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Johns Hopkins Children's Center

Our Team

  • Khyzer Bin Izhar Aziz MD

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

    Research Interests: Clinical Decision Support Tools, Neonatal Precision Medicine

  • Renee Boss MD

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

    Expertise: Hospice and Palliative Care, Neonatology

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

  • Raul Chavez-Valdez MD

    • Associate Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

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

  • May Chen MD

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

    Expertise: Neonatology

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

  • Suneetha Desiraju MD

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

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

  • Pamela K. Donohue ScD

    • Director of Clinical Research, Division of Neonatology

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

  • Jennifer Fundora MD

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

  • Maureen Marie Gilmore MD

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

    Expertise: Neonatology

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

  • William Christopher Golden MD

    • Medical Director, Newborn Nursery, Johns Hopkins Hospital
    • Associate Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

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

  • Michelle Marie Gontasz MD

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

    Expertise: Neonatology

    Research Interests: <p>Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Quality Improvement and Safety, Point of Care Ultrasound</p>

  • Laura Herzig MD

    Expertise: Neonatology

  • Julia Johnson MD PhD

    • Associate Director of Clinical Research
    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

  • Amaris M. Keiser MD

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

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

  • Cecilia Kwak MD MPH

    • Instructor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

  • Wayne Leung MD

    • Instructor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

  • Nethra Kumar Madurai MD

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

    Research Interests: Perinatal Brain Injury, Prenatal Opioid Exposure

  • Kartikeya Makker MBBS

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

    Expertise: Neonatology

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

  • Sara Maria Munoz-Blanco MD

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

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

  • Larry Mark Nogee MD

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

    Expertise: Neonatology

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

  • Frances Northington MD

    • Co-Director, Neurosciences Intensive Care Nursery
    • Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

  • Maide Ozen MD

    • Director Neonatal Simulation Education
    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

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

  • Emily Sangillo MD

    • Instructor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

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

  • Brittany L. Schwarz MD

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

    Expertise: Neonatology

Research Team

  • Ling He MD PhD

    • Associate Professor of Pediatrics

  • Lauren Jantzie PhD

    • Associate Professor of Pediatrics

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