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Eric Ottesen is a Public Health and Preventive Medicine provider in Washington, Washington, D.c.. Dr. Ottesen is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. His top area of expertise is Lymphatic Filariasis.

Dr. Julie Hoover-Fong is a Professor of Genetic Medicine and Pediatrics and Director of the Greenberg Center for Skeletal Dysplasias at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Hoover-Fong holds a bachelor’s degree in Human Nutrition from The Ohio State University, where she also completed her medical degree. She received her Ph.D. in the Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Hoover-Fong completed a pediatric internship and residency at Washington University in St. Louis and a fellowship in medical genetics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She joined the Johns Hopkins University faculty in 2002 and progressed to Professor of Genetic Medicine and Pediatrics in 2019. She practices and oversees the clinical operations, research and educational ventures for the patients, families and healthcare providers served by the Greenberg Center. Her clinical team develops and improves diagnostic and treatment guidelines for comprehensive care of patients with all types of bone conditions including dwarfism, orofacial clefting, craniosynostosis and more. Dr. Hoover-Fong also mentors and teaches medical students, residents and genetic medicine trainees. As an active clinical researcher, Dr. Hoover-Fong is the Principal Investigator of multiple global clinical trials for achondroplasia, the first multi-center, investigator-initiated natural history study for achondroplasia, and multiple clinical studies for patients with orofacial clefting, hypophosphatasia and other conditions. She is also a co-investigator on the ELSI and Phenotype Review Committees for the Mendel Project, a whole exome sequencing venture to identify the genetic cause of Mendelian conditions. From an institutional service perspective, Dr. Hoover-Fong serves on the Johns Hopkins Associate Professor Promotions Committee and the Advisory Committee for the Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation. She serves on the Medical Advisory Board of the Little People of America, is a member of the Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence at Johns Hopkins University and is a charter member of the International Skeletal Dysplasia Management Consortium, publishing best practice guidelines for patients with skeletal dysplasias. Dr. Hoover is highly rated in 27 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Achondroplasia, Rhizomelic Syndrome, Spondyloepimetaphyseal Dysplasia Strudwick Type, Adenoidectomy, and Myringotomy.

Dr. Lauren Melissa Jansson is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include drug abuse research, drug-exposed infants and children, and pediatrics. Dr. Jansson earned her M.D. from the State University of New York at Downstate Medical Center. She completed her residency at the Children’s Hospital at Albany Medical Center and performed a fellowship in developmental pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her research interests include fetal neurobehavioral development in drug-exposed pregnancies, lactation in opioid-dependent women on medication assisted treatment, and neonatal abstinence syndrome resulting from in utero opiate and other substance exposures. Dr. Jansson is a member of several professional organizations, including the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, the Academic Pediatric Association, and the Society for Pediatric Research. Dr. Jansson is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her top area of expertise is Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.