Namandje Bumpus, associate professor in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology, was elected to serve a three-year term as councilor for the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET). Namandje will be one of three councilors on the ASPET Council and will begin her term on July 1, 2019. ASPET is one of the premier(...)
About Kelsey Bennett
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Human primary liver cancer organoids reveal intratumor and interpatient drug response heterogeneity
ARTICLE: Human primary liver cancer organoids reveal intratumor and interpatient drug response heterogeneity AUTHORS: Ling Li*, Hildur Knutsdottir, Ken Hui*, Matthew J. Weiss, Jin He, Benjamin Philosophe, Andrew M. Cameron, Christopher L. Wolfgang, Timothy M. Pawlik, Gabriel Ghiaur, Andrew J. Ewald, Esteban Mezey, Joel S. Bader and Florin M. Selaru JOURNAL: JCI Insight. 2019 Jan 24;4(2). pii: 121490. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.121490. [Epub ahead of print] Abstract Liver cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related mortality and(...)
Chandra-Strobos Receives McCarthy Award
Nisha Chandra-Strobos, professor in the Division of Cardiology, was awarded the 2019 McCarthy Award from Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Board of Trustees. The award is named after William McCarthy, a founding trustee, second Board of Trustees Chair and one of the earliest champions for developing the Bayview campus. It is the highest honor given(...)
Mathews Selected as Future Leader of the American Gastroenterological Association
Simon Mathews, assistant professor in the Division of Gastroenterology, has been selected to participate in the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Future Leaders Program. Simon joins 17 other early career physicians and scientists who were selected for this competitive program based on their current achievements, dedication to advancing the field and potential for future success. “With the AGA Future Leaders Program, we are developing(...)
Research Retreat Recap
Thank you to everyone who participated in today's Department of Medicine/Whiting School of Engineering Research Retreat. Our second annual collaboration with engineering proved to be another great success. We would also like to thank Keynote Speaker Dr. Leroy Hood, MD, PhD for an enthralling talk on How Technology, Big Data and Systems Approaches are Transforming 21st(...)
Epic Tip of the Week
Haiku and Canto Now Require iOS Version 11 or Later Clinicians using older iOS devices that do not support iOS 11 will not be able to install the latest version of Haiku or Canto and will not continue to receive automatic Haiku updates. After the June 2019 Hopkins Epic upgrade, users with older iOS versions(...)
February Updates
Winter weather will be behind us soon! We appreciate all our staff who weathered the snow, ice and cold to come to work during our most recent winter weather events. Neither event was declared significant enough to open the Hospital Command Center, but we did have many staff who awoke early, shoveled snow, salted ice,(...)
Mason F. Lord Lecture
You are cordially invited to attend the 43rd Annual Mason F. Lord Lecture on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 from noon-1 p.m. in the Johns Hopkins Asthma & Allergy Center, Richard A. Grossi Auditorium, Level 1. The lecture is co-sponsored with the Johns Hopkins Bayview Department of Medicine. Guest speaker: Bruce Leff, M.D., Professor of Medicine;(...)
Caring for Patients With Multiple Chronic Conditions
ARTICLE: Caring for Patients With Multiple Chronic Conditions AUTHORS: Mary E. Tinetti, Ariel R. Green, Jennifer Ouellet, Michael W. Rich, Cynthia Boyd JOURNAL: Ann Intern Med. 2019 Jan 22. doi: 10.7326/M18-3269. [Epub ahead of print] Multimorbidity, the coexistence of multiple chronic conditions, is common among all adults receiving health care and the norm among older adults.(...)
The BCU on Capitol Hill
The month of February saw many exciting accomplishments and opportunities for the BCU team. On February 4, The Hill published an op’ed written by BCU Medical Director, Dr. Brian Garibaldi, and BCU Executive Director, Dr. Lisa Maragakis, on the importance of maintaining pandemic preparedness infrastructure as well as strengthening national preparedness for emerging infectious diseases. After(...)