Pathology, Clinical Pathology, Intestinal Crypt Stem Cell Biology, Next-generation DNA Sequencing, Colorectal Cancer, Gastrointestinal Pathology, Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Tatianna (Tasha) Larman is from Southern California and grew up in a military family. After graduating from Harvard University, she spent two years working in Italy before starting medical school at the University of California San Diego. During medical school, she returned to Boston for two years as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute medical fellow, studying the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in cancer using next-generation DNA sequencing. Her current research interests are focused on intestinal crypt stem cell biology and early pathogenesis of colorectal cancer. She is pursuing AP and Gastrointestinal Pathology Fellowship here at Hopkins.

Critical Care Medicine, Internal Medicine and General Medicine, Healthcare Management, Medical Education

Pharmacy and Medicine, Product Strategy, Innovation Management, Technology and Product Development, Medical Devices, Product Design, Regulatory Affairs, Product Launch, Business Strategy, Change Control

Alastair Clarke works as a senior consultant to an industry with 25 years pharmaceutical industry and medical device experience in respiratory, semi-solid and the sterile liquid technology areas. Alastair has a deep understanding of robustness in all aspects of technology and product development from strategy definition, through innovation to industrialisation and scale-up. A Chartered Engineer is a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

Medicine, genetic and non-genetic factors, Clinical Research, Human Biology, Biological Anthropology, Social Anthropology

Dr. Fejerman focuses on the discovery of genetic and non-genetic factors that contribute to breast cancer risk and prognosis in Latinas. Her past work established a relationship between genetic ancestry and breast cancer risk, where higher European ancestry in U.S. and Mexican Latinas was associated with an increased risk. Her subsequent research has built upon this observation, exploring genetic variants, through admixture mapping and genome-wide association approaches, as well as the possible environmental and lifestyle related factors, and ancestry-gene interactions. Recent work explores disparities in breast cancer prognosis by genetic ancestry in Latinas and its potential causes.

Obstetrics and Gynecology, Internal Medicine and General Medicine, Public health, Obstetric Delivery, Reproductive Medicine, Gynaecological Surgery, Reproductive Biology, Prenatal Diagnosis, Reproductive Endocrinology, Assisted Reproductive Technology, Screening, Ovary, Fetal Growth Restriction, Endometriosis, Implantation, Embryo Implantation, ICSI, Embryo Transfer

Dr. Sotirios SARAVELOS graduated from the University of Sheffield, UK, where he later undertook research in the field of reproductive medicine and particularly recurrent miscarriage. He subsequently continued his specialty training in London, where he was also awarded an Honorary Clinical Research Fellowship by Imperial College London, while working at St. Mary’s Hospital. He is currently a Visiting Scholar (Honorary) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.