John Phillip Gearhart, MD

Professional Titles

• Robert D. Jeffs Professor

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Urology

Background

Centers and Institutes

• Brady Urological Institute
• Johns Hopkins Children's Center
• Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center

Videos

• Gearhart

Additional Academic Titles

Professor of Pediatrics

Research Interests

Bladder exstrophy, Childhood urinary cancers, Disorders of sexual development (DSD), Major urological birth defects

Research Summary

Dr. Gearhart's clinical and surgical research interests focus largely on the evaluation and treatment of the bladder muscle, nerve supply, and collagen content of the extrophied bladder. He also oversees long-term follow up studies of patients with disorders of sexual development. Additionally, he studies and implements new techniques to evaluate and treat children with childhood kidney tumors, and to reconstruct the bladders of children who have undergone previous failed bladder exstrophy closures.

Honors

• 2018 Top Doctor, Baltimore Magazine
• Richard W. Grady Humanitarian Award, Association for the Bladder Exstrophy Community, 9/1/22
• Awarded Fellowship ad hominem, of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1/1/08
• Invited guest lecturer, World Congress of Pediatric Surgery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1/1/07
• 1st Charles J. Devine Memorial Lecture, at American Urological Association, Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgeons Meeting, 1/1/07
• Invited guest lecturer, European Society of Pediatric Urology, 1/1/06
• Gordon Stenning Award, Australian Society of Pediatric Urology, 1/1/05
• Asian Society of Pediatric Urology, 1/1/05
• Invited guest lecturer, European Society of Pediatric Urology, 1/1/04
• 1st J. Herbert Johnston Memorial Lecture, British Association of Pediatric Surgeons, 1/1/04
• Mater's Lecture in Pediatric Urology, AAP Annual Meeting, 1/1/03
• Lavengood Memorial Lectureship, Cornell University School of Medicine, 1/1/03
• Special Consultant on Pediatric Surgery/Urology, National Health Service, London, England, 1/1/02
• Invited Guest Lecturer, American Urological Association, 1/1/01
• Invited Guest Lecturer, American College of Surgeons, 1/1/01
• Invited Guest Lecturer, Society of Pediatric Urology, 1/1/97
• Invited Guest Lecturer, Society of Fetal Urology, 1/1/96
• Anglo-American Visiting Professor Teaching Scholarship and Medal, Royal Society of Medicine, 1/1/95
• Pediatric Poster Session Winner, American Urological Association, 1/1/94
• Invited guest lecturer, European Society of Pediatric Urology, 1/1/92
• Invited Guest Lecturer, Society of Pediatric Urology, 1/1/92
• Pediatric Poster Session Winner, American Urological Association, 1/1/89
• Winner, Pediatric Poster Section, Kimbrough Urologic Seminar, 1/1/89
• Outstanding Alumnus, Morehead State University, 1/1/87
• Research Award, American Academy of Pediatrics, Urology Section, 1/1/87

Memberships

• American Academy of Pediatrics, Urology Section
• American College of Surgeons, Fellow
• American Urological Association
• British Association of Pediatric Urologists
• British Association of Urological Surgeons
• European Society of Pediatric Urology, Invited Member
• Maryland Urological Association
• Royal Society of Medicine, London, England
• Society of Pediatric Urological Surgeons, Invited Member
• Society of Pediatric Urology
• Society of Reconstructive Genitourinary Surgeons, Founding Member