Dr. Hannah Rando is a postdoctoral research fellow in the division of cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Rando received her medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and her Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to her time in the cardiac surgery laboratory at Johns Hopkins, she completed the first two years of her general surgery training at the University of Vermont Medical Center. Dr. Rando will return to Vermont in July to complete her general surgery residency, and ultimately plans to pursue a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery. Her research interests include optimization of patient outcomes in extracorporeal life support, development of novel repair strategies for structural heart disease, and expanding equitable access to cardiac surgical care in low- and middle-income countries.
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Dr. Bo Soo Kim is a pulmonary and critical care medicine trained intensivist in the cardiovascular surgical ICU at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital where he also serves as the director of the adult ECMO program. With over 10 years of experience in the field, he has established himself as a leading expert in the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for critically ill patients.
Dr. Kim received his medical degree from Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia where he completed his residency in internal medicine. His fellowship training was completed in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital where he currently holds his faculty position.
Dr. Kim is also an active researcher and the co-founder of the team: Hopkins Education, Research, and Advancement in Lifesupport Devices (HERALD). This team leads multiple research projects that are both clinical and translational in ECMO interventions. The team is dedicated to optimizing ECMO care and improving patient outcomes while contributing to the community of specialists and the collective expertise.
