Medicine Matters

Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine

Fessler, Henry

Fessler Receives Outstanding Educator Award

February 27, 2017

Henry Fessler, professor and fellowship director in the Division of Pulmonary, was recently named the 2017 recipient of the Outstanding Educator Award from the American Thoracic Society (ATS). This award recognizes lifetime contributions in education and mentoring in the fields of pulmonary, critical care or sleep medicine. He will be presented the award at the ATS annual […]

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Female, Woman

Amjad Receives Junior Research Manuscript Award

February 20, 2017

Halima Amjad, assistant professor in the Division of Geriatrics, has been selected by the Board of Directors and the Awards Committee of the American Geriatrics Society as the recipient of the 2017 American Geriatrics Society Outstanding Junior Research Manuscript Award. This award recognizes the research that Halima performed under the mentorship Dr. Julie Bynum from Dartmouth. This paper, […]

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Golden, Sherita

Golden Receives Walter Reed Distinguished Achievement Award

February 10, 2017

Sherita Golden, professor of Endocrinology and executive vice chair of the DOM, was recently named the co-recipient of the prestigious Walter Reed Distinguished Achievement Award from the University of Virginia recognizing her professional accomplishments, outstanding innovation and exemplary leadership in the field of Medicine. She will be presented with the award by the dean of the […]

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kass

Kass Receives Outstanding Investigator Award

February 2, 2017

David Kass, professor in the Division of Cardiology, received an Outstanding Investigator Award, also know as an R35 from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). An R35 is a relatively new NIH grant mechanism that is awarded to individuals for long-term research programs. The award provides $600,000 per year for up to seven years, […]

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Center for Global Health

Center for Global Health Awarded CDC Contract

January 31, 2017

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently funded the Center for Global Health to investigate infections that lead to newborn deaths, determine ways to prevent them and identify strategies to improve survival of newborns in intensive care units. "The CDC and Johns Hopkins teams will study infections occurring in neonatal intensive care units in […]

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Pahwa, Amit

Pahwa Receives Educator Award

January 17, 2017

Amit Pahwa, assistant professor in General Internal Medicine, was recently selected as the recipient of the 2017 Early Career Medical Student Educator Award from the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM). This new award recognizes innovation and excellence in medical student education in the areas of leadership, scholarship and teaching.

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Care teams

2016 Clinical Awards for Physicians and Care Teams

December 19, 2016

Last year, the Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians launched the Johns Hopkins Medicine Clinical Awards for Physicians and Care Teams to recognize physicians and care teams who provide consistently outstanding patient care throughout all of Johns Hopkins Medicine. All Johns Hopkins Medicine hospitals and Johns Hopkins Community Physicians facilities selected their six winners after nomination and local […]

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Nimgaonkar

Nimgaonkar Wins QuickFire Challenge Grant

November 28, 2016

Ashish Nimgaonkar, assistant professor in Gastroenterology and co-founder and CEO of Glyscend, Inc., was recently awarded a $500,000 grant from Johnson & Johnson LLC and Janssen Research & Development, LLC as part of the World Without Disease QuickFire Challenge at the 2016 Partnering for Cures conference. Glyscend aims to revolutionize the treatment for metabolic diseases such as type 2 […]

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Staff Awards

Durkin, Knox and Smit Win Staff Recognition Awards

October 21, 2016

Congratulations to Nowella Durkin, Tamala Knox and Gabriela Smit who were selected to receive this quarter's Staff Recognition Awards based on their glowing nominations. Nowella (Nola), a senior programmer/analyst in the Division of General Internal Medicine, has worked at Hopkins for the past 36 years. She now works in the GIM-Welch Center Methods Core working on multiple projects […]

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Zakaria, Sammy

Zakaria Receives Joseph and Rae Brown Award

September 19, 2016

The Dr. Joseph and Rae Brown Award recognizes a Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) member who has significantly advanced multidisciplinary quality care for critically ill and injured patients at the regional or local level. Sammy Zakaria, assistant professor in Cardiology, received this award in recognition of his efforts in leading the SCCM Baltimore Chapter for the […]

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Mark Anderson, M.D., Ph.D - William Osler Professor of Medicine, director of the Department of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Mark Anderson, M.D., Ph.D is the William Osler Professor of Medicine, director of the Department of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and physician-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital... read more »

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