Addressing a Critical Population

Published in Hopkins Medicine - Spring/Summer 2023

"The AMA has been devoting a lot of attention to the opioid epidemic, and some attention to incarcerated populations, but the issue of pregnant incarcerated people with opioid use disorder has not really crossed its radar. It was very gratifying for them to take an interest and recognize the critical issues that this population faces.”

Carolyn Sufrin, Johns Hopkins medical anthropologist and obstetrician-gynecologist, who was recently recognized in a report by the American Medical Association and Manatt Health for her work with this group of people. She was among 25 physicians, policymakers, researchers and advocates acknowledged for their innovative work in tackling the opioid epidemic. 

Read more about Sufrin’s efforts to meet the health care needs of pregnant incarcerated people: 

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A $35 Million Boost to Study Cancer Metastasis

With a $35 million gift from researcher, philanthropist and race car driver Theodore Giovanis, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine will study the biological roots of the most fatal aspect of cancer: how it metastasizes, or spreads, through the body.

Blood vessels act like highways for tumor cells to metastasize. Here, a tumor organoid (red) is growing near an artificial microvessel (green).

A Guggenheim for Greene

Johns Hopkins’ Jeremy Greene, a noted historian of how medical technology influences our understandings of sickness and health, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship — one of 171 scientists, writers, scholars and artists selected for the prestigious honor from a pool of nearly 2,500 applicants.

Jeremy Greene

Nickoles Named President at Bayview

Jennifer Nickoles, who has served as interim president of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center since July 2022, was named president in April.

Jennifer Nickoles at the Baltimore Convention Center Field Hospital.