Cosmetic Medicine and Surgery at Mercy

Rani K. Hasan, M.D., M.H.S., is an attending interventional cardiologist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Suburban Hospital, as well as an assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Hasan has a clinical interest and expertise in the management of coronary artery disease and structural heart disease, including valvular disease; transaortic valve replacement (TAVR); select adult congenital defects such as patent foramen ovale (PFO), atrial septal defect (ASD) and ventricular septal defect (VSD); and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Dr. Hasan also has an interest in hybrid interventional and surgical approaches to manage complex cardiac surgery cases. He established the Johns Hopkins Structural Heart Disease Program at Suburban Hospital, a monthly clinic that draw patients for evaluation for TAVR and other transcatheter valve therapies. Dr. Hasan received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, followed by fellowships in cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, and an advanced fellowship in structural heart and peripheral vascular interventions at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He also earned a Master of Health Science degree in clinical investigation from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and served as chief fellow in the Division of Cardiology.Dr. Hasan serves on the telemetry subcommittee of the High Value Care Committee at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is a peer reviewer for journals such as the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, American Journal of Cardiology, American Heart Journal, Clinical Cardiology, and Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. Dr. Hasan is a member of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Hasan has contributed to numerous research publications, article reviews, book chapters and editorials. His research interests include the impacts of frailty and delirium among elderly patients undergoing cardiac procedures, and improving outcomes following interventional cardiac procedures. He is the principal investigator on a study of frailty among patients undergoing TAVR and is working to establish a database of TAVR patients at Johns Hopkins Medicine to develop collaborative research projects based on their data. Dr. Hasan has also provided clinical instruction in the classroom and instructs interventional cardiology fellows and general cardiology fellows on the cardiac catheterization rotation at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He has received numerous research awards, such as the Henry Denison Strong Research Award from Johns Hopkins University, the Cancer Research Training Award from the National Institutes of Health, and the Johns Hopkins Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center Research and Career Development Core Award.

Paul M. Hassoun, M.D., is professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the director of the pulmonary hypertension program at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He received his medical degree from the Faculté de Médecine Lariboisière-Saint Louis at the University of Paris, France, completed an internship and residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, both at Harvard Medical School. He was on faculty in the pulmonary division at New England Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine (Tufts-NEMC) in Boston, MA, until 2002 when he joined the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University.Dr. Hassoun has served or currently serves on numerous American Thoracic Society (ATS) assemblies and committees, including the Pulmonary Circulation Long Range Planning Committee, the Pulmonary Circulation Program Committee (for which he served as chair for 2008-2009), the ATS Scientific Advisory Council, Pulmonary Circulation Leadership Committee, and the American College of Chest Physicians Vascular Steering Committee. He served as the ATS Pulmonary Circulation chair (2011-2012) and on the ATS Publications Policy Committee. He was recently elected president of the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI; 2018-2019).Dr. Hassoun has held numerous editorial activities including serving on the editorial board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Medicine (2010 to present), CHEST (2006-2015) and the European Respiratory Review (2008-2015). He currently serves as associate editor of the European Respiratory Journal (2013-present) and has served as associate editor for the Journal of Clinical Investigation (2017-2022).

Sashank Reddy is an associate professor and vice chair of research in the Johns Hopkins Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He also serves as medical director for Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures. His areas of clinical expertise include craniofacial reconstruction, facial aesthetics and headache surgery.Dr. Reddy received his undergraduate degree with university honors from Johns Hopkins, where he pursued biology and humanistic studies as a Hodson Scholar. He went on to complete M.D. and Ph.D. studies at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health Medical Scientist Training Program. Dr. Reddy then completed a residency in the Johns Hopkins/University of Maryland integrated plastic surgery training program, and a craniofacial fellowship at Johns Hopkins and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in July 2018.In addition to his clinical practice in plastic surgery, Dr. Reddy directs a research laboratory in regenerative medicine. Current studies center on mechanisms of regeneration and homeostasis in skin, and development of nanomaterials to support tissue regeneration and cell therapy. His discoveries have been published in leading journals including Nature, Cell, Cell Stem Cell and Science Translational Medicine. Dr. Reddy is also an accomplished entrepreneur and biomedical innovator. In his role as medical director for Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures, he advises faculty and university administration on enhancing the impact of discoveries through company creation and corporate partnerships. A member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons, Dr. Reddy serves on boards and committees in the organizations. He is a former American Society of Plastic Surgeons alternate delegate to the American Medical Association. In his leadership, scholarship and clinical efforts, Dr. Reddy — who has received numerous accolades from professional societies — seeks to integrate science and medicine for the benefit of patients.