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October 2024 |
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Rethinking Lung Cancer Screening |
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Lauren Kearney, MD, a BMC pulmonary and critical care fellow, developed a set of lung cancer screening criteria to identify people who would benefit significantly from screening, but are excluded by current criteria. Kearney and colleagues hope that new criteria could identify high-risk individuals more effectively, potentially reducing lung cancer mortality and addressing racial disparities in health outcomes. |
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Improved Screening for Hepatitis C
in the Emergency Department |
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Elissa Schechter-Perkins MD, MPH, DTMH, director of emergency medicine infectious disease management at BMC, helped the emergency department transition from an opt-in to an opt-out testing system for hepatitis C. This change increased in the number of hepatitis C tests, the number of active infections identified, and the number of patients linked with outpatient care.
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Preventing Fever in Patients with Acute Stroke |
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Stroke is one of the leading causes of disability in the United States. Led by David Greer, MD, MA, Richard B. Slifka chief of neurology at BMC, a new study found that stroke patients treated to prevent fevers proactively experienced half as much fever on average as those treated reactively after a fever occurred. |
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Name: Tehnaz Boyle, MD, PhD
Department: Pediatrics- Emergency Department
Research Focus: I think about how technology can be used to improve access to high-quality emergency care for children and adults in challenging settings, like in the case of a natural disaster.
Why BMC: The people. Everybody who is at BMC cares about the patients, outcomes, and fixing problems.
Favorite Book: "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez
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Selected Research Publications |
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Dowrey, T. W., Cranston, S. F., Skvir, N., Lok, Y., Gould, B., Petrowitz, B., Villar, D., Shan, J., James, M., Dodge, M., Belkina, A. C., Giadone, R. M., Milman, S., Sebastiani, P., Perls, T. T., Andersen, S. L., and Murphy, G. J. (2024). A longevity-specific bank of induced pluripotent stem cells from centenarians and their offspring. Aging Cell.
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Greer, D.M; Helbok, R; Badjatia, N.; Ko, S.; Guanci, M.M.; and Sheth, K. (2024) Fever Prevention in Patients With Acute Vascular Brain Injury. JAMA
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Sun, Y., Benmhammed, H., Al Abdullatif, S., Habara, A., Fu, E., Brady, J., Williams, C., Ilinski, A., Sharma, A., Mahdaviani, K., Alekseyev, Y. O., Campbell, J. D., Steinberg, M. H., & Cui, S. (2024). PGC-1α agonism induces fetal hemoglobin and exerts antisickling effects in sickle cell disease. Science Advances.
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Schmidt, I.M., Surapaneni, A.L., Zhao, R. et al. (2024). Plasma proteomics of acute tubular injury. Nature Communications.
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Werekuu, A., Ayisi-Boateng, N. K., Tagoe, N., Opoku, D. A., Barnie, B., Twumasi, G. K., Boadu, Y. T., So-Armah, K., & Tawiah, P. (2024). KNUST aging and human immunodeficiency virus outcomes-Study protocol. PloS One.
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Local & National Public Events of Interest |
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DIDACT Symposium of the Trial Innovation Network
Friday, October 18th, 2-6pm
Zoom
Join the JHU Trial Innovation Center for a virtual symposium highlighting contemporary methods for the efficient design and analysis of clinical trials. New tools and software will be discussed, and attendees will be provided with real-world examples using these innovative methods to aid in producing effective trials.
Register for the webinar here.
Contact: Dan Hanley, MD, Principal Investigator, Johns Hopkins - Trial Innovation Center | dhanley@jhmi.edu |
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