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Johns Hopkins Children's Center

Our Team

  • Khyzer B Aziz, M.D.

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    • Assistant Professor of Medicine

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

    Research Interests: Neonatal Precision Medicine, Clinical Decision Support Tools

  • Renee Denise Boss, M.D., M.H.S.

    • Associate Professor, Rembrandt Foundation Professor of Pediatric Palliative Care
    • Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Neonatology

    Research Interests: Critical care neonatology, Clinician-to-parent communication, Neonatal palliative care

  • Raul Chavez Valdez, M.D.

    • Associate Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Neonatology

    Research Interests: Neurological disorders during the perinatal period, Mechanisms of inflammation and trophism

  • May Wanru Chen, M.D.

    • Associate Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program
    • Director, Neonatal Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Program
    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Neonatology, Pediatrics

    Research Interests: Point-of-care ultrasound, Neonatal Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy, Brain Injury, Neuroprotection, Near-infrared Spectroscopy.

  • Suneetha Desiraju, M.D.

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Pediatrics

    Research Interests: Neonatal Hemodynamics, Pulmonary Hypertension, Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia, Necrotizing Enterocolitis, Anemia of Prematurity, General Prematurity, Medical Education

  • Pamela K. Donohue, Sc.D., M.S.

    • Director of Clinical Research, Division of Neonatology
    • Joint Appointment in Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Neonatology

    Research Interests: Outcome of families of very low birth weight infants, Health delivery systems for preterm and critically ill infants both in the hospital and after discharge home, Physician-parent communication around critical decision-making for fetuses and newborns, Maternal and child health, Prematurity, Neonatology

  • Jennifer Bazemore Fundora, M.D.

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

  • Maureen M Gilmore, M.D.

    • Medical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Johns Hopkins Hospital
    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Neonatology

    Research Interests: Patient Safety, Neonatal Blood Pressure Autoregulation, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), Autoregulation monitoring and Prematurity

  • William Christopher Golden, M.D.

    • Medical Director, Newborn Nursery, Johns Hopkins Hospital
    • Director, Core Clerkship in Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    • Associate Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Neonatology

    Research Interests: Neonatal/Congenital Infections, Neonatal Brain Injury, Neonatal Bilirubin Metabolism, Pediatric Medical Education

  • Michelle Marie Gontasz, M.D.

    • Associate Medical Director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Patient Safety and Risk Management, Pediatrics, Quality Care

    Research Interests: Quality Improvement and Safety, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

  • Laura Elizabeth Herzig, M.D.

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Neonatology, Pediatrics

  • Julia Johnson, M.D., Ph.D.

    • Associate Director of Clinical Research
    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Epidemiology of Neonatal Sepsis, Infection prevention and control, Neonatal Global Health, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Pediatrics

  • Amaris McCord Keiser, M.D.

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

    Research Interests: Disparities in adverse birth outcomes, perinatal epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, neonatal transfusion

  • Cecilia Young Kwak, M.D., M.P.H.

    • Instructor of Pediatrics

  • Wayne Keith Leung, M.D., M.S.

    • Instructor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology, Pediatrics

  • Nethra Kumar Madurai, M.D.

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Pediatrics

    Research Interests: Perinatal Brain Injury, Prenatal Opioid Exposure

  • Kartikeya Makker, M.B.B.S.

    • Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center NICU
    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Neonatology, Pediatrics

    Research Interests: Neonatal Pulmonology, BPD, Health Care Outcomes, Big Data in Neonatal Health Care, Cardio Metabolic Outcomes of Preterm Infants

  • Sara Maria Munoz-Blanco, M.D.

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Research Interests: Critical Care Neonatology, Pediatric Chronic Critical Illness (pCCI), neonatal palliative care, patient-clinician communication, communication skills education, health equity.

  • Lawrence Mark Nogee, M.D.

    • Interim Director, Eudowood Neonatal Pulmonary Division
    • Interim Director, Division of Neonatology
    • Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Neonatology

    Research Interests: Interstitial lung disease, Childhood interstitial lung disease, Genetic surfactant dysfunction disorders, Neonatal lung disease

  • Frances Josephine Northington, M.D.

    • Co-Director, Neurosciences Intensive Care Nursery
    • Director, Maryland Regional Neonatal Transport Program
    • Professor of Pediatrics
    • Professor of Neurology

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Neonatology

  • Maide Ozen, M.D.

    • Director Neonatal Simulation Education
    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Neonatology

    Research Interests: Mechanisms of inflammation/infection-induced brain injury, Systems biology, High dimensional immune analysis, Neuroimmunology, Neonatal-perinatal immune cell biology

  • Emily P Sangillo, M.D.

    • Instructor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, Clinical Informatics, Genetic Epidemiology, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Neonatology

    Research Interests: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), pulmonary hypertension, clinical informatics, patient safety, genetic epidemiology, health care outcomes

  • Brittany Lynn Schwarz, M.D.

    • Director, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Training Program
    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Neonatology

Research Team

  • Ling He, M.D., Ph.D.

    • Associate Professor of Pediatrics
    • Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences

    Expertise: Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

  • Lauren Leigh Jantzie, Ph.D.

    • Associate Professor of Pediatrics
    • Associate Professor of Neurology
    • Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

    Research Interests: perinatal brain injury, chorioamnionitis, posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus, pediatric traumatic brain injury, neuroinflammation, cerebral hypoxia-ischemia