Dr. Nanette H. Grana

Dr. Mayer is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist in the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute. She specializes in the diagnosis and management of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. She is also the medical director of the Vascular Anomalies and Birthmarks Program at the hospital. She cares for patients with benign and aggressive vascular tumors, lymphatic and venous malformations, and overgrowth syndromes. She was named the William A. Baumgartner Physician of the Year for Johns Hopkins All Children's in the 2024 Johns Hopkins Medicine Clinical Awards. She previously received the hospital’s Best Consulting Physician Award in 2017. Dr. Mayer is the author of more than 30 publications and two textbook chapters. She has presented over 22 research abstracts at national and international medical conferences. She is program director of a three-year fellowship training program in pediatric hematology-oncology on the St. Petersburg, Florida, campus. Dr. Mayer joined Johns Hopkins All Children’s in 1996. Dr. Mayer received her medical degree with honors from Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire. She completed her pediatric residency, hematology-oncology fellowship, and clinical research fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine in Connecticut. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and an active member and clinical researcher with Children’s Oncology Group, American Society of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, and the International Society for the Study of Vascular Anomalies. Dr. Mayer is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Acute Monoblastic Leukemia (AmoL). Her top areas of expertise are Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), Evans Syndrome, Acute Monoblastic Leukemia (AmoL), and Teratoma of the Mediastinum.