Kaihui Liang, MD

Dr. Tamara Lotan is a Professor of Pathology, Oncology and Urology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise is urologic pathology. Dr. Lotan received her medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She completed her residency in anatomic pathology at the University of Chicago Hospitals and performed a fellowship in urologic pathology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is a urologic pathologist and physician-scientist whose laboratory studies tissue-based predictive and prognostic biomarkers in prostate cancer. The group has a particular interest in the molecular contributors to prostate cancer health disparities. Her group also studies mTOR signaling and its role in tumorigenesis, with a focus on renal oncogenesis. Dr. Lotan is engaged in research training and is the co-PI of the OPTIC T32 in pathology, enabling pathology residents to engage in 2-3 years of laboratory research. She is currently the Deputy Director for Research Affairs in the Department of Pathology.

Alexandra Lazzara is an assistant professor of pediatrics with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Lazzara’s research is focused on communication with families and decision making for infants with chronic critical illness. She is currently piloting a web-based decision aid for families making resuscitation decisions at the limits of viability and plans to expand this framework to other disease processes commonly seen in the NICU.

Dr. Laura Elizabeth Wong Chin is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She also serves as assistant director for the Ambulatory Regional Anesthesia division. Her areas of clinical expertise include regional anesthesia, pediatric anesthesia, and public health. Dr. Chin completed her undergraduate studies as a double major in biology and music at the University of Southern California. She subsequently interned as a research assistant at the National Institutes of Health followed by completing a Masters in Public Health at the University of Hong Kong supported by the Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship program. She earned her M.D. from Northwestern University followed by a residency in anesthesiology at Yale University. She completed fellowship training in pediatric anesthesiology at the Children’s National Medical Center and fellowship training in regional anesthesiology and acute pain medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Chin is an attending physician in the Division of Ambulatory Anesthesia and Division of Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. She currently divides her time between clinical work, teaching residents and fellows at the bedside, education through workshops and simulation, and coordinating regional anesthesia services at the Hopkins ambulatory surgical centers.