Global Promise contributors have shared their thoughts about precision medicine — Johns Hopkins’ approach to it and how it’s helping us to create personalized 3D virtual replicas, among other innovative applications. Precision medicine is essential for those of us who are interested in improving health and health care while also minimizing cost and confusion. In […]
Joint Faculty from Our Joint Venture
Posted by | Academic Medicine, Collaboration, Health Care Leadership Development, Medical Education, Middle East, ResearchA faculty appointment at Johns Hopkins signifies the highest standards of our academic institution — standards that we embrace not only as part of our job description, but as part of who we are as teachers, investigators and physicians. Our physicians and researchers have earned some of the most respected awards and honors in medicine […]
Celebrating a Transformative Medical Milestone
Posted by | Academic Medicine, Medical Technology, Patient SafetyOn this day in 1944, scores of Johns Hopkins surgeons and medical students crammed into the two-level observation gallery overlooking the Halsted clinic operating room theater. For the next four-and-a-half hours, they watched as surgeons performed the first “blue baby” operation, on a tiny child named Eileen Saxon. The frail 18-month-old, who weighed only 9 […]
Gathering the Global Family to Get Smarter
Posted by | Academic Medicine, Clinical Program Development, Collaboration, Europe, Latin America, Medical Technology, Middle East, Patient Care, Patient Safety, Precision Medicine, Project DevelopmentFrom Lima, Peru, to Hangzhou, China, and from Toronto, Canada, to Beirut, Lebanon, Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHI) recently welcomed leaders, clinicians, educators and investigators from across our global affiliates to Baltimore for the 14th annual Partners Forum. We also invited Johns Hopkins Medicine colleagues to share their innovative research on and practical application of […]
Charlie Wiener: Behind the Medicine
Posted by | Academic Medicine, Collaboration, Health Care Leadership DevelopmentAlthough often thought of as a health care monolith, Johns Hopkins Medicine actually comprises six academic and community hospitals, four suburban health care and surgery centers, 40+ patient care locations, a home care group and us, Johns Hopkins Medicine International (JHI). We all share one mission: to improve the health of the community and the […]
Global Disparity: Death by Medical Emergency
Posted by | Patient Care, Patient Safety, ResearchBy Junaid Razzak, M.B.B.S, Ph.D. Medical emergencies — injuries, strokes, heart attacks and lung infections — caused about half of the world’s 28 million human deaths in 2015, with poorer nations bearing the bulk of the burden. This may surprise some readers because global health research traditionally focuses on primary care and disease prevention, leaving […]
73 and Counting
Posted by | Latin America, Patient CareBy Manuel Peña-Morros The pain started when I fell about 12 years ago. I was a banker and was visiting a construction site for a project we were backing, and the platform I was on just collapsed. I lived with pain in my right leg on and off for a decade. I also play a […]
Care Within Reach in Far-flung Locations
Posted by | Clinical Program Development, Health Innovation, Medical Technology, Middle East, Patient Care, Patient SafetyWhen remoteness or lack of transportation is a barrier to health care, telemedicine is a powerful solution. It can extend the reach and improve the effectiveness of health care, while maintaining high standards and attention to patient safety. We’ve been writing about the promise of telemedicine since we began this blog, including how Johns Hopkins […]
The Universal Language of Lab
Posted by | Medical EducationBy Joelle Dorskind On the floor where I work in the preclinical teaching building at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, there are postdoctoral fellows from China, Israel and Portugal; graduate students from Canada, Germany and Taiwan; and technicians, faculty and others from all over the world. You can always find someone on the […]