Dr. Jennifer K. Lee is a Professor of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics and the Senior Associate Dean for the Office of Women in Science and Medicine. Her research focuses on methods to reduce the risk of permanent neurologic injury in babies and children with brain injury. She received her undergraduate degree in environmental, population, and organismic biology from the University of Colorado–Boulder and her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed an internship and residency in pediatrics and a residency in anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins. She then performed fellowships in pediatric anesthesiology and pediatric critical care medicine, both at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2010. She works clinically and also conducts brain research. She leads translational research on cerebrovascular blood pressure autoregulation, the effects of hypothermia and rewarming, cell death mechanisms, proteostasis, and white matter injury in clinical and laboratory studies.
Dr. Frances Northington is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise is neonatal and perinatal medicine. She received her medical degree at the Medical College of Georgia. She went on to complete a residency at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital and a fellowship at the University of Virginia. She is one of the founders and co-directors of the Neurosciences Intensive Care Nursery at Johns Hopkins, which brings together experts from neonatology, pediatric neuroradiology, pediatric neurology, maternal fetal medicine, developmental medicine and the Kennedy Krieger Institute to care for newborns who have developmental brain abnormalities or are at high risk of neurological injuries.
Dr. Panagiotis Kratimenos is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Children's National Medical Center, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He received the MD in Medicine and the Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Faculty of Medicine in 2007 and 2015, respectively. He completed a residency in pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine, The Unterberg Children's Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center, and a fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the Drexel University College of Medicine, St.Christopher's Hospital for Children. His interest lies in identifying therapies to prevent or improve neurodevelopmental disabilities of sick newborns caused by prematurity and perinatal insults.
