John, Preeti | University of Maryland School of Medicine

Academic Title:

Clinical Associate Professor

Primary Appointment:

Surgery

Additional Title:

Director of Peri-Operative Services, VA Maryland Healthcare System (VAMHCS); Integrated Ethics Program Director, Chair of Ethics Consultation Service, VAMHCS. Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Ethics Committee Vice-Chair.

Email:

PJohn@som.umaryland.edu

Location:

VA Maryland Healthcare System (VAMHCS), 10 N. Greene Street, Department of Surgery, Room 5C-119

Phone (Primary):

(410) 605-7233

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Education and Training

St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, MBBS, Bangalore, India
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MPH, Baltimore, MD
Johns Hopkins University Division of Gastroenterology, and Department of Medicine, Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, Baltimore, MD
Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Surgery, General Surgery Residency, Baltimore, MD
Rutgers University Hospital Department of Surgery, Clinical Fellowships, Newark, NJ
Rutgers University Hospital, Fellowship in Surgical Critical Care and Trauma, Newark. NJ
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Fellowship in Trauma Surgery, Baltimore, MD

Biosketch

Dr. Preeti John is a general surgeon who is fellowship trained in Trauma and Critical Care. She is triple board certified in the following specialties: General Surgery, Surgical Critical Care, Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

She currently practices at the VA Maryland Healthcare System (VAMHCS), where she was appointed in 2022 to be the Director of Peri-Operative Services. This role involves collaboration with a multidisciplinary group of Surgeons, Anesthesiologists, Nurses and Laboratory Services staff, in order to implement and maintain performance improvement action plans and ensure optimal patient/ family experience in the peri-operative setting.

Dr. John is a healthcare ethics consultant (certified by the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities), and serves as chair of the VAMHCS Ethics Consultation service. She is vice-chair of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Ethics Committee (2022 - 2024).

She is the editor of a book titled ‘Being a Woman Surgeon – 60 Women Share Their Stories’ and is on the editorial board of the American Medical Women’s Association’s ‘Literary AMWA’ publication.