Pediatric Residency Program Residency Core Faculty

Clarimar Borrero-Mejias, MD

Pediatric Neurology

Dr. Borrero-Mejias is a board-certified child neurologist in the Johns Hopkins All Children's Institute for Brain Protection Sciences. She joined the hospital staff in 2021. Her clinical expertise includes pediatric headache, epilepsy and tic disorders. She also serves as program director of the Johns Hopkins All Children's Child Neurology Residency program. Before joining the hospital, she served as a clinical assistant professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. She was also a child neurologist at Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Phoenix, where she mentored medical students, residents and fellows.

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Clarimar Borrero-Mejias

Kimberly Collins, M.D.

Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Dr. Collins is a pediatric hospitalist and the associate program director of the pediatric hospital medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. She joined the hospital in 2014 and serves as a core faculty member of the pediatric residency program and co-director of the residency program’s hospitalist rotation. Dr. Collins is a graduate of the University of Toledo College of Medicine, where she also completed her pediatric residency and served as chief pediatric resident. Her academic interests include medical education and simulation.

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Kimberly Collins, MD, at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

Robert Dudas, M.D.

Pediatrics

Dr. Dudas is chief academic hospitalist at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. He is an associate professor of pediatrics and associate director of general pediatrics and adolescent medicine in the Department of Pediatrics for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Dudas also serves as chair of general pediatrics, hospital and adolescent medicine at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and is program director of the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship. He joined the hospital staff in 2015. His clinical and education focus is on developing the pediatric residency program and directing the pediatric hospital medicine fellowship. Dr. Dudas’ educator ratings have placed him consistently among the top 10 percent of educators in the department of pediatrics for 10 years. In 2014, he received an international award for teaching from the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) and in 2015 he received the Academic Pediatric Association Teaching Award for Faculty.

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Robert Dudas, MD, at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

Shannon Glenn-Otto, M.D.

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Dr. Glenn-Otto specializes in general pediatrics in the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Department of Pediatric Medicine. She joined the hospital staff in 2022. Dr. Glenn-Otto earned her medical degree from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami. She completed her residency at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, where she also completed a year as chief resident specializing in pediatric medicine. She has served as an investigator on clinical trials related to pediatric headaches, chronic pain and quality of life. Her clinical and teaching interests include resident education, social determinants of health, mental health, immunizations and other pediatric health concerns.

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Shannon Glenn-Otto

Lauren Goldberg, M.D., M.S.

Pediatrics

Dr. Goldberg is a general pediatrician at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. She earned her medical degree at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency at The University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital. She completed a General Academic Pediatrics Fellowship and Master in Clinical Research at the University of Pittsburgh on a HRSA/NRSA T32 grant.

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Lauren Goldberg, MD MS, at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

Taryn Hill, M.D.

Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Dr. Hill specializes in the care of hospitalized children as part of the Hospital Medicine program at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. She specializes in the care of newborns as part of Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital Center for Women and Babies. Dr. Hill is the newborn nursery rotation director and coaching co-director for the Johns Hopkins All Children’s pediatric residency program. She has presented nationally and internationally on academic coaching topics in graduate medical education. She also participates in short-term medical missions in Rwanda through Africa New Life Ministries.

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Taryn Hill, MD, at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

Akshata Hopkins, M.D.

Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Dr. Hopkins specializes in caring for hospitalized children and formerly served as residency program director at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. She has been a core faculty educator since 2014, the first year of the program. Dr. Hopkins has developed the Quality Improvement, Patient Safety and Patient Experience longitudinal multimodal curriculum for the pediatric residents. Her research interests involve developing a bridging leader role between Graduate Medical Education and Health Care Delivery in order to create a truly integrated clinical learning environment. She graduated from the Armstrong Institute Leadership in Quality and Patient Safety in May 2018 with a research focus on High Value Care. Dr. Hopkins graduated from the seven-year combine program at University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida. She completed her residency and served as chief resident at the University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida.

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Akshata Hopkins, MD, at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

John Kotula, M.D.

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Kotula specializes in pediatric critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. He joined the hospital staff in 2020. Dr. Kotula serves as associate program director for the pediatric residency program. Dr. Kotula earned his medical degree from The Commonwealth Medical College (now Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine) in Scranton, Pennsylvania as a member of the inaugural graduating class. He completed his residency in pediatrics at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia where he also served an additional year as chief resident. He then completed a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami. He received awards during his residency and fellowship training for outstanding contributions to resident education. Dr. Kotula is a core faculty member in the pediatric residency program and the rotation director for pediatric critical care at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital since 2021. He is a faculty member in the pediatric critical care fellowship program where he co-directs the case conference educational series. He also serves on the hospital ethics committee. His academic interests include medical education and ethics.

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John Kotula, MD, at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

Jennifer Maniscalco, M.D., M.P.H., MACM

Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Dr. Maniscalco specializes in caring for hospitalized children at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. She joined the medical staff in 2018. Dr. Maniscalco's research focus in on learner motivation and autonomy, and the impact of these qualities on learning in the clinical environment. Her educational focus is on learner assessment and curriculum development in graduate medical education, and professional development in medical education and pediatric hospital medicine (PHM). She is the proud recipient of the 2017 PHM Award for Educational Excellence and the co-recipient with national colleagues of the 2017 and 2018 PHM Award for Collaborative Impact.

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Jennifer Maniscalco, MD MPH MACM, at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

John Morrison, M.D., Ph.D.

Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Dr. Morrison specializes in the care of hospital patients as a pediatric hospitalist in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. His clinical interests include the treatment of common pediatric conditions requiring hospitalization with a special interest in children with medical complexity. He is also interested in developing and practicing evidence-based pediatric medicine with an emphasis on patient-centered, cost-effective care.

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John Morrison, MD PhD, at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

Noura Nickel, M.D.

Neonatology

Dr. Nickel specializes in neonatology in the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Maternal, Fetal & Neonatal Institute. She joined the medical staff in 2021 and sees patients on our main campus in St. Petersburg. Dr. Nickel earned her medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky. She completed a pediatric residency from Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, followed by a fellowship in Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine from Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital.

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Noura Nickel, M.D.

Jasmine Reese, M.D., M.P.H.

Adolescent Medicine

Dr. Reese is the director of the Adolescent and Young Adult Specialty Clinic within the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. She is also the adolescent medicine rotation director for the pediatric residency program. She joined the Johns Hopkins All Children's medical staff in 2016 and serves as a full-time assistant professor of pediatrics in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Reese’s clinical interests include reproductive health and mental health, and her research focuses are medical education and curriculum development in adolescent mental health and depression. She is an active member of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, where she also serves as the secretary for the southeast United States region.

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Jasmine Reese, MD MPH, at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

Jamee Walters, M.D.

Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Dr. Walters is a pediatric hospitalist at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. She joined the hospital staff in 2022 and serves as the associate program director of the Johns Hopkins All Children’s pediatric residency program. Dr. Walters is a clinical instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She sees patients on Johns Hopkins All Children’s main campus in St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr. Walters is a graduate of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami. She completed her pediatric residency at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland. 

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Jamee Walters, MD, at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital