Fellowship Application (doc)
| Cara B. Litvin, MD Cara Litvin graduated magna cum laude from the University of South Carolina Honors College with a BS in biology in 2000. She received her MD from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2004. She then completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at New York University / Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City. After finishing residency, Dr. Litvin spent a year as a hospitalist at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital center, also in NYC, where she was voted "Teacher of the Year" by the internal medicine residency program. She then returned to South Carolina to pursue an academic generalist fellowship. Dr. Litvin developed an interest in computers and electronic medical records while in medical school and has since been author or co-author of several publications on the matter, including a perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine. She also serves as executive editor of Clinical Correlations, an internal medicine educational website which she helped launch during her residency. Annie Lintzenich, MD Annie Lintzenich, MD graduated cum laude from The University of Dayton where she received her BS in Pre-Medicine in 2002. She received her MD from the University of Cincinnati College Of Medicine, in Cincinnati, OH in 2006. She then went on to complete her internship and residency in Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in 2009. She has always had a strong interest in clinical research. While in Cincinnati she completed a chart review under the guidance of the Pediatric Critical Care Faculty assessing acute kidney injury in patients status post Transposition of the Great Arteries repair. She was also involved in a chart review looking at the use of propofol for sedation prior to extubation in the PICU. She has a significant background in Family Centered Rounding and plans to introduce this practice here at MUSC Children’s Hospital. She is also very interested in resident and medical student education and plans to pursue a career as a pediatric hospitalist at an academic medical center once she completes her Academic Generalist Fellowship. Sujeev Bains, MD Sujeev Bains graduated cum laude from Albion College with a BA in Biology and Psychology in 1995. He then completed his MS in Biomedical Sciences at Wayne State University in 1997 where his thesis was on multidrug resistant tuberculosis in underserved populations. He went on to receive his MD from Meharry Medical College in 2001 and completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Saint Louis University Hospital in 2004. During residency, he was involved in a basic science project to study polymorphisms in the IL-4 receptor in patients with cystic fibrosis. Following residency, Dr. Bains worked as a hospitalist at a tertiary care center in Akron, Ohio where he was involved with resident teaching and patient care. His primary clinical research interests include health literacy and health behaviors among various socioeconomic groups and he plans to pursue a career as an academic internist following his fellowship. David R. Black David Black graduated with a BA in economics from the University of Wyoming in 1990. He then completed his MS in Economics at the University of Wyoming in 1994. He spent 10 years with the State of Wyoming working as an Economist, focusing mainly on revenue forecasting, research and legislation analysis. He then moved to Charlotte, NC where he was Director of Research for the Charlotte Regional Partnership and taught at Central Piedmont Community College. He will graduate with a PhD in Applied Microeconomics from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro in December 2009. His primary research focus is in the areas of health economics and public policy as it relates to health economics and addiction research. |
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