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I wanted to share the very positive experience I had with one of the residents.  Dr Gubbi was assigned to Pulmonary clinic this morning.  When he arrived, he was told that Pulmonary was cancelled.  He came to my office and said he would stay in clinic and assist with refills in walk-in (he did this on his own, without being asked to do so).  Dr Gubbi did refills in walk-in and also saw a few patients.  At about 11:30am, a … Continue reading “12-2016”

Errold Reid – Did a great job while in CCU. Lead family meetings with complex dynamics. Manged his intern well and documented well. He’s one of the few housestaff I’ve seen who’s taken the time to write a short “event note” when clinical issues -labs, imaging, consult recs – change. He deserves acknowledgement for his hard work and excellent demeanor.

Leonidas is doing an exceptional job on his first month as a medicine floor resident.  On numerous occasions he has displayed an abundance of maturity and leadership when dealing with difficult patients, families, and complicated medical cases.  He has made my job incredibility easy as an attending, largely because of his sound clinical judgment and work ethic.”

I just spent two weeks in the CCU where Ali did an excellent job in every way, professional, knowledgeable, calm, collected, excellent in every way. But I’m making this recommendation now based on his extraordinary performance during a cardiac arrest as SMR today. The arrest happened in the cath lab, and the cath lab staff was disorganized, running the code suboptimally. Surrounded by cardiologists and cardiac nurses he appropriately took control of the situation, gently but clearly reminding the assembled … Continue reading “9-2016”

Dr. Hanane Ben-Faras bas been doing a fantastic job in ambulatory.  She sees many more patients than anybody else, has excellent continuity purely through her own efforts (and the efforts of her patients to get back in to see HER), and provides excellent compassionate care to all.  She’s working incredibly hard and doing a great job

She is also routinely always willing to help out, to stay late and goes above and beyond for her patients in calling them to see how they are doing, if she can improve with anything.  AND she is an excellent teacher for the junior residents. …At about 4:35pm, Dr Hira Latif came to my office and offered to see this patient.  She had a full panel today and had already seen 6 patients of her own but she graciously offered to … Continue reading “7-2016”

She did excellent work in following critically ill patients on floors. On several occasions we have patients who are borderline and may need to stay on floor because of lack of beds in ICU. If they get some extra attention from house staff under supervision of critical care, they can still get excellent care. On several occasion during her nigh float Adel worked very closely with me, and I was impressed as always by her hard work, diligence, and positive … Continue reading “6-2016”

I would like to nominate Orlando Quintero for resident of the month for May 2016. If residency is a long grueling game of poker and each rotation is a round, Orlando is playing with a 2-7 off suit right now. And he is STILL managing to stack all the chips. His calm demeanor, cool decision-making and ability to turn negatives into positives are all breathtaking qualities this month. Never phased by sadistic SMRs, he absorbs work efficiently and arranges timely, … Continue reading “5-2016”

Congratulations on your being nominated and then selected for our Resident of the Month award for the month of April, 2016. Your selfless work on behalf of your patients, program, department and hospital have not gone unnoticed! Well deserved!

I nominate Claudia Lama, PGY-1 on ACS. Claudia is motivated, showed complete dedication to her pts…remained calm, composed… comes to work with…enthusiasm and has not missed a step. Claudia treats her pts with ultimate respect and is a dedicated member of her team. We can all learn a lot from the way she carries herself.