Malinda Wu, MD

Dr. Jill A. Fahrner is an assistant professor in the Departments of Genetic Medicine and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise is medical genetics. Dr. Fahrner earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and her M.D. from the University of North Carolina. She completed pediatrics residency training at Duke University Medical Center. She joined the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine as a genetic medicine resident in 2009 and completed her training in 2012. She stayed on as chief resident from 2012-2013 and then joined the faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics within the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine in 2013. Her current primary appointment is Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetic Medicine, where she is Director of the multidisciplinary Epigenetics and Chromatin Clinic.She is a physician-scientist with a long-standing interest in epigenetic mechanisms of disease. Her clinical focus is on caring for individuals with epigenetic and chromatin disorders, specifically Mendelian disorders of the epigenetic machinery, or chromatin modifying disorders. She has seen hundreds of individuals with congenital disorders involving disrupted epigenetics, most of which exhibit neurodevelopmental disabilities and abnormal growth. Her laboratory research is focused on understanding disease mechanisms and developing therapies for select Mendelian disorders of the epigenetic machinery.She is a member of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), having won an ASHG Reviewer’s Choice Abstract Award for her work on growth retardation in Kabuki syndrome 1. She has received a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Clinician Scientist Award, a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Musculoskeletal Pilot and Feasibility Award, a William and Ella Owens Medical Research Foundation Award, the Margaret Ellen Nielsen Fellowship Award, and the Alice and YT Chen Travel Award while at Johns Hopkins. She is the recipient of a prestigious Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award and also has ongoing research funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Charlotte Wu, M.D., is an assistant professor of urology at the Brady Urological Institute and Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. She graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College with a double major in Molecular Biology/ Biochemistry and French. She completed medical school at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, general surgery internship and urology residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, and pediatric urology fellowship at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Dr. Wu has expertise in the treatment of all pediatric urological conditions. She has advanced training and clinical emphasis in surgical reconstruction for congenital urinary tract anomalies, minimally invasive/ robotic surgery, pediatric kidney stone treatment, and treatment of pediatric genitourinary tumors. Dr. Wu has research interests in posterior urethral valve, vesicoureteral reflux, and post-surgical outcomes in congenital urinary tract anomalies. She has been primary and co-author of numerous scholarly papers and book chapters. She routinely presents at national and international conferences and serves as a reviewer for Journal of Urology, Journal of Pediatric Urology, and Journal of Pediatric Surgery.

Dr. Showell is the Medical Director of the Harriet Lane Clinic (HLC), Associate Program Director of the Pediatrics Residency Program, General Pediatrician, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is dedicated to a clinical, educational, and research career focused on addressing pediatric socioeconomic and racial/ethnic health disparities among marginalized and minoritized populations, with a particular focus on obesity and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. In 2020. Dr. Showell was appointed as the Associate Medical Director of the HLC and subsequently appointed as Medical Director in 2021. She is the first African American faculty member at Johns Hopkins to be named to either position.Dr. Showell graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a B.A. in Chemistry. She then received her MD from the Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (c/o 2007), where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) National Medical Honor Society. In 2010, Dr. Showell completed her pediatrics residency at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). After completing her training, Dr. Showell committed to a career in academic medicine by first earning a Masters in Public Health degree at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) and subsequently completing a Fellowship in General Academic Pediatrics and Comparative Effectiveness Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2013. Upon completion of her Fellowship, Dr. Showell transitioned into a tenure-track faculty position at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine during which she completed a second Masters degree in Clinical Investigation from JHSPH in 2015. Presently, she serves as core faculty in the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity and has served on several Johns Hopkins Health System committees and workgroups including the COVID Vaccination Executive Committee, and Primary Care Steering Committee.In recognition of her leadership experience, scholarship and commitment to health disparities research, Dr. Showell was selected as a 2022 National Minority Quality Forum 40 under 40 Leader in Health, 2019-2020 Doris Duke Clinician Investigator Scholar and served as the 2019-2023 elected Co-Chairman of the Academic Pediatric Association Obesity Special Interest Group. She has led several projects dedicated to addressing pediatric obesity and cardiovascular disease disparities and understanding the role of the COVID-19 pandemic on exacerbating health and social inequities among disenfranchised communities. Presently Dr. Showell serves as a Principal Investigator (PI) of two multisite collaborative projects. She is the Site PI of a project examining the impact of an interfaith community-based food delivery program on food insecurity and other health-related outcomes among Baltimoreans. She is also a Co-PI on a Johnson and Johnson Foundation funded project centered on the development and implementation of a family collaborative care intervention to address complex medical and social needs among children and families seen in primary care settings.In her roles as Medical Director and Associate Residency Program Director, Dr. Showell has focused on enhancing clinical operations, overseeing primary care education for over 100 pediatric residents, expanding access to clinical care and testing for pediatric patients with COVID-19 like symptoms, spearheading COVID-19 vaccination efforts and increasing engagement amongst patients and community members in East Baltimore. Additionally, Dr. Showell has promoted expansion of charitable routine and specialty care for uninsurable patients through the Johns Hopkins The Access Partnership (TAP) Program and has led the Harriet Lane Clinic’s participation in a national multisite collaborative addressing racially just trauma informed pediatric care.