New VP/CFO

Mark Hingtgen, M.P.A., has been appointed a vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine and chief financial officer for the school of medicine. Hingtgen has more than 28 years of operational and financial experience within academic medical centers, having most recently served as assistant vice president for finance for University of Iowa Health Care.

New Senior Associate Dean

Nauder Faraday, M.D., M.P.H., professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, has been named senior associate dean of faculty development for the school of medicine. Faraday is director of perioperative genomic and translational research, the perioperative hemostasis and thrombosis research laboratory, and the clinical research core for his department.

JHH’s CEO Cancer Gold Standard

The Johns Hopkins Hospital has been recognized by the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, a national nonprofit organization of chief executive officers, with its CEO Cancer Gold Standard Accreditation Award. The accolade recognizes the hospital’s efforts to reduce the risk of cancer for its employees and family members.

Premier Award

The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Sibley Memorial Hospital each have received awards for reducing preventable hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions. Both hospitals were honored by Premier, Inc., a leading health care improvement company, affiliated with the federal Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks 2.0 initiative to enhance patient safety and quality of care. 

EAST BALTIMORE

Martin Brodsky, Ph.D., Sc.M., associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, has been elected a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. The award recognizes an individual’s professional achievements.

Namandje Bumpus, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Clinical Pharmacology and the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, has become a senior consulting strategist for Academic and Research Diversity. She had served as associate dean for institutional and student equity.

Theodore DeWeese, M.D., Johns Hopkins Medicine’s vice president for interdisciplinary patient care, professor and director of the Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, and professor of urology, has become president-elect of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

Eloiza Domingo-Snyder, senior director of diversity, inclusion and cultural competency, and deputy chief diversity officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine, has been named to the 2017 VIP List—Very Important Professionals Successful by 40—of The Daily Record, Baltimore’s legal, business and government newspaper.

Marlis Gonzalez-Fernandez, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor and medical director of the Outpatient Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics, has been named vice chair for clinical operations in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Damon Hughes, M.C.A., manager of supplier diversity and inclusion for the Johns Hopkins Health System, has received a 2017 Diversity Solution Award from the Maryland Minority Contractors Association.

Risha Irvin, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of medicine, has been awarded the Association of American Medical Colleges’ 2017 Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship. It includes a $15,000 grant to support a detailed project addressing racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

Mahadevappa Mahesh, M.S., Ph.D., professor of radiology and chief physicist of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, has been elected to the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements. Chartered by the federal government, the 100-member council formulates and disseminates information, guidance and recommendations on radiation protection and measurements.

Michael Miller, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering, has been named director of the department. A member of the department since 1998 and an international leader in medical imaging and brain mapping, he also directs the Center for Imaging Science in the Whiting School of Engineering.

Erica Shelton, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of emergency medicine, has been appointed by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan to a four-year term on the Maryland Community Health Resources Commission. She will provide guidance to the state about resource allocation for community-based health programs.

Seamus Whelton, M.D., M.P.H., an internal medicine fellow in the Division of Cardiology, has received the 2017 PJ Schafer Cardiovascular Research Fund Award. Named in memory of Paul (PJ) Schafer III, who died of premature heart disease while playing college lacrosse, the $20,000 award will fund Whelton’s research into the prevention of heart disease and sudden cardiac death.

John Wong, Ph.D., professor of radiation oncology and molecular radiology and head of the Division of Medical Physics, has received the American Association of Physicists in Medicine’s 2017 Edith H. Quimby Lifetime Achievement Award. Wong developed the technology that gives radiation oncologists the ability to create CT images at the same time the patient receives radiation, transforming radiation therapy.

JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER

Krishnaj Gourab, M.B.B.S., M.D., assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation, has been appointed director of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He joined the department in 2013 and had served as its interim director since September 2016.

Jonathan Zenilman, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, has been named director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality’s new location at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

HOWARD COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL

For the 10th consecutive year, Howard County General Hospital has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With the Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll-Elite. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to providing the most appropriate stroke treatment.

JOHNS HOPKINS HOME CARE GROUP

Mitra Gavgani, Pharm.D., senior director of specialty infusion services, has been promoted to vice president of pharmacy services. She will continue to lead infusion services while assuming responsibility for the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Pharmacy.

Nathan Thompson, R.Ph., M.B.A., M.P.H., former senior director of outpatient and specialty pharmacies, has been promoted to vice president of strategic alignment, business development and marketing.

SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

The Emergency Department has received a 2017 Lantern Award from the Emergency Nurses Association in recognition of its “exceptionally innovative” performance in the core areas of nursing leadership, practice, education, advocacy and research.

JOHNS HOPKINS COMMUNITY PHYSICIANS

Melissa Helicke, M.B.A., M.H.A., has been promoted to vice president of operations and chief operating officer. A veteran administrator and former assistant dean at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Helicke joined JHCP in 2014 and has helped integrate operations across the Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians.

JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL

Jen Arnold, M.D., M.Sc., has been named medical director of the hospital’s expanding Simulation Center. Previously, she spent nine years as medical director of simulation at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. A neonatologist who received her medical degree at Johns Hopkins, Arnold and her husband are featured on the TLC network program, The Little Couple.