Maximilian Ferdinand Konig, MD

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).

Dr. Julia Kim is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Quality and Safety and the associate vice chair of ambulatory quality for the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.Her clinical and research interests focus on pediatric quality improvement and patient safety, and improving preventive health services delivery to children in the primary care setting. Her work with pediatric quality improvement and patient safety spans both outpatient and inpatient settings, including a Lean Six Sigma project on improving home medication reconciliation on hospital admission.Dr. Kim completed her pediatric and chief residency training at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She completed fellowship training in general academic pediatrics, comparative effectiveness research and preventive medicine at The Johns Hopkins University. She received quality improvement and patient safety training from the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, including her Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.She served as the Maryland Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ medical director of quality improvement and patient safety from 2014 to 2015 and led a pediatric obesity quality improvement learning collaborative with primary care pediatricians throughout Maryland.