Grants Received
Imaobong Chinedozi, MD received a StAAR Mentored Training Award for the project, “Impact assessment of increased oxygen access at Edward Francis Small teaching hospital in The Gambia.”
Steven P. Cohen, MD received a grant from Defense Health Agency’s Restoral Funds for a multi-center study to evaluate stellate ganglion blocks and ketamine infusions for post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury-associated headaches.
Nicholas Dalesio, MD, MPH received a StAAR Investigator Award for the project “AI for Airway: Developing an automated machine learning segmentation algorithm for video laryngoscopy to guide intubation.”
Lori-Ann Edwards, MBBS received a StAAR Mentored Training Award for the project “Quantitative electromyography train-of-four monitoring in children: a pilot randomized controlled trial.”
Nadia Hensley, MD received a StAAR Investigator Award for the project “Acute normovolemic hemodilution: a prospective, observational study of the volume effect on transfusions, coagulation mechanisms, and safety outcomes.”
Kristy Joseph, MD received funding from the Thrasher Research Fund’s Early Career Award Program for the project entitled “Oxygen Therapy for Children with Moderate Hypoxemia in Malawi: Pilot Randomized Control Trial,” mentored by Nicole Shilkofski, MD MEd and Eric McCollum, MD
Rohan Mathur, MD MPA, Maya Koretsky, BA, Jose Suarez, MD FNCS FANA FAAN, Karissa Dushel, and Melissa VanTwuyver were awarded funding from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Humanizing Medicine for their project titled Critical Narratives: Increasing Humanism through the use of Patient Experiences in the training of Early Career ICU Providers and Nurses.
Raymond Koehler, PhD received a StAAR Investigator Award for the project “Development of a rotational acceleration injury model of diffuse axonal injury in rat.”
Nicole Shilkofski, MD MEd received a StAAR Investigator Award for the project “Oxygen therapy for children with ‘moderate hypoxemia’ in Malawi: pilot randomized control trial.”
Zengjin Yang, MD PhD received a StAAR Investigator Award for the project “Role of 20-HETE in sex differences in ischemic stroke.”
Accomplishments and Honors
Janet Adegboye, MD received the CA-1 Resident of the Year Award at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Jess Barnes, MD received the Resident MVP award for the CA1 class for the final quarter of AY 22-23.
Jim Beal, DO, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellow, was selected among all fellows in the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center to receive the Dr. Omolara Olaniyan Fellow Appreciation Award for his commitment to and passion for resident education.
David Berman, MD received the Charles Beattie, MD Teaching Award at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Jacob Blum, MD received the CA-1 Resident of the Year Award at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Robert Boud, DO received the Test Performance Excellence Award at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Mary Beth Brady, MD FASE was named to the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Program Committee for the AATS 104th Annual Meeting, April 26-30, 2024, in Toronto, ON, Canada.
Steven P. Cohen, MD received the Korean Pain Society’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award and delivered lectures on “Nociplastic pain” and “Outcome predictors for pain interventions.”
Steven P. Cohen, MD became President-Elect of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia (ASRA)-Pain Medicine.
Ian Drummond, MD received the Resident MVP award for the CA3 class for the final quarter of AY 22-23.
Steve Frank, MD presented noon conference at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, MD on “Evidence-based Transfusion Practice and Blood Management Programs.”
Steve Frank, MD presented noon conference at St. Peters Health Partners in Albany, NY on “Viscoelastic Testing and Patient Blood Management Programs.”
Anjali Garg, MD, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellow, was selected as the Editorial Fellow from a large national pool of applicants to join the Editorial Board of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Jessica George, MD and Joann Hunsberger, MD MS both presented at the 9th World Congress of the ERAS Society in Lisbon, Portugal.
Lee Goeddel, MD presented Grand Rounds at Montefiore Medical Center.
Anita Gupta, DO MPP PharmD FASA, was invited to attend the Arrival Ceremony hosted by President and Dr. Biden honoring Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.
Marie N. Hanna, MD received the Resident Research Mentor Award at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Robert Hawthorne, MD received the Sylvan Shane Medical Student Award for Outstanding Clinical Performance at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Betsy Hunt, MD MPH PhD has garnered numerous accolades and accomplishments recently for her national and international resuscitation outreach. Presentations and workshops she has given this spring include: Grand Rounds at Yale and ZOLL sponsored conferences where she teaches on the CPR Coach, Code Busters, CODE ACES – including day long Resuscitation Bootcamps or Keynotes in Bucharest, Copenhagen, London, Seoul, Taipei, Tainan and running a three-day workshop in Tokyo for invited resuscitation leaders from 10 countries across Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Gillian Isaac, MD received the Best Didactic Teaching Award for Outstanding Intraoperative Teaching and Clinical Mentorship at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Zachary Mason Janik, MD received the Merel Harmel, MD Outstanding Resident Award at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Dan Kim, MD received the Resident MVP award for the CA2 class for the final quarter of AY 22-23.
Sean Love, MD received the Rising Faculty Award at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Divya Madhusudhan, MD received the Elizabeth Martinez, MD Leadership Award at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Christina Miller, MD received the Most Innovative Teaching Award for Outstanding Intraoperative Teaching and Clinical Mentorship at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Aoibhinn Nyhan, MD received the Zenobia Casey, MD Citizenship Award at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Ariana Asia Prinzbach, MD received the CA-1 Resident of the Year Award at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Adam Sapirstein, MD received the Andy Collins Distinguished Service Award at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Deborah Schwengel, MD MEHP and Robert Greenberg, MD, members of the JHH MCI Drill Committee, participated as faculty at a recent perioperative mass casualty incident table top exercise and Joann Hunsberger, MD MS joined as a participant, along with other perioperative team members to practice and ready our perioperative teams for disaster planning, response, recovery and mitigation.
Janell Thomas, MD received the Hospital for Special Surgery Award at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Samuel Vanderhoek, MD was promoted to Director of Pediatric Perioperative Ambulatory Services for the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. In addition to continued optimization of quality and safety for pediatric ambulatory anesthesia and perioperative care, Dr. Vanderhoek will work with our pediatric surgeons to develop new service lines, liaise with finance and administrative teams to ensure cost-effectiveness, and optimize patient selection for the ASC setting.
Anna Varughese, MD has been promoted to Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. This is a remarkable achievement and a testament to Dr. Varughese’s exceptional dedication, expertise, and leadership in pediatric anesthesiology.
Andrew Wang, MD received the Scott Mittman, MD, PhD Clinical Teaching Award at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
Jed Wolpaw, MD received the Resident Advocacy Award at the Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology Residency Program Graduation.
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Articles Published
Basic and Translational Research
Bernstein ZJ, Shenoy A, Chen A, Heller NM, Spangler JB. Engineering the IL-4/IL-13 axis for targeted immune modulation. Immunol Rev. 2023 Jun 7. Online ahead of print.
Jin Q, Pandey D, Thompson CB, Lewis S, Sung HW, Nguyen TD, Kuo S, Wilson KL, Gracias DH, Romer LH. Acute downregulation of emerin alters actomyosin cytoskeleton connectivity and function. Biophys J. 2023 May 29:S0006-3495(23)00339-9.
Murlanova K, Jouroukhin Y, Novototskaya-Vlasova K, Huseynov S, Pletnikova O, Morales MJ, Guan Y, Kamiya A, Bergles DE, Dietz DM, Pletnikov MV. Loss of astrocytic µ opioid receptors exacerbates aversion associated with morphine withdrawal in mice: role of mitochondrial respiration. Cells. 2023;12(10):1412.
Porterfield JE, Sharma R, Jimenez AS, Sah N, McCracken S, Zhang L, An HT, Lee S, Kannan S, Sharma A, Kannan RM. Galactosylated hydroxyl-polyamidoamine dendrimer targets hepatocytes and improves therapeutic outcomes in a severe model of acetaminophen poisoning-induced liver failure. Bioeng Transl Med. 2023 Feb 8;8(3):e10486.
Rivers RJ, Meininger CJ. The tissue response to hypoxia: how therapeutic carbon dioxide moves the response toward homeostasis and away from instability. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Mar 8;24(6):5181.
Clinical Research
Cho SM, Geocadin R, Whitman GJ. Extracorporeal CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. N Engl J Med. 2023 May 18;388(20):1915-1916.
Cohen SP, Khunsriraksakul C, Cohen SJ, Moon JY. Ketamine dose reporting and dose responsiveness for chronic pain. Pain Med. 2023 May 11:pnad059. Online ahead of print.
Garcia AV, Velez AK, Surma V, Jager LR, Bembea MM. Impact of red blood cell transfusion on regional cerebral oxygen saturation during pediatric ECMO. Transfusion. 2023 May;63(5):942-951.
Geocadin RG. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome. N Engl J Med. 2023 Jun 8;388(23):2171-2178.
Goeddel LA, Zaky A, Aban I, Steele C, George JF, Melby SJ, Dell’Italia LJ. Feasibility study of intraoperative pericardial fluid biomarkers and length of stay after cardiac surgery. JTCVS Tech. 2023 Apr 14;19:86-92.
Goeddel LA, Butts B, Zheng J, Pat B, Powell P, Mobley J, Ahmad S, Steele C, McGiffin D, Davies JE, George JF, Melby SJ, Ferrario CM, Dell’Italia LJ. Impact of early pericardial fluid chymase activation after cardiac surgery. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2023 Apr 12;10:1132786.
Ilfeld BM, Plunkett A, Vijjeswarapu AM, Hackworth R, Dhanjal S, Turan A, Cohen SP, Eisenach JC, Griffith S, Hanling S, Sessler DI, Mascha EJ, Han Y, Boggs JW, Wongsarnpigoon A, Gelfand H; PAINfRE Investigators. Percutaneous neuromodulation of the brachial plexus and sciatic nerve for the treatment of acute pain following surgery: secondary outcomes from a multicenter, randomized, controlled pilot study. Neuromodulation. 2023 Apr;26(3):638-649.
Lenhardt R, Akca O, Obal D, Businger J, Cooke E. Nasopharyngeal ventilation compared to facemask ventilation: a prospective, randomized, crossover trial in two different elective cohorts. Cureus. 2023 May 15;15(5):e39049.
Madrigal VN, Kudchadkar SR. Time of death and medication dosing: are we asking the right questions? Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2023 Jun 1;24(6):522-524.
Peene L, Cohen SP, Brouwer B, James R, Wolff A, Van Boxem K, Van Zundert J. 2. Cervical radicular pain. Pain Pract. 2023 Jun 4. Online ahead of print.
Shah VA, Gonzalez LF, Suarez JI. Therapies for delayed cerebral ischemia in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Neurocrit Care. 2023 May 25. Online ahead of print.
Sherwood D, Yang A, Hunt C, Provenzano D, Kohan L, Hurley RW, Cohen SP, Shah V, McCormick ZL. Treating refractory posterior sacroiliac joint complex pain in the current healthcare ecosystem: a call to action. Pain Med. 2023 Jun 2:pnad071. Online ahead of print.
Wu CL, Cho B, Gabriel R, Hurley R, Liu J, Mariano ER, Mathur V, Memtsoudis SG, Grant MC. Addition of dexamethasone to prolong peripheral nerve blocks: a ChatGPT-created narrative review. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2023 Jun 9:rapm-2023-104646.
Editorials and Commentaries
Brown CH, Hogue CW, Moghekar A. Neurofilament light and cognition after cardiac surgery: reply. Anesthesiology. 2023 Jun 1;138(6):663-664.
Travassos MA, Rohlwink UK, Tucker EW. Editorial: Broadening our understanding of the impact of infections on the developing central nervous system – from basic to clinical sciences. Front Neurol. 2023 May 10;14:1198518.
Health Equity
Garg A, Lobner K, Song J, Mitchell R, Egbunine A, Kudchadkar SR. Social determinants of health in pediatric rehabilitation for children with traumatic injury: a systematic review. J Pediatr. 2023 May 11;259:113459.
Rhee C, Nguyen E, Segna KD, O’Conor KJ. Pride Month: Caring for transgender and gender diverse patients. Society for Education in Anesthesia: Diversity and Inclusion Educational Aids. 2023 Jun 1. https://sea.memberclicks.net/diversity-and-inclusion-educational-aids
Informatics & AI
Gray GM, Ahumada LM, Rehman MA, Varughese A, Fernandez AM, Fackler J, Yates HM, Habre W, Disma N, Lonsdale H. A machine-learning approach for decision support and risk stratification of pediatric perioperative patients based on the APRICOT dataset. Paediatr Anaesth. 2023 May 21. Online ahead of print.
