Jozef Oweis, MD

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Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine

Jozef Oweis, MD

Pulm/CCM PGY4

Personal Statement:

What are your hobbies and favorite activities outside of medicine?

  • I am very much a sports person. I enjoy watching soccer, NBA, NFL and NHL games. I play tennis and soccer.  I also enjoy hiking and traveling.

What made you decide to rank UT Health San Antonio?

  • I ranked UT health SA as my first choice due to very high quality of training and excellent curriculum; well balanced between pulmonary and critical care. Having ECMO faculty and well-established ultrasound curriculum were also main factors.

Hometown:

  • I was born and raised in Slovakia before moving to Jordan where I spent the other half of my life until residency. I am Slovak-Jordanian.

Education

Residency: Albany Medical Center Program
Medical School: Jordan University of Science and Technology

Research

What are your clinical interests?

  • Critical Care Ultrasound, ECMO, Airway diseases.

Awards & Accomplishments

  • VA Resident of the Year Award 2022-2023
  • Chief resident 2022-2023

Publications

  • Oweis J, Tempera P, Amjad M, Lee J: Improvement of Lung Cancer Screening Rates at Internal Medicine Group. Quality improvement project. Poster Presentations at Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting and New York American College of Physicians, May 2023.
  • Oweis J, Leamon A, Al-Tarbsheh AH: Influence of Right Ventricular Structure and Function on Hospital Outcomes in COVID-19 Patients. Retrospective study published in Heart and Lung Journal in August 2022.
  • Al-Tarbsheh AH, Leamon A, Chong WH, Oweis J, et al. Pericardial Effusion in COVID-19 Patients. Retrospective study. Published online ahead of print in American Journal of the Medical Sciences in March 2022.
  • Al-Tarbsheh A, Chong W, Oweis J: Clinical Outcomes of Early Versus Late Intubation in COVID-19 Patients. Retrospective study. Published in Cureus in January 2022.
  • Jain E, Al-Tarbsheh AH, Oweis J, Jacobson E, Shkolnik B. Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Presenting as Multiple Cavitary Lung Lesions. Case Report. Published in European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine December 2021.
  • Jain E, Al-Tarbsheh AH, Oweis J, Abdelwahab H, Shkolnik B. Incidental Discovery of Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma on CT Imaging. Case Report. Published in European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine November 2021.
  • Chopra A, Al-Tarbsheh AH, Shah NJ, Oweis J. Pneumothorax in critically ill patients with COVID-19 infection: Incidence, clinical characteristics and outcomes in a case control multicenter study. Published in Respiratory Medicine 2021.