January 7, 2010
Top Ten Highlights of 2009
Medical education
A 21st Century Approach to Medical Education
The School of Medicine’s new curriculum emphasizes personalized care.
When Johns Hopkins leaders first started talking about a new curriculum, they began with a clean slate and a pointed question: How will medicine be practiced 10 years from now?
That was six years ago. Today, as the class of 2013 becomes the first to experience the new medical school curriculum, leaders find that things have changed much as they anticipated. Read full story
A Bold Vision
Johns Hopkins has launched the bold Genes to Society vision of medical education in a state-of-the-art building specifically designed to support it.
As the campus’ first new medical education center in 25 years, the Anne and Mike Armstrong Medical Education Building offers innovative classrooms with projection capabilities on all four walls and mobile podiums for instructors. Full story
Health Care Reform
Hopkins on the Health Care Debate
The health care debate in Washington, D.C., and around the nation has important consequences for Johns Hopkins Medicine operations.
JHM executives have played a quiet but notable role in the debate, meeting with officials from the White House and the Cabinet, and with members of Congress and their staff, explaining the key role of academic medical centers in the delivery of health care to millions of Americans. To find out more about Hopkins on the health care debate, follow this link.
Dean Weighs In
On Health Reform
In an editorial for the Wall Street Journal, Hopkins Medicine Dean/CEO Edward Miller expresses concern about how a sudden, vast expansion of Medicaid enrollees could impose unsustainable costs on treatment centers. Full story
expansion
A Fourth Hospital for Johns Hopkins
The Johns Hopkins Health System recently welcomed a fourth hospital—Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md.
The 239-bed acute-care hospital has served Montgomery County and the surrounding region since 1943. Today, it admits nearly 15,000 patients annually. In addition to serving as Montgomery County’s designated regional trauma center, Suburban offers a broad array of outpatient services. Full story
Nobel Prize
Carol Greider Shares 2009 Nobel Prize
Carol Greider was a 25-year-old graduate student studying fragments of a pond creature when she established herself as one of the world’s pioneering researchers.
Her interest was basic: How do chromosomes — the strands of DNA that contain genes – maintain themselves? Her focus was keen: She concentrated on the tiny caps on chromosome ends, important tip-structures known as telomeres. Full story | Watch video
Basic Science
Stepping Ahead in Stem Cell Research
While it’s only one of many research areas being pursued at Johns Hopkins Medicine, stem cell research is making great strides in many labs across campus. Full story | Watch video
multidisciplinary care
Johns Hopkins Metabolic Bone Center
Recently, a team of experts came together to create the Johns Hopkins Metabolic Bone Center, a unique merging of disciplines. The center's complete approach to bone health includes diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Full story
Kidney transplantation
Hopkins Leads First 16-Patient Multicenter "Domino Donor" Kidney Transplant
Surgical teams at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit successfully completed the first eight-way, multihospital, domino kidney transplant. The transplant involved eight donors — 3 men and 5 women along with eight organ recipients — 3 men and 5 women. Full story | Watch video
awards and recognition
Hopkins Hospital Tops U.S.News & World Report "Honor Roll" for 19th Consecutive Year
The Johns Hopkins Hospital — for the 19th consecutive time — earned the top spot in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of more than 4,800 American hospitals, placing first in three medical specialties and in the top 16 in 13 others. Full story
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