric Rheumatology. She subsequently joined the faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at Montefiore and completed a Master&rsquo;s Degree in clinical research through the Einstein-Montefiore Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Program. Dr. Wahezi is currently an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and serves as the Program Director of the Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship Program.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Dr. Wahezi has a special interest in juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) and was awarded the Cure JM Foundation Early Investigator Award for her research in premature atherosclerosis. She has additionally established a pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Cohort and participates in a dedicated, multi-disciplinary pediatric Lupus Nephritis Clinic. Dr. Wahezi is currently engaged in several research projects within the domains of JDM and SLE, contributing to over 40 peer reviewed manuscripts, reviews and scientific abstracts.</p>
<p>Dr. Wahezi is an active member of both the JDM subcommittee and SLE subcommittee within the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) and has participated in numerous observational and comparative&nbsp;effectiveness research protocols through this research consortium. &nbsp;</p>

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<span style="color:#4d4d4d;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, source-code-pro, Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, 'Courier New', monospace;font-size:16px;background-color:#ffffff;">Pediatric Rheumatology</span>

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Dr. Wahezi has a particular research interest in juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) and was awarded the Cure JM Foundation Early Investigator Award for her research in premature atherosclerosis.

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<p></p>Dawn Wahezi, MD, MS, is Chief of the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology and Director of the Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship Program at the Children&rsquo;s Hospital at Montefiore. She is also Associate Professor of Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine.<br /><br />Dr. Wahezi received her Bachelor of Science from Loyola College and earned her Doctor of Medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and did her residency and fellowship training at CHAM.<br /><br />Dr. Wahezi&rsquo;s clinical and research interests include juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) and juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). At CHAM, she established an interdisciplinary clinic and comprehensive patient registry for children with JDM and SLE.. Dr. Wahezi is an active member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Rheumatology Advisory Board and the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA).<p></p>

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Amaresh Vydyanathan

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Amaresh

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Vydyanathan

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<p>Clinical: Anesthesiology/Pain Medicine (Interventional expertise) /Regional Anesthesia.</p>
<p>Research: Neuropathic pain, development of chronic pain, patient safety.</p>

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Interventional pain management, including Tenex procedures, spinal stimulation, and vertebral augmentation.

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Pain outcomes, disparity, pain personas, regional anesthesia, and aspects of interventional pain.

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<p>Amaresh Vydyanathan , MD, MS, is an attending physician and Professor, Anesthesiology and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Montefiore Einstein. Dr. Vydyanathan&rsquo;s clinical focus lies in interventional pain management, including tenex procedures, spinal stimulation and vertebral augmentation. He has a particular interest in pain outcomes.</p><p>After earning his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at Kilpauk Medical College in Chennai, India in 1997, Dr. Vydyanathan completed an internship at the same institution in 1998. He then completed his anesthesiology residency at The Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education &amp; Research in Pondicherry, India in 2002. Following this, Dr. Vydyanathan moved to the United States to continue his medical training, earning his Master of Science in integrative biosciences-neurosciences at Pennsylvania State University in 2004. He then attended the Cleveland Clinic, where he completed an internship in 2006, an additional anesthesiology residency in 2009 and a fellowship in pain medicine in 2010.</p><p>Dr. Vydyanathan&rsquo;s research interests are in pain outcomes, disparity, pain personas, regional anesthesia and aspects of interventional pain. He has been principal investigator on a number of funded research projects and his work has been shared through numerous peer-reviewed journals, books, chapters, review articles and invited presentations. Dr. Vydyanathan is also a reviewer for several scientific journals, including <em>Pain Medicine, US Neurology</em> and the <em>Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing</em>, among others.</p><p>Dr. Vydyanathan is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists. In 2014, he was the winner of the third place Young Investigator Symposium at Montefiore Einstein.</p>

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Esperanza Villanueva-Siles

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Esperanza

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Villanueva-Siles

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Natalia Vasquez-Canizares

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Natalia

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Vasquez-Canizares

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<p>Natalia Vasquez Canizares, MD, MS, is an Attending Physician of Pediatric Rheumatology at the Children&rsquo;s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine.</p>Dr. Vasquez Canizares received her Doctor of Medicine at Universidad de La Sabana in Chia, Colombia, then completed medical internships at Hospital Universitario de La Samaritana in Bogota, Colombia, and Hospital Universitario Austral in Pilar, Argentina. She completed a residency in Pediatrics at Cooper University Hospital and did her Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship at CHAM. She also completed a Master of Science in Clinical Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.<br /><br />Dr. Vasquez Canizares&rsquo;s clinical focus is on pediatric rheumatic diseases, with a particular interest in children with juvenile scleroderma. She is an active member of the scleroderma work group within the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA), a collaborator with the Pediatric Rheumatology European Society (PReS) in scleroderma-related research and a recipient of two grants from CARRA and the Arthritis Foundation to study treatment therapies and outcome measures in juvenile scleroderma. She is board certified and a member of the American College of Rheumatology, the American Medical Association and the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance.<p> </p>

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Ana Y. Valdivia

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Ana

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Valdivia

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<p>Ana Y. Valdivia, MD, is an attending physician at Montefiore Einstein and Assistant Professor, Diagnostic Radiology at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Valdivia&rsquo;s clinical focus involves all aspects of nuclear medicine, with a particular focus on positron emission tomography&ndash;computed tomography (PET-CT).</p><p>After receiving her Bachelor of Science in chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico in 1990, Dr. Valdivia attended Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine, earning her Doctor of Medicine in 1994. She completed her internal medicine residency at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in 1997, followed by her nuclear medicine residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in 1999.</p><p>Dr. Valdivia&rsquo;s research involves PET-CT, frequently focusing on brain imaging. She has shared her research through peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, abstracts, exhibits, and oral and poster presentations. She is also an invited reviewer for the International Journal of Surgery.</p><p>Dr. Valdivia is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Nuclear Medicine. She is a member of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and the American College of Radiology.</p>

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Alecia M. Thompson

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Alecia

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Thompson

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Dr. Thompson-Branch's research has focused on the role of cytokines in bronchopulmonary dysplasia and use of ultrasound to diagnose necrotizing enterocolitis.

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<p>With an emphasis on general pediatrics and neonatology, Dr. Thompson completed her residency at NYU Medical Center in 2007 and fellowship at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 2010. During her fellowship, Dr. Thompson also audited the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, with an interest in performing clinical research. Her research has focused on the role of cytokines in bronchopulmonary dysplasia and use of ultrasound to diagnose necrotizing enterocolitis. She plans to conduct research on the use of near-infrared spectroscopy to delineate central nervous system pathology in preterm infants and predict short-term neurologic outcomes.</p>

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Mark A. Thomas

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Mark

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Lisa B. Teh

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Lisa

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Clement E. Tagoe

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Clement

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<p>Dr. Clement Tagoe obtained his medical degree from the University of Ghana Medical School, Ghana, and a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Leeds, UK. His basic science research interests included the study of the role of annexins in cell function and rheumatic diseases, and subsequently the mechanisms of disease in transthyretin amyloidosis using several animal models of transthyretin amyloidosis. His clinical work in the area of transthyretin amyloidosis has greatly illuminated our understanding of the form of amyloidosis associated with the Transthyretin V122I (pV142I) mutation, which is found in about 3 to 4% of African Americans. His current work focuses on the role of autoimmune diseases in fibromyalgia and chronic widespread pain, and in particular the association of these syndromes with autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD). His work also explores the other musculoskeletal and rheumatic manifestations of autoimmune thyroid disease, including the association with peripheral osteoarthritis and spinal osteoarthritis. These autoimmune syndromes can occur in the absence of thyroid dysfunction and are of particular interest to physicians and patients because AITD is by far the commonest autoimmune disease.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Selected Bibliography</strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. Clement E. Tagoe, Tejas Sheth, Eugeniya Golub, Karen Sorensen (2019) Rheumatic associations of autoimmune thyroid disease: a systematic review Clin Rheumatol. 2019 Jul;38(7):1801-1809., (1-9) DOI:&nbsp; 10.1007/s10067-019-04498-1</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. Kavisha Patel, Clement Tagoe, Phyllis Bieri, Karen Weidenheim &amp; James M. Tauras (2018): A case of transthyretin amyloidosis with myopathy, neuropathy, and cardiomyopathy resulting from an exceedingly rare mutation transthyretin Ala120Ser (c.418G &gt; T, p.Ala140Ser), Amyloid, DOI: 10.1080/13506129.2018.1491398</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. Daniel R. Jacobson, Alice A. Alexander, Clement Tagoe, W. Timothy Garvey, Scott M.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Williams, Sara Tishkoff, David Modiano, Sodiomon Bienvenu Sirima, Issa Kalidi, Toure A, &amp; Joel N. Buxbaum. The Prevalence and Distribution of the Amyloidogenic Transthyretin (TTR) V122I Allele in Africa&nbsp; Molecular Genetics &amp; Genomic Medicine Epub 14 July, 2016&nbsp; DOI: 10.1002/mgg3.231</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4. Asha Shrestha, Hillel W. Cohen, Clement E. Tagoe. Association of Autoimmune Thyroid Disease With A Higher Frequency Of Spinal Degenerative Disc Disease Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2016 Mar-Apr;34(2):296-302. Epub 2016 Feb 9. PMID: 26885680</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5. Tagoe CE, Zezon A, Khattri S. Rheumatic manifestations of autoimmune thyroid disease: the other autoimmune disease. J Rheumatol. 2012 Jun;39(6):1125-9. Epub 2012 Apr 15.</p>
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Asli S. Sucu

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