
Amit Pahwa, MD
Hospital Medicine
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Amit Pahwa
Professional Titles
- Director, Internal Medicine Sub-internship, Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Associate Director, Pediatric Core Clerkship
- Director, Health System Science Core Theme
Primary Academic Title
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins Physician
Background
Dr. Amit K. Pahwa is an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Dr. Pahwa holds many educational leadership roles including, director of the internal medicine sub-internship rotation at the Johns Hopkins Hospital the School of Medicine, associate director of the Core Clerkship in Pediatrics, and co-director of the Health System Science Core Theme.
He earned his M.D. at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and he completed his residency at Indiana University School of Medicine.
He is nationally known for his work in high-value care both in education and quality improvement. For his educational work, he has not only published several papers but received many awards for this work including, Berkheimer Faculty Education Scholar Grant, CDIM Early Career Medical Student Educator Award, CDIM Louis N. Pangaro Educational Program Development Award, HVPAA educational excellence award, JHU Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching, IEE Educational Scholarship Award, and CDIM Charles H. Griffith Educational Research Award.
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Videos
Recent News Articles and Media Coverage
- Dr Amit Pahwa Things we do for no Reason, World Congress of Internal Medicine (February 16, 2023)
- Teaching Value - Resident Dashboards, ABIM Foundation, (January 22, 2014)
Additional Academic Titles
Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Interests
Health System Science, Undergraduate Medical Education, High Value Care
Lab Website
Amit Pahwa Lab
- The Amit Pahwa Lab conducts research on a value based quality improvement and educational strategies in undergraduate medical education.
Google Scholar - Publications
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=0Ft18TEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
PubMed - Publications
Selected Publications
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Pahwa A, Cayea D, Bertram A, et al. Student perceptions of high-value care education in internal medicine clerkship. J Hosp Med. 2017; 12(2):102-103
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Pahwa, A.K., Eaton, K., Apfel, A. et al. Effect of a high value care curriculum on standardized patient exam in the Core Clerkship in Internal Medicine. BMC Med Educ 20, 365 (2020)
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Eamon Duffy MD, MBA, Timothy Niessen MD, MPH, Keisha Perrin RN, BSN, Ariella Apfel MPH, Amanda Bertram MS, Sara C. Keller MD, MPH, MSHP, Leonard S. Feldman MD, Amit K. Pahwa MD, Empowering nurses and residents to improve telemetry stewardship in the academic care setting. First published: 19 September 2020 J Eval Clin Pract. 2020; 1– 5.
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Hindman DJ, Kochis SR, Apfel A, Prudent, J, Kumra, T, Golden WC, Jung J, Pahwa AK. Effect of a telephone medicine curriculum on medical students’ performance on a component of their fourth-year clinical skills exam. Acad Med
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Iscoe, M., Lord, R., Schulz, J., Lee, D., Cayea, D. and Pahwa, A. (2017), Teaching medical students about cost-effectiveness. Clin Teach
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Latifi N, Johnson T, Knight AM, Prichett, L., Modanloo B, Dungarani T, Zakaria S. and Pahwa A. Optimizing Decision Support Alerts to Reduce Telemetry Duration: A Multicenter Evaluation. Appl Clin Inform. 2024;15(5):860-868
Honors
- Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine Charles Griffith III Educational Research and Scholarship Award 4/26
- Educational Scholarship Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Institute for Excellence in Education, 4/25
- Excellence in Teaching, Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association, 5/24/21
- Louis Pangaro Educational Program Development Award, CDIM, 4/1/19
- Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement, Society of Hospital Medicine, 4/1/18
- Clinical Excellence Award Innovations in Clinical Care, Johns Hopkins Medicine, 10/1/17
- Educational Excellence Award, High Value Practice Academic Alliance, 10/1/17
- Early Career Medical Student Educator Award, Clerkship Directors of Internal Medicine, 3/1/17
- Berkheimer Faculty Education Scholar Grant Winner, Johns Hopkins Institute for Excellence in Education, 1/1/14
Memberships
- Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine
- Council on Medical Student Educators in Pediatrics
- Society of Hospital Medicine
Professional Activities
Johns Hopkins Health System High Value Care Committee, Physician Lead
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
- Get Directions
- phone: 410-955-5000
- fax: 410-955-5001
Expertise
Education
- Residency: Indiana University School of Medicine, Medicine and Pediatrics, 2010
- Medical Education: University of Alabama at Birmingham, MD, 2006
Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine: American Board of Internal Medicine, 2011
- Pediatrics: American Board of Pediatrics, 2010
Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)