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ohns Hopkins students give back, and want to give some more, according to a survey conducted earlier this year on the Homewood campus. Nearly 72 percent of students surveyed said that they participate in some form of community 72 percent service. Nearly the same number wanted their involvement in already the community to take part in increase. The Center for community Social Concern conducted the Community Engagement surservice vey from December 2009 to May 2010. The goals of the survey, which polled undergraduate and graduate students, were to quantify the number of students involved in community service in and around Johns Hopkins and the Baltimore community, measure feelings about community involvement and gauge perceptions of barriers to involvement. Bill Tiefenwerth, director of the Center for Social Concern, said that the survey was conducted during a period when the center relocated from a space in Levering Hall to a three-story building at 3103 N. Charles St. The new location provided more space for the center and room for expansion. “We wanted to be poised for our new location here and what we should be concentrating on,” he said. Tiefenwerth said that the survey results were, overall, positive and encouraging. “I think we’re right on the money in providing the kinds of opportunities that the students are looking for. They want there to be tutoring and mentoring, and opportunities in the health field. We got that pretty covered,” he said. The survey defined involvement as community service or community-based internships, federal work-study and research. The survey was available online, and
In his 13 years as leader of the School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Medicine, Ed Miller has shepherded a new academic curriculum, JHM’s extensive expansion and a master plan to replace aging facilities on the East Baltimore campus.
Long-serving dean discusses JHM’s growth and future of medicine By Greg Rienzi
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Women take note: High cholesterol in middle age not a risk factor for Alzheimer’s, other dementias By Stephanie Desmon
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igh cholesterol levels in middle age do not appear to increase women’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia later in life, new Johns Hopkins–led research finds, despite a body of scientific evidence long suggesting a link between the two.
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What the study, published online Nov. 10 in the journal Neurology, does find is that women whose cholesterol levels decline from middle to old age are at 2.5 times greater risk of developing the memory-wasting diseases than those whose cholesterol stayed the same or increased over the years. “Our research refutes the notion that high cholesterol in midlife is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, at least among women,”
said Michelle M. Mielke, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study’s lead author. Even though Mielke and her colleagues found no link between high middle-age cholesterol levels and dementia risk, Mielke cautioned that people still need to watch their cholesterol, as high levels are linked
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o commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the discovery of sickle cell disease, a forum titled “Moving Beyond the Struggle: The Power in Our Community� will be held on the East Baltimore campus at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 17, in the Albert Owens Auditorium of the Cancer Research Building. (It is preceded by a dinner beginning at 6:15 p.m.) Health care providers, researchers, community advocates and persons living with sickle cell will come together to discuss the importance of community participation in efforts to obtain resources needed to improve the lives of the individuals and families affected by sickle cell disease. The forum also will feature researcher Michael DeBaun, professor of pediatrics and medicine and vice chair of Clinical Research, Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. The event is sponsored by Johns Hopkins Medicine, the School of Medicine Diversity Council and the Office of Diversity and Cultural Competence. Those planning to attend are asked to RSVP to ODCC@jhmi .edu or 410-502-6568.
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avid Carr of The New York Times will give a talk at Homewood this week titled “Putting a New Frame on Content: Media 3.0 in an Age of iPads, Mashed-Up Hybrids and an Audience that Generates Content.� Carr is an award-winning media and culture reporter. Before joining The New York Times, he was a contributing writer for The Atlantic Monthly and New York Magazine. The event, presented by the Institute for Policy Studies as part of its Press and Public Policy seminar series, is scheduled for 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 18, in 132 Gilman Hall. As seating is limited, those wishing to attend are asked to RSVP to Laura Vernon-Russell at lvr@jhu.edu.
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eabody was represented at the Tenth International Conservatory Week Festival, held Oct. 22–29 in St. Petersburg, Russia, by faculty member Vera DanchenkoStern, who teaches singing in Russian, and Graduate Performance Diploma candidates Jennifer Edwards (MM ’09, Voice), Mark Edwards (MM ’09, Guitar) and Yun Kyong Lee (BM ’09, MM ’10, Voice). The singers performed with composer and pianist Lori Laitman, a Peabody National Advisory Council member, who was the festival’s Distinguished Guest Composer. The festival also included performances by the Morgan State University Choir led by Pea-
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$250,000 new-equipment grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration will enhance the training of advanced-practice nurses at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. The HRSA grants are given “to upgrade equipment, expand training capabilities and enhance learning mobility, accessibility and flexibility to promote learning anytime, anywhere.� Proposed equipment includes a new cardiovascular simulator, videoconferencing tools and hospital beds for the school’s simulation center.
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fter a two-year hiatus, the Association for India’s Development at Johns Hopkins restarted its fundraising activities with a Diwali concert held Nov. 6 in Homewood’s Shriver Hall. About 170 people attended the concert, which featured Hindustani classical music by JHU’s Surageet; Raagapella, an a cappella group from Stanford University; and Band of Brothers, an American pop band. In addition, a photo exhibition on internally displaced people of India was showcased. “The beauty of this [Diwali] festival is that it accepts and welcomes celebrations from all strata of society,� said Nishikant Deshmukh, a graduate student who is an officer of AID. “AID-JHU celebrated this Diwali by making this event multicultural and showing the broad and accepting India culture.� As Indians celebrate Diwali by cleaning their homes, AID-JHU picked cleanliness and recycling awareness in India as the theme of the event by showcasing zero waste management, which is considered a model for solving the problem of waste disposal that India is facing. The concert was sponsored by the Office of Alumni Relations, Graduate Representative Organization and Office of Student Life. The funds raised will go toward grassroots projects supported by AID and to the JHU Haiti Aid Coalition.
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Tim Weihs tapped as Leadership Education Center director By Phil Sneiderman
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or Tim Weihs, whose new job is to help Johns Hopkins students make the jump from labs and lecture halls to business meetings and boardrooms, the journey is a familiar one. Weihs, a professor of materials science and engineering, has spent much of the past decade steering a high-temperature, quickbonding foil out of his own lab and into the marketplace. Along the way he co-founded a company, served as its CEO, sought money from investors, made marketing decisions and hired more than a dozen employees. Last year, Reactive NanoTechnologies, the Baltimore County company launched by Weihs and fellow faculty member Omar Knio, was acquired by Indium Corp. of Clinton, N.Y. Weihs remains a consultant to Indium. “This all started in 1996 as sort of a pipe dream,” Weihs said. “Today, I have a tremendous appreciation for all of the effort and skill it takes to get technology out of the lab and push it to the point where it’s a product that someone is willing to buy. The execution of these dreams is very challenging.” On Nov. 1, while remaining a materials science professor, Weihs took on a fresh challenge as the new director of the Center for Leadership Education, based at the Homewood campus. The center houses the W.P. Carey Program in Entrepreneurship and Management, the Master of Science in Engineering Management program and the Professional Communication Program. Weihs, who previously served on the center’s advisory committee, said he understands the need for these academic options. “We’ve traditionally done a very good job of training students to go on to grad school,
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but not all students want to do that,” he said. “Some want to go right into the working world. These students—and some of their parents—believe courses in accounting, marketing and business practices could give them a leg up after graduation. These are the type of classes the center offers.” In announcing the center’s new director, Nick Jones, the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering, pointed to Weihs’ experience in both higher education and the business world. “Since joining the Whiting School in 1995, Tim has proven his strength as a dedicated teacher and mentor, led a highly active research program, and he has demonstrated his fundamental understanding of leadership and industry through his own highly successful entrepreneurial activities,” Jones said. “Needless to say, we all feel extremely fortunate that we were able to identify such
an accomplished and qualified individual within the Whiting School community.” The center originated in 1996 as the Entrepreneurship and Management Program, launched by John Wierman, a professor of applied mathematics and statistics who identified a need for more business-oriented courses. The classes proved to be extremely popular, and in 1999 businessman William P. Carey, then a university trustee, endowed the program, which was named in his honor. Although the program is under the auspices of the Engineering School, it is also open to undergraduates from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Peabody Institute. Currently, more than 900 students take its courses each semester, and more than 150 students graduated in 2009 with the program’s entrepreneurship minor. The Entrepreneurship Program and the Professional Communication Program, which helps students improve their written and oral communication skills, now operate under the umbrella title of the Center for Leadership Education. Last year, the center also began offering a three-semester, 10-course Master of Science in Engineering Management degree program that currently has 36 students enrolled. The center, which operates outside of the traditional academic departments, relies on its own six full-time and 18 part-time faculty members, most of whom have extensive experience in the business world. Weihs said that because these are not tenure-track positions that require intense research and grant application work, the faculty members can focus mainly on instructing students. “We have an excellent group of lecturers,” he said, “and I think they’re here because they love to teach.” Because Weihs will retain some of his own engineering research and teaching duties, he will receive administrative help at the leadership center from two newly appointed
associate directors, Lawrence Aronhime and Eric Rice, both of whom teach in the center’s programs. In the early years of starting his own business, Weihs often had to seek guidance from off-campus business experts. But more recently, he said, the university has made great strides in providing more entrepreneurship training and advice to students and to faculty members. The leadership center, he said, is one example. “John Wierman did a wonderful job of establishing the Entrepreneurship Program, and the center’s faculty members have done a great job in growing the program,” Weihs said. “My goal is to help the faculty improve and expand the program.”
Related websites Johns Hopkins Center for Leadership Education:
web.jhu.edu/Leadership
web.jhu.edu/Leadership/html/ entrepreneurship_program.html
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Professional Communication Program:
web.jhu.edu/Leadership/html/ procomm.html
M.S. in Engineering Management Program:
web.jhu.edu/Leadership/html/ msem.html
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ome 30 Johns Hopkins cardiologists, nurses, technical staff and administrative volunteers have for the first time partnered with Baltimore City Public Schools to screen for early signs of heart disease in as many as 2,000 high school–bound Baltimore-area students. The students, all bound for grade 9 in 2011, and their parents were among thousands of city residents attending an annual high school fair at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute on Saturday, Nov. 13. From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Johns Hopkins team offered free examinations to students to screen for key risk factors of heart disease, such as obesity, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol levels, diabetes and a family history of heart disease.
Engagement Continued from page 1 participation was solicited through listservs of various Student Life entities such as the offices of Student Activities and Greek Life. Hard copies of the survey were made available at major campus events. Nearly 1,100 students responded, a majority of them undergraduates by a ratio of 10-to-1. Sixty-four percent were female. Nearly 60 percent of those who participate in service do so through a Johns Hopkins student group such as Project Health,
The inaugural risk-screening program is an extension of a Johns Hopkins initiative begun in 2007 that has already screened some 600 top-ranked Maryland high school athletes, ages 14 to 18, for signs of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, inherited heart abnormalities that can lead to sudden, potentially fatal heart rhythm disturbances often triggered by intense exercise. “One of the surprise findings from our other heart screenings was that basic risk factors for cardiovascular disease are too common among Maryland high school students, and these students and their parents are simply unaware that they face a serious health problem,” said cardiologist Theodore Abraham, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart and Vascular Institute. Abraham pointed out that among the physically strong track sprinters, hurdlers
and long jumpers tested to date, 20 percent were technically obese, having a body mass index of more than 25, and some 30 percent had hypertension, with blood pressure readings greater than 130 millimeters of mercury over 80 millimeters of mercury. “Our disease-screening program is designed to reach young people early, before bad eating and exercise lifestyle habits become engrained, and maximize opportunities to intervene before actual heart disease takes hold,” said Abraham, whose goal is to have such screening programs in high schools across the country. With parental approval, students answered a 14-question health survey to identify any immediate, personal or family history of heart disease. The survey asked about any recent occurrences of chest pain, shortness of breath or fainting, or use of prescription heart medicines. The students then had their weight and blood pressure
recorded, and a finger-prick blood test. Healthy blood cholesterol levels for an average high school student, experts say, is any combination of HDL and LDL that is less than 200 milligrams per deciliter. Blood sugar levels, as an indicator of diabetes, should be no higher than 140 milligrams per deciliter. Every student examined received a raffle ticket for one of 100 $25 Walmart gift certificates. “We are very grateful to Baltimore City Schools officials Michael Sarbanes, Jonathan Brice, Debbie Thomas and CEO Andres A. Alonso for agreeing to host this important health initiative. We think it is a good way to promote and encourage awareness among school-age children and their parents about the risks of heart disease in the city,” Abraham said. The screening initiative was made possible with materials and equipment support from The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
the JHU Tutorial Project and Alpha Phi Omega. The amount of time students spend in the community varies, although most volunteer on average once a week. In response to questions on barriers to involvement, 72 percent cited the lack of transportation as a major obstacle. Many others said that “time” was another major barrier, citing course loads, work and athletic practice. A majority of students, 81 percent, said that they would be interested in taking a class for academic credit that combines academic content with hands-on community involvement. Students are interested in a wide range of options, the survey found, with opportunities during academic breaks
being one of the most popular. The survey produced several recommendations, such as the expansion of Alternative Spring Break programming and an increase in service opportunities during the intersession and summer sessions. One recommendation was to increase the number of community-based federal workstudy offerings. Tiefenwerth said that the center has been able to get more such funding this year to increase the number of openings in agencies and schools. He also said that CSC launched a pilot internship program this past summer for 10 students to work for the Maryland Health Care for All Coalition and other organizations. Another recommendation was to explore ways to increase transportation options to
individual students and groups who wish to serve off campus. Tiefenwerth said that some students currently use the Homewood-JHMI shuttle to get to and from volunteer locations in East Baltimore. He said that perhaps in the not-too-distant future a “volunteer shuttle service” could be started. “A service like this can hit a lot of the schools and places where we have active partnerships,” he said. “And as we build on these partnerships, we can expand the number of people who want to give time to community service.” The Center for Social Concern, founded in 1991, is the student volunteer office for the Homewood campus, and it currently has more than 50 groups focused on serving the Baltimore community. G
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Season begins with tragic love story (what else?) Peabody Opera Theatre to present Massenet’s ‘Manon’ Nov. 18 to 21 By Richard Selden
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eabody Opera Theatre will present a new, fully staged production of Jules Massenet’s Manon, named for the fictional young woman whose tragic love story inspired no fewer than three operas (the others by Auber and Puccini), as the first part of its French Season of Opera. Sung in French with English supertitles, Manon will be performed in Peabody’s Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 18, Friday, Nov. 19, and Saturday, Nov. 20, and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 21. The stage director is Roger Brunyate, director of Opera Programs at Peabody. Ken Lam, assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and an alumnus of Peabody’s graduate program in orchestral conducting, will guest conduct the Peabody Symphony Orchestra. The production is sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Allan D. Jensen. Four of Peabody’s most accomplished singers are cast in the leading roles of Manon Lescaut and her lover, the Chevalier des Grieux, who, love-struck, flees to Paris with the convent-bound ingenue. At the Thursday and Saturday performances, the ill-fated pair will be played by soprano Jennifer Edwards, a Graduate Performance Diploma candidate studying with Phyllis Bryn-Julson, and tenor William Davenport, a senior studying with Stanley Cornett. On Friday and Sunday, the leads will
Jennifer Edwards, above, and Jessica Thompson alternate in the title role.
be Jessica Thompson, a GPD candidate studying with Ah Young Hong, and Jiwoon Kwak, a GPD candidate studying with Steven Rainbolt. “Manon and des Grieux appear together in five of the six scenes in the opera, and sing love duets in four of them,” Brunyate notes, “but there is not a single scene in which they are both on the same page emotionally. The tension that arises from these clashes is one of the most fascinating aspects of the work.” First performed at the Opera-Comique in Paris in 1884, Manon shows the influence of Carmen by Georges Bizet (which premiered in 1874) in the interweaving of passionate episodes and lighthearted interludes. But, according to Brunyate,
Massenet conveys more sympathy for his doomed heroine than either Bizet or the Abbe Prevost, who wrote the moral—yet scandalous—18th-century novel on which the opera is based. Each scene in Manon takes place in a distinctive setting, from the courtyard of an inn to the chapel of Saint-Suplice to a gaming salon at the Hotel de Transylvanie. Ukrainian-born set designer Sofya Karash, a 2009 graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art, has created colorful, thickly patterned landscapes and rooms that resemble those found in sophisticated picture books. Combined with lighting by Douglas Nelson, resident lighting designer at Peabody and production manager for Peabody Opera since 1985, the sets seem to contain both the vibrancy and the foreboding of Massenet’s score. The other performers (the first in each pair appearing on Thursday and Saturday, the second on Friday and Sunday) are Kangho Lee and Nathan Wyatt as Lescaut, Manon’s cousin; Peter Tomaszewski and Alexander Rosen as the Count des Grieux; Stephen Campbell and Michael Rainbow as Guillot de Morfontaine; Michael Maliakel and Jisoo Kim as M. de Bretigny; Chun-Ting Chao and Danielle Edwards as Pousette; Danielle Buonaiuto and Annie Laing as Javotte; and Kristina Lewis and Tessa Wegenke as Rosette. JoAnn Kulesza, music director of Peabody Opera, served as principal coach. The other half of Peabody’s French Season of Opera is a double bill of Les mamelles de Tiresias by Francis Poulenc and L’enfant et les sortileges by Maurice Ravel, to be presented March 16 to 19. Tickets for Manon are $25, $15 for seniors and $10 for students. To purchase tickets, call the Peabody Box Office at 410-2344800.
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Miller Continued from page 1 cine’s extensive expansion over the past decade, both in Maryland and internationally. Miller also championed the creation of a master plan, currently in its final stages, to replace aging facilities on the East Baltimore medical campus. An anesthesiologist who has authored or co-authored more than 150 scientific papers, abstracts and book chapters, Miller joined Johns Hopkins in 1994 as a professor and director of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. He was named interim dean in 1996 and dean in 1997. He came to Johns Hopkins after eight years at Columbia University in New York, where he served as professor and chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Before that, he spent 11 years at the University of Virginia. Miller’s research has focused on the cardiovascular effects of anesthetic drugs and vascular smooth muscle relaxation. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Born in Rochester, N.Y., Miller received his bachelor’s degree from Ohio Wesleyan University and his medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Miller, whose formal academic title is the Frances Watt Baker and Lenox D. Baker Jr. Dean of the School of Medicine, recently sat down with The Gazette to discuss the growth of Johns Hopkins Medicine (the umbrella name for Johns Hopkins’ entire medical enterprise), the School of Medicine’s recent academic transformation and the future of health care in America. Q: What is the key to the longevity in your position? A: I love what I do. Q: What is the most rewarding part of your job?
So those are the kinds of things that we do. And we’re going to have the signing of the agreement in Malaysia [which happened Nov. 2]. Q: Is there ever any hesitation when we grow the Johns Hopkins Medicine brand? A: All of the expansion, I would say, has
come about with a very thoughtful approach. This is all done with a lot of due diligence, with a lot of understanding of reputational risks, and also opportunities. We are not risk-adverse, but I think we’re relatively cautious in what we do. If you look at both Suburban and Sibley as examples, those are institutions that approached us. We did not go out searching for hospitals. Once they do approach us, are we going to sell ourselves and say that we can bring value? The answer is, yes, we can. We have a lot of expertise built in that we can share. The same thing on the international market. We know where we can be successful and where we probably can’t be successful. So we stay away from some partnerships and opportunities.
Q: How would you describe your leadership philosophy? A: Pick good people and put them in
positions of authority. All of my vice deans and senior administrative people are just first-rate. If you look at the leadership team here, we’ve all been together nearly the whole time, which is pretty remarkable. We lost Michael Klag [when he became dean of the School of Public Health], we lost Cathy DeAngelis to JAMA [Journal of the American Medical Association] and Elias Zerhouni to NIH [National Institutes of Health]. Those are three key individuals, but we replaced them with very good people as well. Having a team that works together, and we meet a lot, gives stability to the organization. People know there’s strong leadership in place. They know who they are, and who they can trust. They can come to them with their issues and have them be resolved. All this helps an institution. Our people are not worried about the administration; they’re just worried about what they are trying to get done.
A: Probably seeing the faculty do what
they do. We have pretty amazing faculty, when you think about it. Whether it’s in the research or education piece. David Nichols, vice dean for education, has done a tremendous job in his arena. Or look at what Janice Clements, vice dean for faculty, has done in helping get faculty promoted. Then there’s our vice deans for research, Chi Dang and Dan Ford, and their efforts, whether it’s with our clinical or basic research, and Bill Baumgartner, the vice dean for clinical affairs, working with our clinical faculty, and how we deliver care and some of the things we need to fix within the system. I’m also proud, certainly, of building the health network that we’ve undertaken: Sibley [Memorial] Hospital, the Suburban Hospital, Howard County [General Hospital], Bayview Medical Center and how that all fits together. There’s the great work of Steve Kravet, who is president of Johns Hopkins Community Physicians. Internationally, there’s some very interesting stuff going on. I was recently down in Chile and Panama and saw the impact we had down there.
Q: Tell me more about our international work. A: It’s very interesting to see the impact
you can have in places. When I was in Chile, the minister of health was the chief medical officer at the hospital that we’ve been working with since 2007. I walked in and he said, “I want to thank you because Johns Hopkins International has improved the health of the people in Chile, because of what you did in Clinica Las Condes.” Same thing is said in Panama, and even in the United Arab Emirates, for example. In Cornish Hospital in Abu Dhabi, they started a program that every family—and Cornish is the biggest baby hospital in the Middle East—gets a car seat when they leave. And car accidents are plentiful in the UAE.
personalized medicine, and is its broad practice inevitable? A: It is inevitable. We know that the ability to do the whole genome for a person will continue to decrease in cost, to probably a few hundred dollars. I honestly don’t know how far down it will go. It will be kind of like the computer chip industry. So we know the cost will come down, but how do you use the information? Is there personalized medicine right now? The answer is yes. The first area is in cancer, where we might know the genetic defect and the enzyme that is made and can direct therapy specifically at that. We need to know the kind of cancer that patient has, what the defect is, and then find the drug that will affect just that defect. We are far ahead in oncology, but this level of medicine will occur in cardiovascular disease, mental disorders and other areas. It will continue to grow. Q: How much has the workload changed for medical students from a couple of generations ago? Are they learning twice as much, or is it just a different set of basics? A: There’s so much information now. And
I also think that before, we concentrated on a lot of the minutiae. There’s just differences. We didn’t have the understanding of the human genome, for example. In general, we spent a lot of time on rare things before.
Q: Such as? A: Thalassemia, for one. That is certainly
not seen every day. We knew a lot about thalassemia [laughs]. We knew a lot about TTP, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. These are kind of rare. You might see it once and never see it again. Apologies to Chi Dang, a hematologist.
Q: You’ve been here for ABC’s ‘Hopkins 24/7’ in 2000 and the sequel series, ‘Hopkins,’ eight years later. Were you happy with these documentaries and how we were portrayed? A: Yes, I think it was a realistic portrayal.
I think [producer] Terry Wrong did a really good job of not sensationalizing more than he needed to. But he grabbed viewers’ interests with some special stories. We were one of the early ones for reality TV, before a lot of this other stuff you see today.
Q: Last fall the School of Medicine implemented the new Genes to Society curriculum, the first wholesale academic overhaul at the school in two decades. Tell me about the rationale behind this change and how it’s being received.
Q: What are some of the nation’s most pressing health concerns?
A: When you change a curriculum, you
A: Diabetes and obesity are big challenges.
don’t do it overnight. Probably five to six years of work went into that ahead of time. First, we had to sell it to the faculty because it’s a lot different. It went from big lectures to small groups. Now the first two years are basic science and the last two years clinical. It required the faculty to put much more effort into it than ever before. It required the basic scientists to be involved in the third and fourth year of the curriculum, which they had never done before. Why did we do it? First, the whole human genome comes out in 2000 and we ask ourselves, how are we going to take all that information? Some would say it’s like the number of words in the dictionary, and how you would put it all together in sentences and paragraphs. How are we going to use all that information and apply it to the future patients we’re going to see? We’re still in the infancy of this. We also changed the paradigm. Is what we do train doctors just to care for illness? Or do we want to see how we can keep people healthy longer? And when episodes of illness occur, how do we mitigate that illness? That’s really a shift in focus. There’s also been the addition of public health elements. Whole things have changed rather dramatically with the new curriculum. I think we also wanted to expose our students to a whole range of issues, whether it be AIDS in Africa, malaria or the oncoming onslaught of diabetes and what it means to the country. All of these are issues that medical students need to be thinking about.
Q: How far down the line are we on
And if I had to say the biggest issue out there, it would be childhood obesity. That is going to have a huge impact on society down the road. It’s related to both diet and to exercise. Somehow, we are going to have to tackle this problem in this country. You just think about these kids who are pre-diabetic already and are going to have significant weight and then maybe cardiovascular disease. They are going to have strokes. They are going to have heart attacks at young ages. And then there’s the whole issue of productive lifestyle. Are they going to be disabled because of their illnesses? This is an issue the whole country needs to deal with, and there’s not going to be one thing that is going to fix it.
Q: Certainly we have a video game and junk food culture we have to address? A: There’s a whole host of things that play
into this issue.
Q: Does the School of Medicine face many recruitment challenges? A: No. And the real question is why. Peo-
ple see Johns Hopkins as a bully pulpit of sorts for their specialty. Right, wrong or indifferent, if something comes out of Johns Hopkins, it has an air of authenticity to it. We are a trendsetter. For the younger people who come here, I think the opportunity is the rich resources that are available to them. Just think of the people resources they can interact with. You can go to a Hal Dietz or a Jeremy Nathans. You have all these wonderful people wan-
dering around this institution who are more than willing to talk to you about issues. Q: The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and the Cardiovascular and Critical Care Adult Tower will be finished in 2012. Do you foresee much growth after that to the campus? A: No. We have undergone a great period
of growth the past 10 years, and when that last building opens a little over a year from now, that will be the last piece. That doesn’t mean we won’t continue to grow, but we need to digest what we’ve done. In the future, we very well could have a need for a third cancer research building. The space is there to make that happen. As cancer continues to evolve more, and [moves] more to the outpatient side, we need better infusion sites to be more convenient for patients. So, probably adding a second infusion building. The third foreseeable need is more administrative space. And that might sound crazy, but we have an awful lot of people off-site who probably should be on-site. Our development people, our financial people, our communications people, they are all offsite. It would be nice to have some of these people come back on the campus.
Q: How would you gauge our response to the shooting incident on Sept. 16 at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, which ended with the death of the shooter and his mother? A: The police chief did all the right things.
He was totally in control. Our security people were wonderful, well-trained to act as they did. What hit me was the sense of calm around here. People weren’t panicked. They saw that the leadership is taking this one on and said, “We’re OK.” Just imagine that we had this horrible, tragic event, and in a couple of hours we are up and running again. Just so many people did the right things. The two nurses who took care of our physician. Everybody else on the floor was taking care of the patients. It just showed our level of dedication, and I could not be prouder. Everybody was in tune.
Q: Not to go over all the fine details of the health bill legislation that was passed, but what one thing do you take away from that? A: Giving the ability for more people to
have insurance is certainly, I think, what everyone wants. In a selfish way, we hope that people who have insurance will not end up in end-stage diseases in our emergency room or don’t use the ER as a clinic, so in that way, we have our emergency room opened up only for true emergencies. Hopefully with more people having insurance the ability to be thinking about more preventive measures will become more realistic.
Q: Will we need more doctors? A: I’m not quite sure of that exactly, and
maybe I’m in the minority on this. Now I’m sure there are places in the country that will, but I do believe better use of ancillary people could meet many of our needs. I’m talking nurse practitioners, physician extenders, technicians and so forth. If you think about it, the armed forces with corpsmen have been able to figure that out. I was in the Army for a few years, and I could tell you that the corpsmen deliver very fine care to a lot of people, but we used ancillary people perhaps more effectively than we do now. The payment system, I feel, is the culprit in much of this. I only get paid if I touch you as a physician. But if I get a premium per month to take care of you, maybe I don’t need to see you every time. Maybe my nurse practitioner sees you. I think if the payment system were changed, we can figure out a way to more effectively use people so we have the right person helping the patient at the right time. Q: Biggest challenge going forward?
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pening this week at Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library is the exhibition “Edward S. Curtis: Photogravures from The North American Indian,� which will run through March 27. The museum will host an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 17, with curatorial remarks at 7 p.m. The opening is free, but reservations are requested at 410516-0341 or evergreenmuseum@jhu.edu. In a project that spanned 23 years, The North American Indian is considered one of the most significant representations of traditional American Indian culture ever produced, and widely considered one of the most important publications in United States history. In 20 volumes issued from 1907 to 1930, American photographer Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) created artistic photographs and detailed anthropological records of all tribes west of the Mississippi River. The project, backed by banking magnate J.P. Morgan, was lauded by President Theodore Roosevelt, who insisted that Curtis’ photography was “one of the most valuable works which any American could now do� and that it was “a good thing for the whole American people.� Printed on the finest paper and bound in leather, the lavishly illustrated sets were sold by subscription at prices prohibitive for all but the most avid collectors and libraries.
Each set contained more than 2,000 photogravures, made by a photoengraving process during which the photographic image is chemically etched onto a copper plate. The plate is then inked and the images printed by hand, one at a time. “Edward S. Curtis: Photogravures from The North American Indian� provides a broad survey of Curtis’ monumental project and traces his career over the three decades of its production. The exhibition invites the viewer to consider both the aesthetic impact and historical significance of the project, while bearing in mind that the photographs are not concerned with documenting the Native Americans’ own experience or perspective; rather, they reveal Curtis’ artistic ambitions, political engagements and awareness of art-historical movements. The exhibition of more than two dozen photogravures is drawn from the rare, complete set owned by Johns Hopkins, donated to the university in the early 1980s by Katharine Garrett Bainbridge. Bainbridge’s mother, Katharine Johnson Garrett, purchased the subscription in 1908 as a gift for her husband, Robert Garrett, whose family home was Evergreen. Today the set is part of the Sheridan Libraries’ rare books and manuscripts collection and appropriately is housed at Evergreen’s John Work Garrett Library. “Edward S. Curtis� originally was organized for Gettysburg College’s Schmucker Art Gallery by gallery director Shannon Egan based on her 2006 Johns Hopkins doctoral thesis. It has been adapted and expanded for its Baltimore presentation by Evergreen director and curator James Archer Abbott,
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not only alive but also thriving? It’s very hard to get grants still. I’m concerned that the NIH budget might be flat or decreased. I see people discouraged by the prospect of “Do I have a future as a researcher?� What do we need to do internally to help people be successful? How do we fund the young people? In the old days, there was a surplus we could use. Who will fund them their first two or three years? As the economy continues in the doldrums, it’s harder and harder to get funding. We need to address this.
A: I work in my yard. I like being outside.
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Historic American Indian photos on display at Evergreen
Edward S. Curtis, ‘A Nokoaktok’s Chief’s Daughter,’ photogravure, 1914. Published in ‘The North American Indian,’ portfolio vol. 10, 1915. The John Work Garrett Library, The Sheridan Libraries.
and includes Native American “souvenirs� that were collected by Robert Garrett and his brothers, John and Horatio, during their transcontinental railroad trip in 1887. Student participation in the exhibition arose from the undergraduate course Native American Art taught in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of the History of Art by Lisa DeLeonardis, the Austen-Stokes Term Professor in the Art of the Ancient Americas. Analyzing Curtis’ work with an eye for highlighting the diversity of Native American beliefs about land,
DeLeonardis’ students wrote descriptive texts to accompany the images on display. Admission to the exhibition is free with the guided museum tour, or $3 for the exhibition only. A 50-page illustrated catalog published by the Schmucker Art Gallery is available for sale in the Evergreen gift shop. The exhibition is made possible by the Evergreen House Foundation and the Maryland State Arts Council. For more information, including museum hours and ticket prices, call 410-516-0341 or go to www.museums.jhu.edu.
Plus we have two dogs, and that keeps me busy. They’re Italian water dogs.
Q: What are you reading now? A: Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double
Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted*. G
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Study: Revaccination could benefit HIV-infected children
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ince 2007, heterosexual transmission has replaced injecting drug use as the primary transmission mode of all HIV infections in China, and a new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examines the burden of HIV and sexually transmitted disease among male clients of the commercial sex industry in that country’s Sichuan province. The study is available online in advance of publication in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. “We found a large burden of syphilis infection coupled with high-risk sexual and substance use behaviors among male clients of sex workers,” said Cui Yang, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Epidemiology. “Without effective interventions to prevent HIV transmission to the male client population, the current epidemic may expand into the general population.” For the study, Yang and her colleagues examined the prevalence of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis C virus in a sample of 600 male
clients of female sex workers in three urban areas in Sichuan province. Blood test results indicated that HIV prevalence was 1.5 percent; 5.3 percent were positive for syphilis and 8.7 percent positive for hepatitis C virus. The overall prevalence of consistent condom use with female sex workers was 30 percent. The study also found a significant correlation between syphilis infection among male clients and not having local household registration, snorting heroin and washing genitals after having sex with a female sex worker. Kenrad Nelson, senior author of the study and a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School, said, “Our data raises concerns about the future heterosexual transmission of HIV to the general population in China since unprotected sex with female sex workers has become the norm.” Additional authors of the study are Carl Latkin and Cunling Wang, both of Johns Hopkins; and Rongsheng Luan, of the West China School of Public Health at Sichuan University. The research was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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monitored, and some children may need additional vaccine doses to maintain protective immunity.” Researchers reviewed 38 published studies to establish whether HIV-infected children on HAART have protective immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases, and to assess short- and long-term immune responses to vaccination of children given HAART. (Short-term was defined as less than or equal to three months; long-term, as greater than three months.) They found that starting HAART in infancy, before routine childhood vaccines, might preserve immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases. Currently, the World Health Organization recommends giving most routine childhood vaccines to children infected with HIV but does not make recommendations on revaccination. Catherine Sutcliffe, lead author of the review and a research associate in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Epidemiology, said, “Continued efforts are needed to identify and treat HIV-infected children at younger ages and at earlier stages of disease. Vaccination policies and strategies for children infected with HIV on HAART should be developed in regions of high HIV prevalence to ensure adequate individual and population immunity,” she said. “Without such recommendations, as treatment programs scale up and more children receive HAART and live into adolescence and adulthood, a larger proportion of these children could be susceptible to childhood diseases.” The review was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the National Institute of Allergy and InfecJIWOON tious Diseases. —Natalie Wood-Wright
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ichael “Mike” George, president of QVC Inc., is the featured speaker at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders + Legends lecture series on Friday, Nov. 19. The event will take place from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East. His talk is titled “Strategies for Winning in the Digital Commerce Age.” Named president of QVC in November 2005 and CEO in April 2006, George is responsible for overseeing QVC’s operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and Italy. Under his leadership, QVC has become a premier lifestyle brand and shopping destination. The company is now one of the world’s largest multimedia retailers, with QVC TV reaching approximately 195 million homes worldwide and traffic on its Internet and mobile platforms exceeding 100 million visitors per year. Prior to joining QVC, George was the chief marketing officer and general manager of U.S. consumer business for Dell Inc. In those roles, he was responsible for building the Dell brand globally, developing its global
e-business and CRM (customer relationship management) capabilities, and leading its $8 billion U.S. consumer business. Prior to his time with Dell, George was a senior partner at McKinsey & Co. and led the firm’s North American Retail Industry Group. He also served as a member of the firm’s partner evaluation committee. George serves on the boards of directors for the Kimmel Center and Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation and is a member of the corporate council for the National Constitution Center. He served on the Payless ShoeSource board of directors from 2003 to 2006. George earned his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and his master’s degree in finance from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. The Leaders + Legends monthly breakfast series, which features today’s most influential business and public policy leaders addressing topics of global interest and importance, is designed to engage business and community professionals in an examination of the most compelling issues and challenges facing society today. Admission to the lecture, which includes breakfast, is $35. To register and for more information, go to carey.jhu.edu/ leadersandlegends.
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IV-infected children receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART, may require revaccination to maintain immunity against preventable diseases. There remains no standard or official recommendation on revaccination of children receiving HAART, an effective intervention in reducing morbidity and mortality in HIVinfected children. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health reviewed published data to assess these children’s immune responses to vaccines and found that most children treated with HAART remained susceptible to vaccine-preventable diseases but responded well to revaccination. Their review was published in the September issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. “Most children on HAART responded to revaccination, although immune reconstitution was not sufficient to ensure long-term immunity for some children,” said William Moss, senior author of the review and an associate professor in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Epidemiology. “Because of the progressive effects of HIV infection on the ability of the immune system to mount an effective response, many infected children have poorer responses to vaccines than do uninfected children,” he said. “In addition, fewer children infected with HIV achieve protective immunity, and those who do might experience greater and more rapid waning of immunity. These results suggest that children on HAART would benefit from revaccination, but levels of protective immunity might need to be
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Cheers is a monthly listing of honors and awards received by faculty, staff and students plus recent appointments and promotions. Contributions must be submitted in writing and be accompanied by a phone number. BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER Neeraj Naval has been appointed direc-
tor of Neuro-Critical Care. With a background in neurology, neurosurgery and anesthesiology–critical care medicine, Naval, an assistant professor, focuses on managing critically ill patients with neurological conditions such as subarachanoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage and ischemic stroke. After receiving his medical degree from Grant Medical College in Mumbai, India, he completed his residency in neurology at Drexel University College of Medicine and a fellowship in neurocritical care at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Satish Shanbhag has joined Johns Hopkins as clinical director of Hematology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Bayview. Shanbhag, an assistant professor of medicine and oncology, received his medical degree from Bangalore Medical College in Bangalore, India; did his residency in internal medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he also earned a master’s degree in public health; and completed a fellowship in hematology and oncology at Temple University and Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. He specializes in treating adult patients with benign blood disorders and hematologic malignancies. His clinical research interests include myeloma, mantle cell lymphoma and low-grade lymphomas.
BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH John Groopman , the Anna M. Baetjer
Professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, has received the Award for Excellence in Cancer Prevention Research from the American Association for Cancer Research and the Prevent Cancer Foundation. The award, which Groopman received Nov. 8 at the Ninth AACR Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research in Philadelphia, recognizes scien-
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tists worldwide for seminal contributions to the field of cancer prevention. PEABODY INSTITUTE Jennifer N. Campbell , a student of Brian Ganz , received first prize in the
Well-Tempered Clavier category of the second Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition for Young Pianists, held Oct. 8–11 at Lincoln Center in New York. Campbell, a freshman, also won the prize for the Best Performance of a Contemporary Work, playing David Auldon Brown’s Piano Sonata No. 1. William Davenport , tenor, who will play le Chevalier des Grieux in the Peabody Opera Theatre’s production of Manon on Nov. 18 and 20, was one of five district winners in the Metropolitan Opera auditions at Wolf Trap on Oct. 24. Davenport, a senior, will compete in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Auditions in January. Emily Green , an adjunct faculty member in Musicology, presented a paper at the 16th Biennial 19th-Century Music Conference in Southampton, U.K., and at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, held earlier this month in Indianapolis. Daniel Levitov , Preparatory cello coordinator and conductor of the Young Artists Orchestra, was recently elected president of the Maryland/D.C. chapter of the American String Teachers Association. He will serve as president-elect for two years before beginning a two-year term. The Peabody Percussion Group , directed by Robert Van Sice , was a winner of the Percussive Arts Society’s International Percussion Ensemble Competition. Each year, the winners—two high school ensembles and three college ensembles— perform showcase concerts at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, which was held this year on Nov. 10–13 in Indianapolis. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Cher yl Holcomb-McCoy , professor and
chair of the Department of Counseling and Human Resources, was co-editor of a special October issue of the counseling profession’s premier publication, Professional School Counseling Journal. The issue featured articles emphasizing collaboration with school stakeholders as a central role for school counselors. Holcomb-McCoy also published an article titled “Involving Low-Income Parents and Parents of Color in College Readiness Activities” in the same issue.
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atherine Bradshaw, a developmental psychologist and youth violence prevention researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. This year’s 85 recipients were announced by the White House on Nov. 5. Bradshaw is an associate professor in the Department of Mental Health, associate director of the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Prevention and Early Intervention, where she collaborates on research projects examining bullying and school climate. Her research focuses on the development of aggressive and problem behaviors; effects of
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Kay Redfield Jamison , the Dalio Fam-
ily Professor in Mood Disorders and professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center, is one of three recipients of a 2010 Productive Lives Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression. According to NARSAD, the three are being recognized “for their lifelong struggle and tremendous success in overcoming the staggering odds that those living with mental illness face to become highly accomplished and fully contributing individuals, both in their respective professional fields and in their private circles.” The recipients are all best-selling authors who disclosed their personal stories about living with mental illness, and who have also played important roles in furthering research and encouraging public discourse on these often-invisible
exposure to violence, peer victimization and environmental stress on children; and the design, evaluation and implementation of evidence-based prevention programs in schools. She also works with the Maryland State Department of Education and several school districts to support the development and implementation of programs and policies to prevent bullying and school violence, and to foster safe and supportive learning environments. “Science and technology have long been at the core of America’s economic strength and global leadership,” said President Obama. “I am confident that these individuals who have shown such tremendous promise so early in their careers will go on to make breakthroughs and discoveries that will continue to move our nation forward in the years ahead.” Awardees are selected for innovative research and community service through scientific leadership, public education or community outreach. They receive research grants to further their studies in support of critical government missions.
illnesses. Jamison’s best-known book, An Unquiet Mind, chronicles her manic depression and was on The New York Times bestseller list for more than five months. WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Danielle Tarraf , an assistant professor
in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is the recipient of a 2011 grant from the Air Force Young Investigator Research Program. With this funding, she will explore an integrative theory of control and computation. The program, operated by the Air Force’s Office of Scientific Research, is open to scientists and engineers at research institutions across the United States who received their doctorate or equivalent degree in the last five years and show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. This year, out of 242 proposals, only 43 scientists were awarded funding.
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arly results from a group of clinical trials in Africa and South America support wider use of a low-cost treatment to prevent the emergence of active tuberculosis in people living with HIV/AIDS. In a supplement published Nov. 11 in the journal Aids, researchers affiliated with the Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS/TB Epidemic, known as Create, note that isoniazid preventive therapy—using an antibiotic that is part of the routine treatment for active TB disease and prevents the emergence of active TB disease in HIVinfected people—produces minimal associated health risks when monitored monthly by trained nurses. Globally, TB is the leading cause of death for people infected with HIV, and effective preventive therapies are essential to reduce TB-related morbidity and mortality.
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Isoniazid is a common antibiotic that has been used in TB treatment since the late 1950s. While isoniazid is not recommended to be used alone for the treatment of active TB disease, earlier studies have indicated that the risk of developing drug resistance is minimal when isoniazid preventive therapy, or IPT, is administered to people who are latently infected with TB. IPT is administered as a nine-month course of daily medication, and it effectively prevents active TB disease in a high percentage of patients who complete a full course of treatment. “This is exciting news for the global fight against TB and HIV,” said Richard Chaisson, a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “We have positive signs that IPT provides a safe and effective way to prevent TB in people living with HIV. The final results of the three trials that we are conducting in South Africa, Zambia and Brazil are not yet ready, but partial results from studies conducted by Thibela TB in South Africa and THRio in Brazil suggest that we are on the right path.” Chaisson is principal investigator of Create, a research program funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that is studying the most effective ways to prevent, diagnose and treat TB using currently available medicines and technologies. Create was launched in 2004, and the consortium
expects to conclude a series of clinical trials in Brazil, South Africa and Zambia in late 2011. Both TB and HIV are prevalent among migrant workers in the gold-mining industry in South Africa, and several of the articles published in the Aids supplement present data from a study of communitywide IPT in the mines there. The research intervention was conducted by the Aurum Institute of Johannesburg, in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, between 2006 and 2010. One of the articles found that mortality was lower among individuals receiving IPT in combination with antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection. These results support the routine use of IPT in conjunction with ART. The studies also determined that people who undergo IPT experience few adverse events. Of the 24,221 participants in the clinical trial, only 130 experienced important side effects related to treatment. Serious adverse events, such as liver toxicity, were rare, and the study found that clinical criteria can be used to screen patients for serious toxicity risks and safely monitor patients while they are on IPT. Another paper established that chest radiography, where available, can be a useful adjunct to symptom screening in ruling out active TB. The identification and exclusion of active TB cases is critical to ensuring
the long-term effectiveness of IPT because active TB must be treated with a combination of antibiotics to prevent the development of drug-resistant TB strains. While patient uptake to IPT was surprisingly high in the Thibela TB study, one of the studies found that health care workers serve as the primary barrier to widespread adoption of IPT for HIV-infected patients in the local clinic setting. Lack of experience with IPT among physicians must be addressed with efforts to raise awareness of the treatment by local health care leaders, the researchers said. New South African government national guidelines on the use of IPT for HIV-infected individuals have been recently released in the hope that more health care providers will adopt the use of IPT for people living with HIV. In a Create study conducted among 29 public health clinics in Rio de Janeiro, more than 5,000 HIV-infected patients had tuberculin skin tests placed; of the 94 percent of the tests that were read, 18 percent were positive. Eighty-three percent of those with positive skin tests have completed therapy to date, and fewer than 2 percent have had minor adverse effects. The researchers said that this study demonstrates that IPT can be incorporated successfully into existing public health clinics. For more on CREATE, go to tbhiv-create .org.
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Milestones The following staff members recently retired or celebrated an anniversary with the university in November 2010. The information is compiled by the Office of Work, Life and Engagement, 443-997-7000. ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL CENTERS
10 years of service R o d r i g u e z , Carlos, Center for Talented Youth 5 years of service A r a n a , Silvia, Jhpiego B e n a v i d e s , Bruno, Jhpiego H i l l , Sonja, Johns Hopkins University Press M c K a i g , Catherine, Jhpiego P e t o , Joan, Jhpiego W o l f e , Jamie, Jhpiego BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
30 years of service W e n g e r , Jeanne, Epidemiology 20 years of service R u s s e l l , Joseph, Facilities 15 years of service Michelle, Information Systems F r a n k l i n , Rosalind, Epidemiology G e r o n i m o , Jose, Information Systems H a m m o n d , Holly, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Campbell,
10 years of service Jennifer, Information Systems De Guzman,
5 years of service H a u h n , Diane, Development and Alumni Affairs Q u a y , Dianna, International Health Tr i e b , Michele, Population, Family and Reproductive Health W h i t e , Sharon, Health Policy and Management CAREY BUSINESS SCHOOL
10 years of service S h e p h a r d , Mindi, Business and Financial Services 5 years of service N u s s d o r f e r , Julia, Professional Programs HOMEWOOD STUDENT AFFAIRS
40 years of service O l i v e r , Solomon, Athletics and Recreation 20 years of service G a l l a g h e r , Lisa, Housing and Dining Services 15 years of service Phyllis, Homewood Arts Programs
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10 years of service H o p k i n s , Carla, Multicultural Affairs M a z u r e k , Blanche, Office of the Registrar 5 years of service D o n o v a n , Lillian, Undergraduate Admissions KRIEGER SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
15 years of service L i , Rongfeng, Chemistry 10 years of service Barbara, Biology
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5 years of service Monique, Center for Social Organization of Schools
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Cholesterol Continued from page 1 to cardiovascular and other diseases. Cholesterol levels can be kept in check through diet, exercise and medication. Mielke and her colleagues examined data from the Prospective Population Study of Women, which began in 1968 and consisted of 1,462 Swedish women ages 38 to 60. Follow-ups were conducted at four intervals across the intervening decades, with the most recent examinations concluding in 2001. As part of the study, the women were given physical exams, heart tests, chest X-rays and blood tests. They also were surveyed for smoking habits, alcohol and medication use, education and medical history. Throughout the study, body mass index, a measurement of weight-per-height, and blood pressure were taken. Women were assessed for dementia throughout the 32 years of follow-up. In 2001, 161 of the original group had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia, but the youngest group was just reaching age 70. Despite the advances being made in biomarker and other dementia research, the biggest known risk factor for these neurodegenerative diseases is old age. Mielke said that later in life, women with slightly higher body mass index, higher
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levels of cholesterol and higher blood pressure tend to be healthier overall than those whose weight, cholesterol and blood pressure are too low. But it is unclear whether “too low” cholesterol, BMI and blood pressure are risk factors for dementia or if they could be signs that dementia is developing, she said. For example, she said, an inadvertent loss of weight often precedes the development of dementia, but the exact cause is unclear. The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Swedish Research Council, Swedish Brain Power Project, University of Gothenburg, Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research, Swedish Alzheimer Association, European Commission Seventh Framework Program, Svenssons Foundation, Swedish Society of Medicine, Soderstrom-Konigska Nursing Home Foundation, Foundation for Gamla Tjanarinnor, Hjalmar Svenssons Foundation, Swedish Society of Medicine, Goteborg Medical Society, Lions Foundation, Dr. Felix Neubergh Foundation, Wilhelm and Martina Lundgren Foundation, Elsa and Eivind Kison Sylvan Foundation and Alzheimer’s Association Zenith Award. Peter P. Zandi of Johns Hopkins also participated in the study, as did researchers from SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. G
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Vitamin D deficit doubles risk of stroke in whites, not blacks B y D av i d M a r c h
Johns Hopkins Medicine
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aving low levels of vitamin D, the essential nutrient obtained from milk, fortified cereals and exposure to sunlight, doubles the risk of stroke in whites, but not in blacks, according to a new report by researchers at Johns Hopkins. Stroke is the nation’s third-leading cause of death, killing more than 140,000 Americans annually and temporarily or permanently disabling more than half a million when there is a loss of blood flow to the brain. Researchers say that their findings, presented Nov. 15 at the American Heart Association’s annual Scientific Sessions in Chicago, back up evidence from earlier work at Johns Hopkins linking vitamin D deficiency to higher rates of death, heart disease and peripheral artery disease in adults. The Johns Hopkins team says that its results fail to explain why African-Americans, who are more likely to be vitamin D–deficient due to their darker skin pigmentation’s ability to block the sun’s rays, also suffer from higher rates of stroke. Of the 176 study participants known to have died from stroke within a 14-year period, 116 were white and 60 were black. Still, AfricanAmericans had a 65 percent greater likelihood of suffering such a severe bleeding in or interruption of blood flow to the brain than whites when age, other risk factors for stroke and vitamin D deficiency were factored into the researchers’ analysis. “Higher numbers for hypertension and diabetes definitely explain some of the excess risk for stroke in blacks compared to
whites, but not this much risk,” said study co–lead investigator and preventive cardiologist Erin Michos, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart and Vascular Institute. “Something else is surely behind this problem. However, don’t blame vitamin D deficits for the higher number of strokes in blacks.” Nearly 8,000 initially healthy men and women of both races were involved in the latest analysis—part of a larger ongoing national health survey—in which the researchers compared the risk of death from stroke between those with the lowest blood levels of vitamin D to those with higher amounts. Among them, 6.6 percent of whites and 32.3 percent of blacks had severely low blood levels of vitamin D, which the experts say is less than 15 nanograms per milliliter. “It may be that blacks have adapted over the generations to vitamin D deficiency, so we are not going to see any compounding effects with stroke,” said Michos, who noted that African-Americans have adapted elsewhere to low levels of the bone-strengthening vitamin, with fewer incidents of bone fracture and greater overall bone density than seen in Caucasians. “In blacks, we may not need to raise vitamin D levels to the same level as in whites to minimize their risk of stroke,” said Michos, who emphasizes that clinical trials are needed to verify that supplements actually do prevent heart attacks and stroke. In her practice, she says, she monitors her patients’ levels of the key nutrient as part of routine blood work while also testing for other known risk factors for heart disease and stroke, including blood pressure, glucose and lipid levels.
Michos cautions that the number of fatal strokes recorded in blacks may not have been statistically sufficient to find a relationship with vitamin D deficits. And she points out that the study assessed only information on deaths from stroke, not the more common “brain incidents” of stroke, which are usually nonfatal, or even ministrokes, whose symptoms typically dissipate in a day or so. She says that the team’s next steps will be to evaluate cognitive brain function as well as nonfatal and transient strokes and any possible tie-ins to nutrient deficiency. In addition to helping keep bones healthy, vitamin D plays an essential role in preventing abnormal cell growth and in bolstering the body’s immune system. The hormonelike nutrient also controls blood levels of calcium and phosphorus, essential chemicals in the body. Shortages of vitamin D have been tied to increased rates of breast cancer and depression in the elderly. Michos recommends that people maintain good vitamin D levels by eating diets rich in such fish as salmon and tuna, consuming vitamin D–fortified dairy products and taking vitamin D supplements. She also promotes brief daily exposure to the sun’s vitamin D–producing ultraviolet light; to those concerned about cancer risks linked to too much time in the sun, she says that as little as 10 to 15 minutes of daily exposure is enough during the summer months. If vitamin supplements are used, Michos says that daily doses between 1,000 and 2,000 international units are generally safe and beneficial, but that people with severe vitamin D deficits may need higher doses under close supervision by their physician to avoid possible risk of toxicity. The U.S. Institute of Medicine previously
suggested that an adequate daily intake of vitamin D is between 200 and 600 international units. Michos argues, however, that this may be woefully inadequate for most people to raise their vitamin D blood levels to a healthy 30 nanograms per milliliter. The Institute of Medicine has set up an expert panel to review its vitamin D guidelines, with new recommendations expected by the end of the year. Previous results from the same nationwide survey showed that 41 percent of men and 53 percent of women have unhealthy amounts of vitamin D, with nutrient levels below 28 nanograms per milliliter. Funding for this study was provided by the American College of Cardiology and the P.J. Schafer Cardiovascular Research Fund. In addition to Michos, Johns Hopkins researchers involved in the study were Rebecca Gottesman, Wendy Post and A. Richey Sharrett.
Related websites Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease at Johns Hopkins:
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heart_ vascular_institute/clinical_ services/centers_excellence/ ciccarone_center.html
Erin Michos:
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ heart_vascular_institute/experts/ physician_profile/1D3183C290D2 9A4E8021C61C87797E41/ Erin_Michos,%20MD,%20MHS
Not so fast: Docs should wait longer for signs of brain recovery B y D av i d M a r c h
Johns Hopkins Medicine
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eart experts at Johns Hopkins say that physicians might be drawing conclusions too soon about irreversible brain damage in patients surviving cardiac arrest whose bodies were for a day initially chilled into a calming coma. The chilling, known as therapeutic hypothermia, is one of the few medical practices known to improve brain recovery after sudden heart stoppages, with brain recovery usually assessed three days after the incident. The therapy, recommended in American Heart Association treatment guidelines since 2005, is thought to work by slowing down the body’s metabolism, delaying the brain’s need for oxygen until the heart, lungs and kidneys can recover. Senior study investigator and cardiologist Nisha Chandra-Strobos says that large multicenter studies will be required before experts can definitively suggest changes to current standards of care. However, early indications are that “we may need to be much more deliberate in allowing the brain to recover before adjudicating on the neurological benefits of therapeutic hypothermia, as there is obviously more variability in patient response to treatment than previously thought,” she said. “It is definitely a clinical situation about which we have much more to learn in order
to maximize care for our cardiac arrest patients,” said Chandra-Strobos, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart and Vascular Institute, and director of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Reporting on a study of 47 men and women treated for cardiac arrest at Johns Hopkins Bayview, lead study investigator and internist Shaker Eid said that the investigators’ results “show that people who have been immediately treated with hypothermia are more likely to wake up, and are taking longer to wake up, as opposed to those who do not receive such treatment. “Hypothermia patients are showing initial signs of renewed brain activity five and sometimes even seven days after suffering cardiac arrest,” said Eid, an assistant professor, who presented the team’s findings Nov. 13 at the American Heart Association’s annual Scientific Sessions in Chicago. “Physicians and family members may need to wait longer than the traditional three days before making irrevocable decisions about brain function recovery and possible withdrawal of care,” he said. The Johns Hopkins study is believed to be the first timeline analysis of neurological recovery after hypothermia treatment in victims of cardiac arrest. “An obvious concern in light of these results is that we may be withdrawing support prematurely in selected patients,” said Chandra-Strobos. “The concern is valid;
SAIS, Korea Institute of Finance host conference on world economy
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n Thursday, Nov. 18, SAIS and the Korea Institute of Finance will hold a one-day conference titled “State of the World Economy 2011–2012: Whither or Wither?” Duk-soo Han, South Korean ambassador to the United States, will give the luncheon keynote address, and experts from inter-
national organizations, government, think tanks and academia will speak throughout the day. For a complete agenda, go to www. sais-jhu.edu/bin/q/p/KIFagenda.pdf. The conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Nitze Building’s Kenney Auditorium. Non-SAIS affiliates should RSVP to uskoreainstitute.org/events/?event_id=79.
however, our clinical and study experience are reassuring, since most patients are observed and treated more than seven days.” The average length of stay at Johns Hopkins Bayview for such patients is 13 days, which she says is more than adequate to allow for neurological recovery. The chilling and coma therapy typically lasts less than 24 hours, and patients are slowly weaned off powerful sedatives and simultaneously warmed up to a normal body temperature of 37 degrees Celsius. Experts say that if an ambulance reaches an arrest victim shortly after collapse, the patient can be chilled in the hospital emergency room or intensive care unit within a few hours to the desired temperature, 33 degrees Celsius, using a combination of cold intravenous solutions and “ice blankets,” suits, vests or helmets. Not all victims of cardiac arrest, the researchers caution, are candidates for therapeutic hypothermia. According to Eid, the treatment works best when emergency personnel are by the side of the patient at the time of actual collapse and can begin immediate CPR and restart the heart, usually with a combination of drugs and sometimes with electrical shock from a defibrillator. The treatment is also more effective, he says, in such people if their initial collapse was brought on by an electrical disturbance in the heart, what is known as a ventricular fibrillation rhythm. More than 300,000 cardiac arrests occur outside of hospitals each year in the United States, with less than 8 percent of victims surviving their medical crisis with brain function intact, a statistic that Chandra-Strobos calls “pitiful.” In the new study, the Johns Hopkins researchers monitored the 47 men and women treated with and without therapeutic hypothermia. More than half died in the hospital. However, survival rates were higher for those whose bodies were chilled
than for those who were not. In seven survivors treated with hypothermia, more than half remained comatose three days after sedation was withdrawn, with only a third showing signs of renewed brain activity. By the fifth day, the numbers were reversed, with more than half showing signs of waking up and only a third remaining comatose. And after a week, one-third were fully alert and awake, while half showed signs of brain function returning. This result contrasts, the researchers say, with the 13 survivors who were not candidates for therapeutic hypothermia. Almost half were immediately alert upon resuscitation, while the majority, 80 percent, showed signs of brain awakening by day three, as commonly expected. Experts say that current neurologic evaluation guidelines, in place since 1985, state that by day three, decisions can be made about whether or not to withdraw care in the absence of renewed brain activity. Funding for this study was provided by Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. In addition to Eid and Chandra-Strobos, Johns Hopkins researchers involved in the study were Skon Nazarian, Devon Dobrosielski, Scott Carey, Joel Palachuvattil, Romergryko Geocadin, Rafael Llinas and Kerry Steward.
Related websites Johns Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute:
www.hopkinsheart.org
Nisha Chandra-Strobos:
www.hopkinsbayview.org/ cardiology/faculty/chandra.html
Shaker Eid:
www.hopkinsbayview.org/cims/ clinicalstaff/eid.html
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Leaders + Legends Lecture— “Strategies for Winning in the Digital Commerce Age” by Michael George, president and CEO, QVC Inc. (See story, p. 9.) Sponsored by the Carey Business School. Legg Mason Tower, Harbor East. “The Charles E. Dohme Memorial Lecture—“Neurons, Mitochondria, Astrocytes, Glycolysis—What’s the Connection With Cancer?” by Sir Salvador Moncada, University College London. Sponsored by Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences. WBSB Auditorium. EB
Fri., Nov. 19, 4 p.m.
MUSIC Thursday through Sat., Nov. 18 to 20, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., Nov. 21, 3 p.m. Peabody Opera
Theatre’s production of Jules Massenet’s Manon. (See story, p. 5.) $25 general admission, $15 for senior citizens and $10 for students with ID. Friedberg Hall. Peabody Sat., Nov. 20, 3 p.m. Music at Evergreen presents the Claremont Trio. (See photo, p. 16.) $20 general admission, $15 for Evergreen Museum & Library members, $10 for full-time students with ID. Seating is limited and reservations are recommended; www.brownpapertickets.com/ producer/22987 or call 410-5160341. Tickets include museum admission and a post-concert tea reception. Bakst Theatre. Evergreen Sun., Nov. 21, 3 p.m. Hopkins Symphony Orchestra presents a chamber concert featuring music by Mendelssohn. Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith Center. HW
O P E N HOU S E S Fri., Nov. 19, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Open house for the Whiting School of Engineering’s Master of Science in Security Informatics program. Concurrent sessions in 214 Maryland and 313 Maryland; refreshments at noon in 214 Maryland. HW REA D I N G S / B OO K TA L K S
Local author and historian Harry Ezratty will discuss and sign copies of his latest book, Baltimore in the Civil War: The Pratt Street Riots and a City Divided. Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins. HW
Tues., Nov. 16, 7 p.m.
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“Structures of Ribonucleoprotein Particles That Make Ribosomes, Spliceosomes and Telomerase,” a Biophysics seminar with Hong Li, Florida State University. 111 Mergenthaler. HW Mon., Nov. 15, noon.
“Plato, Aristotle and the Methods of Ethics,” a Philosophy seminar with Dominic Scott, University of Virginia. 288 Gilman. HW
Mon., Nov. 15, noon. “Contributions of Materials Innovations to Sustainable Infrastructure,” a Civil Engineering seminar with Kimberly Kurtis, Georgia Tech. B17 Hackerman. HW
Tues., Nov. 16, 4 p.m.
“Role of Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis in Regulation of Iron Metabolism and Pathophysiology of Human Disease Models,” a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology seminar with Tracey Rouault, NICHHD/ NIH. W1020 SPH. EB
“Extended Torelli Map,” an Algebraic Complex Geometry/Number Theory seminar with Valery Alexeev, University of Georgia. Sponsored by Mathematics. 308 Krieger. HW
Mon., Nov. 15, noon.
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“Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Epithelial Branching Morphogenesis and Cancer Invasion,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Andrew Ewald, SoM. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW “Obesity and Glycemic Measures Among HIV-infected Injection Drug Users,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Akosua Asantewa Gyekye-Kusi. W2017 SPH. EB
Mon., Nov. 15, 1 p.m.
Mon., Nov. 15, 1:30 p.m. “Engi-
neering Nanoparticles for Drug and Gene Delivery,” a Biomedical Engineering seminar with Jordan Green, SoM. 709 Traylor. EB (Videoconferenced to 110 Clark. HW ) “Statistical Analysis of Cross-Sectional Survival Data With Applications to the Study of Dementia,” a Biostatistics thesis defense seminar with Marco Carone. E9519 SPH. EB
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“Synthetic HCV 1a Virus: Reconstructing a Representative Genome,” a Center for Computational Genomics seminar with Supriya Munshaw, SoM. 517 PCTB. EB Mon.,
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“Promising Environmental Strategies to Prevent and Reduce Mental Health Disparities,” a Center for Health Disparities Solutions seminar with Debra Furr-Holden, SPH. Sponsored by Health Policy and Management. B14B Hampton House. EB “The Race of Fascism: Je Suis Partout, Race and Culture,” a History seminar with Sandrine Sanos, Texas A&M, Corpus Christi. 308 Gilman. HW
Mon., Nov. 15, 4 p.m.
Tues., Nov. 16, 12:15 p.m.
“Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Smoke-free Legislation in Gujarat, India,” an Institute for Global Tobacco Control seminar with Elisabeth Donaldson, Institute for Global Tobacco Control. Co-sponsored by Health, Behavior and Society. W4030 SPH. EB
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“Speech Technologies: Understanding and Coping With Speech Variability,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Carol Espy-Wilson, University of Maryland. B17 Hackerman. HW “Next Generation Sequencing of Cancers: Many Challenges, Many Opportunities, but a Roller Coaster Worth Riding,” a Molecular Pathology seminar with David Huntsman, University of British Columbia. G-007 Ross. EB Wed., Nov. 17, noon.
“A Summarization Journey: From Extraction to Abstraction,” a Center for Language and Speech Processing seminar with Vauveda Varma, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India. North Conference Room, Stieff Bldg.
Wed., Nov. 17, noon.
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Wednesday Noon Seminar— “Public Health Implications From Sex Offender Policy and Practice Research” with Elizabeth Letourneau, Medical University of South Carolina. Sponsored by Mental Health. B14B Hampton House. EB Wed., Nov. 17, 3 p.m. “Using High Energy X-rays to Study the Mechanical Behavior of Materials,” a Materials Science and Engineering seminar with Matthew Miller, Cornell University. 110 Maryland. HW
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“Latent Process Models for Time Series of Attributed Random Graphs,” an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with Nam Lee, WSE. 304 Whitehead. HW The Bromery Seminar—“Transportation and Other Radwaste Issues” with Ruth Weiner, Sandia National Laboratories. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. 305 Olin.
Thurs., Nov. 18, 3 p.m.
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“Putting a New Frame on Content: Media 3.0 in an Age of iPads, Mashed-Up Hybrids and an Audience That Generates Content,” a Press and Public Policy seminar with David Carr, media reporter, New York Times. (See In Brief, p. 2.) Seating is limited; RSVP to lvr@jhu .edu. Sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies. 132 Gilman. HW
Thurs., Nov. 18, 4 p.m.
Fri., Nov. 19, 10:45 a.m. “Computational Thinking in Language Design,” a Computer Science seminar with Alfred Aho, Columbia University. B17 Hackerman. HW Mon.,
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“Challenges for Polio Eradication in India,” an International Health seminar with Rajib Dasgupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and SPH. W2030 SPH. EB Mon., Nov. 22, 3:30 p.m. “Health
Reform: A Path to Health Equity,” a Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions seminar with Daniel Dawes, Premier Healthcare Alliance. Sponsored by Health Policy and Management. B14B Hampton House. EB
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Tues., Nov. 23, noon. “Rho1 and the Formin Bni1 Mediate a Novel Endocytic Pathway in Yeast,” a Biological Chemistry seminar with Beverly Wendland, KSAS. 612 Physiology. EB
“The Conservatism of Bonferroni for a Large Number of Nearly Independent Comparisons,” a Biostatistics seminar with Michael Proschan, NIAID. W2030 SPH. EB 18,
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“Acceptability of HPV Vaccine and HPV Prevalence Among Female Sex Workers in Lima, Peru,” an International Health thesis defense seminar with Brandon Brown. W2030 SPH. EB Thurs., Nov. 18, 10:45 a.m.
“Growth and Function of Microvascular Structure in vitro and in vivo,” a Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering seminar with Abraham Stroock, Cornell University. 110 Maryland. HW
“Consequences of Aneuploidy in Mammalian Cells,” an Institute of Genetic Medicine seminar with Bret Williams, MIT. G-007 Ross. EB
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Institute of Genetic Medicine seminar with Kenneth Chang, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. G-007 Ross. EB Mon., Nov. 29, 2 p.m. “The Epidemiology of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in the U.S. Population: Prevalence, Correlates and Mortality,” an Epidemiology thesis defense seminar with Mariana Laza-Elizondo. Suite 2-600, 2024 Bldg. EB
“Controversy and Cancer Prevention: Media Messages About the HPV Vaccine,” a Health, Behavior and Society thesis defense seminar with Dana Casciotti. 250 Hampton House. EB
Mon., Nov. 29, 2:30 p.m.
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“Actin Comets vs. Membrane Ruffles: Distinctive Roles of Phosphoinositides in Actin Reorganization,” a Biology seminar with Takanari Inoue, SoM. 100 Mudd. HW
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Wed., Nov. 17, 3:45 p.m.
Thurs., Nov. 18, noon. “NS5A: The Swiss Army Knife of the Hepatitus C Virus,” a Molecular Microbiology and Immunology/ Infectious Diseases seminar with Craig Cameron, Pennsylvania State University. W1020 SPH.
Tues., Nov. 16, 1 p.m.
“Vesicle Formation and Protein Quality Control in the Endoplasmic Reticulum,” a Cell Biology seminar with Elizabeth Miller, Columbia University. Suite 2-200, 1830 Bldg. EB
Thurs., Nov. 18, noon.
“Machine Learning and Multiagent Reasoning: From Robot Soccer to Autonomous Traffic,” a Computer Science seminar with Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin. B17 Hackerman. HW
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The M. Gordon Wolman Seminar— “Munitions Investigation and Interim Removals at Fort Monroe, Va.” with Timothy Reese, EA Engineering, Science and Technology Inc. Sponsored by Geography and Environmental Engineering. 234 Ames. HW
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“Aetna’s Commitment to Reducing Disparities in Health Care: Aetna’s Racial and Ethnic Equality Initiatives,” a Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions seminar with Wayne Rawlins and Michelle Toscano, Aetna. B14B Hampton House. EB Mon., Nov. 29, 4 p.m. “Monotonicity for the Chern-Moser Curvature Tensor and the CR Embedding Problem Into Hyperquadrics,” an Analysis/PDE seminar with Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University. Sponsored by Mathematics. 304 Krieger. HW
SPECIAL EVENTS Tues., Nov. 16, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Fall supplier exhibit, spon-
sored by the JHU Core Store, with representatives from 16 life science companies. The newest version of the Genetic Resources Core Facility Catalog will be available. Light fare and refreshments served. Turner Concourse. EB
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“Singing in the Dark,” an exploration of creativity and madness with Grammy Award–winning Irish vocalist Susan McKeown, and an introduction and discussion with J. Raymond DePaulo and Kay Redfield Jamison. Part of the Arts and Psychiatry series sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center. Hurd Hall. EB THEATER Fri., Nov. 19, and Sat., Nov. 20, 8 p.m., and Sun., Nov. 21, 2 p.m. Johns Hopkins University
Theatre presents Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love. $15 general admission; $13 for senior citizens, JHU faculty, staff and retirees; $5 for students with ID. Merrick Barn.
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“Micro RNAs in Cancer and Development,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Andrea Ventura, Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center. Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive. HW “Systematic RNA Interference to Probe Cancer Cell Vulnerabilities,” an
Mon., Nov. 29, 2 p.m.
W OR K S HO P S The Center for Educational Resources presents a series of
workshops on the Blackboard 9.1 interface. The training is open to all faculty, staff and students in full-time KSAS or WSE programs who will serve as administrators to a Blackboard course. To register, go to www.bb.cer.jhu .edu. Garrett Room, MSE Library. HW
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“Getting Started Blackboard.”
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14 THE GAZETTE • November 15, 2010 P O S T I N G S
Job Opportunities
Homewood
Office of Human Resources: Suite W600, Wyman Bldg., 410-516-8048 JOB#
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POSITION
Sr. Programmer Analyst Accounting Aide Alumni Relations Coordinator Network Analyst Research Service Analyst Employee Assistance Clinician Programmer Analyst Data Assistant Accountant Sr. OD Specialist Accounting Manager Instructional Facilitator Sr. Employer Outreach Coordinator
Schools of Public H e a l t h a n d N u r s i n g Office of Human Resources: 2021 East Monument St., 410-955-3006 JOB#
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Academic Program Coordinator Grant Writer Maintenance Worker Food Service Worker LAN Administrator III Administrative Secretary Program Officer Research Program Assistant II Sr. Administrative Coordinator Student Affairs Officer Instructional Technologist Sr. Financial Analyst Assay Technician Research Technologist Research Nurse Research Scientist Administrative Specialist
School of Medicine
Office of Human Resources: 98 N. Broadway, 3rd floor, 410-955-2990 JOB#
38035 35677 30501 22150 38064
43015 43041 43060 43087 43115 43152 43244 43245 43250 43403 42291 42755 42771 42861 42942 43341 43395
LAN Administrator II Software Engineer DE Instructor, Center for Talented Youth Assistant Program Manager, Center for Talented Youth Residential Life Administrator Tutor Building Operations Supervisor Building Maintenance Technician Program Manager, Center for Talented Youth Admissions Officer Project Manager LDP Stationary Engineer Programmer Analyst Financial Manager Multimedia Technician Sr. Technical Support Analyst Research Service Analyst
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Biostatistician Clinical Outcomes Coordinator Sr. Programmer Analyst Employment Assistant/Receptionist Payroll and HR Services Coordinator Research Data Coordinator Malaria Adviser Data Assistant Budget Specialist Academic Program Administrator Sr. Research Program Coordinator Research Observer Manuscript Editor, American Journal of Epidemiology Research Service Analyst Health Educator Multimedia Production Supervisor Research Program Coordinator Research Data Manager Sr. Laboratory Coordinator Sr. Research Assistant Sr. Administrative Coordinator Research Assistant Budget Analyst
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Sr. Administrative Coordinator Sr. Administrative Coordinator Sponsored Project Specialist Program Administrator Sr. Research Program Coordinator
POSITION
Assistant Administrator Sr. Financial Analyst Nurse Midwife Physician Assistant Administrative Specialist
This is a partial listing of jobs currently available. A complete list with descriptions can be found on the Web at jobs.jhu.edu.
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A perfect pairing
ot many things pair better with fundraising than food. Case in point: the annual Chili Cook-Off and Bake-Off that brought hundreds to the Homewood campus on Friday to support the JHU Campaign for United Way of Central Maryland and the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund. For $5, attendees lunched on chili, cornbread, dessert and a beverage while they supported colleagues who had entered the cooking competitions. Pam Arrington of the School of Engineering took top chili honors with Three-Bean Spicy Chili. Second- and third-place honors went, respectively, to Double Meat Autumn Chili entered by Sheila Wells of Homewood Student Affairs and Babymakin’ Chili pre-
pared by Renato Rapada of Arts and Sciences. Chocolate Raspberry Crumb Bake brought top honors to Kristopher Zgorski of Academic and Cultural Centers, while judges awarded the second and third spots to Chocolate Zucchini Cake baked by D. Lynn O’Neill of Homewood Student Affairs and Cloud Nine Snickerdoodles entered by Leslie Nicholas of Advanced Academic Programs. A special prize for best artistic presentation went to Holly Haynes of Academic and Cultural Centers for Fall Leaves. People’s Choice Awards were awarded to to Wells for her chili and to Abbey Merendino of Applied Math and Statistics and the Center for Leadership Education for her Caramel Fudge Chocolate Cake.
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B O A R D
Season of Giving — During the holiday
MLK Jr. Community Service Award Nominations — Organizers of the upcom-
ing Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Celebration are calling for nominations of faculty, staff, graduate students and retirees for the 2010 Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service. Recipients who demonstrate the spirit of volunteerism, citizenship and activism that characterized King’s life will be recognized at the annual commemoration event, to be held in January. To submit a nomination, go to hrnt.jhu .edu/mlk. The deadline is Nov. 15. For more information, university affiliates should contact Amanda Sciukas at worklife@jhu.edu or 443-997-7000. Employees of the hospital/ health system should contact Christina Pickle at cpickle1@jhmi.edu or 410-614-3721.
season, the Office of Work, Life and Engagement is inviting the Johns Hopkins community to help the less fortunate by participating in its Season of Giving programs. In November, a $20 donation to the JHU Vernon Rice Memorial Butterball Turkey Program will provide a food basket, containing a fresh turkey and vegetables from local and free-range farms, to a family in need for the Thanksgiving holiday. During December, faculty, staff, students and retirees can participate in the Adopt-aFamily/Adopt-a-Senior program, conducted in partnership with local nonprofit social services agencies. Participants can provide gifts, clothing and/or grocery store gift cards to individuals who may not otherwise receive or be able to afford gifts during the holiday. To participate or to learn more about the programs, go to hopkinsworklife.org/ community/index.cfm or contact Brandi Monroe-Payton at bmonroe6@jhu.edu or 443-997-6060.
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Bolton Hill (Park Ave), beautiful 1BR, 1BA apt, 1,300 sq ft, 8 rms, office, guest rm, dining rm, butler’s pantry. $1,595/mo. gbaranoski@covad.net. Bolton Hill, 1BR studio apt w/luxury BA, furn’d, 1st flr, prkng, WiFi. $875/mo incl everything. sheezabrikhouse@yahoo.com. Butchers Hill, fully furn’d 1BR + office, dw, W/D, all appls, hdwd flrs, satellite TV, DVD player, WiFi access, sec sys, cute cottagestyle RH south of JHMI. $1,100/mo + utils. jhmirental@gmail.com. Canton (2443 Fleet St), 2BR, 2.5BA house, new appls, CAC, granite counters, jacuzzi, fp, roof deck, nr JHH and JHU, nr park, water, square. $1,500/mo + utils. 410-3754862 or okomgmt@hotmail.com. Canton, 2BR, 2.5BA rehabbed TH, great location close to JHH/JHMI, avail January. Courtney, cedwar15@gmail.com. Canton, 2-3BR, 2.5BA harborfront TH, fully furn’d, entertainment system, granite counters, marble flrs, stainless steel appls, 2-car garage. 443-955-2040. Charles Village, spacious, bright 3BR apt, 3rd flr, in move-in condition. $1,275/mo. 443-253-2113 or pulimood@aol.com. Charles Village, sublet studio apt starting January 2011. $790/mo. 443-845-3534. Clipper Mill, lovely 3BR, 3.5BA, 2-car garage, bonus rm, deck, community swimming pool, Woodberry lt rail station yds away, nr walking trail and Druid Hill Park, avail short-term or yearly lease, nr University Pkwy, easy access to I-83, 8-10 mins to JHH. $2,500/mo. 443-977-9180. Ednor Gardens, 4BR, 2.5BA EOG TH, all appls, W/D, fin’d bsmt, fenced yd, pets welcome, nr Homewood and Eastern campuses. $1,900/mo + utils. 410-206-8097. Ellicott City, 4BR, 2.5BA single-family house w/fin’d bsmt, 2-car garage, lg backyd, excel schools and location. $2,600/mo + utils. 202-441-7913 or jmwu2918@gmail .com. Fells Point, 2BR, 1.5BA TH, great location, close to everything, avail Dec 1. $1,400/mo. 410-440-1604 or rcruitmlp@gmail.com. Hampden, 3BR, 2BA TH, dw, W/D, fenced yd, nr light rail. $1,100/mo + utils. 410378-2393. Hampden/Medfield, 3BR single-family house, avail furn’d/unfurn’d, w/office, laundry, priv prkng, walk to campus/shops/public transit. $1,300/mo + utils. adecker001@ yahoo.com. Mt Washington, 2BR, 2BA apt in Ivymount community, pet-friendly, incredible view of the woods, avail Dec 15. $1,395/mo incl utils. 443-759-9155 or bonnetwersinger@ yahoo.fr. Mt Washington/Greenspring, luxury 2.5BR, 2.5BA + sunrm in Quarry Lake community, granite counters, hdwd flrs, stainless steel appls, community tennis, gym, swimming pool, lake and waterfall views, easy access to I-83 and 695. $2,300/mo. tLwang21212@ yahoo.com. Roland Park, spacious, furn’d 2BR, 2BA
Federal Hill Sublet -
Female non-smoker for 1 BD (furn.) w/closet + new priv. BA in 3 BD w/ 2 female students. W/D new kitch/LR, Pking, rooftop balcony, Cable, CAC, close to universities, dining, ball parks, transportation, Avail - 1/1/11 to 9/1/11 $900mo./inclusive + 1 mo. Sec. dep. 631-428-6310, lazzurro@pmschools.org
M A R K E T P L A C E
condo in secure area, W/D, walk-in closet, swimming pool, cardio equipment, .5 mi to Homewood campus. $1,600/mo. 410-2183547 or khassani@gmail.com. Rosedale, 3BR single-family house, nice kitchen, dining rm, living rm, W/D, lg, priv backyd, garage, 5-min drive to JHMI, ideal for 2 postdocs to share. $900/mo + utils. 410-746-5022 or ekacho99@hotmail.com. TH nr JHMI, 2BRs each w/priv BA, 1st flr, living rm, dining rm, kitchen, W/D, AC, alarm and half-BA. $1,300/mo. 516-6806703. Lg, renov’d 1BR apt w/new kitchen, BA, crpt, natural light, W/D, avail Dec 1. Alan, 410-227-8879. Cozy 3BR, 2.5BA house nr Homewood/Towson University/Belvedere Square, charming house perfect for family/friends to share, hdwd flrs throughout, fin’d bsmt, front and back yds. 443-414-6834 or lakeave4rent@ gmail.com. 3BR, 1BA TH w/bsmt, fenced backyd w/ patio, nr JHU campus, perfect for grad student or faculty. $1,300/mo (1st month free). 410-925-6646. 2BR, 2BA apt in the Park Charles (downtown Baltimore), avail January-August, fully furn’d. $1,375/mo + elec, Internet/cable. Belinda, 626-215-9297 or tinkerbelinda@ gmail.com.
share all common space, free WiFi, W/D, suite is unfurn’d w/bed avail, pref nonsmoker, 6- to 12-mo lease, refs req’d. $675/mo + 1/2 utils. seafoam7@me.com. Share 3BR, 2.5BA RH in Wyman Park/Remington area, fin’d bsmt, W/D, dw, cable, Internet, deck, prkng, 2 blks to Homewood campus. $450/mo + share of utils. nancyshipley@ hotmail.com. Nonsmokers wanted for rms in furn’d Halethorpe house, flexible lease, W/D, highspeed Internet, cable TV, backyd, prkng, nr MARC train, nr 95/695, must have good credit. $550/mo + utils. 410-409-0692 or Lizo99@hotmail.com. Nonsmoker wanted for 1BR avail in 3BR Baltimore City house owned by young F prof’l, modern kitchen, lg deck, landscaped yd, free prkng, nr JHH/Homewood/Morgan State, nr public transportation, pets welcome. $550/mo + utils. 410-493-2435 or aprede1@yahoo.com. Share all new refurbished TH w/other medical students, 924 N Broadway, 4BRs, 2 full BAs, CAC, W/D, dw, w/w crpt, 1-min walk to JHMI. gretrieval@aol.com. F wanted for rm w/priv BA in lg 2BR, 2BA condo on N Charles St, 8th flr, amazing view, swimming pool, gym, sauna, doorman, 24-hr security, underground prkng, walk to Homewood campus/shuttle. 410-967-4085. Grad student/prof’l wanted for furn’d 2BR, 1BA apt w/prkng, nr Hampden, nr JHU, grocery store, shops, restaurants, refs req’d, pref nonsmoker. $550/mo + sec dep, incl utils. 443-615-4875 or cscime@hotmail .com.
CARS FOR SALE HOUSES FOR SALE
The Colonnade, 1BR, 1.5BA luxury condo w/balcony, underground prkng, across from Homewood Field. $175,000. 410-925-9330. Gardenville, 3BR, 1.5BA RH in quiet neighborhood, new kitchen and BA, CAC, hdwd flrs, club bsmt, fenced, maintenance-free yd w/carport, 15 mins to JHH. $139,500. 443610-0236 or tziporachai@juno.com. Hampden, updated 3BR, 2BA duplex, spacious eat-in kitchen, dw, mud rm, W/D, front porch w/view, back porch, fenced yd, free street prkng (front and back). $215,000. 410-592-2670. Hampden, updated 2BR, 2BA TH, hdwd flrs, CAC, lg closets, beautiful deck, prkng, easy walk to Homewood campus. $209,000. 410-808-2969. Harborview, 2BR, 1BA single-family house, on bus and interstate route, off-street prkng, 15 mins to E Baltimore campus, 5 mins to Bayview. $145,000. 443-604-2797 or lexisweetheart@yahoo.com. Mt Vernon, adorable efficiency co-op on Hopkins shuttle route, sophisticated, secure living at the monument. 410-818-8117. Mt Washington, restored 1865 3BR, 1.5BA farmhouse on private lane, fantastic deck overlooks acre of wooded and open land. $259,000. 410-627-1988. 702 Stoneleigh Rd, lovely 4BR house w/2 full BAs, new kitchen, fin’d bsmt, great public schools. $515,000. Joe, 410-790-3008.
ROOMMATES WANTED
Mature grad student/prof’l wanted for 2 lg rms in historic RH, share w/prof’l couple,
WYMAN COURT HICKORY HEIGHTS Beech Ave. adj. to JHU!
Studio from $570 1 BD Apt. from $675 2 BD from $785
Hickory Ave. in Hampden, lovely Hilltop setting!
2 BD units from $750, or, with Balcony - $785!
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’86 Mercedes Benz 560 convertible w/hard and soft tops, garage-kept, in excel cond, 80K mi. $8,200/best offer. Lan, 443-6761046. ’97 Cadillac Seville SLS, leather, alloy wheels, cassette, multi-CD changer, in good cond, 88.4K mi. $5,000/best offer. 443-3863345 or elwynsattic@gmail.com. ’05 Jeep Liberty Renegade, 4x4, light khaki paint, new tires, class II hitch, fog lamps, 55K mi. $10,500. 240-401-6602. ’94 Ford Ranger XLT, automatic, 4WD, priced to sell. 410-812-6090 or williamtaylor1@comcast.net.
ITEMS FOR SALE
Tiny, darling teacup F Yorkie puppy, 12 wks old, 2.4lbs, ACA-registered, had all shots, wormed, comes w/health guarantee, nonshedding, hypoallergenic. bowlessan@ gmail.com. Stainless steel refrigerator, 66.5” H, 33” W, 2 yrs old. $350. Lynn, 410-215-6575. Sand beach chairs (2), three-step ladders (2), dresser w/shelves, reciprocating saw, printer, digital piano. 410-455-5858 or iricse.its@verizon.net. One-of-a-kind handmade rugs and runners from Afghanistan, lovely colors, unique styles, pillows and other textiles, excel qual-
ity, warm up bare flrs, hallways, entryways. $50-$3,000. 571-332-7292. Red Cross pins from Europe, 15 different. $28. 443-517-9029 or rgpinman@aol.com. Formal oak dining rm table and 6 fabriccovered chairs, table extends to 44" x 86", in excel condition. Lsab1960@yahoo.com. Beautiful living rm set: sofa, loveseat, 2 end tables, 2 lamps, coffee table w/glass. $800/ best offer. 443-983-2362. Knabe upright piano, immaculate condition, great value. Estelle, 301-718-8898. Conn alto saxophone, best offer; exercise rowing machine, $50; both in excel cond. 410-488-1886. Brown couch, almost new (8 mos old), available to pick up on Nov 28 in downtown Baltimore. $200. bcnoct2010@yahoo.com. Authentic Michael Kors bag, stud detail, red leather, brand new, $100; new replica Gucci handbag, black leather, $200; authentic Kate Spade wallet, red patent leather, $75; cash only. sullivan89@gmail.com. Fireplace mantle, antique oak, original from house in Wyman Park area. $100. Judy, 410889-1213 or judybyen@hotmail.com.
SERVICES/ITEMS OFFERED OR WANTED
Stellar, experienced and mature nanny available, warm, energetic, upbeat, very reliable, outstanding refs from JHU faculty. Mary, 410-736-0253. Mature, responsible JHU book editor seeks short- or long-term housesitting jobs, happy to care for pets too, references available. dLbors@yahoo.com. Prof’l M seeks long-term BR rental nr Bayview Medical Center, starting January 2011. 443-928-5192 or jackybbike@aol.com. Piano tuning and repair, PTG craftsman serving Peabody, Notre Dame, homes, churches, etc, in Central Maryland. 410382-8363 or steve@conradpiano.com. Great photos! Headshots for interviews/ auditions, family pictures, production shots, events. Edward S Davis photography/videography. 443-695-9988 or eddaviswrite@ comcast.net. Affordable and professional landscaper/certified horticulturist available to maintain existing gardens, also designing, planting or masonry; free consultations. David, 410683-7373 or grogan.family@hotmail.com. Experienced gardener wanted to help w/fall cleanup and planting. $15/hr. Jim, 410-3667191 or jwilli33@gmail.com. Loving and trustworthy dog walker avail day and evening, overnight sitting w/complimentary housesitting services, impeccable references. 443-801-7487 or alwayshomepc@ gmail.com. Need help with your JHU retirement plan investments portfolio? Free consultation. 410-435-5939 or treilly1@aol.com. Tutor all subjects/levels; remedial and gifted; also help w/college counseling, speech and essay writing, editing, proofreading, database design and programming. 410-3379877 (after 8pm) or i1__@hotmail.com.
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Calendar COLLOQUIA Mon., Nov. 15, 4:30 p.m. “The Race of Nimble Fingers: Changing Patterns of Child Labor in South Africa’s Wine Industry,” an Anthropology colloquium with Susan Levine, University of Cape Town. 113 Greenhouse. HW
17,
3:30
Claremont Trio opens Music at Evergreen concert series
“Diverse Energy Sources for Supernovae,” a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Lars Bildsten, University of California, Santa Barbara. Schafler Auditorium, Bloomberg Center. HW
B y H e at h e r E g a n S ta l f o rt
“Bacon Among the Germans, Kant Among the Brits: Stories From When ‘Science’ Meant ‘Wissenschaft’,” a History of Science and Technology colloquium with Denise Phillips, University of Tennessee. 300 Gilman. HW “The War Against Piracy: The Golden Age and Now,” an Applied Physics Laboratory colloquium with Virginia Lunsford, U.S. Naval Academy. Parsons Auditorium. APL
Fri., Nov. 19, 1 p.m.
Tues., Nov. 23, 4 p.m. “Religion, Politics and Other Predicaments in Eastern Sri Lanka, 1983–2008,” an Anthropology colloquium with Jonathan Spencer, University of Edinburgh. 400 Macaulay. HW
C O N FERE N C E S Thurs., Nov. 18, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. “State of the World
Economy, 2011–12: Whither or Wither?” a daylong conference with various speakers, featuring a keynote address by Duk-soo Han, Korean ambassador to the U.S. Co-sponsored by the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS, the SAIS Asian Studies Program, the Korea Institute of Finance and JoongAng IIbo. To RSVP, e-mail jhill50@jhu.edu or call 202-663-5830. HW
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ohns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library will open its 2010–2011 Music at Evergreen concert series on Saturday, Nov. 20, with a performance by the renowned Claremont Trio at 3 p.m. in the intimate setting of the museum’s Bakst Theatre. Featured on the program will be Frank Martin’s Piano Trio on Irish Folk Tunes, Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67, Paul Schoenfield’s Cafe Music and Ravel’s Piano Trio in A minor. Following the concert, a tea reception will be held in the museum’s Far East Room, where audience members will have the opportunity to meet with the musicians. The Claremonts are the first winner of the Kalichstein-LaredoRobinson International Trio Award and the only piano trio ever to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Twin sisters Emily Bruskin (violin) and Julia Bruskin (cello) formed the trio with Donna Kwong (piano) in 1999 at the Juilliard School. The Claremonts are based in New York City near their namesake, Claremont Avenue. The Palm Beach Daily News has praised the ensemble for its “aesthetic maturity, interpretive depth and exuberance,” and The New York Times said, “They play with an uncommon ferocity.” Also performing in this year’s Music at Evergreen concert series will be the Edmar Castaneda Quartet, on March 12, and violinist Hahn-Bin, April 16. Both concerts are at 3 p.m. Three-concert series subscriptions are $55, $40 members and $25 students with valid ID; individual concert tickets are $20, $15 members and $10 students with valid ID. Tickets include admission to the museum, which is open by guided tour only (offered hourly on the hour from noon to 3 p.m.) and the post-concert reception. Seating is extremely limited; advance tickets are available by going to www.museums.jhu.edu, calling 410-516-0341 or visiting the Evergreen Museum Shop. The 2010–2011 Music at Evergreen concert series is made possible by the Evergreen House Foundation. Jacob Vance, Emory University. Seating is limited; RSVP to ehavens2@jhu.edu. Evergreen Museum & Library. •
Thurs., Nov. 18, 2 to 5 p.m. Wilda Anderson (chair),
KSAS; Earle Havens and Walter Stephens, KSAS; and
Fri., Nov. 19—
Elena Russo (chair), KSAS. Denis Robichaud, Olivia Sabee and Elena Kazakova, KSAS; Jessica Goodman, Worcester College, Oxford. Peabody Library.
10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Ponce, KSAS. 388 Gilman. HW
2 to 3:30 p.m. Roundtable discussion, Walter Stephens (chair), KSAS. 388 Gilman. HW
D I S C U S S I O N / TA L K S
2:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Thierry Belleguic (chair), Universite Laval. Nicholas Cronk and Kate Tunstall, Oxford University; Wilda Anderson, KSAS. Peabody Library.
“Beyond Separatism: Interpreting Canadian Federalism in Quebec,” a SAIS Canadian Studies Program discussion with Guy Laforest, Universite Laval, and David Rovinsky, U.S. State Department. 517 Nitze Bldg. SAIS
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Tues., Nov. 16, 12:30 p.m.
Jacob Vance (chair), Emory University. Sophie Turner and Sarah Wilewski Oxford University; Hanna Roman and Gabrielle
“Turning the Leaves on Trees Into Transactable Commodities,” a SAIS Energy, Resources and Environment Program discussion with John Lewis, Terra Global
Conference,
sponsored by the Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment, Oxford University, and the Charles Singleton Center for the Study of Pre-Modern Europe (Johns Hopkins University). For more information, go to http://krieger .jhu.edu/singleton/events/future_ events.html.
12:30
p.m.
“Does the United States Matter to Governments and People in Central Asia and the Caucasus? Should It?” a Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at SAIS panel discussion with experts from the region. To RSVP, e-mail saiscaciforums@jhu.edu or call 202-663-7723. Rome Auditorium. SAIS
Wed., Nov. 17, 5:30 p.m.
p.m.
Thurs., Nov. 18, 3 p.m.
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“Diverse Energy Sources for Supernovae,” an STSci colloquium with Lars Bildsten, University of California, Santa Barbara. Bahcall Auditorium, Muller Bldg. HW Thurs., Nov. 18, 3 p.m.
Nov.
“The Brazil-U.S. Agenda,” a SAIS Latin American Studies Program discussion with Mauro Vieira, Brazilian ambassador to the U.S. To RSVP, e-mail jzurek1@jhu.edu or call 202-663-5734. 517 Nitze Bldg.
“Pathways to More Efficient Organic Solar Cells: What We Can Learn by Watching Electrons Move in Real Time,” a Chemistry colloquium with John Asbury, Pennsylvania State University. 233 Remsen. HW Nov.
Tues.,
“New Frontiers in Human Rights and Health Policy,” a SAIS International Law and Organizations Program discussion with visiting scholar Leonard Rubenstein. To RSVP, e-mail tbascia1@jhu.edu or call 202-663-5982. 806 Rome Bldg. SAIS Tues., Nov. 16, 12:45 p.m.
Tues., Nov. 16, 4:15 p.m.
Wed.,
Capital LLC. To RSVP, e-mail eregloballeadersforum@jhu.edu or call 202-663-5786. 736 BernsteinOffit Bldg. SAIS
10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Mon., Nov. 15, noon.
Wed.,
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“Painting Black Spaces Red, Black and Green: The Constitutionality of the Mural Movement,” a Rap Session in Africana Studies, facilitated by Jesse Merriam, KSAS. Sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies, the Black Graduate Student Association and the Black Student Union. For information, call 410-516-6385. Multipurpose Room, Charles Commons. HW Thurs.,
Nov.
18,
4:30
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“Belarus 2010: Presidential Elections, Political Stability and Foreign Relations,” a SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations panel discussion with Orest Deychakivsky, Helsinki Commission; David Kramer, Freedom House; and Taras Kuzio and Mitchell Orenstein (moderator), SAIS. To RSVP, e-mail transatlanticrsvp@ jhu.edu or call 202-663-5880. 500 Bernstein-Offit Bldg. SAIS “Innovation and Learning for Front-Line Development Practitioners,” a SAIS International Development Program discussion with Tony Barclay, president, Development Practitioners Forum. To RSVP, e-mail developmentroundtable@ jhu.edu or call 201-739-7425. 200 Rome Bldg. SAIS
Fri., Nov. 19, 12:30 p.m.
Fri., Nov. 19, 6 p.m. “Caillaud’s Travels to Egypt in the 19th Century,” a SAIS African Studies Program discussion with Andrew Bednarski, American Research Center in Egypt. To RSVP, e-mail itolber1@jhu.edu or call 202-6635676. Rome Auditorium. SAIS
FORU M S
“Moving Beyond the Struggle: The Power in Our Community,” an East Baltimore Community forum on sickle cell disease with researcher Michael DeBaun, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Sponsored by Johns Hopkins Medicine, the SoM Diversity Council and the Office of Diversity and Cultural Competence. To RSVP, e-mail odcc@ jhmi.edu or call 410-502-6568. Owens Auditorium, CRB. EB
Wed., Nov. 17, 7 p.m.
G RA N D ROU N D S Mon.,
Nov.
15,
8:30
a.m.
“Rats, Lice and History: Successes and Misadventures of a Clinical Microbiologist on the Fringe,” Pathology grand rounds with Steve Dumler, SoM. Hurd Hall. EB Mon.,
Nov.
22,
8:30
a.m.
“Lynch Syndrome-Associated Endometrial Cancer—A Practicing Pathologist’s Perspective,” Pathology grand rounds with Robert Soslow, Memorial SloanKettering. Hurd Hall. EB I N FOR M AT I O N SESSIONS Wed., Nov. 17, 12:30 and 1 p.m. Information session for the
Health Ambassador Volunteers program of the Johns Hopkins Healthy Community Schools Initiative. Volunteers will lead educational workshops on combating diabetes, motivate children to choose healthy habits and work with the community to create a healthier Baltimore. Co-sponsored by SOURCE and the Center for Social Concern. W2030 SPH. EB L E C TURE S Tues., Nov. 16, 4 p.m. The Leslie
Hellerman Memorial Lecture— “Ribonucleotide Reductases: Targets for New Therapeutics” by JoAnne Stubbe, MIT. Sponsored by Biological Chemistry. WBSB Auditorium. EB
Tues., Nov. 16, 6:15 p.m. “Can You Dig It? Blackness and Meaning in the Art of David Hammons,” a History of Art graduate student lecture by Tobias Wofford. 132 Gilman. HW
The Hinkley Lecture—“ ‘The Manner of Submission’: Gender and Gesture in 17th-Century London” by Laura Gowing, King’s College London. Sponsored by History. 308 Gilman (Reception follows in Café Azafran). HW
Thurs., Nov. 18, 4 p.m.
Thurs., Nov. 18, 4 p.m. “African-American Literature: The Past in the Present,” a Tudor and Stuart lecture by Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago. Sponsored by English. 388 Gilman. HW Thurs., Nov. 18, 4:30 p.m.
“Blacks: A Reviled Minority,” an Africana Dialogues lecture by Ancella Livers, Institute for Leadership Development and Research. Sponsored by Anthropology. 288 Gilman. HW Continued on page 13
Calendar Key APL BRB CRB EB HW KSAS
(Events are free and open to the public except where indicated.)
Applied Physics Laboratory Broadway Research Building Cancer Research Building East Baltimore Homewood Krieger School of Arts and Sciences 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