Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
ARTICLE: Predictors of Long-Term Healthy Arterial Aging: Coronary Artery Calcium Nondevelopment in the MESA Study AUTHORS: Seamus P. Whelton, Michael G. Silverman, John W. McEvoy, Matthew… Read More »Predictors of Long-Term Healthy Arterial Aging: Coronary Artery Calcium Nondevelopment in the MESA Study
Donate any amount of your choice to the United Way of Central Maryland and be entered to win a FREE 10-minute seated massage provided by… Read More »Donate to the United Way and Be Entered to Win a Free Seated Massage!
Tiffani Panek, division administrator of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Bayview, was recently elected to be the vice president of the Society of Hospital… Read More »Panek elected Vice President of SHM’s Maryland Chapter
Lots of progress has been made on the compensation model since the series of posts this summer and the most recent post naming the committee members.… Read More »Medicine (and Compensation) Matters: Fall 2015 Update
Do you know a great Hopkins educator? Nominations for the annual Institute for Excellence in Education (IEE) Awards for Outstanding Achievement are open. Each award… Read More »IEE Education Awards for Outstanding Achievement Call for Nominations
The workshop will take place on Thursday, November 19 from 8:30-noon in Feinstone Hall (E2030) in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. The goal of… Read More »How to Incorporate Sex and Gender into Preclinical and Clinical Research Workshop
Quality improvement strategies can target several areas—health systems (case management, team changes, electronic patient registry, facilitated relay of information to clinicians, continuous QI), health-care providers… Read More »Quality Improvement Interventions to Reduce Disparities in African Americans with Diabetes
The totals are in and the Department of Medicine was the top Johns Hopkins Medicine fundraiser at this year’s Baltimore American Diabetes Step Out Walk—raising… Read More »Department of Medicine Top Fundraiser at 2015 American Diabetes Association Step Out: Walk To Stop Diabetes
ARTICLE: Kidney-Failure Risk Projection for the Living Kidney-Donor Candidate AUTHORS: Morgan E. Grams, Yingying Sang, Andrew S. Levey, Kunihiro Matsushita, Shoshana Ballew, Alex R. Chang,… Read More »Kidney-Failure Risk Projection for the Living Kidney-Donor Candidate
David Kass, professor in the Division of Cardiology, and Nazareno Paolocci, assistant professor in the Division of Cardiology, along with John Toscano in the Department… Read More »Congrats to Kass and Paolocci whose pharmaceuticals company will be acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb