Affiliated Johns Hopkins Clinical Faculty

An ASPIRE scholar’s primary faculty sponsor must be a core engineering faculty member. Listed below is a sample of affiliated clinical faculty members available to serve as a secondary faculty sponsor. A scholar’s secondary mentor can be any faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who has a strong collaborative relationship with a Johns Hopkins Engineering core faculty member.

Name	Degree(s)	Title	Primary Department or Program	Research Interests	Email
Anderson, William	MD/PhD	Associate Professor	Neurosurgery	Deep brain stimulation therapies for movement disorders, epilepsy treatment	[email protected]
Berger, Ronald	MD/PhD	Professor	Cardiology	Arrhythmia device development, arrhythmia mechanisms	[email protected]
Crone, Nathan	MD	Professor	Neurology	Human intracranial EEG and brain stimulation	[email protected]
Della Santina, Charley	MD/PhD	Professor	Otolaryngology	Vestibular neurophysiology, neural prostheses	[email protected]
Fuchs, Paul	PhD	Professor	Otolaryngology	Synaptic physiology of the inner ear	[email protected]
Gamaldo, Charlene	MD	Associate Professor	Neurology	Sleep disorders	[email protected]
Halperin, Henry	MD	Professor	Cardiology	Imaging in cardiac electrophysiology	[email protected]
Hillel, Alexander	MD	Associate Professor	Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery	Regenerative medicine, Materials science for customized surgical applications, Immunology and Metabolomics of Fibrosis	[email protected]
Kang, Joon-Yi	MD	Assistant Professor	Neurology	Minimally invasive epilepsy surgery, continuous electroencephalogram monitoring in the intensive care unit, status epilepticus	[email protected]
Kwon, Chulan	PhD	Associate Professor	Cardiology	Heart generation and regeneration	[email protected]
O'Brien-Coon, Devin	MD	Medical Director	Transgender Health	Tissue engineering; Regenerative medicine; Materials science for customized surgical applications; Clinical outcomes and novel techniques in gender surgery; Analysis of disparities in transgender healthcare	[email protected]
Mathias, Rasika	ScD	Associate Professor	Medicine - Allergy and Clinical Immunology	Genetic epidemiology with emphasis on cardiovascular, asthma, lung disease and other chronic disease processes.	[email protected]
Neptune, Enid Rose	PhD	Associate Professor	Pulmonary Medicine	Therapeutic strategies in Marfan syndrome; Mechanisms and prevention of progression of COPD; Hepatocyte growth factor signaling in airspace homeostasis	[email protected]
Pathak, Arvind	PhD	Associate Professor	Radiology	Functional and molecular imaging, tumor micro-environment	[email protected]
Schneck, Jonathan	PhD	Professor	Oncology	Immunology	[email protected]
Salas, Rachel	MD	Associate Professor	Neurology	Sleep disorders, transcranial stimulation	[email protected]
Tandri, Harikrishna	MRCP	Associate Professor	Cardiology	Cardiac arrest, defibrillation, neuromodulation for arrhythmias	[email protected]
Zhang, Hui	PhD	Professor	Pathology	Structural and functional analyses of proteins, protein modifications by glycosylation, phosphorylation, and acetylation	[email protected]