Positions

Assistant Professor

Medicine-General Med/Ben Taub
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Internal Medicine Residency

Associate Program Director

Education

MD from Baylor College of Medicine

05/2011 - Houston, Texas United States

Residency at Massachusetts General hospital

05/2014 - Boston, Massachusetts United States

Honors & Awards

Gold Humanism Honor Society

Baylor College of Medicine (10/2010)

Excellence in Tutoring Award

Harvard Medical School (12/2013)

Outstanding Resident-as-Teacher

Partners Healthcare / Harvard Teaching Hospitals (08/2013)

Senior Resident Excellent in Teaching Award

Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Medicine (05/2014)

Outstanding Faculty Award 2015, 2018

Houston VA, Department of Medicine

Medicine Clerkship Attending of the Year

Baylor College of Medicine (06/2016)

McGovern Outstanding Clinical Teacher

Baylor College of Medicine (05/2017)

Physician Champion Award for Exemplary Service

Harris Health (08/2017)

Faculty Speaker, White Coat Ceremony

Baylor College of Medicine (08/2018)

Graduating Class Outstanding Faculty Award 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

Baylor College of Medicine

Outstanding Faculty Award Hall of Fame

Baylor College of Medicine (05/2022)

Faculty Speaker, AOA Induction Ceremony

Baylor College of Medicine (04/2022)

McGovern Outstanding Pre-Clinical Teacher 2018, 2022

Baylor College of Medicine

Professional Interests

• Clinician communication skills
• Medical education
• Physical diagnosis
• Clinical reasoning
• Point-of-care ultrasound
• Medical simulation

Websites

Selected Publications

• Kaplan H, Verma D, Sargsyan Z "What Traditional Lectures Can Learn From Podcasts.." J Grad Med Educ. 2020 Jun;12(3):250-253. Pubmed PMID: 32595838
• Moss BJ and Sargsyan Z "Things We Do For No Reason: Supplemental Oxygen for Patients Without Hypoxemia." J Hosp Med. 2019 Oct 23;14:E1-E3.
• Sargsyan Z "The “Hemolyzed” Physical Examination—Situational Challenges to Accurate Bedside Diagnosis." JAMA Internal Med. 2019 Feb 18;
• Kulkarni SA, Strobelt E, Sargsyan Z "Capillary Fragility in Zika Virus Infection." Am J Med. 2017; Pubmed PMID: 28117038

Languages

Armenian, Russian, Spanish