Joint-Appointment Faculty

Hopkins GIM provides a scholarly crossroads for faculty members from other departments in the School of Medicine (SOM), the School of Public Health (SPH), and School of Nursing (SON). Listed below are the researchers from allied divisions and departments who hold active joint appointments in the Division of General Internal Medicine, with links to their homepages.     

 
Name Department/School Research Interests
Caleb Alexander, MD, MS Epidemiology/SPH prescription drugs, drug utilization, drug safety, drug effectiveness, patient-provider communication, pharmacoepidemiology, regulatory policy, Food and Drug Administration 
Gerard Anderson, PhD Health Policy and Management/SPH international comparisons chronic disease health spending medicare
Adler Archer, JD, MS, MSc, MPS Biomedical Engineering/WSE digital health, global health, social informatics, professional identity
Paul Auwaerter, MD Infectious Diseases/DOM tick borne diseases, Point of Care Information Technology
Marion J. Ball, EdD Nursing Informatics/SON informatics
Jamil D. Bayram, MD, MEd, MPH Emergency Medicine/DOM disaster metrics, international emergency medicine, complex humanitarian emergencies, disaster medicine & public health preparedness
Lewis Becker, MD Cardiology/DOM pathogenesis of post-ischemic myocardial inflammation and role in reperfusion injury, regulation of proinflammatory genes in reperfused myocardium, effects of mental stress on the heart, genetics of premature coronary artery disease (GeneSTAR)
Alia Bodnar, MD Addiction Medicine/DOM  
Lee Bone, MD, MPH Health, Behavior and Society/SPH urban health care, cardiovascular diseases, indigenous health, interventions, diabetes, cancer, community-based health programs, health disparities; Tobacco control; Control of hypertension in high-risk communities
Daniel Brotman, MD JHH Hospital Medicine/DOM hospital medicine; thrombosis and anticoagulation; perioperative medicine; care coordination; readmissions
Kathryn Carson, ScM Epidemiology/SPH biostatistics, epidemiological methods, cooperative research, clinical trials, study design, data analysis, ICTR (Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research)
Jeanne Charleston, BSN, RN Epidemiology/SPH cardiovascular diseases, diet, exercise, minority populations
Sarah Johnson Conway, MD JHH Hospital Medicine/DOM quality of care; care coordination; transitions of care; accountable care organizations
Josef Coresh, MD, PhD, MHS Epidemiology/SPH epidemiology, cardiovascular epidemiology, vascular diseases, kidney diseases, genetic epidemiology
Rita F. D'Aoust, PhD Acute and Chronic Care/SON interprofessional education, simulation, underserved populations
Cheryl R. Dennison, PhD SON patient safety and cardiovascular care
Sanjay V. Desai, MD Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine/DOM  
David W. Dowdy, MD Epidemiology/SPH tuberculosis, epidemiology, health economics, HIV, ICU
Mark Dredze, PhD, MA Computer Science/JHU health informatics; natural language processing
Linda Durnell, PhD Carey Business School consumer behavior and business ethics
Sydney Dy, MD, MSc Health Policy and Management/SPH health policy and management, quality of care and improvement, quality measurement and indicators, palliative care, end-of-life care, pain, hospice, oncology, communication, decision-making, patient and medication safety, patient-reported outcomes, information technology, comparative effectiveness, health services research, medicare, systematic reviews, consensus processes, cancer, primary care, care transitions, opioids, qualitative, implementation science
Ruth Faden, PhD, MPH Health Policy and Management/SPH health policy and management, ethics, vaccine ethics, bioethics and public policy, ethics and cellularengineering, ethics and neuroscience, ethics and bioterrorism, genetics and public policy, research ethics, justice theory
Margaret D. Fallin, PhD Epidemiology/SPH epidemiology, genetics, epigenetics, genetic epidemiology, neuropsychiatric disorders, mental health, development, Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP), autism, Alzheimer's disease, Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorder 
Nauder Faraday, MD Anesthesiology and Critical Care/DOM genetic determinants of complications after surgery
Leonard Feldman, MD JHH Hospital Medicine/DOM resident education; high value care; perioperative medicine; urban health
Joseph Gallo, MD, MPH Mental Health/SPH depression, aging, mortality, patient preferences, health services, patient-provider relationships
Daniel Gold, DO Nephrology/SOM
Emergency Medicine/SOM
Neurosurgery/SOM
Ophthalmology/SOM
Otolaryngology/SOM
 
Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD History of Medicine/SOM history of disease, global health, pharmaceuticals, therapeutics, twentieth century clinical medicine
Peter S. Greene, MD Surgery/SOM ventricular assist devices; clinical outcomes research; information technology advancement
Eliseo Guallar, MD, DrPH Epidemiology/SPH cardiovascular disease epidemiology, epidemiologic methods, polyunsaturated fatty acids, fish oils, heavy metals, meta-analysis
Ayse P. Gurses, PhD, MS Anesthesiology and critical care/SOM usability; qualitative research; survey design; coordination; handoffs; medical informatics; industrial and systems engineering; patient safety; human factors engineering
Jennifer Haythornthwaite, PhD Psychiatry/SOM  
Carrie Herzke, MD JHH Hospital Medicine/DOM quality improvement; infectious diseases, notably infection control; resident and student education
Erik H. Hoyer, MD Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation/DOM quality improvement, brain plasticity
Jeanne Keruly, MS, CRNP Infectious Diseases/DOM  
Michael Klag, MD, MPH Epidemiology/SPH hypertension, renal failure, precursors study, kidney disease, cardiovascular, epidemiology, genetic markers, health policy and management
Brian Kral, MD, MPH Cardiology/DOM stress myocardial perfusion imaging, genetic and biological mechanisms of premature coronary artery disease (Johns Hopkins GeneSTAR), noninvasive imaging of coronary atherosclerosis, cardiovascular and genetic epidemiology, association of mental stress and cardiovascular disease 
Bryan Lau, PhD, MS, MHS Epidemiology/SPH HIV/AIDS, comorbidity, epidemiologic methods, epidemiology, biostatistics, observational studies
Robert Lawrence, MD Health Policy and Management/SPH environment, agriculture, food security, human rights, food systems
David Lichtman, PA DOM medical procedures, hospitalist medicine
Rasika Mathias, ScD, ScM Allergy and Clinical Immunology/DOM genetic epidemiology with emphasis on cardiovascular/asthma/lung disease and other chronic disease processes
Henry Michtalik, MD, MHS, MPH DOM patient safety issues, especially as related to patient census and transitions of care from acute to primary care; quality improvement and systems management
Paul Nagy, PhD Radiology/DOM biomedical informatics, imaging informatics, quality and patient safety
Paul Nyquist, MD, MPH Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine/SOM acute brain injury, White Matter Disease, subarachnoid hemorrhage, stroke genetics, intracranial hemorrhage
Amit Pahwa, MD JHH Hospital Medicine/DOM high value care; undergraduate medical education
Brent Petty, MD Clinical Pharmacology/SOM quality improvement, phase I clinical trials, phase II and phase III clinical trials, antimicrobial chemotherapy, hospital-based medical practices, internal medicine with ophthalmologic clinical trials
Padmini Ranasinghe, MBBS, MD, MPH JHH Hospital Medicine/DOM health and wellness; internal and preventive medicine; international health
Nancy Roderer, MLS Health Sciences Informatics/DOM  
Debra Roter, DrPH Health, Behavior and Society/SPH patient activation interventions, provider skill training, doctor-patient communication, RIAS (Roter Interaction Analysis System), gender disparities
Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH Epidemiology/SPH epidemiology, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, biomarkers, diagnostics, policy
Zishan Siddiqui, MD JHH Hospital Medicine/DOM patient-centered care and patient satisfaction; international medicine; preoperative medicine; clinical reasoning
Thomas J. Smith, MD Oncology, Palliative Care/SOM palliative care
Donald Steinwachs, PhD Health Policy and Management/SPH severe mental illness, quality of care, patient outcomes, effectiveness of care systems, evidence-based medicine, integration of outcomes-management systems, managed care, access to care, quality profiling, management information systems (MIS)
Jonathan Weiner, DrPH Health Policy and Management/SPH Health services research and evaluation, health care policy analysis, public health, population health, information technology, electronic health records, quality of care, case-mix modeling, risk-adjustment modeling, predictive modeling, predictive analytics, primary care, ambulatory care, care management, health insurance and benefits, health workforce planning, international comparisons, health care financing
Albert Wu, MD, MPH Health Policy and Management/SPH patient safety, second victim, disclosure, incident reporting, near miss, quality of life, comparative effectiveness research, quality of care, MOS-HIV health survey, community based participatory research