Brijen L. Joshi, MBBS

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.

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.

Dr. Tangwan Azefor is an instructor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise is anesthesiology. She earned her M.D. from the University of London. She completed residencies at Mayday University Hospital, Worthing Hospital, Epsom District Hospital, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, Mount Vernon Hospital, Barnet General Hospital and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She performed a fellowship at the Tulane University School of Medicine.