Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research
Where Public Health and Medicine Meet
Welcome to the Welch Center, where our interdisciplinary faculty and trainees collaborate on groundbreaking epidemiologic, clinical, and translational research related to preventing and controlling chronic diseases. Everything we do is designed to strengthen the practice of medicine, improve the health of people and populations, and mentor the next generation of researchers to carry on this work.
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New & Noteworthy
Past Director Makes TIME100 List
Dr. Neil Powe, former Welch Center director, is among TIME100's "most influential people in health in 2024!"
Dr. Powe is listed alongside celebrity names like Michael J. Fox and Olivia Munn. The feature cites how he and Dr. Cynthia Delgado are fighting transplant bias — detailing a task force they co-chaired reevaluating the formula used for kidney transplant eligibility.
Honoring Excellence in Nursing
This year, 28 Johns Hopkins nurses were named “top nurses” by Baltimore magazine. Among the winners is the Welch Center's Jeanne Charleston, BSN, RN!
“What I find most rewarding about my career as a nurse is that I am advancing diversity and health equity. I enjoy what I do and I have been able to fulfill one of my goals to help eliminate health disparities," Charleston wrote in a statement.
Grand Rounds Spotlight
Join us for our final Grand Rounds of the academic year!
Dr. Sabrina A. Assoumou will speak at Welch Center Grand Rounds on Wednesday, May 15, 2024! Don't miss her presentation on "From Simulation Modeling to Developing Interventions: A Multipronged Approach to the HIV, HCV and OUD Syndemic."
If you can't make this session, you'll have more chances to attend in the near future. Welch Center Grand Rounds will resume in August!
Week in Welch Newsletter
Dive into the world of the Welch Center with our weekly newsletter, recapping our biggest highlights, upcoming events and recent publications.
Time-Restricted Eating Study
Several Welch faculty collaborated on this impactful new research focusing on time-restricted eating.
To summarize: when people ate the same amount of calories, but within a limited time window, it didn't help them lose weight or improve how their bodies handled glucose compared to eating normally.
New Associate Faculty
The Welch Center is excited to announce the appointment of four new Associate Faculty members:
- Sonia Angell, MD, MPH
- Ariana Chao, PhD, RN, CRNP
- Alejandra Ellison-Barnes, MD, MPH
- Christina Yuan, PhD, MPH
Welch Faculty Wins DiabDocs Award
Congratulations to the Welch Center's Dr. Michelle Ogunwole, who was selected to receive a National NIH K12 “Diabetes-Docs: Physician Scientist Career Development Program” (DiabDocs) Award.
'The Lack of Research Around Type 1 Diabetes'
New research shows type 1 diabetes should no longer be considered "childhood diabetes." The Welch Center's Drs. Liz Selvin and Mike Fang discuss this on the "Public Health on Call" podcast, Episode 747. The pair share recent discoveries and debunk previously held assumptions surrounding the long-mislabeled health condition.
Unlocking the Link: Protein Metabolites and Pediatric CKD
Step into the realm of pediatric kidney health with the Welch Center's Dr. Casey Rebholz! Don't miss this insightful exploration of nurturing and enhancing kidney health in our youth in this episode of the National Kidney Foundation's "Life as a Nephrology Professional" podcast.
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