Laura Norton, CRNP

Brenda Johnson, DNP, CRNP, ANVP, FAHA, is an acute neurovascular advanced nurse practitioner. She also serves as an assistant director of the Comprehensive Stroke Center at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and an associate professor of clinical neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Johnson holds nursing degrees from Auburn University, Mercy College and Pace University, as well as a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She pursued additional training through the advanced practice neurovascular fellowship in stroke at Arizona State University. Dr. Johnson is actively involved in professional organizations such as the American Heart Association’s Cardiovascular Stroke Nursing Symposium, the Maryland State Quality Improvement Committee, and the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses. Dr. Johnson serves as a consultant for the Johns Hopkins Global Center for Organized Stroke Care and develops stroke programs domestically and internationally. She has presented her work at national and international conferences, with research interests focused on stroke prevention and healthcare disparities.

Lora L. Clawson, MSN, CRNP is Director of ALS Clinical Services at Johns Hopkins. She coordinates ALS clinical care management, clinical research studies, and community fundraising for ALS clinical services, which includes the $2 million Cal Ripken/Lou Gehrig donation to Johns Hopkins in 1995.Her ALS career began at Hopkins over 20 years ago as a Research Nurse Coordinator. She became the facilitator of the Baltimore ALS Support Group and the Salisbury ALS Support Group. As an ALS expert, Ms. Clawson has coordinated over 25 ALS research studies, co-authored over 30 publications, and over 40 abstracts at ALS conferences around the country. She has chaired the National Neuromuscular Nursing Advisory Board and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Advisory Board for ALS, served on many committees such as The Robert Wood Johnson Excellence in End of Life Care in ALS, the ALSA Clinic Certification Committee, the El Escorial Revised Diagnostic Criteria, World Federation of Neurology, ALS Research Group, Hospice Network of Maryland, and the ALS Northeast Consortium Executive committee. Ms. Clawson was the recipient of the Vickie Appel Award for Excellence in ALS Clinical Care in January 1999.Ms. Clawson was appointed to the faculty of the Department of Neurology in 1998. Now an Assistant Professor, she teaches at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and serves as a mentor and instructor to undergraduate and graduate nursing students.

Dr. Joon Kang focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of seizures and epilepsy. Dr. Kang has a clinical interest in the pre-surgical evaluation and treatment of patients who have drug resistant epilepsy. Her research interests include minimally invasive epilepsy surgery, continuous electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring in the intensive care unit (ICU) and status epilepticus.Dr. Kang received her bachelor degree from University of Pennsylvania and went on to receive her medical degree from Drexel College of Medicine. After internship at Pennsylvania Hospital, she completed residency and fellowship training in clinical neurophysiology and epilepsy at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, PA.Dr. Kang currently sees patients at The Johns Hopkins outpatient center on Monday and Wednesday afternoons.