Bradley John Cheek, MD

Dr. Monforte is the section chief of Anatomic Pathology and also supports the research mission of Johns Hopkins All Children’s by serving as director of the Tissue-Based Diagnosis and Research Core and the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Pediatric Biorepository. He earned his medical degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara School of Medicine in Mexico. He completed his anatomic pathology residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, and fellowships at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and at the Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Monforte’s primary areas of expertise within pediatric and adolescent pathology include oncologic surgical pathology of solid tumors and gastrointestinal pathology, including Hirschsprung Disease. His contributions include intraoperative consultation and frozen section diagnosis and optimal methods of specimen procurement, allocation and maximization of tissue derived resources for precision medicine grade diagnostic, esoteric testing, research and archival applications. He is a CAP certification inspector for anatomic pathology and biorepository credentialing. Dr. Monforte is active in several professional societies, and has published clinical research in peer-reviewed journals. He is also active in didactic conferences and presentations at national and international meetings, intramural teaching conferences at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and University of South Florida Pathology residency program.

Dr. Arfa specializes in pathology/hematopathology at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. He joined the hospital staff in 2025. He earned his medical degree from Tanta University Faculty of Medicine in Egypt. He completed observerships in the University of Florida Health Department of Pathology in Gainesville, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine pathology department. He then completed a residency in the Department of Pathology at Augusta University Medical Center in Georgia, followed by a fellowship in hematopathology at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa.

Dr. Gonzalez-Gomez is a pathologist at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. He joined the hospital staff in 2009.His research interests include pediatric neuropathology and in particular neuro-oncogenesis, the search for the etiology or processes that lead to the development of brain tumors, including cellular morphologic features, patterns of growth, immunophenotype, metabolism, proliferation, apoptosis/necrosis, vascularization and response to therapy.Dr. Gonzalez-Gomez earned his medical degree at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. He completed a multidisciplinary internship at Hospital General de Tlaxcala, Ministry of Health and National Autonomous University of Mexico. Dr. Gonzalez-Gomez trained in anatomic pathology at Instituto Nacional de la Nutricion in Mexico City, Mexico. He completed a residency elective rotation, pediatric pathology fellowship and neuropathology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California.Dr. Gonzalez-Gomez is fluent in Spanish.