Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
Mohammed Al-Sofiani, fellow in the Division of Endocrinology, was selected to receive the Clinical Fellow Abstract Award in Diabetes from the Endocrine Society. He will be presented the award for his abstract entitled "Diabetes and Platelet Response to Low-dose Aspirin Therapy: The GeneSTAR Study" at the annual meeting in Chicago this month.
Rita Kalyani, associate professor in the Division of Endocrinology, was named the recipient of the American Diabetes Association's Vivian Fonesca Scholar Award, which recognizes diabetes research focused on the South Asian, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations and/or research by a scientist from these areas of the world. The award, given in honor of(...)
Check out our Medical Nursing Newsletter here: Medical Nursing Updates One Year CLABSI-Free! We want to recognize many of our Medicine units that have now celebrated one year without a central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI): CHU, Nelson 3, Nelson 6, Nelson 7 and Nelson 8. This achievement represents dedication and skill from the nurses in assuring(...)
Mingzhao Xing, professor in the Division of Endocrinology, was named the 2017 recipient of the Johns Hopkins Thyroid Tumor Center's Paul W. Ladenson Thyroid Award. The award recognizes him as an outstanding longtime thyroid tumor researcher who has made fundamental impacts on the field. He was presented the award at the center's annual event.
Sherita Golden, executive vice chair, and Felicia Hill-Briggs, professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, have been named to the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) 2018 board of directors. As of Jan. 1, Felicia is the president of the health care and education and Sherita is an active board member. Also, Nisa Maruthur, associate professor in GIM,(...)
Shabina Ahmed, assistant professor in Endocrinology, Fawaz Al Ammary, assistant professor in Nephrology, Heather Sateia, assistant professor in GIM, and Geeta Sood, assistant professor in ID, were named part of the first cohort of the Epic Faculty Scholars Program by the Office of Faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The awardees are predominantly clinicians(...)
The American Diabetes Association published its Standards of Care for Diabetes last week with the help of a committee led by Rita Kalyani, associate professor in the Division of Endocrinology. She has served as chair of the writing committee for the past year to update the 173-page clinical guidelines that summarize evidence-based recommendations for the management and treatment of the 30 million people living(...)
Congratulations to all of the below faculty members who were recently promoted. Associate Professor: Assistant Professor: Ann Marie Parker, Pulmonary Jennifer Townsend, Infectious Diseases Swaytha Yalamanchi, Endocrinology Instructor: Lingling Xian, Hematology We would also like to welcome our new faculty members who joined the department last quarter. Wael AlJaroudi, adjunct assistant professor in Cardiology Katherine Allen,(...)
"There is no question that the people of Johns Hopkins Medicine deliver the best patient care day in and day out. We see this firsthand in the extraordinary actions of our faculty and staff, and we hear it so often from our grateful patients and their families." -Paul Rothman and Ronald Peterson Congratulations to the(...)
