Aloise Marie Diedrich, MD

Cynthia H. Argani, M.D., FACOG, is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of labor and delivery at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.Dr. Argani has clinical and research interests in patient safety issues and the management of complicated patients in the labor and delivery setting. She has been published in various medical journals, including the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Dr. Maunank Shah is Professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include infectious disease. Dr. Shah received his undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Virginia. He earned his M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Emory University School of Medicine and performed a fellowship in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Shah earned his Ph.D. in clinical investigation and public health, with expertise in decision-analysis, epidemiology, and biostatistics, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research interests focus on innovation in HIV and TB care. He is the inventor of video-DOT software (Scene.health) now used for patient-centered adherence support in over 700 US health departments. He is also co-inventor of HIVASSIST (www.hivassist.com), an educational and decision-support application for individualized ARV selection for persons with HIV. He has also built decision support tools for latent TB infection, and other infectious diseases. He has led WHO evidence review for novel TB diagnostics including urinary LAM antigen tests, and developed JHEEM (Johns Hopkins Epidemiologic-Economic Model), chaired the NTCA guideline development for community based TB isolation recommendations. Dr. Shah is medical director for the Baltimore City Tuberculosis Program, and past-President of the National Society of TB Clinicians. He serves on the Maryland Tuberculosis Guidelines committee and is Deputy Editor for CID, the flagship clinical journal of the Infectious Disease Society of America. An author of more than 70 peer-reviewed studies, he is a member of the International Union for TB and Lung Disease, the International AIDS Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Dr. Shah leads online infectious diseases educational activities in partnership with the JH Office of Online Education, is Director of Johns Hopkins IDEAL (Center for Infectious Diseases Education, Advancement and Learning), and serves as co-director for the microbiology and infectious disease curriculum for students at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Dr. Sozio is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. In addition to his training in internal medicine and nephrology, he has advanced training in epidemiology through the MHS program and medical education through the MEHP program. This affords him the opportunity to merge the worlds of clinical care, research, and education. He has been course director in the Genes to Society-Renal, Epidemiology, and Adult Learning courses, advisor and faculty leader in the Nathans College of the Colleges Advisory program, program developer in the Scholarly Concentrations Program, Nephrology Fellowship Program, TL1 Program, and IEE Small Grants Mentoring Committee, and leader in multiple areas locally, nationally, and internationally. He has taught in seven separate countries in these efforts. His teaching acumen has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Lisa J. Heiser Award for Junior Faculty Contribution in Education, W. Barry Wood Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching, Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award, Alumni Excellence Award in the MEHP Program, Professors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching, and American Society of Nephrology Distinguished Educator Award.In addition to an active teaching and clinical portfolio, Dr. Sozio performs cutting-edge research. His research has been in two distinct but successful areas:1) Clinical research related to chronic kidney disease and end stage renal disease;2) Educational research in undergraduate and graduate medical education.The Sozio lab pursues work related to stroke, cognitive impairment, manifestations of kidney disease, and systematic reviews on clinical topics, and collaborates on multiple projects with other key investigators. In particular, Dr. Sozio has been an active investigator in the Choices for Healthy Outcomes in Caring for ESRD (CHOICE) Study, Predictors of Arrhythmic and Cardiovascular Risk in End Stage Renal Disease (PACE) Study, Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study, and work funded through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice Center. In total, his works are referenced in multiple guidelines including those from NKF-KDOQI, KDIGO, AHA, and AUA.Equally important to the Sozio lab is the ground-breaking educational research they pursue. Dr. Sozio performs studies at the UME and GME levels, investing in understanding learners’ mentorship, research, and transitional experiences. For example, Dr. Sozio and his group validated a scale to assess mentorship characteristics in the preclinical Johns Hopkins Scholarly Concentrations medical student program. Dr. Sozio subsequently published on the international collaboration of the Bezmialem University Scholarly Concentrations Program. His group also reported on the Johns Hopkins nephrology fellowship night float system, the first such in-house night float system in the country. His work therefore can be used by other programs both nationally and internationally, especially as they plan their own curriculum.Finally, Dr. Sozio leads several efforts at the national level through the American Society of Nephrology. He leads the Best Practices Project, designed to understand characteristics of medical school and residency programs that are the highest achieving in recruiting trainees into nephrology. Working with Kurtis Pivert [director of ASN Data Analytics], Dr. Sozio leads the Data Sub-Committee of ASN. Dr. Sozio also leads the ASN Fellow Survey, which queries all fellows on their training programs, the perceptions of the field, and career aspirations. His work helps shape how training programs understand the nephrology workforce, and can be a catalyst for change.