Department of
Medicine

Featured Publications

Selection of 2025 research publications from WVU Department of Medicine faculty (out of > 150 PubMed-indexed publications)

  • Sharma S, Stansbury R, Ramadan J, Rojas E, Finomore V, Pham C, Quan SF, Wen S. Sleep well and live well: Impact of sleep hygiene intervention on sleep duration in a rural community: A randomized controlled trial (THE SWELL STUDY). J Rural Health. 2025 Jan;41(1):e70002. [PMID 39930329]
  • Dember LM, Hsu JY, Mehrotra R, Cavanaugh KL, Kalim S, Charytan DM, Fischer MJ, Jhamb M, Johansen KL, Becker WC, Pellegrino B, Eneanya ND, Schrauben SJ, Pun PH, Unruh ML, Morasco BJ, Mehta M, Miyawaki N, Penfield J, Bernardo L, Brintz CE, Cheatle MD, Doorenbos AZ, Heapy AA, Keefe FJ, Krebs EE, Kuzla N, Nigwekar SU, Schmidt RJ, Steel JL, Wetmore JB, White DM, Kimmel PL, Cukor D; HOPE Consortium. Pain Coping Skills Training for Patients Receiving Hemodialysis: The HOPE Consortium Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 Feb 1;185(2):197-207. [PMID 39786400]
  • Maan S, Sohail AH, Sulaiman SA, Mansoor L, Cohen EM, Adekolu AA, Abunnaja S, Szoka N, Tabone LE, Thakkar S, Singh S. Metabolic and bariatric surgery versus glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist therapy: A comparison of cardiovascular outcomes in patients with obesity. Am J Surg. 2025 Apr;242:116242. [PMID 39965476]
  • Schmidt R, Parravani A, Poling M, Diab A, Pellegrino B, Shawwa K. Home dialysis as the incident modality in patients starting dialysis in West Virginia: role of the rural outreach kidney care clinic. J Nephrol. 2025 Apr;38(3):999-1008. [PMID 40025398]
  • Sharma S, Stansbury R, Mudgal M, Srinivasan P, Rojas E, Olgers KK, Knollinger S, Selim BJ, Wen S. Post-Discharge non-invasive ventilation for hypercapnic respiratory failure: Outcomes in a Rural Cohort. PLoS One. 2025 Apr 16;20(4):e0321420. [PMID 40238737]
  • Kim SH, Pannone AF, DeBoer MD, McCartney CR, Burt Solorzano CM. Obesity Is Associated With Hyperandrogenemia in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Girls Aged 6 to 18 Years. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2025 May 19;110(6):e1776-e1782. [PMID 39311388]
  • Haider A, Sundar J, Beckers A, Mohr H, Kasajima A, Pellegata NS, Pétrossians P, Daly AF. Expanding the phenotype of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 5 (MEN5): Pituitary gigantism, myelolipoma and familial pheochromocytoma due to a germline pathogenic MAX variant. Endocrine. 2025 Jun;88(3):701-705. [PMID 39934510]
  • Khan S, Khan MA, Ahmad A, Asif H, Safwan M, Khan A, Elahi MW, Shah MP, Zafar Y. Efficacy and Safety of Mycophenolate Mofetil Compared to Azathioprine in Autoimmune Hepatitis: A Meta-Analysis. Gastroenterology Res. 2025 Jun 16;18(4):164-174. [PMID 40687326]
  • Stansbury R, Stout N, Rudisill T, Feinberg J, Dino G, Sharma S, Strollo PJ. Development of a Novel Shared Care Intervention to Address Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Rural West Virginia. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Jul;22(7):1062-1070. [PMID 40126170]
  • Al-Mamun MA, Jeun KJ, Brothers T, Asare EO, Shawwa K, Ahmed I. Evaluating the kidney disease progression using a comprehensive patient profiling algorithm: A hybrid clustering approach. PLoS One. 2025 Jul 11;20(7):e0310749. [PMID 40644387]
  • Charytan DM, Moss AH, Shalak M, Wu W, Dember LM, Hsu JY, Kuzla N, Esserman D, Kalim S, Kimmel PL, Lockwood MB, Miyawaki N, Pellegrino B, Pun PH, Qamhiyeh R, Scherer J, Schrauben S, Weiner DE, Mehrotra R; HOPE Consortium. Fall Risk in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients: A Secondary Analysis of the HOPE Consortium Trial. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2025 Jul 15;20(9):1247-1258. [PMID 40663732]
  • Thayer J, Miller B, Liriano MM, Hoffman K, Baugh G, Sizemore J. Intensive Telemedicine Transitions of Care Clinic: A Prospective Feasibility Study of a Novel Ambulatory Model Serving Appalachian Patients. J Appalach Health. 2025 Sep 1;7(3):95-104. [PMID 40964411]
  • Adeniran O, Nieto LM, Amadi C, Shepherd K, Kirkpatrick J, Farah K, Marwizi F, Alqinai B, Narvaez SI, Mensah S, Adekolu A, Cohen EM, Khan RS, Gayam S, Tabone LE, Davisson L. Alcoholic Use Disorder Outcomes After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in Patients Taking GLP-1 RAs: A Multicenter Analysis. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2025 Oct;33(10):1886-1894. [PMID 40855971]
  • Singh S, Maan S, Hadi Y, Agrawal R, Adekolu AA, Cohen EM, Ali FS, Fang W, Markovich B, Krafft M, Thakkar S. Endoscopic suturing to prevent migration of esophageal fully covered self-expandable metal stents: a randomized controlled trial (with video). Gastrointest Endosc. 2025 Oct;102(4):525-535.e4. [PMID 40024292]
  • Houghton MA, McCartney CR, Kim SH, Patrie JT, Marshall JC, Burt Solorzano CM. Evidence for Functional Ovarian Hyperandrogenism in Early Pubertal, but Not Late Pubertal, Girls With Excess Weight. J Endocr Soc. 2025 Oct 1;9(12):bvaf154. [PMID 41245156]
  • Abrego AH, Tadros A, Baker Rogers J, Davis SM, Dilcher B. Characterizing the Use of Emergency Department Resources and Dispositions of Hospice Patients in an Appalachian Region of the United States. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2025 Nov 16:10499091251399808. [PMID 41243141]
  • Thaweethai T, Donohue SE, Martin JN, Hornig M, Mosier JM, Shinnick DJ, Ashktorab H, Atieh O, Blomkalns A, Brim H, Chen Y, Cortez MM, Erdmann NB, Flaherman V, Goepfert P, Goldman JD, Hamburg NM, Han JE, Heath JR, Jacoby V, Jolley SE, Kelly JD, Kelly SW, Kim C, Krishnan JA, Letts R, Levitan EB, Modes ME, McComsey GA, Metz TD, Mullington JM, Ofotokun I, Okumura MJ, Paredes CC, Patterson TF, Peluso MJ, Reece R, Sherif ZA, Simhan HN, Simmons C, Singh U, Taylor BS, Taylor BD, Trinity JD, Troxel AB, Utz PJ, Vasey AJ, Weinberger E, Wiley Z, Wisnivesky J, Yee LM, Horwitz L, Foulkes AS, Levy BD; RECOVER-Adult Consortium. Long COVID trajectories in the prospectively followed RECOVER-Adult US cohort. Nat Commun. 2025 Nov 17;16(1):9557. [PMID 41249167]
  • Graham T, Shoback DM, Abbott L, Lubitz S, Edelson G, Haider A, Ing SW, Rothman MS, Cusano NE, Zhao C, Ukena J, Schneider M, Sibley CT, Rubin MR. Early U.S. Real-World Treatment Patterns and Outcomes in Palopegteriparatide Treatment for Patients With Hypoparathyroidism. Endocr Pract. 2025 Dec;31(12):1568-1575. [PMID 40846304]
  • Thayer J, Miller B, Liriano MM, Hoffman KL, Thompson J, Baugh G, Sizemore J. The post-hospitalization huddle: An interprofessional education model for clinical telemedicine. J Interprof Educ Pract. 2025 Dec;41:100774. [PMID 41409177]
  • Krafft MR, Maan S, Scott A, Shepherd K, Karna R, Clemetson E, Singh S, Thakkar S, Amateau SK. Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy with Jejunal Extension Versus Direct Percutaneous Endoscopic Jejunostomy for Post-pyloric Feeding: A Dual-Center Retrospective Study. Dig Dis Sci. 2025 Dec;70(12):4190-4206. [PMID 40736945]
  • Tully DC, Bean DJ, Sarette J, Ngo TL, Power KA, Brook D, Cooper H, Feinberg J, Friedmann PD, Hochstatter KR, Havens JR, Babalonis S, Hurt C, Jenkins W, Korthuis PT, Miller W, Pho MT, Smith G, Stopka TJ, Tsui JI, Mixson LS, Westergaard RP, Young AM, Allen TM. Genomic surveillance uncovers regional variation in HCV transmission networks in rural United States. Nat Commun. 2025 Dec 2;17(1):249. [PMID 41330928]
  • Bang JY, Puri R, Lakhtakia S, Thakkar S, Waxman I, Siddiqui I, Arnold K, Chaudhary A, Mehta S, Singh A, Venkat Rao G, Basha J, Gupta R, Modak S, Singh S, Boone B, Dautel P, Dixon MEB, Kim HM, Sutton B, Arnoletti JP, Rösch T, Varadarajulu S. Endoscopic or surgical gastroenterostomy for malignant gastric outlet obstruction: a randomised trial. Gut. 2025 Dec 5;75(1):24-32. [PMID 40998416]
  • Rocco JM, Oved JH, Patel RJ, Herskovits AZ, Nair N, Shakoory B, Robertson T, Dileo R, Jacobs MW, Zerbe C, Gordon R, Ombrello MJ, Ombrello AK, Shah NN, Dimitrova D, Kanakry JA, Zelenetz AD, Moskowitz AJ, Stuver RN, Epstein-Peterson ZD, Ghione P, Mead E, Shahid Z, Giralt SA, Raj SS, Park JH, Maillard I, Geyer MB, Xiao W, Dogan A, Lim MS, Zwicker JI, Mones JV, Parameswaran R, Banaszak LG, Geller S, Santomasso BD, Shouval R, Curran KJ, Delmonte OM, Notarangelo LD, Cohen JI, Holland SM, Salles GA, Horwitz SM, Vardhana SA, Perales MA, Schwartz D, Sereti I, Johnson WT. CXCL9 as a novel prognostic marker to identify high-risk adults with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. Blood. 2025 Dec 10:blood.2025030976 [PMID 41369611]
  • Juskowich JJ, Thompson JM, Bage SD, Palmateer KM, Guilfoose JA, Lastinger AM, Smith CL, Arcega VA, Stanley JE, Summerfield HM, Fisher-Duda C, Nepal M, Wen S, Sarwari AR. Using the Comparing Oral versus Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (COPAT) Clinical Trial to Influence Institutional Practice Transformation Towards Earlier Transition to Oral Antibiotics. Clin Infect Dis. 2025 Dec 19:ciaf707. [PMID 41419216]