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John Cmar

John Cmar John Cmar, MD, has been long enthralled with horrible infections that could spell doom for humankind, as well as sanity and skepticism in the practice of medicine. He is currently an Instructor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and an Infectious Diseases specialist at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. In his role as Associate Program Director for the Johns Hopkins Internal Medicine residency program at Sinai, he teaches an annual course series in Evidence-Based Medicine, among many other duties. He also does Infectious Diseases outreach in Baltimore television and print media. John is a science fiction and fantasy fan, avid gamer, and podcast enthusiast. He has made contributions to many podcast projects including Escape Pod and Mur Lafferty's The Takeover, and can be currently heard as "The Bad Doctor" on The Secret Lair.

Programming for John Cmar
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Thu 16:00 (A16) 1 hr
Space and the Biological Economy

How does space exploration drive the United States' biological economy? What do the advances in telemedicine and the biological sciences driven by NASA mean to our nation's long-term economic and physical health?

Thu 17:00 (A09) 1 hr
Infections and Viruses that Could Doom Humankind

What could create the next pandemic? A virus from animals? Food-borne illness? An engineered retrovirus?

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