Call from September 20, 2024 featuring Dr. Paul O'Rourke.

Dr. Paul O'Rourke is an Associate Professor of Medicine and serves as Assistant Dean for Medical Student Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. O'Rourke co-directs the Johns Hopkins Medical Education Pathway, a longitudinal medical education training program for Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview internal medicine residents. He directs the Outpatient Medicine Curriculum of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Internal Medicine Residency. He spends the majority of his time teaching and advising medical students and internal medicine residents. He is involved in medical education research with a particular focus on primary care education and advocacy, humanism in medicine, high value care, and health disparities. He is active on the national level through the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) and the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM). He currently serves as a national councilor for APDIM.

Call from January 17, 2025 featuring Dr. Laundette Jones.

Dr. Laundette Jones is Deputy Director of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Program in Health Equity and Population Health. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Public Health and Pharmacology. Dr. Jones is a biosocial researcher with broad training and expertise in the basic biomedical sciences and community and population health. For over 15 years, Dr. Jones led a research laboratory utilizing cell culture and animal models to identify genetic and environmental risk factors for breast cancer. She received international recognition for her contributions towards understanding of the relationship between BRCA1 mutations, sex hormone levels, and cancer risk. Her recent completion of the M.P.H. degree has uniquely positioned Dr. Jones to build transdisciplinary research teams (from basic scientists, clinicians, public health experts, to communities) that seek to address cancer health disparities through the understanding of the interplay of biological, environmental, and social factors. Currently, her research program utilizes a participatory health research approach to create community-academic partnerships that share and co-generate knowledge to produce comprehensive, context-specific strategies for eliminating cancer health disparities.

Call from January 10, 2025, featuring Dr. Otis Brawley.

Otis Brawley is professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and 39th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Brawley leads a broad interdisciplinary research effort of cancer health disparities at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, working to close racial, economic and social disparities in the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer in the United States and worldwide.

Call from October 11, 2024, featuring Frank Kros, MSW, JD.

Frank Kros is a recognized leader in his field. He's a passionate speaker, receiving the Maryland Governor's Citation for his work on adolescent suicide prevention. His expertise extends to providing expert testimony to the U.S. Senate on childhood trauma and being a certified Master Trainer in Adverse Childhood Experiences. Frank's commitment is further solidified by his appointment to Maryland's Inaugural Commission on Trauma-Informed Care and his recent certification as a HOPE Facilitator through Tufts Medicine. He's also the co-author of two influential books on improving services for traumatized children: "Creating the Upside Down Organization: Transforming Staff to Save Troubled Children" (2012) and "Creating the Upside Down Organization: Reinventing Group Care" (2015).

Call from December 13, 2024, featuring Dr. Geeta Sood.

Geeta Sood, MD, ScM, is assistant professor of medicine and hospital epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She has led several successful process improvement initiatives resulting in her winning the Armstrong Clinical Excellence Award in Patient Safety in 2015. She is active in the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology and her research interests are in the role of the microbiome in healthcare infections and using big data to predict healthcare-associated infections.

Call from December 20, 2024, featuring Dr. Jessi Gold.

Dr. Jessi Gold holds the esteemed position of the first Chief Wellness Officer for the University of Tennessee System, a role encompassing 5 campuses across the state of Tennessee and over 62,000 students. She also serves as an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Internationally recognized, Dr. Gold is in high demand as a speaker, media advocate, author, and mental health consultant with a special focus on college students, healthcare workers, and the entertainment industry.

Stay tuned til' the end for a special holiday message from Rev. William E. Johnson, Jr., Community Chaplain JHHS.

Call from November 15, 2024, lead by our host Dr. G.

Dr. Galiatsatos is a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician. He is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive lung disease, tobacco cessation, and in the care of critically ill patients in the Medical ICU. He is a member of the Obstructive Lung Disease Group at Johns Hopkins, oversees the Tobacco Treatment Clinic and provides teaching to medical students and residents at Johns Hopkins.

Call from November 1, 2024 with Dr. Catherine Ling.

Catherine Ling’s scholarship is focused on improving primary care for vulnerable populations. Her more than 25 years as a family nurse practitioner have centered on providing functional access to ambulatory care in community settings. As an educator, she provides innovative and rigorous curriculum and course design and delivery for quality learning and practice outcomes. Dr. Ling has led and participated in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of macro- and micro-level population health interventions for disease prevention and disaster planning in the federal and private sectors. She is a fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.