Dr. R. Scott Stephens is an associate professor of medicine and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the Director of Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant Critical Care at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. His expertise is in critical care medicine, with clinical and research focus on severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), acute respiratory failure after hematopoietic stem cell transplant, refractory circulatory shock, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for respiratory and circulatory failure. Dr. Stephens has extensive experience in the management of septic shock, neutropenic sepsis, life-threatening oncologic complications, and pulmonary embolism. In addition, he has expertise in cardiac surgical critical care, including the critical care of heart transplant, lung transplant, and ventricular assist device patients. Dr. Stephens is a highly regarded clinician and is a member of the Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence at Johns Hopkins. He is a fellow of the American Thoracic Society (ATSF) and is an active member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization, and the American Physiologic Society. Dr. Stephens is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Cerebral Hypoxia, Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome, COVID-19, and Gastrostomy.

Ichchha Madan is a Neonatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Madan is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Her top areas of expertise are Newborn Low Blood Sugar, HELLP Syndrome, and Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

Jacqueline Gallup is a full-time assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics. She is co-medical director of the Maryland Regional Neonatal Transport Program. Dr. Gallup has conducted research in bronchopulmonary dysplasia and surfactant administration. Currently, her research interests include neonatal respiratory pathophysiology and management, neonatal hemodynamics and neonatal renal pathology. She is participating in projects including the Safety and Efficacy trial of Combined Erythropoietin and Melatonin for Preterm Neonates with Severe Intraventricular Hemorrhage (principal investigator, Shenandoah Robinson), as well as AWAKEN 2.0, a multicenter, multinational retrospective analysis investigating neonatal acute kidney injury. Dr. Gallup is also involved in quality improvement regarding nephrotoxin-induced acute kidney injury in neonates. Additionally, Dr. Gallup enjoys participating in education for residents and fellows. Dr. Gallup is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Her top areas of expertise are Infantile Pneumothorax and Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

Dr. J. Michael Collaco is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His clinical specialty is pediatric pulmonary medicine, including chronic lung disease of premature infants, lung disease in medically complex patients including ventilators and tracheostomies, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, aerodigestive disorders, and general pediatric pulmonary conditions. He sees patients inpatient and outpatient at Johns Hopkins (East Baltimore campus), inpatient and outpatient at Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital, and inpatient at Kennedy Krieger Institute. Dr. Collaco attended Yale University for undergraduate studies and received his M.D. and M.S. (Anatomy) from Case Western University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. He completed his pediatric residency, pediatric pulmonary fellowship, M.B.A., M.P.H., and Ph.D. (Clinical Epidemiology) at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Collaco joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2008. His primary research interest is in the epidemiology of pediatric respiratory diseases, with a focus on environmental risk factors for cystic fibrosis and bronchopulmonary dysplasia as well as a special interest in the effects of secondhand smoke and electronic cigarette emissions. He has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Collaco is a member of the Cystic Fibrosis Research Development Center and the Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Center of Excellence. He has been recognized by Johns Hopkins with the John C. Hume Scholarship, the Francis F. Schwentker Research Award, and the Robert Dyar Award. Dr. Collaco is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Collaco is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, Cystic Fibrosis, Pulmonary Hypertension, Pseudomonas Stutzeri Infections, and Gastrostomy.

Dr. Allen Everett is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include general pediatric cardiology. Dr. Everett earned his M.D. from East Tennessee State University. He completed his residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric cardiology at the University of Virginia. Dr. Everett joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2003. He has become the program leader at Johns Hopkins in pediatric biomarker discovery, with a particular focus on brain injury, pulmonary hypertension and effects of medical plastics exposure on congenital heart disease outcomes. He is the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on multiple NIH- funded R01 studies. Dr. Everett also serves as the director of the Pediatric Proteome Center. Dr. Everett is an author of over 140 peer review papers, three book chapters, editor/author of the Illustrated Field Guide to Congenital Heart Disease and Repair, now in its fourth edition, and senior associate editor for the journal, Cardiology in the Young. He is a co-developer of PedCathTM cardiac catheterization software with Scientific Software Solutions which has been translated into five languages, has five US biomarker patents filed and brain injury biomarkers licensed to ImmunArray, Ltd. Dr. Everett is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Hypertension, Pulmonary Hypertension, Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), Heart Bypass Surgery, and Heart Transplant.

"Dr. Ernest Graham is an associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. His areas of clinical expertise include high-risk pregnancy conditions and fetal heart rate monitoring. Dr. Graham serves as the director of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Graham received his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Alabama. He earned his M.D. from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Graham performed a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Graham joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1999. Dr. Graham is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a member of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and the Society for Gynecologic Investigation. He has served as a reviewer for several medical journals, including the American Journal of Infection Control, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Journal of Perinatology and the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He has published numerous peer-reviewed research articles on perinatal brain injury and perinatal disease. Recent News Articles and Media Coverage ""False Positives Make Fetal Heart Rate Monitors Unreliable""". Dr. Graham is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Intraventricular Hemorrhage of the Newborn, Premature Infant, Intrauterine Growth Restriction, Gestational Diabetes, and Salpingo-Oophorectomy.

Dr. Eric McCollum is a pediatric pulmonologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He has expertise in global child respiratory health with more than ten years of clinical and research experience in low-resource settings in southern Africa and south Asia. After having lived in Malawi for five years as a clinician with the Baylor Pediatric AIDS Corps and as a NIH Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow, Dr. McCollum is now primarily based in the countries of Lesotho and Bangladesh. He is the principal investigator of a NIH K01 International Research Scientist Development Award, through the Fogarty International Center, examining the role of pulse oximetry in Bangladeshi children with clinical pneumonia. Dr. McCollum is also a co-investigator for a study comprehensively examining the effectiveness of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in rural Bangladeshi children. In the southern African country of Malawi Dr. McCollum is the principal investigator of a randomized controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of bubble continuous positive airway pressure in children hospitalized with severe clinical pneumonia. He has successfully designed, led, or co-led several multi-site studies in developing countries throughout Africa and Asia including the novel application of pulse oximetry for children with clinical pneumonia by rural Malawian frontline health workers and digital auscultation as a respiratory diagnostic in six low-resource countries participating in the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health study. Dr. McCollum has been recognized globally for his contributions to child respiratory health. He has won multiple early career investigator awards and is currently a member of the World Health Organization Technical Support Network for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine impact studies and a member of the World Health Organization expert global working group for the World Health Organization chest radiograph guidelines for children. He holds a joint faculty appointment in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. Mccollum is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Cerebral Hypoxia, Malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, and Infantile Pneumothorax.

Dr. Raul Chavez-Valdez is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His area of clinical expertise is Neonatology. Dr. Chavez Valdez completed Medical School in Lima Peru, Pediatric residency at University of Illinois at Chicago, and post-doctoral Fellowship in Neonatology-Perinatology and Community Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University-School of Medicine where he was awarded the 2007 Eudowood Board Bauernschmidt Fellowship Award. Since 2005 his research has been focused in mechanisms of neurotrophism with particular interest in the neurological disorders evolving during the perinatal period. His work has been reported in many national and international meetings and many publications in prestigious journals. He received the Johns Hopkins SOM Clinician Scientist Award and funding from the NINDS/NIH in 2017. Dr. Valdez is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Hypothermia, Cerebral Hypoxia, Apnea of Prematurity, and Infantile Apnea.

Dr. Frances Northington is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise is neonatal and perinatal medicine. Dr. Northington is one of the founders and co-directors of the Neurosciences Intensive Care Nursery at Johns Hopkins, which brings together experts from neonatology, pediatric neuroradiology, pediatric neurology, maternal fetal medicine, developmental medicine and the Kennedy Krieger Institute to care for newborns who have developmental brain abnormalities or are at high risk of neurological injuries. She received her medical degree at the Medical College of Georgia. She went on to complete a residency at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital and a fellowship at the University of Virginia. Dr. Northington is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Her top areas of expertise are Intraventricular Hemorrhage of the Newborn, Premature Infant, Asphyxia Neonatorum, and Cerebral Hypoxia.

Dr. Kartikeya Makker is the medical director of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and a neonatologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, Maryland. He diagnoses and treats premature babies and newborns with high-risk or complex health conditions. Dr. Makker graduated from the Smt. NHL Municipal Medical College. He then completed a residency in pediatrics at the Maimonides Medical Center, and later a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals. Dr. Makker is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Premature Infant, Necrotizing Enterocolitis, Intraventricular Hemorrhage of the Newborn, and Patent Ductus Arteriosus.

Dr. Zambidis is Associate Professor of Oncology and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and a member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Dr. Zambidis’ clinical expertise is in the treatment of disorders of the immune system, histiocytic disorders, hematologic malignancies, blood and bone marrow transplantation (BMT), and regenerative medicine. His research interest focuses on advancing our understanding of pluripotent stem cells– the ‘master’ stem cells that can generate any new cell or tissue that the body needs to repair itself. Dr. Zambidis earned his M.D./Ph.D. in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. He completed his Pediatrics Residency in the Department of Pediatrics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and his clinical/research fellowships in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the National Cancer Institute at the NIH. Dr. Zambidis has been interested in the biology of stem cells since he came to Johns Hopkins, in 2001. As a Pediatric Hematology/Oncology fellow, he was one of the very first Hopkins investigators to work with human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), beginning shortly after they were made available to the biomedical research community, in 2002. Dr. Zambidis was awarded the first NIH K08 Clinician-Scientist Training Award specifically investigating the therapeutic potential of human pluripotent stem cells (2004). After joining the Hopkins faculty, in 2005, he developed an experimental model of the early formation process of human blood and blood vessels using human pluripotent stem cells. The Zambidis laboratory at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering focuses on understanding the developmental biology of human hemato-vascular and human pluripotent stem cells. More recently, his group completed studies on highly efficient methods for generating nonintegrated, human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) lines from myeloid progenitors. His group has developed novel hiPSC-based vascular therapies for retinopathies, and more recently derived a new class of human pluripotent stem cells in a naïve ground state with new functionalities with even greater potency and stronger regenerative capacities. As a BMT physician-scientist, his long-term goal is to use hESC, hiPSC, and related pluripotent stem cell technologies to not only treat severe degenerative diseases, but also to elucidate the biological nature of cancer and aging. Dr. Zambidis is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Gaucher Disease, Reticulohistiocytoma, Rosai-Dorfman Disease, and Lymphofollicular Hyperplasia.

Scott Merrill is an Obstetrics and Gynecologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Merrill is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Newborn Low Blood Sugar and Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

Shelby Kutty is a Pediatric Cardiologist in Baltimore,, Maryland. Dr. Kutty is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), Tetralogy of Fallot, Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), Heart Transplant, and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI).

Dr. Emily Sangillo is a neonatologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, MD. She specializes in providing treatment for premature babies and infants with congenital diseases and disorders. Dr. Sangillo graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine before completing a residency in pediatrics at UMass Memorial Medical Center. Later, she completed a fellowship in neonatology at University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Sangillo is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Her top areas of expertise are Infantile Pneumothorax, Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome, and Pulmonary Hypertension.

Dr. Carlos Picone served as Vice-Chair, Department of Internal Medicine at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C. and Chairman of the Pulmonary Medicine Division. Dr. Picone received his medical degree from the National University of Cordoba, Argentina in 1989, graduating summa cum laude. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia, and Fellowships in Critical Care Medicine at the National Institutes of Health and in Pulmonary Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia. Dr. Picone has authored articles on pulmonary arterial hypertension and treatment, bioethics, end-of-life decision-making and parenchymal lung diseases. He has been a Medical Volunteer in several Latin American countries and currently volunteers with Mobile Medical Clinics of Greater Washington, D.C., where he serves at its Executive Board with the mission of providing free medical care to the underserved community of Washington. Dr. Picone also serves as a Board Member of Operation Canasta, supporting schools and orphanages in Argentina's hinterland. Dr. Picone is a partner in private practice with Chevy Chase Pulmonary Associates. His major professional interests include: Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - Pathophysiology and Treatment. Bioethics and End-of-Life Decision Making. Parenchymal Lung Diseases. Dr. Picone has overseas experience in Europe, the Middle East, Central and South America. He also has an interest in literature, chess, squash and astronomy. Selected Publications Medical Complications of Cocaine: Possible relationship to low plasma cholinesterase enzyme. Om A; Ellahham S; Picone C; Ornato JP. Am Heart J 1993 Apr;125(4):1114-8. One of the Many Faces of Systemic Mastocytosis: Hemodynamic collapse. Abstract presentation - Clinical Vignettes. American College of Physicians Meeting-1994. Non-Resolving Pneumonia. Picone, C. Chest 1998; 114:923-926. Recurrent acute respiratory distress syndrome from use of salicylate containing over-the-counter preparations. Picone, C. Chest 1998; 114:408-S. Acute Pneumonitis after In-Vitro Fertilization with IM Progesterone. Picone C. JResp Dis 2008; 29:170-71. Opening Debate on End-of-Life Medical Care. Progress Notes. Suburban Hospital 2010 Palliative Care and Opening Debate on End-of-Life Medical Care. Sibley MD March 2010 Subacute Dyspnea, Hypoxemia and Refractory Cardiopulmonary Collapse – Postgraduate Education Corner. CHEST 2012;141(4):1106-9. Dr. Picone is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Vitamin D Deficiency, Hyperventilation, Lung Nodules, and Lung Metastases.

Allan Doctor is a Pediatrics provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Doctor is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Cerebral Hypoxia, Anemia, High Blood Pressure in Infants, and Infantile Neutropenia.

Samuel Smith is a Reproductive Medicine specialist and an Obstetrics and Gynecologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Smith is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Gestational Diabetes, and Newborn Transient Tachypnea.

Lawrence Nogee is a Pediatrics provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Nogee is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis, Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome, High Blood Pressure in Infants, and Pulmonary Hypertension.

Suma Hoffman is a Neonatologist and a Pediatrics provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Hoffman is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Her top areas of expertise are Premature Infant, Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Cerebral Hypoxia, and Atresia of Small Intestine.

Alexander Holston is a Neonatologist in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Holston is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome. His top areas of expertise are Premature Infant and Infant Respiratory Distress Syndrome.