Dr. Dipti Patel

Dr. Webster is an Assistant Professor of Oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is active in the Division of Hematology Malignancies, Leukemia Program at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Webster has expertise in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Dr. Webster received his medical degree from The Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed residency training in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins followed by a fellowship in medical oncology. He completed the Science of Clinical Investigation curriculum at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health. Dr. Webster is a member of the American Society of Hematology, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Webster’s research activities consist of designing and conducting clinical trials that test investigational new therapies and approaches in the treatment of acute leukemias (ALL and AML). He has specific expertise in the use of maintenance therapies following bone marrow transplantation. He has developed novel clinical trials utilizing immunotherapy for the treatment of ALL and the prevention of post-transplant relapse in both ALL and AML. He serves as the Principal Investigator for these trials of post-transplant maintenance strategies, as well as the site PI for multi-center trials that are currently being conducted through the Eastern Co-operative Oncology Group (ECOG)-ACRIN and Experimental Therapeutics Clinical Trials Network (ETCTN). As the leader of the adult ALL program at Johns Hopkins, he has focused on increasing clinical trial enrollments and improving outcomes in adult ALL. Dr. Webster is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). His top areas of expertise are Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia without Maturation, Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), and Bone Marrow Aspiration.

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 Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). 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.

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 Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL). Her top areas of expertise are Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), Leukemia, Bone Marrow Aspiration, and Bone Marrow Transplant.