Bonnie Windsor, M.S.H.C.A., B.S.N., has been named senior vice president of human resources for Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Health System. She succeeds Pamela Paulk M.S.W., M.B.A., who has become president of Johns Hopkins Medicine International. Windsor, who began her Johns Hopkins career in 1977 as a registered nurse in the pediatric intensive care unit, has assumed increasingly greater administrative responsibilities during the ensuing decades. She became vice president of human resources for The Johns Hopkins Hospital and senior director of human resources for the health system in 2013 and will maintain those positions.
Administrative Appointments
Daniel Ashby, M.S., has been appointed senior director for pharmacy for the Academic Division. Ashby, director of the Department of Pharmacy at The Johns Hopkins Hospital since 1999, will now also be responsible for oversight of pharmacy at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Javier Vazquez, Pharm.D., M.S., will remain director of pharmacy at Hopkins Bayview, while Carla Gill, R.Ph., M.B.A., will become director of informatics and medication use systems. Todd Nesbit, Pharm.D., M.B.A., will serve as director of pharmacy patient care services. The new structure aims to better integrate pharmacy services between the two hospitals and improve efficiency, access to resources and clinical outcomes.
George Jallo, M.D., will become director of neuroscience and chief of neurosurgery at All Children’s Hospital on Sept. 1. Currently professor and clinical director of pediatric neurosurgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, as well as a professor of oncology and a professor of pediatrics, Jallo joined the Department of Neurosurgery in 2003 and succeeded Benjamin Carson, M.D., as head of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery in 2010.
Daniele Rigamonti, M.D., professor and former director of stereotactic radiosurgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, has become medical chief of staff and head of neurosurgery for Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare in Saudi Arabia. Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare is a joint venture between Johns Hopkins Medicine and Saudi Aramco, a world leader in energy. Its goal is to strengthen the company’s health system and establish population health strategies for Saudi Aramco’s 355,000 employees, beneficiaries and retirees. Rigamonti remains on the full-time faculty of the Department of Neurosurgery.
Marketing and Communications Kudos
Dalal Haldeman, Ph.D., M.B.A., senior vice president of marketing and communications for Johns Hopkins Medicine, has been named by PRWeek magazine as one of the nation’s top 40 marketing innovators. Haldeman was cited for merging the marketing and public relations functions of her office “as a way to work together on common goals,” as well as for changing the way Johns Hopkins Medicine viewed and implemented social media.
CIO Honor
Stephanie Reel, M.B.A., chief information officer and vice provost for information technology for The Johns Hopkins University and vice president for information services for Johns Hopkins Medicine, has been honored by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the nation’s top 100 hospital and health system chief information officers. Reel leads the implementation of Johns Hopkins’ Strategic Plan for information services; networking; telecommunications; and clinical, research and instructional technologies.
Burn Center Success
The Johns Hopkins Burn
Center at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center achieved two significant safety milestones in 2014: the lowest mortality rate in the nation and 12 months without a central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI). The Burn Center’s mortality rate for the first seven months of 2014 was 1.36 percent, compared with a national average of 3.3. Going CLABSI-free for 12 months put the Burn Center in the 10th percentile nationally among burn units.
Work-Life Recognition
The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System have received the 2015 Work-Life Seal of Distinction from WorldatWork. For the third consecutive year, Johns Hopkins’ Office of Work, Life and Engagement has demonstrated a strong portfolio of programs and services that assist faculty and staff in achieving a balance between their work and life outside of it.
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Jason Brandt, Ph.D., professor and chief of the Division of Medical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has received the 2015 Distinguished Career Award from the International Neuropsychological Society.
Kelly Dunn, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit, will receive the 2015 Young Psychopharmacologist Award at this year’s American Psychiatric Association Convention in May.
Lisa Ishii, M.D., M.H.S., associate professor of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery, has received the Triological Society’s 2015 Harris P. Mosher, M.D., Award for Clinical Research for her triological thesis, “The Social Distraction of Facial Paralysis: Objective Measurement of Social Attention Using Eye Tracking.”
Elizabeth Montgomery, M.D., professor of pathology and oncology, has received a $16,000 grant from the Esophageal Cancer Awareness Association to fund her collaborative research with Robert Anders, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology and assistant professor of oncology, and Elizabeth Thompson, M.D., Ph.D., resident in pathology, on ways to harness the body’s immune system to fight cancer.
Thomas Smith, M.D., professor and director of palliative care for Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, has received the 2015 Trish Green Quality of Life Award from the American Cancer Society.
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, has received the 2015 Eddy Award for outstanding research on drug dependence from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, the premier international organization in the field.
Eric Strain, M.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and Research, has been named executive vice director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. In his new role, Strain will work closely with Constantine Lyketsos, M.D., department director, in the ongoing implementation of its Strategic Plan, with special emphasis on the development of new programs and operations and on recruitment and faculty development.
Johns Hopkins Healthcare
Felicia Hill-Briggs, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and senior director of population health research and development for Johns Hopkins HealthCare, has been named to the board of directors of the American Diabetes Association.