Ep: 11 Decisions Your Loved Ones Shouldn’t Have to Guess | Medicine Made General
The Johns Hopkins GIM podcast episode focuses on advance care planning, clarifying the roles of palliative care versus hospice, and urging listeners to prepare legal documents before a crisis. Dr. Ivy Akid explains that palliative care aims to improve quality of life alongside curative treatment, while hospice provides comfort‑focused care in the final six months of life. She emphasizes selecting a healthcare agent, outlining wishes about mechanical ventilation, CPR, feeding tubes, and when comfort‑oriented care should begin. She illustrates the impact with a stroke patient whose advance directive spared his children from guesswork, and a dementia case where lack of planning led to prolonged suffering and guilt for the spouse. The conversation underscores that early, honest discussions and simple steps—using free state forms or provider‑provided paperwork—can reduce family burden, ensure patient wishes are honored, and align medical interventions with personal values.
Ahan Hunter, M.D. | Gynecologist & Obstetrician
Dr. Ahan Lamar Hunter, an obstetrician‑gynecologist at Johns Hopkins, uses his own family experience to shape a patient‑first philosophy. He describes his practice as an extension of family, aiming to laugh, cry, and move forward together with each woman he...
Ep 23: Leading Through Uncertainty: The Power of Listening in Times of Change | Vital Conversations
In this episode of Vital Conversations, Johns Hopkins’ chief wellness officer Lee Biddison and executive director for nursing well‑being Carolyn Cumpsty Fowler explore how leaders can navigate rapid change in academic medicine by focusing on the human response—transition—rather than just...
Endometriosis Explained | Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment Options
The webinar from Johns Hopkins specialists provides a patient‑centered overview of endometriosis, covering its definition, prevalence, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnostic pathways, and therapeutic strategies. The presenters emphasize that endometriosis is a chronic, hormone‑dependent inflammatory disorder affecting up to 15% of...
Meet a Pediatric Hospital Medicine First-Year Fellow
The video features Barca, a first‑year pediatric hospital medicine fellow at Johns Hopkins, describing why she chose the program and what her experience has been like. She highlights the fellowship’s flexible, self‑directed curriculum, which lets fellows tailor rotations and projects to...
Meet the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Director
Johns Hopkins’ Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) Fellowship, led by Professor Brian Alverson, is positioned as a national pipeline for clinicians who want to lead in inpatient pediatrics. The program’s mission is to graduate fellows equipped with clinical excellence, research, quality‑improvement, and...
How Reliable Is AI for Infant Safe-Sleep Advice? Evaluating Accuracy Against National Guidelines
The study presented by Johns Hopkins medical student Evan Rosschud examined how reliably large‑language models (LLMs) provide infant safe‑sleep guidance compared with the 2022 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommendations. Researchers extracted nine frequent caregiver questions from Reddit’s New Parents forum,...
High-Resolution Pan-Viral Antibody Profiling and Brain Health in People with HIV
Dr. Patricia Katie Riggs presented her latest research on high‑resolution panviral antibody profiling and its relationship to brain health in people living with HIV, emphasizing well‑controlled patients and the role of chronic co‑infections. Using a molecular indexing of proteins (MIP‑A) platform,...
Rare Disease Day 2026 | Gene Therapy in Practice
The Rare Disease Day 2026 session titled “Gene Therapy in Practice” highlighted Johns Hopkins’ emerging program to deliver gene‑based treatments for pediatric neuromuscular disorders. Speakers—Dr. Jessica Nance, nurse practitioner Maria Belellios, and pharmacy coordinator Danielle Pennock—outlined the institution’s clinical‑trial legacy,...
Rare Disease Day 2026 | From Odyssey to Innovation, A Rare Journey to N of 1 Trial
Rare Disease Day 2026 highlighted a deeply personal yet broadly instructive case: the journey of Heidi, a patient with adult polyglucosan body disease (APBD), from a prolonged diagnostic odyssey to the launch of an N‑of‑1 clinical trial. The session brought...
Neuroimaging of Lyme Disease | Cherie Marvel, Ph.D.
Dr. Cherie Marvel, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins, presented her latest neuroimaging work on Lyme disease, emphasizing brain‑based changes and emerging blood‑marker data. The talk linked her expertise in cognitive neuroscience, functional MRI, and brain stimulation to the understudied...
Neurophysiological Markers of Elevated Inflammation and Cognitive Impairment in People with HIV
Dr. Tony Wilson presented his laboratory’s work on neurophysiological markers linking inflammation to cognitive impairment in people living with HIV. Leveraging a multimodal imaging platform—MRI, PET, and especially magnetoencephalography (MEG)—his team investigates how viral‑driven immune activation reshapes brain dynamics across...
Childhood and Adolescent Obesity | Q&A
The video introduces the Fit and Healthy Kids Clinic at Kennedy Creger Institute, a multidisciplinary service designed for children and young adults—ages two to twenty‑six—who have a BMI above the 95th percentile or are experiencing rapid weight gain, especially those...
Informatics Grand Rounds with Dr. Cindy Cai
Johns Hopkins’ Grand Rounds featured Dr. Cindy Cai, an ophthalmologist‑researcher who uses biomedical informatics to tackle diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of vision loss in working‑age adults. She outlined how gaps in routine eye‑care—often driven by social determinants of health...
A High-Resolution Atlas of the Developing Human Brain
The video introduces a high‑resolution atlas that charts how neurons are generated in the human cortex, leveraging single‑cell transcriptomics to capture roughly 30,000 molecular measurements from each of millions of cells. Researchers highlight that this scale of data—unprecedented in neurobiology—allows them...
