Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Gastroenterology Fellow, Duke University School of Medicine 2015 - 2016
  • Internal Medicine Residency, Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine 2012 - 2015
  • M.D., University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine 2012
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology, Medicine 2019 - 2021
  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Medicine 2018 - 2019
  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine, Medicine 2016 - 2018
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Duke Training Grant in Advanced Gastrointestinal Endoscopy awarded by Boston Scientific Corporation 2020 - 2021
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Johnson, Alyson M., Steven Wolf, Mengdi Xuan, Greg Samsa, Arif Kamal, and Deborah A. Fisher. “Index Symptoms and Prognosis Awareness of Patients With Pancreatic Cancer: A Multi-Site Palliative Care Collaborative.” J Palliat Care, March 18, 2021, 8258597211001596. https://doi.org/10.1177/08258597211001596.
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    • Johnson, Alyson M., and Jorge Obando. “A Rare Entity of Gastric Outlet Obstruction in IgG4-Related Disease: A Case Report.” Pancreas 50, no. 3 (March 1, 2021): e26–28. https://doi.org/10.1097/MPA.0000000000001754.
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    • Johnson, Alyson M., Malcolm S. Branch, and Darin L. Dufault. “Successful management of persistent post-peroral endoscopic myotomy esophageal leak with fibrin glue.” Gastrointest Endosc 92, no. 5 (November 2020): 1124–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2020.04.072.
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    • Johnson, Alyson M., Joshua P. Spaete, Paul S. Jowell, Arif H. Kamal, and Deborah A. Fisher. “Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Interventional Symptom Management Options When Caring for Patients with Gastrointestinal Malignancies.” J Palliat Med 21, no. 9 (September 2018): 1339–43. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2018.0251.
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    • Abbas, Ali M., Andrew T. Strong, David L. Diehl, Brian C. Brauer, Iris H. Lee, Rebecca Burbridge, Jaroslav Zivny, et al. “Multicenter evaluation of the clinical utility of laparoscopy-assisted ERCP in patients with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.” Gastrointest Endosc 87, no. 4 (April 2018): 1031–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2017.10.044.
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    • Konadu, Scharles, Alyson A. McGhan, and Jill Moore. “The Boston Bowel Preparation Scale: Introduction of a Valid and Reliable Tool to the Dvamc Endoscopy Unit.” Gastroenterology 152, no. 5 (April 2017): S99–100. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-5085(17)30674-1.
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    • Dakik, Hassan K., Alyson A. McGhan, Shih-Ting Chiu, Chetan B. Patel, Carmelo A. Milano, Joseph G. Rogers, Shein-Chung Chow, and Daniel M. Wild. “The Diagnostic Yield of Repeated Endoscopic Evaluation in Patients with Gastrointestinal Bleeding and Left Ventricular Assist Devices.” Dig Dis Sci 61, no. 6 (June 2016): 1603–10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-015-4028-7.
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  • Book Sections

    • McGhan, A., and R. Burbridge. “Therapeutic endoscopy in the management of pancreatic cancer.” In Pancreatic Cancer, 799–813, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7193-0_87.
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  • Conference Papers

    • Johnson, Alyson M., Steven P. Wolf, Mengdi Xuan, Greg Samsa, Arif Kamal, and Deborah A. Fisher. “Sa1324 – Patient-Reported Symptom Burden in Pancreatic Cancer Across a Multi-Site Palliative Care Collaborative.” In Gastroenterology, 156:S-318. Elsevier BV, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-5085(19)37622-x.
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    • Johnson, Alyson M., Naomi Chou, Rachel Feder, Joshua P. Lee, Manal Abdelmalek, and Rebecca A. Burbridge. “Prevalence of Risk Factors for and Presence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Patients Receiving Upper Endoscopic Ultrasound.” In American Journal of Gastroenterology, 113:S558–S558. NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2018.
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    • Johnson, Alyson M., Frederick Friedman, Arif Kamal, and Deborah A. Fisher. “Sa1007 - Palliative Care Assessments of Patients with Pancreatic Cancer Across a Multi-Site Collaborative.” In Gastroenterology, 154:S-224. Elsevier BV, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-5085(18)31134-x.
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    • Abbas, Ali, Benjamin Bick, Ihab I. El Hajj, Stuart Sherman, David L. Diehl, Brian C. Brauer, Mihir S. Wagh, et al. “Multicenter Evaluation of the Clinical Utility of Laparoscopy-Assisted ERCP in Patients with Rouxen-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB).” In American Journal of Gastroenterology, 111:S140–S140. Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2016. https://doi.org/10.14309/00000434-201610001-00299.
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    • McGhan, Alyson, and David E. Kaplan. “SCREENING FOR HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA IN VETERAN POPULATION HAS NEGLIGIBLE IMPACT ON MORTALITY WHEN CIRRHOSIS DIAGNOSIS AND LIVER TRANSPLANTATION RATES ARE LOW.” In Journal of Investigative Medicine, 60:628–628. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS, 2012.
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