The Community Calls with Dr. G

Call from Friday June 27th, 2025 featuring Karen Shelton, LMSW.

Call from Friday June 20th, 2025 featuring Dr. Natalie Exum. Dr. Natalie Exum is a water scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. Her work focuses on linking health with water and sanitation infrastructure. She is currently working on community-engaged approaches to understand how drinking water exposures in Baltimo...

Call from Friday June 13th, 2025 featuring Dr. Jonathan Zenilman.   Dr. Jonathan M. Zenilman is a professor of medicine,  at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He also has joint appointments in population family and reproductive health, international health, and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Zenilman is known internationally for h...

Call from Friday May 30th, 2025 featuring Dr. Corinne Pettigrew. Dr. Pettigrew is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Leader of the Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement (ORE) Core of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (JHADRC). Her primary research interests are in individual differences in cognition and b...

Call from Friday May 24th, 2025 featuring Dr. Jenell Coleman & Margaret Greer. Dr. Jenell Coleman is an Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, with a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine. A recognized expert in adolescent and young adult gynecology, her clinical focus includes managing menstruation disorders, HPV-related co...

Call from Friday May 16th, 2025 featuring Dr. Rebecca "Becky" Stone. Dr. Rebecca Stone is an associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Her area of clinical expertise is gynecologic cancers, including cervical, uterine, vulvar and ovarian cancer, as well as gestational trophoblastic disease. Dr. Stone is a highly skilled surgeon with expertise in lap...

Call from friday May 9th, 2025 featuring Dr. Sheryl Gabram-Mendola. Dr. Gabram-Mendola is an expert in the surgical treatment of breast cancer and management of patients at high risk for breast cancer. She has also engaged in significant efforts to improve community awareness of the earlier detection of breast cancer in underserved minority women, to meet the rehabilitation needs of breast cancer...

Call from May 2nd 2025, featuring Dr. David Yaden. David B. Yaden, Ph. D., is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. A psychological scientist by training, Dr. Yaden studies how  mental health and well-being are impacted by certain experiences and mental states. He is the Principal Investigator of the Yaden...

Call from friday April 25th, 2025 featuring our very own Dr. G! Dr. Galiatsatos is a pulmonary and critical care medicine physician.  He is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive lung disease, tobacco cessation, and in the care of critically ill patients in the Medical ICU.  He is a member of the Obstructive Lung Disease Group at Johns Hopkins, oversees the Tobacco Treatment Clini...

Due to the holiday, we've pulled a call from the archives for today! This is the call from September 27th, 2024 featuring Dr. Natalie Exum. Natalie Exum, PhD '16, MS, is bridging the gap between public health and sanitary engineering to understand how environmental infectious pathogens are transmitted to humans.  

Call from April 11th, 2025 featuring Dr. Joann Bodurtha. Dr. Joann Bodurtha is a professor of genetic medicine, pediatrics, and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  Dr. Bodurtha is co-director of the regional genetics network NYMAC, co-director of the Biological Mechanisms theme in the Genes to Society Curriculum, co-director of the BIRCWH Advisory Board, Physician Advisor...

Call from April 4th 2025, featuring Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu. Albert Garcia-Romeu, Ph. D. is a member of the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a Guest Researcher at the National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Neuroimaging Research Branch, where he studies the effects of psychedelic drugs in humans, with a focus on psilocybin as an...

Call from March 28th 2025, featuring Dr. Otis Brawley. Dr. Otis Brawley is professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and 39th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Brawley leads a broad interdisciplinary research effort of cancer health disparities at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, wor...

Call from March 21, 2025 featuring Dr. Natalie Exum. Natalie Exum, PhD '16, MS, is bridging the gap between public health and sanitary engineering to understand how environmental infectious pathogens are transmitted to humans.

Call from friday March 14, 2025 featuring Dr. Anne Yacoub. Anne Damian Yacoub, M.D., is a neurologist who specializes in both multiple sclerosis and headache. Her areas of expertise include the diagnosis and treatment of multiple sclerosis and other neuroimmunological disorders that involve the central nervous system. She is also an expert in acute and chronic management of headache disorders. Dr....

Call from March 7, 2025 featuring Dr. Martin Steinberg. Dr. Martin Steinberg is an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include adult psychiatry. He earned his M.D. from Wake Forest University. He completed a residency and a fellowship in psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Med...

Call from February 28th, 2025 featuring Dr. Sammy Zakaria Dr. Zakaria is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM). Because he specializes in critical care cardiology, he predominately works in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (JHBMC) as well as the Cardiac Care Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital (JH...

Call from February 21st 2025, featuring Dr. Shireen Khoury. Shireen Khoury  MD, MPH, specializes in Vascular Medicine and Preventive Cardiology in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and has been in practice between 11-20 years. Dr. Shireen Khoury has expertise in treating obesity, aneurysm, hypertension, among other conditions

Call from February 14, 2025 featuring cancer experts Dr. Susan Gapstur & Dr. Otis Brawley. If you're interested in this topic, make sure to check out Part 1 from January 13th, 2025! Dr. Susan Gapstur is an epidemiology consultant with over 30 years of scientific experience researching medical, biological and lifestyle determinants of cancer risk including alcoholic beverage consumption. She was se...

Call from January 31, 2025 featuring Dr. Pouneh Razavi Dr. Pouneh Razavi is the Director for Breast Imaging in the National Capital Region (NCR). She oversees breast imaging operations at the Sullivan Breast Center at Sibley Memorial Hospital and Johns Hopkins Medical Imaging in Bethesda. Dr. Razavi earned her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine. She completed a residency...

Call from January 24, 2025 featuring Dr. Clifford Mitchell. Dr. Mitchell's work has focused on several areas: indoor environments; public health practice particularly related to environmental and occupational health; development of surveillance systems for environmental and occupational health, including development of Maryland's Environmental Public Health Tracking program at the Department of He...

Call from September 20, 2024 featuring Dr. Paul O'Rourke. Dr. Paul O'Rourke is an Associate Professor of Medicine and serves as Assistant Dean for Medical Student Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  Dr. O'Rourke co-directs the Johns Hopkins Medical Education Pathway, a longitudinal medical education training program for Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview inte...

Call from January 17, 2025 featuring Dr. Laundette Jones. Dr. Laundette Jones is Deputy Director of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Program in Health Equity and Population Health. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Public Health and Pharmacology. Dr. Jones is a biosocial researcher with broad training and expertise in the basic biomedica...

Call from January 10, 2025, featuring Dr. Otis Brawley. Otis Brawley is professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and 39th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Brawley leads a broad interdisciplinary research effort of cancer health disparities at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, workin...

Call from October 11, 2024, featuring Frank Kros, MSW, JD. Frank Kros is a recognized leader in his field. He's a passionate speaker, receiving the Maryland Governor's Citation for his work on adolescent suicide prevention. His expertise extends to providing expert testimony to the U.S. Senate on childhood trauma and being a certified Master Trainer in Adverse Childhood Experiences. Frank's commit...