Carlos A Alana, MD - Johns Hopkins All Children's Neonatology Specialists

Dr. McCarthy specializes in neonatology with the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Maternal, Fetal & Neonatal Institute. She joined the hospital staff in 1977 and founded its Institutional Review Board and ethics committee. She served as chief of staff for three years.Dr. McCarthy earned her medical degree at University of Miami School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency and her neonatology fellowship at University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital. She also has a Master of Medical Science degree in physiology from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in pharmacology from West Virginia University. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in pharmacology at the University of Miami.

Dr. Winners Mendizabal specializes in neonatology with the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Maternal, Fetal & Neonatal Institute. He sees patients at the hospital's main campus in St. Petersburg, as well as at Brandon Regional Hospital where he serves as interim medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), through an affiliation with Johns Hopkins All Children's. He joined the hospital staff in 2012.Dr. Winners Mendizabal earned his medical degree from Universidad Boliviana Mayor de San Andres in La Paz, Bolivia. He completed training in pediatrics at University of Kansas and neonatal-perinatal fellowship at Case Western Reserve University at Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. His research interests include retinopathy of prematurity, chronic intermittent hypoxia and enteral and parental nutrition. He is fluent in Spanish.

Dr. Sochet is an expert clinician and translational scientist within the field of pediatric critical care medicine and an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University located at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. He joined the Johns Hopkins All Children's staff in 2016.Dr. Sochet earned his medical degree at Florida State University College of Medicine and his pediatric residency at University of South Florida College of Medicine. He completed a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at Children's National Health System (Washington, DC) where he received distinction as an educator with a Certificate of Excellence in Graduate Medical Education at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.Dr. Sochet holds a Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Research from the George Washington University. His research interests include the identification of modifiable risk factors and prevention of pediatric hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (HA-VTE) and the mechanistic and clinical efficacy of adjunctive therapies for the management of pediatric critical asthma. He has led and participates in multicenter clinical trials (e.g., the COVAC-TP Trial and CRETE studies) to optimally prevent HA-VTE among critically ill children, led (leads) clinical trials to assess immunomodulation in critical asthma (e.g., the iSTAT PICU Trial), and has a long track record of career-development support of post-doctoral trainees. He is passionate regarding discovery, innovation, and the education of future clinicians so to better heal and understand critically ill patients under his and his field's care.