Dr. Michael Van Doren Johnston is a pediatric neurologist and the Chief Medical Officer and Executive VP of the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research interests are in the pathogenesis and treatment of hypoxic-ischemic and inflammatory brain injuries in premature and full term infant as well as in hypothermic circulatory arrest used as a support for complicated cardiac surgery. He is a faculty member in the Neuroscience Intensive Care Nursery (NICN) at Johns Hopkins Hospital where babies with asphyxia and other brain disorders are treated with moderate hypothermia and other therapies. He has an active research laboratory in the Hugo Moser Research Institute and Kennedy Krieger and he is also the Director of the Clinical Trials Unit at Kennedy Krieger.
