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Johns Hopkins Children's Center

Our Team

TPIAT Program Co-Directors

Medical Co-Directors

  • Kristin Marie Arcara, M.D.

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

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

  • 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

Surgical Director

Daniel Sangkyu Rhee, M.D., M.P.H.

  • Director, Pediatric Surgical Oncology Program

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

Primary Location: The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Main Entrance), Baltimore, MD

Faculty

  • Meghan Laura Bernier, M.D.

    • Medical Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
    • 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.

    • Director of Pediatric Chronic and Interventional 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

  • Samuel Vanderhoek, M.D.

    • Director of Pediatric Ambulatory Anesthesia and Surgery Operations
    • Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

    Expertise: Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology

Staff

Transplant Coordinator

Christi Walsh, M.S.N.-C.R.N.P. 

Dietician 

Ellyn Cory, R.D.

Social Worker

Beth Bounds, MSW, LCSW-C