Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
“It is absolutely impossible!” While the student next to me was the one to vocalize an incredulous attitude, everyone was thinking it. We were in… Read More »The Fate of Science Rests on Our Ability to Communicate
My fifth grade world — a typical one concerned with classes, friends, recess, lunch menus and dreading middle school — forever changed one day, when… Read More »When Cancer Hits Home: A Researcher’s Call to Action
I sat, enveloped by the clinic’s dusty walls and chalky smell. It felt as if a fog of gray haze had descended over the building… Read More »The Simplest of Remedies: Rediscovering the Experience of Healing
Rapidly evolving telecommunication and information technologies have led to incredible changes in our lives — including how we manage our health. In particular, teledermatology, or… Read More »Reflections on Dermatology and Telemedicine in Brazil
Osteoarthritis (OA) is not only the most common chronic condition of the joints, but also the most common type of arthritis, affecting approximately 27 million… Read More »Out with the Old, in with Repaired Joints
This summer, I traveled to Brazil for a course on dermatology at the Faculty of Medicine, Sao Paulo (FMUSP), where I not only received hands-on… Read More »Telemedicine and the Brazilian Health Care System
In an essay I published last year for the Lasker Essay Contest (and republished in our blog), I described optogenetics and chemogenetics, two technologies recently… Read More »A Revelation About DREADDs: A New Neuroscience Technique with Promise for Clinical Psychiatric Treatment
Fighting malaria is getting harder, with rising rates of drug resistance and drug tolerance making it more difficult for doctors to effectively cure patients. Drug… Read More »Smarter Antimalarial Use: Altering Drug Duration to Improve Efficacy
We’re getting old. Unprecedented advances in biomedical research and technology over the last century have increased the average human lifespan in the United States by… Read More »Genetic Double-Agents Are Making You Old
The seasons I spent running high school cross country have long gone, and I'm far from a great long-distance runner now, but I remember three… Read More »Nearing the Finish: A Reflection on Medical School