Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
Inpatient & Ambulatory: New Haemonetics Information workspace to monitor Haemobank eligibility The Haemonetics Dashboard is for clinicians at JHH and JHOC to assist in blood… Read More »Epic Tip of the Week: May 8, 2020
Gail Daumit, professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and vice chair for clinical and translational research, was voted secretary elect for the Society… Read More »Daumit Elected Secretary of Society of General Internal Medicine
ARTICLE: Feasibility of blood testing combined with PET-CT to screen for cancer and guide intervention AUTHORS: Anne Marie Lennon, Adam H. Buchanan, Isaac Kinde, Andrew… Read More »Feasibility of blood testing combined with PET-CT to screen for cancer and guide intervention
This year's Institute for Excellence in Education (IEE)'s Education Shark Tank event was held via Zoom with two winners from the DOM. Ashwini Davison, assistant… Read More »Davison and Cooper Named Shark Tank Winners
ARTICLE: Kidney diseases in the time of COVID-19: major challenges to patient care AUTHORS: Hamid Rabb JOURNAL: J Clin Invest. 2020 Apr 6. pii: 138871. doi:… Read More »Kidney diseases in the time of COVID-19: major challenges to patient care
Natalia Trayanova, joint appointment in Medicine, and Allison Hays, associate professor in the Division of Cardiology, received a new National Science Foundation grant that is… Read More »Trayanova and Hays Receive National Science Foundation Grant
Joanna Melia, assistant professor in the Division of Gastroenterology, and Kristina Montemayor, fellow in the Division of Pulmonary, received 2020 Seed Grants on Sex and… Read More »Melia and Montemayor Receive Seed Grants on Sex and Gender Differences Awards
This week marked Medical Laboratory Professionals Week, an annual celebration of medical laboratory professionals who play a vital role in health care and patient advocacy.… Read More »Investigating COVID-19
Inpatient & Ambulatory: Asymptomatic COVID-19 Infection Screening Protocol The COVID-19 NAT, NP Swab order contains a required question for indicating if the test is for… Read More »Epic Tip of the Week: April 24, 2020
ARTICLE: Undocumented U.S. Immigrants and COVID-19 AUTHORS: Kathleen R. Page, Maya Venkataramani, Chris Beyrer and Sarah Polk JOURNAL: N Engl J Med. 2020 Mar 27. doi:… Read More »Undocumented U.S. Immigrants and COVID-19