Residency Program Director, Medicine-Pediatrics
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
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Theotonius J. Gomes, DO, is Program Director for the Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program and an assistant professor in the Departments of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine and Medicine at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. He is a trained Internal Medicine-Pediatrics physician.
Dr. Gomes completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Maryland in 2005 earning his BS in Physiology and Neurobiology. He performed research in neuroscience at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He went on to complete a post-baccalaureate fellowship within the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. He also trained as an EMT-B, Firefighter 2 and NREMT-I/Cardiac Rescue Technician before starting medical school. In addition, he was a Clinical Research Associate at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center.
Dr. Gomes earned his DO degree from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2013 and was part of the Sigma Sigma Phi National Osteopathic Honor Society. He completed his residency training at Western Michigan University’s combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics program and served as co-chief resident in his last year of residency.
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Board Certification
- American Board of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)
- American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine)
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Education and Training
- Residency 2017, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine
- DO 2013, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University
- BS 2005, Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Maryland
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Language Fluency
- Bengali, basic
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Publications
Sellers S., Gomes T., Larochelle A., Lopez R., Adler R., Krouse A., Donahue R., Childs R., Dunbar C. Ex vivo expansion of retrovirally transduced primate CD34<sup>+</sup> cells results in overrepresentation of clones with MDS1/evi1 insertion sites in the myeloid lineage after transplantation Molecular Therapy. 2010;18:1633-1639.
Hu J., Renaud G., Gomes T.J., Ferris A., Hendrie P.C., Donahue R.E., Hughes S.H., Wolfsberg T.G., Russell D.W., Dunbar C.E. Erratum: "Reduced genotoxicity of avian sarcoma leukosis virus vectors in rhesus long-term repopulating cells compared to standard murine retrovirus vectors" (Molecular Therapy (2008) vol. 16 (1617-1623) 10.1038/mt.2008.135) Molecular Therapy. 2008;16:1770.
Hsu C., Jones S.A., Cohen C.J., Zheng Z., Kerstann K., Zhou J., Robbins P.F., Peng P.D., Shen X., Gomes T.J., Dunbar C.E., Munroe D.J., Stewart C., Cornetta K., Wangsa D., Ried T., Rosenberg S.A., Morgan R.A. Cytokine-independent growth and clonal expansion of a primary human CD8<sup>+</sup> T-cell clone following retroviral transduction with the IL-15 gene Blood. 2007;109:5168-5177.
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Presentations
- Rethinking Obesity Treatment: The Role of Semaglutide in Adolescent Care. Ilham Osman, Dhruthi Reddy MPH, Nuha Mahmood MS, Theotonius Gomes, DO, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine Research Day, Kalamazoo, MI, 04/2025
- A Collaborative Inter-Specialty Learning Network to Orient Allopathic-educated Residents. Theotonius Gomes, DO, Stephanie Ellwood, DO, ACGME Annual Conference- Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Nashville, TN, 02/2025
- A Rare Case of Idiopathic Angioedema in Response to Nonspecific Oral Stimuli. Hannah Gu, BS; Vanita Motiani, MD; Theotonius Gomes, DO, American College of Physicians- Michigan Chapter, virtual, virtual, 10/2024
- Transitioning Adolescent Obesity Management with Semaglutide to Internist Care: Review of Literature, Knowledge Gaps, and Future Directions. Dhruthi Reddy, MPH, Nuha Mahmood, MS, Ilham Osman, Theotonius Gomes, DO, American College of Physicians- Michigan Chapter, virtual, virtual, 10/2024
- A Young Guy with Fungi: Fever of Unknown Origin in an Immunocompetent Adolescent. Tiffany Truong, MD, Ana Carolina Nazari Bonezzi, MD, Machhindra Baduwal, MD, Theotonius J. Gomes, DO, American College of Physicians- Michigan Chapter, virtual, virtual, 09/2024
- Med-Peds Recruitment 2024: Outreach, Results, Future Directions. Allison Ashford MD, Nate Derhammer MD, Theo Gomes DO, Ana Clara Mauro MD, Nathan Stehouwer MD., cademic Internal Medicine Week 2024/Alliance of Academic IM, Columbus, OH, 04/2024
- The Third Case of a Congenital Portosystemic Shunt in a Down syndrome Patient with Case Review. Nohomovich, B, Fawad JA, Nguyen M, Gomes T, Cameron R, Fakhoury J., American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting, Charlotte, NC, 10/2022
- ACP-SEP Module. Gomes, TJ., American College of Physicians- Michigan Chapter, virtual, virtual, 10/2022
- Osteopathic Medicine for the Internist. Gomes, TJ, American College of Physicians- Michigan Chapter, virtual, virtual, 10/2022
- A Case of COVID19 Infection unmasking Brugada Syndrome with Syncope. Alam A, Kumar D, FNU Warsha, Rehman M, Gomes T., Society of Hospital Medicine, virtual, virtual, 08/2022
- A Two-Year Old Down Syndrome Boy with Congenital Portosystemic Shunts. Nguyen M, Gomes T, Fakhoury J., Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine Research Day, Kalamazoo, MI, 04/2022
- A Rare Case of Radiation- Induced Chylothorax. A. Alam, D. Kumar, F. Shaikh, T. Gomes., American Thoracic Society, virtual, virtual, 05/2021
- Systemic Glucocorticoid-Induced Erythrodermic Psoriasis. Michelle Helbig, DO; Abhinav Garg, MD; Gabriel Kousourou, DO; Theotonius Gomes, DO, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine Research Day, virtual, virtual, 04/2021
- Eighteen-year-old man with syncope with Helicobacter pylori as the culprit: a case report. Nguyen MHN, Santhanam H, Muthukumarasamy N, Patel DR, Gomes TJ, AME Case Reports, virtual, virtual, 01/2021
- Massive Intra Aortic Thrombi: A Treatment Dilemma. M. Farishta, T. Gomes, V. Deepak, J. Kaur, American Thoracic Society, Dallas, TX, 05/2019
- An Unusual Cause of Seizures in a Nine-Month-Old Infant: A Medicine-Pediatrics Perspective of a Common Brain Finding. Theotonius J Gomes, DO, Ryan Halas DO, Christopher Schmehil, MD, Bryan Corpus, MD, AAP- American Academy of Pediatrics, San Francisco, CA, 10/2017
- Multifocal Neurological Complaints as Presenting Features of Systemic Disease: A Case Series of Neurosarcoidosis. Courtney Barrett D.O., Theotonius Gomes D.O., Brian Hays D.O., ACOI- American College of Osteopathic Internists, Palm Desert, CA, 10/2016
- Connecting the Dots of Seemingly Unrelated Complaints: A Case of Neurosarcoidosis. Theotonius Gomes DO, Jason Lam DO, Society of General Internal Medicine Conference, Hollywood, FL, 05/2016
- Subtle personality changes as a presenting symptom of seizure. Jason Lam DO, Sumaiya Ansari MD, Monoj Konda MD, Theotonius Gomes DO, Society of General Internal Medicine Conference, Hollywood, FL, 05/2016
- Multi-drug resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae as a presentation of cystic fibrosis in a two-year-old male. Halas R, Gomes T, Corpus B, 34th Annual Kalamazoo Community Medical and Health Sciences Research Day, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 05/2016
- Persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia of infancy as a seizure trigger in a twenty-one-month-old with previous epilepsy. Halas R, Gomes T, 34th Annual Kalamazoo Community Medical and Health Sciences Research Day, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 05/2016
- Progressive macrocephaly leading to emesis and seizures as a presentation of cavernous hemangioma in a nine month old infant. Gomes T, Halas R, Corpus B, 34th Annual Kalamazoo Community Medical and Health Sciences Research Day, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 05/2016