Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital is celebrating some major milestones this year. The hospital itself was founded 100 years ago in December and has spent the past century caring for the children of this community.

Part of the hospital mission is educating the next generation of leaders in pediatric medicine, and Saturday, it celebrated the 10^th class of graduates of the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Pediatric Residency program. When the three-year program started, it was the first new pediatric residency program in the United States since the 1970s.

“Over the last decade, our residents have cared for thousands of children, advanced research, improved systems of care, supported one another, and strengthened our community,” says George Jallo, M.D., vice dean and physician-in-chief at Johns Hopkins All Children’s in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the graduation ceremony at the hospital’s Research and Education Building. “Today, you join that lineage, and you push it forward. The next decade of this program will be written, in part, by what you go on to do.”

Residency program director Mary Beth Wroblewski, M.D., praised the development and accomplishments of the graduating class.

Along with diplomas for the graduates, several received awards, including: 

• Continuity Clinic Awards: Samantha Korn, M.D. 

• Emergency Medicine Department Award: Austin Sellers, D.O. 

• Hospital Medicine Department Award: Emma Milne, M.D. 

• PICU Department Award: Emma Milne, M.D. 

• Resident of the Year: Emma Milne, M.D.   

• Resident Scholar of the Year: Austin Sellers, D.O.  

• Resident Educator of the Year Award: Katie Hole, M.D. 

• Allen W. Root, M.D., Award for Continuous Excellence in Residency: Samantha Korn, M.D.  

Jallo praised all the graduates for their compassion and resilience.

“You did far more than master the science of medicine,” he says. “You learned the art of caring for children. You learned how to listen when answers were not simple, how to comfort when cure was not immediate, how to lead in moments of urgency, and how to remain human in a profession that asks so much of the heart.”

The qualities Jallo described match the goals set forth when this residency program started in 2014 and showcase how it has become woven into the fabric of Johns Hopkins All Children’s.

“Today, we mark more than the completion of three intense and formative years of training,” he says. “We celebrate a class of physicians who have shown perseverance, excellence, humility, and a deep commitment to healing children and supporting families. We also celebrate a residency program that, over the past decade, has become an essential part of who we are as an institution.”

2026 Johns Hopkins All Children’s Residency Program Graduates 

The graduates, their next step and additional supplementary track:

• Emily Ammon, M.D., University of South Florida, Pediatric Allergy & Immunology fellowship; Clinical and Translational Research Scholar 
• Joanna Bennett, M.D., General Pediatrics, Fifth Avenue Pediatrics, St. Petersburg
• Emilee Greager, M.D., University of North Carolina, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, fellowship; Clinical and Translational Research Scholar
• Katherine Hole, M.D., General Pediatrics, First Physicians Group, Lakewood Ranch, Florida; Health Systems Science Scholar
• Audrey Hughes, M.D., Pediatric Hospitalist, AdventHealth, Winter Garden, Florida; Clinical and Translational Research Scholar 
• Michelle Karn, M.D., General Pediatrics, Peninsula Pediatrics, Largo, Florida
• Samantha Korn, M.D., General Pediatrics, Duke Primary Care Pediatrics, Holly Springs, N.C.; Advocacy Scholar
• Brianna Leone, M.D., Johns Hopkins All Children’s chief resident; Advocacy Scholar
• Sarah Masten, M.D., The Johns Hopkins University, Pediatric Gastroenterology fellowship
• Emma Milne, M.D., Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship
• Shannon Mooney, D.O., Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, chief resident; Health Systems Science Scholar
• Austin Sellers, D.O., University of Utah, Pediatric Cardiology fellowship; Clinical and Translational Research Scholar 
• Monica Tromer, D.O., General Pediatrics, Pediatric Associates, Tampa, Florida