Johns Hopkins Medical Education Pathway residents, Drs. Preet Ahluwalia, Kamini Kuchinad and Ekene Ojukwu all part of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Internal Medicine Residency Program, along with Dr. Kavita Chapla, fellow, Dr. Angela Orozco, assistant professor, and principal investigator Dr. David Wu, assistant professor, all in the Division of General Internal Medicine, were the recipients of […]
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Knoll North Ambulatory Surgery Center Ranked Top in Maryland

Nov 19, 2020 | posted by kbenne28 | Congratulations, Patient Care | No comments
The Knoll North Ambulatory Surgery Center in the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology was ranked the top center in Maryland by Newsweek as part of the America's Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers 2021 list. This is a particularly impressive accomplishment considering the center just opened in December 2018. Johns Hopkins Health Care & Surgery Center at […]
Blumenthal Receives Leadership Legacy Award

Nov 19, 2020 | posted by kbenne28 | Congratulations | No comments
Dr. Roger Blumenthal, professor in the Division of Cardiology, received the Leadership Legacy Award from the American Heart Association. This award recognizes current and alumni volunteers for exceptional service and contributions to the eastern region and/or its divisions over a significant period of time, at any level of the organization (local, regional, national).
Evaluation and Management of Patients With Stable Angina: Beyond the Ischemia Paradigm: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

Nov 18, 2020 | posted by kbenne28 | Article of the Week | No comments
ARTICLE: Evaluation and Management of Patients With Stable Angina: Beyond the Ischemia Paradigm: JACC State-of-the-Art Review AUTHORS: Richard Ferraro, Jacqueline M. Latina, Abdulhamied Alfaddagh, Erin D. Michos, Michael J. Blaha, Steven R. Jones, Garima Sharma, Jeffrey C. Trost, William E. Boden, William S. Weintraub, João A.C. Lima, Roger S. Blumenthal, Valentin Fuster, Armin Arbab-Zadeh JOURNAL: J Am Coll […]
Survivorship after COVID-19 ICU stay

Nov 18, 2020 | posted by kbenne28 | Article of the Week | No comments
ARTICLE: Survivorship after COVID-19 ICU stay AUTHORS: Megan M. Hosey and Dale M. Needham JOURNAL: Nat Rev Dis Primers. 2020; 6(1): 60. Abstract Our understanding of the epidemiology of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and associated COVID-19 illness continues to evolve. Statistics from early in the pandemic indicate that ~1 in 5 […]
Greene Receives Nicholas Davies Award

Nov 16, 2020 | posted by kbenne28 | Congratulations | No comments
Dr. Jeremy Greene, professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, was awarded the 2021 Nicholas Davies Award from the American College of Physicians (ACP) for his scholarship in the medical humanities. The award, established in 1992, is given annually for outstanding scholarly activities in history, literature, philosophy, and ethics and contributions to humanism in […]
Epic Tip of the Week: November 13, 2020

Nov 13, 2020 | posted by kbenne28 | Nursing Matters | No comments
Ambulatory: Telemedicine => Cisco WebEx Support Tips Reminder => Cisco WebEx requires Chrome as your browser and does not work with Internet Explorer. Set Chrome as your default browser here. Cisco WebEx also works with ‘Safari’ on your mobile device. Only access Epic through MyCloud to conduct Video Visits. Using your virtual desktop top is […]
Borio and Gounder Appointed to Biden COVID-19 Advisory Board

Nov 12, 2020 | posted by kbenne28 | Congratulations, Patient Care | No comments
Drs. Luciana Borio, assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, and Celine Gounder, former fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases, were recently appointed to President-Elect Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board. They are two of the five women on the 13-member board made up of a diverse and experienced group of doctors and scientists. The […]
Neoadjuvant checkpoint blockade for cancer immunotherapy

Nov 11, 2020 | posted by kbenne28 | Article of the Week | No comments
ARTICLE: Neoadjuvant checkpoint blockade for cancer immunotherapy AUTHORS: Suzanne L Topalian, Janis M Taube, Drew M Pardoll JOURNAL: Science. 2020 Jan 31;367(6477):eaax0182. doi: 10.1126/science.aax0182. Abstract BACKGROUND: Immunotherapies that target the interaction of programmed death 1 (PD-1) with its ligands, PD-L1 and PD-L2, have ushered in the modern oncology era. The PD-1 pathway is a key mediator of local […]
Social Determinants of Health and Diabetes: A Scientific Review

Nov 11, 2020 | posted by kbenne28 | Article of the Week | No comments
ARTICLE: Social Determinants of Health and Diabetes: A Scientific Review AUTHORS: Felicia Hill-Briggs, Nancy E Adler, Seth A Berkowitz, Marshall H Chin, Tiffany L Gary-Webb, Ana Navas-Acien, Pamela L Thornton, Debra Haire-Joshu JOURNAL: Diabetes Care. 2020 Nov 2;dci200053. doi: 10.2337/dci20-0053. Online ahead of print. Decades of research have demonstrated that diabetes affects racial and ethnic minority and low-income adult populations in the U.S. disproportionately, […]