Congratulations to the 2023 Team Science Awardees!
We are pleased to announce the 2023 recipients of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Team Science Award. These awards, provided by the ICTR Community and Collaboration Core, are designed to recognize the great work that Johns Hopkins researchers have been doing as interdisciplinary teams. They are also intended to highlight best practices and to share lessons learned in Team Science.
The 2023 Team Science Teams:
- Hopkins Education and Research for the Advancement of Life support Devices (The HERALD Group)
- The Johns Hopkins HHT Center of Excellence
- ProHealth
Hopkins Education and Research for the Advancement of Life support Devices (The HERALD Group)
The need for a multi-disciplinary approach for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) patients became apparent in 2017 when a 17-year-old with acute brain injury and severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) required an intracranial BOLT placement and VV-ECMO support with joint care by the cardiovascular surgery ICU and neurocritical care teams. The research effort grew from collaborations required to care for this very complex patient; the incredible teamwork involving neurocritical care, cardiology, pulmonology, orthopedics, nutrition, respiratory therapy, nursing, anesthesia, palliative care, surgery informatics and cardiothoracic surgery was the impetus for a joint research effort and the formation of team HERALD. The HERALD group has made notable strides in the day-to-day care of ECMO patients and has initiated the first-in-human safety and feasibility trials using Hyperfine MRI, a low-field portable point-of-care MRI that allows for bedside neurologic imaging of patients often otherwise too unstable for diagnostic imaging.| Team Member | Affiliation | Role on Team |
| Sung-Min Cho, DO, MHS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital | Founding investigator (PI) |
| Glenn Whitman, MD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Surgery | Founding investigator (PI) |
| Bo Soo Kim, MD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine | Co-investigator |
| Steven Keller, MD, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine | Co-investigator |
| Errol Bush, MD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Surgery | Co-investigator |
| James Gammie, MD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Surgery | Co-investigator |
| Jonathon Fanning, MBBS, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; University of Queensland, Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery | Co-investigator |
| Chris Wilcox, DO, MS | Johns Hopkins Hospital, Cardiac Surgery | Co-investigator |
| Shivalika Khanduja, MBBS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery | Postdoctoral fellow |
| Hannah Rando, MD, MPH | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery | Postdoctoral fellow |
| Ifeanyi Chinedozi, MD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery | Postdoctoral fellow |
| Zachary Darby | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery | Postdoctoral fellow |
| Jin Kook, MD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery | Postdoctoral fellow |
| Jessica Briscoe, MD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery | Postdoctoral fellow |
| Jiah Kim, MD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Neurology | Postdoctoral fellow |
| Andrew Geeza, BS | Johns Hopkins Hospital, ACCM | Co-investigator |
| Trish Brown, BS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery | Co-investigator |
| Diane Alejo, BA | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cardiac Surgery | Co-investigator/Informatics |
| Scott Anderson, BA | Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Surgery | Co-investigator/Informatics |
| Karlo Capili | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Surgery | Informatics |
| Kate Calligy, RN | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery | Research Nurse |
| Andrew Kalra, BS | Thomas Jefferson University; Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery | Medical student |
| Benjamin Shou, BS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery | Medical student |
| Shrey Kapoor, BA | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery | Medical student |
| Albert Leng, BA | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery | Medical student |
| Arjun Menta, BSA, BBA | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery | Medical student |
| Olivi Liu, BA | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery | Medical student |
| Amy Feng, BA | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery | Medical student |
| David Zhao, BS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Cardiac Surgery | Medical student |
Check out some of the work that the HEARLD Group is most proud of:
- Cho SM, Wilcox C, Keller S, et al. Assessing the SAfety and FEasibility of bedside portable low-field brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging in patients on ECMO (SAFE-MRI ECMO study): study protocol and first case series experience. Crit Care. 2022;26(1):119. Published 2022 Apr 30. doi:10.1186/s13054-022-03990-6
- Ong CS, Brown P, Shou BL, et al. Resting Energy Expenditure of Patients on Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Pilot Study. Crit Care Explor. 2022;4(7):e0730. Published 2022 Jul 18. doi:10.1097/CCE.0000000000000730
- Cho SM, Ziai W, Mayasi Y, et al. Noninvasive Neurological Monitoring in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. ASAIO J. 2020;66(4):388-393. doi:10.1097/MAT.0000000000001013
- Hwang J, Kalra A, Shou BL, Whitman G, Wilcox C, Brodie D, Zaaqoq AM, Lorusso R, Uchino K, Cho SM. Epidemiology of ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke in venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Crit Care. 2023.
- Kang JK, Kim BS, Bleck T, Whitman G, Cho SM. Post-Cardiac Arrest Care in Adult Patients after Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Crit Care Med. 2023.
The Johns Hopkins HHT Center of Excellence
The Johns Hopkins HHT Center of Excellence is one of 27 HHT Centers of Excellence (CoEs) located across the nation and is one of the oldest in the country. For over 25 years, the HHT Center has served hundreds of patients throughout the mid-Atlantic with this complex and rare disease. HHT is the second most common genetic bleeding disorder affecting more than 1.4 million people worldwide. The disease results in malformed blood vessels to form in multiple internal organs as well as the skin and mucous membranes. The JH HHT CoE is comprised of 37 specialists who continuously engage in multidisciplinary collaboration and consult with primary care teams to address the complex needs of each patient. This is invaluable as HHT patients’ symptoms and presentations vary significantly and treatment must be individualized. Their team is also directly engaged in education and lobbying to spread awareness and fund research initiatives. Further, the JH HHT CoE is conducting groundbreaking research into HHT treatments and interventions.
Team Member | Affiliation | Role on Team |
Clifford Weiss, MD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Interventional Radiology | Director, JH HHT Center of Excellence; HHT Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations (PAVM) Management & Treatment |
Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Pulmonology and Oncology | Assistant Director, JH HHT Center of Excellence; HHT Primary Care |
Nicholas Rowan, MD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology | Assistant Director, JH HHT Center of Excellence; HHT Otolaryngology |
Bill Morefield, PA | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Interventional Radiology | Vascular and Interventional Radiology Physician Assistant; HHT PAVM Management & Treatment |
Sophia Kemble, MSN, RN | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Interventional Radiology | HHT Nurse Coordinator |
Check out some of the work that the HHT Team is proud of:
- Galiatsatos P, Wilson C, O’Brien J, Gong AJ, Angiolillo D, Johnson J, Myers C, Strout S, Mathai S, Robinson G, Rowan NR, Weiss CR. A lack of race and ethnicity data in the treatment of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: a systematic review of intravenous bevacizumab efficacy. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2022 Jun 13;17(1):220. doi: 10.1186/s13023-022-02371-0. PMID: 35698080; PMCID: PMC9195340.
- Latif MA, Bailey CR, Motaghi M, Areda MA, Galiatsatos P, Mitchell SE, Weiss CR. Postembolization Persistence of Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations: A Retrospective Comparison of Coils and Amplatzer and Micro Vascular Plugs Using Propensity Score Weighting. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2023 Jan;220(1):95-103. doi: 10.2214/AJR.21.27218. Epub 2022 Aug 10. Erratum in: AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2023 Jan;220(1):155. PMID: 35946857.
- Farhan A, Latif MA, Minhas A, Weiss CR. Cardiac and Hemodynamic Manifestations of Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia. Int J Angiol. 2022 Jul 9;31(2):75-82. doi: 10.1055/s0042-1745842. PMID: 35923582; PMCID: PMC9341259.
ProHealth
ProHealth was founded in 1992 as a convenient, off-campus facility to conduct NIH-sponsored trials (TOHP, TONE, AASK and DASH). Given their success, other investigators decided to implement studies at ProHealth [e.g. ACHIEVE (PI: G.Daumit), DPP (PI: C.Saudek) and LookAHEAD (PI: F.Brancati, J. Clark)]). ProHealth’s goal is to conduct high quality research focused on common, chronic conditions. Some of their most influential studies include:
- The DASH and DASH-Sodium trials, which developed and evaluated the DASH diet, now the standard, benchmark diet for preventing cardiovascular and other chronic diseases.
- The DPP trial, which is a landmark trial which documented that diabetes can be prevented through lifestyle modification.
- The ACHIEVE trial, another landmark trial which documented that persons with serious mental illness can make lifestyle changes that lead to weight loss.
ProHealth studies directly and positively impact the residents of Baltimore and its surrounding communities and have also had a national and global impact as well.
Team Member | Affiliation | Role on Team |
Lawrence Appel, MD, MPH
| Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and General Internal Medicine (GIM) | Principal Investigator, Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study (CRIC)
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Jeanne Charleston, BSN, RN
| Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology | Program Manager |
Justin Echouffo Tcheugui, MD, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Endocrinology | Investigator |
Pete Miller, MD, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Investigator |
Gail Daumit, MD, MHS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Principal Investigator |
Scott Pilla, MD, MHS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Multiple Principal Investigator (MPI) |
Jessica Yeh, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Principal Investigator for Aspire |
Nae-Yuh Wang, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Statistician |
Arlene Dalcin, MS, RD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Lead Behavioral Interventionist |
Jeanne Clark, MD, MPH | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Principal Investigator |
Nisa Maruther, MD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Principal Investigator |
Joseph Gennusa, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Program Manager |
Stacy Goldsholl, MA | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Senior Behavioral Interventionist |
Deidra Crews, MD, SCM | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Nephrology | Principal Investigator
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Michael Carducci, MD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Oncology | Investigator |
Tammy Brady, MD, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics | Principal Investigator
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Rheanna Platt, MD, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry | Investigator |
Michael Fang, PhD, MHS | Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology | Investigator |
Junichi Ishigami, MD, MPH, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology | Principal Investigator
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Christine Mitchell, SCM | Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology | Project Manager |
Noel Mueller, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology | Principal Investigator
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Elizabeth Selvin, PhD, MPH | Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology | Principal Investigator
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Alene Kennedy-Hendricks, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management | Investigator |
Beth McGinty, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management | Investigator |
Christina Yuan, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management | Investigator |
Susan Oh, MS, MPH | Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research | Lead Research Dietitian |
Gerald Jerome, PhD, FASH, FACSM | Townson University, Kinesiology | Behavioral Exercise Scientist |
Stephen Juraschek, MD, PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine | Investigator |
Caroline Abbas | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Front Desk Clerk |
Pat Bayton | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Administrative Assistant |
Alexander Bender, BS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Metabolic Kitchen Staff |
Crystal Brice, BS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Welch Center Office Manager |
Linda Bunyard, MS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Project Manager |
Courtney Cook | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Data Manager |
Marissa Dasta | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Research Assistant |
Nola Durkin | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Data Manager |
Ben Eidman | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Program Coordinator |
Tyler Fink | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Data Analyst |
Debra Gayles, BS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Behavioral Interventionist |
Ina Glenn-Smith | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Data Collector |
Dingfen Han | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Senior Data Analyst |
Xiao Hu, BA | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Metabolic Kitchen Staff |
Sharon Jackson | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Recruiter |
Dawn Jiggetts | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Recruiter |
Mia Johnson | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Data Collector |
Eva Minahan | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Data Collector |
Kaleigh Owen | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Data Collector |
Alexa Sable | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Metabolic Kitchen Staff |
Chanchai Sapun | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Data Collector |
Valerie Sneed | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Data Collector |
Petar Stoykov | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Metabolic Kitchen Staff |
Liam Sweetney, BS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Interventionist |
Alison Terry, BS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Program Coordinator |
Letitia Thomas | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Study Coordinator |
Isabelle Wang, MHS, BS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Technical Support |
Karen White, MS | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Metabolic Kitchen Staff |
Payson Wisniewski | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Research Assistant |
Beiwen Wu, MSPH | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and GIM | Research Dietitian |
Jolene Lambertis | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Nephrology | Behavioral Interventionist |
Sydney Santos | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Nephrology | Recruiter |
Mary Ann Stephens PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Nephrology | Research Program Manager |
Jasina Wise | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Nephrology | Research Coordinator |
Tara Harrison | Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology | Data Collector |
Carla Martin | Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology | Data Collector |
Xinyi (Nakita) Shen | Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology | Trainee |
Sanjana Boyapalli | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics | Project Manager |
Thomas Dell | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics | Project Manager |
Marwa Elborki | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics | Data Collector |
Ryan Hutson | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics | Project Manager |
Tahra Khanuja | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics | Data Collector |
Catherine Perez PhD | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics | Data Collector |
Anastasia Wass | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics | Data Collector |
Alice Liu | Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research | Research Dietitian |
Rachel Reichley | Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research | Data Collector |
Jennifer Trost, LPN | Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research | Research Dietitian |
Check out some of the work that ProHealth is most proud of:
- Appel LJ, Moore TJ, Obarzanek E, Vollmer WM, Svetkey LP, Sacks FM, Bray GA, Vogt TM, Cutler JA, Windhauser MM, Lin PH, Karanja N. A clinical trial of the effects of dietary patterns on blood pressure. DASH Collaborative Research Group. N Engl J Med. 1997 Apr 17;336(16):1117-24. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199704173361601. PMID: 9099655.
- Daumit GL, Dickerson FB, Wang NY, Dalcin A, Jerome GJ, Anderson CA, Young DR, Frick KD, Yu A, Gennusa JV 3rd, Oefinger M, Crum RM, Charleston J, Casagrande SS, Guallar E, Goldberg RW, Campbell LM, Appel LJ. A behavioral weight-loss intervention in persons with serious mental illness. N Engl J Med. 2013 Apr 25;368(17):1594-602. PMID:23517118. PMCID: PMC3743095.
- Knowler WC, Barrett-Connor E, Fowler SE, Hamman RF, Lachin JM, Walker EA, Nathan DM; Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin. N Engl J Med. 2002 Feb 7;346(6):393-403. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa012512. PMID: 11832527; PMCID: PMC1370926.
For more information about the Team Science Award, please visit the ICTR Community and Collaboration Core website or contact the team at [email protected].
