Shruti Sudhakar, MD

Suneetha Desiraju is a neonatologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, Maryland. She specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of premature babies or newborns with high-risk or complex health conditions. After graduating from the New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Desiraju completed a residency in pediatrics at the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine. Then, she completed a fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Dr. Sara Muñoz-Blanco is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Divisions of Neonatology and Pediatric Palliative Care. Her areas of clinical expertise are neonatology and perinatal, neonatal, and pediatric palliative care. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of neonatology, palliative care, communication, and underserved populations, particularly Spanish-speaking patients and families. She has experience with program-building, qualitative research methodology, and communication skills training. Dr. Muñoz-Blanco graduated from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. She completed her Pediatrics residency training at New York Presbyterian Weill-Cornell Medical Center. She also completed fellowships in both Neonatology and Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Johns Hopkins in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

Dr. Allan Gottschalk is an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include anesthesiology. Dr. Gottschalk serves as the director of the Postdoctoral Research Training Program in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine.Dr. Gottschalk received his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Boston University and his M.S. in systems engineering and biomedical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his residency at the University of Pennsylvania and performed a research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Anesthesia. Dr. Gottschalk joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2001.Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Gottschalk was an assistant professor of anesthesia at the University of Pennsylvania. There, he was also a member of the Sleep Center, the Vision Center and the Institute for Neuroscience.Dr. Gottschalk serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including The Scientific World Journal and World Journal of Anesthesiology. He was recognized by Johns Hopkins with a Service Excellence Award in 2011. He is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.