Program Info & Resources
Mercy St Louis Internal Medicine residency program encourages scholarly activity during all years of training. Every resident is required to participate in a Quality Improvement Project which is closely tracked by faculty throughout the residency with a final presentation of the project either with a verbal presentation or poster at the annual Robert Taylor research colloquium at the end of the third year.
Mercy takes part in the annual Missouri American College of Physicians poster competition where residents are encouraged to present both clinical vignettes and safety posters. There is also an opportunity to present clinical research as the annual Mercy Research Colloquium.
Mercy has an outstanding Institutional Review Board (IRB) department who is involved in helping residents with research projects.
Dedicated elective rotations are offered in order to provide residents time to formulate, develop and publish ongoing research.
Scholarly Activity 2024-2025
Charlie Hurth, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Raoultella planticola bacteremia in acute cholecystitis”
Linda Le, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Interventions to Improve Treatment Adherence Rates for Latent TB in an Underserved Residency Clinic”
Kevin Yin, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Interventions to Improve Treatment Adherence Rates for Latent TB in an Underserved Residency Clinic”
Jessica Hoechst, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Nonpharmacological management of depression and anxiety”
Danielle Ashenbrener, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Nonpharmacological management of depression and anxiety”
Joe Kinsella, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Towards improvement in screening and vaccination rates of hepatitis B in JFK clinic patients”
Sahas Jitta, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Hypothyroidism-induced brugada phenocopy in a patient with cardiac arrest: A Case Report”
Nikith Rao, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Cryptococcal Meningitis Complicating Sarcoidosis”
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “A Case of Adult Onset Still's Disease with Secondary Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis”
- Presented 1 poster at Missouri American College of Physicians “A Case of Severe Neuropsychiatric Symptoms Associated with “Mild” Primary Hyperparathyroidism”
Tony Hiran, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Cryptococcal Meningitis Complicating Sarcoidosis”
Alexandra Kolodziejski, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Missouri American College of Physicians “Sinus Venous Thrombosis”
Saad Naseer, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Missouri American College of Physicians “Left Ventricular Non-Compaction”
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Towards improvement in screening and vaccination rates of hepatitis B in JFK clinic patients”
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Elizabeth Houston, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Raising Awareness for Medicare Coverage of Laboratory Tests in JFK Clinic”
Preston Mundhenke, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Investigating Barriers to Point-of-Care Ultrasound Use Amongst Residents and Faculty”
Collin Hill, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Investigating Barriers to Point-of-Care Ultrasound Use Amongst Residents and Faculty”
Fahad Tahir, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Prevalence of Social Determinants of Health Gaps in an Underserved Patient Population of Mercy JFK Clinic”
Mafaza Khan, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Prevalence of Social Determinants of Health Gaps in an Underserved Patient Population of Mercy JFK Clinic”
Fulei Peng, DO
- Presented 2 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium:
- “Streptococcus Pyogenes Spinal Epidural Abscess and MSSA Bacteremia in a 54-year-old man-Concomitant Contiguous Coinfection or Independent Events?”
- “Small Bowel Obstruction Caused by Prostate Cancer with Neuroendocrine Feature with an Update”
Edward Cantos, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Streptococcus Pyogenes Spinal Epidural Abscess and MSSA Bacteremia in a 54-year-old man-Concomitant Contiguous Coinfection or Independent Events?”
Saad Naseer, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Cruise Ship Pancreatitis Requiring Plasmapheresis”
Connor Shaw, DO
- Presented 2 posters at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium:
- “Constrictive Cardiomyopathy Secondary to Calcified Pericardium”
- “Unusual Case of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Secondary to Pyelonephritis”
Jack Zhang, DO
- Presented 2 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium:
- “Small Bowel Obstruction Caused by Prostate Cancer with Neuroendocrine Feature with an Update”
- “Extensive Cerebral Edema and Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension following Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Meningioma”
Edward Duqum, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Documenting Dry Weight Goals in EPIC”
Fawad Haroon, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Documenting Dry Weight Goals in EPIC”
Chaitanya Karlapalem, MD
- Presented 2 posters at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “A Fortuitous Finding of Mycobacterium Fortuitum” & “Erythromelalgia: A Rare and Painful Post-Infectious Complication of COVID19”
Kathryn Harvey, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Coccidi-Oh-No! A Case of Pulmonary Coccidiomycosis in a 44-year-old Man”
Fawad Haroon, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Emergency Redo-TAVR within a Single Procedure for Management of Paravalvular Leak”
Mark Bigg, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Improving Physician Efficiency with Electronic Health Records”
Kara Nuspl, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Remote Care Visits as a Primary Care Tool”
Eyad Gharaibeh, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Vaccination Status of IBD patients in the JFK Clinic”
Bryan Acree, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium :Mitigating the Frustration of Consultation”
Anna Bailey, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Improving Glucose Control Using a Color-Coded Visual Aid”
Nabi Chaudhri, MD
- Presented 5 posters at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium
- “Straight to the Heart”
- “TB or not TB”
- “Minocycline-induced Hyperpigmentation”
- “Look up not down Pulmonary Artery Thrombosis in situ”
- “Door-to-dine time”
Wilfor Diaz, MD
- Presented 2 posters at Missouri American College of Physicians (ACP)
- “Do Not Disregard Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Case of Severe Steroid Resistant Immune-Mediated Colitis”
- “The Way To A Man’s Heart is Through His Stomach: Gastric Distension Mimicking ST-Segment Elevation”
Ayesha Farrukh, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Impact of Implementing a Pharmacy Checklist on the Missing Blood Culture Rate for the Sepsis Bundle”
- Presented 1 poster at Missouri American College of Physicians (ACP) “An Interesting Case of Osmotic Demyelination Syndrome in ESRD Patient on Hemodialysis”
Manesh Gangwani, MD
- Presented 2 posters at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium
- “Reducing Unnecessary Treatment of Asymptomatic Hypertension with Intravenous Medications: A QI Initiative”
- “Re-expansion pulmonary edema after pneumothorax drainage: An uncommon under-recognized complication”
- Presented 1 abstract at the society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) “Re-expansion pulmonary edema after pneumothorax drainage: An uncommon under-recognized complication”
Nithya Gaudam, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “The Impact of Culture Data on Antibiotic De-Escalation”
- Presented 1 poster at Missouri American College of Physicians (ACP) “Sarcoidosis: Though Rare, it Can Touch Your Heart”
Eyad Gharaibeh, MD
- Presented 1 poster at Missouri American College of Physicians (ACP) “Disseminated Enterovirus Associated with Obinutizumab”
Katie Harvey, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Procalcitonin: An Analysis of Utilization at Mercy Hospital St. Louis”
- Presented 1 poster at Missouri American College of Physicians (ACP) “A Peculiar Case of Sunitinib-Induced Hypoglycemia in a Non-Diabetic Patient”
Azam Khan, MD
- Presented 2 posters at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium
- “The Association between HbA1c and Outcomes in COVID-19 Patients”
- “Everyone is Stressed!”
Rachel Presson, DO
- Presented 1 poster at the American Medical Association (AMA) “Paraneoplastic pemphigus in H. pylori-positive gastric MALT lymphoma”
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium “Procalcitonin: An Analysis of Utilization at Mercy Hospital St. Louis”
Eric Wu, DO
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium :Mitigating the Frustration of Consultation”
Chris Coriasso, DO (PGY3)
- Presented 1 poster at Missouri American College of Physicians (ACP)
- “Cardiac Pseudoaneurysm-An Unusual Presentation of Autoimmune Disease”
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium
- “Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia: Bleeding Complications of Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment”
- “Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia: Bleeding Complications of Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment”
Erica Rosen, DO (PGY3)
- Presented 1 poster at Missouri American College of Physicians (ACP)
- “Drug Induced Lupus Mimicking Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”
- “Drug Induced Lupus Mimicking Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”
Eyad Gharaibeh, MD (PGY1)
- Presented 1 poster at Missouri American College of Physicians (ACP)
- “Call the Gastroenterologist, It’s Breast Cancer”
- “Call the Gastroenterologist, It’s Breast Cancer”
Manesh Gangwani, MD (PGY2)
- Presented 1 poster at Missouri American College of Physicians (ACP)
- “Cilostazol Therapy-Not for the Faint of Heart”
- “Cilostazol Therapy-Not for the Faint of Heart”
Nithya Gaudam, MD (PGY2)
- Presented 1 poster at Missouri American College of Physicians (ACP)
- “Carcinoma Antigen 27.29 Is Not Always Breast Cancer”
- “Carcinoma Antigen 27.29 Is Not Always Breast Cancer”
Wilfor Diaz, MD (PGY2)
- Presented 1 poster at Missouri American College of Physicians (ACP)
- “Don’t look to your side, look down. Rare Metastasis of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma to the Clivus”
- “Don’t look to your side, look down. Rare Metastasis of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma to the Clivus”
Jennifer Bockerstett, DO (PGY3)
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium
- “Hepatitis C Screening for JFK Patients Born Between 1945 and 1965”
- “Hepatitis C Screening for JFK Patients Born Between 1945 and 1965”
Pearce Mundhenke, DO (PGY3)
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium
- “Hepatitis C Screening for JFK Patients Born Between 1945 and 1965”
- “Hepatitis C Screening for JFK Patients Born Between 1945 and 1965”
Jonnathan Rodriguez, MD (PGY3)
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium
- “The Pen is Mightier-Assessing Health Literacy in the Outpatient Setting”
- “The Pen is Mightier-Assessing Health Literacy in the Outpatient Setting”
Kelsey Seger, DO (PGY3)
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium
- “Advanced Care Planning-Starting Early”
- “Advanced Care Planning-Starting Early”
Nueki Naate, MD (PGY3)
- Presented 1 poster at Mercy Robert W. Taylor Research Colloquium
- “We Missed You…Analysis of No Shows in a Residency Clinic”
