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Ben Bodnar

Ben Bodnar, MD

Hospital Medicine

Highlights

Languages

  • Spanish
  • English

Gender

Male

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:

  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

About Ben Bodnar

Professional Titles

  • Director of Quality and Safety, Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine

Primary Academic Title

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Background

Dr. Benjamin Bodnar is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He holds appointments as the Director of Quality and Safety for the Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, as a Eudowood Scholar of Quality and Safety in the Division of Quality and Safety, Department of Pediatrics, and is affiliate faculty with the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins.

He was born and raised in Baltimore and after training in institutions across the country, and working at sites around the world, he has settled back in his hometown. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, his medical degree from Columbia University, and completed his specialty training at Yale New Haven Hospital. He also worked at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, and held the appointment of an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School prior to joining Johns Hopkins in 2016. 

His focus on providing world-class clinical care to his patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital, he has a special interest in global health and the application of Quality Improvement techniques to the often poorly functional systems at work in resource-limited and developing health care environments. He has worked internationally at sites including Nepal, Mongolia, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda, and has worked with development groups including Partners in Health and The Millennium Villages Project. He is a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global NCD Research and Training.

As part of the Johns Hopkins Medicine COVID-19 response, he led the creation of standardized patient care guidelines for non-ICU COVID-19 patients across the health system. He also played a key role in the implementation of these guidelines via an Electronic Medical Record-integrated Clinical Decision Support platform, thus ensuring the evolving guidance is available to all providers at the point of care. 

Additional Academic Titles

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Lab Website

Benjamin Bodnar Lab

  • Research in the Benjamin Bodnar Lab focuses on global health, particularly the application of quality-improvement techniques in resource-limited and developing health care environments. Lab work utilizes insights gained through Dr. Bodnar's past work with projects including Partners in Health, The Millennium Villages Project and the Mulago University-Yale University Collaboration in Uganda.

Selected Publications

  • Bodnar B, Kane EM, Rupani H, et al. Bed downtime: the novel use of a quality metric allows inpatient providers to improve patient flow from the emergency department. Emerg Med J. Epub ahead of print: 16 Feb 2021. doi:10.1136/emermed-2020-209425. PMID: 33593811

  • Bodnar BE, Claassen CW, Solomon J, Mayanja-Kizza H, Rastegar A. The Effect of a Bidirectional Exchange on Faculty and Institutional Development in a Global Health Collaboration. PLoS ONE 2015; 10(3): e0119798. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119798

  • Bodnar BE. So You Think You Want To Save The World. Yale J Biol Med. 2011; 84(3): 227–36. PMCID: PMC3178852

  • Alupo P, Ssekitoleko R, Rabin T, Kalyesubula R, Kimuli I, Bodnar BE. Improving inpatient medication adherence using attendant education in a tertiary care hospital in Uganda. Int J Qual Health Care 2017; 1-6. doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzx075

  • Ingenhoff R, Nandawula J, Siddharthan T, Ssekitoleko I, Munana R, Bodnar BE, Weswa I, Kirenga B, Mutungi G, van der Giet M, Kalyesubula R, Knauf R. Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker Deliverd Care Intervention for Hypertension Control in Uganda: Study Protocol for a Stepped Wedge, Cluster Randomized Control Trial. Trials. 24 May 2022.  PMCID: PMC9128241 DOI: 10.1186/s13063-022-06403-9

Honors

Phi Beta Kappa, 6/1/03

Locations

  1. The Johns Hopkins Hospital
    • 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287

    Expertise

    Education

    Yale New Haven Health

    Residency, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, 2013

    Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

    Medical Education, MD, 2009

    Board Certifications

    Pediatric Hospital Medicine

    American Board of Pediatrics, 2022

    Pediatrics

    American Board of Pediatrics, 2013

    Internal Medicine

    American Board of Internal Medicine, 2013

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