Tangwan Azefor, MBBS

Brijen L. Joshi, MD joins the faculty as an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in July 2016. His areas of clinical expertise are cardiothoracic anesthesiology and transesophageal echocardiography. He is also appointed the chief of thoracic anesthesia, to initiate the thoracic program at Johns Hopkins Bayview.Dr. Joshi arrived in Baltimore, from Nepal to further his medical education in U.S. He completed his clinical research fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, internship at Johns Hopkins/Sinai, and his anesthesiology residency with academic distinction at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. Subsequently, he did his advanced fellowship in cardiothoracic anesthesiology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.Dr. Joshi has a special interest in neurocognitive outcomes after cardiac surgery. His research focus is towards understanding and prevention of neurocognitive dysfunction and stroke after cardiopulmonary bypass surgery. To that end, in collaboration with University of Cambridge, they have developed a non-invasive prototype monitor that can determine the lower limit of cerebral autoregulation in real-time to potentially mitigate these problems. His research and work has been published in Anesthesia & Analgesia, BJA, Stroke among others.Dr. Joshi is a member of American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA), Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA), and American Society of Echocardiography (ASE).

Dr. Kevan Salimian is an assistant professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include general surgical pathology and gastrointestinal and liver pathology. Dr. Salimian was born and raised on the eastern shore of Maryland. In 2003, he attended the University of Maryland, College Park as a Banneker/Key scholar where he received his undergraduate degrees in Biochemistry and Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics. In 2007, he attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he pursued an MD/PhD. His PhD work focused on two proteins-CENP-A and Aurora B–which play a critical role in regulating cell division in eukaryotes. He subsequently completed his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and served as Chief Resident in his final year. He then completed the Advanced Specialty Training Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital with a subspecialty focus in gastrointestinal and liver pathology. His research interests focus on diagnostic gastrointestinal pathology. He is also deeply committed to pathology education geared towards patients, medical students and pathology residents. His numerous awards for scholarship and research include: Phi Beta Kappa, the Chemical Society of Washington Award, the Robert Battista Award, the ACS College of Chemistry Achievement Award, the Dr. Roy G. Williams award for best basic science paper, the Pathology Housestaff Teaching Award, the Hopkins Pathology Young Investigators’ Day most outstanding abstract and the Frank L. Coulson Jr. Award for Clinical Excellence.

Paul Nyquist MD, MPH, is a full-time tenured professor of neurology, anesthesiology & critical care medicine and neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is a clinician and researcher who has gained national and international prominence as part of a community of neurocritical care, intensive care, and cerebrovascular neurologists. He cares for patients who are transported to the Johns Hopkins NCCU from around the world and is a recognized clinical leader in neurocritical care and stroke. He also has a unique expertise in military operational medicine and diving medicine and was trained as an undersea medical officer and a diving medical officer in the United States Navy and achieved the rank of lieutenant commander. He has had held leadership positions in national and international societies including the board of directors of the Neurocritical Care Society and the UCNS executive board. He has been the chair of various sections of the AAN, SCCM, and ANA. He attends in the NCCU and intermittently on the inpatient stroke service. He is the primary senior clinical NCCU consultant of the NIH CCMD critical care program and is the official NCCU liaison to that program. Dr. Nyquist is a translational researcher focused on brain injury and systems biology. He studies ischemic white matter disease and cerebrovascular conditions. He was trained as a Navy deep sea diver and is an expert on decompression illness. While in the Navy, he was a project officer and principal investigator at the Navy Medical Research Institute where he held leadership positions in key human decompression trials and completed important research on the effects of diving on complement activation in human divers. He is presently a co-PI on a thermal stress project funded by the Navy through the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics laboratory. He is a member of large international genomic research consortiums including the NEUROCHARGE consortium, the International Stroke Genetics Consortium, and TOPMED. He has also held positions on the steering committee and scientific committee of the ISGC. He is a past NIH RO-1 funded principal investigator and has been a co-investigator on numerous RO-1s. He has been funded through industry and has run numerous national and international clinical trials as the Johns Hopkin as site PI including many large multi-centered international trials such as the SWISS, IMS3, FAST, and DIAS as a co-investigator or site PI. Dr. Nyquist has received numerous awards and recognition for his clinical and scientific efforts. These include a United Nations Community Service award, Navy commendations, and a young investigator award. He has been an NIH RO-1 funded principal investigator. He has been an NIH grant reviewer as well as a grant reviewer for Navy white papers, for the Italian Ministry of Health, the Dutch AHA, the Johns Hopkins ICTR, and the ACCM seed grants program and for the French government. He is a member of the SCCM’s grant review scientific committee.