Julianna Czum, MD

Dr. Akila Viswanathan is a leading authority in radiation oncology at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, where she serves as the director of the Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences. With extensive expertise in gynecologic cancers, particularly cervical and uterine cancers, she has made significant contributions to clinical innovations and system-wide integration efforts across various Johns Hopkins sites. An esteemed academic, Dr. Viswanathan holds professorships in multiple departments associated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has published over 200 articles. Recognized as one of America's Top Doctors, she actively contributes to the advancement of her field through research and leadership roles in prominent radiation oncology societies. Generated from the website

Dr. Berman is an anesthesiologist specializing in high-risk obstetric anesthesiology, anesthesia for fetal surgery, general adult anesthesiology, and medical education. Additionally, he serves as assistant program director of the anesthesiology residency program at Johns Hopkins.He attended medical school at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and elected to remain at Mount Sinai for his anesthesiology residency. During medical school, he was awarded the Jagust award for highest-performing medical student in anesthesiology and went on to be selected by his peers for induction in the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He was a member of the Eliasberg Research Program and the clinician-educator track as a resident.He then completed a fellowship in obstetric, gynecologic and fetal anesthesia at Johns Hopkins, where he received numerous clinical and teaching awards. He subsequently joined the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine as full-time faculty.Since joining ACCM, Dr. Berman has been appointed assistant program director of the anesthesiology residency and received the Rising Faculty Award, the Beattie Teacher of the Year Award several times, and the Most Innovative Faculty award. He was also awarded the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Teacher of the Year Award. He is a core member of the hepatobiliary anesthesia team, performing complex hepatobiliary procedures on a regular basis. He also serves as a phone consultant for the Malignant Hyperthermia Hotline.Dr. Berman has a special interest in cardiac disease in pregnancy and the use of peripartum and perioperative echocardiography. He serves on a variety of national and international committees In the anesthesiology community. He is currently pursuing an MEHP from the Johns Hopkins School of Education. His research interests include personal financial literacy among physicians, curriculum design/development and medical student & resident education.

The implementation of high-throughput, global analytic methodologies for various biomolecules is ushering in a new era of discovery in disease pathogenesis. Leveraging these technologies in the development of novel diagnostics and therapeutic approaches is a critical aspect of precision medicine. With these new technologies, which can be based on tissue morphology, protein expression, RNA analysis, genomic analysis, or other cellular features, scientists are uniquely poised to detect previously unidentified features of disease that can better guide patient management and treatment.I oversee Precision Medicine Informatics and Bioinformatics for the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory in which we leverage clinical genomics data of malignancies. Effectively coupling a robust characterization of tissue specimens to these new technologies will optimally inform their use in the development of novel clinical diagnostics and therapeutic regimens. As a pathologist and bioinformatician in this field, I look to advance the front line of translational biomedical research, combining clinical, computational, and molecular techniques centered on tissue specimens with the ultimate goal of improving patient care. I also oversee the Oncology Tissue Services laboratory with respect to the development of protein and nucleic acid detection assays in tissue sections, as is done routinely in clinical practice. Additionally I oversee the digital pathology slide scanning serving of the Oncology Tissue Services laboratory along with the Department of Pathology.I am a practicing pathologist specializing in genitourinary pathology with a comprehensive understanding of cellular and molecular research along with bioinformatics. I completed a residency in anatomic pathology at the Johns Hopkins University and an M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.