Khanijow honored for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership
Keshav Khanijow, MD, (pronouns: he/him), has been recognized with this year’s award for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Leadership. He is a hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (JHBMC) in Baltimore. He has a proven record of clinical excellence, winning the distinguished JHBMC Hospital Medicine Clinical Excellence Award (2019), and later the JHBMC Hospitalist of the Year Award (2022).
He is also active in research and advocacy for LGBTQ+ health. He has lectured on LGBTQ+ health in the inpatient setting internationally, published on LGBTQ+ health topics for hospitalists, and helped create the LGBTQ+ Health Series on the Society of Hospital Medicine’s (SHM) Learning Portal.
Dr. Khanijow has led efforts to write the SHM Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) statement in 2020, served as an inaugural member of the SHM DEI Committee, and was appointed the chair of the SHM DEI Special Interest Group in 2023. He maintains a position as director of patient safety as well as director of DEI at JHBMC's Division of Hospital Medicine.
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