Day: March 28, 2011
BME prof wins Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award
March 28, 2011
A Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering faculty member who helps students become medical device inventors and business leaders has been named one of the three 2011 winners in the Olympus Innovation Awards Program. The Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award was given to Soumyadipta Acharya, an assistant research professor and graduate program director for the Center for Bioengineering […]
K.T. Ramesh named to WSE’s Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Chair
March 28, 2011
K.T. Ramesh, a professor of mechanical engineering, has been named to the Whiting School of Engineering’s Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Chair in Science and Engineering, effective March 1. A dedication ceremony is planned for April 8. “K.T. is a brilliant scholar who has also been an extremely effective leader in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, […]
‘Baltimore, Film and the Arts’ panel kicks off film festival
March 28, 2011
The 14th annual student-run Johns Hopkins Film Fest returns to the Homewood campus on Thursday, March 31, with a special panel discussion, “Film Fest Forum: Baltimore, Film and the Arts,” with Film and Media Studies lecturer and filmmaker Matthew Porterfield, film and video artist Jimmy Joe Roche, multimedia artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrom, musician/photographer Andrew Laumann […]
Labor statistics: Counting the volunteers the world counts on
March 28, 2011
The International Labour Organization and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies announced last week the release of a new manual to help statistical agencies around the world track the amount, type and value of volunteer work in their countries. The manual, drafted by the Center for Civil Society Studies in cooperation with […]
Potassium levels may be key to racial disparity in type 2 diabetes
March 28, 2011
Lower potassium levels in the blood may help explain why African-Americans are twice as likely as whites to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers. The findings, if confirmed, suggest that part of diabetes prevention may someday prove as easy as taking a cheap potassium supplement. “This […]
To improve safety, health care needs to look at the aviation industry
March 28, 2011
In a commentary published March 2 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a leading patient safety expert argues that failure to integrate new electronic equipment in modern hospital operating rooms and intensive care units results in diagnostic mistakes, failures to identify deteriorating patients, communication errors and inefficient work. Clinicians are presented with an […]
Surgical instruments left in children rarely fatal but dangerous
March 28, 2011
Surgical items such as sponges and small instruments left in the bodies of children who undergo surgery are quite uncommon and rarely fatal but decidedly dangerous and expensive mistakes, according to a Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study published in the November issue of JAMA–Archives of Surgery. Such errors added eight days, on average, to a […]
Checklist cuts lethal ventilator-associated lung infections
March 28, 2011
Cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia—the most lethal and among the most common of all hospital-associated infections—dropped by more than 70 percent in Michigan hospitals where medical staff used a simple checklist designed by Johns Hopkins researchers. Such pneumonias kill an estimated 36,000 Americans each year. The findings, published online in the journal Infection Control and Hospital […]
School of Nursing lab admits Harvey the Cardiac Simulator
March 28, 2011
It’s official: Harvey the Cardiopulmonary Simulator has checked in for an extended stay at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Harvey is the latest addition to the school’s upgraded simulation laboratories and the newest member of the “Sim Fam.” These lifelike practice manikins, including Sim Man, Vital Sim Man, Noelle with newborn, Vital Sim […]
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March 28, 2011
Peabody Dance presents ‘Live Guitars, Percussion and a Dash of Hip-Hop’ Seven works choreographed by Peabody Dance artistic director Carol Bartlett and faculty members Meredith Rainey and Laura Dolid will be premiered on April 2 and 3 at Peabody Dance’s 2011 Choreography Showcase, Live Guitars, Percussion and a Dash of Hip-Hop. Seventeen of the most […]