Joan Hwang Dunlop, MD

Dr. Hoover Adger Jr. is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His clinical interests include adolescent medicine, substance use and treatment of substance use disorders. Dr. Adger is a senior faculty member in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. Dr. Adger is the director of both the Substance Use Assessment/Intervention Team at The Johns Hopkins Hospital Adolescent Program Co-Director of the CARE Clinic. He also serves as the faculty leader of the Colleges Advisory Program’s Sabin College. He earned his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University. He completed a pediatrics residency at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and a fellowship in adolescent medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1984, at which time he completed a M.P.H. in health policy. Dr. Adger served as deputy director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy in 1997 and 1998. He served from 1999-2005 as co-director of a federally funded strategic planning initiative, a role in which he advised the federal government and other entities about improving and expanding interdisciplinary education and training of health professionals in substance-use disorders. His research interests include substance use disorders and medical education. Dr. Adger is a past president of both the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse and the National Association for Children of Alcoholics. He is recognized as a national leader and expert in the field of addiction medicine with a focus on adolescents and young adults.

Dr. James Casella is a professor of pediatrics and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. As the Johns Hopkins’ Rainey Professor of Pediatric Hematology, Dr. Casella is chief of the Division of Pediatric Hematology at Johns Hopkins Children's and director of the Basic and Translational Research Program in Sickle Cell Disease, Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center and the Maryland Hemophilia Treatment Center at Johns Hopkins.He supervises several labs investigating the cellular and molecular basis of pediatric blood-borne diseases. He is seeking to develop better treatments for sickle cell disease and the prevention of central nervous system complications of this disorder, including stroke.Dr. Casella received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Union College. He earned his M.D. from SUNY of Syracuse and completed a residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he was subsequently a fellow in hematology/oncology. He has been a member of the Johns Hopkins’ faculty since 1983.A research scientist as well as a clinician, he co-directs the hematology/oncology fellowship program at Johns Hopkins Hospital and is an adjunct senior investigator (Pediatric Oncology Branch) in the Division of Clinical Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. He is also director of the NHLBI-funded K12 in benign hematology program at Johns Hopkins that trains young clinician/investigators in benign hematology and transfusion medicine.Dr. Casella has served on numerous university, hospital, and advisory committees, many geared toward hematology, pediatrics and transfusion. He has received many awards from the Johns Hopkins Hospital, including the Alexander "Buck" Schaffer Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Teaching of House Officers. He and a colleague created the Johns Hopkins/St. Agnes Comprehensive Hemophilia Clinic to improve care for patients with the disease.

Recognized as a dedicated and compassionate pediatric hematologist-oncologist, Dr. Keates-Baleeiro cares for patients in the Division of Pediatric Hematology at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, Maryland. A pediatric hematologist-oncologist is a physician who has special training and experience in diagnosing and treating blood disorders and cancers in children, teens, and young adults. Dr. Keates-Baleeiro’s current clinical interests include pediatric cytopenias, coagulation disorders, platelet disorders, sickle-cell anemia, and hemophilia. Her research interests include rare bleeding disorders, porphyria, and neutropenia in children. Dr. Keates-Baleeiro received her medical degree from the Drexel University College of Medicine in 1999 and completed her internship at Cohen Children’s Medical Center and her pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit in 2002. She then went on to complete a fellowship in pediatric hematology-oncology at the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2003 and 2006, respectively.Passionate about teaching, Dr. Keates-Baleeiro also serves as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine educating medical students, pediatric residents, and pediatric hematology oncology fellows.