Prasanna Santhanam, MBBS

Dr. Paul Ladenson is a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is also a professor of oncology; pathology; and radiology and radiological science. His areas of clinical expertise include Thyroid diseases, Endocrine & Metabolic disorders. Dr. Ladenson is the John Eager Howard Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism.He earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency and performed a fellowship in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Ladenson's research interests include cardiac actions of thyroid hormone, thyroid cancer and thyroid hormone analogs.He was recognized with the Lewis E. Braverman Lectureship Award at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) in 2012.

Johns Hopkins gastroenterologist David Muñiz Pedrogo is a physician-scientist who specializes in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). He sees patients who have ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. A graduate of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Dr. Muñiz Pedrogo completed an internship and residency training in internal medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he remained for fellowship training in gastroenterology and hepatology. He obtained advanced fellowship training in inflammatory bowel disease at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Dr. Muñiz Pedrogo is the assistant director of the IBD clinical trials unit at Johns Hopkins. His research focuses on improving precision medicine for treatment of IBD by understanding the role of the immune system and gut microbiome in predicting response to various therapies and in predicting other clinical outcomes.

Dr. Veloso joins Johns Hopkins from University Hospitals Case Medical Center, where she was the director of outpatient clinics at the University Hospitals Digestive Health Institute, Westlake. She has special interests in Celiac disease, Colon Cancer, Microscopic Colitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.Dr. Veloso received several commendations in her teaching role at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center, the primary affiliate of Case Western Reserve University, and was an active participant in the Filipino American community where she was a member of the board of trustees for the American Philippine Physicians of Ohio.