25 of the Best Pediatricians Near Me in columbia, MD

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.

Catherine Chu is the director of the Division of Pediatric Neurology and the John M. Freeman Pediatric Epilepsy Center in the Johns Hopkins Department of Neurology, as well as the vice president of child neurology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. As a child neurologist, epileptologist and clinical neurophysiologist, Dr. Chu cares for children diagnosed with epilepsy and disorders of the nervous system (neurophysiology). She specializes in electroencephalogram (also known as EEG) analysis, seizure localization, surgical planning and neuromodulation for adult and pediatric patients with difficult to control epilepsy. She is nationally and internationally recognized for her work identifying causes of and treatment options for cognitive dysfunction and seizures in epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Chu’s team specializes in identifying and developing tools to detect and understand brain rhythms that support complex cognitive functions throughout development, including how these rhythms are disrupted by seizures and neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Chu earned her medical degree and a master’s degree in social anthropology from Harvard University. She completed an internship in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, and then a residency in neurology and child neurology at Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. After completing two fellowships at Massachusetts General, one in epilepsy and another in clinical neurophysiology, Dr. Chu earned a master’s degree in medical science, focused on clinical investigation, from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chu is highly rated in 10 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Benign Rolandic Epilepsy, Epilepsy in Children, Seizures, Epilepsy, and Deep Brain Stimulation. Dr. Chu is board certified in American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology. Dr. Chu 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, Sotos Syndrome, Kabuki 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.

Dr. Habela completed a Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. She received her PhD in Neurobiology in 2008 and her MD in 2010. After medical school, she specialized in child neurology, and completed 2 years of pediatrics residency and 3 years of child neurology residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2015. She then completed another 2 years of training specifically focused on the diagnosis, characterization and medical and surgical management of patients with epilepsy during an Epilepsy Fellowship at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Habela’s clinic specializes in pediatric neurology and epilepsy. Her clinical focus in on the care of patients with severe epilepsy with or without other neurodevelopmental disorders that have not been easily controlled with medications. She is also focused on the genetic causes of epilepsy and other neurodevelopmental disabilities with the hope that increasing our understanding of the genetic causes of epilepsy and neurodevelopmental disabilities will improve treatment. Dr. Habela’s basic science research is focused on the genetic mechanisms regulating appropriate proliferation, migration and integration of neurons and glial cells in both the prenatal and postnatal developing brain and how aberrations in these processes result in neurodevelopmental disabilities. Her hypothesis is that deregulation of pre and postnatal neurogenesis and synaptogenesis contributes to the behavioral phenotypes observed in many forms of intellectual disability, epilepsy and autism. Her research applies what we know from human genetic studies to basic science studies examining how specific genetic changes alter neurogenesis, synaptogenesis and overall excitation / inhibition balance in laboratory model systems. Her goal is to provide a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of these processes and, in turn, possibly identify specific targets for disease modifying treatments for epilepsy. Contact for Research Inquiries 600 N. Wolfe Street Meyer 2-147 Baltimore, MD 21287 Phone: (410) 955-9100. Dr. Habela is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses 15q11.2 Microdeletion, Primary Lateral Sclerosis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease), Epilepsy, and Endovascular Embolization. Dr. Habela is board certified in American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology. Dr. Habela is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Joy Wan is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include pediatric dermatology and atopic dermatitis. Dr. Wan received her undergraduate degree in biochemical sciences from Harvard University and her M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed dermatology residency training at the University of Pennsylvania and pediatric dermatology fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She also pursued postdoctoral research training in clinical epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Wan joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2021. In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Wan leads an active research program focused on epidemiologic and patient-oriented investigations of pediatric skin diseases including eczema. Dr. Wan is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Infantile Digital Fibromatosis, High Blood Pressure in Infants, Aplasia Cutis Congenita, and Clouston Syndrome. Dr. Wan is board certified in American Board Of Dermatology. Dr. Wan is currently accepting new patients.

Eun Kim is a Pediatrics provider practicing medicine in Columbia, Maryland. Dr. Kim is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), Urinary Tract Infection in Children, Eyelid Bump, and Viral Gastroenteritis.

Janet Alexander is a Pediatrics provider practicing medicine in Columbia, Maryland. Dr. Alexander is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Retinopathy of Prematurity, Ocular Hypertension (OHT), Peters Plus Syndrome, Trabeculectomy, and Cataract Removal. Dr. Alexander is board certified in American Board Of Ophthalmology - Ophthalmology, 2013. Dr. Alexander is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Shawna M. Reshard earned her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed her combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She loves working together with patients and their families to help them maintain or improve their health. Dr. Reshard enjoys spending time with her husband and three children. Her clinical expertise encompasses Facial Paralysis, Recurrent Peripheral Facial Palsy, and Bell's Palsy. Dr. Reshard is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine and American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Reshard is currently accepting new patients.

Charlotte Wu, M.D., is an assistant professor of urology at the Brady Urological Institute and Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. She graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College with a double major in Molecular Biology/ Biochemistry and French. She completed medical school at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, general surgery internship and urology residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, and pediatric urology fellowship at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Dr. Wu has expertise in the treatment of all pediatric urological conditions. She has advanced training and clinical emphasis in surgical reconstruction for congenital urinary tract anomalies, minimally invasive/ robotic surgery, pediatric kidney stone treatment, and treatment of pediatric genitourinary tumors. Dr. Wu has research interests in posterior urethral valve, vesicoureteral reflux, and post-surgical outcomes in congenital urinary tract anomalies. She has been primary and co-author of numerous scholarly papers and book chapters. She routinely presents at national and international conferences and serves as a reviewer for Journal of Urology, Journal of Pediatric Urology, and Journal of Pediatric Surgery. Her clinical expertise encompasses Hypospadias. Dr. Wu is board certified in American Board Of Urology. Dr. Wu is currently accepting new patients.

Aruna Khurana is a Pediatrics provider practicing medicine in Columbia, Maryland. Her clinical expertise encompasses Scarlet Fever, Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps (CRSwNP), and Croup. Dr. Khurana is board certified in The American Board Of Pediatrics - Pediatrics and American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Khurana is currently accepting new patients.

Alice Lee, M.D., practices pediatrics and internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Community Physicians Columbia North. Dr. Lee earned her medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., and completed her residency training in both medicine and pediatrics at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. She also speaks Korean. Her clinical expertise encompasses Cerebral Hypoxia, Familial Combined Hyperlipidemia, Xanthoma, and Cirrhosis. Dr. Lee is board certified in American Board Of Internal Medicine and American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Lee is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Gerald Raymond is a clinical geneticist and neurologist at Johns Hopkins where he is also a professor of genetic medicine and neurology. He obtained his MD at the University of Connecticut and was trained in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Neurology at the Mass. General Hospital. He received additional training in developmental neuropathology at the Universite Catholique de Louvain in Belgium and clinical genetics at the Harvard Program. Dr. Raymond’s research has been at the overlap of genetics and neurology with specific focus on peroxisomal disorders including adrenoleukodystrophy. He has been actively involved in newborn screening for ALD and in developing clinical follow-up programs. He has extensive experience in clinical management of neurogenetic issues including peroxisomal and lysosomal disorders. He presently serves as the Director of the Lysosomal Storage Disease program in the department of Genetic Medicine. Dr. Raymond is highly rated in 21 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), Zellweger Syndrome, Leukodystrophy, and Jacobsen Syndrome. Dr. Raymond is board certified in American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology and American Board Of Medical Genetics And Genomics. Dr. Raymond is currently accepting new patients.

Carl E. Stafstrom is a pediatric neurologist, caring for children with epilepsy. Dr. Stafstrom received his medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, with residencies at the University of Washington Medical Center and Tufts New England Medical Center, as well as fellowships at Harvard for neurology research and Boston Children’s Hospital in clinical neurophysiology, electroencephalography, and epilepsy. Dr. Stafstrom previously served as Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and Chief of Pediatric Neurology at American Family Children’s Hospital at UW Madison. Dr. Stafstrom is highly rated in 15 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Epilepsy, Seizures, West Syndrome, Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy, and Endovascular Embolization. Dr. Stafstrom is board certified in American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology. Dr. Stafstrom 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 5 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.

Dr. Peter Rowe is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the inaugural Sunshine Natural Wellbeing Foundation Professor of Chronic Fatigue and Related Disorders and serves as the Director of the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Related Disorders Program at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. His areas of clinical expertise include chronic fatigue syndrome and other disorders characterized by fatigue and orthostatic intolerance. Dr. Rowe and his colleagues were the first to describe the relationship between myalgic ecephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and treatable orthostatic intolerance syndromes, as well as the association between Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and ME/CFS. After receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto, Dr. Rowe earned his medical degree at McMaster University Medical School in Ontario. He completed his residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins and completed his fellowship in General Pediatric Academic Development. He was on the staff at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario from 1987-1991 before returning to Johns Hopkins in 1991. Dr. Rowe’s research focuses on the physiologic factors (circulatory dysregulation, allergic disorders, joint laxity, biomechanical strain, and neuroanatomic problems) that contribute to chronic fatigue as asymptom, and to ME/CFS and long COVID as conditions. In 2014, Dr. Rowe received the research award from the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (IACFS/ME) for his clinical and scientific work on chronic fatigue syndrome and related disorders. He is a member of the research advisory council for Solve ME/CFS. He is also a member of the American Pediatric Society, the Society for Pediatric Research, the Canadian Pediatric Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Rowe is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Pelvic Congestion Syndrome, and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS). Dr. Rowe is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics.

Dr. Kathryn Lemberg is an Assistant Professor of Oncology and Pediatrics at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research, conducted with Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery, focuses on tumor metabolism and the development of new metabolic inhibitors to treat cancer. She has investigated novel glutamine antagonists in preclinical models of RAS-driven solid tumors. She is also interested in the effects of tumor metabolism on patient growth and development. Dr. Lemberg completed pediatrics residency training at Johns Hopkins and pediatric hematology-oncology fellowship training in the joint Johns Hopkins/National Cancer Institute program. She received her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Medical Scientist Training Program at Columbia University in New York, where her graduate research focused on ferroptosis, a novel oxidative cell death in cancer models. Dr. Lemberg sees pediatric and young adult sarcoma patients as part of the sarcoma team and has additional clinical focus on neurofibromatosis type I related solid tumors. Dr. Lemberg is highly rated in 4 conditions, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor, Fibrosarcoma, Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1), and Neurofibromatosis. Dr. Lemberg is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Lemberg is currently accepting new patients.

Dr. Cohen is Director of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology and Clinical Director of the Division of Pediatric Oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. He received his undergraduate degree at Brown University and earned his MD at the Upstate Medical University, in Syracuse, NY. He did his general Pediatric Residency and Chief Residency at the University of Colorado and completed his Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship at Johns Hopkins. He has served on the faculty since 1994. His research centers on clinical trials of novel therapeutics for children with brain tumors. Dr. Cohen is co-chair of the High-Grade Glioma committee for the Children's Oncology Group and in that capacity has a particular research interest in the development of therapeutics for the treatment of infiltrating gliomas. He serves on the scientific advisory board for a number of organizations including St. Baldricks and the Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation. He is on the editorial board for PDQ with responsibility for authorship of the pediatric CNS brain tumor summaries. The Pediatric Neuro-Oncology program conducts a broad range of research centered primarily around the development and testing of novel therapeutics for children with brain tumors. The multidisciplinary nature of this work translates into continual collaboration with specialists in pediatric neurosurgery, radiation oncology, neuropathology, neuroradiology, neurology, neuro-ophthalmology, neuropsychology, and other related disciplines. Dr. Cohen is highly rated in 3 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Gliomatosis Cerebri, Embryonal Tumor with Multilayered Rosettes, Hepatoblastoma, Infantile Neutropenia, and Bone Marrow Aspiration. Dr. Cohen is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Cohen is currently accepting new patients.

Lynne Mofenson is a Pediatrics provider practicing medicine in Silver Spring, Maryland. Dr. Mofenson is highly rated in 1 condition, according to our data. Her clinical expertise encompasses HIV/AIDS, Anencephaly, and High Blood Pressure in Infants.

Debra Lee is a Pediatrics provider practicing medicine in Columbia, Maryland. Her clinical expertise encompasses Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Infection. Dr. Lee is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Lee is currently accepting new patients.

Wendell Mckay is a Pediatrics provider practicing medicine in Columbia, Maryland. Dr. Mckay is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Mckay is currently accepting new patients.

Nicholas Donkor is a Pediatrics provider practicing medicine in Columbia, Maryland. Dr. Donkor is currently accepting new patients.

Cody Richardson, M.D. is a clinical associate at the Wilmer Eye Institute. He specializes in pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus, including treatment of amblyopia (lazy eye), strabismus, infant and childhood cataracts, and pediatric ocular trauma. Dr. Richardson also has experience caring for visual disturbances associated with brain tumors in children as well as treating the ocular effects of radiation and chemotherapy used to treat childhood cancers. He participates in international outreach through an annual surgical mission trip to treat underserved children with strabismus in Guatemala. Dr. Richardson received his medical degree from the University of Tennessee in Memphis, TN where he remained to complete his ophthalmology residency and fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus at the Hamilton Eye Institute and St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. CV https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/-/media/wilmer/documents/cvs/Richardson_CV.pdf. Dr. Richardson is board certified in American Board Of Ophthalmology. Dr. Richardson is currently accepting new patients.

Meghan Meghpara is a Pediatrics provider practicing medicine in Columbia, Maryland. Her clinical expertise encompasses Autism Spectrum Disorder, Microcephaly, Asthma in Children, and Delayed Growth. Dr. Meghpara is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Meghpara is currently accepting new patients.

Rumneet Saini is a Pediatrics provider practicing medicine in Columbia, Maryland. Dr. Saini is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics.

Henry Chang is a Pediatrics provider practicing medicine in Columbia, Maryland. Dr. Chang is board certified in The American Board Of Pediatrics - Pediatrics and American Board Of Pediatrics. Dr. Chang is currently accepting new patients.