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Nancy Braverman is a Medical Genetics specialist and a Pediatrics provider practicing medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Braverman is highly rated in 15 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Zellweger Syndrome, Achondrogenesis, Acromesomelic Dysplasia, and Acromesomelic Dysplasia Campailla Martinelli Type.

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-Fong is highly rated in 26 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Achondroplasia, Rhizomelic Syndrome, Spondyloepimetaphyseal Dysplasia Strudwick Type, Adenoidectomy, and Myringotomy. Dr. Hoover-Fong is board certified in American Board Of Medical Genetics And Genomics. Dr. Hoover-Fong is currently accepting new patients.

Wedad Fallatah is a Medical Genetics provider practicing medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Fallatah is highly rated in 10 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Chondrodysplasia Punctata Syndrome, X-Linked Chondrodysplasia Punctata 2, Achondrogenesis, and Acromesomelic Dysplasia.

Elizabeth Streeten is an Endocrinologist and a Medical Genetics provider practicing medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Streeten is highly rated in 15 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Osteoporosis-Pseudoglioma Syndrome, Osteoporosis, Gaucher Disease Type 1, and Gaucher Disease Type 2. Dr. Streeten is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Jill A. Fahrner is an assistant professor in the Departments of Genetic Medicine and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise is medical genetics. Dr. Fahrner earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and her M.D. from the University of North Carolina. She completed pediatrics residency training at Duke University Medical Center. She joined the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine as a genetic medicine resident in 2009 and completed her training in 2012. She stayed on as chief resident from 2012-2013 and then joined the faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics within the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine in 2013. Her current primary appointment is Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetic Medicine, where she is Director of the multidisciplinary Epigenetics and Chromatin Clinic. She is a physician-scientist with a long-standing interest in epigenetic mechanisms of disease. Her clinical focus is on caring for individuals with epigenetic and chromatin disorders, specifically Mendelian disorders of the epigenetic machinery, or chromatin modifying disorders. She has seen hundreds of individuals with congenital disorders involving disrupted epigenetics, most of which exhibit neurodevelopmental disabilities and abnormal growth. Her laboratory research is focused on understanding disease mechanisms and developing therapies for select Mendelian disorders of the epigenetic machinery. She is a member of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), having won an ASHG Reviewer’s Choice Abstract Award for her work on growth retardation in Kabuki syndrome 1. She has received a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Clinician Scientist Award, a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Musculoskeletal Pilot and Feasibility Award, a William and Ella Owens Medical Research Foundation Award, the Margaret Ellen Nielsen Fellowship Award, and the Alice and YT Chen Travel Award while at Johns Hopkins. She is the recipient of a prestigious Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award and also has ongoing research funding from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Fahrner is highly rated in 10 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Weaver Syndrome, Kabuki Syndrome, Sotos Syndrome, Marshall-Smith Syndrome, and Orchiectomy. Dr. Fahrner is board certified in American Board Of Medical Genetics And Genomics. Dr. Fahrner is currently accepting new patients.

Ambroise Wonkam is a Pediatrics specialist and a Medical Genetics provider practicing medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Wonkam is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Sickle Cell Disease, Anemia, Fragile X Syndrome, and Micrognathia. Dr. Wonkam is currently accepting new patients.