Update Your ProfileAcademic Title:
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Primary Appointment:
Surgery
Additional Title:
VAMHCS Facility LSTDI Director
Location:
10 N. Greene Street
Phone (Primary):
(410) 605-7233
Education and Training
MBBS: St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, India.
MPH: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
General Surgery Residency, Clinical Fellowships: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Surgery, Baltimore; Rutgers University Hospital, Department of Surgery, Newark.
Fellowship in Surgical Critical Care and Trauma: Rutgers University Hospital, Newark.
Fellowship in Trauma Surgery: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
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 in Baltimore and is the Facility LSTDI Director, coordinating all aspects of this Veterans Health Administration's quality improvement initiative (“Life Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative”) in the in-patient and out-patient settings and intensive care units.
She is a healthcare ethics consultant and serves on the national Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Ethics Committee. She is editor of a widely acclaimed 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.
Research/Clinical Keywords
End of life care, Pain management
Highlighted Publications
Sample Articles
‘Optimizing Advance Care Planning: The Veterans Health Administration’s Life Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative’
Journal of Palliative Medicine 2019 Vol 22, No. 5 p478
Society of Critical Care Medicine Crisis Standard of Care Recommendations for Triaging Critical Resources During the Covid-19 Pandemic
https://www.sccm.org/COVID19RapidResources/Resources/Triaging-Critical-Resources
Disruptive Physician Behavior: The Importance of Recognition and Intervention and Its Impact on Patient Safety’
Journal of Hospital Medicine 2018 Mar;13(3):210-212
Book
‘Being a Woman Surgeon – Sixty Women Share Their Stories’
Publisher: Gordian Knot Books, April 2015; Narrative non-fiction
Sample Book Reviews:
Annals of Surgery March 2016. Vol. 263 - Issue 3: p 621–622.
Bulletin of American College of Surgeons July 2015: http://bulletin.facs.org/2015/07/looking-forward-july-2015/
Harvard Medicine Magazine Spring 2016: https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/surgery/theater-reviews