Susan Rebecca McFarland, MD

Dr. Barry Solomon is a Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He serves as Assistant Dean for Medical Student Affairs and he holds the Catherine DeAngelis, M.D. and Jackie Julio Endowed Chair of Pediatrics. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, he completed a residency at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and a fellowship in general academic pediatrics at Johns Hopkins. He holds an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.Dr. Solomon's scholarly interests have been focused on preventing childhood injury and addressing the social determinants of health through innovations in pediatrics primary care. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society in the Bloomberg School of Public Health where he conducts research with faculty in the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (jhu.edu). He is currently Co-PI on a NIMHD funded Safe Start study, a randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a new EMR-based infant sleep assessment tool and brief communication training on a) the delivery of pediatric anticipatory guidance and b) parents' safe sleep knowledge, beliefs, reported practices, and observed sleep environments.For 14 years, Dr. Solomon served as medical director for the Harriet Lane Clinic, a large academic-based pediatric primary care clinic serving children and families in East Baltimore. In collaboration with institutional and community partners, supported by philanthropic organizations, Dr. Solomon brought an array of wrap-around services to the clinic including a social needs navigation program to connect families with community resources (Hopkins Community Connections, formerly Health Leads©).Dr. Solomon is also an active clinical teacher and research mentor to medical students, residents, fellows and junior faculty interested in addressing the social determinants of health. He previously served as a Taussig College Faculty Co-Leader in the Colleges Advisory Program in the School of Medicine and associate director of the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Residency Program. His academic career and personal mission has been centered on providing high quality family-centered primary care, while training new generations of child health professionals.

Dr. Courtney Robertson is an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise is pediatric critical care, with a particular focus on traumatic brain injury and other head trauma.Dr. Robertson received her undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Texas A&M University and her medical degree from University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. She completed a residency in pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and performed a fellowship in pediatric critical care at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robertson was on faculty at the University of Maryland. She joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2009.Her research focuses on identifying interventions that could minimize the neurological deficits that can persist after traumatic brain injury in children.Dr. Robertson serves on the editorial board of Developmental Neuroscience and is an ad hoc reviewer for many other critical care and neuroscience journals. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the National Neurotrauma Society, the Women in Neurotrauma Research Society and the Society for Neuroscience.

Dr. Donald H. Shaffner is an associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is an expert in critical care medicine. Dr. Shaffner earned his M.D. from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He completed a residency in pediatrics at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and a residency in anesthesiology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Shaffner performed a fellowship in pediatric anesthesia and pediatric critical care at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.His research interests include the mechanisms involved in neurologic injury from global ischemia caused by cardiac arrest and resuscitation, the prevention of post-injury hyperthermia in children with head trauma, and the neurologic outcomes of children who survive cardiac arrest.Dr. Shaffner is a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the American Heart Association, and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has published numerous articles on CPR and has been both moderator and speaker at national CPR meetings.