Day: October 12, 2009
School of Nursing researcher expands diabetes study among Korean-Americans
October 12, 2009
A new Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing study will test a community-based glucose control intervention program for Korean-American immigrants who have type-2 diabetes mellitus.
Webwise nurses harness new media to improve global health
October 12, 2009
The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing is harnessing the power of wireless technologies and online communities to help nurses throughout the world “connect for health.” Under the direction of Patricia A. Abbott, an associate professor in Nursing Systems and Outcomes, the school’s Global Alliance for Nursing and Midwifery Community of Practice, or GANM, speeds new health information and know-how to nurses around the globe—from the most urbanized, high-tech cities to the most remote villages—using low-bandwidth telecommunication technologies.
H1N1 experts brief parents on what they need to know
October 12, 2009
Experts in emergency medicine, infectious diseases and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and the University of Maryland Hospital for Children last week hosted an update on H1N1 flu advice for parents in the wake of a sharp increase in cases since the last week of August.
Allergy-Otolaryngology Sinusitis Clinic opens on Bayview campus
October 12, 2009
The Johns Hopkins Asthma & Allergy Center on the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus has opened a new joint Allergy-Otolaryngology Sinusitis Clinic. Led by Jean Kim, assistant professor of otolaryngology, and Peter Creticos, associate professor of clinical immunology, the clinic provides comprehensive care to patients who have a history of sinus disease, and allergies or asthma.
Four from JHU inducted into American Academy of A&S
October 12, 2009
President Ronald J. Daniels; Andrew Feinberg, the King Fahd Professor of Molecular Medicine; Jane Guyer, professor of anthropology; and Barbara Landau, the Dick and Lydia Todd Professor and chair of the Cognitive Science Department, were among those inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 10 at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Mass.
SPH researcher honored as one of state’s Innovators of the Year
October 12, 2009
Jason Rasgon, an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, was named a 2009 Innovator of the Year by the Maryland Daily Record.
Wilmer Eye Institute building to be dedicated on Friday
October 12, 2009
The Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins will hold a dedication ceremony for the 207,000-square-foot, $105 million, ultramodern Robert H. and Clarice Smith Building at 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 16. The new Wilmer building includes six of the most modern ophthalmic operating rooms in the world, five floors dedicated to research and artwork donated by grateful artists who owe their sight to Morton Goldberg, former head of the Wilmer Eye Institute. The building is located on the corner of Broadway and Orleans Street.
Notices
October 12, 2009
Seasonal Flu Vaccines — Seasonal flu vaccines will be offered free of charge to faculty and staff of the Homewood campus (and their spouses/same-sex domestic partners) on two Tuesdays and Wednesdays in October. Vaccines will be administered from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 13, 14, 27 and 28 in […]
Calendar — Oct. 12, 2009
October 12, 2009
COLLOQUIA Tues., Oct. 13, 4 p.m. “Translating Cultures: Anthropology and Writing in Ruy Duarte de Carvalho,” an Anthropology colloquium with Livia Apa, Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples. Co-sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies and the Program in Latin American Studies. 400 Macaulay. HW Tues., Oct. 13, 4:15 p.m. “Structural Dynamics From NMR Spectroscopy of Weakly […]