Saatchi Kuwelker, MD

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Saatchi Kuwelker, MD

GI Fellow - PGY4

Personal Statement:

What are your hobbies and favorite activities outside of medicine?

  • I love dancing (San Antonio has a ton of fun Latin dance classes), yoga, traveling, biking, cooking and trying out new restaurants.

What do you like about San Antonio? Or what are you most excited to experience in San Antonio?

  • Having done residency here, the city definitely has definitely grown on me – it’s a big city but with a relaxed feel. Its extremely affordable with great (warm but no snow) weather all year round. The best thing though, is the culture and the people!

Why would you recommend the UTHSA GI fellowship?

  • Having done my Internal Medicine training at UT Health San Antonio, I always loved and admired the supportive culture of the program, where the faculty and co-fellows felt like one big family that now I am so happy to be a part of! Additionally, the fellowship provides excellent clinical training both hands on and didactic with a wide range of diverse pathology in general GI, pancreas and hepatology.

Hometown:

  • Mumbai, India

Education

Residency: University of Texas Health and Science Center, San Antonio
Medical School: Seth G. S. Medical College and K.E.M Hospital, Mumbai

Research

What are your clinical interests?

  • General and transplant hepatology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Quality Improvement, health care disparities

Research

  • Original research on racial and socioeconomic disparities in patients with Hepatitis C Virus infection treated with DAAs
  • Review article on Management of Autoimmune and Viral Hepatitis in the Setting of Immunotherapy
  • One year research fellowship in gastrointestinal motility at the Mayo Clinic

Awards & Accomplishments

What are your most recent Awards or Accomplishments?

  • Outstanding Resident Award from the Medicine Clerkship, 2022: Awarded by medical students from the Long School of Medicine to residents for teaching in the inpatient setting
  • RBG General Medicine Clinic Outstanding Resident  award, 2022: Awarded by faculty for outpatient medicine
  • Leon Kundrotas Resident Research Award, 2022: Awarded by the gastroenterology department to a resident for contribution in research
  • Outstanding poster presenter award, ACG 2022: For the poster titled “High SVR Rates, Regardless of Race or Socioeconomic Class, in Patients Treated with HCV DAAs in Community Practice Using a Specialized Pharmacy Team”
  • Clinician Educator Tract during residency

Publications

  • Cartin-Ceba R, Khatua B, El-Kurdi B, Trivedi S, Kostenko S, Imam Z, Smith R, Snozek C, Navina S, SharmaV, McFayden B, Ionescu F, Stolow E, Keiser S, Tejani A, Harrington A, Acosta P, Kuwelker S, Echavarria J, Nair GB, Bataineh A, Singh VP. Evidence showing lipotoxicity worsens outcomes in covid-19 patients and insights about the underlying mechanisms. iScience. 2022 Apr 27:104322. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.104322. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35502320; PMCID: PMC9045865.
  • Kuwelker S, Prichard DO, Bailey K, Bharucha AE. Relationship between symptoms during a gastric emptying study, daily symptoms and quality of life in patients with diabetes mellitus. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2021 Dec;33(12):e14154. doi: 10.1111/nmo.14154. Epub 2021 Apr 8. PMID: 33830588; PMCID:PMC8822501.
  • Kuwelker S, Muthyala A, O’Connor M, Bharucha AE. Clinical features and disturbances of gastrointestinal transit in patients with rapid gastric emptying. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2020 Apr;32(4):e13779. doi: 10.1111/nmo.13779. Epub 2020 Jan 20. PMID: 31960554; PMCID: PMC7085445.
  • Puthanmadhom Narayanan S, Linden DR, Peters SA, Desai A, Kuwelker S, O’Brien D, Smyrk TJ, Graham RP, Grover M, Bharucha AE. Duodenal mucosal secretory disturbances in functional dyspepsia.Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2021 Jan;33(1):e13955. doi: 10.1111/nmo.13955. Epub 2020 Aug 9. PMID:32776463; PMCID: PMC7772227.
  • Puthanmadhom Narayanan S, Lee JH, Bhagwate A, Kuwelker S, Yan H, Ordog T, Bharucha AE. Epigenetic Alterations Are Associated With Gastric Emptying Disturbances in Diabetes Mellitus. Clin Transl Gastroenterol. 2020 Mar;11(3):e00136. doi: 10.14309/ctg.0000000000000136. PMID: 32352713; PMCID: PMC7145053.
  • Kuwelker SM, Shetty DP, Dalvi B. Surgical repair of tricuspid valve leaflet tear following percutaneous closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defect using Amplatzer duct occluder I: Report of two cases. Ann Pediatr Cardiol. 2017 Jan-Apr;10(1):61-64. doi: 10.4103/0974-2069.197052. PMID: 28163430; PMCID: PMC5241847.
  • Deogaonkar Viplav Narayan, Kuwelker Saatchi, Bajpai Smrati. Knowledge, Attitude and Practice in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital. The Indian Journal of Medical Specialties, 2018 Oct; 10 (1): 18-21.

Poster

ACG 2021

  • Benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis Type II presenting with worse outcome during pregnancy.
  • Esophageal hematoma causing dysphagia as a complication of esophageal variceal band ligation in a patient.

ACG 2022

  • Abdominal sarcoidosis including hepatic and portal lymphadenopathy as a primary manifestation in a case of systemic sarcoidosis
  • High SVR Rates, Regardless of Race or Socioeconomic Class, in Patients Treated with HCV DAAs in Community Practice Using a Specialized Pharmacy Team