John, Preeti | University of Maryland School of Medicine

Academic Title:

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Primary Appointment:

Surgery

Additional Title:

VAMHCS Integrated Ethics Program Director, Chair of Ethics Consultation Service, Facility LSTDI Director

Email:

PJohn@som.umaryland.edu; Preeti.John@va.gov

Location:

10 N. Greene Street

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 and is executive director of the Integrated Ethics Program. Dr. John also directs the implementation of a Veterans Health Administration quality improvement initiative, the “Life Sustaining Treatment Decisions Initiative”, (LSTDI) co-ordinating all aspects of the LSTDI in the in-patient and out-patient settings and intensive care units.

She is a healthcare ethics consultant (certified by the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities), and serves on the 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.