Overview
Dr. Bass attended Duke University for college and medical school, and received residency training in internal medicine and an MPH degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He completed a fellowship in general internal medicine at Johns Hopkins, and joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1989. His strongest research interests are in evidence-based medicine and assessment of the effectiveness, safety, and costs of medical and surgical management strategies. He has been the Director of the Johns Hopkins Evidence-based Practice Center since 2001. His teaching activities focus on medical student education at the interface between medicine and public health. He is the Director of the medical school's course on Foundations of Public Health, and Co-Director of the medical school's Scholarly Concentration in Public Health Research. He was the Director of the General Internal Medicine Fellowship at Johns Hopkins for 15 years. He served as the Editor of the Journal of General Internal Medicine for 5 years, and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of a journal dedicated to community-based participatory research called Progress in Community Health Partnerships. He has been the CEO of the Society of General Internal Medicine since 2017. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and over 50 evidence reports. He continues to have a clinical practice as a general internist.
Dr. Bass is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Testicular Cancer, Varicose Veins, Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), Leydig Cell Testicular Tumor, and Orchiectomy.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 87 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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Locations
601 North Caroline Street, Floor 7, Floor 7, Baltimore, MD 21287
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
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Areas of Expertise
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- Testicular CancerDr. Bass isAdvanced. Learn about Testicular Cancer.
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- Febrile NeutropeniaDr. Bass isExperienced. Learn about Febrile Neutropenia.
- GoutDr. Bass isExperienced. Learn about Gout.
- Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
- Leydig Cell Testicular TumorDr. Bass isExperienced. Learn about Leydig Cell Testicular Tumor.
- Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)