New Director Named
Julie Hoover-Fong, MD, PhD
We are pleased to announce the naming, earlier this month, of Julie Hoover-Fong, MD, PhD as the new Director of the Greenberg Center for Skeletal Dysplasias. The Center is dedicated to the medical care and education of persons with skeletal dysplasias, and to the clinical and laboratory investigations into these conditions. The Center’s team strives to improve the quality of life for individuals of short stature and deepen the medical knowledge about the many forms of dwarfism.
The Greenberg Center for Skeletal Dysplasias was created in the early 1990s as a result of the generosity of Alan and Kathryn Greenberg. Mr. and Mrs Greenberg had a long personal and professional relationship with the late Victor A. McKusick, MD, Director of the Greenberg Center since its inception.
In 2002, Julie Hoover-Fong, MD, PhD joined the Johns Hopkins University faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Institute of Genetic Medicine. The following year, she became the Clinical Director of the Greenberg Center and since has represented the Center both nationally and internationally. She also was nominated for membership to the Medical Advisory Board (MAB) of the Little People of America in 2006, and joined the Board in 2007. In addition, Dr. Hoover-Fong is the Principal Investigator of both the LP Pregnancy Study and the LP Blood Pressure Study. The MAB has given her its full support to proceed with planning a large, multi-center, longitudinal health outcomes skeletal dysplasia study.
The Greenberg Center is fortunate to welcome Dr. Hoover-Fong in her new role as Director.
