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
Professional Memberships:
- American College of Gastroenterology
Service Activities:
- GI Elective Course; Course Director (2024–present)