Johns Hopkins Medicine provides a diverse and inclusive environment that fosters intellectual discovery, creates and transmits innovative knowledge, improves human health, and provides medical leadership to the world.
Experts at the Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery specialize in bariatric and metabolic surgery, and provide a multi-disciplinary approach to caring for our patients. Our team consists of dedicated and experienced bariatric surgeons, nurse practitioners, nurses, dietitians, psycologists and physical therapists. We pride ourselves on superior long-term successes. Our surgeons have performed over 3,700 bariatric procedures and have one of the lowest complication rates in the United States. The Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery has been recognized as a member of the Bariatric Surgery Center Network by the American College of Surgeons. Earning this prestigious acknowledgement attests to the safety, efficiency and overall positive reputation of our bariatric surgery team. We are deeply committed to improving the health of our patients. Our bariatric team recognizes that morbid obesity is a debilitating disease of mind, body and spirit. This is why we've chosen a multi-disciplinary team approach in caring for each and every one of our bariatric surgical patients.
Johns Hopkins Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit (BPRU) is an internationally recognized center of excellence in research on psychoactive drugs. As the name implies, BPRU's orientation is behavioral and pharmacological, emphasizing a behavioral analysis of drug action. A major goal is understanding the determinants and consequences of drug self-administration behavior. This goal is pursued in both laboratory research with human volunteers and in applied treatment research with drug abusing patients. BPRU is designated by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) as a Treatment Research Center
The Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins Bayview provides a full range of diagnostic, consultation, evaluation, treatment and prevention services for a wide variety of infectious disease-related problems. All physicians are full-time faculty of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. We are internationally recognized for our medical education and training activities. We offer clerkships to medical students and visiting residents/fellows in infectious diseases and wound care and provide an annual CME course Infectious Diseases Update for the Primary Care Practitioner. We are the home of the CDC-funded STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, which provides comprehensive training for clinicians who provide care for reproductive tract infections and HIV. In addition, we have established a clinical trials research program to investigate new drug treatments for a wide range of infectious diseases.