Alodia Gabre-Kidan, MD

Lena Mathews specializes in general cardiology and echocardiography. She received her medical degree from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed an internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She completed fellowships in cardiology and echocardiography at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dr. Lee Daugherty Biddison is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Chief Wellness Officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine. She is Associate Faculty in the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality and a Contributing Scholar in the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Dr. Daugherty Biddison’s research interests include hospital operations, patient safety, critical care disaster response, and physician well-being. In addition to her research responsibilities, Dr. Daugherty Biddison also serves as Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs for Department of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She chairs the Department’s Clinical Directors Council and co-chairs the Clinical Affairs Planning and Strategy team. She also serves as a member of the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Credentials Committee. Immediately prior to becoming Chief Wellness Officer, she served on the Dean’s Task Force on Joy in Medicine. As part of that work, she co-chaired the Working Group on Culture and Work-life Balance and served as lead author of the summary report of the Task Force. She currently represents Johns Hopkins on the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience.Dr. Daugherty Biddison completed her undergraduate studies in journalism at Washington and Lee University, magna cum laude, and received her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine, cum laude. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Societies. She completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania and her Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins, where she also earned her Master of Public Health degree.

Dr. Shapiro is a professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and director of the non-invasive cardiology labs at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He trained at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in internal medicine and at the University of Chicago in Cardiology. He has long term interests in cardiac imaging, left ventricular deformation, left ventricular diastolic function, and non-invasive imaging, and has published more than 100 papers on these subjects. His original work utilized echocardiography, then cardiac MRI, and now cardiac CT. Currently, in addition to seeing and following patients with a wide variety of cardiac diseases, he is devoting much of his time toward teaching and research in cardiac CT angiography.Dr. Shapiro directs the Johns Hopkins Cardiac CT Practicum, a course that trains cardiologists and radiologists to interpret Cardiac CT, that has become popular and well known the world over.