Two CHE Faculty Members Receive Promotions

Two Center for Health Equity (CHE) faculty members, Chiadi Ericson Ndumele, MD, PhD, MHS and Tanjala S. Purnell, PhD have recently been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine and in the Department of Epidemiology in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, respectively.

A promotion to Associate Professor is a competitive process that requires a robust academic and research portfolio, support from the candidate’s Department Chair and tenured faculty, and review by an Ad Hoc Committee. After the candidate’s application has been reviewed, the appointed Ad Hoc Committee then submits a report to the Academic Council, which reviews all of the available information and makes a decision regarding promotion.

Drs. Ndumele and Purnell are both active with CHE and the Mid-Atlantic Center for Cardiometabolic Health Equity (MACCHE).

Chiadi Ericson Ndumele, MD, PhD, MHS is a 2003 graduate from Harvard Medical School and, prior to his promotion, served as the Robert E. Meyerhoff Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on the relationship between obesity and cardiovascular disease, particularly heart failure. He is currently the Principal Investigator for the MACCHE Unload Heart Failure project.  

Tanjala S. Purnell, PhD received her doctorate from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2012 and holds joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins Departments of Surgery, Health Policy and Management, and Health Behavior and Society. She is also the Founding Director of the B.O.L.D. (Building Opportunities for Lasting Discoveries) Health Equity Initiative; Executive Director of Health Freedom: A Path to Wellness; Director of Education for the Brancati Center for the Advancement of Community Care; and Co-Lead of the Hopkins/ Northeast Hub for the AIM-AHEAD Consortium. She is currently the Core Leader for the MACCHE Investigator Development Core.

Congratulations, Drs. Ndumele and Purnell on your well-earned promotions!