Humma Ishaq Tiwana, MD

Dr. Ethel D. Weld is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of expertise is clinical pharmacology.Dr. Weld received her B.A. from New York University and earned her M.D. from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine/Biological Sciences. She completed a fellowship in clinical pharmacology and infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins.She joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2016.

Dr. Rohan Mathur is a neurologist and neurointensivist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center whose work sits at the intersection of innovation, humanism, and education in neurocritical care. He provides comprehensive care for patients with life-threatening neurological and neurosurgical conditions and serves as Associate Director of the Precision Medicine Center of Excellence in Neurocritical Care and Medical Director of the Neurosciences Intermediate Care Unit. He also serves as the neurological and neurocritical care consultant to the Johns Hopkins Special Pathogens Unit and Biocontainment Center. Driven by a commitment to advancing precision medicine in acute brain injury, Dr. Mathur leads translational and clinical research focused on improving diagnosis and treatment of elevated intracranial pressure, coma, and disorders of consciousness. As Associate Director of the Precision Medicine Center of Excellence in Neurocritical Care, he helps oversee a multidisciplinary team of physicians, data scientists, applied mathematicians and engineers developing AI-enabled monitoring and decision-support tools for critically ill patients. His research has been supported by the NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award and funding through the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. Equally dedicated to compassionate and humanistic patient care, Dr. Mathur serves as core faculty for the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanizing Medicine. He has led initiatives to integrate Music Therapy into the neurocritical care environment and to elevate patient values, narratives, and goals in ICU care, ensuring that cutting-edge care remains deeply patient-centered. A recognized educator and mentor, Dr. Mathur is core faculty for the Neurocritical Care Fellowship and a member of the Osler Attending Preceptor Program. He has received multiple institutional teaching honors, including Attending Physician of the Year from the Johns Hopkins Critical Care Physician Assistant Residency Program and the Best Neurology (Overall) Faculty Award from the Johns Hopkins Neurology Clerkship, reflecting his commitment to training future leaders in medicine and critical care. Dr. Mathur earned his M.D. from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. During medical school, he completed a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. He completed his Neurology residency and Neurocritical Care fellowship at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Aboumatar is an internationally recognized leader in improving patient-centered care. She is core faculty and Executive Committee member at the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality and an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins schools of Medicine and Public Health. Dually trained in family medicine and general preventive medicine, Dr. Aboumatar’s research focuses on improving patient-centered outcomes via increased patient and family engagement and activation and employment of multilevel strategies to improve patient-centeredness of care delivery. She has published more than 30 peer- reviewed manuscripts and won research awards from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and the Picker Institute/Gold Foundation. Examples of her recent research include an assessment of impact of a quality improvement intervention on patient activation in primary care; a mixed methods study on treatment with respect and dignity in the intensive care setting; a national study on best practices in patient- centered care delivery in the hospital setting; and a randomized controlled trial to measure impact of a patient and family-centered transitional care program on patient-centered outcomes amongst patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Dr. Aboumatar is an expert in medical education on safety and health care quality. She is the Director of the Safety and Quality Horizontal strand and the Patient Safety Course within the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She currently holds a joint appointment with Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Behavior and Society. Her Patient Safety Course curriculum has been published twice, serves as a model for medical education on this topic, and has been widely sought by academic medical centers in the United States and globally.