Overview
Dr. Melanie Kandt Nies is a pediatric cardiologist specializing in congenital heart disease, echocardiography and pulmonary hypertension. She completed her medical school education at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, followed by her residency and pediatric cardiology and fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. Dr. Nies' research focuses on non-invasive diagnosis, therapeutic monitoring and prognosis of pulmonary hypertension using non-invasive imaging and biomarkers. She has advanced training in echocardiography and proteomic biomarker discovery. She works as part of a multidisciplinary team at Johns Hopkins Hospital, caring for patients with pulmonary hypertension, and as part of Kennedy Krieger Institute’s multidisciplinary team for the care of patients with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Dr. Nies lives in Baltimore City with her husband and two young sons. She and her family are fans of the Baltimore Orioles and Ravens, and enjoy the many city parks, food and cultural activities of Baltimore City.
Dr. Nies is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hypertension. Her top areas of expertise are Hypertension, Pulmonary Hypertension, Cerebral Hypoxia, and High Blood Pressure in Infants.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 29 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 21 articles in the study of Hypertension.
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Locations
1800 Orleans Street, Suite 2201, Suite 2201, Baltimore, MD 21287
1708 West Rogers Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21209
Clinical Research
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Johns Hopkins Children's Center
Dr. Allen Everett is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include general pediatric cardiology. Dr. Everett earned his M.D. from East Tennessee State University. He completed his residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric cardiology at the University of Virginia. Dr. Everett joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2003. He has become the program leader at Johns Hopkins in pediatric biomarker discovery, with a particular focus on brain injury, pulmonary hypertension and effects of medical plastics exposure on congenital heart disease outcomes. He is the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on multiple NIH- funded R01 studies. Dr. Everett also serves as the director of the Pediatric Proteome Center. Dr. Everett is an author of over 140 peer review papers, three book chapters, editor/author of the Illustrated Field Guide to Congenital Heart Disease and Repair, now in its fourth edition, and senior associate editor for the journal, Cardiology in the Young. He is a co-developer of PedCathTM cardiac catheterization software with Scientific Software Solutions which has been translated into five languages, has five US biomarker patents filed and brain injury biomarkers licensed to ImmunArray, Ltd. Dr. Everett is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hypertension. His top areas of expertise are Hypertension, Pulmonary Hypertension, Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), Heart Bypass Surgery, and Heart Transplant.
University Of Maryland Pediatric Associates PA
Carissa Baker is a Pediatric Cardiologist in Baltimore,, Maryland. Dr. Baker is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hypertension. Her top areas of expertise are Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), High Cholesterol, Heart Murmurs, and Hypertension.
Johns Hopkins Children's Center
Shelby Kutty is a Pediatric Cardiologist in Baltimore,, Maryland. Dr. Kutty is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hypertension. His top areas of expertise are Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), Tetralogy of Fallot, Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), Heart Transplant, and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI).
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- Cerebral HypoxiaDr. Nies isAdvanced. Learn about Cerebral Hypoxia.
- HypertensionDr. Nies isAdvanced. Learn about Hypertension.
- Pulmonary HypertensionDr. Nies isAdvanced. Learn about Pulmonary Hypertension.
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- HerniaDr. Nies isExperienced. Learn about Hernia.
- High Blood Pressure in InfantsDr. Nies isExperienced. Learn about High Blood Pressure in Infants.