Dr. David Kass, professor in the Division of Cardiology, was selected to receive the NAS 2020 Innovator Award from the North American Section of the International Society for Heart Research. The award is designed to recognize NAS member(s) of ISHR for innovative contributions to advance cardiovascular biology and medicine. Dr. Kass was nominated by NAS […]
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Blumenthal Receives Leadership Legacy Award
Posted by | CongratulationsDr. Roger Blumenthal, professor in the Division of Cardiology, received the Leadership Legacy Award from the American Heart Association. This award recognizes current and alumni volunteers for exceptional service and contributions to the eastern region and/or its divisions over a significant period of time, at any level of the organization (local, regional, national).
Evaluation and Management of Patients With Stable Angina: Beyond the Ischemia Paradigm: JACC State-of-the-Art Review
Posted by | Article of the WeekARTICLE: Evaluation and Management of Patients With Stable Angina: Beyond the Ischemia Paradigm: JACC State-of-the-Art Review AUTHORS: Richard Ferraro, Jacqueline M. Latina, Abdulhamied Alfaddagh, Erin D. Michos, Michael J. Blaha, Steven R. Jones, Garima Sharma, Jeffrey C. Trost, William E. Boden, William S. Weintraub, João A.C. Lima, Roger S. Blumenthal, Valentin Fuster, Armin Arbab-Zadeh JOURNAL: J Am Coll […]
Bennett and Vaidya Receive Multidisciplinary Grant
Posted by | Congratulations, ResearchDr. Wendy Bennett, associate professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, and Dr. Jay Vaidya, associate professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, received a multi-PI R01 entitled “The Effect of Sex Hormones on Cardiometabolic Outcomes in Men and Women with Diabetes: The Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) Study.” Collaborators in […]
Evaluation and Management of Patients With Stable Angina: Beyond the Ischemia Paradigm
Posted by | Article of the WeekARTICLE: Evaluation and Management of Patients With Stable Angina: Beyond the Ischemia Paradigm AUTHORS: Richard Ferraro, Jacqueline M. Latina, Abdulhamied Alfaddagh, Erin D. Michos, Michael J. Blaha, Steven R. Jones, Garima Sharma, Jeffrey C. Trost, William E. Boden, William S. Weintraub, João A.C. Lima, Roger S. Blumenthal, Valentin Fuster, Armin Arbab-Zadeh JOURNAL: J Am Coll […]
Myocardial Gene Expression Signatures in Human Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
Posted by | Article of the WeekARTICLE: Myocardial Gene Expression Signatures in Human Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction AUTHORS: Virginia S. Hahn, Hildur Knutsdottir, Xin Luo, Kenneth Bedi, Kenneth B. Margulies, Saptarsi M. Haldar, Maria Stolina, Jun Yin, Aarif Y. Khakoo, Joban Vaishnav, Joel S. Bader, David A. Kass, and Kavita Sharma JOURNAL: Circulation. 2020 Oct 29. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.050498. Online ahead of print. Abstract Background: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) constitutes […]
Top Doctors in the DOM
Posted by | Congratulations, Patient CareBaltimore magazine recognized close to 200 Johns Hopkins physicians as “Top Doctors” of 2020. This acknowledgement comes from an annual peer survey in which the metro area’s roughly 14,000 physicians vote on which doctor they would send a member of their family or friend to. The survey includes 135 specialties, and only approximately 6 percent of […]
Faculty Promotions and Additions
Posted by | CongratulationsCongratulations to the below faculty members who were recently promoted. Professor *announced in the State of the Department Namandje Bumpus, Clinical Pharmacology Sanjay Desai, Pulmonary Khalil Ghanem, ID Morgan Grams, Nephrology Allen Kachalia, GIM Sophie Lanzkron, Hematology Brent Petty, Clinical Pharmacology Grant Tao, Occupational Medicine Assistant Professor Sean Agbor-Enoh (adjunct), Pulmonary Kunchok Dorjee, ID Sarath […]
TNNT2 mutations in the tropomyosin binding region of TNT1 disrupt its role in contractile inhibition and stimulate cardiac dysfunction
Posted by | Article of the WeekARTICLE: TNNT2 mutations in the tropomyosin binding region of TNT1 disrupt its role in contractile inhibition and stimulate cardiac dysfunction AUTHORS: Aditi Madan, Meera C Viswanathan, Kathleen C Woulfe, William Schmidt, Agnes Sidor, Ting Liu, Tran H Nguyen, Bosco Trinh, Cortney Wilson, Sineej Madathil, Georg Vogler, Brian O'Rourke, Brandon J Biesiadecki, Larry S Tobacman, Anthony Cammarato JOURNAL: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 Aug 4;117(31):18822-18831. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2001692117. Epub 2020 Jul […]
Exercise intolerance and rapid skeletal muscle energetic decline in human age-associated frailty
Posted by | Article of the WeekARTICLE: Exercise intolerance and rapid skeletal muscle energetic decline in human age-associated frailty AUTHORS: Sabra C. Lewsey, Kilian Weiss, Michael Schär, Yi Zhang, Paul A. Bottomley,3 T. Jake Samuel, Qian-Li Xue, Angela Steinberg, Jeremy Walston, Gary Gerstenblith, and Robert G. Weiss JOURNAL: JCI Insight. 2020 Sep 17;141246. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.141246. Online ahead of print. Abstract Background: Physical frailty in older individuals is characterized by subjective […]