Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
Lisa Cooper, professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, was named the 25th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor. With this appointment, she plans to establish an Institute for Equity in Health and Healthcare at Johns Hopkins, which would unify already-existing JHU centers performing research and education involving health disparities in order to create policy changes and community(...)
Five Department of Medicine faculty members have been named Highly Cited Researchers 2016 by Thomson Reuters, which identifies the world’s most influential contemporary researchers across 21 scientific fields. Over three thousand researchers earned the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of reports officially designated by Essential Science Indicators (ESI) as Highly Cited Papers—ranking among the top 1 percent(...)
Once again the Department of Medicine was the top Johns Hopkins Medicine fundraiser at the 2016 Baltimore American Diabetes Association Step Out Walk—raising $17,528! We want to thank our team captains for their dedication and hard work. Megan Brown & Nisa Maruthur (General Internal Medicine/Welch Forza Brancati) David Harriman (Medical Nursing Administration) Tamala Knox &(...)
The Welch Center, directed by Lawrence Appel, recently launched its new website with a video highlighting its accomplishments since its inception more than 25 years ago. Watch the video below, and check out the new and improved site here: http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/welch-center-for-prevention-epidemiology-and-clinical-research/
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(...)
Raquel Greer, assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, received the 2016 Doris Duke Early Clinician Investigator Award from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. This award aims to provide financial and mentoring resources for one to two years to junior physician scientists who are working to have a productive(...)
Congratulations to all of the below faculty members who were recently promoted. Promoted to Adjunct Professor: Promoted to Associate Professor: Promoted to Assistant Professor: Brendan Antiochos, Division of Rheumatology Muhammad Athar, Division of Hospital Medicine Marcella Ferlito, Division of Cardiology Promoted to Instructor: Ning Feng, Division of Cardiology We would also like to welcome our(...)
Congratulations to all of the below faculty members who were recently promoted. Promoted to Professor: Promoted to Associate Professor: Scott Berkowitz, Division of Cardiology Christopher Hoffmann, Division of Infectious Diseases Howard Levy, Division of General Internal Medicine Promoted to Assistant Professor: Jemima Albayda, Division of Rheumatology Evelyn Gathecha, Division of Hospital Medicine Allison Lamber,(...)
The DOM had 172 staff members celebrating landmark anniversaries at the Staff Recognition Reception on Tuesday, June 21. Four members of our department have been with Hopkins for an impressive 35 years! Thanks to Nowella Durkin in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Terry Frank and Barbara Pearce from the Division of Cardiology and Donna Lucas in(...)
Congratulations to the following members of the DOM who were honored at last month's ceremony of the Osler Medical Training Program: Part Time Faculty Member: Eric Seifter, associate professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine In recognition of outstanding contributions to housestaff teaching by a member of the part-time faculty of the Department of Medicine of the Johns(...)