Victor Arcega, MD

Assistant Professor

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Department:

Medicine

Classification:

Faculty

• MD, University of the Philippines College of Medicine, Manila, Philippines, 2013

Poster Presentation: Dharia A, Arcega V, Montezuma JM. “A Giant Mucopyocele in a Patient with HIV as a Late Complication of Remote Trauma.” American College of Physicians – Connecticut Chapter Scientific Meeting 2020. Hartford, CT October 16-18, 2020. 

Abstract: Shah M, Kramer V, Arcega V, Ghatage P, et al. “Getting Code SMART (Sepsis Medical Alert Response Team): Multidisciplinary interventions to improve sepsis bundle performance are associated with decreased mortality.” American College of Clinical Pharmacy. Submitted June 2018. 

Conference Publication: Venkatanarayan A, Gupta M, Raj R, Ghatage P, Arcega V, Terrany B. “Cerebral Artery Air Embolism – A Catastrophic Complication of Endoscopy. Society of Hospital Medicine, Orlando, FL April 2018. 

Case Report: Dy P, Arcega V, Ghali W, et al. “Serotonin syndrome caused by drug to drug interaction between escitalopram and dextromethorphan.” BMJ Case Rep Published Online First: 21 July 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-221486

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
2019 – Present Infectious Diseases Society of America
2016 – 2019 American College of Physicians
2016 – 2019 American Medical Association

2020 “Characteristics of Patients Admitted with COVID-19” University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT and St Francis Hospital, Hartford CT. 

2020 “Rapid COVID-19 diagnostics in a time of necessity: Comparison of nasopharyngeal, oropharyngeal, nasal, and saliva sampling.” University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 

2020 Local Investigator “Mayo Clinic - Expanded Access to Convalescent Plasma for the Treatment of Patients With COVID-19” University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 

2020 “Association of the Microbiome with Severity of COVID-19.” University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 

2019 “Risk factors for the development of acute renal injury in patients being treated for prosthetic joint infections.” University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 

2017 “Getting Code SMART (Sepsis Medical Alert Response Team): Multidisciplinary interventions to improve sepsis bundle performance are associated with decreased mortality.” Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ 

6/2009 – 9/2010 "Virgin Coconut Oil as a Novel Radioprotector against Whole-Body Gamma Irradiation of Mus musculus Linn." University of the Philippines College of Medicine, Manila, Philippines 

6/2008 – 4/2009 “L-carnitine orotate in preventing the onset of obesity in rats (Rattus norvegicus) on high-fat diet.” University of the Philippines College of Medicine, Manila, Philippines

Medical Specialties

• Infectious Diseases

Board Certifications

• Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine

Special Training

• Fellowship, Infectious Diseases
  University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, 2021
• Residency, Internal Medicine
  Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ, 2019