Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine cordially invites you to attend the Solbert Permutt Memorial Lecture entitled “Data Sharing in the Context of Clinical Trials” with speaker Jeffrey M. Drazen, MD, editor-in-chief of New England Journal of Medicine and Distinguished Parker B Francis Professor of Medicine of Harvard Medical School on Tuesday, September 26 at 4 p.m. in the Welch Medical(...)
The beginning of Medicine Grand Rounds marks a new academic year: new students, housestaff, fellows and faculty. I hope as many of you as possible will attend the first Medicine Grand Rounds where I will review the state of our department, highlight some of our inspiring accomplishments and outline challenges and opportunities for the coming(...)
On September 1, we launched our fundraising campaign for the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation to cure childhood cancer. Please visit our Million Mile Smile site and contribute to this important cause: https://www.alexslemonade.org/mypage/1363043 Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation was started by an inspirational 4 year old little girl, Alex Scott, after she was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer (neuroblastoma).(...)
The epidemic of overdose deaths has given rise to the concept of opioid stewardship: appropriately managing patients' pain while preventing new cases of addiction. But what does stewardship mean in the context of a hospital or health system? Given the infancy of stewardship programs, we need to better identify and spread best practices. Learn more(...)
The Society of Bedside Medicine (SBM) is a global community of physician educators dedicated to bedside teaching and improving physical examination and diagnostic skills. The purpose of the society is to foster a culture of bedside medicine through deliberate practice and teaching, and by encouraging innovation in education and research on the role of the(...)
Over the next few days, our Epic environment will be upgraded to the most current version of the Epic software. This newest version of the product reflects many of the enhancements we have recently requested, and we are grateful for the contributions of our physicians, nurses and all healthcare professionals in defining these emerging requirements.(...)
ARTICLE: Safety and Tolerability of Maraviroc-Containing Regimens to Prevent HIV Infection in Women AUTHORS: Roy M. Gulick, Timothy J. Wilkin, Ying Q. Chen, Raphael J. Landovitz, K. Rivet Amico, Alicia M. Young, Paul Richardson, Mark A. Marzinke, Craig W. Hendrix, Susan H. Eshleman, Ian McGowan, Leslie M. Cottle, Adriana Andrade, Cheryl Marcus, Karin L. Klingman,(...)
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine announces a request for applications for the 8th Annual Discovery Fund in honor of Dr. Michel Mirowski and his wife Anna for Cardiovascular Research. This announcement seeks proposals for innovative cardiovascular research projects led by faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (SOM). This award of(...)
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(...)
ARTICLE: Nonmyocyte ERK1/2 signaling contributes to load-induced cardiomyopathy in Marfan mice. AUTHORS: Rosanne Rouf, Elena Gallo MacFarlane, Eiki Takimoto, Rahul Chaudhary, Varun Nagpal, Peter P. Rainer, Julia G. Bindman, Elizabeth E. Gerber, Djahida Bedja, Christopher Schiefer, Karen L. Miller, Guangshuo Zhu, Loretha Myers, Nuria Amat-Alarcon, Dong I. Lee, Norimichi Koitabashi, Daniel P. Judge, David A. Kass and Harry C. Dietz JOURNAL: JCI Insight. 2017 Aug 3;2(15). pii: 91588. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.91588.(...)