Kemi Badaki, MD

Nazli Kuter is a neonatologist with the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. She is also a faculty member at Kennedy Krieger Institute where she specializes in working with high-risk neonates as part of a multidisciplinary team in the Infant Neurodevelopment Center as well as the Pediatric Rehabilitation Unit. Dr. Kuter’s research is focused on brain injury after hypoxic ischemia (HI). She is on a team that is investigating potential delayed therapies for cholinergic neuron rescue and recovery after neonatal HI. Her research has been supported by the Marshall Klaus Neonatal-Perinatal Research Award and the Eudowood Board Bauernschmidt Fellowship Award. Additionally, she has been part of multidisciplinary quality improvement teams to improve outcomes for very low birth weight infants, with a focus on reduction in rates of severe intraventricular hemorrhage.

Dr. Maureen M. Gilmore is an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her areas of clinical expertise include Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.At Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Dr. Gilmore serves as Medical director of the Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. She previously was the NICU Medical Director at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, and her early career was in Neonatology at Penn State UniversityDr. Gilmore earned her M.D. from the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn. She completed her Pediatrics residency at the University of Rochester/Strong Memorial Hospital and performed a fellowship in Neonatal -Perinatal Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Her research interests include neuromonitoring and neonatal autoregulation, neonatal abstinenece syndrome, and patient safety.Dr. Gilmore serves on the Perinatal Advisory Committee for the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and a member of the Maryland chapter of the AAP.

Dr. Jeanne Sheffield is the director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and a professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Her areas of clinical and research expertise include medical and surgical complications of pregnancy with a focus on infectious diseases and immunizations in pregnancy. Dr. Sheffield earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and her medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She did her residency in obstetrics and gynecology there, and then completed a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. She joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2015. Dr. Sheffield serves on a number of national boards and committees. She is a member of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Alpha Omega Alpha, the American Gynecologic and Obstetrics Society, the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and the Infectious Disease Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is currently on the board of directors for the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and serves on the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She works with the National Institutes of Health on national grant reviews and safety monitoring boards, and has served on several working groups focusing on improving the pregnancy research infrastructure. She acts as a pregnancy consultant to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is an active member of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee. Dr. Sheffield has published many articles in obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine journals, and written numerous textbook chapters. She is currently an editor of Williams Obstetrics, the definitive obstetrics textbook used worldwide. She is a journal reviewer for a number of peer-reviewed journals in her specialty.