Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
Richard Gross, associate professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, was recently named the School of Medicine's seventh recipient of the Johns Hopkins University Professors' Award for Excellence in Teaching for Part-Time Faculty for his investment and devotion for sharing his expertise to assist the next generation of graduates. The formal announcement will be made at(...)
The Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) and the Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Investigator-Initiated Research Award of the Department of Defense has funded Neil Aggarwal, assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary, and partnering PI Nicola Heller with $1.5 million over 3 years to conduct research relating to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). ARDS(...)
Congratulations to Katie Dietz and Grazyna Purwin who were selected to receive this quarter's Staff Recognition Awards based on their glowing nominations. Katie, a research program manager in the Division of General Internal Medicine, the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research and the Johns Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Health Disparities, began as a(...)
The Department of Medicine took home all but three of the Institute for Excellence in Education's (IEE) Awards for Outstanding Achievement at their ceremony last Friday. This is a testament to our department's incredible educators in all stages of their careers. Congratulations to all of the following faculty members: David Kern, professor in the Division of(...)
April Holmes, medication technician for Hopkins ElderPlus, received a Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award at Hopkins’ 34th Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration on Friday, January 8. April was honored due to her work with both the Bea Gaddy Family Center and the O’Donnell Heights Tenants Council as well as for her commitment to(...)
Sunil Solomon, assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, recently received the Avenir Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Avenir Award, using the French word for future, looks toward the future by supporting early stage investigators proposing highly innovative studies. Dr. Soloman’s study focuses(...)
Kimberly Gudzune, assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine recently received the Annals of Internal Medicine's Junior Investigator Recognition Award for the article "Efficacy of commercial weight-loss programs: an updated systematic review." See the abstract here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25844997 See the full article here: http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2214178 Annals of Internal Medicine and the American College of Physicians began recognizing excellence(...)
To recognize physicians and care teams who provide consistently outstanding patient care, the Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians launched an annual awards program earlier this year, called the Johns Hopkins Medicine Clinical Awards for Physicians and Care Teams. This awards program is particularly meaningful at Johns Hopkins Medicine, where we value quality patient care as(...)
Benjamin Singer, a research and clinical fellow in the division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine has won the A. McGehee Harvey Award due to the high quality of his research. He will be recognized at the Young Investigators’ Day Program on April 16, 2015 where he will present a poster to deans, medical and(...)