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Dr. Stacy Suskauer is a professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She serves as the director of the Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Suskauer attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina for her undergraduate and medical education. She completed a combined residency program in pediatrics and physical medicine and rehabilitation at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati. She came to Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins for a pediatric rehabilitation research fellowship and subsequently joined the faculty of these institutions in 2007. Dr. Suskauer is also the Vice President for Rehabilitation at Kennedy Krieger Institute where she also serves as co-director of the Center for Brain Injury Recovery and the Brain Injury Clinical Research Center. Her research interests include understanding and optimizing outcomes after childhood brain injury and evaluating functional outcomes in individuals with Sturge-Weber Syndrome. As Division Director for Pediatric Rehabilitation, she brings together providers and programs across the four sites of the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Rehabilitation Network: Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital, and Kennedy Krieger Institute. Videos Dr. Stacy SuskauerPediatric Rehabilitation Recent News Articles and Media Coverage CDC Updates Child Concussion GuidelinesCBS Baltimore (September 2018) On a Search for Markers to Assess the Subtle Signs of Brain InjuryRestore (February 2017) Stimulating Brain Can Speed up Concussion RecoveryWBALTV (February 2017) 4 Myths About Kids and ConcussionsThe Huffington Post (March 2016). Dr. Suskauer is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury. Her top areas of expertise are Traumatic Brain Injury, Concussion, Hemiplegia, and Subdural Hematoma.

Dr. Susanna Scafidi is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Scafidi is a pediatric anesthesiologist. She earned her medical degree at Samarkand State Medical Institute in Uzbekistan. She completed a pediatrics residency at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and two pediatric critical care fellowships at New York’s Children's Hospital at Montefiore. Dr. Scafidi is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury. Her top areas of expertise are Traumatic Brain Injury and Primary Carnitine Deficiency.

Dr. Sujatha Kannan is professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is also the Richard J. Traystman Endowed Chair and the Vice Chair for Research for ACCM. She specializes in pediatric critical care with expertise in pediatric neurocritical care. In addition to her role at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Kannan is also a research scientist at the Hugo Moser Researcher Institute at Kennedy Krieger Institute. Dr. Kannan completed her medical training at the Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research in Pondicherry, India. She conducted residencies in pediatrics at the University Illinois at Chicago and the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Additionally, she completed a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Dr. Kannan joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2011. Her research focuses on understanding the role of inflammation and immune dysregulation in the brain with a goal to develop therapies for childhood brain injury and neurodevelopmental disorders such as cerebral palsy, Rett syndrome, autism, TBI and CNS infections. In collaboration with the Kannan Rangaramanujam lab at the Center for Nanomedicine, Wilmer Eye Institute, the S. Kannan lab has created and developed novel nanotherapies to specifically target immune cells in the brain to promote repair and regeneration. Dr. Kannan is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Society for Pediatric Research. She is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. She has published extensively and has won several awards for her research. Dr. Kannan is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury. Her top areas of expertise are Traumatic Brain Injury, Zellweger Syndrome, Cerebral Hypoxia, Cerebral Artery Bypass Surgery, and Extracranial-Intracranial Bypass Surgery.