Bharti Razdan, MBBS

Dr. Kartikeya Makker is the medical director of the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and a neonatologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, Maryland. He diagnoses and treats premature babies and newborns with high-risk or complex health conditions. Dr. Makker graduated from the Smt. NHL Municipal Medical College. He then completed a residency in pediatrics at the Maimonides Medical Center, and later a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals.

Dr. Cheng-Ying Ho is an Associate Professor of Pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include neuromuscular pathology, pediatric neuropathology, and neuropathology of infectious diseases. Dr. Ho serves as the Deputy Director for the Neuropathology Fellowship Program.Dr. Ho received her medical degree from National Taiwan University and her Ph.D. in Pathobiology from Columbia University. She completed Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology combined residency and fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Ho joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2022. Dr. Ho’s research interests include the pathogenesis and treatment of sensory neuropathy, with a focus on the impact of the skin microenvironment on the development of diabetic neuropathy. Her laboratory uses diverse approaches to study the role of skin-derived signaling molecules in the maintenance of the cutaneous sensory nerve fibers. Her research also involves development of novel therapeutics for diabetic neuropathy.

Maria Latham is a neonatologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. She has a special interest in neonates with congenital heart disease and neonatal hemodynamics. Through a collaboration between the Division of Neonatology and the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Dr. Latham has assumed a faculty role at the Blalock-Taussig-Thomas Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center. In this role, she supports neonatal-perinatal cardiac coordination through her work with the multidisciplinary high-risk delivery program, prenatal counseling and perinatal delivery planning. She is building a formal program that seeks to enhance collaboration between the neonatal intensive care unit and the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit (PCICU) and to improve neonatal care through protocol development and unit education between these specialties and across these care areas. Dr. Latham earned her Doctor of Medicine degree at George Washington University, followed by a pediatrics residency at Johns Hopkins. After her residency, she was a hospitalist in the newly created PCICU at the Heart Center, and then completed a neonatal-perinatal medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins.