Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences (BHAAAS)

Mersiha Hadžiahmetoviæ

ADDRESS

5506 Bermuda Bay Dr Apt 2C

Columbus, OH 43235

(614) 457-6224 (home, after 6 p.m. EST)

(614) 499-3890 (cell phone)

(614) 646-1200 (hospital paging)

E-mail: < mersi.hadzi@gmail.com >

EDUCATION

The Ohio State University College of Medicine (OSU CoM), M.D., cum laude, June 2007

The Ohio State University (OSU), B.S. cum laude Biochemistry with distinction in Molecular Genetics, June 2002

HONORS AND AWARDS

Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, October 2006

Honors, Neurooncology, September 2006

Honors, Radiation Oncology, August 2006

Letter of Commendation, Neuropathology, July 2006

Honors, Surgery Clinical Clerkship, June 2006

Gold Humanism Honor Society, Inducted in April 2006

Outstanding Pediatrics Student Award, April 2006

George and Elizabeth Hendrix College of Medicine Merit Scholarship, Spring 2006

Letter of Commendation, Ambulatory Clerkship (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Dermatology), March 2006

Honors, Pediatrics Clerkship (Hematology-Oncology and Ambulatory), October 2005

Letters of Commendation, Psychiatry Clerkship, August 2005

Letters of Commendation, Top Quartile, Med I and II

Honors, Patient Centered Medicine, Med I

Letters of Commendation, Patient Centered Medicine, Med II

Anatomy, Voted “Best/Most Artistic Dissector” by classmates, Fall 2003

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society

Gold Humanism Honor Society, Service Committee Chair, April 2006 to June 2007

American Medical Association, 2003 to present

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Resident Physician, Dept. Radiation Oncology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, start July 2008

Transitional Year (TY) Resident Physician, Riverside Methodist Hospital (RMH) in Columbus, OH, 6/07-Present

CAPSTONE Introduction to Clinical Medicine, Teaching Assistant, OSU CoM, 4/07-6/07

Research Assistant, Heart & Lung Research Institute, 2002-2003

Anatomy Teaching Assistant, OSU, 2002-2003

Resident Advisor, OSU, 2000-2002

Undergraduate Student Research Assistant, OSU, Department of Molecular Genetics, 1999-2002

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Shared Governance Committee, Board Member, TY Elected Representative, RMH, 6/07-Present

Gold Humanism Honor Society, Service Committee Chair, 2006-2007

Columbus Free Clinic, Steering Committee Member, Business Manager/Secretary, 03/04-04/05

Featured in Morgan Spurlock’s documentary 30 Days (premiere episode, “Minimum Wage”)**

Columbus Free Clinic, Volunteer, 04/05 to 6/07

Physician Free Clinic, Volunteer, 2003-2004

Sarajevo University Medical Center, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Service, Volunteer, Summer 2004

Healing Garden Project, Planning Committee Member, 2006-2007

Professionalism Student Committee Member, 2005-2007

Translator

Student-2-Student Leader (Med I)

Arnold Fitness Expo - First Aid Station Volunteer

Outside Interests: Running, walking, reading, world religions, cooking, music, travel

PUBLICATIONS

Hadziahmetovic M, Lo SS, Clarke JW, Farace E, Cavaliere R. Palliative treatment of poor prognosis patients with malignant gliomas. Expert Rev. Anticancer Ther. 8(1), 125-132 (2008)

Clarke JW, Hadziahmetovic M, Tzou K, et al. What is the best adjuvant treatment for very young patients with medulloblastoma? Expert Rev. Neurotherapeutics 7(4), 373-381 (2007)

Clarke JW, Tzou K, Hadziahmetovic M, Lo SS, Caveliere R, Mayr N. Commentary on "Mirimanoff, Rene-Olivier. Radiotherapy and temozolomide for newly diagnosed glioblastoma: recursive partitioning analysis of the EORTC 26981-NCIC CE3 phase III randomized trial. J Clin Oncol 2006; 24:2563-9." American Journal of Hematology/ Oncology. (2007)

Palmer BS, Hadziahmetovic M, Veci T, Angelos MG. Global ischemic duration and reperfusion function in the isolated perfused rat heart. Resuscitation. 62(1):97-106 (2004)

Currently writing a review paper re: Management of Intracranial Germinomas.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Currently working on an independent retrospective research project in collaboration with Dr. Mark Crnkovich, Chairman of Dept. of Radiation Oncology at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, OH, with the purpose of evaluating the rate of recurrence over five years in patients with intermediate risk prostate cancer treated with either radiotherapy (RT) or radical prostatectomy (RP), and the importance of perineural invasion (PNI) as a risk factor for recurrence.

Previous research experience includes working with the double mutants of gamma-tubulin gene, and their progression through the cell cycle. Gamma-tubulin, discovered in 1989 by Dr. Oakley, is a key protein involved in the formation of mitotic spindle, and the project involved manipulating this protein with targeted chemotherapeutic agents to assess which ones rendered the protein particularly unstable. I wrote and successfully defended an Honors thesis based on this research. Sept 1999-June 2002, Dr. Berl Oakley’s Lab at OSU Dept. of Molecular Genetics. <oakley.2@osu.edu>

** Spurlock's recent project is a television program called 30 Days. In each episode, a person spends 30 days immersing him or herself in a mode of life markedly different from their norm (working at Wal-Mart, being in prison, living with a gay person, etc.), while Spurlock discusses the relevant social issues involved. FX began airing the show in June 2005. In the premiere episode, "Minimum Wage," Spurlock and his fiancée lived for thirty days in the Bottoms neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, earning minimum wage, with no access to outside funds.