Weekly Progress Notes May 1

Reminder: Johns Hopkins Medical Staff Leadership Retreat This Friday

Join us this Friday, May 3, 2019 from 7:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. at the Chevy Chase Club (6100 Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase, Maryland) for the seventh annual Johns Hopkins Medical Staff Leadership Retreat, Emotional Intelligence and Temperament Theory: Real Skills for Effective Leadership at Work and Beyond. The workshop will be led by Joslyn Vaught, a senior advisor in leadership and organizational development at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine. The format is entirely interactive and will help you identify and understand your own personality type and how to best use your EQ to communicate effectively and work with colleagues, patients and other people encountered in your professional and personal life. Six hours of CME credits will be provided. Registration closes tonight (Wednesday, May 1) at 11:59 p.m. Click here to register.

2019 Clinical Awards Nominations

The Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians is currently accepting nominations for the 2019 Johns Hopkins Medicine Clinical Awards for Physicians and Care Teams. The awards are designed to honor physicians and care teams associated with The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Howard County General Hospital, Sibley Memorial Hospital, Suburban Hospital, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and Johns Hopkins Community Physicians who embody the best in clinical excellence. Winners will be selected this summer and will be recognized at the annual meeting of the Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019. Click here more information about the nomination process and a brief video.

The deadline for nominations is Friday, May 24. You can nominate colleagues who consistently demonstrate excellence in their clinical work here. Read the memo from Paul Rothman, M.D. and Kevin Sowers about the importance of these awards.

Washingtonian 2019 Top Docs

Washingtonian magazine is currently accepting votes for the 2019 Top Doctors list. This peer-nominated list of the most respected physicians in the Washington area will appear in the November 2019 issue. The deadline to submit votes for the the list is Tuesday, May 7. Visit washingtonian.com/TopDocs2019 to cast your vote. Download this flyer for more information.

Sara and Samuel J. Lessans Healthcare Symposium for Clinicians and Caregivers

The ninth annual Sara and Samuel J. Lessans Healthcare Symposium will be held on Friday, May 10 from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Woodmont Country Club (1201 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland). The symposium is titled Are We Prepared? Four Chronic Diseases Transforming Aging and Health Care: Cancer, Diabetes, Dementia and Heart Disease in an older population.

The symposium will bring together leading physicians and public health experts for an inclusive and dynamic discussion on the complexity and challenges of treating and caring for an aging population in a total cost of care environment. Download this brochure for more information.

Register for CUSP Training

Suburban Hospital will host Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) training on Monday, May 13 from 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. at the Women’s Club of Bethesda (5500 Sonoma Rd., Bethesda, Maryland). The goal of CUSP is to empower frontline staff to improve patient safety culture. The interactive training provides tools to launch and sustain a CUSP team.

If you are interested in this training, please contact Noelle Flaherty, RN, at cmassia1@jhmi.edu or 301-896-4019 with questions and to register.

Scheduled Power Outages

As part of the Suburban Campus Transformation project, we are transferring the emergency backup power source from the temporary generators in front of the hospital to the new Plant Operations generators in the basement. Incident Command is active during each of the transfers, which occur during the evening and night shifts. There are no anticipated closures to EMS and Suburban will go on diversion only if unexpected outages impact ED operations. The dates and times of upcoming outages are as follows:

• Friday, May 3 at 9 p.m. – Saturday, May 4 at 5 a.m.
• Friday, May 10 at 9 p.m. – Saturday, May 11 at 5 a.m.

Please contact Incident Command at 301-896-2861 with any questions during these power outages.

Promise for Common Pediatric Brain Tumors

A new drug combination treatment used by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and school of medicine could prove effective for pediatric low-grade gliomas, the most common brain tumor in children. Click here to learn more about this research.

Top Reasons People Go to the ER

In 2015, about half of the world’s 28 million human deaths were the result of medical emergencies, including injuries, strokes and heart attacks. Read more about this research, believed to be a first-of-its-kind look at the lethal impact of medical emergencies worldwide, which could lead to future public health strategies to save lives and redirect resources.