Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

I am a rheumatologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. I am originally from Mexico. I completed my residency in internal medicine at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, and served as the Chief Medical Resident. Then completed my fellowship in rheumatology at the Mayo Clinic. My clinical focus revolves around the evaluation and coordination of care for patients facing treatment-refractory systemic autoimmune diseases, with a particular emphasis on systemic lupus erythematosus.

My research focus is on health services and epidemiologic research. My interests in informatics include optimizing and implementing electronic phenotyping techniques for systemic autoimmune diseases, enabling accurate diagnostics and personalized treatment strategies. Additionally, I am actively involved in streamlining clinical workflows for patients with complex and serious illnesses, ensuring efficient and effective care delivery.

Fall 2023 - Spring 2025

Currently, I serve active duty with the USAF as the medical director of primary care at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, LA. I also help lead a pilot program at WellSpan Health, providing part-time telemedicine and asynchronous care. I greatly enjoy my relationships with researchers across the country and continue working on telehealth and value-based care projects. After obtaining ABPM certification, I hope to lead healthcare operations in a hybrid environment involving the federal, private, and research sectors.

Dr. El-Sabawi is a VGM postdoctoral fellow and a cardiovascular medicine fellow. He is originally from San Diego, CA. He completed his MD training at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and medical residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. 

His prior work has focused on optimizing outcomes of transcatheter interventions and structural heart diseases. He is now focused on identifying whether proteomic signatures of myocardial remodeling/dysfunction are present early in aortic stenosis before traditional clinical thresholds for intervention. If present, this may point to known/novel pathways contributing to heart failure in aortic stenosis patients and provide an early molecular barometer for clinical surveillance and personalized timing for aortic valve replacement. 

Yufei Long is originally from Shenzchen, China. She holds an MPH degree from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a BS in Biology from Boston College. She played D1 tennis for 5 years at Vanderbilt and Boston College, where she also took on the role of senior captain. Her research interests lie in the areas of behavioral health, qualitative research and public health policy. 

She currently works as a Research Analyst in the Colin Walsh Lab. 

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