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JANUARY 2026    Volume 109, Number 1

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CONTACT
Editor-in-Chief

William Binder, MD
william_binder@brown.edu

Managing Editor
Mary Korr
mkorr@rimed.org

FOR AUTHORS
Publication Requirements
Pre-Submission Checklist
Peer Review Policy
Ethics Statement
Copyright Transfer
Financial Disclosure
Commentary Guide
Letters to the Editor Guide
Images in Medicine Guide
Videos in Medicine Guide

Associate Editors
Kenneth S. Korr, MD
Philip Chan, MD

Graphic Designer
Marianne Migliori

 

CASE REPORTS
Spontaneous Hepatic Rupture in Pregnancy
Anastasia C. Tillman, MD; Marcelo L. Paiva, MPP, MD; Andrew Barton, MD;
Natalie Passarelli, MD; Timothy D. Murtha, MD, MHS

Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome Masquerading as Sepsis in Early Infancy
Taylor Pels, MD; Prerana Baranwal, MD; Edward Gill, MD

Ventricular Septal Rupture Secondary to Late-Presenting Myocardial Infarction
Joseph A. Inger, BS; Jeffrey R. Savarino, MD, MPH; Olivia Avidan, MD, MPH;
Sarah Dwyer Holland, MD; Suleman Ilyas, MD; Andrew D. Maslow, MD;
Marwan Saad, MD
, PhD

IMAGES IN MEDICINE
A Vesiculopustular Skin Eruption
Lauryn Orsillo, DO; Quinn Schroeder, BS; Megan M. Tran, BS; Taylor E. Arnoff, MD;
Anna Holcomb, DO; Tatiana Abrantes, MD; Oliver J. Wisco, DO

RESEARCH REVIEW
The Role of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Treatment of Autoimmune Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Astrocytopathy
Yigit Baykara, MD; Liqi Shu, MD; Yamac Akgun, MD

RESEARCH STUDIES
The Unfinished Story: Analyzing Publication Rates in Diabetic Retinopathy
and Diabetic Macular Edema Trials Before the COVID-19 Era (1972–2018)
Surya Khatri, BA; Austin J. Coppinger, BA; Viren K. Rana, DO; Eric J. Kim, MD;
Samer Wahood, BA; James Lee, BA; Taygan Yilmaz, MBA, MPH

Trends from the Rhode Island Harm Reduction Surveillance System: 2021–2024
Jaejoon Shin, MPH; Emily M. Ledingham, MA, MPH; Michelle McKenzie, MPH;
Haley McKee, BA, BS; Elijah M
cCray, BS; Juan Turbidez; Nya Reichley, MPA;
Kristen St. John, MPH; Benjamin D. Hallowell,
PhD

Expanding Abortion Training: Interest, Experience and Comfort in Abortion Care
Among Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residents
Gabriela Weigel, MD; Kalin Gregory-Davis, MD; Dayna Burrell, MD; Safiyah Hosein, MD

Bleeding Risk Following Total Shoulder Arthroplasty in Patients
Using Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
Luca Katz, BA; Helen Zhang, BS; Manjot Singh, MD; JosuÉ Marquez, BA;
Edward J. Testa, MD; Alan H. Daniels, MD; Michel Arcand, MD

PUBLIC HEALTH
Health by numbers
Evaluation of Naloxone Uptake Disparities Among Harm Reduction Clients in Rhode Island:
A Deeper Dive Using Disaggregated Race and Ethnicity Data

Erin Brown, MPH; Sarah Ogundare, MPH; Nya Reichley, MPA; Jennifer Koziol, MPH; Thomas Bertrand, MPH, MA; Suzanne Bornschein, MD

Vital Statistics
Zuheil AmoreseI, DEPUTY STATE REGISTRAR

Commentary
Publication Bias
Joseph H. Friedman, MD

HERITAGE
Vintage article by Seebert J. Goldowsky, MD, describes founders,
physicians, funders of Miriam Hospital
Dr. Goldowsky, surgeon and prolific writer, was longtime RIMJ editor-in-chief

Mary Korr

Spotlight
Ocean State Labs Opening to Accelerate a New Era of Life Science Innovation
Mark A. Turco, MD; Lilia Kirtley Holt, MBA; Hailey Bathurst, MAIDP

IN THE NEWS   [4-page pdf]
School of Public Health Dean Ashish K. Jha, MD, departs Brown;
Francesca L. Beaudoin, MD
, to serve as interim

Butler Hospital launches Express Care

AMA welcomes CMS model targeting chronic conditions with tech tools

Reed and Whitehouse co-sponsor legislation to prevent dangerous gun sales

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
United effort by physicians is part of strategy to address shootings
Steven Lippmann, MD

Reported use of most drugs remains low among US teens

People/Places   [4-page pdf]
APPOINTMENTS
Brown University Health names Corey Ventetuolo, MD, Director, Pulmonary,
Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Ashish Misri, MD, named Chief Medical Officer at Saint Anne’s Hospital

Methodius G. Tuuli, MD, MPH, MBA, to serve as the Interim President
of Women & Infants Hospital

Care New England names Thomas Ricci Interim Chief Operating Officer
of Women & Infants Hospital

RECOGNITION
Advance RI-CTR recognizes Chathuraka Jayasuriya, PhD,
with inaugural research excellence award

Neighborhood presents CODAC with ACAP Supporting the Safety Net Award Honorable Mention

PLACES
Newport Hospital celebrates ribbon cutting for adolescent behavioral health unit

Now open in Newport: South County Health’s Center for Women’s Health
comprehensive OB-GYN care

OBITUARY   [1-page pdf]
Philip R.B. McMaster, MD

 
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