Aylin Tekes, M.D.

Dr. Paul Ladenson is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is also a professor of oncology; pathology; and radiology and radiological science. His areas of clinical expertise include Thyroid diseases, Endocrine & Metabolic disorders. Dr. Ladenson is the John Eager Howard Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism.He earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency and performed a fellowship in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Ladenson's research interests include cardiac actions of thyroid hormone, thyroid cancer and thyroid hormone analogs.He was recognized with the Lewis E. Braverman Lectureship Award at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) in 2012.

Dr. Kelvin K. Hong is an Associate Professor and Executive Vice Chair of Radiology within the Johns Hopkins Department of Radiology. A specialist in interventional and vascular radiology, Dr. Hong serves as the Medical Director of the Johns Hopkins Interventional Radiology Center. Dr. Hong earned his medical degree from South Africa’s University Of Witwatersrand Medical School in Parktown. He completed a radiology residency at Parktown West’s College of Medicine/Radiology, as well as a cardiovascular/interventional radiology fellowship and diagnostic radiology residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. His areas of clinical expertise include bone, liver and soft-tissue tumors; chronic total occlusions; claudication; deep venous thrombosis; lung, esophageal and kidney cancer; peripheral arterial/vascular disease; renal artery/vascular disease; uterine fibroid tumors; varicocele; and vascular malformations and venous thromboembolism. Dr. Hong performs procedures that include radiofrequency ablation for lung, liver, kidney and bone lesions; transcatheter arterial chemoembolization for liver cancer; lower-extremity angioplasty and stenting; visceral angioplasty and stenting; embolization of uterine fibroid tumors; cryoablation for pain control; and percutaneous laser ablation of varicose veins. Dr. Hong served as editor for the book Percutaneous Tumor Ablation and contributed to Interventional Oncology: Principles and Practice.