Faculty Recognitions Week: Excellence in Research

As a top research institute, groundbreaking research is happening daily across the School of Medicine. Join us in congratulating the following Department of Medicine faculty members who are recognized as leaders in academic journal citations and through funded grant applications.

MilliPub Club Inductees
The MilliPub Club honors and recognizes current Emory faculty who have published one or more individual papers throughout their careers that have each garnered more than 1, 000 citations. Such a paper is commonly considered a “citation classic” and represents high impact scholarship.

• Vasilis Babaliaros, MD
  • “Transcatheter or surgical aortic-valve replacement in intermediate-risk patients”
• Niloofar Bazargan, MD
  • “Hyperglycemia: an independent marker of in-hospital mortality in patients with undiagnosed diabetes”
• Carlos del Rio, MD
  • “The spectrum of engagement in HIV care and its relevance to test-and-treat strategies for prevention of HIV infection”
• Monica Farley, MD
  • “Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus disease in three communities”
• Scott Fridkin, MD
  • “Multistate point-prevalence survey of health care-associated infections”
  • “Clinical practice guidelines by the infectious diseases society of America for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in adults and children”
  • “Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus disease in three communities”
• Neel Gandhi, MD
  • “Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis as a cause of death in patients co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV in a rural area of South Africa”
• Kathy Griendling, PhD
  • “Angiotensin II cell signaling: physiological and pathological effects in the cardiovascular system”
• Angel Leon, MD
  • “Combined cardiac resynchronization and implantable cardioversion defibrillation in advanced chronic heart failure – The MIRACLE ICD Trial”
• S. Sam Lim, MD, MPH
  • “Derivation and validation of the systemic lupus international collaborating clinics classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus”
• Kreton Mavromatis, MD
  • “Fractional flow reserve-guided PCI versus medical therapy in stable coronary disease
• Puja Mehta, MD
  • “Angiotensin II cell signaling: physiological and pathological effects in the cardiovascular system”
• Simon Mwangi, PhD
  • “Metabolic syndrome and altered gut microbiota in mice lacking Toll-like receptor 5”
• Ruth Parker, MD
  • “The test of functional health literacy in adults – a new instrument for measuring patients literacy skills”
• Arshed Quyyumi, MD
  • “Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease”
• Susan Ray, MD
  • “Multistate point-prevalence survey of health care-associated infections”
• Jonathan Sevransky, MD
  • “Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008”
  • “Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of sepsis and septic shock: 2016”
• Andrew Smith, MD
  • “Combined cardiac resynchronization and implantable cardioversion defibrillation in advanced chronic heart failure – The MIRACLE ICD Trial”
• Shanthi Srinivasan, MD
  • “Metabolic syndrome and altered gut microbiota in mice lacking Toll-like receptor 5”
• Vikas Sukhatme, MD, ScD
  • “Soluble endoglin contributes to the pathogenesis of preeclampsia”
• Guillermo Umpierrez, MD
  • “Hyperglycemia: an independent marker of in-hospital mortality in patients with undiagnosed diabetes”

Emory 1% Award
The Emory 1% Award honors and recognizes investigators who have received study section review scores in the top one percentile on a grant proposal.

• Henry Blumberg, MD
  • Ethiopia-Emory TB Research Training Program
• Neel Gandhi, MD
  • Mentorship in Patient-Oriented Research in Tuberculosis, HIV and Global Health
• Michael Woodworth, MD
  • Temporal Dynamic of MDRO Eradication after FMT

To view the full list of recognized faculty, visit Excellence in Research.