Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
Ronald Berger, professor in Cardiology, and the clinical cardiac electrophysiology group joined a collaboration with Natalia Trayanova, professor of Biomedical Engineering with a joint appointment in the Division of Cardiology, and her lab to perform catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. For both of these arrhythmia conditions, it is often challenging(...)
I write to inform you that after 32 years with our department, Gordon Tomaselli will be moving on to become the Dean of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York this summer. Gordon joined our department as a cardiology fellow in 1986. He demonstrated a knack for leadership early on, acting as interim(...)
Chiadi Ndumele, assistant professor in Cardiology, was selected to receive the 2018 Young Physician-Scientist Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). He will receive this award that recognizes early-career physician-scientists who have made notable achievements in their research, at the AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting in Chicago later this month. His was one of 35 abstracts selected to be presented.
This year's Research Retreat marked the first-ever collaboration with the Whiting School of Engineering. Thank you to everyone who attended and helped make the event a huge success celebrating the scientific innovations of both the Department of Medicine and the School of Engineering. David M. Levine Excellence in Mentoring Awards: Dale Needham, professor in the Division of Pulmonary(...)
The 9th Annual Cardiovascular Research Retreat will take place on Friday, April 20 in the Owen Auditorium of the Cancer Research Building. The event starts at 8 a.m. The poster presentations start at 1 p.m. Speakers include: William Pu – Harvard University/Boston Children’s on cardiac development/regeneration Svati Shah – Duke University on molecular epidemiology of metabolic(...)
Kieren Marr, Richard Moore and Mark Sulkowski, professors in the Division of Infectious Diseases, were recently elected to the Association of American Physicians (AAP)'s 2018 cohort. The AAP is a nonprofit, professional organization founded in 1885 for “the advancement of scientific and practical medicine.” They will be inducted at the 2018 AAP/ASCI/APSA Annual Meeting in Chicago in April.(...)
Roger Blumenthal, professor in the Division of Cardiology, will co-chair the task force in charge of writing the 2018 Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Guidelines for the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA). The goal of the task force is to create a single-source, consolidated and readable guideline for both primary care(...)
The Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease recently published its 28th Annual Report featuring brief summaries on most of its 250+ publications, a summary of the Cardiovascular Research Retreat run by David Kass with a listing of all of the Stanley L. Blumenthal, MD award winners and their mentors, and news and highlights from(...)
Congratulations to all of the below faculty members who were recently promoted. Professor: Associate Professor: Assistant Professor: Jennifer Foulke-Abel, Division of Gastroenterology We would also like to welcome our new faculty members who joined the department last quarter. Melissa Blakeman, instructor, GIM Lonnie Fuller, instructor, GIM Dean Grove, instructor, Occupational Medicine Kelly Koay, instructor, GIM Kimiyoshi Kobayashhi,(...)
Chulan Kwon, associate professor in the Division of Cardiology, received an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association, which supports mid-career individuals with unusual promise and commitment to cardiovascular science. The grant was funded with an outstanding priority score and a total award amount of up to $400,000. The grant will help with his research involving heart generation(...)