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Johns Hopkins Children's Center

Our Team

Director

Maria M Oliva-Hemker, M.D.

  • Vice Dean for Faculty
  • Stermer Family Professor of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Director, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
  • Professor of Pediatrics

Expertise: Celiac Disease, Crohn's Disease, Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal Diseases, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Faculty

  • Kevin Thomas Cesa, M.D.

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Pediatric Gastroenterology

  • Anthony Lawrence Guerrerio JR, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.

    • Director, Very Early Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic
    • Associate Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Crohn's Disease, Eosinophilic Esophagitis, Gastroenterology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Nutrition

  • Wikrom Wongwanich Karnsakul, M.D.

    • Director, Pediatric Liver Center
    • Associate Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Acute or Chronic Viral Hepatitis, Cystic Fibrosis Liver Disease, Liver Disease, Nutrition, Pediatric Gastroenterology

  • Shaija Shelby Kutty, M.B.B.S.

    • Director, Gastrointestinal Functional Treatment Center (GIFT)
    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Pediatric Gastroenterology

  • Sarah Bronwyn Lowry, M.D.

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Cystic Fibrosis, Fecal Microbiota Transplantation, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Pediatric Gastroenterology

  • Douglas Bradford Mogul, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.

    • Associate Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Biliary Atresia, Hepatitis B (HBV), Hepatitis C (HCV), Liver Disease, Pediatric Gastroenterology

  • Gihan Naguib, M.B.Ch.B.

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Gastroenterology, Hepatitis, Liver Disease, Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Pediatric Gastroenterology

  • Kenneth Ng, D.O.

    • Director of Endoscopy
    • Medical Director, Pediatric Pancreas Center
    • Co-Medical Director, Pediatric Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Auto Transplantation Program (TPIAT)
    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Biliary Diseases, Esophageal Diseases, Pancreatic Auto Islet Transplant, Pancreatic Diseases, Pediatric Gastroenterology

  • Ann O'Shea Scheimann, M.D.

    • Medical Advisor, Weight Management Program
    • Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Gastroenterology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Nutrition, Obesity

  • Darla Roye Shores, M.D., Ph.D.

    • Medical Director, The Hopkins Resource for Intestinal Vitality and Enhancement (THRIVE)
    • Associate Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Gastroenterology, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Intestinal Rehabilitation, Nutrition, Pediatric Gastroenterology

  • Sara Kathryn Smith, M.D.

    • Medical Director, Pediatric Liver Transplantation
    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Autoimmune Hepatitis, Pediatric Liver Disease, Pediatric Liver Transplant, Viral Hepatitis

Division director Maria Oliva-Hemker, M.D., appeared on the cover of Baltimore magazine as a Top Doctor in 2013, and the division's faculty regularly appear in the magazine's annual Top Doctors Guide.

Advanced Practice Nurses

Mary Kay Alford, M.S.N., R.N., C.P.N.P.

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Medical Coordinator, Pediatric Liver Center

Lynn Mattis, M.S.N., R.N.

Clinical Nurse Specialist - Nutrition Center

Kristin Norko, M.S.N., C.P.N.P.-P.C.

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Medical Coordinator, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

Lisa Santo Domingo, M.S.N., R.N., C.P.N.P.

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Chronic Constipation Center

Tina Zachariah Thomas, M.S.N., C.P.N.P.

Post-transplant Nurse Practitioner
Medical Coordinator, Pediatric Liver Center