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Dr. Alicia Arbaje is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include general internal medicine and geriatric medicine, with a particular interest in helping older adults stay at home as they age and working with a team to coordinate care for her older patients. Dr. Arbaje serves as the Director of Transitional Care Research at Johns Hopkins.After receiving her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and a masters degree in public health from Harvard University, Dr. Arbaje completed her residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She performed fellowships in health care research and geriatric medicine and gerontology at Johns Hopkins. Her research interests include designing health care systems to enhance safety and improve outcomes for older adults.Dr. Arbaje is a member of the American Geriatrics Society, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the Gerontological Society of America. At Johns Hopkins, she was a founding member of the Hopkins Organization for Latino Awareness (HOLA) and is a member of the Department of Medicine Diversity Council. Dr. Arbaje is active in speaking to the media about issues relevant to older adults (see her YouTube channel). She has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Top 10 Doctors Under 40 by the Baltimore Sun Magazine and the American Geriatrics Society New Investigator Award.

Dr. Amteshwar Singh is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His clinical expertise is in internal medicine (Hospital Medicine).Dr. Singh serves as the Director of Medical Education for the Division of Hospital Medicine (CIMS), Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He also serves as the director of Medicine sub-internship for JHBMC-Hospitalist service and associate program director of the Academic Hospital Medicine Fellowship at JHBMC. His teaching interests include hypothesis-driven physical examination and Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS). His research interests include competency-based assessment models for advanced practice provider hospitalists and pedagogy of diagnostic reasoning. His administrative work is focused on hospital medicine operations and the examination of early career hospitalist recruitment practices.He earned his M.B.B.S. from Government Medical College, Amritsar (India), and completed his residency at the Johns Hopkins University - Sinai Hospital Program. He then completed a Master of Education (M.Ed.) degree from Johns Hopkins School of Education with his capstone work in psychometric analysis and Messick’s validity framework application to a novel APP assessment instrument, created by his team of education researchers. He is an elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP).

Neurologist Susanne Muehlschlegel is an internationally known clinician-researcher who specializes in critically ill patients as well as understanding and improving shared decision-making and the ways physicians derive and convey health care recommendations and prognostication to families of neuro-critically ill patients. Her empirical family- and patient-centered research intersects with decision-science, qualitative and mixed-methods research, neurology, neurosurgery, and critical care medicine. She strongly believes that involving families and other stakeholders in her research will positively impact the clinical care of neurocritically ill patients. More about her research: Muehlschlegel Lab Dr. Muehlschlegel earned her medical degree at Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany. She completed an internship in internal medicine followed by residency training at Shands Hospital and Malcolm Randall Veteran Affairs Medical Center at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She finished her fellowship training in neurocritical care at the Harvard Combined Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and she obtained her master’s degree in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the co-chair of a large international guideline on neuroprognostication, a joint guideline between the Neurocritical Care Society and the German Society for Neuro-Intensive Care Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurointensivmedizin). She served as the leader of the “Curing Coma” Common Data Elements subgroup for “Goals of Care Decisions / Family Data” with national and international group members. She also served as co-chair of the NIH/NINDS-funded Family Experience Workshop after Cardiac Arrest and Severe Neurotrauma.