To raise arts awareness, new curator position created
The position of first curator of cultural properties at Hopkins has gone to the former curator of the Evergreen House, Jacqueline O'Regan. The new appointment has been created both to help the University manage its various cultural resources and as a way to further efforts to raise the profile of the arts. O'Regan's responsibilities will include the collections at both the Evergreen and Homewood houses to the fine arts and historical teaching equipment.
As the curator of cultural properties, O'Regan will have to promote the different types of collections and devise methods for students, faculty, staff and the community to easily utilize these resources for research and enjoyment with more ease. The position will be organized with the Sheridan Libraries' Special Collections Department. Replacing O'Regan as curator of Evergreen Museum & Library is James Archer Abbott, former curator at the Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C. Both curators will assume their new positions in November.
- Heather Barbakoff
New Hopkins institute receives grant money to fund research
A grant of $100 million will be used over the next five years to help scientists see their laboratory research actualized into real world applications. The formation of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research will support the efforts of more than 100 faculty members.
The National Institutes of Health have awarded a total of 12 Clinical and Translational Science Awards across the country, creating a consortium of 24 institutions. Hopkins plans to use its funding to improve research data analysis, clinical trial management and outreach programs to underserved populations. The new institute will also forge partnerships with state agencies, Veterans Administration hospitals and pharmaceutical companies.
- Marie Cushing
McVeigh given position as new BME director
Elliot McVeigh has replaced Murray Sachs as the new director of the Biomedical Engineering department. The department is a part of both the Homewood and Medical campuses, offering undergraduate and masters degrees, as well as faculty-led research projects.
As director of the program, McVeigh will be responsible for the integration of these various programs in order to enhance student training while incorporating University research.
McVeigh became a part of Hopkins' Department of Radiology in 1988 and then in 1991 joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He helped with the creation of a research program focusing on cardiac MRI, and was director of Hopkins' Medical Imaging Laboratory, a program that works to develop new imaging techniques and advance existing methods as a way to solve problems in both medicine and biology.
Additionally while he was a part-time member of the faculty at Hopkins, McVeigh teamed with the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. There, as a senior investigator in their Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, McVeigh spearheaded a research program devoted to cardiovascular interventional MRI.
McVeigh is also an inventor with eight patents on real-time interventional MRI and real-time MRI apparatuses. He has also published over 150 peer-reviewed research papers and has served as a mentor for over 20 graduate students.
The former BME director, Murray Sachs will remain on the faculty as both a teacher and a scholar.
- Heather Barbakoff
Cooper awarded "Genius" Grant and appointed MacArthur Fellow
Internist and epidemiologist Lisa Cooper was recently honored with the Macarthur "Genius" Award for her work on minority health issues. The Liberian-born Cooper is known for her studies focusing on the ethnic and racial disparities in both medical care and research. It is for this work that she has not only been named the 2007 fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, but has also been awarded the coveted $500,000 "genius grant" which she can utilize as she desires.
Cooper's works have been primarily centered on doctor-patient relationships within the United States, and at Hopkins her research has investigated ways to establish clearer boundaries across ethnic groups, while acknowledging methods for the address of a growing awareness of the racial and ethnic disparities in disease prevalence, risk and care giving. With the grant, Cooper has stated that she wishes to help further her work globally with individuals in economically and socially disadvantaged communities.
The MacArthur Foundation selects its fellows annually with an emphasis on creativity and the assumption of imperative future advances based on the applicant's previous exceptional work.
Cooper has been part of the faculty at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 1994 and was recently promoted to a full professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine for this academic year. Additionally, this Renaissance woman has an appointment in epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and another in health policy at the School of Nursing.
- Heather Barbakoff
