Kamna Balhara

Dr. Kamna Balhara is an associate professor of emergency medicine (EM) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with a dual appointment as associate professor in the Program in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. After obtaining a master’s degree in French Cultural Studies from Columbia University, she completed medical school and residency at Johns Hopkins, serving as chief resident. Prior to assuming her current roles, she served in residency leadership at UT Health San Antonio and subsequently at Johns Hopkins for eight years. Dr. Balhara is a founding co-director of Health Humanities at Hopkins EM, a multidisciplinary initiative that applies the arts and humanities towards education, scholarship, and innovation in emergency medicine. She directs the EM Health Humanities Fellowship, which is the first of its kind. She is also the Director of the Johns Hopkins' cross-campus Program in Arts, Humanities, and Health, and chairs th