The Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases recently awarded grants to JHU faculty. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, proposals were solicited for both environmental infectious diseases and SARS-CoV-2. The Fisher Center is directed by Dr. Paul G. Auwaerter. Congratulations to the following Hopkins faculty including two from the Department of Medicine […]
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Agbor-Enoh, Bumpus and Taylor Named Inspiring Black Scientists
Posted by kbennett | Congratulations, ResearchThree from the DOM were named on the list of 1,000 Inspiring Black Scientists in America by the Community of Scholars, a group postdoctoral fellows, early-stage investigators, instructors and consultants with a common passion to advance scientific discovery while innovating diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The following members of the DOM were recognized: Dr. Sean […]
Jan 5, 2021 No comments

7 From the DOM Receive Discovery Awards
Posted by kbennett | Congratulations, ResearchJohns Hopkins University Discovery Awards provide grant awards to cross-divisional teams, comprised of faculty and/or non-faculty members from at least two schools or affiliates of the university. In 2020, 41 Discovery Awards were given to interdisciplinary faculty teams across eleven units of Johns Hopkins. The following projects involving members of the Department of Medicine (in bold) […]
Dec 22, 2020 No comments

Christmas Named Governor-Elect of the Maryland ACP
Posted by kbennett | Congratulations, Patient CareDr. Colleen Christmas, associate professor in the Division of Geriatrics, was elected by the Maryland Chapter of the American College of Physicians as the new Governor-Elect Designee. She will take office in April 2021 as Governor-Elect before assuming the office of Governor in April 2022. She was recognized for being a dedicated, hardworking and gracious member […]
Dec 21, 2020 No comments

Ratchford Selected for Ansell Fellowship Award
Posted by kbennett | CongratulationsDr. Elizabeth Ratchford, associate professor in the divisions of Cardiology and General Internal Medicine, has been selected for an Ansell Fellowship Award from the Anticoagulation Forum. The award provides $120K in funding to support a one-year vascular medicine fellowship program. Dr. Ratchford has selected Shireen Khoury, MD, MPH to serve as the inaugural vascular medicine […]
Dec 17, 2020 No comments

Rodriquez Receives International Writing Award
Posted by kbennett | Congratulations, EducationDr. Maddie Rodriguez, resident in the Johns Hopkins Bayview Internal Medicine Residency Program, was awarded the Overall International Writing Award and the North American Writing Award at the International Awards for Medical Writing from the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine for her article in CLOSLER, “Flattening the Curve.” The FPM, along with its journals Health Policy […]
Dec 15, 2020 No comments

13 from the DOM Named Highly Cited Researchers
Posted by kbennett | Congratulations, ResearchThirteen members of the DOM were named to the Clarivate's list of 2020 Highly Cited Researchers. The list represents the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. In 2020, fewer than 6,200, or 0.1 percent, of the world's researchers, across 21 research fields, have earned this exclusive […]
Dec 10, 2020 No comments

Shah Receives Young Investigator Award
Posted by kbennett | Congratulations, ResearchDr. Ami Shah, associate professor in the Division of Rheumatology, was named a 2020 recipient of the Henry Kunkel Young Investigator Award from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). This award honors an early career physician scientist, who is 12 years post rheumatology certifying examination eligibility, who has made outstanding and promising independent contributions to […]
Dec 8, 2020 No comments

Herzke and Peairs Named Vice Chairs
Posted by Mark Anderson | Congratulations, LeadershipDrs. Carrie Herzke and Kimberly Peairs have been promoted to vice chairs in the Department of Medicine. After over five years of serving as Associate Vice Chair for Inpatient Operations, Dr. Carrie Herzke, assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, will become Vice Chair for Inpatient Operations. The move recognizes her extraordinary efforts […]
Dec 4, 2020 No comments

Cudjoe Receives Veterans Day Achievers Award
Posted by kbennett | CongratulationsDr. Thomas Cudjoe, assistant professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology, received the 2020 Veterans Day Achievers Award from the JHM Office of Diversity & Inclusion. The award, created in honor of Veterans Day, recognizes military veterans and active duty military who work at Hopkins and have demonstrated contributions to their communities and […]
Dec 2, 2020 No comments