10 Johns Hopkins Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Medicine.
ENPNewswire-October 19, 2021--10 Johns Hopkins Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Medicine
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Release date- 18102021 - Ten faculty members of The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, an independent organization of leading professionals from diverse fields, including health, medicine and the natural, social and behavioral sciences. It serves alongside the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering as adviser for the nation and the international community.
Through its domestic and global initiatives, the academy works to address critical issues in health, medicine and related policy. Membership is considered one of the highest honors in health and medicine.
The announcement of the new members (100 total) was made today as part of the academy's annual meeting.
New members are elected by current members through a selective process that recognizes people who have made major contributions to the advancement of the medical sciences, health care and public health.
The new members from Johns Hopkins are:
Pablo Celnik, M.D., the Lawrence Cardinal Shehan Professor and director of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the physiatrist-in-chief at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is co-director of the Sheikh Khalifa Stroke Institute and director of the Human Brain Physiology and Stimulation Laboratory at Johns Hopkins. Celnik is internationally recognized for his expertise and research in neurologic rehabilitation, particularly in patients with stroke and brain injury, as well as his studies in human motor learning.
A native of Argentina, Celnik received his medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine. He completed his residency training in neurology in Argentina and a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Ted Dawson, M.D., Ph.D., the Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Professor in Neurodegenerative Diseases, director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering and professor of neurology, neuroscience and pharmacology and molecular sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He leads a laboratory focusing on the molecular and genetic mechanisms underlying movement disorders. He was the first to discover the role of nitric oxide in brain cell injury...
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