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Charles St. renovation ready to go By Greg Rienzi

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altimore City’s Department of Transportation has green-lighted a major reconstruction and beautification of the North Charles Street corridor near the university’s Homewood campus—a project more than 10 years in the planning stages. The three-year $25 million endeavor Massive will serve many goals, changes set primarily to enhance pedestrian safety, for 25th to foster more rational traffic patterns, upgrade 100-year-old University infrastructure under the roadway, improve Parkway signage, accommodate bicycles and generally upgrade the character and appearance of the area from 25th Street to University Parkway. The lion’s share of the work will be conducted from 29th Street northward, the stretch of Charles Street that runs roughly the full length of the Homewood campus. Preliminary work will commence this summer with completion expected to occur in summer 2014. Johns Hopkins, the Baltimore Museum of Art and several Charles Village community groups have been an integral part of the design process. Jamie McDonald, project manager and an engineering supervisor with the Department of Transportation, calls the project a “massive endeavor” and one of the largest streetscapes the city has done in recent years. “This project has it all,” McDonald said. “It’s as heavy work as we have currently going on in the city.” McDonald credits Johns Hopkins’ involvement with resuscitating an effort many considered to be on life support just two years ago. Baltimore City initiated studies to reconfigure this area of North Charles Street back in 1999. The city unveiled a design plan in 2002, but several insti tutions and organizations expressed

Head team physician Andrew Cosgarea, director of Orthopaedic Surgery’s Sports Medicine Division, patrols the sideline at an early-April men’s lacrosse game on Homewood Field. At his side is Emmanuel Menga, an orthopedics resident.

As head team physician, Andrew Cosgarea cares for 700+ varsity athletes By Greg Rienzi

The Gazette

arly last month, Andrew Cosgarea stood in the rain hoping to be invisible. He prefers it that way. Dressed in a black Blue Jays rain jacket and tan Johns Hopkins baseball cap, he watched as the men’s lacrosse team took on the Great Danes of Albany on a chilly, rainy Friday night on Homewood Field.

From his sideline vantage point, Cosgarea, head team physician for Johns Hopkins’ Athletic Department, hears it all: coaches’ shouts, players’ grunts and the crash of lacrosse sticks and shoulder pads. Now and again, he hears an injury, a cringe-inducing pop or worse. On that Continued on page 9

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EP gives Md. STEM teachers free grad education By Debi Rager

Homewood

he Johns Hopkins University’s Engineering for Professionals, part of the Whiting School of Engineering, will provide free tuition beginning with the summer term to Maryland public and private high school teachers who want to further their professional development in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines.

In Brief

Tech fellows show off winning innovations; unethical medical research; WSE design days

“STEM teachers can have great influence on whether or not their students pursue higher education and careers in engineering and science,” said Alison Milligan, executive director of Engineering for Professionals, or EP, which enrolls 2,300 working engineers and scientists annually. “We value our high school teachers and want to provide them with every opportunity to increase their expertise in these critical subject areas.” She added, “Our EP faculty are experts in their fields and bring fresh and relevant experiences to each class. STEM teachers

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enrolled in EP courses will have the opportunity to learn from our program’s outstanding faculty, in addition to benefiting from studying alongside other engineering and science professionals.” Nicholas P. Jones, the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School, has made STEM outreach activities a priority and has pledged to help reverse a trend among the nation’s youth that has them falling behind in STEM subjects. Statistics from Continued on page 5

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2 THE GAZETTE • May 2, 2011 I N B R I E F

New classroom technology to be demonstrated at MSE Library

WSE student inventions to be showcased on two design days

inners of the 2010–2011 Technology Fellows competition will demonstrate their technological innovations from 1 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10, on Q-Level of Homewood’s Milton S. Eisenhower Library. All of the winning faculty-student teams will be available for a hands-on demonstration, with projects covering a wide range of disciplines from the Krieger and Whiting schools. Now in its 11th year, the Technology Fellows program was created by the Sheridan Libraries’ Center for Educational Resources to assist Johns Hopkins faculty in the development of digital course resources. Funded by the Office of the President and the Smart Family Foundation, the program awards $5,000 grants to faculty/student teams for projects that integrate technology into instructional programs. CER technology experts and librarians collaborate with faculty-student teams on projects that encourage active learning, facilitate access to course materials and enhance pedagogy. Faculty who attend will receive a 2GB mini-flash drive, and students will receive gift certificates for Cafe Q. For more information, contact Cheryl Wagner at cwagner@jhu.edu or 410-5167181 or go to www.cer.jhu.edu.

wo of the Whiting School’s most elaborate year-end showcases for student inventions are scheduled next week on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses. The events will spotlight longterm projects that have allowed students to apply their classroom skills to assignments similar to those they may encounter in the working world. The Department of Biomedical Engineering Design Day 2011 will take place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, May 9, in the medical campus’s Armstrong Building, 1600 McElderry St. Keynote speaker will be Tore Laerdal, the executive chairman of Laerdal Medical. The event is free, but reservations for planning purposes are required: cbid .bme.jhu.edu/design-day/registration.php. The Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Senior Design Day will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10, in 210 Hodson Hall on the Homewood campus. More details on the event are at www .me.jhu.edu/design.html. Those planning to attend are asked to contact Mike Bernard at 410-516-7154 or mike.bernard@jhu.edu. At each event, students will describe their projects to judges and visitors during detailed oral presentations. Later, they will display and demonstrate their prototypes. Students in these courses were assigned to work together in small groups, an approach aimed at encouraging them to solve challenges through teamwork.

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We invite you to visit your child’s future. Friday, May 13. Take a First Look—a spring open house, First-year Kindergarten to Grade 12, Friday, May 13, 8:45-10:30am.

edical historian Susan Reverby, a nationally recognized expert on the notorious Tuskegee syphilis study, will give a community talk on Monday, May 9, in the East Baltimore headquarters of the charity organization Humanim. The nonprofit is housed in the historic American Brewery building, at 1701 N. Gay St. The special event is part of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute’s Race and Research Series, as well as Bioethics Week at the university. The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics is the event’s co-sponsor. A reception will follow. Reverby, a professor at Wellesley College, will discuss her recently publicized research that revealed grossly unethical experiments led by U.S. public health officials in the 1940s in Guatemala, where men and women were given venereal diseases without their knowledge to study the effectiveness of penicillin. The revelation led to an apology from President Barack Obama to the president of Guatemala last October. Reverby’s talk, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., will address the deep mistrust of medical researchers among certain communities spawned by historical controversies in human experimentation, and will attempt to put long-held suspicions in perspective. Those planning to attend are asked to call 410-502-6155. For more information, go to www.jhsph.edu/urbanhealth.

Peabody Institute, Library open their doors for Flowermart

he Peabody Institute and the George Peabody Library will offer tours, talks and family activities during this year’s Flowermart festival. Celebrating its 100th anniversary, Baltimore’s “rite of spring” will fill Mount Vernon Place with garden-related vendors from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7. A do-it-yourself scavenger hunt will be available in the Rouse Visitor Center at the Peabody Institute’s main entrance, where visitors can check in for tours and activities. Student musicians will perform in the George Peabody Library’s exhibition hall on both days. On Saturday in the George Peabody Library, there will be talks at 2, 3 and 4 p.m., and family activities from noon to 2 p.m. and 4:30 to 6 p.m. Also on Saturday, the 171st birthday of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, visitors are invited to make birthday cards and decorations in the Peabody Institute’s Mews Gallery. Cake will be served between 1 and 2 p.m. The Peabody Institute’s iPhone app will make its debut at Flowermart. Along with mobile access to Peabody’s concert schedule, performance videos and information about the Peabody Preparatory’s summer session, the app will offer hundreds of trivia questions to test the user’s musical knowledge.

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May 2, 2011 • THE GAZETTE

Shielding body protects brain from ‘shell shocking’ blast injuries Even mild blast exposure is found to damage nerve cells in mice, study shows B y D av i d M a r c h

Johns Hopkins Medicine

tronger and tougher body armor to shield the chest, abdomen and back may be just what soldiers fighting in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars need to better protect their brains from mild injuries tied to socalled “shell shock,” results of a Johns Hopkins study in mice suggest. Such mild trauma, resulting from the initial shock of exploding mines, grenades and improvised explosive devices, now accounts for more than 80 percent of all brain injuries among U.S. troops. Some 160,000 American veterans are estimated to have sustained this kind of trauma. “Protecting the body is absolutely essential to protecting the brain,” said senior study investigator Vassilis Koliatsos, a Johns Hopkins neuropathologist. “Blast-related injuries, including what we call blast-induced neurotrauma, are the signature medical events of current wars, and improvements to body armor in addition to helmet wearing are likely going to be needed if we want to minimize their threat to our soldiers’ health,” said Koliatsos, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In a report to be published in the May edition of the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, Koliatsos and his team used a metal shock tube specially designed at Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics

Laboratory to isolate the effects of an explosion’s primary blast wave on mice. Researchers found that a plastic-glass covering around the torso of shocked mice fully protected them from any axonal nerve cell damage in critical parts of the brain responsible for body movement, including the cerebellum and the corticospinal tract, which links nerves in the brain to those in the spinal cord. Body armor also shielded mice from more than 80 percent of the axonal damage observed in the brain’s visual pathways when compared to mice wearing no body armor. The study also found that wearing similarly secured plastic-glass helmets conferred no greater protection from neurological damage from the initial, overpressure wave than not wearing protective headgear. Koliatsos emphasized that these results do not undermine the need for soldiers to wear helmets to shield their heads from flying shrapnel and other bomb debris and protect them from secondary blast waves, some of which are strong enough to throw bodies more than 100 feet. The study is believed to be the first to show widespread axonal damage in the brain from mild blast explosions and was designed specifically to investigate the ill effects on the body of the primary blast, of extremely fast-moving, high-pressure air, researchers said. Indeed, the axonal damage observed from mild blast injuries was similar to that seen in many motor vehicle accidents, Koliatsos said, with blast damage possibly due to impulse stress on the brain coming from inside the body, whereas a typical car crash involves impulses coming from outside the body. In mild traumatic brain injury, fluid pressure from the initial explosion could be rippling through a soldier’s chest and lungs

to the brain, by way of the major blood vessels of the neck and the cerebrospinal fluid, he said. Another possible explanation is that blasts trigger inflammatory responses, which attack the brain. “Axons can be quite elastic, and they can expand, slowly, but we suspect that if they stretch too quickly, they will suffer damage or even break,” Koliatsos said. Among the study’s other findings were that unprotected mice took twice as long as mice that had worn a body shield to socialize with mice newly introduced to their surroundings. Unprotected mice also fell off a mock log-rolling test a minute earlier than shielded mice, which stood up just as long as unshocked mice that heard the blast from outside the tube. In unshielded mice, researchers found that the lungs were the chest organ most likely to be marred by a blast wave, but the absence of any respiratory injury did not mean that the brain was safeguarded, with brain injuries evident in both lung-damaged and lung-undamaged mice. “Our results should put military physicians in the field on notice that they need to really closely monitor veterans for mild traumatic brain injuries even in the absence of any lung injury,” Koliatsos said. “Regardless of what you call it—shell shock, mild traumatic brain injury or mild traumatic brain injury combined with post-traumatic stress disorder—it may hide a serious neurological condition.” Koliatsos and colleagues will analyze brain tissue samples from recently deceased veterans who suffered mild traumatic brain injury to see if there are any permanent signs of axonal damage. Study co-investigator Ibolja Cernak of APL, medical director of the biomedicine business area in the Department of National

Security Technology, led development of the shock tube involved in the study. Researchers used a known experimental model called the Pathology Scoring System for Blast Injuries to help set the strength of the helium blast needed to induce a mild traumatic brain injury. Blast pressure was set at roughly 10 pound force per square inch. Study support was provided solely by The Johns Hopkins University. In addition to Koliatsos and Cernak, Johns Hopkins researchers involved in this study, conducted from 2007 to 2010, were Leyan Xu, Yeajin Song, Alena Savonenko, Barbara Crain, Charles Eberhart, Constantine Frangakis, Tatiana Melnikova, Hyunsu Kim and Deidre Lee.

Related websites Vassilis Koliatsos:

pathology.jhu.edu/ researchbrochure/division .cfm?id=14&#Koliatsos

Brain Injury and Repair Program at Johns Hopkins:

pathology.jhu.edu/department/ divisions/Neuropathology/ traumatic-brain-injury.cfm

Blast-Induced Neurotrauma at APL:

www.jhuapl.edu/ourwork/biomed/ neurotrauma.asp

‘Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology’:

journals.lww.com/jneuropath/ pages/currenttoc .aspx#1865725017

Jhpiego Tanzania team innovates to save a life By Ann LoLordo

Jhpiego

embers of Jhpiego’s Tanzania team put the organization’s motto—innovating to save lives—into practice in a most unexpected way recently. Four employees were returning to Dar es Saalam from a work trip when the driver spotted a crowd of people on the side of the road. He slowed, and the group tried to flag down the car—a child was lying on the side of the road with a crowd around him. The boy was screaming and sobbing. “We all looked at each other to see what the others thought,” said Marya

Plotkin, a senior monitoring and evaluation officer in Jhpiego’s Tanzania office. “Everyone had the same thought: We couldn’t pass by without seeing what had happened to the child and if we could help.” The team stopped the car and got out. A boy of about 10 had been hit on his bicycle by a tractor. He was screaming in pain. Nearby villagers had been trying to get someone to stop for an hour, Plotkin said. After a quick consult, the Jhpiego employees—Plotkin, Lusekelo Njonge, Rehema Athumani Shabani—and driver Beder Lyimo moved into action to help the boy, whose arm and leg appeared to be broken. “Lusekelo called the men to cut poles to set the child’s arm and leg—which were indeed severely broken—binding the limbs

with inner tubes from bicycles,” Plotkin said. “He also determined that the child needed to be transferred to Tumbi Regional Hospital rather than the local district hospital, due to the extent of the injuries.” Lyimo, the driver, headed to the town of Mkata to recruit a minibus to ferry the child and his parents to the hospital. He returned to the scene also with a traffic police officer, who was able to write an accident report, saving the family valuable time that they would have had to spend at a police station reporting the accident. “Rehema held the first aid kit for Dr. Njonge, braving the heart-rending screams of the poor boy as his limbs were set, and then helped negotiate the fare for transport,” said Plotkin, who, along with her

colleagues, contributed money to pay the minibus driver. Plotkin said that the sight of the boy—a child about the same age as her son—made her fearful she would pass out. But she stood her ground. With the injured boy on his way to the hospital, the Jhpiego team got back in the car to return to the office. “We knew that the child had a good chance of saving his limbs and avoiding lifelong disability,” Plotkin said. Reflecting on the experience, Plotkin said she was proud of her Jhpiego colleagues. “I knew—and was reminded of—how Jhpiego is filled with everyday heroes, who care about the lives and health of people around us,” she said.

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4 THE GAZETTE • May 2, 2011

Remove kids’ catheters ASAP to prevent bloodstream infections B y E k at e r i n a P e s h e va

Johns Hopkins Medicine

ospitals can reduce the risk of lifethreatening bloodstream infections in children with peripherally inserted central venous catheters by assessing daily the patient’s progress and removing the device as early as possible, according to a new Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study published online March 31 in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. The findings were presented April 2 at the

annual meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. The study, believed to be the largest one to date of its kind in pediatric patients, analyzed predictors of catheter-related bloodstream infections among 1,800 children treated at Johns Hopkins over six years. The children cumulatively underwent more than 2,590 catheter insertions, which resulted in 116 infections. One potent predictor of infection was length of use, the researchers found. Children whose devices remained in for three weeks or longer were 53 percent more likely

Diversity Leadership Council seeks membership nominations

he Johns Hopkins Institutions Diversity Leadership Council, which advises the president and senior leadership on diversity issues, is in the process of identifying new faculty, staff and students to serve as members. Among the council’s responsibilities are recommending and promoting policies, programs and other initiatives that will attract and retain a diverse mix of faculty, staff and students; examining structures and processes that inhibit JHI from being more inclusive and recommending changes; promoting diversity awareness education; supporting the personal growth and development of all individuals in the university; and establishing a liaison with Baltimore community leaders to encourage greater community involvement by divisions of Johns Hopkins Institutions.

New members will serve a three-year term with a time commitment of four to six hours a month. Participation requires a commitment to diversity and inclusion, the ability to collaborate with a broad spectrum of individuals from the Johns Hopkins community and attendance at monthly meetings. Self-nominations are encouraged from all levels of Johns Hopkins Institutions. Nominations must be received by Friday, May 20, and must include the 2011 DLC membership nomination form, a biography of the nominee and a brief description of the nominee’s reason for wishing to serve on the council. Applications can be submitted online at www .jhuaa.org/nomination2011.html. For more information on the DLC, go to www .jhu.edu/dlc.

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to get a bloodstream infection, compared with those with shorter catheter times. Children who got the catheters to receive IV nutrition were more than twice as likely to get an infection as children who had the devices placed for other reasons. A peripherally inserted central catheter, or PICC line, is a tube inserted into a peripheral blood vessel, usually in the arm, and threaded toward major blood vessels near the lungs and heart. The catheter serves as a temporary portal for medications, food, fluids and blood draws. However, with prolonged use the line can become contaminated and give dangerous bacteria entry into a patient’s bloodstream. The findings of the study underscore the need for a tailored approach to each patient while at the same time following standard infection prevention guidelines, the investigators say. “Clinicians should evaluate each patient’s condition daily and weigh the risk of leaving the device in against the risk of removing it by asking a simple question: Does this child need a central line for another day?” said senior author Aaron Milstone, an infectious disease specialist at Hopkins Children’s. No matter the length of PICC use, the researchers say, the first line of defense against bloodstream infections should always

Former Lebanese PM Fuad Siniora to speak at SAIS

uad Siniora, who served as prime minister of Lebanon from 2005 to 2009, will speak at SAIS at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 4. Siniora, currently a member of Lebanon’s parliament and head of the Future Parliamentary Bloc, will discuss “The Arab Spring and the Future of the Middle East.” The event will be held in the Nitze Building’s Kenney Auditorium. Non-SAIS affiliates should RSVP to the SAIS Middle East Studies Program at katarina@jhu.edu.

be simple precautions that include rigorous hand washing before handling the line, regularly changing the dressing that covers the PICC line and periodically changing the tubes and caps attached to it. “Even when clinicians follow meticulously basic rules of catheter insertion and maintenance, the risk of infection is never zero,” Milstone said. “Reducing the time a child has a PICC is one extra step to minimize that risk.” When researchers compared patients in intensive care with those on regular units, they found an 80 percent higher risk of bloodstream infections among children in intensive care. However, the study showed that more than 30 percent of all infections occurred in children outside the intensivecare unit, a finding that underscores the need for vigilant monitoring of all children with PICC lines. About one-fifth (22 percent) of infections occurred after patients left the hospital, the researchers determined, a finding that points to the importance of educating both parents and home-based caregivers on ways to prevent infections at home. “Children in intensive care have more severe disease and often require catheters, but it is critical that we remain vigilant about patients with perceived ‘lower risk’ outside of intensive care, and indeed those outside of the hospital, because they are not immune to infections,” said lead investigator Sonali Advani. While hospitals have recently made great strides in reducing the number of central line infections, thousands of people continue to die from them each year, the researchers say. Other investigators in the study were Nicholas Reich, Arnab Sengupta and Leslie Gosey, all of Johns Hopkins. The research was funded by the NIH. Conflict-of-interest disclosure: Milstone has received grant support from Sage, a manufacturer of disposable health care products, and BioMerieux, which makes testing and diagnostic devices. The terms of these agreements are managed by The Johns Hopkins University in accordance with its conflict-of-interest policies.

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Aging-population study aims to improve quality of life for elderly Enrollment begins in SPHled National Health and Aging Trends Study B y N ata l i e W o o d - W r i g h t

Bloomberg School of Public Health

he National Health and Aging Trends Study, led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has begun enrolling study participants to examine how current and future aging populations can lead fuller, healthier lives. The study, which began data collection on May 1, is supported by the National Institute on Aging and is designed to help researchers understand changes in health

and functioning among seniors, as well as the social and economic consequences of health and aging for individuals, families and society. “By 2030 the population of Americans age 65 and older is projected to reach well over 70 million,” said Judith Kasper, principal investigator of the study and a professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Health Policy and Management. “The National Health and Aging Trends Study grew out of the need for a database to monitor the shifting landscape of late life and support the scientific study of how daily life changes as we age. The study is intended as the primary platform for scientific inquiry to guide efforts to reduce disability, maximize functioning and enhance the quality of life among older Americans.” Nearly 9,000 men and women ages 65

and older who are currently enrolled in Medicare will be invited to participate in the long-term study. Scientific sampling was used to determine a representative group of people throughout the United States. Enrollment in the study is voluntary, and participants will be asked questions in person by trained and easily identified interviewers from Westat, a national research firm that conducts some of the most important health surveys in the U.S. Participants will be surveyed about their health, family and ability to accomplish tasks and to get around their home and community. Data collectors will follow up with participants annually. More information about NHATS and its goals can be found at the study’s website, www.nhats .org. Study participants will be paid $40 for their contributions. “The recently observed trend toward

decreasing rates of disability identified by the National Long Term Care Survey and other national surveys may have leveled off, and this has serious implications,” said Richard Suzman, director of the National Institute on Aging’s Division of Behavioral and Social Research. “Inability to live independently will add to costs for long-term care and nursing home stays, and reduce well-being among older people. This poses additional challenges for the aging of the baby boom. It’s critical to track the trend and understand its dynamics.” Added Kasper, “Participation is very important for the success of this study, and each person invited to be in the study represents thousands of others and cannot be replaced. We hope that the people we ask to participate will be able to join and contribute to this important study.”

Commentary: Will minorities be left out of health care law provision? B y V a n e s s a W a s ta

Johns Hopkins Medicine

nder provisions of the new health care law, hospitals and physician practices that form care-coordinating networks called accountable care organizations, or ACOs, could reap cost savings and other benefits. However, experts at Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania warn that such networks could potentially be designed to exclude minorities and widen disparities in health care. In a commentary appearing in the April 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, a Johns Hopkins physician says that as a result of new provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, wealthy hospitals and practices may “cherry-

pick” similar wealthy institutions and groups to form ACOs, and avoid poor and minorityheavy patient populations treated elsewhere in order to lower costs and raise quality of care. ACOs are designed to encourage patients to seek care within their own network, further accentuating the disparities between networks. In practical terms, writes Craig Pollack, an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, hospitals and physician practices that treat a disproportionate share of minorities may be unable to join ACOs and may fall further behind in the cost and quality of care benefits likely to occur in such networks. “There is ample evidence of racial and ethnic disparities in health care,” Pollack says. “Hospitals and private practices that care for greater numbers of minorities tend

to have larger populations of Medicaid and uninsured patients. These patients have less access to specialists, and their hospitals and practices tend to have fewer institutional resources than their counterparts. “There is wide difference in the ability of hospitals and practices to implement the cost and quality measures needed to form ACOs,” adds Pollack, citing financial resources, management structure and size as barriers to forming such networks. Under the law, ACOs must be able to provide all levels of care for at least 5,000 Medicare beneficiaries. Pollack says that ACOs could improve coordination of care across private practices and hospitals by encouraging hospitals and doctors to work more closely together on inpatient and outpatient care. Cancer care, for example, could be enhanced with “patient navigators” who coordinate ser-

vices, he says. He notes that the potential benefits of ACOs have yet to be monitored and evaluated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and will be an important component to wider adoption of ACOs. To monitor the impact of ACOs on health care disparities, Pollack and his coauthor, Katrina Armstrong, of the University of Pennsylvania, suggest measures to evaluate the process of creating ACOs from an antitrust/market consolidation perspective. Measures of quality, they say, should include details of the patient population by race and ethnicity within individual ACOs, across separate ACOs and compared with patients not in ACOs.

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STEM Continued from page 1 the National Center for Education Statistics, for example, show that U.S. 15-yearolds placed in the bottom third and bottom quarter for science and math literacy, respectively, among 30 developed countries. “Many of our initiatives are national and international in scope,” Jones said. “But universitywide, we are also committed to our local community and to improving educational opportunities for all Marylanders. We believe this strategy dovetails nicely with Gov. Martin O’Malley’s challenge to build a top technically trained workforce in Maryland.” EP’s 15 graduate programs, in areas such

as applied mathematics, environmental science and biomedical engineering, focus on real-world applications of technology and science. STEM teachers will now have a tuition-free opportunity to learn firsthand how the concepts they teach in their classrooms are relevant to future technological advances, and they will be better able to share this knowledge with their students. “When I first heard about this program, I thought, This is really too good to be true,” said Kenneth Gill, university liaison for the Howard County Public School System. “The STEM program is a unique opportunity for our teachers to attend one of the most prestigious universities in the world and learn from those who are currently practicing in their fields. The benefits to our students will be incredible. I commend Johns Hopkins and the Whiting School for committing their resources to this program.”

Enrollment in the program is open and rolling, and it is being offered on a firstcome, first-served basis with spaces reserved for up to two STEM teachers per course. Teachers may take one tuition-free course each term (summer, fall and spring) and are subject to the same admission requirements as applicants to all EP programs. EP offers hundreds of courses ranging from robotics to financial and contract management to molecular biology. Courses are held weekdays in the late afternoons and evenings as well as throughout the day on Saturdays at eight locations in the Baltimore/ Washington area. More than 80 courses are offered online. Registration began in late March for summer classes, which begin May 31. For more information about the EP STEM program, call 800-548-3647 or go to www .ep.jhu.edu/STEM. G

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concern that it needed to better address pedestrian safety and traffic calming. What followed were many years of delays, due to either budgetary constraints or design conflicts. The city would eventually qualify for $20 million in federal funding but needed to match its own $2.5 million investment to secure the funds. The university stepped in, not only financially but to help coordinate other stakeholders. “Without the support from Johns Hopkins, this project would never happen,” McDonald said. “They saw the need to make this stretch of Charles Street safer for pedestrians and bicyclists, and maintain its efficiency for vehicles.” The project will be advertised publicly in July to solicit the interest of qualified contractors. It is expected that competitive bidding will take place through August with the winning bid announced this fall. Barring unforeseen developments, the reconstruction is expected to begin in November. Baltimore City hired the local engineering firm RK&K to design the project. The work from 25th to 29th Street involves mostly surface treatment consisting of milling and repaving existing road surfaces; replacing missing, dead or diseased trees; and introducing new streetscape furnishings such as benches and waste and recycling receptacles. The scope of the work from 29th Street to University Parkway will be far greater. The roadway will be completely altered from its current configuration to become a boulevard with two lanes northbound and two lanes southbound separated by a wide landscaped median. In order to slow traffic

The four-seasons Optical Gardens art plaza, which will stretch from 33rd to 34th Street, along the sidewalk from Charles Commons to Wolman Hall.

flow, only one lane in each direction will be open to vehicles outside of morning and evening rush hour periods. The east side of Charles Street will feature a wider service lane than the existing one to provide the needed amount of parking for area residents. There will be more crosswalks, highly articulated with traffic signals and visual countdown timers, complete with audible signals for the sight-impaired. The hazardous, sweeping turns at Art Museum Drive and at 29th Street will be eliminated and replaced with 90-degree turns and signal lights to ensure safer pedestrian crossing at points where vehicles don’t always fully stop. A large ellipse will be created in the center of Charles Street between the university’s Wolman and McCoy halls and The Beach, at the intersection of Charles Street, 34th Street and Greenway. This ellipse, which will feature red brick pavers and a central planting bed, will function as one large pedestrian crossing signaled at both ends. Also to be installed in this area are tall

pilasters that borrow architectural elements of the campus. The overall design also includes provisions for bicycle lanes and for accommodating a proposed Charles Street trolley at a later date. As part of the reconstruction project, an art plaza has been envisioned from 33rd to 34th Street, along the sidewalk from Charles Commons to Wolman Hall. This art project has been managed jointly by RK&K, the Baltimore Public Art Commission, the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, and the Department of Transportation in partnership with community stakeholders. More than 200 artists and studios applied for the job, which was eventually won by the Seattle-based studio Haddad|Drugan. The winning design is called Optical Gardens and will contain four seasonal “rooms,” each of which will include seasonally appropriate plantings, lighting and carved stone images. The rooms will be visually connected by three stainless steel optical rings and by a stone channel to carry storm water north to south. The rings will vary in size, from large to small, designed to reference a telescope (if viewed from the north looking south) or a microscope (looking south to north). Lighting will further unite the rooms, with white tree lights year-round and colored spotlights focusing on the room garden of the current season—blue for winter, pink for spring, green for summer and orange for autumn. The design was inspired by elements of Johns Hopkins and the surrounding community such as the Stony Run stream valley, the Space Telescope Science Institute and the university’s history of scientific advancements in water filtration. Included will be stones and pebbles that honor the late M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, a longtime professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins, who was an internationally respected expert in river science, water resources management and environmental education. The art plaza, funded by the city’s 1% for Public Art Program, is to be installed in fall 2012. All new trees, selected for their ability to survive and flourish in the city’s climate, will be planted on both the east and west sides of Charles Street and in the medians for the entire length of the reconstructed area. Other new landscape treatments include ground cover, shrubs and seasonal floral plantings installed at crosswalks and at the project “gateways” of 29th Street and University Parkway. All new lighting fixtures will be installed for both roadway lighting and along sidewalks for pedestrian safety. To get from start to finish, however, there will be some inconveniences. Charles Street will be closed to through traffic from 29th Street to University Park-

way for the duration of the project, likely beginning at the start of the project in November. A detour will be created. All existing trees must be removed to allow for the underground utilities work and the reconfiguration of the roadway and repositioned medians. Provisions will be made in various locations for residents with Area 12 Residential Parking Permits to have parking during the project. These locations will be moved from time to time to accommodate the progress of construction. Nonresidents will not be allowed to park on the street in this area. “Pay to park” spaces on Charles Street will be eliminated at the start of the project and will not be replaced. Pedestrian crossings will be put in place at five locations: 29th Street, 31st Street, 33rd Street, 34th Street and University Parkway, and there will be fencing to both channel pedestrians to safe crossing points and to prevent inadvertent entry into construction work areas. These crossings will be moved slightly to the north or south of each point to accommodate construction as it progresses. During the main part of the reconstruction, the Department of Public Works will replace a 100-year-old water main. The new service will be installed along the entire length of the construction limits,

with laterals from the new mainline to individual buildings. These connections will be planned and scheduled with building occupants. DPW will work out details of the schedule with JHU’s Facilities Office and other private-building owners. The installation of the new BGE gas line this summer will require similar logistics, and meetings will be scheduled with JHU’s Facilities Office and others to work out the details. The gas-line work from 29th Street to University Parkway will commence in June and conclude before November. Larry Kilduff, the university’s executive director of Facilities, said that he hopes that the Johns Hopkins community will be patient throughout the construction period. Briefings for Homewood campus entities impacted in some way by the reconstruction will be held in May. “After the long and complicated reconfiguration and other upgrades and improvements are complete, the end result will be a dramatic change at our front door and one that will complement the prestige and character of JHU’s beautiful Homewood campus,” he said. Johns Hopkins will maintain the completed landscape while the city will maintain the hardscape surfaces consisting of sidewalks, crosswalks, curbs and roadway. G

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An artist’s rendering of the pedestrian-friendly ellipse on Charles Street between The Beach and Wolman and McCoy halls.

Sonja Brookins Santelises, chief academic officer for Baltimore City Schools, speaking at the Johns Hopkins School of Education’s ‘Shaping the Future’ series last Monday. Santelises discussed how new teaching standards and assessments recently adopted by the Maryland State Board of Education would affect classroom teachers in Baltimore City. The event was the third in the School of Education’s series examining critical issues in education. The reforms are part of a voluntary effort, led by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, to raise standards in U.S. schools. Joining Santelises on the panel were Michael Cohen, president of Achieve Inc.; Richard Lemons, vice president of Education Trust; and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO. —Jim Campbell

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Surgeon Continued from page 1 night, an Albany player tore his ACL a few feet in front of him. “I knew the second it happened,” Cosgarea said. “It was just a classic ACL tear.” Cosgarea immediately examined the athlete, assessing the extent of the injury and letting the player know what would come next in terms of care. He likes to get to know his patients, even ones he might never see again, and educate them on their ailments and treatment options. Cosgarea has decades of experience to lean on. In sports terms, Cosgarea has entered his 19th season of jock healing. Cosgarea joined Johns Hopkins in 1998 as an assistant professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He became the Blue Jays head team physician in 2001. Since 2008, he’s been director of Orthopaedic Surgery’s popular and well-regarded Sports Medicine Division and was recently promoted to full professor. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Cosgarea was an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the Ohio State University Medical Center and an orthopedic consultant with the Ohio State Athletic Department. Cosgarea specializes in the surgical and nonsurgical treatment of problems in active individuals, with an emphasis on knee, shoulder, ankle and elbow injuries. He earned his medical degree at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1987. After a residency at the University of Rochester, he came to Johns Hopkins in 1992 for a yearlong sports medicine fellowship. Cosgarea also applies his talents in the field of professional sports. From 2000 to 2010, he was a team physician for the Baltimore Orioles, and still serves as a consultant with the O’s. He’s also been a team physician for the short-lived Baltimore Bayrunners of the now-defunct International Basketball League and the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League. As the Blue Jays’ head team physician, Cosgarea is ultimately responsible for the care of more than 700 varsity athletes at Johns Hopkins. He works closely with Brad Mountcastle, head athletic trainer, and his staff to provide health coverage for the teams, everything from pre-season physicals to gameday coverage. In a sense, all the team physicians and trainers are an extension of Cosgarea. “Basically, the buck stops here,” Cosgarea said in a recent interview in his office at the Johns Hopkins Health Care and Surgery Center at Green Spring Station. “Anything that is done with the athletes from a medical perspective, I’m responsible for. That includes the initial assessment, surgeries, rehabilitation, trainer care, clearance to play and any treatment decisions.” When attending home games, Cosgarea also makes his services available to the visiting team, as was the case in the game versus Albany. In consultation with the Albany player on the sidelines and in the training room, Cosgarea learned that the player, a senior, had never had a knee injury before and had made that same on-field cutting maneuver thousands of times. This one time, something popped. His season was over. “The player also knew the second it happened,” he said. “I spoke with him to let him know what was going on and made myself available to his parents if they needed more information or advice.” Cosgarea has seen his fair share of ACL tears, what he calls the most common serious injury to varsity athletes. “It’s not necessarily turf or natural grass surface that is the culprit; there are so many factors that go into this injury,” he said. “We have excellent facilities at Johns Hopkins, excellent pre-season preparation, and the equipment is outstanding. We have the best of the best, and still these injuries happen. There’s just no way to prevent every ACL tear from happening.” The most common injuries Cosgarea tends to are contusions and sprains. In no

particular order, other frequent injuries are shoulder dislocations, shoulder separations and concussions—a hot topic in every level of sports these days. “We pay a tremendous amount of attention and are very careful with concussion treatment,” he said. “In the last several years, the medical community and society in general have become much more aware of the seriousness and cumulative effects of concussions.” In April 2010, the NCAA released a set of guidelines mandating that each school establish its own concussion management plan, which must stipulate that a player who shows symptoms of a concussion may not return to practice or play on that day. The student-athlete must then be evaluated before rejoining the team. “These are excellent guidelines,” Cosgarea said. “Although in medicine nothing is ever black and white, it’s shades of gray. It’s certainly in the athlete’s best interest. And it also makes it easier for the coaches, the officials, the trainers and the physicians when it’s accepted and recognized ‘Less than that we are taking a very conservative approach to 100 percent treating even a suspected concussion.” is not Although athletes in general want to get back acceptable on the field of play as soon as possible, Cosfor most’ garea said that modern varsity athletes think big picture. “They have a long future in front of them, and very few of them will have a professional career,” he said. “Johns Hopkins athletes in particular are going on to graduate school, medical school, law school, business schools. They need 100 percent of their cognitive abilities to be successful.” As of press time, the Johns Hopkins men’s lacrosse team was 10-2 and ranked No. 2 in the USILA Coaches poll and No. 3 in the Inside Lacrosse poll. Cosgarea said that he considers himself a huge fan of the Johns Hopkins teams, and feels the highs and lows of the season. While he’s happy to be part of a winning team, Cosgarea said that he will leave the accolades to the players and coaches. “Most of what we do is behind the scenes,” he said. “In the optimum situation, nobody knows about the team physician. Either you are preventing an injury from happening or managing an injury so that he or she can successfully play the next game.” The Sports Medicine Division, a team of nationally recognized leaders in the field, treats patients in seven locations in the Baltimore area. In addition to the Blue Jays teams, the staff cares for players from the Baltimore Orioles, Navy football, area high school sports teams and thousands of everyday athletes, from the 12-year-old middle schooler who plays lacrosse to the 72-yearold recreational tennis player. John Wilckens, an associate professor in the School of Medicine and medical director of Johns Hopkins’ White Marsh Ambulatory Surgery Center, serves as a consultant for the United States Naval Academy and as a team physician for the Baltimore Orioles. Although he no longer serves as a fulltime Orioles team physician, Cosgarea still sees members of the team and other professional athletes, many of whom come referred by sports agents or former patients. Speaking of the future team physicians of the world, Cosgarea foresees no shortage of aspirants. Currently, sports medicine is the most common subspecialty in orthopedics, itself an incredibly popular field. “Why? Because it’s the most fun,” said Cosgarea, himself an athlete who competes in open-water swim races. “We are taking care of relatively healthy, proactive, motivated and outgoing individuals. But it’s also the most demanding field because the expectations are extremely high. If I’m taking care of a trauma patient, in the most extreme example, they are happy to keep their leg. If I take care of an athlete, they expect to get back to the same level they were at before the injury. They want to get back to perfection. Anything less than 100 percent is not acceptable for most.” And that, he said, goes for everyone— the weekend runner as well as the All-Star major leaguer. G

Alice’s Wonderland Garden Party to benefit Evergreen Museum B y H e at h e r E g a n S ta l f o rt

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he Evergreen Museum & Library Advisory Council’s inaugural Alice’s Wonderland Garden Party will welcome spring on Thursday, May 12, in the formal gardens of Johns Hopkins’ Evergreen Museum & Library. More than 200 guests are expected to travel down the rabbit hole from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at this new festive fundraiser for Evergreen Museum & Library, the former Gilded Age estate of legendary Baltimore collectors and philanthropists John Work Garrett and his inimitable wife, Alice Warder Garrett. Funds raised through the event will support the museum’s ongoing historic preservation efforts. The evening includes Wonderlandthemed hors d’oeuvres and an oyster bar, an open bar with cocktails and wine, croquet, live music and a silent auction, with online bidding that’s now open. Inside the mansion, guests will have the opportunity to visit the first-floor period rooms and exhibitions, including an exclusive first look at The American Throne: Royal Seating for a Democratic Venue. This special exhibition features a selection of chairs from the past 200 years designed or commissioned for American clientele that illuminate the influence and cross-fertilization of monarchial and democratic ideals on chair design. The exhibition goes on public display May 22 and runs through Sept. 25. Spring garden-party attire—with a fabulous hat for the Mad Hatter’s Hat Contest—is encouraged. Prizes will be awarded for the best ladies’ and gentlemen’s hats in five categories: vintage or traditional, spring bounty (live flowers), most creative, show stopper and best ensemble. Tickets are available by phone at 410-5160341 or online at www.brownpapertickets .com/event/157568. Standard tickets are $100 and must be purchased before 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 11 ($125 after that time or M A Y

Part of the invitation was inspired by the 1922 stencil patterning for Evergreen’s North Wing theater lobby, which was designed by Leon Bakst.

at the door), Glad Hatter Patron tickets are $250, and King and Queen of Hearts Benefactor tickets are $1,000; all but $45 of each is tax-deductible. Tickets are $45 for full-time JHU students with ID and can be purchased by phone or at the door. Silent auction items—ranging from antiques and jewelry to vacation getaways, unique home decor and more—are available for online bidding until Wednesday, May 11, through the museum’s website, museums .jhu.edu. Alice’s Wonderland Garden Party is made possible in part through the generosity of B. Creative Group, Calvert Wholesale Florists, the Cliff Dwellers Garden Club, Loane Brothers, Style magazine, Watson Caterers, The Wine Source, Woodberry Graphics and WYPR 88.1 FM.

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Mon., May 9, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. BME Design Day 2011 showcasing medical device innovations by student teams; keynote address by Tore Laerdal, executive chairman, Laerdal Medical. (See In Brief, p. 2.) Co-sponsored by Biomedical Engineering and the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design. Free admission,

but guests must register at http://cbid.bme .jhu.edu. Armstrong Medical Education Bldg. EB Mon., May 9, 3 p.m. The Whiting School of Engineering’s Convocation Awards Ceremony and Harriet Shriver Rogers Lecture by Krishnan Rajagopalan, global managing partner of the Technology and Services Practice for Heidrick & Struggles, and a member of WSE’s National Advisory Council and the Homewood Technology Commercialization Advisory Board. Reception follows. Shriver Auditorium. HW Mon., May 9, 6 p.m. The Homewood Technology and Innovation Showcase, an opportunity to meet faculty members and students who have produced inventions and research advances that may lead to investment and commercialization, with remarks by Edward D. Miller, dean of the School of Medicine and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine; and Joseph Smith, chief medical and science officer, Gary and Mary West Wireless Health Institute. Sponsored by the Whiting School of Engineering. Glass Pavilion, Levering. HW

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new online course offered by the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing will use evidence-based practice to solve problems faced by bedside nurses, nurse educators and nurse managers and leaders. It will be available in May for individuals or for health care organizations and schools of nursing that wish to make it available for their staff and students. “The online Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Course is an exciting approach to learning EBP in practice,” said Jodi Shaefer, an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. “As an online program, users can learn content at their own pace. Modules are interactive, and learners can immerse themselves in EBP questions from clinical practice, education and/or administration.” Stephanie Poe, chief nursing informatics officer and director of nursing for clinical quality and informatics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, said that today’s nurses are challenged to sift vast amounts of new material to keep up-to-date on best practices. “Multimodal learning opportunities help nurses to gain competence in searching for, analyzing, synthesizing and translating evidence related to their areas of interest,”

Poe said. “This course focuses on the necessary skills and knowledge needed to conduct EBP projects and is a wonderful addition to the health professional’s toolkit for successful evidence-based practice.” Completely asynchronous and Webbased, the 12-hour EBP course is tailored to participants who can learn at their own pace, at any time; all that is needed is a computer with Internet access and a standard browser. A variety of teaching strategies are used in each of the five modules to help the participant master core EBP competencies. An introductory module provides context for the use of EBP by nurses and describes the Johns Hopkins Nursing EBP model. The second focuses on identifying problems, formulating the EBP question and creating a project team. Searching for evidence and appraising evidence using standard tools are the competencies at the core of the third. The fourth addresses the decision to change practice based on the evidence. In the final module, the focus is the challenges of implementing change and strategies for successful translation. The products available in the Johns Hopkins Nursing EBP collection—books, workshops, consultation services and now an online course—are the result of a decade of collaboration between faculty and nurses from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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M A R K E T P L A C E

University One, 1BR, 1BA condo w/balcony, 14th flr, renov’d kitchen and BA, avail July 2011. $1,500/mo incl utils. 410-274-0325. 108 W University Pkwy, fully furn’d 1BR summer sublet (June-August), at Homewood campus across from lacrosse field, walk to restaurants/grocery stores, email for photos or to arrange a time to visit. $850/mo. 202-7250233. 937 N Angel Valley Rd (Harford Co), 2BR, 1.5BA TH in quiet neighborhood. $1,100/mo. 561-543-2051 or symonia5@aol.com. 2BR, 2BA apt w/fp, TV, patio, swimming pool, more, avail May 16 to July 27, price/times negotiable. 315-767-9517. Upscale, fully furn’d apt in Victorian bldg overlooking historic park, flexible terms. 410-9883137, richardson1886@gmail.com or http:// therichardsonhouse.vflyer.com/home/flyer/ home/3200019. Beautiful 3BR, 2BA condo w/garage, spacious, great location, walk to Homewood campus. $1,800/mo. 443-848-6392 or sue.rzep2@ verizon.net.

F nonsmoker wanted for master BR in 2-story, 2BR, 1.5BA condo in gated Mt Vernon community, prkng, avail July. $900/mo + 1/2 utils. tLsuber@gmail.com. F wanted to share 2BR, 2BA apt in Baltimore County, nr I-83, 15 mins to downtown, great neighborhood. $610/mo + utils. yanjia1217@ yahoo.com. Share new, refurbished 4BR TH w/other medical students, 2 full BAs, CAC, W/D, dw, w/w crpt, 1-min walk to JHMI. gretrieval@aol .com. 1BR and common areas of furn’d 3BR, 2BA house in Original Northwood, renov’d BA, steam rm, backyd, patio, ample street prkng, direct bus to JHMI/JHU. $580/mo + utils. cjouny@gmail.com.

Furn’d rm available nr Patterson Park, 10-min walk to Johns Hopkins Hospital. $485/mo. 951-941-0384 or arcroshani@hotmail.com.

CARS FOR SALE

HOUSES FOR SALE

’99 Nissan Sentra, manual, in good cond, 97K mi. $2,500. 443-653-1876 or reaeg@yahoo. com.

Hampden, 3BR, 2BA TH, dw, W/D, nr lt rail. $1,100/mo + utils. 410-378-2393. Hampden, 2BR, 1BA TH, CAC, modern kitchen, W/D, 5 mins to JHU, avail June 1. $1,200/mo + utils. 410-366-4635.

Canton, beautifully renov’d 2BR, 2.5BA RH, huge master suite, open floor plan, rooftop deck, nr JHH/Bayview. 443-527-1643.

ITEMS FOR SALE

Homeland, 2BR, 2BA condo in gated community, 15 mins to JHMI, renov’d kitchen and BAs, balcony, CAC, W/D, storage in bsmt, pool, exercise rm, prkng, avail May 15 (flexible). $1,300/mo incl heat. joanfreedman@ gmail.com.

Federal Hill, TH w/numerous updates already completed, bamboo hdwd flrs in living rm and dining rm, updated kitchen and BA. $179,900. J.M. Anthony, 410-808-4869 or jodiemack@ gmail.com.

Locust Point (1325 Cooksie St), 2BR, 2BA house, W/D. $1,350/mo + utils. 410-409-5136, 410-409-5137 or tmsroka@verizon.net. Mt Washington, stunning, short-term rental w/parquet flrs, patios, baby grand piano, 15 mins to JHU. $2,400/mo. 915-718-3180 or barbarakarni@gmail.com. Mt Washington, 3BR house available for short-term rental, June and July. alexnones@ gmail.com. Ocean City, 2BR, 2BA condo on 120th St, sleeps 6, immaculate, new appls and living rm furniture, enclos’d courtyd, 2 short blks to beach, indoor/outdoor pools, tennis, racketball. 410-992-7867 or joel.alan.weiner@gmail.com. Ocean City, Md, 3BR, 2BA condo on 137th St, ocean block, steps from the beach, off-street prkng (2 spaces), lg pool, short walk to restaurants/entertainment. 410-544-2814. Rodgers Forge, 3BR TH w/new kitchen, AC, W/D, deck, no pets/no smoking, avail July 1. $1,650/mo. mtrblsd@gmail.com. LNYW option for Medical Professionals

Buy furnished 4 BD- 4.5 BA TWH across from JHSPH. Live in MS w/full BA, 8 x 10 walk-in closet + full sized W/D and lease the 3 additional BD to colleagues for 850.00 per mo., covering mortgage/utility costs! Asking 210K. For more info email: info@mcelderryhouse.com

Mt Vernon, efficiency co-op w/gourmet kitchen in elegant setting on shuttle route. $79,000. 410-818-8117. Mt Washington, 3BR, 2.5BA condo TH in scenic neighborhood, wood-burning fp, prkng, swimming pool, patio, move-in cond, convenient access to Johns Hopkins. $179,000. missykhan@gmail.com. Waverly, 4BR, 2BA TH, EOG unit, fin’d bsmt, wood deck, fenced yd, great neighbors. $125,000. Randy, 410-456-3775 or randy@ homeownershipworks.com. Gorgeous house perfect for the prof’l, easy living, nr all JHU campuses. $165,900. Pitina, 410-900-7436.

ROOMMATES WANTED Furn’d 1BR in 3BR, 2BA apt in Fells Point, W/D, free Internet access, quiet street, best neighborhood, close to everything, free shuttle to SoM. $350/mo to $400/mo + utils. xzhan45@ gmail.com.

Gorgeous, like-new furniture and furnishings, futon, dining rm set, bed, recliner, stereo, art work. 410-235-2190 or csokoLom1989@ yahoo.com. Electric lawnmower, $25; also a Balens 19"-cut 12-amp corded mower, great for sm yd. 443895-4730 or judithproffitt@gmail.com. Moving sale: single mattresses, $60; dining table, $45; sofa, $85; many more items, best offers accepted. 571-345-5059 or irajk100@ yahoo.com. Sealy Posturepedic full-size mattress, boxspring and frame, $300; dresser w/tall mirror, $150; brown sleep sofa, $200; bookshelf w/movable panels, $60; wood desk, $100; office chair, $60; glass coffee table w/black legs, $80; nightstand w/lamp, $50; TV stand, $30; storage cubes, $30; located in Canton. http://tinyurl .com/3gg34au or sp4435@gmail.com. Conn alto sax, best offer; exercise rowing machine, $50; excel cond. 410-488-1886. 2004 Harley Davidson Sportster XL883cc, silver, like new, garage-kept, less than 7K original miles, rarely driven, a “cream puff.” $3,500. 410-426-3150. Antique bedroom dresser, beautiful oak, some inlay, 3-drawer, in great cond, nr JHU Homewood. $75. Judy, 410-889-1213 or judybyen@ hotmail.com.

Studios - $595 - $630 1 BD Apts. - $710-740 2 BD from $795

Hickory Avenue in Hampden!

2 BD units from $750 w/Balcony - $785!

Shown by appointment - 410-764-7776 www.BrooksManagementCompany.com

Horse boarding 25 mins from JHU in Glyndon/Worthington Valley, beautiful trails from farm. $500/mo (stall board). 410-812-6716 or argye.hillis@gmail.com.

Great photos! Headshots for interviews/auditions, family pics, production shots, weddings or other events. Edward S Davis photography and videography. 443-695-9988 or esdavisimaging@gmail.com. Masterpiece Landscaping: knowledgeable, experienced individual, on-site consultation, transplanting, bed preparation, installation, sm tree and shrub shaping; licensed. Terry, 410-652-3446. Volunteer needed for ambitious ecology project. Mark, 410-464-9274. Resident assistants needed, July 22-29, to supervise 100 high school students for 1-wk camp at Homewood campus. Shanna, skh9701@gmail .com. Licensed landscaper avail for spring/summer lawn maintenance, yd cleanup, other services incl’d fall/winter leaf and snow removal, trash hauling. Taylor Landscaping LLC. 410-8126090 or romilacapers@comcast.net. Jerry and Lind Taylor Custom Tees, we design custom pillowcases, towels, sheet sets, teddy bears, T-shirts, logos, package deal for Class of 2011, at Northpoint flea market in Dundalk on Sat and Sun. Linda, 443-467-2833. Affordable and professional landscaper/certified horticulturist available to maintain existing gardens, also designing, planting or masonry; free consultations. David, 410-683-7373 or grogan.family@hotmail.com. Couple looking to house-sit, happy pet- or plant-sit, responsible, experienced, w/references, avail June-August; compensation not necessary. 443-540-3964. JHU International folk dance, Saturday nights, teaching 7:30-8:30pm, requests 8:30-10:30pm, 1st time free, $2 after that, Friends Meeting House, 3107 N Charles St. Free vintage Steinway upright piano, built 1890, mahogany veneer, original ivories, beautiful exterior, playable but needs work; piano is heavy, must be moved by professionals. 202251-3972, rsbclark@comcast.net or http://bit .ly/i2Gs6D (for pics). College student available to house-sit for summer, long- or short-term, in Roland Park or Charles Village area. 443-848-3983. Graduate student offering house- or pet-sitting services for the summer. holly.michelle.wood@ gmail.com.

PLACING ADS Classified listings are a free service for current, full-time Hopkins faculty, staff and students only. Ads should adhere to these general guidelines:

HICKORY HEIGHTS WYMAN COURT • One ad per person per week. A Just Renovated! A lovely hilltop setting on

Beech Ave. adj. to JHU!

Nanny-share in Homewood area, 4 days per wk w/our 18-mo-old son, nanny is loving, experienced, CPR-certified, toddler or older. Eve, 410-662-1304.

Need help with your JHU retirement plan investments portfolio? Free, confidential consultation. 410-435-5939 or treilly1@aol.com.

’08 Honda Civic LX, silver, manual 5-spd, excel cond, original owner, 28K mi. $14,500. cfang77@gmail.com.

Lake Lure, NC, 2BR mountain cabin, avail June 24-July 1, pools, golf, spa, tennis, more amenities. $800. 301-865-0610 or http:// rumblingbald.com.

Clinical social worker providing psychotherapy for adults, accepting EHP and Cigna. 410-2359200 #6 or shane.grant.lcswc@gmail.com.

Rms in furn’d Halethorpe house, W/D, backyd, park, nr MARC train/695/I-95, high-speed Internet, cable TV, short-term leases OK. $550/mo + utils. lizo99@hotmail.com.

’98 Honda Accord LX coupe, 6-cyl, automatic, dk green, 2-dr, power everything, 119K mi. $4,500/best offer. 240-755-4954 or 443-4233410.

Gardenville, 3BR, 1.5BA RH in quiet neighborhood, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, club bsmt w/cedar closet, maintenance-free yd, carport, 15 mins to JHH. $139,500. 443610-0236 or tziporachai@juno.com.

Wanted: Adult ASTA 1 strings for trio, any ASTA 1 for klezmer learning and practice, goal is enjoyment, growth. Judy, loquitur300@ ymail.com.

Mobile detailing and power wash service. Jason, 443-421-3659.

4BR, 2BA TH, 3 mins to Homewood campus, avail June 1. $1,600/mo + utils. 410-979-0721 or grant.tz@comcast.net.

Gardens of Guilford, lg, newly renov’d 2BR, 2BA condo in elegant setting, easy walk to Homewood campus. 410-366-1066.

SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED

F nonsmoker wanted for BR w/priv BA nr medical campus. myhome.2011@yahoo.com.

Canton, magnificent 2BR, 2BA waterfront condo in the Anchorage, 2 prkng spaces. $464,000. 410-437-9188 or farfoodell@gmail .com.

Homeland, 2BR, 2BA condo, CAC, W/D in unit, new kitchen appls, storage rm, community pool, fitness rm, security guard, 5 mins to JHU, 6-mo lease avail. $1,250/mo incl most utils. drew@mcproperty.com.

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12 THE GAZETTE • May 2, 2011 M A Y

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Calendar

COLLOQUIA

“Henry Cowell: Challenges to a Biographer,” a Peabody DMA Musicology colloquium with Joel Sachs, Juilliard School. 308 Conservatory Bldg. Peabody Wed., May 4, 5 p.m.

“Quackery and Sex Therapy: Law, Medicine and Culture in Modern India,” a History of Science, Medicine and Technology colloquium with Joseph Alter, University of Pittsburgh. Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library. EB

Thurs., May 5, 3 p.m.

“Review of Discoveries and Preview of Prospects in the Study of the Ghostly Neutrino,” a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with John Learned, University of Hawaii. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW

Thurs., May 5, 3 p.m.

Jurisprudence—Halacha, Medicalization and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe,” a Jewish Studies lecture by Maoz Kahanna, New York University. Smokler Center for Jewish Life (Hillel). HW May 5, 4 p.m. The 28th Annual Alexander Graham Christie Lecture—“Haptics: Engineering Touch in Robot-Assisted Medical Interventions” with Allison Okamura, WSE. Sponsored by Mechanical Engineering. 50 Gilman. HW

Thurs.,

Mon., May 9, 4 p.m. The Francis D. Carlson Lectureship in Biophysics—“Propagating and Engineering Whole Bacterial Genomes in Yeast” by Hamilton Smith, J. Craig Venter Institute. Sponsored by Biophysics. Mudd Auditorium. HW Mon., May 9, 4 p.m. The Dean’s Lecture V—“From Genes to Society” by David Nichols, SoM. Hurd Hall. EB

C O N F ERE N C E S

Fri., May 6, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

“Development and Commodification in Latin America: Limits and Possibilities,” a Program in Latin American Studies/Anthropology conference with Fernando Coronil, CUNY. Sherwood Room, Levering. HW

MUSIC

Peabody Improvisation and Multimedia Ensemble performs. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for students with ID. East Hall. Peabody

Thurs., May 5, 7:30 p.m.

May 6, 5:45 p.m. The Peabody at Homewood Concert Series presents jazz duo Kevin B. Clark, guitar, and Steve Synk, bass, performing music by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington and Joe Henderson in addition to original compositions. $15 general admission, $12 Homewood Museum members and $8 for full-time students. Seating is limited and advance registration is required; call 410-516-5589 or go to http://museums.jhu.edu/music .php?museum=homewood. Sponsored by JHU Museums. Homewood Museum. HW

Fri.,

DISCUSSIONS/ TA L K S

Wed., May 4, 12:30 p.m. “Inside

European Politics: Perspectives for the Eurozone,” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations discussion with Andreas Schieder, Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance. To RSVP, email transatlanticrsvp@jhu.edu or call 202-663-5880. 500 BernsteinOffit Bldg. SAIS

Wed., May 4, 5:30 p.m. “The Arab Spring and the Future of the Middle East?” a SAIS International Economics Program discussion with Fuad Siniora, Lebanese Parliament. (See story, p. 4.) To RSVP, email katarina@jhu.edu. Co-sponsored by the SAIS Middle East Studies Program and Conflict Management Program. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS Mon., May 9, 4 p.m. “Escaping Melodramas: Reflecting on Medical Research in Tuskegee and Guatemala,” and Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute talk with medical historian Susan Reverby. (See In Brief, p. 2.) Co-sponsored by the Berman Institute of Bioethics. Humanim, American Brewery Bldg., 1701 N. Gay St.

L E C TURE S

The William M. Shelley Memorial Lecture—“Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease” by Linda Ferrell, University of California, San Francisco. Hurd Hall. EB

Mon., May 2, 8:30 a.m.

“The Scientific Revolution and Jewish

Wed., May 4, 12:15 p.m.

The Peabody Chamber Percussion Ensemble performs. Griswold Hall.

Sat., May 7, 7:30 p.m.

Peabody Sun., May 8, 3 p.m. The Peabody Children’s Chorus performs. The concert is free, but advance tickets are required. For ticket information, call the Peabody Box Office at 410-234-4800 or email boxoffice@peabody.jhu.edu. Friedberg Hall. Peabody

REA D I N G S / B OO K TA L K S

Loyola professor and Baltimore author Mark Osteen will discuss and sign copies of his book, One of Us: A Family’s Life With Autism. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

Mon., May 2, 7 p.m.

Food activist Mark Winne will discuss his latest book, Food Rebels, Guerilla Gardeners and Smart-Cookin’ Mammas: Fighting Back in an Age of Industrial Agriculture. Sponsored by the Center for a Livable Future. W4030 SPH. EB

Thurs., May 5, noon.

Reading by author John Barth. Mudd Auditorium. HW

Fri., May 6, 5 p.m.

Students from the Writers in Baltimore Schools program give public readings from Baltimore by Hand, a biannual literary magazine. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW

Sun., May 8, 3 p.m.

S E M I N AR S

“RNA Structural Bioinformatics and Ontology,” a Biophysics seminar with Neocles Leontis, National Science Foundation. 111 Mergenthaler. HW

Mon., May 2, noon.

Mon., May 2, 12:10 p.m. “U.S. Assistance in Injury Prevention,” a Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy with Nancy Carter-Foster, U.S. State Department. Sponsored by Health Policy and Management and the Center for Injury Research and Policy. W4013 SPH. EB Mon.,

May

12:10

p.m.

“Occupational Injuries That Fall Through the Cracks,” a Johns Hopkins Education and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health seminar with Susan Baker, SPH. First in a series. W3008 SPH. EB Mon., May 2, 12:15 p.m. “Map-

ping Neural Circuits for Motor Sequences in Drosophila,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Julie Simpson, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Janelia Farms. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW

Mon.,

May

1:30

p.m.

“Mechanical Regulation of Epithelial Branching,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Celeste Nelson, Princeton University. 709 Traylor. EB (Videoconferenced to 110 Clark. HW ) Mon., May 2, 4 p.m. The David Bodian Seminar—“The Side Matters: Why Line Drawings Only Confuse Us in Understanding Figure-Ground Perception” with Naoki Kogo, University of Leuven, Belgium. Sponsored by the Krieger Mind/Brain Institute. 338 Krieger. HW Mon., May 2, 4 p.m. “On the Maxwell-Born-Infeld Field Equations,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Michael Kiessling, Rutgers University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW

“Visualizing the Geography of Disease: The Diseases of China, 1870– 1920s,” a History seminar with Marta Hanson, SoM. 308 Gilman. HW

Mon., May 2, 4 p.m.

Mon., May 2, 4:30 p.m. “Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas. B17 Hackerman. HW

“Descartes’ Modal Epistemology,” a

Mon., May 2, 5 p.m.

Philosophy seminar with Elliot Paul, NYU and Barnard College. 288 Gilman. HW

nar with Olympia Hadjiliadis, Brooklyn College, CUNY. 304 Whitehead. HW

Tues.,

Thurs., May 5, 4 to 6 p.m., and Fri., May 6, 9 a.m. to noon. The Futures Seminar—

May

10:45

a.m.

“Action Video Games as Exemplary Learning Tools,” a Computer Science seminar with Daphne Bavelier, University of Rochester. B17 Hackerman. HW “Curvature and Rationality of Complex Manifolds,” an Algebraic Geometry/Number Theory seminar with Bun Wong, University of California, Riverside. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW

Tues., May 3, 4:30 p.m.

Wed., May 4, 8:30 a.m. “Genom-

ics and Documentation in Clinical Trials: Some Cautionary Tales,” a Center for Clinical Trials seminar with Keith Baggerly, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Co-sponsored by Biostatistics. W2030 SPH. EB

Wed nesday Noon Seminar—“Risk Factor for Schizophrenia Subtypes: Associations With Symptom Patterns and Course of Disorder in the Danish Registry” with Katie Nugent. Sponsored by Mental Health. B14B Hampton House. EB

Wed., May 4, 12:15 p.m.

Wed., May 4, 1:30 p.m. “Mapping, Rewiring and Evolving Bacterial Signaling Pathways,” a Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry seminar with Michael Laub, MIT and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 701 WBSB. EB Wed., May 4, 4 p.m. “Investigating ‘Mixed-Race’ in 1930s Shanghai: American Sociologists Put China on the ‘Miscegenation Map,’ ” a History seminar with Emma Teng, MIT. 308 Gilman. HW

“Better Living Through Hyper-Mutation,” a Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences seminar with Myron Goodman, University of Southern California. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Wed., May 4, 4 p.m.

The Bromery Seminar—“The Role of Diabatic Processes in the North Atlantic Storm Track: A Potential Vorticity Diagnosis” with Walter Robinson, North Carolina State University. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Auditorium. HW

Thurs., May 5, noon.

Thurs., May 5, noon. “Immune Responses of Humans to RNA Viruses of Human or Zoonotic Origin,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/Infectious Diseases seminar with Francis Ennis, University of Massachusetts Medical School. W1020 SPH. EB

“Molecular Regulation of Membrane Trafficking,” a Cell Biology seminar with Elizabeth Sztul, University of Alabama, Birmingham. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB

Thurs., May 5, noon.

“Mechanisms of Axon Regeneration,” a Neuroscience research seminar with Zhigang He, Children’s Hospital Boston. West Lecture Hall (ground floor), WBSB. EB

Thurs., May 5, 1 p.m.

Thurs., May 5, 1:30 p.m. “Market Crashes Through the Drawdown and Its Speed,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics semi-

Department of Sociology, with panelists Kathryn Edin, Harvard University; Ching Kwan Lee, University of California, Berkeley; and Karolyn Tyson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Mason Hall Auditorium (Thursday) and Charles Commons (Friday). HW “Transcription in the Three-Dimensional Genome,” a Biology seminar with Victor Corces, Emory University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 100 Mudd. HW

Thurs., May 5, 4 p.m.

Fri., May 6, 10 a.m. “Suicidal Ideation Among Inner-City Drug Users: Association With Social Networks and Polydrug Use,” a Mental Health thesis defense seminar with Satoko Janet Kuramoto. 208 Hampton House. EB

“Finding Lingua Franca Between Science and Policy,” an Epidemiology seminar with Tomoko Steen, Library of Congress. Co-sponsored by the Cancer, Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Program. W1030 SPH. EB

Fri., May 6, 12:15 p.m.

Fri., May 6, 1 p.m. “Educational Gaming for High School Students” with Jodi Chapmen; “Silent Aspiration Visualization” with Bricelyn Strauch; and “Physician Education for Face Transplantation” with Tara Rose, a Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology seminar with Art as Applied to Medicine graduate students. West Lecture Hall, PCTB. EB

“Evaluation of ‘Delivery Hut’ Program to Promote Institutional Deliveries in Haryana, India,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Rakesh Gupta. W2030 SPH. EB

Mon., May 9, 9 a.m.

“Episomal DNA Tumor Virus-Host Interaction and Cancer,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Jianxin You, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. W1020 SPH. EB

Mon., May 9, noon.

Mon.,

May

12:15

p.m.

“Large-Scale Chromatin Structure and Dynamics,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Andrew Belmont, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW Continued on page 9

Calendar Key APL BRB CRB EB HW JHOC

(Events are free and open to the public except where indicated.)

Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building East Baltimore Homewood Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center KSAS Krieger School of Arts and Sciences NEB New Engineering Building PCTB Preclinical Teaching Building SAIS School of Advanced International Studies SoM School of Medicine SoN School of Nursing SPH School of Public Health WBSB Wood Basic Science Building WSE Whiting School of Engineering