Overview
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 an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Her top areas of expertise are Weaver Syndrome, Sotos Syndrome, Kabuki Syndrome, and Marshall-Smith Syndrome.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 35 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 3 articles in the study of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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Locations
200 North Wolfe Street, Rubenstein BLDG Lower Level, Rubenstein BLDG Lower Level, Baltimore, MD 21287
Clinical Research
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Kennedy Krieger Institute
Dr. Paul H. Lipkin is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Lipkin’s clinical interests include developmental concerns such as autism and attention, learning, and language disorders. He treats infants and children at the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Center for Development and Learning and is on the faculty of the Institute’s Maternal and Child Health Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Other Related Disabilities (LEND) Program. As director of medical informatics at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Dr. Lipkin oversees the Interactive Autism Network (IAN) and related clinical and research informatics services, connecting those affected by autism and other developmental disorders with researchers throughout the world. Dr. Lipkin received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University and attended medical school at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - New Jersey Medical School. He received his general pediatric training, focusing on primary care, at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, followed by subspecialty training in developmental pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University and the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Dr. Lipkin joined the faculty of the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University in 1995. He has provided national leadership on autism and other developmental disorders through his work with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which recognized him with the 2011 Arnold J. Capute Award to honor his contributions to the field of developmental disabilities. He was also awarded a prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship, which he completed in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Secretary in 2011. Dr. Lipkin is a former chair of the Council on Children with Disabilities and currently leads key AAP initiatives on early developmental surveillance and screening. Dr. Lipkin is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder. His top areas of expertise are Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Areas of Expertise
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- Elite
- Weaver SyndromeDr. Fahrner isElite. Learn about Weaver Syndrome.
- Distinguished
- Kabuki SyndromeDr. Fahrner isDistinguished. Learn about Kabuki Syndrome.
- Sotos SyndromeDr. Fahrner isDistinguished. Learn about Sotos Syndrome.
- Advanced
- Cortical DysplasiaDr. Fahrner isAdvanced. Learn about Cortical Dysplasia.
- Dubowitz SyndromeDr. Fahrner isAdvanced. Learn about Dubowitz Syndrome.
- Marshall-Smith SyndromeDr. Fahrner isAdvanced. Learn about Marshall-Smith Syndrome.
- Experienced
- Achalasia Microcephaly SyndromeDr. Fahrner isExperienced. Learn about Achalasia Microcephaly Syndrome.
- Acromegaloid Facial Appearance SyndromeDr. Fahrner isExperienced. Learn about Acromegaloid Facial Appearance Syndrome.
- Acromicric DysplasiaDr. Fahrner isExperienced. Learn about Acromicric Dysplasia.
- Alpha ThalassemiaDr. Fahrner isExperienced. Learn about Alpha Thalassemia.
- AnemiaDr. Fahrner isExperienced. Learn about Anemia.
- Autism Spectrum DisorderDr. Fahrner isExperienced. Learn about Autism Spectrum Disorder.