Hopkins Medical Institutions

Medical experts will discuss hysterectomy and its alternatives as well as dozens of other topics concerning women's health on Nov. 22 at the Inner Harbor."

Howard County Community Health Foundation has elected 10 new trustees to join the eight-member foundation board.The foundation, established by the merger in July between Howard County General Hospital and Johns Hopkins Medicine, will receive about $55 million of the acquisition funds early this year.The funds will be invested, and the endowment earnings will be used to promote good health in the community.The trustees, who will begin their service to the foundation this month, are Judith A. Britz, vice president, American Standard Inc.; Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions; Rosemary A. Davis, former executive vice president, National Medical Association; Robert M. Duggan, president and co-founder, Traditional Acupuncture Institute; Padraic M. Kennedy, retired president, Columbia Association; Gary A. Milles, physician and principal, Milles, Oken and Seals; James R. Moxley Jr., president, Security Development Corp.

A 24-year veteran of the U.S. Secret Service has been named to direct security at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, ending a two-year search for an anti-crime "czar" to improve safety at the sprawling East Baltimore campus.Joseph R. Coppola, 51, who served at the White House in the mid-1980s and more recently was special agent in charge at the Baltimore Field Office, will begin his new duties on Feb. 22.He will oversee all aspects of security on the 44-acre campus, which includes the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health, and the Kennedy-Krieger Institute.

A film series spotlighting the work of Joel and Ethan Coen, whose No Country for Old Men dominated February's Academy Awards, will unspool Wednesdays through June in the Mountcastle Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Pre-Clinical Teaching Building, 725 N. Wolfe St. The series kicks off Wednesday with No Country for Old Men, starring Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Woody Harrelson and Kelly Macdonald in the sordid tale of...

ELECTIONS Dr. Nancy E. Davidson, director of the breast cancer program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, has been elected president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology for a one-year term beginning in June 2007. She assumed office as president-elect during ASCO's annual meeting in Atlanta last week. Davidson has served in a variety of leadership positions with ASCO, including co-chairwoman of the Breast Cancer Surveillance Expert Panel. Davidson is a specialist in research into the role of hormones -- particularly estrogen -- on gene expression and cell growth, and has led several national clinical trials to explore potential breast cancer therapies.

FOR A TOWN that took perverse pride in the television dramatic series, "Homicide," the ABC News documentary, "Hopkins 24/7," is a wonderful sequel. We don't just shoot folks in Baltimore; we are famous also for patching them. The first two of six mostly grim hours have aired, with four to come on Wednesdays in September and 10 more episodes on cable starting in October. They show dedicated health professionals doing their human best to save life and the quality of life. This is cinema verite about the hospital mission of patient care, not about the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions' other missions of research and education.

* The following have been elected to the board of trustees of the Johns Hopkins medical institutions:* Robert J. Blendon, a graduate of the Hopkins School of Public Health and Mental Hygiene and chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard University School of Public Health.* Alvin B. Krongard, vice chairman and chief executive officer of Alex. Brown & Sons Inc.* Diana G. Motz, Maryland Court of Special Appeals since 1991 and an attorney for more than 12 years.

Baltimore, the state and the Johns Hopkins medical institutions are joining together to revitalize a huge tract of about 180 square blocks in East Baltimore, hoping to attract "tens of millions" in development money over the next few years.The Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition was created Friday to improve housing, to foster business development and jobs and to improve social services in the decayed neighborhoods around Hopkins Hospital.The area -- which also includes the Somerset and Douglass Homes housing projects and Dunbar High School -- is more than twice the size and has four times as many residents as West Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester, which is in the midst of its own heralded revitalization effort.

The Johns Hopkins medical institutions have decided to pursue a suburban strategy. Last month they announced that they will build a $10 million four-story medical office building at Green Spring Station in Baltimore County. The facility's tenants will all be doctors who are affiliated with Hopkins and who Hopkins hopes will send their patients downtown to Hopkins Hospital.Market forces and urban realities have driven the Hopkins decision to establish a beachhead in suburbia. To understand the dynamics, consider these simple numbers.

Some poor residents who live in the decrepit neighborhoods surrounding the Johns Hopkins medical institutions had a mixed reaction to a new plan by the city, the state and Johns Hopkins to revitalize a tract of about 180 square blocks in East Baltimore in an effort to attract tens of millions of dollars in federal development money over the next few years.The residents said today they would welcome change to their drug- and crime-infested streets, but are wary that gentrification may force them to move out."