Vajeeha Tabassum, MD
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Medical Education, Preventive Medicine

Short Bowel Syndromes, Clinical Nutrition, Palliative Care, Oncology

1. Tabassum V, Godschalk M. Hypervitaminosis D in a patient with Psoriasis: JAGS, Vol 58, Number 4, S1-S280, April 2010; B17 Page S81. Presidential Poster Session at AGS National Meeting-May 12-15, 2010 Orlando, FL.
2. O'Keefe S et al. A Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Teduglutide in Subjects with Parenteral Nutrition-Dependent Short Bowel Syndrome. Proceedings of the American College of Gastroenterology 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting — San Diego, Calif., October 23 to 28, 2009.
3. Barve A, Tabassum V, Adada H:Diabetes and Progression of Renal Failure: A Retrospective study analyzing the progression of renal failure in 100 patients over 2 years: Proceedings of the American College of Endocrinology, Annual Meeting, 2009, May 13-17, Houston, TX.
   
4. Barve A, Tabassum V, Adada H. Developing a simple educational tool to improve the resident and patient compliance with the screening and management of diabetic nephropathy at an urban health center in Pittsburgh. Proceedings of the National Kidney Foundation-Spring Symposium, 2009 March 25 - 29, Nashville, Tennessee
5. Barve A, Tabassum V, Adada H, Reese C: Studying Resident Compliance with screening and management of diabetic nephropathy over a 2 year period in an academic teaching facility: Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Physicians Western Region Meeting — Pittsburgh, Pa., November 7, 2008
6. Tabassum V, Rahman F , Tar L. Disseminated Vesicular Lesions In a 20 year old female—Pemphigoid Gestationalis. Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Physicians Western Region Meeting — Pittsburgh, Pa., November 14, 2007
7. Tabassum V, Kiazand M: A Rare Case of Prostate Cancer with Osteolytic Lesions: Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Physicians Western Region Meeting — Pittsburgh, Pa., November 04, 2006
8. Marc Conti, Vajeeha Tabassum, Henri Chenal, Anne Davit-Spraul, Jean François Brevet, Alain Legrand, Jacques Demouzon, Claudine Cosson, Luc Montagnier and, Bernard Dugas Restored antioxidant capacities in AIDS West African patients supplemented orally with a nutraceutical Superoxide dismutase. Proceedings of the XVI International AIDS Conference, AIDS 2006 Toronto, Canada
9. Rahman H, Rocco R, Latorre J, Tabassum V: The effects of specialized nutritional supplement on Quality of life in HIV patients with HAART therapy. Proceedings of the 3rd International AIDS Conference, July 2005, Brazil, Volume MoPe11.1c10 , page 76