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UVA Department of Medicine: FY 2015 Annual Report

Education

Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism
EDUCATION


AY 2014–2015 Endocrinology Fellows (l-r): Ramya Embar Srinivasan, MBBS; Eleanor Hutchens, , MD; Wenyan Huang, MD; Silas Culver, MD; Su Hee Kim, MD; Farhad Hasan, MD, MPH; Katarina Topchyan, MD; Lihong Huo, MBBS; and Amanda Russell-Kleiner, BMed.

Division faculty members provide undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate educational content in the School of Medicine, and contribute to courses and conferences offered by UVA’s Division of Continuing Medical Education. The division is approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to accept four fellows per year for two-year (primarily clinical) or three-year (clinical plus research) fellowships.

The endocrinology fellowship is partially supported by institutional training grants from the National Institutes of Health, which provide stipends and research funds during the second and third year of training. The division currently has one active T32 training grant, “Research Training in Neuroendocrinology,” directed by Robert Carey, MD.

Endocrinology Fellows, AY 2014-2015

Third Year

  • Wenyan Huang, MD – Dr. Huang joined the faculty at East Carolina University as an assistant professor of medicine.
  • Amanda Russell-Kleiner, BMed – Russell-Kleiner was awarded an individual postdoctoral fellowship award from the NIDDK entitled, “Impact of Type 1 Diabetes on Basal and Insulin-Responsive Pan-Arterial Function,” in July 2014. After graduating, she accepted at Danbury Hospital (Danbury, Connecticut), where she will be involved with the internal medicine residency program.
  • Katarina Topchyan, MD: Dr. Topchyan joined the Endocrinology faculty at UVA in July 2015 as an assistant professor of medicine.
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Second-year fellow Ramya Embar Srinivasan, MBBS, and faculty member Christopher McCartney, MD, examine a patient.

Second Year

  • Farhad M. Hasan, MD, MPH – Dr. Hasan submitted an F32 fellowship application entitled, “Mineralocorticoid receptor blockade to improve pan-arterial vascular function in Type 1 Diabetes.”
  • Eleanor Hutchens, MD – Dr. Hutchens received a 2015 Clinical Research Fellowship Award in Women’s Health from the Endocrinology Society. The award is supported in part by Pfizer, Inc.
  • Ramya Embar Srinivasan, MBBS – Dr. Embar Srinivasan entered her third year of fellowship.

 

First Year:

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First-year fellows Su Hee Kim, MD, and Silas Culver, MD, at their wedding in June 2014.

  • Silas Culver, MD, received his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, and completed residency training in internal medicine at UVA.
  • Lihong Huo, MBBS, obtained her Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree from Lanzhou Medical College in China, and completed residency training in internal medicine at Mt. Vernon Hospital in Mt. Vernon, N.Y.
  • Su Hee Kim, MD, received a medical degree from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, and completed residency training in internal medicine at UVA in 2013. Before joining the fellowship program, she served as a hospitalist for the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser) in Arlington, Va.

Publications authored by fellows:

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