Faculty
The faculty for the Postgraduate Physician Surgical Residency for Physician Assistants includes the core faculty of the Intern and Resident Lectures.
| Dr. Freischlag came to Johns Hopkins from the University of California in Los Angeles, where she was Chief of the Vascular Surgery Division and Director of the Gonda (Goldschmied) Vascular Center. Dr. Freischlag completed her surgical residency and post residency Vascular Fellowship at UCLA. Before Dr. Freischlag returned to work at UCLA, she was Professor of Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin where she served as the Vice Chair of the Vascular Surgery Section and Chief of Surgery at Zablocki VA Medical Center. See complete bio. |
Julie A. Freischlag, M.D. | |
| Dr. Barish Edil, M.D. is the medical director for the Physician Assistant Residency Program. He began his academic career as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin and then went on to attend medical school at the University of Wisconsin as well and graduated in 2000. He completed the Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital-David Mahoney Research Fellowship in Surgical Oncology in 1997. He did his General Surgery residency at the University of Oklahoma in 2006 and participated in the H. Dale Collins surgical oncology research fellowship from 2002-2004. In 2006, Dr. Edil completed his Surgical Oncology fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Oncology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His research interests include vaccine/immunotherapy of pancreas, colon and liver cancer. Dr. Edil also has ongoing and enrolling clinical trials involving the pancreas and colon cancer vaccine. He is excited about this new leadership position and truly enjoys mentoring and teaching the surgical residents. |
Barish H. Edil, M.D. | |
| Martha Kennedy has been Education Coordinator for the Post-graduate Surgical PA Residency program since 2006. She is a Nurse Practitioner in Surgical Intensive Care at JHH, where she cares for acute and critically ill surgical patients. Martha also serves as the Co-Director for the Post-graduate Critical Care Physician Assistant Residency Program. Martha worked in Medical Oncology for over 18 years before joining the Department of Surgery as a Nurse Practitioner in 2002. She obtained her Bachelors in Nursing from Georgetown University in 1984, as well as a Masters in Nursing (1996) and Ph.D in Nursing (2000) from University of Maryland, Baltimore. Her research interests have been in the use of pulmonary physiologic parameters for prediction of time on ventilators, sepsis management in the ICU, the role and education of nurse practitioners and physician assistants in surgical and critical care, and measures of ICU workload and cognitive burden. Jennie McKown, MSHS, PA-C is Program Director of the Physician Assistant Surgical Residency and is a Physician Assistant at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in the Department of Surgery. Jennie obtained her undergraduate degree in Fitness and Cardiac Rehab/Exercise Science from Ithaca College in 1996. In 2001, she earned a Master of Science in Health Science from The George Washington University Physician Assistant Program. Following her PA program, Jennie worked in South Texas in a family practice setting. She went on to become a member of the third class of the JHH Postgraduate Surgical Residency for Physician Assistants in 2007. Ms. McKown currently is a valued member of the Vascular Surgery team in the Department of Surgery. She has been an active member of the PA residency since completing the program, and is enhusiastic about her new leadership role within the residency and Department of Surgery. |
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Martha Kennedy, PhD, RN, ACNP | |
Jennie McKown, MSHS, PA-C | |
