General Practitioner Research Fellow
Resume:
Gabriel Ionescu, MD
Cary, NC ****9
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Compassionate multilingual general gastroenterologist and hepatologist, with sixteen years of combined academic practice, research experience, and leadership, dedicated to exemplary patient outcomes. My vision is to improve health care delivery, by building cross-functional teams, while consolidating a personalized connection with the community.
WORK EXPERIENCE
■ Mobile Infirmary, Mobile AL general GI hospitalist-locums 05/2022-present, Jackson-Coker Inc.
■ Owensboro Health System, Owensboro KY, GI hospitalist-locums 09/2022-present, Jackson-Coker Inc.
■ Shoals Gastroenterology LLC, owner 12/2021-present
■ Baptist Medical Center South, Montgomery AL GI hospitalist-locums 12/2021-04/2022, Jackson-Coker Inc.
■ Tennessee Valley Gastroenterology, Florence Alabama 07/2021-12/2021
■ Bassett Healthcare Network, Cooperstown New York Associate Chief of Network Endoscopy 05/2020-06/2021
■ developing systems and quality metrics to safeguard patient access to excellent, time-sensitive and convenient endoscopy services in a large health system.
• Wyckoff Heights Medical Center Brooklyn, New York Director of Gastroenterology 04/2019-04/2020
■ set up an open-access program for upper endoscopy and colonoscopy for the bariatric surgery group, medical and gynecology clinics.
■ performed high-volume diagnostic and therapeutic elective and emergent endoscopy and colonoscopy.
■ doubled the year-over-year census of endoscopic cases.
■ provided lectures to the house staff and faculty of Medicine and Surgery departments.
■ maximized the capacity of the endoscopy suite, by mediating between the hospital leadership, gastroenterology and operating room groups.
■ attracted new patients, from non-affiliated neighborhood primary care practices, by developing new professional relationships with referring physicians.
■ decreased waiting time to new or established patient appointments by 40%.
■ worked with the hospitalist group and ICU director to implement a policy of managing upper GI bleeding.
■ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York City Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine 07/2006 - 03/2019
■ Treated hepatitis, inflammatory and functional bowel disease, screened for gastrointestinal and liver cancer, by supervising the liver, general gastroenterology and HIV clinics at Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospitals.
■ improved inpatient flow by proactively consulting, stabilizing and referring acutely ill patients to early endoscopy.
■ Delivered personalized health maintenance, screening and nutritional advice to the underserved population, such as inner city patients and immigrant population from Central and South America and West Africa.
■ Supervised fellow conferences.
■ Saint Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University New York City Program Director, Division of Gastroenterology 07/2011- 06/2014
■ Established the fellows’ curriculum.
■ Supervised fellows during teaching conferences and provided clinical and endoscopic training.
■ Led performance improvement meetings with the fellows.
■ Housingworks, Inc New York City Hepatology consultant 09/2011- 03/2020
■ Achieved high sustained viral response rates, by implementing directly observed therapy in treating hepatitis C virus infection in people who inject drugs. TRAINING
Saint Luke’s- Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York Obesity Research Center, Columbia University New York City
Research Fellowship 07/2006-06/2008
Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program
Wrote the institutional review board protocol, recruited and coordinated the study Volunteers.
Learned to independently perform hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamps with glycerol infusion and aerobic capacity measurements.
Analyzed and published data:
o Zidovudine-to–tenofovir switch improved the following parameters:
adipose tissue distribution in the subcutaneous limb compartment.
increased lactate metabolism, likely by increased peak power output and the-to-peak exercise capacity. o Skeletal muscle was not affected, suggesting that tenofovir may be associated with long-term improvements of myocardial mitochondrial dysfunction.
Saint Luke’s - Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University New York City Gastroenterology Fellowship 07/2003-06/2006
Mount Sinai Medical Center, Icahn School of Medicine New York City Division of Liver Diseases; Hepatology training 01/2005-06/2005
Saint Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York Obesity New York City Research Center, Columbia University
Research Fellow, T32 grant, Ruth L. Kirschtein Award 07/2002-06/2003
Independently performed homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) and body composition measurements.
Established an association between anti-inflammatory therapy and HOMA-IR improvement, in the absence of body composition changes in HIV-infected individuals with lipodystrophy.
Saint Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University New York City Internal Medicine Residency 07/1999-06/2002
“Carol Davila” University of Bucharest, Romania, EU Medical Center of Phonoaudiology and Cervico- Facial Surgery ENT resident 09/1995-06/1999
RESEARCH SUPPORT:
Saint Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University New York City Co-investigator and research fellow -ECRIP grant 07/2006-05/2009 Effect of Substituting Truvada for Combivir vs Continuing Combivir Therapy on Physiologic Correlates of Mitochondrial Function in HIV-infected Subjects on HAART Therapy.
Saint Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University New York City
Research Fellow T32 grant, Ruth L. Kirschtein Award 07/2002-06/2003
Effect of salicylate therapy upon body fat distribution, lipid metabolism, and insulin resistance in HIV- infected individuals with lipodystrophy.
AWARDS / ACHIEVEMENTS
■ The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York Award for Outstanding Preceptorship in the Ambulatory Care-Geriatrics Medical Student Clerkship -2018.
■ Above average reimbursement rate for procedures. (source: CMS, 2018)
■ Top 15% in generating work relative value units. 2016 – present-internal data.
■ Fifty-five percent adenoma detection rate. (source: GI QuIC, internal data)-2015-present.
■ Inada-Lange Foundation for AIDS Research Award, for providing free medical services to members of Pumwani Village, Nairobi, Kenya, 2002, 2010.
■ Merit and Governmental scholarships for top 10% medical students, Romania 1990-1995.
■ Staff corporal in the Romanian Army Medical Corps, 1988-1989, honorably discharged. ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
Bassett Healthcare Network, Cooperstown New York Associate Chief of Network Endoscopy 05/2020-06/2021
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center Brooklyn, New York Director of Gastroenterology 04/2019-04/2020
Mount Sinai Saint Luke’s Hospital New York City Member of the department of medicine quality improvement committee, 01/2013 - 03/2019.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
■ American Gastroenterological Association –member, 2004.
■ American College of Physicians, member, 2000-2008.
■ Bucharest ENT Society, 1996-1998.
MEDICAL LICENSING
■ Kentucky license # 56747
■ Alabama license # 42625 since 2021
■ New York State License # 225952, since 2002.
■ DEA# BI 9770240, active until 2020.
■ Diplomate of the ABMS: Re-certification in Gastroenterology, 2016-2026.
■ Diplomate of the ABMS: Gastroenterology, 2006-2016.
■ Diplomate of the ABIM: Re-certification in internal medicine 2012-2022.
■ Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, 2002-2012.
■ ECFMG Certificate, issued November 1998. Valid indefinitely.
■ Medic Diploma and License of General Practitioner, Romania, E.U. 1995. EDUCATION
University of Medicine and Pharmacy - Tirgu-Mures Romania, EU Medical Doctor 09/1989-09/1995 PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
Dela Cruz AC, Engelson E, Ionescu G, Dubrovskaya V, Kotler D.Hepatitis C treatment in an urban population. Hepatology. 2010 Oct; 52(4):1524-5.
Kothari ND, Engelson ES, Drake V, Mehdi A, Ionescu G, Kotler DP. Effect of HIV infection on the prevalence of colorectal adenomas during screening colonoscopy. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2010 Jan; 44(1):77-8.
Dodell GB, Kotler DP, Engelson ES, Ionescu G, Gimelshteyn Y, Pollack A, Gallagher D, Berglund L, Albu JB.Intermuscular and subcutaneous adipose tissue distributions differ in HIV+ versus HIV-men and women.Int J Body Compos Res. 2009;7(2):73-78.
He Q, Engelson ES, Ionescu G, Glesby MJ, Albu JB, Kotler DP.Insulin resistance, hepatic lipid and adipose tissue distribution in HIV-infected men. Antivir Ther. 2008; 13(3):423-8.
Dusheiko GM, Ionescu G, Bratcher J, Swan T. Pathogenesis and Treatment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Chronic Hepatitis C Virus infection The PRN Notebook, 2007 May;11 (4):9-19.
He Q, Engelson ES, Wang J, Kenya S, Ionescu G, Heymsfield SB, Kotler DP. Validation of an elliptical anthropometric model to estimate visceral compartment area. Obes Res. 2004 Feb; 12(2):250-7.
Johnson JA, Albu JB, Engelson ES, Fried SK, Inada Y, Ionescu G, Kotler DP. Increased systemic and adipose tissue cytokines in patients with HIV-associated lipodystrophy. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2004 Feb; 286(2):E261-71.
Kotler DP, Ionescu G, Johnson JA, Inada Y, He Q, Engelson ES, Albu JB. Studies of adipose tissue metabolism in human immunodeficiency virus-associated lipodystrophy. Clin Infect Dis. 2003; 37 Suppl 2:S47-51.
Ionescu G, Kotler DP, Engelson ES, Agin D, Inada Y. Serum complement components in HIV-infected individuals with and without fat redistribution (lipodystrophy). J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2000 Dec 1; 25(4):370-1.
Abstracts and Poster presentations
Abed J, Ionescu G, Kotler DP, Psevdos, G. Screening colonoscopy in HIV-infected patients of a large cohort at an AIDS center in New York City. Abstract submitted to the Digestive Disease Week, Washington, DC, May 2015.
Pop G, Ionescu G. Black esophagus. Abstract ID# 1738044, accepted for poster presentation, at the ACG Annual Scientific Meeting, October 11-16, 2013, San Diego, CA.
Ionescu G, Walker R, Albu JB,Engelson ES,Kotler DP. Effect of substituting tenofovir for zidovudine vs continuing zidovudine on physiologic correlates of mitochondrial function in HIV-infected subjects on nucleoside-reverse transcriptase inhibitor therapy. Antiviral Therapy 2008; 13, Suppl 4: A 68, Abstract P61, and oral presentation 10th International Workshop on Adverse Drug Reactions and Lipodystrophy in HIV, November 5-8, 2008, London UK.
He Q, Engelson ES, Glesby M, Ionescu G, Albu JB, Hadigan C, Kotler DP. Effects of gender and race on associations between hepatic lipid, adipose tissue distribution and insulin resistance in HIV infection, 8th International Symposium on In-Vivo Body Composition Studies, New York City July 9th - July 12th, 2008.
(Oral Presentation and Poster).
He Q, Ionescu G, Glesby MJ, Kotler DP, Engelson ES. Hepatic lipid and adipose tissue distribution in HIV infected men. IX Workshop on Adverse Drug Reactions and Lipodystrophy. 2007:P-13.
G Ionescu, S Reka, JB Albu, ES Engelson and DP Kotler.Effects of anti-inflammatory therapy on body composition and metabolic alterations in HIV lipodystrophy: a pilot study. Antiviral Therapy 2006; 11:L24
(abstract no. 34).
Ionescu G, He Q, Engelson ES, Johnson JA, Albu JB, Inada Y, Kotler DP. Acylation stimulating protein
(ASP) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) production in subcutaneous adipose tissue of HIV-infected patients with and without lipodystrophy. XIV International AIDS Conference. WePeA5794.
Ionescu G, He Q, Engelson ES, Albu JB, Kotler DP. The effect of a liquid nutritional supplement containing omega (n)-3 fatty acids on HIV-related hypertriglyceridemia. XIV International AIDS Conference 2002. B10300. (Abstract).
Book Chapters
Ionescu G, Kotler DP. AAHIVM Fundamentals of HIV Medicine, 2007 Edition. Chapter 11.2 Gastrointestinal Symptoms: 149-153; Chapter 29: Gastrointestinal Complications: 553-564.
Ionescu G, Kotler DP. Enteral Nutrition in HIV Infection. Clinical Nutrition: Enteral and Tube Feeding, Ed. Rolandelli RH. W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, PA. 2005:486-98. (Chapter).
Ultrasound Diagnosis and Follow-up of Placenta Praevia", graduation thesis, 1994-1995, “Textbook of Gynecology-Obstetrics”, Bucharest, Romania, 1998.
Peer presentations:
Hepatitis B: pathophysiology and management: presentation to Housingworks Inc. staff. June 2018.
Hepatitis C: therapy updates: yearly peer presentations to Housingworks Inc. staff.2011-present.
Gastrointestinal bleeding: yearly presentations to medical house staff at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital.2006-present.
EXTRACURRICULAR
Foreign languages – fluent in French, Romanian, and in medical Spanish. Basic German and Italian.
Reading, traveling, museum and concert going, gardening.
Swimming, tennis, cycling, skiing and running.
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