School of Medicine

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has received the Barbara Ross-Lee Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Only one of the 871 ACGME-accredited sponsoring institutions in the country receives this award each year. The award recognizes efforts to achieve diversity, equity and inclusion in the graduate medical education (GME) community.

As an undergraduate student, Emily Huang served as director of the University of Utah’s food pantry. When she enrolled at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, she wanted to continue working in the community. Now, Huang is part of a team that has provided more than a million pounds of food to 49,000 families through the food pantry at Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School.

There are numerous fun activities for Johns Hopkins students to explore around the Greater Baltimore area — many of which are perfect for the fall season, with its shortening days, increasingly chilly weather and pre-holiday festive mood. M.D./Ph.D. student Akshaya Annapragada loves autumn and exploring. In this blog post, she recounts autumnal activities that she and her fellow students have enjoyed.

School of Medicine student Andy Lancaster was recognized for character and commitment.

20 scholars join the university this fall to pursue PhDs as part of a new $150M initiative to address historic underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and math fields.

Theodore DeWeese, who grew up in public housing, has scaled the heights of academic medicine to become interim dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

From the beginning of her internal medicine residency, Eva Valilis (Longcope, 2018) expected to endure long — and sometimes intense — nights on call, caring for medically complex patients with comorbidities. What she didn’t expect was a concerted effort by leaders to reduce trainees’ stress.

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Convocation Ceremony is a milestone event for all our graduating students and their guests.

Nelson Malone, M.D., M.P.H., emergency medicine resident, draws inspiration from her legacy.

Global health neurology fellow Dominique Mortel shares her experience being a patient during the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has changed her perspective as a physician.

When Carolina Lopez-Silva moved to the United States in 2016 from Bogota, Colombia, she wanted to connect with other immigrants in her community. Now a second-year Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine student, she tutors immigrant youth through CASA of Baltimore, a large grass-roots immigrant advocacy organization.

With the return of in-person Match Day celebrations, fourth-year Johns Hopkins medical student Margo Peyton reports on her class’s envelope-opening experience and how this year’s event came together.