Alister Martin is a practicing emergency physician and former Chief Resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He served as a former Health Policy Aide to Governor Peter Shumlin of Vermont and Congressman Raul Ruiz of California and blends state and federal policy knowledge with hands-on patient experience. He now serves as faculty at Harvard Medical School in the Center for Social Justice and Health Equity working at the intersection of public policy and medicine. He leverages his background in politics, healthcare policy, and the field of behavioral economics to use the ER as a place to build programs that serve the needs of vulnerable patients. He is the founder and Executive Director of Vot-ER (https://vot-er.org/) and the founder and National Organizing Director of Get Waivered (https://getwaivered.com/).

PIHPS: The Professionals In Health Podcast Series

Emergency Medicine Physician with Interests in Social Justice and Health Equity – Alister Martin, M.D., M.P.P.

Dr. Aaron R. Quarles is an Emergency Medicine Physician at Northwestern Medicine and an Instructor of Emergency Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. His primary focus is addressing the social determinants of health. He is particularly interested in aligning community resources with the healthcare system to enhance the care of patients from marginalized populations. Dr. Quarles serves as the Director of Recruitment for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program and has been recognized for mentorship of underrepresented students and trainees. Dr. Quarles teaches in healthcare quality and health equity courses at the medical school.  He  completed his residency at Northwestern, where he also served as Chief Resident. Before relocating to Chicago, Dr. Quarles was awarded the Zuckerman Fellowship by the Center for Public Leadership to pursue a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He earned his Medical Doctorate from Harvard Medical School.

Emergency Medicine Physician interested in Social Determinants of Health – Aaron R. Quarles, MD. MPP

Dr. Bienvenu is a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins.  He specializes in anxiety disorders, and his research employs methods of epidemiology and clinical investigation.  He is currently working on ways to reduce post-traumatic stress phenomena in survivors of critical illness and intensive care.

Psychiatrist, Epidemiologist, and Anxiety Disorder Expert – Joe Bienvenu, III, M.D., Ph.D.

Lourdes Celius is a first-year Doctor of Nursing candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine specializing in family primary care. Lourdes has engaged in several community and research-oriented projects that focus on health disparities in minority women birth outcomes and medical delivery of Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for patients at higher risk of acquiring HIV. Please join us as we learn more about her journey into nursing school. 

Nurse Practitioner in Family Primary Care - Lourdes Celius

Colin G. Walsh, MD, MA, is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine, and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is a practicing internist. He received a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University and his medical degree at the University of Chicago. He completed residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. He received a degree in Biomedical informatics in postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University. He joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University in 2015. His research includes: 1) applied predictive modeling to enable behavioral health and prevention; 2) scalable phenotyping for precision medicine; and 3) population health informatics to combat the overdose crisis.

Physician-Scientist and Biomedical Informatician – Colin G. Walsh, MD, MA

Dr. Travis Rieder is a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics where he serves as the Director of the Masters of Bioethics degree program. He holds secondary faculty appointments at the Department of Health Policy & Management and the Center for Public Health Advocacy within the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, as well as in the Department of Philosophy. Dr. Rider’s research distinctly falls into two categories: one being ethics and policy surrounding sustainability and planetary limits, and the second being on the question of responsible procreation in the era of climate change. He also works on food ethics related to climate change, as well as research ethics and policy issues surrounding America’s opioid epidemic. Outside of his research and scholarly writing, Dr. Rieder is quite popular as a public speaker with a passionate commitment to doing bioethics with the public and recently published his famous book, “In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids." 

Bioethicist - Dr. Travis Rieder, Ph.D. (Part 2)

Dr. Travis Rieder is a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics where he serves as the Director of the Masters of Bioethics degree program. He holds secondary faculty appointments at the Department of Health Policy & Management and the Center for Public Health Advocacy within the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, as well as in the Department of Philosophy. Dr. Rider’s research distinctly falls into two categories: one being ethics and policy surrounding sustainability and planetary limits, and the second being on the question of responsible procreation in the era of climate change. He also works on food ethics related to climate change, as well as research ethics and policy issues surrounding America’s opioid epidemic. Outside of his research and scholarly writing, Dr. Rieder is quite popular as a public speaker with a passionate commitment to doing bioethics with the public and recently published his famous book, “In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids.”  

Bioethicist - Dr. Travis Rieder, Ph.D. (Part 1)

Dr. Namandjé Bumpus is the E.K. Marshall and Thomas H. Maren Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is the first Black woman to ever chair a department at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She joined the faculty at Hopkins in 2010. Dr. Bumpus earned a BA in biology at Occidental College in 2003. She then went on to complete a PhD in pharmacology at the University of Michigan in 2007 and a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular and experimental medicine at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA in 2010. Dr. Bumpus’ laboratory focuses on defining mechanisms that underlie inter-individual differences in drug outcomes. She is internationally recognized for her contributions to the development of drugs to treat and prevent HIV infection. Her many honors include the Leon I. Goldberg Award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the James Gillette Award from the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics, the John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers awarded by the Obama administration. 

Pharmacologist and Department Chair – Namandjé N. Bumpus, Ph.D.

Andrew Pekosz received his BS in Biochemistry from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Pekosz joined the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in July, 2007. He is an expert on the basic biology of influenza, coronaviruses and other emerging and zoonotic virus infections. Dr. Pekosz is the co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Excellence in Influenza Research and Surveillance (JH-CEIRS) and Director of the Center for Emerging Viral Infectious Diseases (CEVID). He has authored more than 90 scientific papers, is on the editorial board for several journals and has served on a number of National Institute of Health scientific and policy review boards focused on biosafety and biocontainment. He has been interviewed on the topics of COVID-19, influenza, biosafety, emerging infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness by a number of news agencies including National Public Radio, the Associated Press (AP), the Baltimore Sun, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Cable News Network (CNN), CSPAN, British Broadcasting Company (BBC), Bloomberg Television, France24, Voice of America, the Discovery Channel and numerous local radio and television stations.

Virologist, Immunologist, and Principal Investigator – Andrew S. Pekosz, Ph.D.

Dr. Laura Guidry-Grimes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics with a secondary appointment in Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Guidry-Grimes is a clinical ethicist, where she offers ethics education to different clinical groups and units, provides ethics consultation on an individual model, develops and revises policies, and leads projects on ethics research. She is also passionate about teaching bioethics to undergraduates, graduate students, and students across health professions. Dr. Guidry-Grimes research focuses on psychiatric ethics, disability advocacy, and how best to understand vulnerability in health care.    To view a partial transcript of the podcast episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wAE5Ft3s2CUq-9RX1aXzNOKdnGrrdxu7T8XJoZNvbmw/edit?usp=sharing 

Clinical Ethicist - Dr. Laura Guidry-Grimes, Ph.D.

Dr. Laura Guidry-Grimes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Humanities and Bioethics with a secondary appointment in Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr. Guidry-Grimes is a clinical ethicist, where she offers ethics education to different clinical groups and units, provides ethics consultation on an individual model, develops and revises policies, and leads projects on ethics research. She is also passionate about teaching bioethics to undergraduates, graduate students, and students across health professions. Dr. Guidry-Grimes research focuses on psychiatric ethics, disability advocacy, and how best to understand vulnerability in health care.    To view a partial transcript of the podcast episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wAE5Ft3s2CUq-9RX1aXzNOKdnGrrdxu7T8XJoZNvbmw/edit?usp=sharing 

Clinical Ethicist - Laura Guidry-Grimes, Ph.D.

 Dr. Michelle Huckaby Lewis, MD, JD, is a pediatrician and an attorney with training in bioethics and health services research. She joined the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University in 2010. Her research and publications focus on the intersection of law, medicine, and health, with a particular emphasis on the ethical and legal implications of genomic research. Her current work focuses on ethical and legal issues in four main areas: 1) the retention and use of residual newborn screening dried blood samples, 2) communication about genomic information, 3) data sharing and governance, and 4) the application of genomic technology to clinical and public health decision-making in the management of infectious disease. She currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Newborn Screening Translational Research Network (NBSTRN) and as Co-Chair of the NBSTRN Bioethics and Legal Issues Work Group. Read More Dr. Lewis received a BA degree in English and History from Stanford University before earning her JD degree from Vanderbilt University School of Law. After law school, she worked on Capitol Hill as a Legislative Assistant for Congressman Bob Clement from Tennessee. While working on Capitol Hill, she was appointed to the White Task Force on Health Care Reform during the Clinton Administration. She served on work groups related to Health Insurance Reform and Medical Malpractice Reform. Dr. Lewis then attended Tulane University School of Medicine and received her MD degree. She completed a residency in Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She completed the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Johns Hopkins University and the Greenwall Fellowship Program in Bioethics and Health Policy at Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University. 

Pediatrician, Attorney, and Bioethicist – Michelle Lewis, M.D., J.D.

Dr. Letitia Dzirasa is the Health Commissioner of Baltimore City. As a Hopkins-trained pediatrician, she focuses on obesity management and prevention; trauma informed care in children and adolescents; and expansion of technology to improve health outcomes. Prior to joining the Health Department, Dr. Dzirasa worked as the Health Innovation Office at Fearless Solutions; and Medical Director of Health and School Based Healthcare at Baltimore Medical System from 2013-2016.  Dr. Dzirasa currently serves as Co-Chair of the Local Health Improvement Council and Co-Chair of B’More for Healthy Babies Steering Committee.

Baltimore City Health Commissioner and Pediatrician – Letitia Dzirasa, M.D.

Dr. Abimbola Aina-Mumuney is an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Her areas of clinical expertise include high-risk pregnancy conditions and prevention of preterm labor. Dr. Aina-Mumuney’s research interests include thrombophilia in pregnancy, preterm labor and cervical incompetence. Dr. Aina is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a member of The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. She has served as a reviewer for several medical journals, including the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical and Experimental Hypertension and Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation. Dr. Aina has published numerous peer-reviewed research articles on preterm labor and perinatal disease. Dr. Aina-Mumuney also has an interest in education and often participates in the mentoring of residents and fellows.

Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist – Abby Aina, M.D.

Casey Jo Humbyrd, MD, is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. She is an Associate Faculty Member of the Berman Institute of Bioethics, and she completed a Masters of Bioethics at the Berman Institute. Dr. Humbyrd received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.D. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. During medical school, she participated in a month-long ethics fellowship at the University of Oxford.  After medical school, Dr. Humbyrd completed her residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine followed by a foot and ankle fellowship at Mercy Medical Center. Dr. Humbyrd’s research interest focus on ethical concerns related to surgery in general and orthopedic surgery in particular. Her current primary research interest revolves around the ethics of bundled payment programs for total joint replacement, ethical use of opioids in orthopedic surgery, and disparities in access to orthopedic care. She is a quarterly columnist on orthopedic ethical issues for the journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. Nationally, she is involved in advocacy work as a delegate to the American Medical Association and Chair of the health policy committee of the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society. Dr. Humbyrd is also the faculty advisor for the Johns Hopkins medical student section of MedChi and the AMA.

Orthopedic surgeon and Bioethicist – Casey Humbyrd, M.D.

Members of Lambda Epsilon Mu at Johns Hopkins have spoken with various health professionals to hear about their experiences in their career and the factors they attribute to their success in the field. PIHPS dives a deep into the lives of these noteworthy professionals.

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PIHPS: The Professionals In Health Podcast Series

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