Overview
Dr. Howard Lederman is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the director of the Immunodeficiency Clinic, the Pediatric Immunology Laboratory, and the Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T) Clinical Center. Dr. Lederman specializes in the evaluation, diagnostic testing and long-term management of patients of all ages who have known or suspected primary immunodeficiency diseases. He is an expert on the use of gamma globulin therapy for a wide variety of disorders. After receiving his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Dr. Lederman came to Johns Hopkins Children’s Center for a residency in pediatrics, followed by a fellowship in immunology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Dr. Lederman’s current research laboratory and clinical research focuses on better understanding and treating patients with ataxia-telangiectasia, a devastating neurological disorder for which there is no cure. He is a member of numerous professional societies, including American Association of Immunologists, the American Society for Microbiology and the Clinical Immunology Society.
Dr. Lederman is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. His top areas of expertise are Common Variable Immune Deficiency, X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia, Immunodeficiency with Hyper IgM Type 1, and Hyper IgE Syndrome.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 41 peer reviewed articles and participating in 2 clinical trials. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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Locations
200 North Wolfe Street, Rubenstein BLDG Lower Level, Rubenstein BLDG Lower Level, Baltimore, MD 21287
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Lederman has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
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Dr. Janis Taube is a professor of dermatology and pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Her area of clinical expertise is dermatopathology. Dr. Taube serves as the Director of the Division of Dermatopathology and as the Assistant Director of the Dermatoimmunology Laboratory at the School of Medicine. Dr. Taube received her undergraduate degree in engineering from Duke University. She earned her M.D. from Tulane University and her M.Sc. in molecular medicine from University College London. She completed her residency in pathology at Johns Hopkins where she also served as the chief resident, before undertaking a dermatopathology fellowship at Stanford University. In 2009, Dr. Taube returned to Johns Hopkins for her certification in the Melanoma Clinic. She is one of the lead scientific researchers in the Department of Dermatology at Johns Hopkins. She has written over 180 peer-reviewed publications, and her research has been cited over 70,000 times. In addition to running her own research laboratory, she serves as the co-Director of the Mark Foundation Center for Advanced Genomics and Imaging and also as the co-Director of the Tumor Microenvironment Core Laboratory for the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. Dr. Taube is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Melanoma, Merkel Cell Carcinoma, Basal Cell Skin Cancer, Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC), and Pancreaticoduodenectomy.
Areas of Expertise
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- Distinguished
- Common Variable Immune DeficiencyDr. Lederman isDistinguished. Learn about Common Variable Immune Deficiency.
- Advanced
- Immunodeficiency with Hyper IgM Type 1
- X-Linked AgammaglobulinemiaDr. Lederman isAdvanced. Learn about X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia.
- Experienced
- Acromicric DysplasiaDr. Lederman isExperienced. Learn about Acromicric Dysplasia.
- AnemiaDr. Lederman isExperienced. Learn about Anemia.
- Autosomal Dominant Hyper IgE SyndromeDr. Lederman isExperienced. Learn about Autosomal Dominant Hyper IgE Syndrome.
- Buschke-Ollendorff SyndromeDr. Lederman isExperienced. Learn about Buschke-Ollendorff Syndrome.
- Cartilage-Hair HypoplasiaDr. Lederman isExperienced. Learn about Cartilage-Hair Hypoplasia.
- Chondrodysplasia, Grebe TypeDr. Lederman isExperienced. Learn about Chondrodysplasia, Grebe Type.