Henry Joseph Michtalik, MD

Dr. Ravert received her BA in History from the University of Washington and worked in information technology for eight years before attending Towson University, where she received a BS in Chemistry. She graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins. She was the Medical Director of the industry-leading Forensic Nurse Examiner program at ChristianaCare in Delaware and on the Board of Directors for a small democratic group of emergency physicians before returning to Johns Hopkins in 2024 to pursue her passion for collaborative pursuit of real solutions for pressing health care issues. She is an emergency physician practicing at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and at Bayview Medical Center.

Anne Damian Yacoub, M.D., is a neurologist who specializes in both multiple sclerosis and headache. Her areas of expertise include the diagnosis and treatment of multiple sclerosis and other neuroimmunological disorders that involve the central nervous system. She is also an expert in acute and chronic management of headache disorders.Dr. Yacoub earned her medical degree from the University of Arizona College of Medicine, followed by a residency in neurology at the McGill University Health Centre. Dr. Yacoub spent one year studying the diagnosis and management of headaches as a Seymour Diamond Headache Medicine fellow in a combined program at the Diamond Headache Clinic and the Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. She subsequently trained as a clinical and research fellow in the Johns Hopkins Department of Neurology, studying neuroimmunology and neurological infections.Dr. Yacoub’s research interests include studying migraine headaches in patients with multiple sclerosis.

Dr. Frederick E. Sieber is a professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He serves as chair
and director of Clinical Research of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.Dr. Sieber received a B.A. in chemistry from Northwestern University and an M.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He completed a medical internship at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. After a residency in anesthesiology and a fellowship in neuroanesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1985.His research interests focus on problems specific to geriatric surgical patients and on optimization of their surgical outcomes. Through multidisciplinary clinical research, he studies elderly surgical patients, especially those undergoing orthopaedic procedures.Dr. Sieber is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the International Anesthesia Research Society, the Association of University Anesthesiologists and the Society for Advancement of Geriatric Anesthesia. He serves as president-elect of the Society for Advancement of Geriatric Anesthesia and is a member of that organization’s Committee on Geriatric Anesthesia.