Overview
Dr. Laura Sterni is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include pediatric pulmonary medicine and sleep disorders. She is director of the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Sleep Center. Dr. Sterni has edited a book on chronic home ventilation in children - Caring for Ventilator Dependent Child: A Clinical Guide. (Sterni. LM and Carroll JL (Eds). Humana Press/Springer Science and Business Media, New York, 2016.) Dr. Sterni received her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She also completed her residency in pediatrics and her fellowship in pediatric pulmonary medicine at Johns Hopkins. De. Sterni was recognized by Baltimore magazine as a Top Doctor in pediatric pulmonology in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017. She was also recognized in 2016 and 2017 as a Top Doc for the treatment of pediatric sleep disorders.
Dr. Sterni is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Obesity in Children. Her top areas of expertise are Micrognathia, Koolen De Vries Syndrome, Wildervanck Syndrome, CHARGE Syndrome, and Adenoidectomy.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 16 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 2 articles in the study of Obesity in Children.
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Locations
Baltimore, MD 21209
200 North Wolfe Street, Rubenstein BLDG Lower Level, Baltimore, MD 21287
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Dr. Perrin is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Primary Care in the Department of Pediatrics and the Schools of Medicine and Nursing. She has a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship Program-trained clinician investigator whose area of research expertise is patient-oriented preventive care, health services research, health disparities, and the prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity. She has also developed, disseminated, and studied many tools to help pediatricians in practice prevent and treat obesity including the color-coded BMI charts that many use in outpatient practice. She has been the lead on numerous grants (including a multi-site randomized controlled trial NIH R01 and its renewal) on obesity and children’s health. She was previously faculty at UNC (where she won the Hettleman award, the highest award for university scholarship) and Duke. She has held previous roles as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Division Chief of Primary Care Pediatrics, founding Director of the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research, and a fellowship director of the National Clinicians Scholars Program at Duke University. She previously served as the national chair for the Academic Pediatrics Association Research Committee. Dr. Perrin is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Obesity in Children. Her top areas of expertise are Obesity in Children, Premature Infant, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Hypertension.
Ian Paul is a Pediatrics provider in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Dr. Paul is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Obesity in Children. His top areas of expertise are Obesity in Children, High Blood Pressure in Infants, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.
Suchitra Hourigan is a Pediatrics provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Hourigan is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Obesity in Children. Her top areas of expertise are Obesity in Children, Viral Gastroenteritis, Premature Infant, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Colonoscopy. Dr. Hourigan is currently accepting new patients.
Areas of Expertise
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- Advanced
- AdenoidectomyDr. Sterni isAdvanced. Learn about Adenoidectomy.
- MicrognathiaDr. Sterni isAdvanced. Learn about Micrognathia.
- Experienced
- Brachydactyly Mononen TypeDr. Sterni isExperienced. Learn about Brachydactyly Mononen Type.
- Bronchopulmonary DysplasiaDr. Sterni isExperienced. Learn about Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia.
- CHARGE SyndromeDr. Sterni isExperienced. Learn about CHARGE Syndrome.
- ChondrodystrophyDr. Sterni isExperienced. Learn about Chondrodystrophy.
- Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy
- High Blood Pressure in InfantsDr. Sterni isExperienced. Learn about High Blood Pressure in Infants.