Dr. Aishah Suleiman is a board-certified Internal Medicine physician who graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. She has ten years of experience in diagnosing and treating adult patients with complex acute and chronic medical conditions. She has worked as a hospitalist and is currently working as an independent contractor for a hospital system, providing consistent, quality care. She has served on the Committee for Infectious Disease during her time at Memorial Hermann focusing on strategies to reduce infectious disease spread, judicious antibiotic use, and hygiene practices. She mentors new hires to the group ensuring they are familiar and comfortable with the expectations of the role, the Electronic Medical Record (EMR), and the hospital system/staff. She has completed training and certification for prescribing suboxone which is a controlled substance used in treating opioid addiction. Opioid use disorder is a significant problem within our chronic patient population and requires multimodal management including pharmacotherapy to improve patient outcomes.
Due to her excellence in documentation practices, she has been recruited by her group to undergo additional training through American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). She is working toward completing the required certification material with plans to become a Certified Documentation Integrity Practitioner to become the documentation resource for her hospitalist group. This will not only allow her to further improve her personal documentation, it will also allow her to share her knowledge and teach her colleagues to improve the quality of documentation of the group. This will translate to increased reimbursement for the hospital and physician, as well as decreased chance of litigation. Dr. Suleiman will take these skills into the clinic as well, ensuring best documentation practices which are essential for maximizing revenues.
Dr. Suleiman has a strong interest in functional medicine which takes a comprehensive approach to prevention, health, and well-being, targeting the root cause of disease and lifestyle modification/education to restore health and function. She is working on her certification through the Institute for Functional Medicine, part of which includes treating patients in a clinical setting using evidence-based approaches and counseling and submitting case reports on outcomes. She plans to translate these skills to improving the lives of her patients with multiple chronic conditions.
