Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
In the October 12, 2016 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, a perspectives article makes the distinction between interpersonal racism and structural racism,… Read More »Structural Racism and Supporting Black Lives—The Role of Health Professionals in the NEJM
ARTICLE: Lifetime Cocaine and Opiate Use and Chronic Kidney Disease AUTHORS: Tessa Novick, Y Liu, Anika Alvanzo, A.B. Zonderman, M.K. Evans, Deidra Crews JOURNAL: Am… Read More »Lifetime Cocaine and Opiate Use and Chronic Kidney Disease
The National Hispanic Health Foundation's (NHHF) Hispanic Health Research Mentoring Program seeks junior faculty (up to 5 years post doc) as well as senior faculty with… Read More »Hispanic Health Research Mentoring Program
The Johns Hopkins Department of Radiology will host its 4th installment of the Patient Experience Advisory Team “Conversation Series 2016-17" on Wednesday, November 16 at 5… Read More »Cost of Unconscious Bias & Pattern Recognition Lecture
The Welch Center, directed by Lawrence Appel, recently launched its new website with a video highlighting its accomplishments since its inception more than 25 years… Read More »Visit the New Welch Center Website
Anil Chandraker, MD, medical director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, director of the Schuster Family Transplantation Research Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital and associate… Read More »Immunosuppression: What is the Correct Therapeutic Approach?
Buy a Chick-fil-A calendar to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and get over $30 of free coupons. Calendars are $7 and make great… Read More »Free Chick-fil-A to Benefit Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
The Johns Hopkins Research Symposium “Engineering Innovation for Clinical Impact” hosted by the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare will take place on Monday, November 21,… Read More »Johns Hopkins Research Symposium
The next deadline for the School of Medicine Clinician Scientist Award applications is Friday December 2, 2016 at 5 p.m. The award provides up to… Read More »Clinician Scientist Awards Portal Now Open
ARTICLE: Prevention Strategies for Contrast-Induced Nephropathy AUTHORS: Eric B. Bass and Rathan M. Subramaniam JOURNAL: Ann Intern Med. 2016 Oct 18;165(8):601. doi: 10.7326/L16-0278. IN RESPONSE to http://annals.org/aim/article/2569399/prevention-strategies-contrast-induced-nephropathy… Read More »Prevention Strategies for Contrast-Induced Nephropathy