Allergy and Immunology Team

Jolan Walter, M.D., Ph.D.

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
Dr. Walter is the division chief of the University of South Florida (USF) and Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital Pediatric Allergy & Immunology programs. She is the Robert A. Good Endowed Chair of the USF Division of Pediatric Allergy & Immunology, and an associate professor of pediatrics, medicine and molecular biology in the USF Morsani College of Medicine. She serves as director of the Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic and Research Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies at Johns Hopkins All Children’s. Her research interests include understanding the disease mechanisms of severe combined immunodeficiencies (SCID) and less severe variants of this disease (CID) as well as breech in tolerance in primary immune disorders (PID) leading to autoimmunity and inflammation. Dr. Walter has specific clinical expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with SCID/CID, in particular those with recombination activating gene (RAG) variants. She is focusing on genetic evaluation and mechanism-based treatment therapies for non-infectious complications, and involved in the care of patients with definitive therapies such as hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and gene therapy protocols.

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Jolan Walter, M.D. Ph.D.

Panida Sriaroon, M.D.

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
Dr. Sriaroon is the medical director of the outpatient USF Allergy/Immunology clinic at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and the director of the USF Pediatric Allergy/Immunology fellowship training program. She is also the medical director of the Johns Hopkins All Children's Food Allergy Clinic. She is an associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of South Florida (USF) Morsani College of Medicine.

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Panida Sriaroon, M.D.

Mandel Sher, M.D.

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

Dr. Sher is an allergy and immunology specialist for the USF Pediatric Allergy/Immunology Program at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital and the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, where he is a professor of pediatrics and internal medicine.

Dr. Sher is devoted to the diagnosis, treatment and management of children and adults with allergies, asthma, persistent cough, sinus disease and immunodeficiency disorders. He specializes in cough and offers patients effective and innovative care in the field. Dr. Sher is dedicated to medical education and has been training fellows in allergy and immunology since 1986. He has served as the interim division chief of Pediatric Allergy/Immunology at the University of South Florida and in leadership positions in the Florida Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Society.

Dr. Sher earned his medical degree from Northwestern University. He trained as a pediatric resident at Duke University and Boston Children's Hospital. He completed a fellowship in adolescent medicine at Boston Children's before completing fellowships in pediatric rheumatology and allergy and immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Mark Ballow. M.D.

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

Dr. Ballow is physician in the USF Allergy/Immunology program at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. He is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the USF Morsani College of Medicine. From 1988 to 2012, Dr. Ballow was chief of the Division of Allergy, Immunology and Pediatric Rheumatology at Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, an affiliate hospital of the SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; training program director of the allergy/immunology fellowship program, and director of the Immunobiology Laboratory. He earned his medical degree from the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, and then completed a fellowship in clinical immunology at University of Minnesota Hospitals.

Monica Hajirawala, M.D.

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

Dr. Hajirawala specializes in allergy and immunology medicine in the USF Pediatric Allergy/Immunology Program at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. She joined the medical staff in 2022.

Dr. Hajirawala earned her medical degree from Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Miami. She completed her pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans through Louisiana State University’s Department of Pediatrics, where she was the chief pediatric resident for her final year. Following her residency, she completed an allergy and immunology fellowship at Tulane University.

She has contributed to clinical research and presented at national conferences on high-risk allergy procedures including food challenges and aeroallergen/venom desensitizations. Her clinical interests include asthma, nonallergic and allergic rhinitis, food allergy, acute/chronic urticaria, atopic dermatitis and educating trainees.

Monica Hajirawala, M.D.

Sofia Sheahan, M.S.N., APRN, CPNP-PC

Sofia Sheahan, M.S.N., APRN, CPNP-PC, is an advanced practice provider in the USF Pediatric Allergy/Immunology Program at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. Prior to joining the Allergy/Immunology Program, she was a pediatric medicine registered nurse with Johns Hopkins All Children’s. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science in Nursing, Pediatric Primary Health, from the University of South Florida.

Sofia Quinonez

Ariane Rice, APRN

Ariane Rice, APRN, is a certified pediatric nurse practitioner in the Allergy and Immunology team at the USF Pediatric Allergy/Immunology Program at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. She completed her bachelor’s degree in nursing at the University of Florida in Gainesville before earning her master’s degree at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Ariane has a previous nursing experience of five years in both pediatric hematology/oncology at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital and pediatric medicine at Johns Hopkins All Children’s. She also completed two rotations with Allergy and Immunology during her time at USF.

Ariane Rice APRN

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