As we embark on a new academic year, our vice chair team in the Department of Medicine would like to emphasize that we are here to serve your needs in all areas of our tripartite mission. We introduce ourselves and our areas of expertise in this blog piece. If you have questions regarding issues of clinical care, research, education, data management and information technology solutions, commercialization and innovation and faculty development and promotions, we are available to support you. If you need assistance and are uncertain who to reach out to, Sherita Golden, executive vice chair, can point you in the right direction. We look forward to continuing to work with all of our faculty and staff.
Clinical Affairs
- Strategic planning for DOM interdisciplinary programs addressing complex medical conditions and health system initiatives
- Prioritizing hospital initiatives
- Patient satisfaction and physician satisfaction and engagement
- Oversight of endoscopy
- DOM liaison on the hospital's Capacity Management Efforts
- Operations and planning for the inpatient beds at JHH
- Bed management and HAL with regards to the DOM inpatient beds (in conjunction with Sanjay Desai and Lee Daugherty Biddison)
- Ambulatory best practices
- Ambulatory metrics
- Access Services liaison for DOM
- External quality metrics (MHAC's, Core measures, Readmission rates)
- Safety events (unexpected harm or near misses) often as reported through the HERO system
- Patient experience of care
- Promoting high value case
Education
- Medical Education
- Training Modules
- Medical Education
- Clinical skills teaching and assessment
Faculty Development
- Advice regarding academic promotion
- Career development issues including problems encountered by faculty
- Career advancement/development for women faculty and fellows
- Recruitment and retention of women faculty
- Recruitment and retention of under-represented in medicine trainees and faculty
- Career development of under-represented in medicine trainees and faculty
Research
- Grant pre-review process
- Clinical research Infrastructure
- Sponsored Projects
- Research space
- Grant peer review
- Bridge funding
- Cross disciplinary research
- Building coalitions for innovation across the campus including APL, School of Engineering and Carey Business School
- Partnerships with industry for drug, device and app development
- Liaison to Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures, Applied Physics Lab, Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design and JHM Business Development
- Principles of biodesign and development of curricula for innovation and commercialization for residents, fellows and other trainees in the School of Medicine
- Commercialization of clinical care delivery pathways
- Diagnostics and drug development
- Liaison to Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures
- Faculty education on innovation and commercialization
- Big data issues across the tripartite mission
- Departmental liaison to information technology (IT) across Johns Hopkins
- Department liaison to Epic leadership
- Research data integrity in collaboration with Research Vice Chairs