Grants Received

Maria Bauer, MD was awarded a StAAR Mentored Training Award to study “The role of lysyl oxidase like 2 in dysregulated unfolded protein response in HFpEF.”

Xiaoning Han, PhD was awarded a StAAR JHM Core Utilization Award to study “Chronic sleep deprivation-induced immune cell infiltration to the brain increases microglial phagocytosis.”

Raymond Koehler, PhD was awarded a StAAR Investigator Award to study “Development of a Decision Algorithm for Photoacoustic Monitoring of the Fetus at Risk of Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy.”

Laeben Lester, MD was awarded a StAAR Transformative Award to study “Sonic IV: Photoacoustic needle with beacon pulse for ultrasound guided vascular access with tool tip tracking.”

Marek Mirski, MD PhD & Austen Lefebvre, MD have received a continuation award from the Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) for their Brain-Computer-Interface Project, focused on non-invasive, wireless, real-time (<10msec lag time) acquisition of extremely restricted neuronal activity (<1mm3). The goal is to enable thought-induced rapid activation of external medical and defense-related devices. The award is for $420,000, above the initial phase $900,000 granted in 2019.

Sinead Nyhan, MD was awarded a StAAR Mentored Training Award to study “Pulmonary artery remodeling in patients with pulmonary hypertension.”

Paul Nyquist, MD MPH was awarded a $2.4M research grant from NINDS (1RF1NS128135-01) titled “Vascular Contributors to Blood Brain Barrier Permeability and Regional White Matter Hyperintensity Progression in Young Asymptomatic People” for the funding period 7/15/2022 – 4/30/2025.

Kathryn Rosenblatt, MD MHS was awarded a StAAR Investigator Award to study “Defining Cerebral Autoregulation-Guided Therapeutic Targets in Sepsis.”

Susanna Scafidi, MD was awarded a StAAR Investigator Award to study “Effect of intra-nasal HB-EGF treatment on brain glucose metabolism after traumatic brain injury in the developing brain.”

Robert Stevens, MD was awarded an NIH-sponsored grant from the Network for Investigation of Delirium: Unifying Scientists (NIDUS) for a project titled “An Artificial Intelligence System for Prediction and Detection of Intensive Care Delirium” (R33AG071744).

Robert Stevens, MD was awarded a StAAR Transformative Award to study “Development of an artificial intelligence system for phenotyping of patients with ischemic stroke.”

Accomplishments and Honors

Brian Cho, MD presented “Transfusions and Patient Blood Management – The Past, Present and Future” at Grand Rounds at Emory University Hospital and University of Tennessee Health Science Center in July.

Sung-Min Cho, DO, MHS, was an invited speaker at the University of Texas: Houston Advanced Heart Failure Grand Rounds, “Neuroimaging and Acute Brain Injury in Patients with ECMO” in Houston.

Steve Cohen, MD was listed by ExpertScape as the #2 expert in the world for the general category of “Pain.”

Steve Frank, MD presented to the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) on “Clinical Analytics to Improve Blood Utilization: The Johns Hopkins Experience”, which in part allowed the Hopkins Health System to achieve a Stage 7 EMRAM (Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model) certification.

Steve Frank, MD presented on an American Association for Blood and Biotherapeutics (AABB) webinar on “Bloodless Medicine: Advances and Alternatives When Blood is not an Option.”

Adam Laytin, MD MPH, Katie O’Conor, MD, Michael Banks, MD MEHP, Crisanto Torres MD, MPH, and Serkan Toy, PhD, were invited speakers at Stanford University School of Medicine, presenting the lecture “Developing a Health Equity Curriculum for Critical Care Fellows” in June.

Katie O’Conor, MD was reappointed to the Johns Hopkins University Police Accountability Board by the Maryland Senate.

Srinivasa Raja, MD was a Plenary Lecturer at the 8th Malaysian Association for the Study of Pain Biennial Scientific Meeting in July, presenting “Neuropathic Pain: The Search for the Elusive Holy Grail.”

Courtney Robertson, MD completed her term as President of the National Neurotrauma Society (NNS), by presiding over the NNS Symposium June 25-29 in Atlanta, GA. The Symposium was highly successful, with close to 800 registrants and 400 abstracts. She will now serve as Program Chair for the 2023 NNS Symposium in Austin, TX in June 2023.

Jochen Steppan, MD DESA FAHA FASA, presented the lecture “Anesthetic Management of the Child with Pulmonary Hypertension for Diagnostic Imaging and Surgery” at the CCAS Webinar Series: Multidisciplinary Approach of the Child with Pulmonary Hypertension in June.

Jochen Steppan, MD DEHA FAHA FASA presented “Pulmonary Hypertension Management – From Bench to Bedside” at Grand Rounds at the University of Kansas Medical Center – Kansas City in August.

Robert Stevens, MD was invited to join the Editorial Board of Nature Scientific Reports.

Robert Stevens, MD was the Plenary Speaker at the 8th International Hypothermia and Temperature Management Symposium, Eindhoven, Netherlands in June, presenting “Towards Personalized Therapy in the Postcardiac Arrest Patient.”

M-Irfan Suleman, MBBS received the “Academic Excellence Award” presented by Vice-Chancellor, Jinnah Sindh Medical University and President, Jinnah Sindh Medical University Alumni Association of North America at the 11th JSMUAANA Retreat in Chicago in August.

Tachira Tavarez, MD MS graduated from the Master of Science program in Clinical Research at the Medical University of South Carolina, having received a full scholarship sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology.

Articles Published

Clinical Research

Battaglini D, Premraj L, Griffee M, Huth S, Fanning J, Whitman G, Bastos Porto D, Arora R, Durham L, Gnall E, Amato M, Williams V, Noel A, De Franca SA, Samoukovic G, Pujo B, Kent D, Marwali E, Al-Fares A, Stecher SS, Panigada M, Giani M, Foti G, Pelosi P, Pesenti A, White NM, Li Bassi G, Suen J, Fraser JF, Robba C, Cho SM. Neurological manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection: protocol for a sub-analysis of the COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium observational study. Front Med (Lausanne). 2022 Jul 22;9:930217.

Battaglini D, Premraj L, White N, Sutt AL, Robba C, Cho SM, Di Giacinto I, Bressan F, Sorbello M, Cuthbertson B, Li Bassi G, Suen J, Fraser J, Pelosi P. Tracheostomy outcomes in critically ill COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Br J Anaesth. 2022 Aug 2.

Bhattacharyay S, Milosevic I, Wilson L, Menon DK, Stevens RD, Steyerberg EW, Nelson DW, Ercole A; CENTER-TBI investigators participants. The leap to ordinal: Detailed functional prognosis after traumatic brain injury with a flexible modelling approach. PLoS One. 2022 Jul 5;17(7):e0270973.

Carlson JM, Etchill E, Whitman G, Kim BS, Choi CW, Tonna JE, Geocadin R, Cho SM. Early withdrawal of life sustaining therapy in extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR): Results from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization registry. Resuscitation. 2022 Aug 4;179:71-77.

Cohen SP, Fitzcharles MA, Stojanovic MP. Non-specific low back pain. N Engl J Med 2022; 387: 479.

Costa F, Janela D, Molinos M, Moulder RG, Lains J, Bento V, Scheer J, Yanamadala V, Correia FD, Cohen SP. Digital rehabilitation for acute low back pain: A prospective longitudinal cohort study. J Pain Res 2022; 15: 1873-87.

Foppiano Palacios C, Tucker EW, Travassos MA. COVID-19 burden among unaccompanied minors in United States custody. Clin Infect Dis. 2022 Aug 5:ciac636.

Helbok R, Rass V, Beghi E, Bodien YG, Citerio G, Giacino JT, Kondziella D, Mayer SA, Menon D, Sharshar T, Stevens RD, Ulmer H, Venkatasubba Rao CP, Vespa P, McNett M, Frontera J; Curing Coma Campaign and its Contributing Members. The Curing Coma Campaign International Survey on Coma Epidemiology, Evaluation, and Therapy (COME TOGETHER). Neurocrit Care. 2022 Aug;37(1):47-59.

Kondziella D, Stevens RD. Classifying Disorders of Consciousness: Past, Present, and Future. Semin Neurol. 2022 Jun 23.

Mainali S, Aiyagari V, Alexander S, Bodien Y, Boerwinkle V, Boly M, Brown E, Brown J, Claassen J, Edlow BL, Fink EL, Fins JJ, Foreman B, Frontera J, Geocadin RG, Giacino J, Gilmore EJ, Gosseries O, Hammond F, Helbok R, Claude Hemphill J, Hirsch K, Kim K, Laureys S, Lewis A, Ling G, Livesay SL, McCredie V, McNett M, Menon D, Molteni E, Olson D, O’Phelan K, Park S, Polizzotto L, Javier Provencio J, Puybasset L, Venkatasubba Rao CP, Robertson C, Rohaut B, Rubin M, Sharshar T, Shutter L, Sampaio Silva G, Smith W, Stevens RD, Thibaut A, Vespa P, Wagner AK, Ziai WC, Zink E, I Suarez J; Curing Coma Campaign collaborators. Proceedings of the Second Curing Coma Campaign NIH Symposium: Challenging the Future of Research for Coma and Disorders of Consciousness. Neurocrit Care. 2022 Aug;37(1):326-350.

Mondal S, Faraday N, Gao WD, Singh S, Hebbar S, Hollander KN, Metkus TS, Goeddel LA, Bauer M, Bush B, Cho B, Cha S, Ibekwe SO, Mladinov D, Rolleri NS, Lester L, Steppan J, Sheinberg R, Hensley NB, Kapoor A, Dodd-O JM. Selected transesophageal echocardiographic parameters of left ventricular diastolic function predict length of stay following coronary artery bypass graft-a prospective observational study. J Clin Med. 2022 Jul 8;11(14):3980.

Nelson SE, Suarez JI, Sigmon A, Hua J, Weiner C, Sair HI, Stevens RD. External ventricular drain use is associated with functional outcome in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Neurol Res Pract. 2022 Jun 27;4(1):25.

Ong CS, Brown P, Shou BL, Wilcox C, Cho SM, Mendez-Tellez PA, Kim BS, Whitman GJR. Resting energy expenditure of patients on venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for adult respiratory distress syndrome: a pilot study. Crit Care Explor. 2022 Jul 18;4(7):e0730.

Sangroula D, Maggard B, Abdelhaleem A, Furmanek S, Clemons V, Marsili B, Stikes R, Hill M, Sigdel A, Clifford SP, Huang J, Akca O, Logsdon MC. Hemodynamic changes associated with neuraxial anesthesia in pregnant women with covid 19 disease: a retrospective case-control study. BMC Anesthesiol. 2022 Jun 9;22(1):179.

Shaefi S, Pannu A, Mueller AL, Flynn B, Evans A, Jabaley CS, Mladinov D, Wall M, Siddiqui S, Douin DJ, Boone MD, Monteith E, Abalama V, Nunnally ME, Cobas M, Warner MA, Stevens RD. Nationwide clinical practice patterns of anesthesiology critical care physicians-a survey to members of the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists. Anesth Analg. 2022 Aug 10.

Shah VA, Kazmi SO, Damani R, Harris AH, Hohmann SF, Calvillo E, Suarez JI. Regional Variability in the Care and Outcomes of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Patients in the United States. Front Neurol. 2022 Jun 16;13:908609.

Shah VA, Thompson RE, Yenokyan G, Acosta JN, Avadhani R, Dlugash R, McBee N, Li Y, Hansen BM, Ullman N, Falcone G, Awad IA, Hanley DF, Ziai WC. One-year outcome trajectories and factors associated with functional recovery among survivors of intracerebral and intraventricular hemorrhage with initial severe disability. JAMA Neurol. 2022 Jul 25. Accompanied by editorial to highlight the work’s significance: Selim MH. time for a new perspective on intracerebral hemorrhage. JAMA Neurol. 2022 Jul 25.

Suffredini G, Slowey C, Sun J, Gao WD, Choi CDW, Aziz H, Kilic A, Schena S, Lawton J, Hamilton JP, Dodd-O JM. Preoperative Liver Stiffness is Associated With Hospital Length of Stay After Cardiac Surgery. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2022 Jun 26:S1053-0770(22)00471-2.

 

Education Research

Hwang SM, Rice A, Toy S, Levine R, Goeddel L. Feasibility Study of a Fully Synchronous Virtual Critical Care Elective Focused on Learner Engagement. Cureus. 2022 May 28;14(5):e25427.

 

Book Chapters

Hwang J, Kim BS, Saber Tehrani AS, Cho SM. Management of neurological complications in COVID-19. In: Battaglini D, Pelosi O, eds. COVID-19 Critical and Intensive Care Medicine Essentials. Springer; 2022.

O’Conor KJ, Holbrook DS. Rape, sexual assault, and sexual violence. In: Emergency Medicine. Global Medical Knowledge Alliance; 2022.
https://gmka.org/rape-sexual-assault-and-sexual-violence. (English original).
https://gmka.org/uk/zgvaltuvania-seksualny-napad. (Ukrainian translation).

Premraj L, Arora RC, Cho SM. Neuropathogenesis and neurological manifestations of SARS-CoV-2. In: Battaglini D, Pelosi O, eds. COVID-19 Critical and Intensive Care Medicine Essentials. Springer; 2022.

Vasquenza K. Pain management in children. In: Silbert-Flagg J, ed. Maternal and Child Health Nursing. 9^th edition. Wolters Kluwer; 2022.

 

Newsletter Articles

Noje C, Costabile PM, Bhatia P, Bernier ML. Challenges and Solutions: The Behind-the-Scenes Work Enabling Pediatric Palliative Care Transport. American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Transport Medicine Newsletter, Transport Dispatch, Issue 2, Spring 2022 (March/April).