Ana Ponce Kiess, MD

Marci Laudenslager, MD MHS DABOM (pronounced "law-den-slay-ger") is an obesity medicine physician in the Johns Hopkins Healthful Eating, Activity & Weight Program. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. Her clinical expertise is in obesity and obesity-associated disorders; her portfolio also includes medical education as well as clinical, translational, and epidemiologic research. The Johns Hopkins Healthful Eating, Activity & Weight Program offers a variety of services to support weight loss and management of chronic disease. In her practice, Dr. Laudenslager designs weight management plans that blend lifestyle behavior change strategies (nutrition, activity, sleep, stress, mental and emotional health) with medications and surgery. She was recognized as a "Top Weight Management Doctor" by Baltimore Magazine in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Dr. Laudenslager is an educator and researcher - her work is specifically focused on the educational gap that exists in obesity medicine. She teaches learners at all levels of medical training and designs curricula aimed at improving obesity medical education. Dr. Laudenslager received her doctor of medicine degree from Drexel University College of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency at the Hoftra Northwell Internal Medicine Residency Program where she additionally served as Chief Resident. She became a Harvard Macy Scholar during her year as Chief Resident. Dr. Laudenslager received her Master of Health Science degree from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and completed her General Internal Medicine Fellowship training at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Dr. Argye Hillis is a professor of Neurology, with joint faculty appointments in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and in Cognitive Science. She is also the Sheikh Khalifa Stroke Institute Professor of Acute Stroke Diagnoses and Management.Prior to medical training and neurology residency, Dr. Hillis worked as a speech-language pathologist, and conducted clinical research focusing on understanding and treating aphasia and hemispatial neglect. She has brought these areas of experience to impact on her clinical research in neurology, which involves cognitive and neuroimaging studies of aphasia and hemispatial neglect due to acute stroke and focal dementias. She has published extensively on these topics in journals and textbooks. Dr. Hillis is Associate Editor of Stroke and has served as Associate editor of Brain, Annals of Neurology, Aphasiology, American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Neurocase, Cognitive Neuropsychology, and Language and Cognitive Processes and served as co-Editor and Chief of Behavioral Neurology.Dr. Hillis serves as the Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology and the Director of the Cerebrovascular Division of Neurology at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Judy Huang specializes in the comprehensive treatment of cerebrovascular disorders such as brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), brain aneurysms, moya moya disease, carotid artery stenosis, and cavernous malformations. Dr. Huang also specializes in the surgical treatment of Chiari malformations and trigeminal neuralgia. Her philosophy of patient-centered care is to take an individualized approach to each person and their unique situation.Dr. Huang is a committed educator and serves as Director of the Neurosurgery Residency Program at Johns Hopkins. As a member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, Dr. Huang plays an influential role in the training standards and certification of all practicing neurosurgeons across the United States.