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Johns Hopkins Children's Center

Our Team

  • Khyzer Bin Izhar Aziz, MD

    • Chief Medical Information Officer, Johns Hopkins Children's Center
    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

    Research Interests: <p>Neonatal Precision Medicine; Clinical Decision Support Tools; Generative Artificial Intelligence; Ethics; Federated Learning; Limits of Viability; Shared Decision Making &amp; Critical Care Communication</p>

  • 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: <p>Neonatal hemodynamics, pulmonary hypertension, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, necrotizing enterocolitis, anemia of prematurity, general prematurity, medical education</p>

  • Jennifer Fundora, MD

    • Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

    Research Interests: Necrotizing Enterocolitis; Gastroschisis; Neonatal Nutrition

  • 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: Quality improvement and safety; neonatal-perinatal medicine; bronchopulmonary dysplasia reduction in pre-term infants; administration of antibiotics for newborns with suspected early onset sepsis; point of care ultrasound; the use of NICU “pictographs” to reduce medical errors during order-writing in the EMR

  • Laura Elizabeth 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: <p>Disparities in adverse birth outcomes; perinatal epidemiology; genetic epidemiology; fetal and perinatal complex care coordination</p>

  • Cecilia Young Kwak, MD MPH

    • Instructor in Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

    Research Interests: <p>Health communications research; Complex care delivery management</p>

  • Wayne Keith Leung, MD

    • Instructor in Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

    Research Interests: Point-of-care ultrasound; point-of-care echocardiography; hemodynamics; bronchopulmonary dysplasia prevention

  • 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: Childhood development, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), neonatal pulmonology, quality improvement

  • 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 P Sangillo, MD

    • Instructor in 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

Lauren Jantzie, PhD

  • Associate Professor of Pediatrics

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