Issue: 2011 December 19
A new leader for Johns Hopkins Medicine
December 19, 2011
Doctor, scientist, teacher, mentor, administrator, leader. The incoming dean of the School of Medicine and chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine is all of these. But which came first? “My love of science developed first, in high school,” Paul Rothman said. “It was during college that the idea of being a physician first developed, […]
Obituary: Pediatric anesthesiologist Mark Rossberg, 50
December 19, 2011
Mark Rossberg, a pediatric anesthesiologist at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns HopkinsUniversity School of Medicine, died Dec. 15 of complications from prostate cancer. He was 50. Rossberg was known for his skill in handling some of the most challenging cases in pediatric […]
A chili day on the Homewood campus
December 19, 2011
The competition just keeps getting hotter. This year’s Chili Cook-Off and Bake-Off—an annual Homewood campus fundraiser for the United Way of Central Maryland and the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund—drew 11 entries in the chili category and six in the baked goods taste-off. For $5, the Dec. 5 lunchtime crowd got to sample the contenders and […]
Cheers — December 19, 2011
December 19, 2011
BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER Kathleen Barnes, professor of medicine in the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, has received a four-year $9.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund her ongoing studies of asthma in populations of African descent. Barnes has achieved international prominence for her work in defining the genetic basis of […]
Milestones — December 19, 2011
December 19, 2011
ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL CENTERS 20 years of service Jones, Alice, Johns Hopkins University Press 15 years of service Wong, Albert, Montgomery County Campus 10 years of service Baxley, Philip, Center for Talented Youth 5 years of service Wymer, Frederick, Center for Talented Youth BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 35 years of […]
Classifieds — December 19, 2011
December 19, 2011
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Calendar — December 19, 2011
December 19, 2011
BLOOD DRIVES Thurs., Dec. 29, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. JHU/American Red Cross Blood Drive. For more information, call 410-614-0913 or email johnshopkinsblooddrive@jhmi .edu. Turner Concourse. EB COLLOQUIA Fri., Jan. 6, 2 p.m. “Weathering the Storm: Patents in the Cloud,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with patent attorney Richard Gilly. Parsons Auditorium. APL INFORMATION SESSIONS […]
Pediatric heart transplants: Whites more likely to survive long term
December 19, 2011
White heart transplant patients under the age of 18 are more than twice as likely to be alive a decade after surgery as their African-American counterparts, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. The findings, part of a large-scale review of factors that appear to significantly influence long-term survival among pediatric heart transplant patients, were presented Nov. […]
Nobelist Adam Riess gets the star treatment in Sweden
December 19, 2011
Two months after being named a recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics, Adam Riess accepted his Nobel medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences during a ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday, Dec. 10. During their time in Stockholm, Riess and his fellow laureates were treated as celebrities. In addition to receiving their […]
Shealer appointed VP and general counsel of JHH and health system
December 19, 2011
G. Daniel Shealer Jr. has been appointed vice president and general counsel of The Johns Hopkins Health System Corp. and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He succeeds Joanne Pollak, who in July assumed the duties of chief of staff to the Office of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Shealer served as the health system’s deputy general counsel for […]