Hospitalists

The research categories that the Division of Hospital Medicine is involved with include the delivery of quality patient care, healthcare system economics and efficiencies and transitional models of care.  As the backbone of the Medicine Department, the division welcomes opportunities to collaborate with all medical divisions at SIUH as well as other clinical departments.  As a member of the North Shore-LIJ Health System, we are at the nascent stages of inter-institutional research with our hospitalist colleagues and look forward to sharing ideas with our sister hospitals.    

Division Director
Aaron Gottesman, MD, FACP, SFHM - Associate Residency Program Director

Key Clinical faculty
Chadik Hewlett, MD - Associate Residency Program Director
Edward Rivera, MD - Director of South Site 
Tahir Shirani, MD - Director of North Site

• Invited Presentations: 

  • Patel M, Abdallah T, Gottesman A. Herpes Simplex Hepatitis in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature   - Presented in poster form at the 11th Annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 2009  

  • Patel M, Abdallah T, Gottesman A. A Strategy to Enhance the Discharge Process and Improve Throughput   - Presented in poster form at the 11th Annual meeting of the Society of Hospital  Medicine Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 2009

  • Patel M, Abdallah T, Gottesman A. Ischemic Colitis and Adrenal Insufficieny: Unusual Manifestations of the Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome   - Presented in poster form at the 11th Annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 2009  

  • Patel M, Abdallah T, Gottesman A. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: A Diagnostic Dilemma   - Presented in poster form at the 11th Annual meeting of the Society of Hospital  Medicine Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 2009  

  • Patel M, Abdallah T, Gottesman A. Implementation of Strategies to Improve Documentation of CMS Present on Admission Conditions   - Presented in poster form at the 11th Annual meeting of the Society of Hospital  Medicine Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 2009  

  • Abi Fadel F, Harasiuk K, Ciccone R, Gottesman A. Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum.   - Presented in poster form at the 5th Annual Midwestern Hospital Medicine Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 2009

  • Abi Fadel F, El-Charabaty E, Odaimi M, Gottesman A.Clinical and Diagnostic Pitfalls in Vitamin B12 Deficiency.  - Presented in poster form at the 5th Annual Midwestern Hospital Medicine Conference, Chicago,      Illinois, October 2009

  • Abotaga S, Gottesman A, Gress F, Paramanathan K. A Whole Lot of Air: A Rare Complication of     Diverticulitis.   - Presented in poster form at the American College of Gastroenterology 2009 

  • Annual Scientific Meeting, San Diego, California, October 2009

  • Parikh N, Kushawaha A, Dahal K, Adedeji A, Mobarakai N, Tolia J, Rivera E. Coinfection with HIV and Neurosyphilis: A Dangerous Duo   - Presented in poster form at the 10th Annual Southern Hospital Medicine Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2009

  • Kushawaha A, Mobarakai N, Parikh N, Beylinson A. Cryptococcus Neoformans Meningitis in a Diabetic Patient: The Perils of an Overzealous Immune Response.   - Presented in poster form at the 10th Annual Southern Hospital Medicine Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2009

  • Abi Fadel F, El-Charabaty E, Wetz R, Gottesman A.Clinical and Diagnostic Pitfalls in Vitamin B12 Deficiency   - Presented in poster form at the 12th Annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine Conference, Washington DC, April 2010      

  • Harasiuk K, Abi Fadel F, Ng M, Gottesman A. Mollaret's Meningitis, 65 Years of History: A Case Report and Review of the Literature   - Presented in poster form at the 12th Annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine Conference, Washington DC, April 2010 

• Publications:

  • Kushawaha A, Popalzai M, El-Charabaty E, Mobarakai N. Lemierre's syndrome, reemergence of a forgotten disease: a case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports February 2009.

  • Abi-Fadel F, Desai N, Vatandoust G, Said R, Gottesman A, Terjanian T. Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance with amyloid deposition in the lung and non-amyloid eosinophilic deposition in the brain: a case report.  Case Reports in Medicine Volume 2010, Article ID 406102.