Ghari Nader G, MD

Dr. David W. Cooke is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Cooke’s clinical activities include both a general pediatric endocrine clinic and a pediatric diabetes clinic.His clinical interests include all endocrine disorders in children and adolescents, including short stature, abnormal pubertal development, growth hormone dysregulation, thyroid disorders, hormone deficiencies, hypopituitarism, diabetes insipidis, pituitary adenoma, prolactinoma, goiter, Cushing's disease, Addison's disease, polycystic ovary syndrome, congenital adrenal hyperplasia and disorders of sexual differentiation, Turner syndrome and Klinefelter syndrome, among others.He serves as clinical director of the division of pediatric endocrinology and director of the Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship Training Program at Johns Hopkins. He is a member of the Johns Hopkins Klinefelter Syndrome Center.Dr. Cooke completed his undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his medical degree from the Duke University School of Medicine. He then completed his residency in pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he also completed a fellowship in pediatric endocrinology.He has been a faculty member in the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology at the Johns Hopkins since 1993. After his fellowship, Dr. Cooke spent five years of additional research training in the Department of Biological Chemistry at Johns Hopkins, supported by an individual Physician Scientist Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).Dr. Cooke’s past research interest was the molecular basis of insulin resistance and obesity, with studies examining the role the adipocyte plays in these conditions. He had received research funding for these studies from the NIH and from the American Diabetes Association.Dr. Cooke is a recipient of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Institute for Excellence in Education award for Outstanding Achievement in Medical and Biomedical Education. He also has been recognized as a Top Doctor by Baltimore magazine. Dr. Cooke is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, the American Diabetes Association, the Endocrine Society and Pediatric Endocrinology Society. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

J. Lee Jenkins, MD, MS, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a practicing emergency physician.  She is the Director of the Disaster Fellowship and serves as the founder and course director for the SOM’s course in Disaster Medicine and Emergency Public Health. She is also the Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response and the Co-Director of the Region 3 Public Health Preparedness and Response Center for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is the former Chair of the Department of Emergency Health Services at the University of Maryland Baltimore County where her team developed the first Ph.D. specializing in Emergency Health Public Policy, developed the “Multi pathogen Approach” for the evaluation of prehospital patients with infectious diseases, and led a CDC-funded training program for EMS Clinicians in collaboration with JH Biocontainment Unit. She is Fellowship trained in Disaster Medicine, served as the Assistant Chief of Service and Disaster Control Physician for JH, and was on a DMAT for 10 years.   She has 25+ years of experience in disaster education and response, as she was part of the team that developed the first online training program for NDMS in the 1990s.   She has served as the CFO and Member of the Board for the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Jennifer Pardo Habashi is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on cardiology. Dr. Habashi provides genetic cardiology services at the Center for Inherited Heart Disease at the Johns Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute.She is currently evaluating the effectiveness of medications for the treatment of Marfan syndrome.Dr. Habashi received her undergraduate degree from Brown University. She earned her M.D. from the University of Maryland Medical School. She completed residencies at Montefiore Medical Center and Johns Hopkins. She performed a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Johns Hopkins.Her work has been recognized with several awards, including a grant from the National Marfan Foundation for her research to help reduce the risks associated with pregnancy for women with Marfan syndrome.