The Sol Sherry Fellow, Resident, and Medical Student Research Symposium was initiated over 35 years ago to provide the fellows and residents in the Department of Medicine with an opportunity to present their research. This symposium reflects the ongoing research activities in the Department, and a year-end summation of the projects carried out by the medical students, fellows and residents.

2026 Sol Sherry Research Symposium: A sample of resident oral presentations

Anika Shah, MD (Cardiology): Aortic Stenosis Severity and Treatment Patterns by Socioeconomic Status in Philadelphia

Anugya Mittal, MD (Thoracic Medicine & Surgery): Comparison of Clinically Diagnosed Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease and Other Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases-Associated Interstitial Lung Diseases

Jokichi Matsubara, MD (Infectious Diseases): The Plot Thickens: Association Between Valve Thickening on Echocardiogram and Infective Endocarditis in Persons Who Inject Drugs with Bacteremia

Priyanka Shah, MD (Gastroenterology): Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders and Gastric Accommodation: A Retrospective Study of Gastric Emptying Scintigraphies

Helen Gandler, MD (Hematology/Oncology): Delta-Like Ligand 3 (DLL3) Protein Expression Across Pan-Neuroendocrine Neoplasm Tissue Microarrays

Ria Patel, MD (Thoracic Medicine & Surgery): Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling in Myositis-ILD: Radiomic and Serologic Insights into Immune-Mediated Pulmonary Hypertension

Nadirah Waites, MD (Family Medicine): Efficacy of an Inner-City Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Program

Hatim Amiji, MD (Cardiology): Phenotyping Aortic Stenosis Progression Trajectories Using Longitudinal Echocardiographic Metrics

Ali Makhdoom, MD (Gastroenterology/Thoracic Medicine & Surgery): Endoscopic Treatment for Gastroparesis with Botox Injection or Balloon Dilation: Clinical Response and Prediction of Response to G-POEM

Asritha Garapati, MD (Thoracic Medicine & Surgery): Comparison of Patients Hospitalized with Systemic Autoimmune-Related Disease Interstitial Lung Disease in Relation to the Presence of a Defined Rheumatologic Illness

Sophia Chen, MD (Endocrinology): Real-World Prescribing Patterns of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors in Primary Care for Patients with Class 1A Indications

Christopher Grivas, MD, MBA (Hematology/Oncology): Tumor Grade Correlates with Increased Immune Cell Infiltration in Neuroendocrine Neoplasms Across Multiple Primary Sites

Annika Sundlof, MD (Hospital Medicine): Hep C the Difference: Improving Care Linkages for Individuals with Hepatitis C

Neha Narayan, MD (Hepatology): Advanced Hepatic Fibrosis in Patients with Opioid Use Disorder Without Traditional Risk Factors: A Case Series