Grace Hopp, DO, MBA
Position: GI Fellow - PGY5
Personal Statement:
What are your clinical interests?
- General GI, screening and prevention, quality improvement, cost effectiveness
What are your hobbies and favorite activities outside of medicine?
- I enjoy exercising, especially weight lifting, DIY projects, trying new recipes, walking my dog Tank and spending time with my husband, family and friends.
What is the best thing about San Antonio?
- I love how the culture here is so celebrated by the city. No other city gets two weeks of Fiesta! The energy is contagious. It makes me feel so proud to serve the people that make this city what it is.
Why would you recommend the UTHSA GI fellowship?
- The people, including attendings, co-fellows and other staff create an incredibly friendly and supportive environment. You are challenged in a busy academic center with a wide variety of pathology. This program provides early hands-on experience and has dedicated weekly didactic time for the program.
Hometown
- Naperville, IL
Education
Residency: UT Health San Antonio
Medical School: Kansas City University
Awards & Accomplishments
UT Health San Antonio Internal Medicine Chief Year, 2021-2022
UT Health San Antonio Patrick Linder Award for Excellence in Teaching and Outpatient Care, 2021
Intern Internal Medicine Residency Teaching Award
Certificate of Clinical Safety & Effectiveness Education Program
ACG Outstanding Poster Presentation (Stuck in a Black Hole: A Case of Acute Esophageal Necrosis Presenting as
Dysphagia and Odynophagia)
Publications
Hopp, G., Brown, L., Singh, T., & Parker, A. (2021, Jan). A Case of Prolapsed Gastropathy Syndrome Presenting as Hematemesis and Acute Blood Loss Anemia. The Cureus Journal of Medical Science, 13(1), e12563. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 33564552.
Posters Presented and Published in Supplemental Journals:
Hopp, G., Basra, T., Mehta, D., & Agarwal, A. (2021, Jun). “Brush Border” on a Colonic Polyp: An Unusual Diagnosis in the Immunocompetent Patient. Annual Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology. Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Hopp, G., Brown, L., Harrington, A., & Han, A. (2021, Jun). Dysphagia: An Unusual Presentation of Eagle’s Syndrome. Annual Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology. Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Hopp, G., DeCino, A., Rosenkranz, L., & Moreau, C. (2021, Jun). Direct Visualization of Upper Gastrointestinal Wall Thickening reported on Computed Tomography. Annual Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology. Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Hopp, G., Alvarez, J., Meier, M., Valadez, D., & Wathen, P. (2020, October 25). Decreased Time to Diagnostic Paracentesis in the Hospitalized Internal Medicine Patient. Annual Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology/Nashville, TN, USA.
Hopp, G., DeCino, A., Lewis, M., Stolow, E., Singh, T., Alkhouri, N., Shah, P., Shah, D., & Patel, K. (2020, October 25). Is Frailty Being Addressed in Our Pre-Transplant Cirrhotic Patients?: A Look at the Data. Annual Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology/Nashville, TN, USA.
Hopp, G., Harrington, A., Briones, B., & Brady, C. (2020, October 25). A Case Series: Pseudocirrhosis Presenting as Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding After FOLFOX Therapy. Annual Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology/Nashville, TN, USA.
Hopp, G., Singh, T., & Brady, C. (2020, October 25). A Case of Cocaine-Induced Ischemic Colitis With Increased Fecal Calprotectin. Annual Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology/Nashville, TN, USA.
Hopp, G., Singh, T., & Brady, C. (2020, October 25). Stuck in a Black Hole: A Case of Acute Esophageal Necrosis Presenting as Dysphagia and Odynophagia. Annual Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology/Nashville, TN, USA.
Hopp, G., DeCino, A., Pavan, P., & Rosenkranz, L. (2020, May 03). Outcomes of IBD Management Based on Insurance: A National Study. Digestive Disease Week National Meeting/Chicago, IL, USA.
Hopp, G., Patel, H., Garapati, K., & Wright, R. (2019, October 27). A Case of Disseminated TB in a Patient with Colonic Crohn’s Disease on Anti-TNF Therapy. Annual Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology/San Antonio, TX, USA.
Hopp, G., Penninti, P., & Wathen, P. (2019, October 28). A Case of Hypertriglyceridemia Acute Pancreatitis Requiring Plasmapheresis Treatment. Annual Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology/San Antonio, TX, USA.
Hopp, G., Rosenkranz, L., & Kitano, M. (2019, October 29). A Case of a 20-year old Female with Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer Syndrome with Synchronous Diffuse Gastric Cancer and a Giant Uterine Tumor. Annual Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology/San Antonio, TX, USA.