Overview
Dr. Sujatha Kannan is professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is also the Richard J. Traystman Endowed Chair and the Vice Chair for Research for ACCM. She specializes in pediatric critical care with expertise in pediatric neurocritical care. In addition to her role at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Kannan is also a research scientist at the Hugo Moser Researcher Institute at Kennedy Krieger Institute. Dr. Kannan completed her medical training at the Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research in Pondicherry, India. She conducted residencies in pediatrics at the University Illinois at Chicago and the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Additionally, she completed a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Dr. Kannan joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2011. Her research focuses on understanding the role of inflammation and immune dysregulation in the brain with a goal to develop therapies for childhood brain injury and neurodevelopmental disorders such as cerebral palsy, Rett syndrome, autism, TBI and CNS infections. In collaboration with the Kannan Rangaramanujam lab at the Center for Nanomedicine, Wilmer Eye Institute, the S. Kannan lab has created and developed novel nanotherapies to specifically target immune cells in the brain to promote repair and regeneration. Dr. Kannan is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Society for Pediatric Research. She is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. She has published extensively and has won several awards for her research.
Dr. Kannan is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Traumatic Brain Injury, Zellweger Syndrome, Cerebral Hypoxia, Cerebral Artery Bypass Surgery, and Extracranial-Intracranial Bypass Surgery.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 99 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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Locations
1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Kannan 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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Areas of Expertise
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- Traumatic Brain InjuryDr. Kannan isAdvanced. Learn about Traumatic Brain Injury.
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- Alternating Hemiplegia of ChildhoodDr. Kannan isExperienced. Learn about Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood.
- Autism Spectrum DisorderDr. Kannan isExperienced. Learn about Autism Spectrum Disorder.
- Cerebral Artery Bypass SurgeryDr. Kannan isExperienced. Learn about Cerebral Artery Bypass Surgery.
- Cerebral HypoxiaDr. Kannan isExperienced. Learn about Cerebral Hypoxia.
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- Extracranial-Intracranial Bypass Surgery