Jill Fahrner
Rubenstein Child Health Building
Office
(443) 287-9494
Fax (410) 367-3231 200 North Wolfe Street Rubenstein BLDG Lower Level Baltimore, MD 21287
About
Jill Fahrner
Dr. Jill A. Fahrner is an assistant professor in the Departments of Genetic Medicine and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise is medical genetics. Dr. Fahrner earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and her M.D. from the University of North Carolina. She completed pediatrics residency training at Duke University Medical Center. She joined the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine as a genetic medicine resident in 2009 and completed her training in 2012. She stayed on as chief resident from 2012-2013 and then joined the faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics within the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine in 2013. Her current primary appointment is Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetic Medicine, where she is Director of the multidisciplinary Epigenetics and Chromatin Clinic.She is a physician-scientist with a long-standing interest in epigenetic mechanisms of disease. Her clinical focus is on caring for individuals with epigenetic and chromatin disorders, specifically Mendelian disorders of the epigenetic machinery, or chromatin modifying disorders. She has seen hundreds of individuals with congenital disorders involving disrupted epigenetics, most of which exhibit neurodevelopmental disabilities and abnormal growth. Her laboratory research is focused on understanding disease mechanisms and developing therapies for select Mendelian disorders of the epigenetic machinery.She is a member of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), having won an ASHG Reviewer’s Choice Abstract Award for her work on growth retardation in Kabuki syndrome 1. She has received a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Clinician Scientist Award, a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Musculoskeletal Pilot and Feasibility Award, a William and Ella Owens Medical Research Foundation Award, the Margaret Ellen Nielsen Fellowship Award, and the Alice and YT Chen Travel Award while at Johns Hopkins. She is the recipient of a prestigious Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award and also has ongoing research funding from the National Institutes of Health.
Primary Specialty
Geneticist
Practice
Rubenstein Child Health Building
Gender
Female
Accepting New Patients
Degrees
Medical Doctor
Office Name
Rubenstein Child Health Building
Languages
French, English
Services
Jill Fahrner offers the services of a Genetic Doctor in Baltimore, MD. A Genetic Doctor is a physician who specializes in genetic problems. A Geneticist performs tests on newborns to screen for genetic disorders.
Please call Rubenstein Child Health Building at (443) 287-9494 to schedule an appointment in Baltimore, MD or to get more information.
Please call Rubenstein Child Health Building at (443) 287-9494 to schedule an appointment in Baltimore, MD or to get more information.
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