Jay R. Shapiro, M.D. Dr. Shapiro is the Director of the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Clinic at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and a graduate of Boston Univeristy School of Medicine. Dr. Shapiro served as the Director of the Bayview General Clinical Research Center and Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, and now is a Professor on the Faculty of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology. Dr. Shapiro has specialized in inherited and metabolic disorders of bone for several years and had conducted research in OI involving genetics, collagen and bone cell function. He also serves on the Medical Advisory Council for the OI Foundation, as the Team Leader for Bone of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, and is a consultant to the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC.
James R. Christensen, M.D. Dr. Christensen obtained his medical degree from the University of Nebraska (1975). He completed his Pediatric residency and Developmental Pediatrics fellowship at Johns Hopkins, and his Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency in the Johns Hopkins/Sinai program. He is Director of Rehabilitation at the Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) and an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research focusses on models of care for children with acquired nervous system injuries, and the rehabilitation of persons with Osteogenesis Imperfecta and Ataxia Telangiectasia.
Frank S. Pidcock, M.D. Dr. Pidcock is board certified in pediatrics and physical medicine and rehabilitation. He has also completed a fellowship in developmental pediatrics. He is an Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Pidcock is the Associate Director of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. His clinical work involves developing protocols for the use of botulinum toxin in the treatment of children with spasticity. This includes individuals with cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury and other processes that affect motor control. Other areas of interest include the rehabilitation of children with chronic graft versus host disease, rehabilitation of children who have had limb lengthening surgery, and developing outcome measures for children with burns.
Melissa K. Travato, M.D. Dr. Travato obtained her medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (1994). She completed her Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency in the Johns Hopkins/Sinai program. She is currently completing a fellowship in Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine at the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
Azar Khosravi, M.D. Dr. Khosravi has joined the Osteognesis Imperfecta Program at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She comes to Kennedy Krieger Institute from the National Institutes of Health, Nation Institute of Dental Research, where she completed training in the NIH Endocrinology Fellowship Program. Her research at NIH involved bone disorders in children and adults.
Carole A. Hickman, R.N.,C. Ms. Hickman graduated from MacQueen Gibbs Willis School of Nursing, Easton, MD in 1961. She is certified by the American Nurse's Association as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. Her clinical experiences have included: Clinician for, and Coordinator of, Child Health Services, Kent County Heaalth Department, DHMH, Chestertown, MD (1977-1991), Adolescent Case Coordinator, Kent County Health Department, DHMH, Chestertown, MD (1991-1993), Inpatient Nurse Practitioner, Kennedy Krieger Institute as a staff clinician for the Lead unit, and later, on the Rehabilitation unit (1993-1995).
She currently practices as a Nurse Practitioner in the Orthopedic and Ostogenesis Imperfecta clinics at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is a point of contact and coordinator of resources for the Osteogenesis Imperfecta population, during which she assists with data collection to maintain a patient data base.
Ms. Hickman is in day to day contact with many O.I. patients, both locally and throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
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