Gail Daumit, MD, MHS
Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr. Gail Daumit is the Samsung Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She holds a joint appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She also holds appointments in Epidemiology, and Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her areas of clinical expertise include clinical trials, epidemiology and health services research.
She earned her M.D. from Emory University School of Medicine. She completed her residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and performed a fellowship in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins, earning a M.H.S. in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Daumit’s research is devoted to improving overall health and decreasing premature mortality for people with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
Her work has been recognized with several honors. The study she led “Randomized Trial of Achieving Healthy Lifestyles in Psychiatric Rehabilitation” won the Trial of the Year Award from the Society for Clinical Trials. She received the National Alliance on Mental Illness Scientific Research Award. She was elected to the Association of American Physicians (AAP), and is a recipient of Emory University’s School of Medicine Distinguished Medical Achievement Award.
