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Three from the DOM were named on the list of 1,000 Inspiring Black Scientists in America by the Community of Scholars, a group postdoctoral fellows, early-stage investigators, instructors and consultants with a common passion to advance scientific discovery while innovating diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The following members of the DOM were recognized: Dr. Sean […]
Johns Hopkins University Discovery Awards provide grant awards to cross-divisional teams, comprised of faculty and/or non-faculty members from at least two schools or affiliates of the university. In 2020, 41 Discovery Awards were given to interdisciplinary faculty teams across eleven units of Johns Hopkins. The following projects involving members of the Department of Medicine (in bold) […]
ARTICLE: Right Atrial Pacing to Improve Acute Hemodynamics in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension AUTHORS: Jasjeet S Khural, Brian A Houston, Peter J Leary, Stephen C Mathai, Todd M Kolb, Rachel Damico, Paul M Hassoun, David A Kass, Steven Hsu, Ryan J Tedford JOURNAL: Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020 Oct 7. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202006-2278LE. Online ahead of print. Right atrial (RA) pacing to increase heart rate is […]
Each year, the CHEST Foundation offers grants to worthy research candidates, generous community service volunteers, and distinguished scholars. In 2020, the foundation awarded just over one million dollars in clinical research and community service grants. Dr. Kristina Montemayor, instructor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, received a CHEST Foundation Research Grant in Cystic […]
Baltimore 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 […]
Congratulations 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 […]
Dr. Brian Garibaldi, associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, appeared on the news this past weekend, speaking as one of the physicians in charge of caring for President Donald Trump, who tested positive for COVID-19 last week. Dr. Garibaldi, director of the Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit, was consulted by the White House and Walter […]
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) provides diagnostic and prognostic information for viral and bacterial pneumonia. Implementation of POCUS has relevance in both high- and low-income settings, where the COVID-19 pandemic poses unique challenges including infection control and longitudinal assessments of patients. Dr. Paul Blair, associate director of Austere Environments Consortium for Enhances Sepsis Outcomes, Dr. Gigi Liu, […]
Congratulations to the below faculty members who were recently promoted. Associate Professor Monica Mukherjee, Cardiology Nazareno Paolocci, Cardiology Clare Rock, Infectious Diseases Assistant Professor Frederick Anokye-Danso, Endocrinology Melanie Dispenza, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Julia Lynn Drewes, Infectious Diseases Rupert Hung, Hospital Medicine at JHBMC Mahaa Umapathi, Cardiology Instructor Caroline Kensler, General Internal Medicine We would […]
COVID-19 Preclinical Discovery Awards Paul Auwaerter and Mark Sulkowski, both professors in the Division of Infectious Diseases, are the therapeutics team leaders for the university’s COVID-19 Research Response Program. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Johns Hopkins University has funded the COVID-19 Pre-clinical Research Discovery Fund (C19PcRDF), which has awarded four grants of up to […]