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Noreen A Hynes

Noreen A Hynes, MD, MPH

Infectious Diseases

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Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

Languages

  • French
  • English

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Gender

Female

About Noreen A Hynes

Professional Titles

  • Director, Geographic Medicine Center of the Division of Infectious Diseases
  • Medical Director, Tropical Medicine Ambulatory Consultation Service
  • Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Travel Health Consultation Service
  • Director of Research, Biocontainment Unit, Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Associate Medical Director (Infectious Diseases), Biocontainment Unit, Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Co-Director, Infectious Disease Concentration, Master of Public Health Program

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Medicine

Background

Dr. Noreen Hynes has over 35 years of medical and public health experience in both international and domestic settings. Her career has encompassed basic and applied research, epidemiology, public health, clinical medicine, and the regulatory aspects of medical countermeasures for emerging and infectious diseases and high-consequence pathogens.

Dr. Hynes has been affiliated with The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and the Schools of Medicine and Public Health University since 1997. She is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine (part-time) in the School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, and is jointly appointed in the School of Public Health in the Department of International Health. Since 2009, Dr. Hynes has served as the director of the Geographic Medicine Center in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, as the Medical Director of the Johns Hopkins Tropical & Travel Medicine Service, and as the Baltimore Site Director for the CDC-sponsored GeoSentinel Surveillance System.  Dr. Hynes serves as the Director of Research and the Associate Medical Director of the Johns Hopkins Hospital BioContainment Unit.

She also serves as the co-director of the Infectious Disease concentration in the Johns Hopkins Master of Public Health degree program.  

Dr. Hynes' research interests focus on infectious diseases at the clinical-public health interface in resource-constrained settings in both tropical and temperate regions. Her research focuses on tropical diseases, including those that or zoonoses or high-consequence pathogens. Her research focuses on these pathogens including examining deliberate and naturally-occurring exposures/outcomes, the epidemiology and control of emerging infectious diseases, and collaboration on vaccine clinical trials conducted by the Center for Immunization Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Centers and Institutes

Clinical Trial Keywords

Malaria; Dengue; Ebola, Influenza; Travel; Vaccines

Research Interests

epidemiology and control of tropical diseases, Vaccine preventable diseases

Selected Publications

  • Hynes NA. Technical factors in assessing the threat of bioterrorist attacks using human vectors of contagious pathogens, in Bale JM. Assessing the Risk of Islamist Terrorists Using Human Vectors to Deploy Contagious Pathogens. Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism. Monterey, CA.  2019; pp 251-273

  • Flinn JB, Hynes NA, Sauer LM, Maragakis LL, Garabaldi BT. The role of dedicated biocontainment patient care units in preparing for CVOID-19 and other infectious disease outbreaks. Infect Control Hosp Epidem. 2021; 42(2):208-211

  • Paules CI, Gallagher SK, Rapaka RR, Davey RT, Doernberg SB, Grossberg R, Hynes NA, Ponce P, Short WR, Voell J, Wang J, Yang OO, Wolfe CR, Lye DC, Dodd LE, Benson CA. Remdesivir for the prevention of invasive mechanical ventilation or death in COVID-19 --- A post-hoc analysis of the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial-1 cohort data. Clin Infect Dis 2021 online first (11 Aug 2021). https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab695

  • Tomashek KM, Mehta AK, Hynes NA. Racial disproportionality in Covid clinical trials. New Eng J Med 2020; 383(25):2487-2488. PMID: 33156581 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc2029374

  • Whitehead SS, Durbin AP, Pierce KK, Elwood D, McElvany BD, Fraser EA, Carmolli MP, Tibery CM, Hynes NA, et al. In randomized trial, the live attenuated tetravalent dengue vaccine TV003 is well-toleratied and highly immunogenic in subjects with flavivirus exposure prior to vaccination. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017; 11(5):e0005584. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005584.eCollection 2017 May.  PMID:28481883

Honors

  • Fellow, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America
  • Board of Trustees, Center for Excellence in Education
  • Distinguished Service Medal, U.S. Public Health Service
  • Secretary's Distinguished Service Award, U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services
  • Vice Presidential Service Medal
  • Meritorious Service Medal, U.S. Public Health Service
  • Outstanding Service Medal, U.S. Public Health Service
  • Commendation Medal, U.S. Public Health Service
  • Citation, U.S. Public Health Service
  • Crisis Response Award, U.S. Public Health Service): Terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001
  • Crisis Response Award, U.S. Public Health Service): Anthrax letters attacks
  • Board of Regents Award for the Outstanding Medical Officer Graduate, Uniformed Services University

Graduate Program Affiliations

  • Co-director, Infectious Disease Concentration, MPH Program

Memberships

  • American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • Infectious Diseases Society of America
  • International Society of Travel Medicine

Locations

  1. Geographic Medicine Clinic
    • 615 North Wolfe Street, WB031, Baltimore, MD 21205

    Expertise

    Education

    Royal College of Physicians of London

    Graduate School, Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, 2007

    Massachusetts General Hospital

    Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, 1990

    Massachusetts General Hospital

    Residency, Internal Medicine, 1989

    Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences

    Medical Education, MD, 1985

    Board Certifications

    Infectious Disease

    American Board of Internal Medicine, 1996

    Internal Medicine

    American Board of Internal Medicine, 1991

    Insurance

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