Buddy Gene Kozen Jr., MD

Dr. Nethra Kumar Madurai is a Clinical Associate in the Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She first came to Johns Hopkins as a Pediatric resident in the Harriet Lane Pediatric Residency Program in 2016. She then completed fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital and received the NIH T32 grant as a research fellow during the final year of her fellowship. Her research focuses on investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying neonatal brain injury to better inform treatment and understanding of long-term sequelae. Specifically, her work examines prenatal opioid exposure under the mentorship of Dr. Lauren Jantzie in the hopes of identifying biomarkers to guide treatment and long-term follow-up.

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.

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.