Nahel Altaf Tunio
Nahel Altaf Tunio
Education and Training:
- Fellowship, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Case Western Reserve University, MetroHealth Center (2024)
- Residency, Internal Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center (2021)
- MD, Honors in Research, Weill Cornell Medicine (2018)
- Premedical Program, Weill Cornell Medicine- Qatar (2014)
Employment:
- Director of Endoscopy, Gastroenterology, Buffalo VA Medical Center (2024-present)
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Awards and Honors:
- Chief Academic Fellow (2024)
- GME Fellow Excellence Award (2024)
- Dean's Honor List (2024)
- Emerging Liver Scholars Program Award (2019)
- Outstanding Poster Presenter Award (2019)
- Honors in Research and Biomedical Research Award (2018)
- Academic Distinction (2018)
- Second Prize for Poster Presentation (2016)
- First Prize for Oral Presentation (2015)
- Medical Student Research Award (2015)
- Third Prize for Oral Presentation (2015)
- Summer Student Research Program (2014)
Journal Articles:
- Altaf A, Tunio N, Tunio S, Zafar MR, Bajwa N. (2020) Salmonella Urinary Tract Infection and Bacteremia Following Non-Typhoidal Salmonella Gastroenteritis: An Unusual Presentation. Cureus (Dec), 12(12): e12194. doi:10.7759/cureus.12194
- Wegmann S, Bennett RE, Delorme L, Robbins AB, Hu M, McKenzie D, Kirk MJ, Schiantarelli J, Tunio N, Amaral AC, Fan Z, Nicholls S, Hudry E, Hyman BT. (2019) Experimental evidence for the age dependence of tau protein spread in the brain. Science advances (Jun), 5(6): eaaw6404. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaw6404
- Khan A, Akhtar N, Kamran S, Ponirakis G, Petropoulos IN, Tunio NA, Dargham SR, Imam Y, Sartaj F, Parray A, Bourke P, Khan R, Santos M, Joseph S, Shuaib A, Malik RA. (2017) Corneal Confocal Microscopy Detects Corneal Nerve Damage in Patients Admitted With Acute Ischemic Stroke. Stroke (Nov), 48(11): 3012-3018.
- Horne M, Krebushevski K, Wells A, Tunio N, Jarvis C, Francisco G, Geiss J, Recknagel A, Deitcher DL. (2017) julius seizure, a Drosophila Mutant, Defines a Neuronal Population Underlying Epileptogenesis. Genetics (Mar), 205(3): 1261-1269. doi:10.1534/genetics.116.199083
- Tunio NA, Mansoor E, Sheriff MZ, Cooper GS, Sclair SN, Cohen SM. (1900) Epidemiology of Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH) in the United States Between 2014 and 2019: A Population-based National Study. Journal of clinical gastroenterology (Jan), 55(10): 903-910. doi:10.1097/MCG.0000000000001449
Abstracts:
- Nahel A Tunio, Aakash Desai, Numra A Tunio, Shaman Dalal, Nisheet Waghray. (2024) The epidemiology of microscopic colitis in the United States. Digestive Disease Week. (May) Poster
- Jacqueline Khalil, Nahel A Tunio, Nisheet Waghray. (2023) A Mimic of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, ACG Annual Scientific Meeting 2023. (Oct) Poster
- Nahel A. Tunio, Aakash Desai, Shaman Dalal, Michael Kurin, Nisheet Waghray. (2022) Prevalence and Outcomes of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor (ICI) Associated Colitis: A Population-Based Cohort Study. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, ACG Annual Scientific Meeting 2022. (Oct)
- Shaman Dalal, Mahsa Chitsaz, Nahel Tunio, Amer Khiyami, Bhavesh Shah. (2022) Bhavesh Shah. Successful Endoscopic Full Thickness Resection of a Submucosal Tumor: A Rare Results. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, ACG Annual Scientific Meeting 2022. (Oct)
- Ryan Burkholder, Nahel Tunio, Kevin El- Hayek, Marc Landsman. (2022) A Young Female With Acute Cholangitis Due to Type IVa Choledochal Cyst With an Undifferentiated Spindle and Giant Cell Carcinoma Hiding Inside. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, ACG Annual Scientific Meeting 2022. (Oct)
- Nabil El Hage Chehade, Sagar Shah, Sara Ghoneim, Nahel Altaf Tunio, Ryan Burkholder, Ronnie Fass. (2022) Are intensivists over-prescribing acid suppressive therapy for stress ulcer prophylaxis to patients admitted to the intensive care unit? A systemic review and meta-analysis. GIE, Digestive Disease Week 2022. (May)
- Xue Jing Li, Nahel A Tunio, Mariam N Rana, Sadeer Al-Kindi, Emad Mansoor, Seth Sclair. (2020) Prevalence of Cardiac Diseases in Wilson’s Disease: A National, Population-Based Study. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, ACG Annual Scientific Meeting 2020. (Oct)
- Nahel A. Tunio, Emad Mansoor, Mohammed Z. Sheriff, Gregory S. Cooper, Stanley M. Cohen, Seth N. Sclair. (2020) Epidemiology of Primary Biliary Cholangitis in the United States from 2014 to 2019: A Population Based National Study. Gastroenterology, Digestive Disease Week 2020. (May)
- Mohammed Z. Sheriff, Nahel A. Tunio, Emad Mansoor, Maneesh Dave. (2019) Prevalence of Anorectal Fistula’s in Crohn’s Disease: A National Population-Based Study. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, ACG Annual Scientific Meeting 2019,. (Oct) Poster
- Nahel A. Tunio, Gregory S. Cooper. (2019) Association Between Colitis and Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Use: Analysis of the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS). The American Journal of Gastroenterology, ACG Annual Scientific Meeting 2019. (Oct) Poster
- Nahel A Tunio, Nour Tashtish, Seth Sclair, Stanley Martin Cohen. (2019) Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients Hospitalized With Autoimmune Hepatitis in the United States: Nationwide Analysis in 2016. The American Journal of Gastroenterology, ACG Annual Scientific Meeting 2019. (Oct) Poster
- Rayaz A. Malik, Nahel Tunio, Adnan Khan, Ioannis N. Petropoulos, Georgios Ponirakis, Atlantic D’Souza, Yahya Imam, Saadat Kamran, Naveed Akhtar, Ashfaq Shuaib. (2016) Corneal Confocal Microscopy Identifies Neuronal Pathology in Patients with Stroke Independent of Glycemic Status and Cerebral Pathology on MRI. The Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference. March 2016. (Mar) Poster
- Nahel A. Tunio, Susanne Wegmann, Molly J.Kirk, Samantha Nicholls, Bradley T. Hyman. (2016) P301L Mutation Causes Increased Tau Aggregation and Toxicity in Mice. Weill Cornell Medicine- Qatar Sixth Annual Research Retreat. (Feb)
- Nahel Tunio, David Deitcher. (2015) Functional Characterization of CG14509 in seizure pathogenesis in a Drosophila model. Weill Cornell Medicine- Qatar Fifth Annual Research Retreat. (Feb) Poster
- Nahel Tunio, Imen Becetti, Amina Bougaila, Hawra Al Lawati, Aisha Madani, Houari Abdesselem, Ahmed Hani, Nayef Mazloum. (2014) Validation and Functional Characterization of Novel Factors in Senescent 3T3-L1 Pre-adipocytes. Weill Cornell Medicine- Qatar Fourth Annual Research Retreat. (Jan) Poster
Professional Memberships:
- American College of Gastroenterology
Service Activities:
- GI Elective Course; Course Director (2024–present)