Center for Pediatric Early Phase Trials

The Center for Pediatric Early-Phase Trials serves as a resource to investigators, including helping to navigate (in partnership with the Center for Pediatric Clinical Research Training, Education and Engagement) investigators through review and approval processes and engaging the expertise of cores and shared resources in order to enhance efficiency and quality of early-phase trial planning and execution.

The Center also serves as the home of faculty expertise for early-phase pediatric clinical trial design and conduct, providing consultation and mentorship and enabling collaboration and knowledge-sharing. The Center fosters collaboration among Johns Hopkins All Children’s clinical and laboratory investigators, and with external collaborators, to perform PK/PD analyses and to plan and execute investigations of biologic correlates as part of phase 1 and 2 clinical trial designs.

Meet Our Team

Amy Kiskaddon, Pharm.D., M.B.A., Co-director

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Hematology and Cardiology), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 

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Jennifer Leiding, M.D.

Adjunct Associate Professor Pediatrics (Allergy and Immunology), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 

John Morrison, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 

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John Michael Morrison, M.D., Ph.D.

Anthony Sochet, M.D., M.H.S.

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 

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Christy Fernald, R.N., B.S.N.

Manager, Clinical Research Unit, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital

Prem Fort, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Neonatology), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Neonatologist, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Maternal, Fetal & Neonatal Institute
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Prem Fort, M.D.

Neil Goldenberg, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Dean for Research at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital; Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director of the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
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Neil A Goldenberg

Dawn Napolitano, Pharm.D.

Manager, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Investigational Drug Services Unit 

Jonathan Metts, M.D.

Instructor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Member, Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital All Children's Cancer & Blood Disorders Institute

Daniel Schaufelberger, Ph.D.,

External adviser and collaborating investigator

Former Scientific Director, Pharmaceutical Development & Manufacturing Sciences, Pediatric Center of Excellence, Janssen R&D
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