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John A. Flynn Professorship

School of Medicine

Established in 2014 by multiple donors in honor of Dr. John A. Flynn

Held by Daniel Brotman

Dr. DANIEL BROTMAN is the director of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and holds the John A. Flynn endowed chair. He grew up in New England and received his undergraduate degree at Harvard in 1992 and his medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1997.  Following completion Internal Medicine Residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2000, he spent 5 years as a Hospitalist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he directed the Hospital Medicine Fellowship Program and was involved in research in perioperative medicine, thrombosis, and cardiovascular complications of hospitalization.  Dr. Brotman returned to Johns Hopkins in 2005 to direct the Hospitalist Program and has remained clinically active in Hospital Medicine and inpatient consultative medicine.

He continues to do research focused on Hospital Medicine, with an emphasis on quality improvement, thrombosis, perioperative medicine, and cardiovascular disease.  Dr. Brotman’s work has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation (CMMI), and by private foundations and corporate contracts. Dr. Brotman has over 150 Pubmed-indexed publications, and is a sought-after peer reviewer for dozens of major medical journals.  He is a Senior Deputy Editor of the Journal of Hospital Medicine and an Associate Editor of the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine.

Dr. Brotman is a proud member of the Society of Hospital Medicine for which he has chaired the Education Committee and the Annual Meeting Committee and served on the Research Committee and the Academic Committee. In 2018 he became a Master of Hospital Medicine.

Dr. Brotman’s awards include: selection to “Best Doctors in America” and as a “Top Doctor” in Baltimore Magazine on multiple occasions, the American College of Physicians Maryland Chapter “Outstanding Hospitalist Physician Award” and the Society of Hospital Medicine Excellence in Research Award. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and was one of the inaugural members of the Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence at Johns Hopkins Hospital.