Thomas Cudjoe, MD, MPH

Professional Titles

• Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Endowed Professorship

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Medicine

Research Interests

Community Based Interventions, Community Based Participatory Research, Equity, Housing, Human Centered Design, Loneliness, Low Income older adults, Mixed Methods Research, Social Connections, Social Determinants of Health, Social Isolation

Selected Publications

• Cudjoe TKM, Boyd CM, Wolff JL, Roth DL. Advance care planning: Social isolation matters. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Apr;68(4):841-846. PMID: 31851388

• Cudjoe TKM, Kotwal AA. Social distancing amid a crisis in social isolation and loneliness. J Am Geri Soc  2020 May 20  00:1-3. doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16527.

• Cudjoe TKM, Roth DL, Szanton SL, Wolff JL, Boyd CM, Thorpe Jr., RJ. The epidemiology of social isolation: National Health & Aging Trends Study. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2020 Jan 1;75(1):107-113. PMID: 29590462

• Cudjoe TKM, Selvakumar S, Chung S, Latkin CA, Roth DL, Thorpe Jr., RJ, Boyd CM. (2021). Getting under the Skin: Social isolation and biological markers in the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.17518

• Golden SH, Cudjoe TKM, Galiatsatos P, Brownlee D, Flanagan E, Crews DC, Maruthur N, Brown M, Ashby A, Hellmann DB, Knox T, Anderson ME. A perspective on the Baltimore Freddie Gray riots: Turning tragedy into civic engagement and culture change in an academic department of medicine. Acad Med. 2018 Dec;93(12):1808-1813. PMID: 30067540.

Honors

• Caryl & George Bernstein Center for Innovative Medicine Human Aging Project Scholar
• US Army Reserve Army Commendation Medal
• US Army Reserve Army Achievement Medal
• US Army Humanitarian Service Medal
• Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity Achievers Award
• Caryl & George Bernstein Center for Innovative Medicine Human Aging Project Scholar
• Junior Faculty Teaching Award, Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1/1/20
• 125 Hopkins Hero, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 125th Anniversary Planning Committee, 1/1/18

Additional Training

• M.P.H. Harvard University School of Public Health (Massachusetts) (2012)