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2016 Diversity Annual Report
In Solidarity with the LGBTQ Community
In the wake of the massacre at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando last June, Johns Hopkins Medicine leaders took a variety of steps to show Johns Hopkins’ support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) community.
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Celebrating Diverse Faith Traditions
From Easter to Yom Kippur, from Ramadan to the Baha’i festival of Ridvan, members of the Johns Hopkins Medicine community celebrate an array of religious holidays. To raise awareness, Johns Hopkins Medicine has created the Religious and Cultural Observances Toolkit.
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Developing Women Faculty Leaders
The school of medicine’s Leadership Program for Women Faculty has tallied impressive numbers in its seven years: 269 graduates—mostly at the senior assistant and associate professor level—from 29 school of medicine departments and many divisions of The Johns Hopkins University.
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Ensuring an Inclusive Workplace
Never underestimate A.J. Nanayakkara’s drive. Paralyzed from a martial arts accident 22 years ago, today he works at Johns Hopkins as an accessibility compliance consultant. “I show managers what they can do to make sure that we have an inclusive workplace,” he says.
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When the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center launched its Mosaic Initiative in 2010, the plan was to create a pipeline to recruit physician faculty members from underrepresented minority communities. But in the years since then, the Initiative has become something more deeply transformative.
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Transforming the Culture for Basic Scientists
“Pay it forward” guides every step of the new Diversity Postdoctoral Alliance Committee, which was launched in February 2015 to create a clear, consistent voice for and to support the development of postdoctoral fellows and trainees who are African-American, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islanders.
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The inaugural Women in Surgery at Hopkins (WISH) annual dinner, held in September at McCormick and Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant in Baltimore, celebrated the accomplishments of women faculty members in the department and provided an opportunity to network and build mentoring relationships.
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A Mobile Solution to Better Health
Working out of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Community Care-A-Van, physician assistant Pat Letke cares for some of the poorest of the working poor—uninsured families, mostly Latino immigrants—in the neighborhoods around Johns Hopkins Bayview.
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Colleen Gioffreda has achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism that is one of the most common skeletal dysplasias. The same disease that has marked her life has inspired her job as senior program coordinator for the Greenberg Center for Skeletal Dysplasias in the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine.
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A Grand Plan to Help Elders Thrive
As people in our country age, it’s more important than ever that they get the right health care services when they need them. A program at Sibley Memorial Hospital’s Grand Oaks assisted living community is one example of how Johns Hopkins is making sure that the community’s eldest members are able to thrive.
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Intensive Attention for High-Needs Patients
Just 5 percent of Medicaid patients account for 50 percent of the program’s expenditures nationwide. A new pilot program, launched here in East Baltimore, is pushing to keep such patients out of the Emergency Department and the hospital by providing very intensive primary care services.
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Through the annual LGBT Pride Lecture Series, nurse educator Paula Neira and others are working to help Johns Hopkins health care providers learn to better care for LGBTQ patients and their families.
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A Medical Model to Treat Opioid Addiction
As director of the Johns Hopkins Broadway Center for Addiction, Kenneth Stoller champions a structured yet compassionate approach to opioid use disorder—one that de-stigmatizes medication-assisted treatment.
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Dementia in Korean-American Elders
Ethnic minority elders in the United States have a higher prevalence of dementia than their white counterparts—yet are comparatively underdiagnosed and at greater risk of not receiving appropriate care. Hae Ra Han and her team are working to change that.
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Ending the Stigma in Organ Donation
Surgeon Dorry Segev’s advocacy and groundbreaking research into ways to expand organ allocation are changing the lives of thousands of people around the world.
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A New Center for Hearing Research
A new hearing center at Johns Hopkins will focus on system-based hearing restoration, with researchers exploring novel approaches to protect and repair the inner ear, and to ensure effective connectivity with the brain.
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Smartphone apps could be a powerful new tool for reaching out to young black gay men at risk of contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, says pediatrician Errol Fields.
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Clues to Latino Parents’ Anguish
When pediatric psychiatrist Rheanna Platt meets with Latino children grappling with behavioral problems, she’s often pondered: Could the ways their parents adjust to life in America be playing a role? Her research is looking for answers.
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Ending Disparities in Hypertension Control
Eliminating racial disparities in the outcomes of programs to control blood pressure can be accomplished with a few one-on-one coaching sessions delivered by health professionals—but not if the program requires people to get to a clinic, according to results of a Johns Hopkins Medicine study.
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New Hope for Restoring Hand Function
Last February, physicians and biomedical engineers from Johns Hopkins reported what they believe is the first successful effort to wiggle fingers individually and independently of each other using a mind-controlled artificial “arm” to control the movement.
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Forging Connections for the Greater Good
Medicine for the Greater Good, staffed by internal medicine residents at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, as well as undergraduate and graduate students, brings health education, behavioral counseling and more to churches, schools and other community locations around Johns Hopkins Bayview.
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Sibley Memorial Hospital’s Club Memory—for people with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment or other forms of dementia, and their spouses, partners and caregivers—aims to help participants live life to its fullest in the face of a dementia diagnosis.
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An LGBTQ Community Event at Sibley
Last June, Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., hosted an LGBTQ community event to gather ideas around the question: “How can Sibley better serve the LGBTQ community?”
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Teen Testimonios: Helping Teens Cope
A 14-week curriculum aimed at helping trauma-exposed children learn to cope is showing successful results here in Baltimore—and has been expanded to reach more adolescents.
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The Complicated Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
About 200 Baltimore high school students learned about the life and contributions of Henrietta Lacks during the second annual Henrietta Lacks High School Symposium in Turner Auditorium last May.
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A Radical Redefinition of Family
Thread, a now nationally celebrated program that identifies academically underperforming ninth graders and assigns them as many as five volunteer “family members,” calls on the volunteer efforts of 255 Johns Hopkins students and alumni.
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On a Mission to Treat Addictions
The Cornerstone Program merges Johns Hopkins’ established clinical addictions treatment with the spiritual supportive community of the Helping Up Mission.
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2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award Winners
Four university and four health system employees were honored with Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Awards at the 34th annual commemoration of the civil rights leader on Jan. 8, 2016, in Turner Auditorium on the East Baltimore campus.
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Through the Supply Chain Institute, a job training partnership between Johns Hopkins and Baltimore City Community College, local men and women gain the skills they need to pursue a career path, rather than just an entry-level job.
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Through an internship offered as part of the Start on Success program at Howard County General Hospital, Casandra Jaramillo has grown to become a valued member of the hospital’s security team.
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An Economic Engine in Baltimore
Last April, Johns Hopkins and 24 other Baltimore-area businesses unveiled a sweeping plan to harness their collective influence to help create more economic opportunities. With the launch of the BLocal initiative, the founding companies are pledging to expand existing programs or launch new ones to build, hire, invest and buy locally.
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For Baltimore citizens returning to the community after incarceration, the challenges—finding a home, a job, social support—can be overwhelming. A new Johns Hopkins initiative is aimed at making the post-incarceration return more successful.
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In an important step forward in hiring more local and minority- and women-owned construction firms in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins and other BLocal partners offered a series of free classes in summer 2016 known as BUILD College.
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A Productive Summer for Baltimore Teens
Last summer, the university and health system welcomed more than 300 city residents ages 15 to 21 for paid internships across the institutions, thanks to a partnership with Baltimore City’s YouthWorks and Hire-One-Youth programs.
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Through the Johns Hopkins Skills Enhancement Program, hundreds of Johns Hopkins employees enroll in classes to learn the skills they need to advance in their careers.
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