Alexander Stanislaw Golec, MD

Charlotte Wu, M.D., is an assistant professor of urology at the Brady Urological Institute and Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. She graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College with a double major in Molecular Biology/ Biochemistry and French. She completed medical school at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, general surgery internship and urology residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, and pediatric urology fellowship at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Dr. Wu has expertise in the treatment of all pediatric urological conditions. She has advanced training and clinical emphasis in surgical reconstruction for congenital urinary tract anomalies, minimally invasive/ robotic surgery, pediatric kidney stone treatment, and treatment of pediatric genitourinary tumors. Dr. Wu has research interests in posterior urethral valve, vesicoureteral reflux, and post-surgical outcomes in congenital urinary tract anomalies. She has been primary and co-author of numerous scholarly papers and book chapters. She routinely presents at national and international conferences and serves as a reviewer for Journal of Urology, Journal of Pediatric Urology, and Journal of Pediatric Surgery.

Sonja Rasmussen, MD, MS is Professor in the Department of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She joined Johns Hopkins after 4 years at the University of Florida (UF) College of Medicine and College of Public Health and Health Professions where she served as a Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics, Epidemiology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology and as the Director of UF’s Precision Health Program. Before joining University of Florida in 2018, she served for 20 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, where she held several scientific leadership roles. She served in leadership roles during several CDC responses to public health emergencies, including 2009 H1N1 influenza, H7N9 influenza, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and Zika virus. Dr. Rasmussen is an author on >300 peer-reviewed publications and is the lead editor of The CDC Field Epidemiology Manual, released by Oxford University Press in 2019. Her research interests focus on understanding the effects of infections and medications during pregnancy, genetic and environmental risk factors for birth defects, and morbidity and mortality associated with genetic conditions.

Dr. Janet L. Crane is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Crane is the Director of the Pediatric Bone Health Program, which focuses on the care of children with rare metabolic bone diseases and osteoporosis/skeletal fragility syndromes. Dr. Crane received her bachelor’s degree in nutritional science from the University of Missouri. She completed her medical degree at the University of Maryland-Baltimore, residency in pediatrics at Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics in Kansas City, Missouri and fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at Johns Hopkins University in 2013.Dr. Crane is a faculty member of the Center for Musculoskeletal Research. Her research is focused on bone modeling and remodeling factors that result in proper bone growth and strength. The goal of her studies is to identify diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets to enhance bone strength in children who have recurrent fractures. Dr. Crane also participates in industry sponosored clinical studies to investigate the safety and efficacy of medications for metabolic bone disease and skeletal fragility.