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Johns Hopkins Childrens Center

Our Team

TPIAT Program Co-Directors

  • Daniel Sangkyu Rhee, M.D., M.P.H.

    • Director, Pediatric Surgical Oncology Program
    • Associate Professor of Surgery
    • Associate Professor of Oncology

    Expertise: Chest Wall Tumors, General Surgery, Germ Cell Tumors, Kidney Tumors, Minimally Invasive Surgery

  • 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

  • Kristin Marie Arcara, M.D.

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Cushing Syndrome, Diabetes Mellitus, Endocrinology, Hypopituitarism, Pediatric Endocrinology

Faculty

  • Amanda Bettine Levin, M.D.

    • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

  • Constance Lucille Monitto, M.D.

    • Associate Clinical Director, Pediatric Anesthesiology
    • Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

    Expertise: Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine

  • M-Irfan Suleman, M.B.B.S.

    • Founding Director Pediatric Interventional Pain Management, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
    • Founding Director Multidisciplinary Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Program, Kennedy Krieger Rehabilitation Institute
    • Founding Medical Director, Multidisciplinary Pediatric Pain Program
    • Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
    • Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

    Expertise: Anesthesiology, Chronic Pain, Interventional Pain Management, Pediatric Anesthesia, Pediatric Chronic Pain

  • Niraj Manubhai Desai, M.D.

    • Surgical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant
    • Assistant Professor of Surgery

    Expertise: Abdominal Surgery, Kidney Transplant, Pancreas Transplant, Pancreatic Auto Islet Transplant, Transplant Medicine

  • Samuel Vanderhoek, M.D.

    • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

    Expertise: Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology

Staff

Transplant Coordinator

Christi Walsh, M.S.N.-C.R.N.P.

Child Life Specialist

Krislyn Brown, M.S., C.C.L.S.

Social Worker

Beth Bounds, L.C.S.W.-C.

Dietician 

Ellyn Cory, R.D.