Amaka Ofodu, MD

Cecilia Kwak is a neonatologist in the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. She specializes in the management of premature babies or newborns with high-risk or complex health conditions. She has a specialized interest in health communications, particularly parent-provider communications and complex care coordination. Dr. Kwak graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School. She then completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Brijen L. Joshi, MD joins the faculty as an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in July 2016. His areas of clinical expertise are cardiothoracic anesthesiology and transesophageal echocardiography. He is also appointed the chief of thoracic anesthesia, to initiate the thoracic program at Johns Hopkins Bayview.Dr. Joshi arrived in Baltimore, from Nepal to further his medical education in U.S. He completed his clinical research fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, internship at Johns Hopkins/Sinai, and his anesthesiology residency with academic distinction at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. Subsequently, he did his advanced fellowship in cardiothoracic anesthesiology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.Dr. Joshi has a special interest in neurocognitive outcomes after cardiac surgery. His research focus is towards understanding and prevention of neurocognitive dysfunction and stroke after cardiopulmonary bypass surgery. To that end, in collaboration with University of Cambridge, they have developed a non-invasive prototype monitor that can determine the lower limit of cerebral autoregulation in real-time to potentially mitigate these problems. His research and work has been published in Anesthesia & Analgesia, BJA, Stroke among others.Dr. Joshi is a member of American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA), Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA), and American Society of Echocardiography (ASE).

Dr. Kevan Salimian is an assistant professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include general surgical pathology and gastrointestinal and liver pathology. Dr. Salimian was born and raised on the eastern shore of Maryland. In 2003, he attended the University of Maryland, College Park as a Banneker/Key scholar where he received his undergraduate degrees in Biochemistry and Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics. In 2007, he attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he pursued an MD/PhD. His PhD work focused on two proteins-CENP-A and Aurora B–which play a critical role in regulating cell division in eukaryotes. He subsequently completed his residency in anatomic and clinical pathology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and served as Chief Resident in his final year. He then completed the Advanced Specialty Training Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital with a subspecialty focus in gastrointestinal and liver pathology. His research interests focus on diagnostic gastrointestinal pathology. He is also deeply committed to pathology education geared towards patients, medical students and pathology residents. His numerous awards for scholarship and research include: Phi Beta Kappa, the Chemical Society of Washington Award, the Robert Battista Award, the ACS College of Chemistry Achievement Award, the Dr. Roy G. Williams award for best basic science paper, the Pathology Housestaff Teaching Award, the Hopkins Pathology Young Investigators’ Day most outstanding abstract and the Frank L. Coulson Jr. Award for Clinical Excellence.