Dr. Constantine A. Stratakis

Hans Bjornsson is a Medical Genetics specialist and a Pediatrics provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Bjornsson is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Acromegaloid Facial Appearance Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Kabuki Syndrome, Weaver Syndrome, 3MC Syndrome, Coffin-Lowry Syndrome, and Orchiectomy. Dr. Bjornsson is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Jill A. Fahrner is an assistant professor in the Departments of Genetic Medicine and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise is medical genetics. Dr. Fahrner earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and her M.D. from the University of North Carolina. She completed pediatrics residency training at Duke University Medical Center. She joined the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine as a genetic medicine resident in 2009 and completed her training in 2012. She stayed on as chief resident from 2012-2013 and then joined the faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics within the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine in 2013. Her current primary appointment is Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetic Medicine, where she is Director of the multidisciplinary Epigenetics and Chromatin Clinic. She is a physician-scientist with a long-standing interest in epigenetic mechanisms of disease. Her clinical focus is on caring for individuals with epigenetic and chromatin disorders, specifically Mendelian disorders of the epigenetic machinery, or chromatin modifying disorders. She has seen hundreds of individuals with congenital disorders involving disrupted epigenetics, most of which exhibit neurodevelopmental disabilities and abnormal growth. Her laboratory research is focused on understanding disease mechanisms and developing therapies for select Mendelian disorders of the epigenetic machinery. She is a member of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), having won an ASHG Reviewer’s Choice Abstract Award for her work on growth retardation in Kabuki syndrome 1. She has received a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Clinician Scientist Award, a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Musculoskeletal Pilot and Feasibility Award, a William and Ella Owens Medical Research Foundation Award, the Margaret Ellen Nielsen Fellowship Award, and the Alice and YT Chen Travel Award while at Johns Hopkins. She is the recipient of a prestigious Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award and also has ongoing research funding from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Fahrner is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Acromegaloid Facial Appearance Syndrome. Her top areas of expertise are Weaver Syndrome, Sotos Syndrome, Kabuki Syndrome, and Marshall-Smith Syndrome.

Pim Suwannarat is a Medical Genetics specialist and a Pediatrics provider in Suitland, Maryland. Dr. Suwannarat is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Acromegaloid Facial Appearance Syndrome. Her top areas of expertise are Triple X Syndrome, Classic Galactosemia, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), and Chromosome 10q Deletion. Dr. Suwannarat is currently accepting new patients.