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The AHA Strategic Focused Research Network (SFRN) site at Johns Hopkins University is recruiting post-doctoral fellows for a two-year training program in women’s cardiovascular health. There will be 1 fellow recruited each year in 2016, 2017, and 2018 for a total of 3 AHA Fellows. Submit applications by November 15, 2016. The 2017 fellowship position(...)
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The new Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program aims to recruit individuals from underrepresented groups in life sciences in order to increase diversity in the biomedical research community. Fellows will receive a non-renewable grant of $80,000 annually for up to four years of postdoctoral training support followed by a non-renewable grant of $270,000(...)
Imagine: one day you’re well, going about activities as always, and then something happens to change your life forever. We see it everyday. In this case, it’s crushing chest pain, shortness of breath: a heart attack. Now ask yourself: How will this change the way you live tomorrow? Are you prepared to make those changes?(...)
*pictured above: William Kaelin (back left) in the dome during his time in the Osler Medical Training Program Congratulations to William Kaelin, former chief medical resident of the Osler Medical Training Program, who received the 2016 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award along with co-recipients Peter Ratcliffe from the University of Oxford and Hopkins’ own(...)
It is our privilege to announce Robert Brodsky, professor in the Division of Hematology, as the director of the Physician Scientist Pathway in the Osler Medical Training Program. Drs. Ramana Sidhaye and Rachel Damico will serve as associate pathway directors. With the emerging changes in academic medicine, the physician scientist career path has been challenged. Hopkins is built(...)
The Kaiser Permanente Division of Research is currently accepting applications for the fourth cohort of research fellows for the Delivery Science Fellowship. The application deadline is September 15, 2016 for fellows to start in July 2017. Application form and additional information available here: http://dorfellowship.kaiser.org Anyone with questions should contact Richard Grant, director, at richard.w.grant@kp.org or Beth(...)
The Institute for Educational Excellence (IEE) will be offering a half-day Foundations of Teaching course for new faculty members who may need a bit of help with teaching or for those who simply have an interest. The first Foundations of Teaching session will be held on Thursday, August 4, as the first session of the(...)
Are you waiting in the wings to create the next big medical software start-up? Looking to gain feedback on an original Health IT concept? Join the first Johns Hopkins competition at the intersection of precision medicine and technology innovation: The Precision Medicine Technology Shark Tank Who can participate? Faculty, staff and students at Johns Hopkins University(...)
Is there an ICD-10 code for technological phobias? I may have it. My diagnosis dates back to 1993, when I first encountered email. As a Duke intern, I was consumed by admissions and blood draws and distracted by my fellow intern who sat banging on a keyboard. He introduced me to “this new amazing technology,”(...)