On October 9, 2015, JSCOR postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Neeraja Nagarajan, was invited to the US State Department to present at the Global Diaspora Week launch event. The event featured a keynote speech by Secretary of State John Kerry and an interview with Grammy-winning recording artist Angelique Kidjo. Dr. Nagarajan gave a presentation during a breakout session entitled "Diaspora-Driven Capacity Building in Health". Her talk was entitled "Increasing Biomedical Research in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)" and focused on her recent trip to India to lead a research seminar for medical students at her medical school alma mater. Joseph Nwadioku, a medical resident at Johns Hopkins Hospita
JSCOR post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Husain AlShaikh, made a presentation last week at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress in Chicago, IL, entitled "Financial Burden of Acute Kidney Injury following Cardiac Surgery." This project was inspired by Dr. Nevin Katz, a cardiac surgeon at Johns Hopkins, who is exploring ways to identify patients at risk for AKI and intervene before kidney damage occurrs. Dr. AlShaikh's analysis was done using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), 2008-2011. The analysis showed that patients with AKI were ten times more likely to die in hospital, have over twice the length of stay, and twice the cost of hospitalization. On average the cost
