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Amit Pahwa

Amit Pahwa, MD

Hospital Medicine

Highlights

Languages

  • English

Gender

Male

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

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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.

Recent News Articles and Media Coverage

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.

Selected Publications

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

  1. The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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

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  • 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)