Giovana Olivera-Caceres, MD

The Brady Urological Institute is home to many of the world’s most accomplished urologic medicine experts. We work closely with oncology, pediatrics, nephrology and other specialists from across Johns Hopkins to provide personalized treatment plans and exceptional, research-driven care.

Curtiland Deville, MD, is the Medical Director of the Johns Hopkins Proton Therapy Center, Clinical Director of Radiation Oncology at Sibley Memorial Hospital, co-director of the Kimmel Cancer Center Prostate Multidisciplinary Clinic at Sibley Memorial Hospital and an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.Dr. Deville is an expert in proton therapy and a leader in several institutional and national clinical trials. He treats genitourinary malignancies, including prostate cancer, and soft tissue sarcomas, and is dedicated to creating individualized treatment plans for each patient. His research interests involve better targeting tumors through proton and photon therapies and reducing radiation to healthy tissues. He analyzes toxicity rates with modern radiation techniques and uses the most advanced technology for his patients’ care. Dr. Deville is also a Senior Editor for Advances in Radiation Oncology, as well as a reviewer for several journals that focus on radiation oncology.He is an expert on physician workforce diversity and widely published in the field. He is the immediate past Chair of the American Society of Radiation Oncology's Committee on Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Chair of the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Diversity in Oncology Subcommittee.

Matthew Ladra, M.D., M.P.H., leads the dedicated pediatric team for the Johns Hopkins Proton Therapy Center and is the director of pediatric radiation oncology for the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, a clinical collaboration with Children’s National Hospital, where Dr. Ladra serves as faculty in the department of pediatric oncology. He is also an assistant professor of radiation oncology and molecular radiation sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Listen Dr. Ladra's Cancer Matters podcast episode to learn more about his work.Previously, Dr. Ladra served as the director of pediatric radiation at the Provision Center for Proton Therapy in Tennessee. He also completed a 2-year fellowship in pediatric proton therapy at the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Francis H. Burr Proton Center. Dr. Ladra is one of a handful of radiation oncologists whose research and clinical efforts focus exclusively on pediatric patients. He is frequently invited to speak on pediatric radiation oncology topics internationally and across the U.S. and has published extensively on the subject through original research book chapters and review articles. Dr. Ladra’s research efforts focus mainly on pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma treatment, early phase clinical trials involving radiation and non-chemotherapeutic agents, and reducing neurocognitive toxicity for pediatric brain tumor patients.