
Overview
Dr. Karantanos graduated from the School of Health Sciences at the University of Athens, Greece and received a Ph.D. in cancer biology. He completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in molecular oncology and cancer therapeutics at MD Anderson Cancer Center/University of Texas. He did his internal medicine residency and Chief residency training at Boston University and his medical oncology fellowship training at Johns Hopkins. As a research fellow at Johns Hopkins he studied malignant hematopoiesis and his work led to the identification of CCRL2, as an inducer of MDS/sAML cells growth and a mediator of azacitidine resistance.
Dr. Karantanos is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Leukemia. His top areas of expertise are Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), Leukemia, Bone Marrow Aspiration, and Splenectomy.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 91 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 26 articles in the study of Leukemia.
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Locations
1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
Robert Kreitman is a Hematologist Oncology provider in Olney, Maryland. Dr. Kreitman is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Leukemia. His top areas of expertise are Hairy Cell Leukemia (HCL), Leukemia, Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer, and Reticuloendotheliosis.
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dr. Ivana Gojo is a Hematologist/Oncologist in Baltimore. Her clinical focus is on diagnosis and management of patients with acute leukemias (AML, ALL) and other myeloid malignancies (MDS, MPNs, CML), with emphasis on the development of novel therapeutic approaches for these diseases. She is nationally and internationally recognized expert in clinical translation of novel therapeutics for acute leukemias and principal investigator on multiple multi-center investigator-initiated studies. Dr. Gojo joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2012 as the Co-Director of Leukemia Drug Development Program. She has served on the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Investigational Drug Steering Committee since 2014. Dr. Gojo received a Service Star Award from Johns Hopkins Medicine Service Excellence in 2018 for her exemplary care of leukemia patients. Dr. Gojo contributed to the clinical translational and drug development effort of multiple novel agents targeting pathogenic pathways in patients with acute leukemia. Her research efforts are now concentrated on the development and integration of novel immunotherapies into therapeutic armamentarium for patients with acute leukemia. She mentors basic and clinical research fellows and junior faculty on the development and design of novel clinical trials and mechanistic laboratory studies associated with these trials. She served as a leukemia team leader on the National Institute of Health (NIH)/NCI N01 grant (Phase II consortium) (2009-2011), and is co-principal investigator (PI) on the Experimental Therapeutics (ET)-Clinical Trial Network (CTN) UM1 grant supporting early clinical trials. Dr. Gojo has served on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guideline panel for AML since 2019, Myeloid Growth Factor guideline panel since 2015 and previously served on the MPNs guideline panel (2016-2019). She has extensive experience in the regulatory aspects of drug development and served as the Chair (2015-2016) and Co-Chair (2014-2015) of the Cancer Research Review Committee at Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center (SKCCC) at Johns Hopkins, and serves as a member of the SKCCC Biostatistics Core Advisory Committee and SKCCC Clinical Research Office Coordinating Center Oversight Committee. Dr. Gojo is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Leukemia. Her top areas of expertise are Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), Leukemia, Bone Marrow Aspiration, and Bone Marrow Transplant.
University Of Maryland Oncology Associates PA
Maria Baer is a Hematologist Oncology specialist and a Hematologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Baer is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in the treatment of Leukemia. Her top areas of expertise are Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia, Bone Marrow Aspiration, and Splenectomy. Dr. Baer is currently accepting new patients.
Areas of Expertise
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Learn more about MediFind’s expert tiers
- Advanced
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)Dr. Karantanos isAdvanced. Learn about Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).
- LeukemiaDr. Karantanos isAdvanced. Learn about Leukemia.
- Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS)Dr. Karantanos isAdvanced. Learn about Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS).
- Experienced
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)Dr. Karantanos isExperienced. Learn about Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL).
- Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia with MaturationDr. Karantanos isExperienced. Learn about Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia with Maturation.
- Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia without MaturationDr. Karantanos isExperienced. Learn about Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia without Maturation.
- Bone Marrow AspirationDr. Karantanos isExperienced. Learn about Bone Marrow Aspiration.
- Childhood Acute Myeloid LeukemiaDr. Karantanos isExperienced. Learn about Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
- Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)Dr. Karantanos isExperienced. Learn about Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML).

