
Overview
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 rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Adenoidectomy. Her top areas of expertise are Achondroplasia, Rhizomelic Syndrome, Spondyloepimetaphyseal Dysplasia Strudwick Type, Adenoidectomy, and Myringotomy.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 91 peer reviewed articles and participating in 2 clinical trials. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 2 articles in the study of Adenoidectomy.
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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. Hoover 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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2 Clinical Trials
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Dr. Nicholas Michael Dalesio is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His area of clinical expertise is pediatric anesthesiology. Dr. Dalesio received his undergraduate degree in cell biology/molecular genetics from the University of Maryland. He earned his medical degree from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and completed his anesthesiology residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Dr. Dalesio performed a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia before joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins. In addition to pediatric anesthesiology, Dr. Dalesio has a special interest in sleep-disordered breathing and obstructive sleep apnea in children, difficult airway management in children and craniofacial reconstructive surgery in children. He is a member of the Society of Pediatric Anesthesiology, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the American Board of Anesthesiology and the Maryland Society of Anesthesiology. Dr. Dalesio is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Adenoidectomy. His top areas of expertise are Adenoidectomy and Osteotomy.
Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital
Dr. Laura Sterni is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include pediatric pulmonary medicine and sleep disorders. She is director of the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Sleep Center. Dr. Sterni has edited a book on chronic home ventilation in children - Caring for Ventilator Dependent Child: A Clinical Guide. (Sterni. LM and Carroll JL (Eds). Humana Press/Springer Science and Business Media, New York, 2016.) Dr. Sterni received her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She also completed her residency in pediatrics and her fellowship in pediatric pulmonary medicine at Johns Hopkins. De. Sterni was recognized by Baltimore magazine as a Top Doctor in pediatric pulmonology in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017. She was also recognized in 2016 and 2017 as a Top Doc for the treatment of pediatric sleep disorders. Dr. Sterni is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Adenoidectomy. Her top areas of expertise are Micrognathia, Koolen De Vries Syndrome, Wildervanck Syndrome, CHARGE Syndrome, and Adenoidectomy.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Dr. Deborah Ann Schwengel is an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include pediatric anesthesiology. Dr. Schwengel is a former program director of the Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Training and Residency Program. She is interested in innovative ways of teaching adults in residency programs and invented the “College Days” Program for Residency Education. She received her undergraduate degree in nursing from Duke University. She earned her M.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She completed her residencies at Yale–New Haven Hospital and Johns Hopkins. She performed a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins. She completed the Master of Education in the Health Professions at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Schwengel joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1994. Dr. Schwengel's research interests include graduate medical education, innovative curriculum development, neurophysiologic assessment of learning and hospital disaster preparedness. Dr. Schwengel has been recognized by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education with the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Excellence in Education Outstanding Achievement for an Educational Innovation, The American Society of Anesthesiologists with the Distinguished Educator Award and The Society for Education in Anesthesia Philip Liu Award for best Research Abstract. Dr. Schwengel is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Adenoidectomy. Her top areas of expertise are Cerebral Hypoxia and Adenoidectomy.
Areas of Expertise
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- Elite
- AchondroplasiaDr. Hoover isElite. Learn about Achondroplasia.
- Rhizomelic SyndromeDr. Hoover isElite. Learn about Rhizomelic Syndrome.
- Spondyloepimetaphyseal Dysplasia Strudwick Type
- Distinguished
- Brachydactyly Mononen TypeDr. Hoover isDistinguished. Learn about Brachydactyly Mononen Type.
- ChondrodystrophyDr. Hoover isDistinguished. Learn about Chondrodystrophy.
- Hypophosphatasia (HPP)Dr. Hoover isDistinguished. Learn about Hypophosphatasia (HPP).
- Increased Head CircumferenceDr. Hoover isDistinguished. Learn about Increased Head Circumference.
- MicrognathiaDr. Hoover isDistinguished. Learn about Micrognathia.
- Schwartz-Jampel SyndromeDr. Hoover isDistinguished. Learn about Schwartz-Jampel Syndrome.
- Advanced
- Achalasia Microcephaly SyndromeDr. Hoover isAdvanced. Learn about Achalasia Microcephaly Syndrome.
- Acromicric DysplasiaDr. Hoover isAdvanced. Learn about Acromicric Dysplasia.
- Cortical DysplasiaDr. Hoover isAdvanced. Learn about Cortical Dysplasia.
- CraniosynostosisDr. Hoover isAdvanced. Learn about Craniosynostosis.
- Desbuquois SyndromeDr. Hoover isAdvanced. Learn about Desbuquois Syndrome.
- Diastrophic DysplasiaDr. Hoover isAdvanced. Learn about Diastrophic Dysplasia.
- Experienced
- 3M SyndromeDr. Hoover isExperienced. Learn about 3M Syndrome.
- Acro-Pectoro-Renal Field DefectDr. Hoover isExperienced. Learn about Acro-Pectoro-Renal Field Defect.
- AcrocephalopolydactylyDr. Hoover isExperienced. Learn about Acrocephalopolydactyly.
- Acromesomelic DysplasiaDr. Hoover isExperienced. Learn about Acromesomelic Dysplasia.
- Acromesomelic Dysplasia Campailla Martinelli Type
- Acromesomelic Dysplasia Hunter Thompson Type


