The Johns Hopkins Mentorship Best Practices Committee has released the following recommendations: One or more mentors should be identified for each faculty member prior to the start of each new hire’s employment at Hopkins and processes should be in place, within departments and across SOM/JHU, that facilitate the ability of faculty members to add and/or […]
Chaudhry Voted Top Weight Management Doctor
Posted by | Congratulations, Patient CareZoobia Chaudhry, assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, was voted Top Weight Management Doctor in 2019 for Baltimore Magazine. This acknowledgement comes from an annual peer survey in which the metro area’s roughly 13,000 physicians vote on which doctor they would send a member of their family or friend to. Approximately 5 […]
Kalyani Participates in FDA Panel
Posted by | Patient CareRita Kalyani, associate professor in the Division of Endocrinology, participated in the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The committee reviews and evaluates data concerning the safety and effectiveness of marketed and investigational human drug products for use in the treatment of endocrine and metabolic disorders, and makes […]
Time From Submission of Johns Hopkins University Trial Results to Posting on ClinicalTrials.gov
Posted by | Article of the WeekARTICLE: Time From Submission of Johns Hopkins University Trial Results to Posting on ClinicalTrials.gov AUTHORS: Anthony Keyes, Evan Mayo-Wilson, Nidhi Atri, Aliya Lalji, Prince S. Nuamah, Oswald Tetteh and Daniel E. Ford JOURNAL: JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Oct 28. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.4710. [Epub ahead of print] The US Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA)1 requires that applicable clinical trials (ACTs) […]
Checkley Awarded Two NIH Grants for Chronic Disease Research
Posted by | Congratulations, ResearchChronic diseases are currently responsible for over 70 percent of deaths worldwide, with over 80 percent occurring in low- and middle-income countries. The Center for Global Non-Communicable Disease Research and Training at Johns Hopkins University led by William Checkley, associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, was awarded two five-year training grants starting September 2019 […]
Clinical Awards for Physicians and Care Teams
Posted by | Congratulations, Patient CareThe fifth annual ceremony for the Johns Hopkins Medicine Clinical Awards for Physicians and Care Teams on Tuesday, December 3 marked another stellar year for members of the DOM. The Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians received almost 400 nominations for awards in six categories across six hospitals. The below clinicians and care teams from the […]
Clinical Excellence Track: Promotion Criteria
Posted by | AdministrationA summary description of the criteria for promotion on the new Clinical Excellence Track and the documentation that is needed to support applications for promotion is now available on the DOM Faculty Portal. The Office of Faculty and the Chairs of the Clinical Excellence Promotion Committee are hosting a general information session on Wednesday, January […]
Epic Tip of the Week: December 6, 2019
Posted by | Patient Care**Quarterly Upgrade – December 12, 2019** Ambulatory: Enter Level of Service without Switching Activities Use the Level of Service Taskbar button to enter a level of service from any screen. The button caption changes to the CPT code selected, so users can see that an LOS has been entered. Inpatient/Ambulatory: Prescription Change Requests Now Use […]
2020 Fellowship Match Lists
Posted by | Congratulations, EducationWe are proud to share the Bayview Internal Medicine Residency Program and Osler Medical Residency Fellowship Match lists. Please join in congratulating all of our graduating residents. Bayview Internal Medicine Residency Program Evans Brown, General Internal Medicine Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University Kavita Chapla, GIM Medical Education Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University Debbie Freeland, Geriatrics Fellowship, University […]
Confronting Bias and Discrimination in Health Care–When Silence Is Not Golden
Posted by | Article of the WeekARTICLE: Confronting Bias and Discrimination in Health Care-When Silence Is Not Golden AUTHORS: Lisa Cooper, Mary Catherine Beach and David Williams JOURNAL: JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Oct 28. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.4100. [Epub ahead of print] In this issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, Wheeler et al1 report results from a novel qualitative study in which the investigators examined how physicians and trainees perceive, react, and respond to incidents of […]