Richard Babkes is a Neurologist in Ellicott City, Maryland. Dr. Babkes is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. His top areas of expertise are Essential Tremor, Peripheral Neuropathy, Neuralgia, and Dravet Syndrome.

Dr. Kofi Derek Owusu Boahene is a professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery and dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Division of Facial Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery and the director for the facial plastics fellowship training program. His practice encompasses the entire spectrum of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery including cosmetic and reconstructive aspects. Dr. Boahene is a leading expert in facial paralysis surgery and facial nerve injuries and has pioneered innovative treatment protocols and surgical techniques in facial reanimation. He is the director of the Johns Hopkins Facial Nerve center dedicated to restoring facial balance, symmetry and animation to those who have suffered from facial paralysis and facial nerve disorders. As an expert microsurgeon, Dr. Boahene routinely performs some of the most complex facial reconstruction procedures on the face including rebuilding of an entire nose, lip, jaw and facial defects resulting from cancer treatment, traumatic injuries or as a result of birth defects. He uses cutting edge 3-D technology, image-guided technology and tissue transplanted from other parts of the body to restore or replace missing tissues. He is a key member of the Johns Hopkins facial transplant program. His cosmetic experience is broad and draws from patients across the globe. He routinely performs rhinoplasties, eyelid surgery, face lifts and other facial enhancing procedures. As a skull base surgeon, Dr. Boahene has pioneered minimally invasive techniques for removal of skull base and brain tumors, repairing CSF leaks and has authored a major textbook on this subject. Dr. Boahene received his undergraduate degree from the University of Central Arkansas. He graduated summa cum laude from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, completed a five-year surgical residency training program in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and received fellowship training in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Minnesota. As the recipient of the prestigious Mayo Brothers Distinguished Fellowship Award, Dr. Boahene was awarded additional craniofacial surgery training in Adelaide, Australia. He also received the Jack R. Anderson Prize for Scholastic Excellence for attaining the highest score nationally on the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery certification exam. Dr. Boahene serves as on the Board of Governors or the American Academy Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. In 1993, Dr. Kofi Boahene received the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical. Dr. Boahene is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. His top areas of expertise are Facial Paralysis, Bell's Palsy, Recurrent Peripheral Facial Palsy, Septoplasty, and Gastrostomy.

Dean S. Glaros, M.D., is an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is a comprehensive ophthalmologist with special interests in cataract surgery, glaucoma, diabetes, dry eye and other medical eye conditions. He also performs routine eye exams for patients age 6 and older. Dr. Glaros received his medical degree from the University of Maryland and performed his medical internship at the University of North Carolina Affiliate Program. He completed his residency in ophthalmology at the University of Maryland. Before joining the Wilmer faculty, he was in private practice in the Baltimore area. Dr. Glaros is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Glaros is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. His top areas of expertise are Cataract, X-Linked Retinal Dysplasia, X-Linked Juvenile Retinoschisis, and Glaucoma.

Sheetal Wagle is a Neurologist in Columbia, Maryland. Dr. Wagle is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. Her top areas of expertise are Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA), Migraine, Transient Global Amnesia, and Stroke.

Dr. Shawna M. Reshard earned her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed her combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She loves working together with patients and their families to help them maintain or improve their health. Dr. Reshard enjoys spending time with her husband and three children. Dr. Reshard is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. Her top areas of expertise are Recurrent Peripheral Facial Palsy, Facial Paralysis, and Bell's Palsy.

Kalpesh Vakharia is a General Surgeon and an Otolaryngologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Vakharia is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. His top areas of expertise are Facial Paralysis, Bell's Palsy, Recurrent Peripheral Facial Palsy, Laryngectomy, and Tissue Biopsy. Dr. Vakharia is currently accepting new patients.

Brian Lee is an Ophthalmologist in Ellicott City, Maryland. Dr. Lee is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. His top areas of expertise are Blocked Tear Duct, Entropion, Blepharitis, and Chalazion. Dr. Lee is currently accepting new patients.

Jyotin Parikh is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Catonsville, Maryland. Dr. Parikh is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. His top areas of expertise are Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), Interstitial Nephritis, and Glucocorticoid-Remediable Aldosteronism.

Winko Zan is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Catonsville, Maryland. Dr. Zan is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. His top areas of expertise are Bronchitis, Flu, COVID-19, and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C).

Cheryl Leonardi is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Ellicott City, Maryland. Dr. Leonardi is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. Her top areas of expertise are Hypertensive Heart Disease, Enlarged Liver, Anemia, and Pediatric Myocarditis. Dr. Leonardi is currently accepting new patients.

Warren Ross is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Ellicott City, Maryland. Dr. Ross is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. His top areas of expertise are Cerebellar Degeneration, Inborn Amino Acid Metabolism Disorder, Anemia, and High Cholesterol. Dr. Ross is currently accepting new patients.

Rupal Desai is a primary care provider, practicing in Neurologist in Ellicott City, Maryland. Dr. Desai is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. Her top areas of expertise are Inborn Amino Acid Metabolism Disorder, Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome, Anemia, and High Cholesterol.

Zhaoming Chen is a Neurologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Chen is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. His top areas of expertise are Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizure, Seizures, Periodic Limb Movement Disorder, and Peripheral Neuropathy.

Srilatha Kanumuru is a primary care provider, a Nephrologist and a Hospital Medicine provider in Columbia, Maryland. Dr. Kanumuru is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. Her top areas of expertise are Bile Duct Obstruction, Lung Cancer, Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA), Hip Replacement, and Endoscopy.

Neil Porter is a Neurologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Porter is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. His top areas of expertise are Myasthenia Gravis, Mononeuritis Multiplex, Multiple Mononeuropathy, Riboflavin Transporter Deficiency Neuronopathy, and Gastrostomy.

Natalie Justicz is an Otolaryngologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Justicz is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. Her top areas of expertise are Facial Paralysis, Recurrent Peripheral Facial Palsy, Bell's Palsy, Septoplasty, and Laryngectomy. Dr. Justicz is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Barney J. Stern is a neurologist specializing in vascular neurology and neurological complications of sarcoidosis. His work in vascular neurology has covered all aspects of stroke management, including prevention and acute, subacute and chronic care. Dr. Stern also provides complex care management for patients suffering from neurosarcoidosis. His research focuses on understanding the biology and clinical outcomes of neurovascular disease and neurological complications associated with sarcoidosis. Dr. Stern has served as the medical safety monitor on a number of National Institutes of Health (NIH) stroke studies. In his new role at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Stern will be seeing outpatients as a member of the Advanced Clinical Neurology division with Dr. John Probasco. Dr. Stern is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. His top areas of expertise are Neurosarcoidosis, Stroke, Herpes Zoster Oticus, Arachnoiditis, and Thrombectomy.

Alexander Hillel specializes in the medical and surgical management of patients who have scar tissue blocking their larynx and/or trachea, a condition called laryngotracheal stenosis. This condition occurs in patients who have had prolonged intubation, an autoimmune disease or a rare disease called idiopathic subglottic stenosis. He also treats patients with voice and throat problems, including spasmodic dysphonia and swallowing difficulty. After he earned his medical degree from the Tulane University School of Medicine, Dr. Hillel completed his residency in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a fellowship in laryngology and airway surgery at the Emory Voice Center. Dr. Hillel directs a laboratory that seeks to better understand why scar forms in the larynx and trachea. In an effort to improve treatment, he and his team investigate the relationship between the immune system, bacteria and other antigens and scar formation in the airway. He has led a number of clinical trials to improve treatment for subglottic stenosis, including the first interventional study for idiopathic subglottic stenosis. Researchers in Dr. Hillel’s lab are also testing drugs that may halt the progression of, or reverse, scar formation, and they have engineered a drug-eluting stent that is being tested to translate to patients with subglottic stenosis. He holds sponsored grants to conduct his research from the National Institutes of Health, surgical foundations and the medical device industry. In addition to clinical and research work, Dr. Hillel has a leadership role within the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, serving as the vice director of education. Dr. Hillel is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. His top areas of expertise are Spasmodic Dysphonia, Subglottic Stenosis, Perichondritis, Laryngectomy, and Endoscopy.

Neurotologist John Carey specializes in the health and diseases of the inner ear that affect both balance and hearing mechanisms. He is a national expert in superior canal dehiscence syndrome, Menière’s disease, vestibular migraine, acoustic neuromas and other causes of vertigo, and serves as chief of the Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Carey earned a medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine and completed two years of training in general surgery at Virginia Mason Medical Center. This was followed by residency training in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery at University of Washington Medical Center and fellowship training in neurotology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research interests include superior canal dehiscence syndrome, Menière’s disease, vestibular implants, and the mechanisms of vestibular migraine. He has a particular interest in superior canal dehiscence syndrome, and, with Lloyd Minor, department director from 2003 to 2009, he helped develop the operation used to repair the superior canal. Dr. Carey has been funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, part of the National Institutes of Health. He has authored or co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications, 10 book chapters, and 11 reviews. Dr. Carey is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. His top areas of expertise are Vertigo, Meniere Disease, Acoustic Neuroma, Mastoidectomy, and Endoscopy.

Charles C. Della Santina specializes in surgery for treatment of hearing, balance and other ear disorders including otosclerosis, cholesteatoma, conductive and sensorineural hearing loss, acoustic neuroma/vestibular schwannoma, glomus and other tumors of the temporal bone, and other problems that cause hearing loss or abnormal vestibular (inner ear balance) sensation. He is the director of the Johns Hopkins Cochlear Implant Center. He performs acoustic neuroma surgery, cochlear implantation, stapes surgery, middle ear bone reconstruction, bone-conduction hearing device implantation, other middle ear and mastoid surgeries, removal of glomus and other temporal bone tumors, surgical treatment of temporal bone cerebrospinal fluid leaks and encephaloceles, and surgery for vestibular disorders including superior canal dehiscence syndrome, Meniere’s disease, bilateral loss of vestibular sensation, gentamicin ototoxicity and other disorders. Dr. Della Santina earned a medical degree from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and a doctorate in biomedical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering. He completed residency training in otolaryngology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2002, and has served on the Johns Hopkins faculty since then. A biomedical engineer, electrical engineer and neurophysiologist, Dr. Della Santina founded and directs the Johns Hopkins Vestibular NeuroEngineering Lab. His research group focuses on developing a vestibular implant to treat chronic unsteadiness and oscillopsia (shaky vision during head movement) caused by gentamicin ototoxicity and other causes of bilateral vestibular hypofunction. His group’s world-leading research on vestibular implantation has been published in leading journals including the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Della Santina's more than 140 publications also include studies of inner ear physiology and anatomy, new clinical tests of vestibular function, and the effects of cochlear implantation, superior canal dehiscence syndrome and gentamicin on the inner ear. A biomedical engineer, electrical engineer and neurophysiologist, Dr. Della Santina founded and directs the Johns Hopkins Vestibular NeuroEngineering Lab. His research group focuses on developing a vestibular implant to treat chronic unsteadiness and oscillopsia (shaky vision during head movement) caused by gentamicin ototoxicity and other causes of bilateral vestibular hypofunction. Dr. Della Santina's more than 110 publications also include studies of inner ear physiology and anatomy; new clinical tests of vestibular function; and the effects of cochlear implantation, superior canal dehiscence syndrome, and gentamicin on the inner ear. Dr. Santina is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bell's Palsy. His top areas of expertise are Jones Syndrome, Infant Hearing Loss, DFNB1, and Vertigo.