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June 2014
Hugh Calkins
Hugh Calkins
Academy Awards

Until recently, Charlie Arnold was able to control his irregular heartbeat with medication. But he's been hospitalized several times in the past six months with palpitations and dizziness so severe he feared he would pass out.

Arnold and his wife, Erika, have traveled from their Lewes, Delaware, home to see Hugh Calkins, pioneer of a procedure called catheter ablation and one of 11 physicians at The Johns Hopkins Hospital inducted this year into the Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence. "I'm hoping with this surgery to get some of my life back," says Arnold, 53, who is the pastor of Seaside Baptist Church, president of his own power-wash company and a volunteer firefighter.

His 57-year-old physician also has notable credentials. Calkins has written some 450 papers about heart irregularities and serves as president of the 6,000-member Heart Rhythm Society. He's been a full professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for more than a decade and directs the hospital's arrhythmia service and electrophysiology laboratory. Read more >

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In Brief

A Milestone in Infection Prevention
Johns Hopkins Bayview's medical intensive care unit marks two years without a central line-associated bloodstream infection.

Information and Conversation Sessions for Women Faculty
The brown-bag lunch on June 4 will focus on patient care and professionalism. "The Art of Graceful Self-Promotion" will be the topic on September 23.

Vice Dean's Award for the Advancement of Women Faculty
This year's recipient, Lisa Cooper, the James F. Fries Professor of Medicine, will be honored on June 19.

A Centennial Celebration
The Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery is hosting several events June 20-21 to mark 100 years of patient care and research innovation.

Town Hall Meeting June 17
The next town hall meeting, Tuesday, June 17, will focus on the Johns Hopkins Medicine Strategic Plan.

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Mark Anderson Named Director of the Department of Medicine
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A Study in Firsts
All Children's Hospital launches a new residency program.

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Epic Emergency Prep
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Basics

Ensuring the Integrity of Johns Hopkins Medicine Research
Johns Hopkins is helping to shape the emerging field of research integrity management.

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