Faranak Moghadam is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Owings Mills, Maryland. Dr. Moghadam is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Acute Cystitis, Bronchitis, Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia, and Atypical Pneumonia.

Motti Mulleta is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine and Internal Medicine in Owings Mills, Maryland. Dr. Mulleta is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia, Atypical Pneumonia, Acute Cystitis, and Bronchitis.

Victor Mcglaughlin is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Owings Mills, Maryland. Dr. Mcglaughlin is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Acute Cystitis, Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia, Atypical Pneumonia, and Pneumonia.

Dr. Howard Steiner is an instructor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He has been practicing pulmonary and sleep consultative medicine since 1989. In his role as a diagnostician, he guides the evaluation and management of respiratory problems including infectious, malignant, allergic, autoimmune, and sleep-related disorders. He has been part-time faculty in the Johns Hopkins Pulmonary Division since 1991, is a Fellow in the American College of Chest Physicians, and mentors medical students, residents, and pulmonary fellows training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Contact for Research Inquiries 10755 Falls Road Pavilion I, Suite 200 Lutherville, MD 21093 Phone: (410) 583-7124 Selected Publications Lwebuga-Mukasa JS, Steiner H. Monoclonal antibody to rat lung Maclura Pomifera agglutinin (MPA) lectin binding glycoprotein localizes apically on rat and human type II pneumocytes and Clara cells. J Cell Biol 107:71a, 1989. Roberts PJ, McBean GJ, Steiner H, Kohler C, Schwarcz R. Lesioning Effects of Ibotenate in the immature rat brain and protection by 2-amino-7 phosphonoheptanoic acid. Soc Neurosci Abst 9:261, 1983. Steiner H, Ingbar DI. Mechanisms of lung injury and repair. In: Matthay RA, Matthay MA, Wiedemann HP eds. Annual Review of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Hanley & Belfus (Philadelphia, 1989), pp 205-223. Steiner H, Lwebuga-Mukasa JS. A549 cells display distinct functional and morphologic properties depending on their culture substratum. J Cell Biol 107:71a, 1989. Steiner H, Lwebuga-Mukasa JS. A549 cells produce a factor which is Mitogenic for human lung fibroblasts. Amer Rev Resp Dis 139:A492 1989. Steiner H, McBean GJ, Kohler C, Roberts PJ, Schwarcz R. Ibotenate Induced neuronal degeneration in immature rat brain. Brain Research 307:117-124, 1984. Dr. Steiner is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Bronchiectasis, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Lung Metastases, and Interstitial Lung Disease.

Dr. Karthik Suresh is a pulmonary and critical care physician. His clinical interests include acute lung injury and critical care medicine. He also specializes in the diagnosis and management of immune-related lung injury, especially in the context of autoimmune conditions and chemotherapy/immunotherapy for cancer. Dr. Suresh is a member of the Hopkins immune-related adverse events (irAE) tox team. He also takes care of critically ill patients in the medical and oncology ICUs. He’s a firm faculty member for the Janeway Firm of the Osler Housestaff Medical Service and provides teaching to medical students, housestaff and fellows. Dr. Suresh is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Interstitial Lung Disease, Acute Interstitial Pneumonia, Pneumonia, and Lung Metastases.

Stacey-ann Brown is a Pulmonary Medicine provider in Lutherville, Maryland. Dr. Brown is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Acute Interstitial Pneumonia, Interstitial Lung Disease, Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis, and Cholesterol Pneumonia.

Dr. Robin Avery is an infectious disease physician who joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2012, with two decades of experience in transplant infectious disease. She is a past chair of the American Society of Transplantation (AST) Infectious Disease Community of Practice, was a co-editor of the first edition of the AST ID Guidelines, and serves on a Guidelines Committee for the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) on immunizations in the immunocompromised host. She was the founding head of the Transplant Infectious Disease Section at the Cleveland Clinic and served as the founding director of the Cleveland Clinic Transplant ID Special Fellowship, authoring a curriculum that served as the basis for curricula later endorsed by the AST and IDSA. Her clinical and research interests include pre-transplant donor and recipient evaluation, and prevention and treatment of post-transplant infections, particularly transplant-associated viruses, viral load monitoring, novel therapies for CMV, hypogammaglobulinemia, immunizations, and strategies for safer living post-transplant. She has a strong interest in patient education and co-authored the script for a video designed to educate patients on decreasing post-transplant infection risks. Dr. Avery is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Cytomegalic Inclusion Disease, Cytomegalovirus Infection, COVID-19, and Sepsis.

Dr. Checkley specializes in intensive care medicine. He is an expert in the diagnosis and management of acute respiratory failure and the acute respiratory distress syndrome. He also has extensive experience in the management of other life-threatening conditions commonly seen in the medical intensive care unit, including septic shock, acute gastrointestinal bleeding, acute liver failure, among other critical conditions. Dr. Checkley earned his M.D. from Northwestern University and received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He completed his internal medicine residency training at Emory University and fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His research interests include International lung health, epidemiology, mechanical ventilation and acute lung injury. Dr. Checkley has been recognized by the National Institute of Health with the 2007 Post-doctoral National Research Service Award and the 2009 Pathway to Independence Career Award. Dr. Checkley is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Pneumonia, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Asthma, and Cerebral Hypoxia.

Boris Gronas is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Owings Mills, Maryland. Dr. Gronas is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Acute Cystitis, Bronchitis, Flu, and COVID-19.

Bruce Kinzinger is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Owings Mills, Maryland. Dr. Kinzinger is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Bronchitis, Acute Cystitis, Sinusitis, and COVID-19.

Charisse Davenport is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Owings Mills, Maryland. Dr. Davenport is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Acute Cystitis, H1N1 Influenza, Bronchitis, and Cellulitis. Dr. Davenport is currently accepting new patients.

Hamida Patel is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Owings Mills, Maryland. Dr. Patel is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Acute Cystitis, Parainfluenza, Parainfluenza Virus Type 3, and Tracheitis.

Lo Lai is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Owings Mills, Maryland. Dr. Lai is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Bronchitis, Acute Cystitis, Parainfluenza Virus Type 3, and Parainfluenza. Dr. Lai is currently accepting new patients.

Melanie Mendoza is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Owings Mills, Maryland. Dr. Mendoza is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Bronchitis, Acute Cystitis, Tracheitis, and Atypical Pneumonia.

Aneta Gramatikova is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Randallstown, Maryland. Dr. Gramatikova is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Cellulitis, Renovascular Hypertension, Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia, Gastrostomy, and Colonoscopy.

Ramaswamy Rangarajan is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Randallstown, Maryland. Dr. Rangarajan is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), COVID-19, Dehydration, Gastrostomy, and Colonoscopy.

Tatyana Kushnir is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Lutherville, Maryland. Dr. Kushnir is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Bronchitis, Acute Cystitis, Atypical Pneumonia, and Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. Dr. Kushnir is currently accepting new patients.

Ulrike Kirsten Buchwald is an infectious diseases and HIV physician who attended Medical School in Germany and completed training in internal medicine residency and infectious diseases at New York University. In 2010, she joined the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and the Institute of Human Virology. Dr. Buchwald received training in anal cancer screening and high-resolution anoscopy (HRA) and started a dedicated anal cancer screening clinic known as the Anal Lesion Evaluation Research Treatment (ALERT) clinic at the University of Maryland. She was the director of the ALERT clinic and in 2017 co-founded the Maryland Consortium for Anal Cancer Screening (MCACS) with Dr. Joyce Jones, Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine, and colleagues from the Department of Colorectal Surgery, to strengthen clinical care and research for HPV-related anal disease. She joined the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Johns Hopkins in 2019 to build a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to anal cancer screening, and to increase access to high-resolution anoscopy services and HPV-related anal dysplasia treatment for high-risk patients in Baltimore and the region. Recent News Articles and Media Coverage Making Anal Cancer Screening a Priority for High-Risk Patients Hopkins Medicine. Dr. Buchwald is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Strep Throat, Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease (cGvHD), Pneumonia, and Meningitis.

Dr. Sara Keller graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine in 2007. She completed her Master of Public Health in epidemiology in 2006 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She then completed a residency in Internal Medicine in the Osler Medical Residency Training Program at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2010, a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, and a fellowship in the University of Pennsylvania Centers for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety in 2013. She also completed a Master of Science in Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. She is an Assistant Professor in Infectious Diseases where she primarily sees patients at Johns Hopkins Green Spring Station and also attends on the inpatient infectious disease consult service at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She serves as the Medical Director of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Service. Dr. Keller is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Asymptomatic Bacteriuria, Sepsis, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and COVID-19.

Shmuel Shoham, M.D. is Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Shoham has over 20 years of experience in management of patients with invasive infections, and is the author or co-author of over 100 original articles, book chapters and topic reviews. He is a nationally recognized expert in infectious diseases of immunocompromised patients and his research explores diagnosis, prevention and treatment of infections in such patients. Dr. Shoham serves as a reviewer and expert consultant to multiple journals, professional societies, hospitals and government agencies in the US and numerous countries abroad. He is a member of professional guideline committees for the American Society of Transplantation (AST), the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/Invasive Fungal Infections Cooperative Group and Infectious Diseases Mycoses Study Group (EORTC/MSG) and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). Dr. Shoham is the recipient of numerous awards including the American College of Physicians' (Washington, DC Chapter) laureate award, their highest honor. Dr. Shoham received his medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA) and medical residency and infectious diseases fellowship training at Boston University School of Medicine (Boston, MA). Dr. Shoham is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Meningitis, Cryptococcosis, Cytomegalovirus Infection, and Cytomegalic Inclusion Disease.