Dissertation and Defense: The Victory Lap
I used to daydream about my thesis presentation. I would be sitting at someone else’s defense, listening as they dazzled the room with science they… Read More »Dissertation and Defense: The Victory Lap
Family-Centered Rounds Encourage Patient Input in Care
Learning medicine is like studying abroad. As a third-year medical student, you cross the border from lecture hall to hospital ward and are expected to… Read More »Family-Centered Rounds Encourage Patient Input in Care
Pursuing Social Justice Through Social Innovation
Social justice and social innovation have recently become buzzwords in millennial circles as focal points for tackling social issues. In essence, social justice purports a… Read More »Pursuing Social Justice Through Social Innovation
What Kind of Dog is That?: Evaluating a Breed ID Test
“What kind of dog is that?” In the year and a half since I adopted my lovable mutt, I have been asked the same question… Read More »What Kind of Dog is That?: Evaluating a Breed ID Test
Novel Study Tools Redefine How We Learn
Medical knowledge grows like a metastatic cancer, rapidly expanding every day, uninhibited as new literature is published, novel discoveries are made and evidence is refined.… Read More »Novel Study Tools Redefine How We Learn
How Genetics Can Inform Future Missions to Mars
On May 3, I and four other Johns Hopkins students volunteered with the Personalized Genetics Education Project, or pgEd, at a congressional briefing titled “Enduring… Read More »How Genetics Can Inform Future Missions to Mars
Success Follows When Biomedical Engineering and Immunology Collaborate
Kaitlyn Sadtler, a freshly minted Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins’ Cell and Molecular Medicine Graduate Program and Jennifer Elisseeff, Ph.D., recently had her thesis work published… Read More »Success Follows When Biomedical Engineering and Immunology Collaborate
Research Transitions: From Wet Lab to Big Data
President Obama announced details about the Precision Medicine Initiative in his State of the Union Address in January 2015. The initiative focuses on individual variability… Read More »Research Transitions: From Wet Lab to Big Data
Baltimore Friendships Through Baltimore Sports
If you listen closely, you’ll hear the buzz begin sometime in August. With your eyes, you’ll start to see the signs in early September. As… Read More »Baltimore Friendships Through Baltimore Sports
Was ‘Meaningful Use’ Meaningless?
When I started medical school in 2009, one of my responsibilities was to write progress notes and help write out the details of patients’ conditions… Read More »Was ‘Meaningful Use’ Meaningless?