Class Notes: Spring/Summer 2023

Published in Hopkins Medicine - Spring/Summer 2023

School of Medicine

1977

Kenneth W. Sharp, 范德比尔特大学医学中心外科学系教授兼外科科学促进教师晋升和发展部副主席, has been named president of the Southern Surgical Association. He was asked to give the Annual Gershon Efron Lecture at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

1978

Daniel C. DiMaio (Ph.D.), deputy director of the Yale Cancer Center and Yale School of Medicine professor of genetics, molecular biophysics and biochemistry, and therapeutic radiology, recently received the Yale Cancer Center Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, DiMaio因其对人类乳头瘤病毒的研究获得了美国国家癌症研究所颁发的杰出研究者奖.

1982

Myles A. Brown, professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, was selected as a winner of the 2023 Gerald D. 奥巴赫杰出转化研究奖,内分泌学会获奖者之一. 布朗的研究从根本上重新定义了对乳腺癌和前列腺癌中激素依赖的机制理解, which has enabled the development of new therapies for these diseases.

1983

Since 2018, John M. Leonard has been president and CEO of Intellia Therapeutics, which announced last June, with collaborator Regeneron, 它对转甲状腺蛋白淀粉样变性的研究治疗表明,它的脂质纳米颗粒输送系统可以携带基因编辑机制到它需要去的地方——在这种情况下, 而且CRISPR技术可以作为一种体内治疗方法来潜在地治愈遗传疾病.

1986

In January 2023, Jonathan H. Talamo was appointed as chair of the board of CXL Ophthalmics, a clinical-stage company developing a minimally invasive treatment for keratoconus, corneal disease, cataract and refractive surgery. Talamo之前的职位包括Ocular Therapeutix的首席医疗官和Johnson的首席医疗官和全球临床和医疗事务副总裁 & Johnson Vision.

1988

Honored as one of The Baltimore Sun’s 25 Black Marylanders to Watch in 2022, Michelle D. Abram of Owings Mills was named in January 2023 as the new chief medical officer for CVS Caremark. 她也是马里兰大学医学院儿科和流行病学/预防医学的临床助理教授, 约翰霍普金斯大学彭博公共卫生学院卫生政策与管理系高级研究员, and author of Reclaiming Our Health: A Guide to African American Wellness.

In February 2022, John A. Wagner (Ph.D.) was appointed as the first chief medical officer of Koneksa, which designs and validates digital biomarkers to accelerate drug development. With more than 20 years of drug development experience, Wagner has led more than 150 first-in-human studies and is editor-in-chief of Clinical and Translational Science.

Arthur W. Wallace (Ph.D.) is founder, chief science officer and director of Atapir, 哪家公司设计出具有成本效益的医疗设备,优先考虑患者安全并简化患者护理,以降低住院和养老院患者呼吸和心脏骤停的风险. In December, the company won first place in CharmHealth’s digital health care competition. 华莱士也是加州大学的麻醉学和围手术期护理教授, San Francisco, and chief of the anesthesiology service at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

1991

Leslie J. Bisson 是布法罗大学骨科和运动医学系的主任,也是布法罗比尔橄榄球联盟球队的首席骨科医生. In addition, he is team physician for both the Bills and the Buffalo Sabres (NHL), and the team orthopedist for Buffalo State College.

1992

John D. Davis IV, of Flowood, Mississippi, was appointed by Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves to serve on the state’s Board of Health. Davis currently works as a neurosurgeon at NewSouth NeuroSpine in Flowood. 此前,他曾担任River Oaks医院的医务主任和密西西比神经学会主席.

In May 2022, Denise Howard 被任命为纽约长老会布鲁克林卫理公会医院的妇产科主任. She is also a vice chair in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Weill Cornell Medicine. Howard was previously chief of gynecology at Geisinger Health System. 她的临床研究主要集中在分娩引起的盆底问题和宫颈癌预防.

Lawrence Kim, a partner at South Denver Gastroenterology, 他担任门诊医疗认证协会的秘书/司库,任期两年,今年是第二年. He is also a member of the board of directors for the Digestive Health Physicians Association. Kim focuses on improving the quality of digestive care worldwide, having led or served on multiple medical missions to Vietnam, Cambodia and Peru.

2001

Siddhartha Kadia (Ph.D.) was named as CEO of PhenomeX, a new company formed after the Berkeley Lights acquisition of IsoPlexis. Kadia had been CEO of Berkeley Lights. PhenomeX将专注于癌症治疗,使用单细胞分析工具来改进其免疫疗法,并为患者提供更个性化的护理.

2003

丹娜-法伯癌症研究所胃肠道癌症治疗中心的医学肿瘤学家, Nadine A. McCleary 是2022年10月罗德岛年度癌症峰会上减少癌症伙伴关系的主旨发言人吗. 此次峰会的主题是“2022年生存承诺的十年——努力实现健康公平”.麦克利里谈到了在代表性不足的人群中解决癌症基因组学和临床试验方面的差距.

Gary Romano (Ph.D.) was appointed chief medical officer of Alector Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering immuno-neurology, in March 2022 and will lead the company’s global clinical development strategy. Romano had served previously at Merck, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, and Passage Bio.

2005

Cardiothoracic surgeon Trevor A. Ellison (Ph.D.) recently joined the Genesis Heart & Vascular Group in Zanesville, Ohio, as medical director. Ellis was a Gates Cambridge Scholar, focusing on international medical relief while earning his M.B.A. from the University of Cambridge in England.

Faculty, Fellows and House Staff

In January 2023, Robert J. Gould (fellow, neurosciences, 1981–84) became interim CEO of Fulcrum Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focusing on genetically defined rare diseases. Gould was founding president and CEO of Fulcrum from 2016 to 2021, after which he remained a member of the board of directors. In his 35 years of management experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, 他曾在默克公司工作过一段时间,在多个治疗领域将20多种化合物从发现推进到临床开发.

Philip A. Templeton (faculty, radiology, 1988–90), chief innovation officer and co-founder of DocPanel Technologies, has self-published the book Cyberbolt: COVID-19 Is Just the Eye of the Storm, 哪一个是多年的工作和对医疗网络安全的热情,以及一本令人兴奋的惊悚小说的结果. It is available on Amazon.

An expert on infectious disease research and HIV/AIDS prevention, Peter Kilmarx (HS and fellow, infectious diseases, 1990 - 1994年)被任命为福格蒂国际中心代理主任和国立卫生研究院全球卫生研究代理副主任. At Fogarty, he co-led an initiative to transform African health professional education and research, 结果成立了非洲卫生专业教育和研究协会, and the African Postdoctoral Training Initiative, which brings African postdoctoral fellows to NIH. 基尔马克思此前曾担任美国疾病控制与预防中心驻津巴布韦主任.

Colin K. Phoon (fellow, pediatrics, 1990–92; HS, pediatrics, 1990–93, 2007年,她被提升为纽约大学格罗斯曼医学院的儿科教授,同时也是纽约大学朗格尼分校哈森菲尔德儿童医院的儿科和胎儿心脏病专家. His research focuses on Barth syndrome, an ultra-rare mitochondrial disorder, and cardiolipin biology.

John G. Finkenberg (HS, orthopedic surgery, 1992; faculty, orthopedic surgery, 1991–92) is the current president of the North American Spine Society (NASS), where he previously served in a variety of roles, including director of the Advocacy Council and of the Education Council. He’s also an associate editor for The Spine Journal. In 2018, he was the recipient of NASS’ Spine Advocacy Award.

Atul Varadhachary (fellow, biological chemistry, 1993–1994) is managing partner at Fannin Innovation Studio, a life science development group focused on early-stage pharmaceutical and medical device assets, 它正在与国家药物滥用研究所的成瘾治疗发现项目合作评估范宁的药物11h. Fannin’s Goldenrod Therapeutics portfolio startup, founded in 2020, is overseeing clinical development of the drug.


As a co-coordinator of a research consortium, Christoph Stein (faculty, anesthesiology and critical care medicine, 1994–1997) received two recent grants: 4.来自德国研究基金会Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft的200万欧元,用于研究慢性背痛的机制和治疗方法, and $350,从美国国家科学基金会和德国科学部获得了2000万美元的资金,用于研究阿片类药物缓解疼痛的机制. 斯坦因是柏林慈善医学院实验麻醉学系主任.

Faculty member Rachel Marie E. Salas (fellow, neurology, 2006–2008) received a 2022 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award, 每年颁发给四名有天赋的医学教育家,以表彰他们对医学教育的杰出贡献.” The last time someone from Johns Hopkins won this award was in 2013, and Salas is the first female neurologist ever to receive the honor.

Burton J. Tabaac (fellow, neurology, 2018–2020), a neurologist at Carson Tahoe Health, gave a TEDx talk in summer 2022 at UCLA, “Mental Health Meets Psychedelics,” during which he invoked Johns Hopkins and the work of Roland Griffiths, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of neuroscience at the school of medicine.

Vikas Ramachandra (fellow, biomedical research, 2020–2021) is chief technology officer and co-founder of Onward Health Assist, a tele-diagnostics firm in India focused on cancer deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Onward platform provides educational resources for training junior pathologists. 它已在印度和非洲的多个低资源环境中使用轮辐模式进行部署, with patients’ data collected in villages and sent via cloud to experts in large cities. Onward has won multiple awards in India and globally for its work.

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