St. Joseph’s Ambulatory facilities include a comprehensive Family Health Center, Women’s, Infant’s and Children’s Program (WIC), the St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital Pediatric Subspecialties Centers in Hoboken, Paramus, and Wayne, as well as a Pediatric SurgiCare Center in Fair Lawn, the DePaul Ambulatory Care Center, St. Joseph’s Ambulatory Imaging Centers in Clifton, Carlstadt and Wayne, and a Women’s Center, as well as a variety of service centers conveniently located throughout northern New Jersey.

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The Institutional Review Board reviews, monitors, and approves all research involving patients at St. Joseph’s.  Meeting monthly, the IRB is comprised of 15 diverse members charged with protecting the safety of our research participants.  For additional information

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The 6^th Annual Research Day at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center (SJUMC) highlighted the research findings of physicians from various specialty areas throughout the hospital. This year, 19 abstracts were submitted for the competition. Peter McGovern, MD, Chief, Reproductive Endocrinology, SJUMC, and Chairman, OB/GYN, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, delivered the keynote address entitled, “Complete bilateral salpingectomy: Why not?”

Five finalists were selected by the Research Committee to present their work to the judging panel and audience members. After each finalist’s presentation, audience members and judges had the opportunity to ask questions. The judges’ scoring system determined the overall placing and at the end of the competition the audience used instantaneous audience response technology to vote for their crowd favorite, resulting in the naming of the 2015 Research Idol.

Congratulations to the finalists! Presenters are denoted in italics.

• 1^ST Place: “Performance of non-contrast MRI in evaluation of appendicitis in children” – Ashley Notartomaso, MD; Edward Milman, MD; Robin Frank-Gerszberg, MD; Warren Freitag, MD; Nileshwari Patel, MSN; Michael Gorn, MD
• 2^nd Place: “Prevalence of silent voiding dysfunction in morbidly obese women before and after bariatric surgery” – Jihad Azar, MD; Sam Hessami, MD; Amit Trivedi, MD; Oksana Shklyanka, MD; Elie Geara, MD; Onyinyechukwu Kanu, MS
• 3^rd Place: “Incidence of early Left Ventricular Thrombus (LVT) formation after St-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) in primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) era: A single-center experience” – Sundermurthy Yamini, MD; Ashesha Mechineni, MD; Priyank Shah, MD; Sharad Bajaj, MD; Hartaj Virk, MD; Aiman Hamdan, MD; Fayez Shamoon, MD; Mahesh Bikkina, MD
• Runner Up: “The impact of intraoperative anesthesia techniques on post-operative nausea and vomiting in the ENT ambulatory setting” – Joseph Eisele, DO; Darren Cuthbert, MPH; Michael Grinn, MPH; Allarice Linaac, MPH; Radhika Ravi, MD, PhD
• Runner Up: “The use of breath alcohol concentration, a validated test compared to blood alcohol concentration, will likely cut healthcare costs, decrease ED length of stay, and improve patient satisfaction” – Zev Lob, DO; Steven Hochman, MD; David Adinaro, MD
• 2015 Research Idol: Department of Pediatrics

A special ‘Thank You’ to this year’s judges: Mark Connolly, MD, Chairman, Surgery, SJUMC; Michael Lamacchia, MD, Chairman, Pediatrics, St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital; Sam Hessami, MD, Chief, Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery; and, guest judge Peter McGovern, MD, Chief of Reproductive Endocrinology, SJUMC, and Chairman OB/GYN, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital.

Pictured (l to r): Loretta Hall, Manager, Research Institute, St. Joseph’s University Medical Center (SJUMC); Michael Lamacchia, MD, Chairman, Pediatrics, St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital (SJCH); Jai Parekh, MD, Medical Director, Research Institute, SJUMC; Sam Hessami, MD, Chief, Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery, SJUMC; Ashley Notartomaso, MD, 3^rd year Postgraduate Resident (PGY-3), Department of Pediatrics; Jihad Azar, MD, PGY-3, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology; Sundermurthy Yamini, MD, 2^nd year Postgraduate Resident, Department of Internal Medicine; Zev Lob, DO, 4^th year Postgraduate Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine; Joseph Eisele, DO, PGY-3, Department of Anesthesiology; Peter McGovern, MD, Chief of Reproductive Endocrinology, SJUMC, and Chairman OB/GYN, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital; and Lindsey Duffy, Director, Administrative Services, SJUMC.

The Full Body Scan provides a comprehensive picture of your overall physical health, including heart, lungs and major organs. The benefit is early detection of developing problems before more serious symptoms occur.

This test is performed using 64 multi-slice GE Lightspeed VCT scanner and produces 3-D, 360 degree images of the heart and arteries, where heart attacks originate. The results are used to evaluate potential problems, including the buildup of calcium in arterial plaque, before the onset of symptoms.

Ultrasound imaging, also called sonography, is a non-invasive procedure which uses sound waves to create real-time images of the human body. Ultrasound works like sonar by bouncing sound waves off an object. A computer interprets the reflected sound waves and forms an image. No x-rays are involved.
Ultrasounds are frequently used to:

• Evaluate internal organs for tumors, cysts, abscesses, inflammation and obstruction.
• Locate stones in the gallbladder, bile ducts, or kidneys.
• Detect abnormalities of the heart valves.
• Detect aneurysms and impaired blood flow from blood clots or arteriosclerosis.
• Detect early pregnancy and study developing babies.