2024 State of the Department Recap

Thank you to all those who attended or viewed Dr. Nadia Hansel's State of the Department address and the opening of JHH and JHBMC Medical Grand Rounds. Below are Click highlights from Dr. Hansel's presentation including accomplishments from members of the DOM in the past year as well as future initiatives to look out for.

Click here for a recording of the presentation.

View Dr. Hansel's slide deck here: SOD 2024.pptx

Promoted to Professor

Promoted to Associate Professor

DOM Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Diversity Council

Secured philanthropic funding for 4th year Internal Medicine Visiting Clerkship
Hosted 20th year of Visiting Professorship
Career Development Sessions

Task Force on Women's Academic Careers in Medicine

Accepting new members with an interest in advancing gender equity (all genders welcome)
Annual Dinner and DOM Medical Grand Rounds speaker
Central repository for DOM with sample promotion materials

LGBTQ+ Equity and Education Council

Annual DOM Medical Grand Rounds
Collection of SOGI (sexual orientation/gender identity) data in collaboration with Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity

Large Grant Awards

Resources for Investigators

Research Development Team (research.jhu.edu/rdt/)

Pre-award facilitation for large grant proposals
Templatesfor common sections of federally-sponsored proposals

Editorial Assistance Services Initiative (research.jhu.edu/rdt/easi)

Editorial support, at no charge for grant proposals and manuscripts
Open to all tenure-track JHU faculty
Turn-around time = 2 weeks
Questions? Email Courtney McQueen at [email protected].

DOM Grant Sample Resource on DOM Research MS Teams site

Over 130 sample grant files from internal JHU investigators and the NIH
Examples of K, R and large grants
JHU-specific IT, ICTR and environmental resources samples
Contribute – we are looking to expand this internal DOM resource

JHM Big Data Resources

Ask Stu Ray [email protected] if unsure about which is right for your project.

JHM Data Sources

PMAP pm.jh.edu
- OMOP /Atlas CDM on PMAP
TriNetX (JHM and multi-institutional data sets)
Epic Slicer-Dicer (for cohort sizing) and other ICTR resources

Program to Accelerate Clinical research using Epic (PACE)

Recruitment through MyChart
PROs via MyChart
Alerts for study recruitment

New Data Infrastructure

Best Practice systems for PHI
SAFER desktop and SAFESTOR
- No initial cost for researchers
- Base allocation 10 TB per project (up to 100 TB available)
DISCOVERY HPC
- High-performance computing free through 2025 (112 petabytes of RAM!)
Contact [email protected] or researchit.jh.edu for access

BEAD Core

Faculty are eligible to receive the following BEAD Core support annually:
- 20 hours per investigator for FT faculty
- 20 hours per trainee with primary faculty mentor
- 20 hours for grants
- 20 hours for any patient reported outcomes (PROs) for any investigator at Hopkins
Multiple investigators on a project can pool hours
Email: [email protected]

J. Mario Molina and Lou and Nancy Grasmick Scholars

Next Generation Scholar

Assistant Chiefs of Service

Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence

Development Funding

$5.6M bequest from Dr. Abner Notkins to support the Osler Scholar Program
$3.8M gift from the estates of Ralph Lord and Betty Lord to support the Ralph and Betty Lord Endowed Fund for Scleroderma Research in Rheumatology
$2.5M gift from The Dorney Koppel Foundation to support The Dorney-Koppel Foundation and Robert A. Wise, M.D., Endowed Professorship in PCCM
$2.5M bequest from Thomas Gast to support The John Bartlett Endowed Fund for Young Investigators in ID
$1.3M bequest from Debra Roane to support The Debra and Thomas Roane Fund for the Arthritis Center in Rheumatology
$1.3M bequest from Peter and Mary Terranova to support The Peter and Mary Terranova Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Research Fund in PCCM and the Peter and Mary Terranova Hereditary Heart Disease Research Fund in Cardiology
$1M gift from Myra Igo Haley estate to support Dr. Uzma Haque’s work in Rheumatology
$730K gift from Kenneth and Sherrilyn Fisher to support the Discovery Program: Fisher Center in ID