Erin Starns Kelly, APRN

Dr. Hamilton is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Johns Hopkins All Children’s. She sees patients at the hospital’s main campus in St. Petersburg, Florida. She joined the hospital staff in 2024. Dr. Hamilton earned her medical degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine. She completed an internship in internal medicine at Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami School of Medicine. She then completed an anesthesiology residency at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, followed by a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Emory University School of Medicine/Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

Dr. Russell “Rusty” Jennings, a pioneer of pediatric surgical procedures for malformed esophageal and tracheal conditions, is a surgeon in the Esophageal and Airway Treatment (EAT) Program at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, which he joined in 2022. A pediatric surgeon for more than 40 years, Dr. Jennings founded and directed the world’s first Esophageal and Airway Treatment (EAT) Center at Boston Children’s Hospital. There he led a multidisciplinary team that worked on solving unsolved problems, and developed innovative techniques for evaluation, diagnosis and successful treatment of: complex esophageal strictures esophageal atresia “long gap” esophageal atresia esophageal replacement tracheo-esophageal fistulas recurrent tracheo-esophageal fistulas laryngo-tracheo-esophageal clefts tracheomalacia bronchomalacia tracheal reconstruction aberrant subclavian artery vascular compression syndromes vascular rings pectus excavatum chest wall deformities asphyxiating thoracic dystrophies recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring during thoracic surgery Dr. Jennings has many publications on these topics including the largest series of successful treatment of complex recurrent tracheoesophageal fistulas in the literature with excellent outcomes, techniques to grow patients’ tissues to allow repair and connection of the esophagus in cases of esophageal atresia and esophageal injury, esophageal replacement with jejunum, and treatment of tracheomalacia. He has frequently taught and presented on these and numerous other related topics regionally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Jennings’ prior work includes establishing the first fetal surgery center in New England; Dr. Jennings developed the first successful fetal cardiac surgery program in the world treating HLHS before birth. Dr. Jennings earned his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. His general surgery residency was done at the University of California, San Francisco. He was a postdoctoral research fellow for three years in the Fetal Treatment Center and Fetal Treatment Laboratory while completing the residency. He completed a pediatric surgery fellowship at Boston Children’s/Harvard Medical School.

Caitlin Henderson, MSN, APRN, PNP-AC/PC, is a pediatric critical care nurse practitioner who provides care for patients in the Esophageal and Airway Treatment Program at Johns Hopkins All Children’s. Henderson joined the hospital staff in 2012 and treated patients in the pediatric intensive care unit prior to joining the EAT team. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Florida State University, and Master of Science in Nursing, dual pediatric acute/primary care nurse practitioner track, from University of Alabama at Birmingham.