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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: 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

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

  • Cecilia Young Kwak, MD MPH

    • Instructor in Pediatrics

    Expertise: Neonatology

  • 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