Niloo Latifi, MD
Hospital Medicine
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Niloo Latifi
Professional Titles
- Assistant Director, Division of Hospital Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Co-director, Clinical Scholars Program in Academic Hospital Medicine
Primary Academic Title
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Physician
Background
Dr. Niloofar Latifi is the Assistant Director of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She co-founded and co-directs the Clinical Scholars Program in Academic Hospital Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital and also serves as a Unit Medical Director. In addition, Dr. Latifi is the course director for the TIME–High Value Care Course for first-year medical students and an Osler Residency Barker Firm Faculty Coach.
Dr. Latifi graduated with Highest Distinction in Biology from the University of Virginia, then earned her M.D. from the University of California, San Diego. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where she also served as a chief medical resident. In 2021, she joined the faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Dr. Latifi has been selected as a Baltimore Magazine Top Doctor in Hospital Medicine. She is also recognized for her commitment and passion for medical education, receiving the Educator of the Year award for two consecutive years from Osler residents.
Her educational and research interests focus on providing value-based care at the bedside and implementing value-based practices in inpatient clinical care.
PubMed - Publications
Selected Publications
- Latifi N, Johnson T, Knight AM, et al. Optimizing Decision Support Alerts to Reduce Telemetry Duration: A Multicenter Evaluation. Appl Clin Inform. 2024;15(5):860-868. doi:10.1055/s-0044-1789574
- Kumar K, Latifi N, Rajendran A, Arbab-Zadeh A, Feldman L. Things We Do for No Reason™: Ordering functional stress testing over coronary computed tomographic angiography for evaluation of intermediate-risk acute chest pain. J Hosp Med. 2023;18(12):1130-1133. doi:10.1002/jhm.13197
- Warnock S, Latifi N. Inpatient Management of Type 2 Diabetes. JAMA Intern Med. 2022;182(5):543-544. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.0410
- Latifi N, Grady D. Moving Beyond Guidelines-Use of Value-Based Preoperative Testing. JAMA Intern Med. 2021;181(11):1431-1432. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.4081
- Latifi N, Redberg RF, Grady D. The Next Frontier of Less Is More-From Description to Implementation. JAMA Intern Med. 2022;182(2):103-105. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.6908
Memberships
- Society of Hospital Medicine
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
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- phone: 410-955-5000
- fax: 410-955-5001
Expertise
Education
- Residency: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Internal Medicine, 2021
- Medical Education: UC San Diego School of Medicine, MD, 2017
Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine: American Board of Internal Medicine, 2020
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)