Hopkins GIM faculty focus on delivering excellent primary and hospital-based care while serving as exemplary clinical role models for students and housestaff. Clinical faculty provide up-to-date, evidence-based patient-focused care to diverse patient populations from Baltimore City and surrounding communities. 

Primary Care

Hopkins GIM internists fill several key roles:

• General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center provides primary and comprehensive medical care downtown
• General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center - Resident Practice provides comprehensive medical care with a collaborative team including resident physicians
• General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins at Green Spring Station provides primary and comprehensive medical care north of the beltway
• Primary Care for Cancer Survivors Program works with cancer survivors through their cancer journey: from diagnosis, during treatment, to life after cancer treatment

Specialty Services

Hopkins GIM offers specialty care in several settings and through a variety of programs:

• After Care Clinic (ACC) serves as a resource for patients who have recently been treated in the emergency department or inpatient setting and are in need of short term follow-up 
• Executive and Preventive Health Program provides comprehensive health assessments for people with busy schedules
• Healthful Eating, Activity & Weight Program works with patients to make long-term lifestyle changes to prevent chronic disease and improve their health with a focus on obesity, prediabetes and hypertension
• Hypertension Center provides consultative care for patients with high blood pressure that is difficult to diagnose and/or treat
• JHM Diabetes Prevention and Education Program (DPEP) provides two evidence-based programs: 1) The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) for persons with prediabetes; and 2) Diabetes Self-Management Training (DSMT) for persons living with diabetes
• Palliative Medicine Program helps patients facing life-threatening illnesses and their families live the fullest lives they can, control pain, deal with the mental and emotional effects of a serious illness, and manage symptoms

Affiliated Practices

Hopkins GIM faculty and fellows also work in collaboration with colleagues from around the campus.

• Bayview Primary Care Practice provides high quality, safe, patient-centered primary care that satisfies the needs of a diverse patient population
• John G. Bartlett Specialty Practice provides care in multi-disciplinary teams to treat patients with HIV/AIDS 
• University Health Service provides acute and ongoing care to Hopkins students, residents, trainees and their dependents

Bimal H Ashar, M.D., M.B.A.

Clinical Director, Division of General Internal Medicine
Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Executive and Preventive Health Program
Professor of Medicine