Through the generosity of the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Medicine (CIM) donors, the DOM received $3M to launch the Center for Innovative Medicine Next Generation Scholar Awards. This program is designed to support the success of outstanding early-career faculty who are innovators in the areas of research, education, and clinical care. Each CIM Next Generation Scholar is eligible to receive up to $240,000 of funding over 3 years.
Congratulations to the first round of recipients:
New Faculty:
Francis Coyne, MD, will join Hopkins from the University of Rochester Medical Center where he served as Director of Transition Care Medicine Fellowship Program and Inpatient Transition Program and created a care-management integrated transition initiative for children with sickle cell disease. He will be an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology.
Mfon Umoh, MD, PhD, will join the faculty as an Assistant Professor after completing a fellowship in the Division of Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology. She will focus on improving health outcomes for older adults with cognitive decline and dementia.
Existing Faculty:
Justin Echouffo Tcheugui, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, has explored the pathways linking various forms of diabetes (type 1, type 2, gestational diabetes) to cardiovascular diseases and will focus on better defining the natural history of diabetes-related heart failure, especially the role of diabetes in adverse cardiac remodeling in preclinical early stages of heart failure.
Ashraf Fawzy, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Pulmonary & Critical Care, was the first to prove that racial differences in pulse oximeter accuracy led to delaying or withholding life-saving medications from Black and Hispanic patients hospitalized with COVID-19, which prompted the FDA to hold the first-ever public advisory committee meeting on pulse oximeter regulation where he testified.
William Garneau, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Hospital Medicine at JHH, will focus on transforming how we treat patients with opioid use in the hospital. He received an Advancing Innovation in Maryland award from the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, where he provided invited testimony.
Michelle Ogunwole, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine, will focus on racial disparities in maternal health among historically marginalized populations and specifically Black maternal health, and aims to enhance Black maternal health equity through a chronic disease prevention and social justice lens.
Eileen Scully, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases, is a global leader in sex differences and HIV immunity research and has expanded her work to study COVID, hepatitis C, and TB.
