HOPKINS MEDICINE e-NEWS

June 2002

Welcome to Hopkins Medicine e-News, designed to give busy executives easy-to-read reports and useful information from one of the region’s largest private employers, Johns Hopkins. Highlighted below are some of our newest efforts to work with the city, Department of Defense and private corporations in mutually beneficial ways.

Edward D. Miller, M.D., Dean/CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Ronald R. Peterson, President, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System

Contemplating Hopkins' medical campus of the future.
A new master plan envisions two patient towers, expanded laboratory space, more green space and a re-orientation toward Orleans Street.

Read Sun architecture critic Edward Gunts' assessment of Hopkins Medicine's master plan

Hopkins' reinvestment critical for East Baltimore
The Sun's editorial on the medical institution's $1 billion development plan, which it sees as part of a "momentous chain reaction" in this part of the city.

Hopkins Medicine joins forces with UAW and Ford Motor Co. to treat injured workers.
A one-of-a-kind program provides on-site rehabilitation that has saved the auto manufacturer millions and received high marks from satisfied workers. Side Bar

City law enforcement and Hopkins' Children's Center seek to prevent child abuse
All suspected child abuse victims in Baltimore now will undergo medical evaluations at Johns Hopkins Children's Center to better protect them and bring offenders to justice quickly.

Former military hospital at Wyman Park thriving as Hopkins outpatient unit
Twenty years ago, a unique partnership between Johns Hopkins and the federal government averted the closure of the former Wyman Park Public Health Service Hospital. Today, it is a successful outpatient clinic for military dependents and retirees.

McKusick receives National Medal of Science
The man widely acknowledged as the father of genetic medicine, Dr. Victor A. McKusick, accepted the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony June 13.

DePaulo New Director of Psychiatry
Dr. J. Raymond DePaulo Jr., a world-renowned expert in mood disorders, has replaced Dr. Paul McHugh as director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. McHugh led the department for a quarter century.

Discovery could improve design of hearing aids
Hopkins scientists have discovered how tiny cells in the inner ear change sound into an electrical signal that the brain can understand, a finding that could advance the range or accuracy of hearing aids and cochlear implants.

Filtering blood improves rate of successful kidney transplants
By filtering kidney patients' blood of antibodies that normally would reject a donor kidney, Hopkins transplant surgeons have been 93 percent successful in transplanting the organs regardless of blood type.

Experimental treatment for hayfever is safe, effective and fast.
Instead of years of allergy shots that may only marginally reduce their symptoms, hayfever victims may soon be getting substantially more effective control of their problems with just six shots in six weeks.

Technology transfer is paying dividends..
Economist Anirban Basu (WYPR-FM) says that the growing number of start-up companies being spun off from Johns Hopkins signals its emergence "as a serious economic development driver."

It's who you are, not where you're from
Sharonda Alston, a member of the School of Medicine's graduating class, gives her personal view of what it takes to go from a Baltimore ghetto to her upcoming residency in pediatrics.

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