Sherita Golden, executive vice chair and professor in the Division of Endocrinology, was selected as the 2019 University of Virginia Distinguished Alumna by the UVA Maxine Platzer Lynn Women's Center. This award was established in 1991 to honor alumnae whose contributions at the highest level in their fields reflect the spirit of excellence and the ethic(...)
Epic Tip of the Week
Posted by | Patient CareInpatient - New Reportable SmartLink for Consult Team Times A SmartForm has been created for documenting consultant arrival time and complete time. Enter the SmartPhrase .CONSULTTEAMTIME in the consult note. This will pull in a SmartBlock. Click the SmartBlock Consult Team Times button at the top of the note. This will open the SmartForm. SmartForm(...)
Partnering Toward Discovery
Posted by | CME, ResearchPlease join us Monday, March 11, at 4:30 p.m. in Turner Concourse/Miller Research Building’s ground floor area outside Tilghman Auditorium for another exciting Partnering Toward Discovery event. Our faculty speaker, Chulan Kwon, and our student/trainee speakers, Sean Murphy and Suraj Kannan, will present: “Overcoming obstacles toward heart regeneration: maturing stem cells into cardiac muscle.” The Partnering Toward Discovery series is a forum that showcases how(...)
Bumpus Named Councilor of ASPET
Posted by | CongratulationsNamandje 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(...)
Human primary liver cancer organoids reveal intratumor and interpatient drug response heterogeneity
Posted by | Article of the WeekARTICLE: 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
Posted by | CongratulationsNisha 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
Posted by | CongratulationsSimon 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
Posted by | ResearchThank 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
Posted by | Patient CareHaiku 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
Posted by | Nursing MattersWinter 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,(...)