Brian H. Annex, M.D., FACC, FAHA
Department Chair, Medicine
Please explore this site to look at the activities across our missions to: provide the very best and safest patient care, educate the next generation of health care professionals, and advance knowledge in medicine through basic, clinical, and translational research. In a year like no other, the DOM continued to add to its rich history of excellence in education of students, residents, and general and subspecialty fellows.
The Medical College of Georgia is the 13th oldest medical school in the US and the DOM even when facing the changes of this last has its eyes focused firmly on the future. See the activity within the 11 major divisions. See the many new hires (myself included having been here for just over one year) and programs. Contact us directly. We look forward to hearing from you.
Department of Medicine
Health Sciences Campus
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chevron-circle-right icon Hospital Medicine: Avery Calhoun, MD, Faten Raghavan, MD, Nafees Khan, MD
chevron-circle-right icon Gastroenterology: Ahmad Alkaddour, MD, Evangelos Tsipotis, MD
chevron-circle-right icon Infectious Disease: Gina Askar, MD
chevron-circle-right icon Rheumatology: Noelle Rolle, MBBS, Elena Schiopu, MD, Umair Javaid, MD
chevron-circle-right icon General Internal Medicine: Nichole Holweg, DO, Christopher Walker, DO, Maria Ortiz-Kaemena, MD
chevron-circle-right icon Nephrology: Talal Nakkar, MD
Muthusamy Thangaraju, PhD, an associate professor at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University and researcher at the Georgia Cancer Center, was recently awarded over $2.2 million in research grants.
Patients come to Amol Sharma, MD, because their stomachs constantly hurt, they are always nauseous and they can’t or won’t eat or drink
The drugs are called HDAC inhibitors, and the investigators have early evidence one can reactivate after birth the gene that produces fetal hemoglobin, which cannot sickle.
MicroRNAs help regulate gene expression and consequently the function of our cells, and several, including one called microRNA-141-3p, have been implicated in the ills of aging.
