Lindsey Alana MacNabb, MD

Dr. Lauren Berninger is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and associate program director for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program. Dr. Berninger received her undergraduate degree in political science from Bucknell University and her medical degree from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed internal medicine residency training at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, where she also served as chief resident. Dr. Berninger is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Training Program. Dr. Berninger's professional interests lie at the intersection of palliative medicine and clinical ethics. She holds a master's degree in bioethics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and is an active member of the Johns Hopkins Hospital ethics committee. Dr. Berninger is committed to medical education with a focus on advanced communication skills and complex-symptom management for patients with serious and life-limiting illnesses. She co-directs the medical school's TIME Palliative Care and End-of-Life Course and is dedicated to the clinical teaching of learners at all levels of training. Dr. Berninger embraces a humanistic, patient, and family-centered approach to care and is the recipient of the 2023 Clinical Excellence Award for best consulting physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Dr. Courtney Masear is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise is anesthesiology.She completed her undergraduate studies at Princeton University and continued on to Johns Hopkins for medical school. Her path to anesthesiology began when she was a medical student and did a rotation in the department. She enjoyed the procedural aspects of the specialty as well as observing physiology in real-time.After graduating from Johns Hopkins in 2009, Dr. Masear completed her intern year in internal medicine across town at Mercy Medical Center. She then returned to the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine to start residency. She took a brief hiatus from clinical training to focus on research and completed residency in 2016.While Dr. Masear enjoys all aspects of anesthesiology, obstetric anesthesia is her passion. She is also interested in resident education.

Dr. Tao Wang is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include global developmental delays and intellectual disability neurobehavioral disorders in children, and genetic and genomic syndromes and inborn errors of metabolism. Dr. Wang earned his M.D. from Zhongshan Medical University in China and a Ph.D. in human genetics from Johns Hopkins University. He completed his residency in pediatrics at Tufts -New England Medical Center Hospitals and performed fellowships in clinical genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and clinical biochemical genetics at Kennedy Krieger Institute. His research interests include x-linked intellectual disabilities (XLID), autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and inborn errors of metabolism of the central nervous system.Dr. Wang is the associate director of the Medical Genetics Residency and Fellowship Program and a preceptor in the Predoctoral Training Program in Human Genetics.