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William Christopher Golden

William Christopher Golden, MD

Neonatology

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

Languages

  • English

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Gender

Male

About William Christopher Golden

Professional Titles

  • Medical Director, Newborn Nursery, Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Director, Core Clerkship in Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Background

Dr. W. Christopher Golden is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His area of clinical expertise is neonatology. His research interests include congenital and neonatal infections, neonatal bilirubin metabolism, care of healthy newborns, and pediatric medical education (in particular, medical student education). Currently, he is the Director of the Pediatrics Core Clerkship in the School of Medicine.

As Medical Director of the Newborn Nursery, he has been the site Principal Investigator (PI) or a collaborator on research involving improving safe sleep practices in newborns, screening babies for adrenoleukodystrophy and biliary atresia, employing functional MRI (fMRI) to study neonatal cerebral blood flow and oxygen metabolism, using investigational therapies to prevent vertical transmission of HIV, and studying acyclovir pharmacokinetics in neonates with confirmed or suspected herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection.  

Dr. Golden received his undergraduate degree in zoology from Duke University. He subsequently completed all of his medical training (medical degree, Pediatrics residency and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Nationally, Dr. Golden is on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of Pediatrics and Contemporary Pediatrics. He also served as Co-Leader of the Core Clerkship Collaborative of the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP), the premier national organization for design, development, and formal academic study of methods in pediatric education in medical schools.

Dr. Golden also is the Chair  (2023-2025) of the Pediatric Section of the National Medical Association (NMA), the largest and oldest organization representing African American physicians (and their patients) in the United States.  

At Hopkins, he serves on the Department of Pediatrics Intern Selection Committee and as Core Faculty for the Department of Pediatrics for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Centers and Institutes

Johns Hopkins Children's Center

Research Interests

Neonatal Bilirubin Metabolism, Neonatal Brain Injury, Neonatal/Congenital Infections, Pediatric Medical Education

Research Summary

Dr. Golden remains active in research with pediatric faculty and trainees on clinical projects involving HIV, herpes simplex virus, cytomegalovirus, Zika virus and syphilis infections in newborns. In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, he is working with faculty in the Neonatology, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and Obstetrics departments and the Kennedy Krieger Institute on studies investigating the impact of the virus on mothers and neonates, and remains the lead neonatal consultant to the Johns Hopkins Hospital Biocontainment Unit. Dr. Golden continues his collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Department of Radiology as a co-investigator testing MRI as a means of measuring brain oxygen consumption in neonates. In terms of medical education, Dr. Golden is director of the Pediatrics Core Clerkship for medical students in the School of Medicine. In addition to helping coordinate undergraduate medical (medical student) educational activities at Hopkins, he participates in the Osler Apprentice program, which teaches medical students the processes of becoming a medical educator.

Selected Publications

  • Golden WC, Patel SC, Chou B, Dudas RA, Stewart RW, Balighian ED, Khan S, Hueppchen NA, Barone MA.Development and evaluation of a simulation-based, medical student teaching session for communicating bad news and uncertainty along the obstetric-neonatal continuum. Medical Science Educator, 2018; 28 (1): 211-219.

  • Chen MW, Akinboyo IC, Sue PK, Donohue PK, Ghanem KG, Detrick B, Witter FR, Page KR, Arav-Boger R, Golden WC. Evaluating congenital syphilis in a reverse sequence testing environment. Journal of Perinatology, 2019; 39 (7): 956-963.

  • Mark EG, Golden WC, Gilmore MM, Sick-Samuels A, Curless MS, Nogee LM, Milstone AM, Johnson J. Community-onset severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in young infants: a systematic review. The Journal of Pediatrics, 2021; 228: 94-100.e3.

  • Morgenstern BZ, Roman BJB, DeWaay D, Golden WC, Malloy E, Reddy RM, Rutter AE, Salas R, Soni M, Starr S, Sutton J, Wald DA, Pangaro LN. Expectations of and for clerkship directors 2.0: a collaborative statement from the Alliance for Clinical Education. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 2021; 33(4): 343-354.

  • Sherer ML, Lei J, Creisher P, Jang M, Reddy R, Voegtline K, Olson S, Littlefield K, Park H-S, Ursin RL, Ganesan A, Boyer T, Brown DM, Walch SN, Antar ARA, Manabe YC, Jones-Beatty K, Golden WC, Satin AJ, Sheffield JS, Pekosz A, Klein SL, Burd I.  Pregnancy alters IL-1β expression and anti-viral antibody responses during SARS-CoV-2 infection. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2021; 225(3): 301.e1-301.e14.

Honors

  • One of the "Top Neonatologists" in Baltimore, Baltimore Magazine, 11/1/14
  • Bauernschmidt Fellowship Award, Eudowood Board, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 7/1/99

Memberships

  • American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics
  • Academic Pediatric Association
  • Northeast Group on Educational Affairs of the Association of American Medical Colleges
  • National Medical Association

Locations

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

    Expertise

    Education

    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

    Fellowship, Pediatrics, 2001

    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

    Residency, Pediatrics, 1998

    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

    Medical Education, Medicine, MD, 1995

    Board Certifications

    Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

    American Board of Pediatrics, 2001

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