Dr. Sammy Zakaria has been named the next program director of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Internal Medicine Residency Program, effective April 1.
Dr. Sammy Zakaria is an associate professor in the Division of Cardiology who specializes in critical care cardiology. He is the director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, an associate program director of the Bayview Internal Medicine Residency Program since 2013 and has served as interim director of the program since Dr. Erica Johnson’s departure in September. Dr. Zakaria earned his undergraduate degree from the Pennsylvania State University, followed by his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College and a Master of Public Health from the University of Maryland. He completed an internal medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital before completing a cardiovascular disease fellowship at the University of Maryland and a critical care medicine fellowship at the University of California San Francisco.
Dr. Zakaria has been heavily involved in medical education since he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2008. He is a core faculty member of the Osler Medical Residency as well as the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship and served as a School of Medicine colleges advisor for 10 years. As a result of his efforts in education, he has been honored with multiple teaching awards, including the Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Award from the Institute for Excellence in Education. In his role as interim program director for the Bayview Internal Medicine Residency Program, he has helped to increase the program’s nationally recognized reputation for excellence by championing curricular innovations, resident scholarly work and resident academic careers.
We are delighted that Dr. Zakaria will continue his leadership as program director of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Internal Medicine Residency Program and look forward to see what else he can accomplish in his new permanent role.
