Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2824
Email: amari@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Adrianna Amari is the training and research coordinator for the Pediatric Psychology Consultation Service in the Department of Behavioral Psychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Dr. Amari is also an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Amari received her doctoral degree in 2005 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). While pursuing her advanced degree, she held positions in the Department of Behavioral Psychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, including roles as a clinical specialist and program specialist on the Neurobehavioral Unit, and research...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
600 North Wolfe St., Park 367B
Baltimore, MD 21287
Phone: (410) 955-1740
Email: pbarker2@jhmi.edu

Dr. Barker is a research scientist who works to develop magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spectroscopy (MRS) techniques for evaluating diseases of the human central nervous system. He also conducts research studies to determine the utility of these new techniques, particularly in the understanding and diagnosis of neurological, psychiatric and oncological diseases. At the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Dr. Barker is actively involved in research studies currently being performed at the FM Kirby Center for Functional Brain Imaging.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Barker attended Oxford University in the United Kingdom, where he received a Bachelor's of Arts degree in chemistry and a Doctor of...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2785
Email: Batista@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Batista is the director of the Cytogenetics Laboratory at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also an associate professor in the Department of Pathology and a member of the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine of Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Batista received her bachelor's of science from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil and went on to obtain a master's of science and doctoral degree in human genetics at the same university. She is board-certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics in clinical cytogenetics.

Research Summary:

Three to five percent of all newborn infants suffer some degree of intellectual disability and/or developmental disability. There are,...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9227
Email: BeckerD@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Daniel Becker is a board-certified neurologist and the head of pediatric restoration therapy at the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury (ICSCI) at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Becker earned his medical degree from Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, he was a research assistant in neuroscience, investigating the role of embryonic stem cells in spinal cord injury repair at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. At Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, he completed his residency in internal medicine in 2004 and his residency in neurology in 2007. From there, he completed a year-long...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 North Broadway
Baltimore MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-3593
Email: belcher@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Harolyn M. E. Belcher is a neurodevelopmental pediatrician and research scientist at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is currently the director of research at the Kennedy Krieger Institute Family Center. Dr. Belcher is also jointly appointed in the Department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, while also holding the rank of associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Belcher received her bachelor's of science degree in zoology from Howard University in Washington, DC in 1980, her medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine in 1982, and her master'...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
1750 E. Fairmount Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21231
Phone: (443) 923-5950
Email: beltran@kennedykrieger.org

Beltran began employment at the Family Center at Kennedy Krieger Institute in 1994 as a clinical social worker, working with children and families experiencing abuse and neglect. She is currently an adjunct clinical associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work.

Biographical Sketch:

Monica Beltran graduated from Goucher College with a bachelor's of arts in psychology and dance. She continued her education at Goucher and received a master's degree in dance/movement in 1982. She then coordinated a psycho-social program at the Center for Living (an arm of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center) for adults with traumatic brain injury. Monica continued her education, and, in...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-4502
E-mail: bender@kennedykrieger.org

Michael Bender is the vice president of educational programs and legislative affairs at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also a professor of education, with a joint appointment, in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University and School of Medicine. Dr. Bender specializes in curriculum development for individuals with disabilities.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Bender graduated from a State Teacher's College in Massachusetts in 1966 with a bachelor's of science in education. He received his master's and doctorate degrees in special and industrial education from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1969 and 1971, respectively. While at the University of Maryland, he was a doctoral fellow of the United States Office of Education and...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2778
Email: bibat@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Bibat is a research scientist in the Kennedy Krieger Institute neurogenetics unit and is also a research associate in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Bibat received her bachelor's of science in psychology and Doctor of Medicine degrees at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines. After completing her pediatric residency training at the University of Florida, Sacred Heart Children's Hospital, she became a clinical fellow in neurodevelopmental disabilities at the Kennedy Krieger Institute from 1997 to 2000. She then became a research fellow in the neurogenetics department and subsequently joined the institute as a research associate in March 2001.

Research Summary:

Dr. Bibat...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2693
Email:blue@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Mary E. Blue is a research scientist in the neuroscience laboratory at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also an associate professor in the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Blue graduated cum laude with her bachelor's degree in biology and art from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa in 1977. She received her doctoral degree from the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas in Dallas, TX, in 1982. Dr. Blue continued her career as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, between 1982-1989 and has continued as research scientist...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2900
Email: bowmanl@kennedykrieger.org

Lynn G. Bowman, M.A., is the director of direct care services on the Neurobehavioral Unit at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Bowman earned her master's degree in experimental psychology at Hollins University and completed an internship at the Harmarville Rehabilitation Center. She was a psychologist B at the Multihandicapped Habilitation Center in Central Virginia before coming to the Kennedy Krieger Institute in 1989. She has been a clinical specialist, senior program specialist and a faculty member for the Department of Psychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute before becoming the director of...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2670
Email: bressler@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Joseph Bressler is a research scientist at Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also an associate professor of environmental health sciences at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Bressler received his bachelor's of science degree in biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1973 and his doctoral degree in physiology from Rutgers University in 1978. His post-doctoral training at UCLA was in neurosciences, where he studied the involvement of glial cells in response to toxic agents. After his post-doctoral training, Dr. Bressler continued his studies on glial cells at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Dr. Bressler has been a research scientist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205

Dr. Thomas Brushart is co-director of the Brachial Plexus Clinic at Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also the division chief of hand surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Brushart earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at Harvard, where he also stayed for his residency at the Harvard Combined Orthopaedics Program. He completed a fellowship in hand surgery at the Curtis Hand Center at Union Memorial Hospital in 1983. Dr. Brushart recently received the Hanno Millesi Award from the World Federation of Neurological Societies in Vienna, Austria, recognizing Brushart's "outstanding contributions to peripheral nerve research." He has received several other awards, including the L.W. Freeman Award from the National Spinal Cord Injury Foundation, the Joseph...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205

Dr. George Capone is a research scientist and director of the Down Syndrome Clinic and Research Center (DSCRC) at Kennedy Krieger Institute and is also an associate professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Capone attended college at Wesleyan University and worked as a research assistant at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston before obtaining his medical degree from the University of Connecticut in 1983. After a residency and fellowship in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Dr. Capone came to Baltimore in 1988 to pursue a fellowship in neurobiology research at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Capone currently serves as the director of Kennedy Krieger Institute's Down Syndrome Clinic and Research Center (DSCRC), and is an attending physician on the...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2900
Email: cataldo@kennedykrieger.org

Michael Cataldo, Ph.D., is the director of the Department of Behavioral Psychology at Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also a professor of behavioral biology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Maryland.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Cataldo attended the University of Rochester and received a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1968. He continued his education at the University of Kansas at Lawrence where he received his master’s degree in child development in 1971 and his doctorate in child development and psychology in 1974.

Since 1975, Dr. Cataldo has been the director of the Department of Behavioral Psychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2807
Email: christianson@kennedykrieger.org

Jean Christianson is the training coordinator for the Department of Social Work. Her clinical work is in the neurorehabilitation program.

Biographical Sketch:

Jean Christianson graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1971, with a bachelor's of arts in social welfare. She received her master's degree in social work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work in 1973. Following a maternal and child health-sponsored master's level field placement at Kennedy Krieger Institute, she worked as a clinical social worker in the institute's inpatient program.

Jean left Kennedy Krieger Institute in 1978 for a position as a faculty field instructor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. As part of the school's...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
801 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205

Anne Comi, MD, is the director of the Hunter Nelson Sturge-Weber Center and an Associate Professor in the Division of Neurology and Developmental Medicine at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Comi is the director of the Hunter Nelson Sturge-Weber Center at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She graduated from SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine and received her training in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Buffalo and her child neurology training at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Her clinical specialization is in the treatment of the neurological aspects of Sturge-Weber syndrome and other capillary malformation related disorders.

Research Summary:

Her clinical research interests are...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9135
Email:davoli@kennedykrieger.org

Cecilia Davoli is the outpatient medical director at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is an associate professor in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and an associate professor of environmental health sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Davoli graduated in 1980 from the College of William and Mary with a bachelor's of science in biology. She continued her education at Georgetown University School of Medicine where she received her medical degree in 1987. Following her graduation, she did a residency in pediatrics at the University of Virginia Medical Center from 1987 to 1990, and a fellowship in developmental pediatrics at Kennedy Krieger Institute from 1990 to 1993. Dr. Davoli received...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9250
Email:denckla@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Martha Bridge Denckla is a research scientist and director of the Developmental Cognitive Neurology Clinic at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also a professor of neurology, pediatrics and psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Denckla graduated summa cum laude from Bryn Mawr College and went on to graduate cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1962, where she trained with Dr. Norman Geschwind in behavioral neurology. Dr. Denckla served residencies at Beth Israel Hospital and Veterans Administration Hospital, both in Boston, as well as Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington DC. After positions in neurology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in...

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Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9150
Email: fatemi@kennedykrieger.org

S. Ali Fatemi, MD, is a pediatric neurologist at the Division of Neurology and Developmental Medicine, and an investigator at the Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger. Dr. Fatemi is also an assistant professor of neurology and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Fatemi received his medical degree from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria in 1999. After graduation, he served as a researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Medical Chemistry in Vienna and completed an internship in pediatrics at the Vienna General Hospital. He was recruited by Dr. Hugo W. Moser as a post-doctoral fellow in neurogenetics and neuroimaging research at Kennedy Krieger Institute in 2001. During this initial period at...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
716 North Broadway, Room 208
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-7727
Email: findling@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Findling is the Vice President of Psychiatric Services and Research at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also the Director of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, a Vice Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and a Professor (PAR) at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Findling is working to foster and integrate the faculties, services and research opportunities at Kennedy Krieger, Johns Hopkins Hospital and the affiliated programs at Bayview Medical Center.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Findling did his undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins University and went to medical school at the Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Findling then completed training in Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry as part of the “Triple Board” joint...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2703
Email: germainlee@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Emily Germain-Lee is the director of bone research and the associate director of the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Clinic at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She established the Albright Clinic at Kennedy Krieger for patients with Albright hereditary osteodystrophy and related conditions. Dr. Germain-Lee is an associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Germain-Lee received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude in biochemical sciences. She obtained her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2982
Email: girolami@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Peter A. Girolami is the clinical director and a case manager for the pediatric feeding disorders program. He is also an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Girolami earned a doctorate in clinical psychology in 2005 at West Virginia University. He completed a pre-doctoral internship at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and in the Department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Girolami is currently a member of the faculty at Kennedy Krieger Institute, where he serves as a case manager for the pediatric feeding disorders program in the Department of Behavioral Psychology. He is a licensed psychologist in the state of...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205

Gary Goldstein is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also a Professor of neurology and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a Professor of environmental health sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Goldstein received his medical degree from the University of Chicago. He completed residencies in pediatrics (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), neurology (Stanford, Palo Alto) and child neurology (Johns Hopkins) and was Director of the pediatric neurology program at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) before returning to Baltimore to lead Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Research Summary:

Past research activities focused on the role of brain capillaries in the formation of the blood brain barrier and the mechanisms of capillary injury...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Email:mjgrados@jhmi.edu

Dr. Marco Grados is a research scientist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

After completing his undergraduate and medical training in Lima, Peru, Dr. Grados came to Detroit for an internship in internal medicine and a residency in psychiatry at the Henry Ford Health Systems. He came to Baltimore in 1994 as child psychiatry fellow, chief resident in child psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and psychiatry faculty at Kennedy Krieger Institute. Dr. Grados also obtained a master's of public health (M.P.H.) in genetic epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. After six years as medical director of outpatient programs in the Institute's Department of Psychiatry,...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2900
Email: hagopian@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Louis P. Hagopian is a research scientist and program director of the Neurobehavioral Unit at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Hagopian earned his doctoral degree in psychology (clinical child) in 1991 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He then completed a pre-doctoral internship at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, and in the Department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is a licensed psychologist in the state of Maryland. Dr. Hagopian is the program director of the Neurobehavioral Unit of Kennedy Krieger Institute's...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9141
Email: hoon@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Alec Hoon is a research scientist, director of the Phelps Center for Cerebral Palsy and Neurodevelopmental Medicine and medical director of the Carter Center for Holoprosencephaly and Related Disorders at Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also an associate professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Hoon received a bachelor's of science from Davidson College in 1974, and a medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1978. After a pediatric residency at Kosair-Children's Hospital in Louisville and two years in private practice, he completed a neonatology fellowship at British Columbia Children's Hospital and a one-year fellowship in medical genetics at the...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2678
Email: hossain@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Mir Ahamed Hossain is a research scientist and research program director for the Training Administration Research Program (TARP) at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also an associate professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Hossain pursued his undergraduate and graduate education in biochemistry with major in neuroscience at the University of Calcutta in India, where he obtained his doctoral degree in biochemistry in 1990. Dr. Hossain is a molecular/cellular biologist with considerable expertise in experimental neuroscience and neurotoxicity. He served as a research fellow in the university's Department of Biochemistry before coming to the United States in 1990 for post-doctoral...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2977
Email: huete@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. John Huete is a case manager with the Neurobehavioral Unit Outpatient Clinic in Kennedy Krieger Institute's Department of Behavioral Psychology. He is also an instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Huete received his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Louisiana State University in 2000. He completed a pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship in behavioral psychology and pediatrics at Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In additional to his current appointments at Kennedy Krieger and Johns Hopkins, Dr. Huete has an adjunct appointment in the Department of Psychology at Towson...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
1750 E. Fairmount Avenue
Baltimore, MD, 21231
Phone: (443) 923-4461
Email: Jacobson@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Lisa Jacobson is a licensed psychologist and pediatric neuropsychologist in the Department of Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute. She also holds an appointment as an Instructor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

After graduating from Davidson College with a BA in Psychology, Dr. Jacobson completed her MEd and EdS in School Psychology at the College of William & Mary in Virginia in 1998. She then worked as a school psychologist before completing her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, in 2008. She completed her clinical internship in neurodevelopment and neuropsychology at the Mailman Center for...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9315
Email: johnston@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Michael Johnston is a research scientist, senior vice president and chief medical officer at Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also a professor of neurology and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Johnston attended Franklin and Marshall College before going on to medical school at the University of Pittsburgh, from which he graduated cum laude in 1971. His post-doctoral training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital included work in pediatrics, neurology, pharmacology and pediatric neurology. After teaching positions and research work at the University of Michigan Medical School and University of Michigan Hospitals, Dr. Johnston returned to Baltimore in 1988. Today he is the senior vice president and chief...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2758
Email: jonesri@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Jones is currently the administrative laboratory manager for the Genetics Laboratories at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, as well as a research associate in neurology at Johns Hopkins. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the American Association for Clinical Chemistry and the Clinical Laboratory Management Association.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Jones received a bachelor's of science from the University of Manchester (UK) in 1985, and a doctoral degree from the University of Manchester in 1989. After obtaining his doctoral degree, Dr. Jones spent a year as a Royal Society Fellow at Shinshu Universuty in Matsumoto, Japan. In 1990, he was appointed a research fellow in the Department of Surgery at the University of Maryland at...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2844
Email: kahng@kennedykrieger.org

SungWoo Kahng is a faculty member in the Department of Behavioral Psychology and a senior behavior analyst on the Neurobehavioral Unit. He is also an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as a previous director of training for the Department of Behavioral Psychology.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Kahng graduated in 1990 from Kalamazoo College with a bachelor's of arts in psychology. He continued his education in psychology at the University of Florida where he received a master's of science in 1996 and a doctorate in 1999. Dr. Kahng joined the staff of the neurobehavioral unit at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in 1999. He is currently...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 North Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (410) 955-7610
Email: skannan3@jhmi.edu

Sujatha Kannan is a faculty member in pediatric anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University and a research scientist at the Hugo Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Institute. Her research interests include imaging and targeted therapy for perinatal brain injury using nanotechnology, with a special emphasis on cerebral palsy and autism.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Kannan completed her medical training at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) in India, and a pediatric residency followed by a fellowship in pediatric critical care at the Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit in 2003, where she remained as a faculty member until...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
1750 E. Fairmount Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21231
Phone: (443) 923-4442
Email: Kramerm@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Kramer is a staff neuropsychologist in the Department of Neuropsychology. Dr. Kramer provides clinical neuropsychological services to children throughout the Kennedy Krieger Institute's Rehabilitation Continuum of Care, including the inpatient neurorehabilitation service, Sports NeuroRehabilitation Concussion Clinic, and Community Rehabilitation program. She also provides services through the Department of Neuropsychology Outpatient Assessment Programs.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Kramer received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Cincinnati in 2009, and completed her pre-doctoral internship training at...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2730
Email: krick@kennedykrieger.org

Jackie Krick is the director of the Nutrition Department at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also an assistant professor in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Jackie Krick received her master's of science from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. She holds a certificate of advanced study in health policy and management, and most recently a business of medicine executive medical certificate in 2000.

Krick is a clinical specialist in the field of pediatric nutrition. Her special interest is the energy needs and growth of children with cerebral palsy. Her work has incorporated clinical experience with research to develop and disseminate tools for the practitioner. Two such tools...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2671

Bachchu Lal, Ph.D., is a research associate in the Department of Neurology at Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Lal received a bachelor's of science in zoology, botany and chemistry from Lucknow University in Lucknow, UP, India in 1977, followed by a master's of science in zoology and a doctorate in zoology from Kanpur University in Kanpur, UP, India. Dr. Lal completed a post-doctoral fellowship from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with the Department of Neurology at Kennedy Krieger Institute and joined the faculty of Kennedy Krieger Institute in 2001 as a research scientist. Dr. Lal is currently a research associate in the Department of Neurology at Kennedy Krieger.

Research Summary:

Dr. Lal’s recent clinical research interests include the growth, detection and malignancy of brain tumors. His main...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
3901 Greenspring Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: (443) 923-7632
Email: johnsonjoy@kennedykrieger.org

Rebecca Landa, PhD, CCC-SLP, is the founder and director of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) and the REACH research program at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Landa obtained her master's degree at the Pennsylvania State University and her doctorate at the University of Washington. She completed post-doctoral training in psychiatric genetics at Johns Hopkins. She is the recipient of the NIMH Shannon Award for excellent and innovative research, as well as the Rita Rudel Prize for Developmental Neuropsychology. Dr. Landa is also the recipient of the 2009 Alumni Recognition Award...

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Kennedy Krieger Institute
716 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9497
Email: Leer@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Ryan Lee is a pediatric neurologist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, a faculty instructor in the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a research associate at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Lee attended Creighton University and John A. Burns (University of Hawaii) School of Medicine, from which he graduated in 2006. He trained in general pediatrics at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, HI. He then received specialized training in pediatric neurology and neurodevelopmental disabilities at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, MD. He is currently a neurologist at...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (410) 298-7000
Email: leviton@kennedykrieger.org

Audrey Leviton is the executive director of PACT: Helping Children with Special Needs and co-director of the Child and Family Support Program at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also an assistant vice president of the Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Biographical Sketch:

Audrey Leviton received her Bachelor's of Arts from George Washington University in 1973. She went on to receive her Master's Degree in social work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work in 1978. She came to Kennedy Krieger in 1983, after spending five years as a social worker for the Baltimore City Department of Social Services working in single parent services and family day care.

Leviton is currently an assistant vice president...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
3825 Greenspring Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: (443) 923-7822
Email: lewismeb@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Lewis is the director of projects that introduce or extend knowledge of special education policy, interventions or information to both Kennedy Krieger staff and others in the outside community of educators, families, colleges, universities, agencies and community or business groups.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Lewis received her bachelor's degree in English and philosophy from Towson State College and continued her graduate education at Johns Hopkins University, where she received a master's degree as a reading specialist, and a doctorate in human communication disorders. She taught English and was a reading specialist in Baltimore City public schools for nine years before coming to Kennedy Krieger as principal of its school...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9239
Email: liq@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Qun Li is a research scientist at the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury, Hugo W. Moser Institute, at Kennedy Krieger.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Qun Li graduated and earned a medical degree from Beijing Medical University. He received his doctoral degree in neurobiology from the Ohio State University (Drs. Beattie/Bresnahan's lab) in 1996. After five years post-doctoral training at the NIH (NICHD), St. Louis University and Columbia University in neuroscience, he started working with Dr. John McDonald in the Department of Neurology at Washington University in St. Louis as a research instructor in 2001. Dr. Qun Li joined the International Center for Spinal Cord...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21215
Phone: (443) 923-9526
Email: liyu@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Yunqing Li is a research scientist at the Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger. She is also a faculty member in the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Li pursued her undergraduate and graduate education at the Yunnan University in China. She then held a teaching position at the Kunming Medical College in China before pursuing her doctoral degree in medical genetics from Sichuan University. She came to the United States in 2003 to complete postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and in the Department of Neurology at Kennedy Krieger Institute. In 2005, she was recruited as a faculty member for the...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-3240
Email: lipkin@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Paul Lipkin is the director of the Center for Development and Learning at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Dr. Lipkin is also an associate professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Lipkin received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University and attended medical school at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - New Jersey Medical School. He received his general pediatric training, focusing on primary care, at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, followed by subspecialty training in developmental pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University and the Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Dr. Lipkin joined the faculty of the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University in...

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Kennedy Krieger Institute
1750 East Fairmount Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21231
Phone: (443) 923-4442
Email: mahone@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Mark Mahone is a child neuropsychologist, research scientist, and the director of the Department of Neuropsychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and is on the core faculty in psychology for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) Leadership Education Excellence in Caring for Children with Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) Program and the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC).

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Mahone received his PhD from the State University of New York at Albany in 1990, and completed an APA-accredited...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
716 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9211
Email: McDonaldJ@kennedykrieger.org

A neurologist and research scientist, Dr. McDonald directs the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury at Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. McDonald graduated from the University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana in 1985 with a bachelor’s of science degree, magna cum laude, in neuroscience. From there, he matriculated at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he began a combined M.D./Ph.D. program in the Medical Scientists Training Program (MSTP) that he completed in 1992. While pursuing his advanced degrees, Dr. McDonald completed a fellowship in neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and served as a visiting scientist at Eli Lilly and Co., in...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Appointments: (443) 923-9400
Medical Concerns: (443) 923-7646

Dr. Deepa Menon is a member of the medical staff at Kennedy Krieger Institute in the Division of Neurology and Developmental Medicine. She is also the assistant medical director at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), which is located on Greenspring Avenue.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Menon received her medical training at Madras Medical College in Chennai, India, graduating with the bachelor of medicine/bachelor of science (MBBS) degree in 1991. She subsequently completed pediatric residency training at the Cook County Children's Hospital in Chicago, IL, in 1997 and joined the Kennedy Krieger Institute in 2003 as a resident in neurodevelopmental disabilities through the Johns Hopkins University. Since graduating from the residency program in 2007, she has been an active...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2761
Email: mosera@kennedykrieger.org

Ann Moser is a research associate in neurology and co-director of the Peroxisomal Diseases Laboratory at Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University.

Biographical Sketch:

Ann Moser received a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry in 1961 from Radcliffe College. During the time she was an undergraduate, she was a technician in Dr. Konrad Bloch’s laboratory at Harvard University. After working as a technician in laboratories in different hospitals, Moser joined the John F. Kennedy Institute (later Kennedy Krieger Institute) in 1976 as a senior technician. In 1982, she became an assistant in neurology. Since 1991, Moser has been working as a research associate in neurology. She is a co-director of the ...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2778

Dr. SakkuBai Naidu is a research scientist and director of the Department of Neurogenetics at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also a professor in the Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Naidu received her undergraduate and medical training at Madras Medical College in India, graduating in 1962. She served internships and residencies in pediatrics at hospitals in Madras and in Brooklyn before accepting a fellowship in pediatric neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. She worked in hospitals in Chicago at the University of Illinois and Loyola University in Maywood, IL. In 1983, she trained in Neonatal EEG/Neurology at Port Royal Hospital in Paris. She came to Hopkins in 1985 as a Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation Scholar. Dr. Naidu works as a...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
1750 E. Fairmount Avenue
Baltimore, MD, 21231
Phone: (443) 923-5896
Email: Onigu-Otite@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Onigu-Otite is a member of the faculty and medical director of the Family Center of Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Edore Onigu-Otite received her medical degree from the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She worked as a post-doctoral research fellow in biomedical research before attending the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX, where she completed a residency program in general psychiatry and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry. She went on to receive further training in addiction psychiatry at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Adewuya is...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2914
Email: Paclawskyj@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Paclawskyj is a research scientist and case manager in the Neurobehavioral Unit Outpatient Clinic at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Paclawskyj received a bachelor's of arts degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1990, an master's of arts degree from Louisiana State University in 1995, and a doctoral degree from Louisiana State University in 1998. Dr. Paclawskyj completed both her pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Behavioral Psychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI). She joined the Hopkins/KKI faculty in 2001. Dr. Paclawskyj is a...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2751
Email: Pelled@kennedykrieger.org

Galit Pelled is a research scientist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Pelled graduated from the Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel) and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD).

Research Summary:

Successful rehabilitation following injury to the nervous system involves appropriate neuronal compensation and re-wiring of afferent and efferent pathways. However, the underlying neuronal mechanisms that influence brain reorganization in the infant and the adult are poorly understood. The focus of the lab is to probe and manipulate the appropriate neuronal...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-3240
Email: perryj@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Jamie Perry is a developmental pediatrician in the Division of Neurology and Developmental Medicine at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also a clinical instructor in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the consulting medical staff at St. Agnes Hospital.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Perry received her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed a masters of public health at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. She completed residency training in pediatrics at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, and a fellowship in neurodevelopmental disabilities at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. After completing her fellowship training, Dr. Perry held the position...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9440
Email: pidcock@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Frank S. Pidcock is Vice President of Rehabilitation at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Director of the Pediatric Rehabilitation Division in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins Hospital and University School of Medicine. He is an associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation and an associate professor of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Pidcock attended the Johns Hopkins University before going on to medical school at the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1977. His post-doctoral training includes a pediatric residency at Hahnemann University Hospital from 1979 to 1981, a developmental pediatrics fellowship at St....

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9440
Email: Prestwich@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Prestwich is the medical director of the Pediatric Rehabilitation Unit (PRU) at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is a faculty member at Kennedy Krieger Institute and an instructor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Prestwich received a bachelor's of arts in history from the University of Mississippi in 1991 and her Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1995. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas in 1998. Following her residency, she worked as an attending physician at Children's Medical Center of Dallas. She then spent a year as a consultant pediatrician at Mersey Community...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2750
Email: raymond@kennedykrieger.org

Gerald Raymond is a pediatric neurologist and research scientist at Kennedy Krieger Institute. Dr. Raymond is also a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University, and on the medical staff in the Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Raymond graduated in 1980 from Fairfield University with a bachelor's of science in biology and went on to graduate from University of Connecticut in 1984. Upon graduation, he became a resident in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University and in neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He completed training in clinical genetics at Harvard in 1990.

For the past 10 years, Dr. Raymond has been a pediatric neurologist at Kennedy Krieger Institute. He joined...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2700

Dr. Richard Redett is co-director of the Brachial Plexus Clinic at Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also the director of pediatric plastic and reconstructive surgery and the Johns Hopkins Cleft Lip and Palate Center, as well as an assistant professor in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the Division of Pediatric Surgery and the Department of Pediatrics.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Redett specializes in cleft lip and palate surgery, facial paralysis, brachial plexus injuries and pediatric burn surgery. He completed his general surgery residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2000, as well as a residency in plastic surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital combined with University of Maryland Shock Trauma in 2002. From 2002 to 2003, Dr. Redett practiced as a fellow of pediatric plastic surgery at the Hospital for Sick...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-4442
Email: reichenbach@kennedykrieger.org

Lisa Reichenbach is a psychologist in the Department of Neuropsychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also an instructor in psychiatry (part time) at the Johns Hopkins University.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Reichenbach graduated from Yale University in 1976 with a bachelor's of arts in psychology and philosophy. She then worked for two years as a research assistant in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Dr. Reichenbach studied clinical psychology at Vanderbilt University and received her doctoral degree in 1984. She completed her internship at Long Island Jewish - Hillside Medical Center. Dr. Reichenbach worked as a psychologist at the Children's Day Treatment Program at the Staten Island...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 North Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2731
Email: Rolider@kennedykrieger.org

Natalie Rolider is a Senior Behavior Analyst at the Neurobehavioral Inpatient Unit in Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Department of Behavioral Psychology. She is also an instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Rolider received her doctoral degree in psychology from University of Florida in 2007. Following graduation, Dr. Rolider continued as an assistant scientist at University of Florida where she served as the Clinical Director of the University of Florida Prader-Willi Syndrome Project. Dr. Rolider joined the Neurobehavioral Unit at Kennedy Krieger Institute in 2009. She is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205

Dr. Sadowsky is the clinical director of the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury at Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Biographical Sketch:

Born in Romania, Dr. Sadowsky attended the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest from 1983 to 1989. She completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Meridia Huron Hospital/Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH in 1994. She served as chief resident from July 1994 to June 1995. From there, she began a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. She was named chief resident of that program in April 1997. Immediately following the completion of her second residency, she began a fellowship in spinal cord injury medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2782
Email: sandlers@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Sandlers is assistant director of the Biochemical Genetics Laboratory at Kennedy Krieger Institute and a research associate in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Sandlers received her doctorate degree in chemistry from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in nutritional biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Sandlers has been with the Kennedy Krieger Institute since 2009. She is a member of the American Society of Mass Spectrometry and the Society For Inherited Metabolic Disorders.

Research Summary:

Dr. Sandlers' research is focused on understanding biochemical abnormalities underlying different metabolic...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2854
Email: schlund@kennedykrieger.org

Michael Schlund is a psychologist in the Department of Behavioral Psychology and director of the Neurobehavioral Imaging Laboratory at Kennedy Krieger Institute and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Schlund received his bachelor's of arts and master's of science degrees in psychology from University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. He received his doctoral degree in experimental psychology in 1995 from Auburn University.

Dr. Schlund joined Department of Behavioral Psychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) in 1995. He served as the clinical director of the Kennedy Krieger Institute Residential Programs for Adults and Medically Fragile...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway, Suite 520
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9227
Email: shamblott@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Michael Shamblott is a research scientist at the International Center for Spinal Cord Injury (ICSCI) at Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also an assistant professor with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, and has a joint appointment in the Johns Hopkins University Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Shamblott earned his doctorate of philosophy in molecular and cell biology in 1995 from the University Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). From 1989 to 1995, while at UMBC, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology. From there, he became a post-doctoral fellow at the Johns...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2703
Email: shapiroj@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Jay Shapiro is the director of the Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) Program at Kennedy Krieger Institute and also a professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Shapiro is an endocrinologist with more than 30 years of experience studying and caring for both children and adults with OI, as well as other bone conditions.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Shapiro attended Franklin and Marshall College before completing his medical education at Boston University. Following many years of serving in the U.S. Public Health Service and achieving commendation, as well as extensive experience at the National Institutes of Health and Uniformed Services University of the Health...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2738
Email: silvermanw@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Wayne Silverman is a research scientist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He also is a member of the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Silverman attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, receiving his B.A. in Psychology in 1969 and Ph.D. in 1973. He then spent the next 33 years as a scientist in the Department of Psychology of the New York Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, serving as Department Chief from 1987 until he came to the Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) in 2006. Dr. Silverman is directing a large study of aging among adults with Down syndrome that is funded by the National Institutes of Health. This program...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 North Broadway
Baltimore MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2725
Email: Slomine@Kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Beth Slomine is currently the director of training and neuropsychological rehabilitation services within the Department of Neuropsychology at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also an associate professor of psychiatry and associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Slomine is a licensed psychologist and board certified clinical neuropsychologist.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Slomine received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Florida in 1995. She completed an internship at the Brockton/West Roxbury Veteran's Administration Medical Center and Harvard University. Dr. Slomine completed a post-doctoral fellowship in geriatric psychology and...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
3901 Greenspring Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: (443) 923-7646
Email: hicksc@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Smith-Hicks is a pediatric neurologist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Smith-Hicks earned her bachelor of science degree in biochemistry from the City College of New York (CUNY). She then entered the medical scientist training program at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she obtained her doctoral degree in genetics in 1998 and medical degree in 2000. Dr. Smith-Hicks completed her pediatrics training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2002, and her neurology and pediatric neurology training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2005. She did her post-doctoral training with...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
801 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9146
Email: stashinko@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Stashinko is a research associate at the Hugo W. Moser Research Institute, director of the Carter Center for Brain Research in Holoprosencephaly and Related Malformations, director of clinical research within the Phelps Center for Cerebral Palsy and Neurodevelopmental Medicine and director of nursing research at Kennedy Krieger. She is also a member of the adjunct faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Stashinko received her bachelor's of science degree in nursing from Albright College in 1975, her master's of science in maternal and child health nursing from the University of Maryland in 1979, and her doctorate degree from the University...

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Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9440
Email: suskauer@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Stacy Suskauer is a research scientist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is director of Brain Injury Rehabilitation Programs at the Institute. She is also an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Suskauer attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina for her undergraduate and medical education. She completed a combined residency program in pediatrics and physical medicine and rehabilitation at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati. She came to Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins for a pediatric rehabilitation research fellowship and subsequently joined the faculty of these...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2784
Email: thomasg@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. George H. Thomas is a research scientist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also a professor of pediatrics and pathology with a joint appointment in medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Thomas received his bachelor's of arts from Western Maryland College and went on to obtain a doctoral degree at the University of Maryland in 1963. He is a member of the American Board of Medical Genetics in clinical cytogenetics, the American Board of Medical Genetics in biochemical genetics and is a fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics.

Research Summary:

Three to five percent of all newborn infants suffer some degree of intellectual disability and/or developmental...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2757

Carol Tiffany is a clinical biochemist in the Peroxisomal Diseases Laboratory at Kennedy Krieger Institute and a research assistant in the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

Biographical Sketch:

Carol Tiffany received a master's degree in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University in 2002. She has spent many years in the pharmaceutical industry, performing research in the areas of neurology, as well as pain and inflammation. In 1991, she collaborated with Dr. Hugo Moser on a project that involved the inflammation pathway of patients with peroxisomal diseases. In 2002, she was appointed to a research assistant position in the Johns Hopkins Institute for Genetic Medicine (IGM) where she managed a yeast genome-wide screening project. In 2006, she accepted the position of clinical biochemist in the...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
3901 Greenspring Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: (443) 923-7620
Email: turin@kennedykrieger.org

Elizabeth Turin, MD, is an attending child and adolescent psychiatrist in the Neurobehavioral Unit at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also an instructor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Turin received her medical degree from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru in 1993. In Lima, she was on the medical staff of the emergency room at Clinica Italiana and Clinica San Felipe. Dr. Turin began her American medical practice as a medical assistant at Total Family Health Center and Brown Clinic in Dallas, TX. She was a monitor technician and a primary care technician at the Saint Paul Medical Center in Dallas.

She became a psychiatry research assistant at...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9500
E-mail: pvanzijl@mri.jhu.edu

Dr. Peter C. M. van Zijl is a research scientist at Kennedy Krieger Institute, as well as the founding director of the F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging. He is also a professor of radiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. van Zijl graduated cum laude with a master's degree in inorganic chemistry and continued to obtain a doctoral degree in mathematics and physics. His thesis focused on the description of molecular alignment in magnetic fields and the changes in the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra related to this. After completing fellowships in nuclear magnetic resonance (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh) and MRI (...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
1750 E. Fairmount Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21231
Phone: (443) 923-4442
Email: vaurio@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Vaurio is a clinical neuropsychologist in the Department of Neuropsychology, as well as at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD). She is also appointed as an instructor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Vaurio graduated from Wellesley College in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in psychobiology. She earned her doctoral degree in clinical psychology, with a concentration in neuropsychology, from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. Dr. Vaurio completed her internship at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, then went on to complete a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology at...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
1750 E. Fairmount Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-4507
Email: villani@kennedykrieger.org

Susan Villani is currently the medical director of school programs at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Villani received her bachelor's degree from Emory University in 1973 and continued her education at West Virginia University Medical School, receiving her medical degree in 1977. Dr. Villani completed her residency at University of Kentucky Medical Center. In 1999, after over 20 years of work at different facilities around the country, she became the medical director for the Kennedy Krieger school programs.

Dr. Villani is an active member of the American Academy of Child and...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
801 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9525

Dr. Kathryn Wagner is the director of the Center for Genetic Muscle Disorders at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and an associate professor of neurology and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Wagner obtained her undergraduate degree from Yale University, graduating summa cum laude with honors in biology. She participated in the NIH-funded medical scientist training program and obtained her medical and doctoral degrees at Johns Hopkins. Her thesis work in the laboratory of Richard Huganir, Ph.D., included the original cloning and characterization of the dystrophin-associated protein, dystrobrevin.

She completed her internship in internal medicine and residency in neurology at Johns Hopkins. She went on to complete a neuromuscular fellowship at Hopkins and a clinical...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9312
Email: warrenl@kennedykrieger.org

Lana Warren is the senior vice president of clinical programs at Kennedy Krieger Institute and is also a part-time instructor in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Warren received her undergraduate training in occupational therapy at Western Michigan University. She has a master's degree in health related profession from the University of Pittsburgh and in applied healing arts from Tai Sophia Institute, as well as a doctoral degree in education from the Johns Hopkins University. Her clinical background is in pediatrics, particularly focusing on children with cerebral palsy, brain injury, and learning disabilities. She is also an energy practitioner. Dr. Warren’s...

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Kennedy Krieger Institute
3901 Greenspring Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: (443) 923-7630
Email: wodka@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Ericka Wodka is a pediatric neuropsychologist in the Center for Autism and Related Disorders and the Department of Neuropsychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Wodka graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2001 with a bachelor's of science in neurobiology and physiology. She then continued her education at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, earning a master's of science in 2003 and a doctoral degree in 2006, both in clinical psychology with a concentration in clinical neuropsychology. Dr. Wodka completed her clinical internship at the Mailman Center for Child Development and University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, FL, and then completed her...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
FM Kirby Research Center, KKI
707 N Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21210
Phone: (443) 923-2785
Email:nyadav@jhu.edu

Dr. Yadav is a Research Associate in the F.M. Kirby Center at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and in the Department of Radiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Yadav completed his tertiary studies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. In 2010, he obtained his PhD for developing novel NMR diffusometry methods for probing porous systems. Following his PhD, he completed at post-doctoral fellowship in the group of Dr. Peter van Zijls group at the F.M. Kirby Research Center and in the Department of Radiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Research Summary:

Dr. Yadav research interests focus on developing novel MRI techniques for...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-2717
Email: zackowski@kennedykrieger.org

Kathleen M. Zackowski, PhD, OTR, is an associate professor at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Departments of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Neurology.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Zackowski earned her bachelor's of science in occupational therapy from Texas Tech University and went on to complete her master's of science in exercise and sport science from the University of Arizona. She worked as an occupational therapist throughout Texas, Arizona and California for several years before pursuing her doctorate. She completed her PhD in movement science through the program in physical therapy at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Zackowski completed her post-doctoral work at the Kennedy Krieger...

Kennedy Krieger Institute
707 N. Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone: (443) 923-9190
Email: zhan@kennedykrieger.org

Dr. Xiangcan Zhan is a research scientist in the International Center of Spinal Cord Injury at Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Zhan received his doctoral degree in 1989 from the University of Adelaide, Australia. He was employed in the Hort Research Institute, New Zealand as a research scientist during 1990-2001. From 2001-2008, he was a faculty member in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He joined the International Center of Spinal Cord Injury at Kennedy Krieger Institute in 2008.

Research Summary:

Dr Zhan's research interests are in human embryonic stem cell biology and their application in...