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To school of medicine faculty, staff, residents, postdocs and undergraduates
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that Colleen Christmas, M.D., will become director of the new primary care track at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine on July 1.
Dr. Christmas is associate professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Johns Hopkins. She received her B.S. in biology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her M.D. from University of Connecticut School of Medicine. After a residency in internal medicine at the Medical College of Virginia, Dr. Christmas came to Johns Hopkins for fellowship training in geriatric medicine in 1996 and joined the faculty in 1999.
Since 2006, Dr. Christmas has directed the residency program in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, a program that has a well-established and thriving primary care track. In addition to this important leadership role, Dr. Christmas is active in teaching primary care medicine in several settings. She teaches internal medicine residents and medical students in the ambulatory general medicine practice on the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus; geriatric medicine fellows, internal medicine residents and medical students on home visits in the Johns Hopkins Elder House Call Program; and internal medicine residents at Sinai Hospital in its geriatric primary care clinic.
Dr. Christmas has implemented many innovative curricula in the internal medicine residency program at Johns Hopkins Bayview, including a novel curriculum to rapidly assimilate residents into the primary care practice. She also developed the Donald W. Reynolds Geriatric Mini-Fellowship and is a core faculty member on the Aliki Initiative at Johns Hopkins Bayview. Dr. Christmas is a co-investigator on two primary care-focused projects recently funded by the Primary Care Consortium, and she is an active member of the Johns Hopkins chapter of Primary Care Progress, an organization dedicated to revitalizing primary care.
Dr. Christmas received the Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award from the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association in 2013, the Theodore Woodward Award for Excellence from the Maryland Chapter of the American College of Physicians in 2014 and a Diversity Recognition Award from Johns Hopkins Institutions Diversity Leadership Council in 2012.
I am very excited about the primary care track and its potential to change the landscape of primary care education in the school of medicine under Dr. Christmas' leadership. I am sure there are many people who join me in this excitement and will also join me in congratulating and welcoming Colleen to this role.
Sincerely,
Roy C. Ziegelstein, M.D., M.A.C.P.
Sarah Miller Coulson and Frank L. Coulson Jr. Professor of Medicine
Mary Wallace Stanton Professor of Education
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