Sylvia Keiser, DO

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Sylvia Keiser, DO

GI Fellow - PGY5

Personal Statement:

What are your hobbies and favorite activities outside of medicine?

  • Having grown up in Colorado, I love to snow ski and travel to the mountains any time I can! I also enjoy Pilates, binge watching TV series, and spending time with my husband and our two rescue dogs.

What do you like about San Antonio?

  • The people and culture! Everyone is very friendly. San Antonio is a large city with the “feel” of a smaller town.

Why would you recommend the UTHSA GI fellowship?

  • We have amazing faculty who offer incredible teaching. The camaraderie amongst fellows and faculty is special and fosters a supportive environment. We train in multiple different settings allowing for diverse pathology.

Hometown:

  • Dillon, Colorado and Colleyville, Texas

Education

Residency: UT Health San Antonio
Medical School: Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine

Research

What are your clinical interests?

  • General GI, cancer screening/prevention, IBD

Awards & Accomplishments

What are your most recent Awards or Accomplishments?

  • ACG Outstanding Poster Presenter, October 2022 and October 2021

Honors/Awards:

  • Outstanding Poster Presenter, “A Case of Pancreaticobiliary Actinomycosis Mimicking a Mass”. American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) Annual Conference (10/2022), Charlotte, NC.
  • Outstanding Poster Presenter, “A Case of Acute Esophageal Necrosis in the Setting of a Paraesophageal Hernia”. American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) Annual Conference (10/2021), Las Vegas, NV.

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles/Abstracts

  • Cartin-Ceba, R., Khatua, B., El-Kurdi, B., Trivedi, S., Kostenko, S., Imam, Z., Smith, R., Snozek, C., Navina, S., Sharma, V.,McFayden, B., Ionescu, F., Stolow, E., Keiser, S., Tejani, A., Harrington, A., Acosta, P., Kuwelker, S., … Singh, V. P. (2022, May). Evidence showing lipotoxicity worsens outcomes in covid-19 patients and insights about the underlying mechanisms. iScience, 25(5), 104322. Cited in PubMed; PMID: 35502320.

Posters Presented and Published in Supplemental Journals:

  • Keiser, S., Brown, L., Penninti, P., Rosenkranz, L. (2022, Oct). A Case of Secondary Sclerosing Cholangitis due to Polytrauma. American College of Gastroenterology/Charlotte, NC, USA.
  • Keiser, S., Echavarria, J. (2022, Oct). Hematochezia and a Messy Malignant Melanoma. American College of Gastroenterology/Charlotte, NC, USA.
  • Keiser, S., Haris, M., Echavarria, J., Umapathy, C. (2022, Oct). Pylori in the Patch. American College of Gastroenterology/Charlotte, NC, USA.
  • Keiser, S., Rosenkranz, L. (2022, Oct). A Case of Pancreaticobiliary Actinomycosis Mimicking a Mass. American College of Gastroenterology/Charlotte, NC, USA.
  • Haris, M., Keiser, S., Han, A. (2022, Oct). Massive Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage Following Radiofrequency Ablation for Barrett’s Esophagus. American College of Gastroenterology/Charlotte, NC, USA.
  • Kapoor, V., Keiser, S., Dadeboyina, C., Arora, S. (2022, Oct). Comprehensive molecular profiling in older patients with advanced biliary tract cancers (BTC) in a Latinx-rich cohort. International Society of Geriatric Oncology Annual Conference/Geneva, CHE.
  • Keiser, S., Harrington, A., Brown, L. (2021, Oct). A Case of Acute Esophageal Necrosis in the Setting of a Paraesophageal Hernia. American College of Gastroenterology/Las Vegas, NV, USA.
  • Stolow, E., El-Kurdi, B., Harrington, A., Keiser, S., Kuwelker, S., Tejani, A., Acosta, P., Imam, Z., Echavarria, J. (2021, Oct). A Retrospective Review: Famotidine Use Is Not Associated With Improved Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19. American College of Gastroenterology/Las Vegas, NV, USA.