
Amit Pahwa, MD
Hospital Medicine
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Amit Pahwa
Professional Titles
- Director, Internal Medicine Sub-internship, Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Director Topics in Interdisciplinary Medicine High Value Healthcare
- Associate Director, Pediatric Core Clerkship
- Director, Health System Science Core Theme
Primary Academic Title
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Background
Dr. Amit K. Pahwa is an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Dr. Pahwa holds many educational leadership roles including, director of “Topics in Interdisciplinary Medicine: High-Value Health Care” director of the internal medicine sub-internship rotation at the Johns Hopkins Hospital the School of Medicine, and associate director of the Core Clerkship in Pediatrics.
He earned his M.D. at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and he completed his residency at Indiana University School of Medicine.
He is nationally known for his work in high-value care both in education and quality improvement. For his educational work, he has not only published several papers but received many awards for this work including, Berkheimer Faculty Education Scholar Grant, CDIM Early Career Medical Student Educator Award, CDIM Louis N. Pangaro Educational Program Development Award, HVPAA educational excellence award, and JHU Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching.
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Additional Academic Titles
Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Interests
Health System Science, Undergraduate Medical Education, High Value Care
Lab Website
Amit Pahwa Lab
- The Amit Pahwa Lab conducts research on a value based quality improvement and educational strategies in undergraduate medical education.
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=0Ft18TEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
Selected Publications
Pahwa A, Cayea D, Bertram A, et al. Student perceptions of high-value care education in internal medicine clerkship. J Hosp Med. 2017; 12(2):102-103
Pahwa, A.K., Eaton, K., Apfel, A. et al. Effect of a high value care curriculum on standardized patient exam in the Core Clerkship in Internal Medicine. BMC Med Educ 20, 365 (2020)
Eamon Duffy MD, MBA, Timothy Niessen MD, MPH, Keisha Perrin RN, BSN, Ariella Apfel MPH, Amanda Bertram MS, Sara C. Keller MD, MPH, MSHP, Leonard S. Feldman MD, Amit K. Pahwa MD, Empowering nurses and residents to improve telemetry stewardship in the academic care setting. First published: 19 September 2020 J Eval Clin Pract. 2020; 1– 5.
Hindman DJ, Kochis SR, Apfel A, Prudent, J, Kumra, T, Golden WC, Jung J, Pahwa AK. Effect of a telephone medicine curriculum on medical students’ performance on a component of their fourth-year clinical skills exam. Acad Med
Iscoe, M., Lord, R., Schulz, J., Lee, D., Cayea, D. and Pahwa, A. (2017), Teaching medical students about cost-effectiveness. Clin Teach
Honors
- Excellence in Teaching, Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association, 5/24/21
- Louis Pangaro Educational Program Development Award, CDIM, 4/1/19
- Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement, Society of Hospital Medicine, 4/1/18
- Clinical Excellence Award Innovations in Clinical Care, Johns Hopkins Medicine, 10/1/17
- Educational Excellence Award, High Value Practice Academic Alliance, 10/1/17
- Early Career Medical Student Educator Award, Clerkship Directors of Internal Medicine, 3/1/17
- Berkheimer Faculty Education Scholar Grant Winner, Johns Hopkins Institute for Excellence in Education, 1/1/14
Memberships
- Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine
- Council on Medical Student Educators in Pediatrics
- Society of Hospital Medicine
Professional Activities
Johns Hopkins Health System High Value Care Committee, Physician Lead
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
- phone: 410-955-5000
- fax: 410-955-5001
Expertise
Education
Indiana University School of Medicine
Residency, Medicine and Pediatrics, 2010University of Alabama at Birmingham
Medical Education, MD, 2006Board Certifications
Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2011Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics, 2010Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)