JSCOR fellow Dr. Neeraja Nagarajan helped organize a research seminar and workshop in India recently. The two-day seminar was focused on introducing young physicians, early in their training, to the basics of biomedical research. The seminar was attended by 62 medical and dental residents at the Sri Ramachandra University (SRU), Chennai, India, on 18th and 19th August 2015. Dr. Varshini Varadaraj and Dr. Neeraja Nagarajan, both alumni of SRU and currently postdoctoral fellows at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, conducted the seminar. Drs. Varadaraj and Nagarajan are members of the Diaspora Health Network (DHN), an organization founded by students at the Johns Hopkins School o
JSCOR post-doctoral fellow and member of the diaspora, Dr. Neeraja Nagarajan, along with colleagues, has written a timely piece for The Lancet on the need to thoughtfully engage diaspora health workers in building health systems and disaster response capacity in low and middle-income countries. The commentary touches upon the need for a paradigm shift in the way diaspora health workers are seen – from causes of “brain drain” to an asset for creating sustainable change for strengthening health care systems in their countries of origin – and delineates strategies for coordinating efforts of diaspora during humanitarian emergencies.
JSCOR post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Hatim AlSulaim, is in Las Vegas this week attending the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Annual Meeting. Yesterday, he presented his poster entitled "Conscious status is associated with the likelihood of trauma center care and mortality in patients with moderate to severe TBI." This poster is based on Hatim's capstone project when he was part of the JSCOR Surgical Faculty-Student Mentorship Program. He and his colleagues discovered that the standard method for converting ICD-9 codes to AIS scores did not account for conscious status in TBI patients and that accounting for conscious status significantly improves mortality prediction and tra
