Hal Harry Shaffner Jr., MD

Dr. Ie-Ming Shih is the Richard TeLinde Distinguished Professor in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Shih directs the inter-departmental TeLinde Gynecologic Disease Program and co-directs the Women‘s Malignancy Program at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He is the Principal Investigator of the NIH Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) of Ovarian Cancer focusing on concept-driven clinical trials and early detection of the disease. Dr. Shih's research has been continuously supported by National Institute of Health.Dr. Shih received his M.D. from Taipei Medical University and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Shih went on completing a clinical fellowship in gynecologic pathology and a research fellowship in cancer genetics at Johns Hopkins before joining the faculty in 2001.The scientific contributions from his team include 1) molecular characterization of different types of ovarian cancer, 2) elucidation of the origin and evolution trajectory of ovarian precancerous lesions, 3) the discovery of cancer- promoting genes that are amenable for targeting, 4) the etiology of endometriosis and 5) the pathogenesis of gestational trophoblastic neoplasm. Dr. Shih has published more than 360 original publications and book chapters related to basic and translational cancer research, especially in the study of gynecological malignancies. He has received the 2017 Most Influential Research Paper Award in gynecologic diseases by the Columbia Hospital Foundation, and several research awards from the Tina’s Wish Bozeman Foundation, Gray Foundation, and the Endometriosis Foundation of America to support and recognize his research works.He sits in several advisory/editorial boards such as the World Health Organization (WHO) Nomenclature Committee for Gynecologic Neoplasms and the NCI Ovarian Task Force of Gynecologic Cancer Steering Committee. Besides his clinical, research and teaching obligations, Dr. Shih is a passionate photographer.

Dr. Deborah Ann Schwengel is an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include pediatric anesthesiology.Dr. Schwengel is a former program director of the Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Training and Residency Program. She is interested in innovative ways of teaching adults in residency programs and invented the “College Days” Program for Residency Education.She received her undergraduate degree in nursing from Duke University. She earned her M.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She completed her residencies at Yale–New Haven Hospital and Johns Hopkins. She performed a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins. She completed the Master of Education in the Health Professions at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Schwengel joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1994.Dr. Schwengel's research interests include graduate medical education, innovative curriculum development, neurophysiologic assessment of learning and hospital disaster preparedness.Dr. Schwengel has been recognized by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education with the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Excellence in Education Outstanding Achievement for an Educational Innovation, The American Society of Anesthesiologists with the Distinguished Educator Award and The Society for Education in Anesthesia Philip Liu Award for best Research Abstract.

Dr. Susan Rebecca McFarland is an instructor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise is pediatrics.She earned her M.D. from the University of South Florida College of Medicine and completed her residency at Johns Hopkins.