Core Faculty
Lawrence J. Appel, MD, MPH
C. David Molina Professor of Medicine
Director, ProHealth Clinical Research Unit
Research Interests: prevention and control of elevated blood pressure and its clinical consequences-cardiovascular disease and kidney disease; lifestyle modification and behavior change
Tammy M. Brady, MD, PhD
Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Department of Pediatrics
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology
Research Interests: pediatric hypertension, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease in children, obesity, blood pressure measuremen
Shoshana H. Ballew, PhD
Research Interests: chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, aging
Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH
Core Faculty, Berman Institute of Bioethics
Core Faculty, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
Director, Office of Medical Student Research & Scholarship
Research Interests: health care quality for underserved populations; patient-clinician communication; sickle-cell disease; HIV and substance abuse; bioethics; respect
Wendy L. Bennett, MD, MPH
Director of Research, Johns Hopkins Community Physicians
Co-Director, The Johns Hopkins Center for Women’s Health, Sex & Gender Research
Research Interests: lifestyle and health behavior changes in pregnancy to promote healthy weight gain, and prevent adverse pregnancy outcomes and future chronic disease
Kathryn A. Carson, ScM
Associate Director, Methods & Shared Resources, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
Research Interests: design and analysis of clinical trials; disparities research; cardiovascular disease and hypertension
Jeanne M. Clark, MD, MPH
Director, Division of General Internal Medicine
Executive Director, Johns Hopkins Brancati Center for the Advancement of Community Care
Research Interests: obesity; diabetes mellitus; nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH
James F. Fries Professor of Medicine
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Equity in Health & Healthcare
Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
Research Interests: patient-centered, community-engaged interventions to reduce health disparities and improve health outcomes among socially disadvantaged populations; patient-physician communication and relationships; primary care of patients with chronic conditions
Deidra C. Crews MD, ScM
Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity
Research Interests: hypertension; kidney disease; health equity; social determinants of health; nutrition; older adults
Rosa Crum, MD, MHS
Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Scholars Program
Research Interest:s psychiatric disorders; mental illness; alcohol and substance use disorders
Gail L. Daumit, MD, MHS
Vice Dean, Clinical Investigation
Director, Johns Hopkins ALACRITY Center for Health & Longevity in Mental Illness
Research Interests: cardiovascular disease risk and premature mortality in persons with mental illness; lifestyle and health behavior interventions, health services research, implementation science, patient safety
Justin B. Echouffo Tcheugui, MD, MPhil, PhD
Research Interests: diabetes, endocrinology
Daniel Ford, MD, MPH
Director, Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical & Translational Research
Research Interests: pragmatic clinical trials; clinical research informatics; smoking cessation; improving efficiency and quality of clinical trials
Sherita H. Golden, MD, MHS
Hugh P. McCormick Family Professor of Endocrinology & Metabolism
Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Research Interests: diabetes mellitus; cardiovascular disease and endocrine epidemiology; inpatient diabetes health service research; mental health complications of diabetes; diabetes health disparities
Eliseo Guallar, MD
Director, Environmental Epidemiology Track
Co-Director, PhD Program in Epidemiology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Clinical Research Design and Evaluation, Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences and Technology (SAIHST), Sungkyunkwan University
Research Interests: cardiovascular disease and chronic disease epidemiology; environmental risk factors for chronic diseases; nutritional epidemiology
Kim Gudzune, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Healthful Eating, Activity & Weight Program
Research Interests: influence of obesity on the healthcare experience; lifestyle modification and health behavior among populations at risk for cardiovascular disease and obesity; translation of behavioral interventions into clinical practice and community settings
Caitlin Hicks, MD, MS
Research Interests: clinical outcomes; aortic aneurysm; peripheral vascular disease; congenital aortic pathology; aberrant subclavian artery; aortic cortication; diabetic foot ulcer; high-value care; implementation science
Junichi Ishigami, MD
Research Interests: chronic kidney disease; cardiovascular disease; cardiorenal syndrome; infectious disease; vaccination
Michael J. Klag, MD
Second Century Distinguished Professor
Professor of Medicine
Nisa M. Maruthur, MD, MHS
Director, General Internal Medicine Fellowship Program
Director of Community Program Implementation, The Johns Hopkins Brancati Center for the Advancement of Community Care
Research Interests: diabetes prevention; type 2 diabetes; obesity; clinical trials
Kunihiro Matsushita, MD, PhD
Research Interests: peripheral vascular disease, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, and hypertension; obesity and diabetes
Edgar R Miller III, MD, PhD
Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical & Translational Science
Director, Clinical Research Scholars Program (KL-2)
Research Interests: hypertension; kidney disease; nutrition
Scott J. Pilla, MD, MHS
Research Interests: diabetes; hypoglycemia prevention; patient-physician communication; clinical trials
Craig Pollack, MD, MHS
Associate Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management
Research Interests: social determinants of health with a focus on housing policy and neighborhood context; cancer health services research
Tanjala S. Purnell, PhD, MPH, FASN
Research Interests: epidemiology and health services research related to kidney disease transplantation; health equity; cardiovascular disease, hypertension, obesity and diabetes
Casey Rebholz, PhD
Research Interests: cardiovascular disease and hypertension; kidney disease; biomarkers; omics; nutrition
Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH
Director, Cardiovascular & Clinical Epidemiology Track
Research Interests: type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease; diagnostics and biomarkers for screening and diagnosis of diabetes and cardiovascular disease; optimizing approaches to screening and management of prediabetes and diabetes; interface of epidemiology and clinical and public health policy; wearable devices; continuous glucose monitoring
Jung-Im Shin, MD
Research Interests: pharmacoepidemiology; diabetes mellitus; chronic kidney disease; health disparities; cardiovascular disease
Eva Tseng, MD, MPH
Research Interests: prevention and treatment of diabetes, obesity, and related conditions; translation of evidence-based care into clinical practice through pragmatic intervention studies
Maya Venkataramani, MD, MPH
Associate Director, Community Program Implementation, Johns Hopkins Brancati Center for the Advancement of Community Care
Research Interests: improving the delivery of primary care and preventive services to underserved and low-income communities through family-oriented, community-based approaches and studying the impacts of health-related policies across generations
Nae-Yuh Wang, PhD, MS
Director, Childhood Development After Cochlear Implantation Study Data Coordinating Center
Co-Director, Methods Core, The ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness
Research Interests: childhood development after pediatric cochlear implementation; improving health and wellbeing in people with mental illness; preventing postoperative delirium in surgical patients; evaluation of vestibular implantation in Bilateral Vestibular Hypofunction; lifestyle and health behavior interventions for proper body weight in pregnancy and among cancer survivor; clinical trials, longitudinal follow-up studies, EMR based health research
Hsin-Chieh "Jessica" Yeh, PhD
Research Interests: clinical trials of lifestyle intervention; epidemiology of obesity and diabetes, and their relationship with cancer