Grants Received

Robert D. Stevens, MD was awarded a grant from the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) Seed Funding Program (SFP) for the development of an artificial intelligence system for phenotyping of patients with acute stroke in collaboration with Professor Rama Chellappa, PhD.

Accomplishments and Honors

Mary Beth Brady, MD FASE was appointed vice chair of the American Society of Anesthesiology Educational Track Subcommittee on Cardiac Anesthesia for the 2023 governance year. This subcommittee organizes and executes educational components of the annual ASA meeting.

Katie Bupp, MD was inducted into the Distinguished Teaching Society of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (DTS).

Philip Carullo, MD was featured on The DocTalk Podcast discussing careers in pediatric anesthesiology. https://spoti.fi/3OWj6og

Philip Carullo, MD, Rashmi Prasad, MBBS, MD, Hassan Rayaz, MD, Jed Wolpaw, MD, Med, Tricia Vecchione, MD, MPH, and M-Irfan Suleman, MD FAAP FASA led the Johns Hopkins Ultrasound-Guided Basic Regional Anesthesia Workshop for Residents and Fellows at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Sung-Min Cho, DO, MHS presented three invited lectures at the Panama International Critical Care Congress in April: Neurological Complications in COVID- 19 Patients With ECMO Support, Multimodality Monitoring in Neurocritical Care, and Neurocritical Care of ECMO.

Lee Goeddel, MD, MPH presented the lecture, “Can Preoperative Echocardiography Advance Precision Perioperative Care?” at an Invited Grand Rounds at the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Woman’s Hospital, Harvard University. Dr. Goeddel also presented the lecture, “Can Preoperative Echocardiography and Frailty Assessment Advance Precision Perioperative Care?” at an Invited Grand Rounds at the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital.

Anita Gupta, DO, MPP, PharmD, was interviewed for the article “Rare and preventable: painful post vaccination shoulder problems” in Medscape.

Adam Laytin, MD, MPH, presented an abstract at the Society for Critical Care Medicine entitled “Utilizing an Ethiopian ICU Registry to Identify Opportunities for Quality Improvement.” Dr. Laytin also presented an invited lecture in Ethiopia at a national meeting on global surgery and acute care hosted by Debre Berhan University entitled “Global Perspectives on Acute, Emergency and Critical Care.”

Jennifer Lee (Lee-Summers), MD was appointed Senior Associate Dean for the Office of Women in Science and Medicine.

Kara Segna, MD was accepted as dual faculty into the Colleges Advisory Program in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Segna will be mentoring and teaching 25 students throughout their four-year program and participate in their major academic milestones.

Eellan Sivanesan, MD, presented a lecture to the T32 Program in Interdisciplinary Pain Research, Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University and a lecture to the Cancer Immunology Program, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine on spinal cord stimulation (SCS), chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), and enhanced chemoefficacy in non-small cell lung cancer. Dr. Sivanesan also presented a lecture to the University of Minnesota Pain Interest Group (UMN-PIG) on clinical translation of SCS for CIPN. Additionally, Dr. Sivanesan was quoted in an NBC News commentary on spinal cord stimulation for paralysis and was selected to join the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of The Association of University Anesthesiologists (AUA).

Robert D. Stevens, MD will be a speaker at the International Hypothermia and Temperature Management Symposium (IHTMS) in Eindoven, Netherlands, June 16-17, 2022 and a speaker at the Neuroscience in Intensive Care International Symposium (NICIS) in Paris, France, June 30-July 1, 2022.

M-Irfan Suleman, MD FAAP FASA presented an Invited Virtual Grand Rounds lecture on “Non-narcotic Treatment of Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents” at Shady Grove Adventist Medical Center, Rockville, Maryland in April. Dr. Suleman was also featured in a Johns Hopkins Medicine article “’He Gave Me Back My Life.’” https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/articles/gave-me-back-my-life

Philip Sun, MD, MS presented the abstract “Association between Stereotactic Thrombolysis with Alteplase for Intracerebral Hemorrhage and Intraventricular Hematoma Volume: A Secondary Analysis of the MISTIE-III Trial” (Mentor, Wendy Ziai, MD) as an oral presentation at the 2022 ESOC (European Stroke Organization Conference) in Lyon, France.

Oleg Turkot, MD will be presenting on Ukrainian relief efforts at the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Annual Meeting this month.

Jed Wolpaw, MD, MEd presented at Grand Rounds at Allegheny Health Network on “Reimagining Residency: What Should Training Look Like for Today’s Adult Learners?”

Articles Published

Basic and Translational Research

Azad TD, Shah PP, Kim HB, Stevens RD. Endotypes and the path to precision in moderate and severe traumatic brain injury. Neurocrit Care. 2022 Mar 21. Online ahead of print.

Dahal P, Simpson JA, Abdulla S, Achan J, Adam I, Djimde AA, Grivoyannis AD, Price RN. WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network Falciparum Haematology Study Group. Haematological consequences of acute uncomplicated falciparum malaria: a WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network pooled analysis of individual patient data. BMC Med. 2022 Mar 7;20(1):85.

Mansoor R, Commons RJ, Douglas NM, Achan J, Adam I, Djimde AA, Grivoyannis AD, Guerin PJ, Stepniewska K, Price RN. WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network Methodology Study Group. Temporal distribution of Plasmodium falciparum recrudescence following artemisinin-based combination therapy: an individual participant data meta-analysis. Malar J. 2022 Mar 24;21(1):106.

Pahapale GJ, Tao J, Nikolic M, Gao S, Scarcelli G, Sun SX, Romer LH, Gracias DH. Directing multicellular organization by varying the aspect ratio of soft hydrogel microwells. Adv Sci (Weinh). 2022 Apr 17:e2104649. Online ahead of print.

Clinical Research

Battaglini D, Premraj L, Huth S, Fanning J, Whitman G, Arora RC, Bellapart J, Bastos Porto D, Taccone FS, Suen JY, Li Bassi G, Fraser JF, Badenes R, Cho SM, Robba C; COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium. Non-invasive multimodal neuromonitoring in non-critically ill hospitalized adult patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Front Neurol. 2022 Apr 14;13:814405.

Brown KL, Agrawal S, Kirschen MP, Traube C, Topjian A, Pressler R, Hahn CD, Scholefield BR, Kanthimathinathan HK, Hoskote A, D’Arco F, Bembea M, Manning JC, Hunfeld M, Buysse C, Tasker RC. The brain in pediatric critical care: unique aspects of assessment, monitoring, investigations, and follow-up. Intensive Care Med. 2022 May;48(5):535-547. Epub 2022 Apr 21.

Cho SM, Wilcox C, Keller S, Acton M, Rando H, Etchill E, Giuliano K, Bush EL, Sair HI, Pitts J, Kim BS, Whitman G. Assessing the SAfety and FEasibility of bedside portable low-field brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging in patients on ECMO (SAFE-MRI ECMO study): study protocol and first case series experience. Crit Care. 2022 Apr 30;26(1):119.

Goeddel LA, Erlinger S, Murphy Z, Tang O, Bergmann J, Moeller S, Hattab M, Hebbar S, Slowey C, Esfandiary T, Fine D, Faraday N. Association between left ventricular relative wall thickness and acute kidney injury after noncardiac surgery. Anesth Analg. 2022 Apr 25. Online ahead of print. Supported by Clinical Research Core.

Grant MC. Regional for Cardiac Surgery: The Devil Is in the Details. Ann Thorac Surg. 2022 Apr 5:S0003-4975(22)00481-7.

Liu K, Nakamura K, Kudchadkar SR, Katsukawa H, Nydahl P, Ely EW, Takahashi K, Inoue S, Nishida O. Mobilization and rehabilitation practice in ICUs during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Intensive Care Med. 2022 Apr 27:8850666221097644. Online ahead of print.

Sochet AA, Morrison JM, Jaffray J, Godiwala N, Wilson HP, Thornburg CD, Bhat RV, Zia A, Lawrence C, Kudchadkar SR, Hamblin F, Russell CJ, Streiff MB, Spyropoulos AC, Amankwah EK, Goldenberg NA. Enoxaparin thromboprophylaxis in children hospitalized for COVID-19: a Phase 2 trial. Pediatrics. 2022 Apr 29. Online ahead of print.

Williams A, Zeng Y, Li Z, Thakor N, Geocadin RG, Bronder J, Martinez NC, Ritzl EK, Cho SM. Quantitative assessment of electroencephalogram reactivity in comatose patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Int J Neural Syst. 2022 Apr 20:2250025. Online ahead of print.

Woods-Hill CZ, Colantuoni EA, Koontz DW, Voskertchian A, Xie A, Thurm C, Miller MR, Fackler JC, Milstone AM; Bright STAR Authorship Group, Agulnik A, Albert JE, Auth MJ, Bradley E, Clayton JA, Coffin SE, Dallefeld S, Ezetendu CP, Fainberg NA, Flaherty BF, Foster CB, Hauger SB, Hong SJ, Hysmith ND, Kirby AL, Kociolek LK, Larsen GY, Lin JC, Linam WM, Newland JG, Nolt D, Priebe GP, Sandora TJ, Schwenk HT, Smith CM, Steffen KM, Tadphale SD, Toltzis P, Wolf J, Zerr DM. Association of diagnostic stewardship for blood cultures in critically ill children with culture rates, antibiotic use, and patient outcomes: results of the Bright STAR Collaborative. JAMA Pediatr. 2022 May 2. Online ahead of print.

Clinical Medicine – Book Chapters

Karri J, Sivanesan E. Craniofacial Pain: Headache and Botulinum Neurotoxins, Chapter 47. In: Ratan K. Banik (ed), Anesthesiology In-Training Exam Review. Springer, Cham, 2022; 245-249.

Earls B, Sivanesan E. Perioperative Oliguria and Anuria, 1e: Chapter 160. In: Abd-Elsayed A. (ed), Advanced Anesthesia Review. In press.

Earls B, Sivanesan E. Perioperative Electrolyte Abnormalities, 1e: Chapter 164. In: Abd-Elsayed A. (ed), Advanced Anesthesia Review. In press.

Earls B, Sivanesan E. Motor Stimulation, 1e: Chapter 42. In: Abd-Elsayed A, Trescot A (ed.), Peripheral Nerve Stimulation, A Comprehensive Guide. In press.

Quality Improvement

Garcia-Nebreda M, Zorrilla-Vaca A, Ripollés-Melchor J, Abad-Motos A, Alvaro Cifuentes E, Abad-Gurumeta A, Mena GE, Grant MC, Paseiro-Crespo G. Early Return to Intended Oncologic Therapy after implementation of an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery pathway for gastric cancer surgery. Langenbecks Arch Surg. 2022 Apr 20.

Shaw AD, Guinn NR, Brown JK, Arora RC, Lobdell KW, Grant MC, Gan TJ, Engelman DT; Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) and Enhanced Recovery after Surgery–Cardiac (ERAS→-Cardiac) investigators. Controversies in enhanced recovery after cardiac surgery. Perioper Med (Lond). 2022 Apr 28;11(1):19.

Stone AB, Dasani SS, Grant MC, Nascimben L, Bader AM. Understanding the Economic Impact of an Essential Service: Applying Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to the Hospital Airway Response Team. Anesth Analg. 2022 Mar 1;134(3):445-453.

Health Equity & Population Health

Galiatsatos P, O’Conor KJ, Wilson C, Myers C, Reeves J, Thomas WJ, Phillips A, Johnson S, Golden SH. A checklist to address implicit bias in healthcare settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: the PLACE strategy. Health Secur. 2022 Apr 26. Online ahead of print.

Garofano JS, Kudchadkar SR. The blurred lines between mental and somatic healthcare: screening caregiver psychological vulnerability to improve clinical care. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2022 Apr 1;23(4):330-332. Epub 2022 Apr 7.