Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
Three from the DOM have been selected to participate in the inaugural cohort of the Mary Elizabeth Garrett Executive Leadership for Women Faculty Program sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Office of Women in Science and Medicine. A group of 12 women faculty from different departments across Hopkins will begin the program in 2018 to expand even further(...)
The Society of General Internal Medicine’s (SGIM) Council and staff are pleased to announce the hiring of Eric Bass, as the organization’s Chief Executive Officer. He will begin this new part-time position immediately. He will continue to serve as Vice Chair for Faculty Development and Promotions. As SGIM’s CEO, Eric will oversee the member-based international association of over(...)
Darren Brownlee, administrator of the Division of Clinical Immunology, will be honored at the Hofstra University Alumni Awards Dinner as a recipient of the Young Alumni Award. This award recognizes undergraduate alumni who, within 10 years of graduation, have achieved significant accomplishments in their professional lives. Darren is one of two who will receive the award at the(...)
Namandje Bumpus, associate professor in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology, was selected to receive the 2017 International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX) North American Young Investigator Award in honor of James R. Gillette from the ISSX Committee. She will be presented the award at the 21st North American ISSX Meeting on September 27(...)
After submitting the two highest scoring educational curricula abstracts (named below) to the High Value Practice Academic Alliance National Research and Education Conference (HVPAA), the Medicine Core Clerkship, led by Amit Pahwa, assistant professor in General Internal Medicine, and Danelle Cayea, assistant professor in Geriatrics, won the conference award for Best Educational Curriculum. Effect of High Value Care(...)
I am delighted to announce that Allan Gelber will become the new chair of the M.D. Admissions Committee, effective Aug. 1, 2017. Dr. Gelber is a professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is(...)
Brian O'Rourke, professor in the Division of Cardiology, was selected to give the Keith Reimer Distinguished Lecture at the European Section of the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR) in Hamburg, Germany last month. His lecture entitled "Life on the Edge: Mitochondria Emergence, and Heart Disease" honored the memory of the former ISHR president who made major scientific contributions to(...)
"There is no question that the people of Johns Hopkins Medicine deliver the best patient care day in and day out. We see this firsthand in the extraordinary actions of our faculty and staff, and we hear it so often from our grateful patients and their families." -Paul Rothman and Ronald Peterson Congratulations to the(...)
Nestoras Mathioudakis, assistant professor in the Division of Endocrinology, was elected to the national Epic Endocrinology Specialty Steering Board, which provides a network for specialists across organizations to define the gold standard for Epic adoption and provides guidance for endocrinology specialists across the country. It consists of 12 members who have been nominated and elected(...)
We are delighted to announce that Damani Piggott will become assistant dean for graduate biomedical education and graduate student diversity effective Sept. 1. Dr. Piggott was born in Trinidad and Tobago and came to the United States as an international student to attend Morehouse College, where he graduated summa cum laude as the class valedictorian.(...)