Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School is launching a new health care leadership certificate program this fall. Executive Certificate in Health Care Leadership and Management: Leading with Impact is a 5-day course (held over two weekends) that targets all health care professionals, including: Physicians - Nursing leaders - Health care managers - Pharmacists – Researchers. The(...)
ARTICLE: Association of History of Dizziness and Long-term Adverse Outcomes With Early vs Later Orthostatic Hypotension Assessment Times in Middle-aged Adults. AUTHORS: Stephen P. Juraschek, Natalie Daya, Andreea M. Rawlings, Lawrence J. Appel, Edgar R. Miller III, B. Gwen Windham, Michael E. Griswold, Gerardo Heiss, Elizabeth Selvin JOURNAL: JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Jul 24. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.2937. [Epub ahead of print] Abstract IMPORTANCE: Guidelines recommend assessing orthostatic hypotension (OH) 3 minutes after(...)
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. [Epub(...)
After submitting the two highest scoring educational curricula abstracts (named below) to the High Value Practice Academic Alliance National Research and Education Conference (HVPAA), the Medicine Core Clerkship, led by Amit Pahwa, assistant professor in General Internal Medicine, and Danelle Cayea, assistant professor in Geriatrics, won the conference award for Best Educational Curriculum. Effect of High Value Care(...)
The Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) invites you to attend the Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture on Saturday, October 7 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Turner Auditorium on the Johns Hopkins East Baltimore Campus. Continental breakfast and check-in begin at 8 a.m. The keynote speaker is Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH, FACP, the director(...)
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL) is partnering with the Department of Surgery and the Department of Medicine for a “speed dating” event on Thursday, September 7 from 3–5 p.m. in the Welch Library. This interactive session will allow multiple short introductions between surgeons and engineers. This year's focus will be in the following areas: wearables(...)
I am delighted to announce that Allan Gelber will become the new chair of the M.D. Admissions Committee, effective Aug. 1, 2017. Dr. Gelber is a professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, with a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is(...)
Brian O'Rourke, professor in the Division of Cardiology, was selected to give the Keith Reimer Distinguished Lecture at the European Section of the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR) in Hamburg, Germany last month. His lecture entitled "Life on the Edge: Mitochondria Emergence, and Heart Disease" honored the memory of the former ISHR president who made major scientific contributions to(...)
"There is no question that the people of Johns Hopkins Medicine deliver the best patient care day in and day out. We see this firsthand in the extraordinary actions of our faculty and staff, and we hear it so often from our grateful patients and their families." -Paul Rothman and Ronald Peterson Congratulations to the(...)
ARTICLE: Treatment with integrase inhibitor suggests a new interpretation of HIV RNA decay curves that reveals a subset of cells with slow integration AUTHORS: E. Fabian Cardozo, Adriana Andrade, John W. Mellors, Daniel R. Kuritzkes, Alan S. Perelson, Ruy M. Ribeiro JOURNAL: PLoS Pathog. 2017 Jul 5;13(7):e1006478. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006478. eCollection 2017 Jul. Abstract The kinetics of HIV-1 decay under treatment depends(...)