Cherian Verghese, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Contact Information
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
Section of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics, SL-16
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70112
E-mail: cverghes@tulane.edu
Phone: 504-988-7518
Fax: 504-988-8252

Education
MD, Trivandrum Medical College, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

Residency
Internal Medicine, Long Island College Hospital (LICH), SUNY@Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York.

Biography
Dr. Cherian Verghese is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Tulane University School of Medicine. He joined the Medical College of the University of Kerala at Trivandrum where he received his Medical Doctorate. He remained at MCH-Trivandrum to complete a Senior Research Fellowship in Medicine, sponsored by CSIR (Council for Scientific & Industrial Research), Govt of India. Following his residency at LICH, Dr.Verghese joined the faculty at Tulane University and worked in the Dept of Medicine at Huey P. Long Medical Center of the Louisiana State University Health Care Services Division. Dr.Verghese has also taught Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Barry Z. Levine School of Health Sciences of Touro University, New York. He has been a recipient of the "Young Faculty Award" of the American Association of Anatomists.  Presently Dr. Verghese is active clinically seeing patients in the downtown clinic and hospital of the Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans. He is active in the medicine teaching programs for the medical students and residents, teaching them on the wards and in his clinic. Dr.Verghese is also active in giving Lectures/Grand Rounds for other services/departments at the hospital.

Research Interests
Primary research interest involves evaluating the metastatic potential of prostate cancer using cellular markers like NfKB.

Publications

Role of NF-KB as a marker of metastatic potential in Prostate Cancer. In Progress.

Risk factor contributions in development of cardio-pulmonary disease in Hispanic & African Americans.E Guzman, C Verghese, R Cohen. Chest 1998 Oct; 114, 4S:313-A.

A new variation of Palmar vascular arches: Embryology and Surgical significance. C Verghese, F Tejani, P Samarendra, E Guzman. FASEB Journal 2001 Mar; 15:384-A.
           
Resolution of ST segment elevation after streptokinase therapy in anterior vs inferior wall myocardial infarction. E Guzman, C Verghese, IA Khan, AP Niarchos. Clin Cardiology 2000 June; 23:490-94.

Acute Reversible Heart Failure with Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy. M Srivastava, C Verghese, D Sepkowitz. Am J Therapeutics 2004 (11): 323-325.