Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
In a time when women everywhere are fighting for equal pay, equal opportunities and an end to sexual harassment, it is important to celebrate women… Read More »A Johns Hopkins Celebration of Women in Science and Medicine
The American Medical Association, or AMA, is the largest association of physicians and medical trainees in the United States. This organization has also established itself… Read More »Hopkins Medical Students Shape National Health Policy Through the AMA
In January, my thesis adviser asked me if I wanted to attend the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology meeting in Amsterdam, which is scheduled for… Read More »Tips for Attending an International Conference
Being a Ph.D. student is like tandem skydiving for the first time: You are asked to enter the freefall into the scientific world below, with… Read More »Honoring the Past Year of Johns Hopkins Trainee Accomplishments
Should science be political? Trick question — science is inherently political because the vast majority of science is funded through the federal government. So, if… Read More »On How and Why Science Is Political
On Tuesday, May 1, I attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine-hosted seminar titled The Role of Health Care Professionals in Reducing LGBTQ Health Disparities,… Read More »LGBTQ+ Health Disparities: Compassionate Care Is Admitting Ignorance
Photo courtesy of hub.jhu.edu Economics is defined, in practice, as the act of efficiently allocating scarce resources so as to best suit the wants and needs… Read More »Three-Minute Thesis: A Case Study in the Economics of Communication
“We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are… Read More »Titan Titin: When Mutations in the Largest Known Protein Affect the Heart
On March 16, the Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering held a research retreat titled “Re-Engineering Medical Discovery.” A number of… Read More »Innovations at the Intersection of Medicine and Engineering
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…the Science & Entertainment Exchange? Ann Merchant swooped into the February Telling Stories About Science seminar with an origin… Read More »Lights, Camera, Science!