Flora Kisuule, M.D., MPH

Assistant Professor, Medicine
Associate Division Director, CIMS

Biography

Flora Kisuule, M.D., MHS, earned a medical degree at the University of Minnesota and a master's in public health at The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Joining CIMS in 2004, with interests in combining the fields of public health and hospital medicine, she has defined public health roles for the hospitalist and engaged in creating hospital-based public health interventions.

Currently, Dr. Kisuule is creating a Tobacco Management Service that will serve to promote tobacco cessation in hospitalized patients. Her work is supported by a Legacy Foundation grant. She also has developed a hospitalist fellowship program for The Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Kisuule is a member of the Society of Hospital Medicine, the American College of Physicians and the American Medical Association

Publications

• Kisuule F. Out of Africa. J Hosp Med. 2009 Mar;4(3)204-6
   
• Howell E, Kravet S, Kisuule F, Wright SM. An innovative approach to supporting hospitalist physicians towards academic success. J Hosp Med 2008 Jul;3(4):314-8
   
• Improving antibiotic utilization among hospitalists; a pilot academic detailing project with a public health approach. Kisuule F, Wright S, Barreto J, Zenilman J. J Hosp Med. 2008 Jan;3(1):64-70
   
• Kisuule, F, Minter-Jordan, M, Zenilman, J, Wright, S.  Expanding the Role of Hospitalist Medicine to Include Public Health.  Journal of Hospital Medicine 2007; 2:93-101.
   
• Shahin FA, Khazaeizadeh A, Kisuule F, Rose C, Sedarati B, Sheikh-Ali B. High-Yield CCS Cases. In: Johnson CA, editor. First Aid for the USMLE Step 3.  New York: McGraw-Hill; 2005. p. 264-345.