Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
Dr. Deok-Ho Kim, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, recently received the 2022 Engineer of the Year Award from the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association and the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies. The Engineer of the Year Award is given annually in recognition of a member who […]
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Nadia Hansel will serve as interim director of the Department of Medicine beginning September 16. I will support her leadership throughout this time of transition until my departure to the University of Chicago on October 1. Dr. Hansel has ably led the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care […]
The Johns Hopkins University Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) has announced the recipients of the 2022 Scholar Grant Awards. This award is intended to help strengthen junior faculty's ability to secure independent NIH research funding, typically through Rand K series awards. In addition to Dr. Steven Clipman, two other members of the ID Division were […]
Dr. Richard Chaisson, professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, and his team recently received the largest tuberculosis research grant in history when the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded the JHM-led international consortium $200M for their Supporting, Mobilizing and Accelerating Research for Tuberculosis Elimination (SMART4TB) project. The award aims strengthen research efforts in countries […]
Dr. Garima Sharma, director of cardio obstetrics and associate vice chair for women's careers in academic medicine, will lead a research team funded by the American Heart Association to study “The Social Determinants of the Risk of Hypertension in Women Study: Phenotyping Polysocial Risk in Women of Reproductive Age (18-44y).” This is one of five […]
Dr. Anna Shah, PGY-2 resident physician in the Primary Care Track of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Internal Medicine Residency and member of the Department of Medicine Medical Education Pathway, is the recipient of a highly-competitive national Back to Bedside grant from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for her project, “Optimizing Care for […]
The HIV Research Program has named Dr. Steven Clipman, instructor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, a recipient of the 2022 Avenir Award for HIV/AIDS Research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This award supports innovative and transformative research from talented investigators who represent the future of addiction science. Dr. Clipman's project, "Molecular Networks […]
Congratulations to Meyer 9, our first dedicated biocontainment unit to respond to COVID, whose staff were honored as the Daily Record Health Care Heroes 2022 for their work navigating the pandemic’s many unknowns with grace and professionalism. Click here to see the full issue from the Daily Record.
Dr. Simon Mathews, assistant professor in the Division of Gastroenterology, recently received a Microsoft Innovation Acceleration Award for his project, SpectralDx, a novel, noninvasive, camera-based colorectal cancer screening option for patients that uses a smartphone attachment. His team includes Amit Banerjee, a senior research scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and is one […]
Dr. Mark Donowitz, professor in the Division of Gastroenterology, will give the 15th Hans H. Ussing Lecture in April 2023. He was selected by the steering committee of the Epithelial Transport Group of the American Physiological Society (APS) to give the lecture at the next APS Summit meeting in California. He joins a long list […]