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CHEST Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas

Published Date:

October 17, 2018

2018 CHEST Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. October 6-10, 2018.

Please visit http://chestmeeting.chestnet.org/ for more information regarding the 2019 CHEST Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

Congratulations to our very own, Mirza Ali, MD and Abdisamad Ibrahim, MD, both PGY2's, and Abhishek Kulkarni, MD on your poster acceptance at the 2018 Annual CHEST Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Ali and Dr. Ibrahim traveled to Texas on October 6-10, 2018 to present their poster "Unusual Case of NSTFMI Associated with Myocardial Bridge".

Dr. Mirza Ali along with his mentor Dr. Abhishek Kulkarni, Division of Cardiology; SIU Medicine also presented on "Left Ventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy: An Underrecognized Cause of Heart Failure".

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