Diane Marie Aguero, APRN

Dr. Goldberg is a general pediatrician at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. She joined the hospital staff in 2022. Dr. Goldberg earned her medical degree at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency at The University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital. She completed a General Academic Pediatrics Fellowship and Master in Clinical Research at the University of Pittsburgh on a HRSA/NRSA T32 grant. Her research and clinical interests include pediatric obesity prevention and management, community engagement, medical education, and interventions to strengthen collaboration between pediatric health care, schools and community-based programs.

Meral Gunay-Aygun is a professor of pediatrics and genetic medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Gunay-Aygun specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of children and adults with inherited metabolic diseases including diagnostic evaluation and follow-up of newborns with abnormal newborn screens for inherited metabolic diseases. After serving 14 years as an attending physician at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, she joined the medical staff of Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida in 2022.Dr. Gunay-Aygun earned her medical degree from Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. She completed pediatrics and medical genetics residencies at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and a biochemical genetics fellowship at the National Institutes of Health’s National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. She has made numerous research contributions, especially in the study of inherited ciliopathies, for which she has earned international recognition.Dr. Gunay-Aygun received the Innovative Leadership Award from Genetic Alliance, as well as the NHGRI Merit Award for her research on Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease/Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis.She is a member of myriad professional organizations, including the American Society of Human Genetics, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Society of Pediatric Research and the Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders.