Medicine Magazine

Throughout her career as a young physician, the late Priya Nagar, M.D., had a special understanding of her patients’ challenges because of her own experiences with pain, serious illness, and healing.

A nationwide study of 196 cities shows that housing discrimination from 90 years ago still casts a shadow of inequities in colon cancer care today, S.M. Qasim Hussaini, M.D., assistant professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology, and colleagues at the American Cancer Society and Johns Hopkins School of Public Health reported in the journal JCO Oncology Practice.

There is an open secret among tattoo artists, dermatologists, and the small group of researchers studying the effects of tattoo ink: Red ink causes the most problems.

Once a year, when Gabrielle Rocque, M.D., an associate professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology, enters the Kirklin Clinic on the night of the annual ArtBLINK gala, she sees the space where she normally cares for breast-cancer patients reimagined as the site of a lively, black-tie celebration. “It blows me away,” she said. “It’s completely transformed.”

A distinguished professor in the Heersink School of Medicine, a professor in the Department of Surgery, and holder of the Champ Lyons Endowed Chair in General Surgery, Aurelio Galli, Ph.D., D.S.c, was introduced to martial arts at age 6, when his father enrolled him in judo to manage his frequent falls. Growing up in northern Italy, Aurelio swiftly excelled, becoming a multiple-time regional champion and achieving a brown belt.