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SON Faculty Earn 2025 Discovery Awards

Discovery Awards were given to interdisciplinary faculty teams across 12 units of Johns Hopkins, including three projects involving SON faculty members:

Transforming Hypertension Care Through Artificial Intelligence: A Multi-Divisional Initiative Enabling Clinicians to Drive Precision Population Health Improvements: Yvonne Commodore-Mensah (Nursing), Harold Lehmann (Medicine), Alhassan Yasin (Engineering), Oluwabunmi Ogungbe (Nursing), Lisa Cooper (Nursing/Medicine/Public Health), Serwaa Karikari (Business) & Judy Greengold (Medicine)

CORRECT-O2–Counteracting Obscured Racialized Risks by Examining Corporate Tactics in the Pulse Oximetry Market: Theodore Iwashyna (Medicine), Cecília Tomori (Nursing), Ashraf Fawzy (Medicine), Katrina Hauschildt (Medicine), Kadija Ferryman (Berman), Emmanuel Drabo (Public Health) & Deidra Crews (Medicine)

Development of a Scalable Behavioral-psychosocial Intervention to Address the Syndemic of Maternal Obesity and Postpartum Depression: Kelly Bower (Nursing), Rheanna Platt (Medicine), August Summers (Public Health), Wendy Bennett (Medicine) & Lindsay Martin (Medicine)

Congratulations!

Follow IPS on Instagram

The Institute for Policy Solutions and Executive Director Vincent Guilamo-Ramos are now on Instagram: @ipsnowjhson. “Stay engaged with IPS and our mission to fix our broken U.S. health system.”

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Keynote Speaker

Assistant Professor Melissa Hladek will be a keynote speaker at the National Association of Hispanic Nurses’ 50^th-Annual Conference July 16-18 in Dallas. Her talk is titled “The Wounded Healer: How Hope Becomes Power for the Latine Nurse.”

“In this season of uncertainty and unrest, I hope to offer a path forward—one where we thrive not in spite of our wounds, but because of the wisdom they leave behind,” is how Dr. Hladek describes her talk on Facebook.

Podcast: Leading on LGBTQ+

Evan LaChance and Emma McWaid, students in the MSN (Entry Into Nursing) program, are the president and vice president of the LGBTQ+ Health Curriculum Initiative student group at the School of Nursing. In this episode, they share the origins of the group, the importance of LGBTQ+ education in health care, and what they hope to achieve as leaders of this initiative.