Dr. Sherita Hill Golden is an associate professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology and metabolism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She also holds joint appointments in the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, and in the department of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is the director of the Johns Hopkins Impatient Diabetes Management Service and serves as a Chairperson of the Glucose Control Task Force for The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Golden’s primary research interest centers around identifying endocrine risk factors associated with the development of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Her current research focuses on studying the neuroendocrine response to chronic psychological stress as a risk factor for diabetes and cardiovascular disease. She is a former Robert Wood Johnson Minority Medical Faculty Career Development Award recipient and her current research is funded through the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases.
Dr. Golden graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from the University of Maryland, College Park and Alpha Omega Alpha from the University of Virginia School of Medicine before training in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology and Metabolism at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. During her fellowship in Endocrinology, she received a Masters of Health Science degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
