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Dr. J. Michael Collaco is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His clinical specialty is pediatric pulmonary medicine, including chronic lung disease of premature infants, lung disease in medically complex patients including ventilators and tracheostomies, hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, aerodigestive disorders, and general pediatric pulmonary conditions. He sees patients inpatient and outpatient at Johns Hopkins (East Baltimore campus), inpatient and outpatient at Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital, and inpatient at Kennedy Krieger Institute. Dr. Collaco attended Yale University for undergraduate studies and received his M.D. and M.S. (Anatomy) from Case Western University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. He completed his pediatric residency, pediatric pulmonary fellowship, M.B.A., M.P.H., and Ph.D. (Clinical Epidemiology) at the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Collaco joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2008. His primary research interest is in the epidemiology of pediatric respiratory diseases, with a focus on environmental risk factors for cystic fibrosis and bronchopulmonary dysplasia as well as a special interest in the effects of secondhand smoke and electronic cigarette emissions. He has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Collaco is a member of the Cystic Fibrosis Research Development Center and the Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Center of Excellence. He has been recognized by Johns Hopkins with the John C. Hume Scholarship, the Francis F. Schwentker Research Award, and the Robert Dyar Award. Dr. Collaco is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Collaco is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, Cystic Fibrosis, Pulmonary Hypertension, Pseudomonas Stutzeri Infections, and Gastrostomy. Dr. Collaco is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics.

Albert Faro is a Pediatric Pulmonologist practicing medicine in Nottingham, Maryland. Dr. Faro is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Cystic Fibrosis, Cerebral Hypoxia, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), and Lung Transplant.

Dr. Eric McCollum is a pediatric pulmonologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He has expertise in global child respiratory health with more than ten years of clinical and research experience in low-resource settings in southern Africa and south Asia. After having lived in Malawi for five years as a clinician with the Baylor Pediatric AIDS Corps and as a NIH Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellow, Dr. McCollum is now primarily based in the countries of Lesotho and Bangladesh. He is the principal investigator of a NIH K01 International Research Scientist Development Award, through the Fogarty International Center, examining the role of pulse oximetry in Bangladeshi children with clinical pneumonia. Dr. McCollum is also a co-investigator for a study comprehensively examining the effectiveness of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in rural Bangladeshi children. In the southern African country of Malawi Dr. McCollum is the principal investigator of a randomized controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of bubble continuous positive airway pressure in children hospitalized with severe clinical pneumonia. He has successfully designed, led, or co-led several multi-site studies in developing countries throughout Africa and Asia including the novel application of pulse oximetry for children with clinical pneumonia by rural Malawian frontline health workers and digital auscultation as a respiratory diagnostic in six low-resource countries participating in the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health study. Dr. McCollum has been recognized globally for his contributions to child respiratory health. He has won multiple early career investigator awards and is currently a member of the World Health Organization Technical Support Network for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine impact studies and a member of the World Health Organization expert global working group for the World Health Organization chest radiograph guidelines for children. He holds a joint faculty appointment in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr. Mccollum is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Cerebral Hypoxia, Malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, and Infantile Pneumothorax. Dr. Mccollum is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics.