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Dr. Myron L. Weisfeldt Professorship in the Osler Medical Residency Program

School of Medicine
Osler Medical Residency Program

Established in 2020 supporting the director of the Osler Medical Residency Program.

Dr. J. MARIO MOLINA is a healthcare entrepreneur, endocrinologist, and philanthropist, best known for his tenure of over 20 years as chairman and chief executive officer of Molina Healthcare (NYSE: MOH), a Fortune 200 company he and his family founded in the 1980’s.

He is currently chairman of the board at United States of Care, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Global and Community Health at Claremont Graduate University.

He was Founding Dean of the Keck Graduate Institute School of Medicine and served as founder and president of Golden Shore Medical Group.

He has served on a variety of corporate and non-profit boards including Apollo Medical Holdings, Care3, Breath Direct, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Aquarium of the Pacific, Homeboy Industries, The Huntington Library, and the Standing Committee of the Osler Library of McGill University.

He earned his M.D. from the University of Southern California and performed his internship and residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine, endocrinology, and metabolism.

In 2016, he was named one of the 50 most influential physician executives by Modern Healthcare, and in 2015 and 2016, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in healthcare. He was recognized as one of the 25 most influential Latinos in America by Time magazine in 2005.

At Johns Hopkins, Dr. Molina has endowed the Myron L. Weisfeldt Professor in the Osler Medical Residency Program, the J. Mario Molina Chair in the History of Medicine, and the C. David Molina Chair in Medicine.

MYRON L. WEISFELDT is Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He was the Osler Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins from 2001 to 2014. Currently, he is a medical consultant for Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures.

Weisfeldt received the MD degree from Hopkins and trained in Cardiology at the National Institutes of Health and the Massachusetts General Hospital. From 1975 to 1991 he was Director of Cardiology at Hopkins and from 1991 to 2001 Chair of the Department of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr Weisfeldt was President of the American Heart Association in 1990 and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. His research interests have included heart function, age changes in the heart and circulation, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. He led the effort of the American Heart Association to develop and test Automatic External Defibrillators for bystander use.

From 2003-2019 Weisfeldt was Study Chair for an NIH and US Army sponsored international network to conduct randomized trials of devices, drugs, and other therapies for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and severe traumatic injury. In 2022 Dr Weisfeldt received an American Heart Association national award for Mentoring: The Eugene Braunwald Mentoring Award.

 

Held by Natasha Chida

Dr. NATASHA MUBEEN CHIDA is the program director of the Osler Medical Residency and an assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases. Prior to becoming program director Dr. Chida served as the Associate Program Director of the Infectious Disease Fellowship Training Program of the John Hopkins University School of Medicine. She also co-founded and co-directed the Medical Education Pathway of the Osler and Bayview medical residencies, and served as both Barker firm faculty and a Barker clinical coach in the Osler Medical Residency.

Dr. Chida attended the University of Florida for her undergraduate studies, where she received a BS in psychology and a BA in English, and was named to the institution’s Hall of Fame in recognition of her service to the university. She then attended University of Miami Miller School of Medicine for her medical degree, where she was inducted into the Iron Arrow Honor Society, the highest honor at the University of Miami, again in recognition to her service to the institution. Following this Dr. Chida completed internal medicine residency at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, after which she served as a chief medical resident. During her chief resident year Dr. Chida also obtained a masters of science in public health from the University of Miami. Dr. Chida then pursued infectious disease fellowship at Hopkins and joined the faculty in the Division of Infectious Diseases in 2016.

Since joining faculty Dr. Chida has focused her career on medical education. In addition to her work in graduate medical education, she previously directed the Topics in Medicine Global Health course for first-year medical students, and was a Colleges Advisor in the School of Medicine. At the national level she led a significant aspect of the Infectious Disease Society of America’s COVID-19 educational response, the Real Time Learning Network, which was supported by a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Chida has served on IDSA’s education committee and is a member of the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice. In addition, she served on the ACGME’s infectious disease milestone working group, and in that role assisted in developing the first ACGME milestones for infectious disease fellowship training program. In 2022 she became a Fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America.

Dr. Chida remains clinically active as an HIV provider in the Bartlett Specialty Practice at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and spends time attending on the general infectious disease consult service and the inpatient HIV (“Polk”) service.

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