Maryland Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics

Dr. Rachel Dodge is a community pediatrician and owner of Dundalk Pediatrics Associates in Southeast Baltimore County. Dr. Dodge has expertise regarding the health of high risk populations, especially children in foster care. She has served on numerous state and national workgroups aimed at the health needs of children in foster care. She also advocates for pediatrics through her appointment on the Maryland Medicaid Advisory Committee. In addition, she teaches medical students and pediatric residents as a community preceptor. She holds a part-time appointment as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Dr. Dodge received her medical degree from the University of Maryland, School of Medicine in 2002 and completed the pediatric residency program at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital/University Hospitals of Cleveland in 2005. She completed the General Pediatric Academic Development Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and earned a Master’s of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2008.

Dr. Katherine Hoops is an attending physician in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Johns Hopkins Medicine. She earned her medical degree at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida. She completed a Master’s in Public Health concentrating on Health Policy and Management in injury and violence prevention at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her residency training in Pediatrics at the University of Alabama Birmingham before returning to Johns Hopkins to complete her fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. She is currently a Juris Doctor candidate at the Georgetown University Law Center (2024). Dr. Hoops’ research is focused on an equity-focused, public health approach to the prevention of firearm injury and violence. She is a core faculty member in the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions and serves as the Director of Clinical Programs and Practice. She conducts research on creating and evaluating effective policy measures, implementing a trauma-informed approach to care, effectively communicating with patients and families about firearm safety, and improving physicians’ education on and counseling related to firearm safety. She serves as an official spokesperson for the AAP and works with local and national media to provide education on issues related to child health.
She and her husband, a cardiac anesthesiologist and intensivist, have two wonderful, book-loving children. In her free time, she enjoys running, cycling, gardening, cooking, and reading.

Wendy Lane, MD, MPH, FAAP, FACPM is a Pediatrician who works at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Lifebridge Health Center for Hope. She is board certified in General Pediatrics, Child Abuse Pediatrics, and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Lane received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and then completed her Pediatric residency and Masters in Public Health at the University of North Carolina. She completed a Preventive Medicine residency at the University of Maryland, and then a fellowship in Child Abuse and Neglect at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Dr. Lane is currently a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland, where she serves as Director of the Preventive Medicine Residency Program and as the Principal Investigator for B’more for Healthy Babies Upton/Druid Heights, a community-based and community-engaged intervention to improve birth outcomes. She serves as Medical Director at the Center for Hope, and Directs the Maryland CHAMP program, which provides training, peer review and support to Maryland physicians and nurses who evaluate children with suspected maltreatment. Until the end of 2023, Dr. Lane served as chair of the Maryland State Council on Child Abuse and Neglect where she helped pass Maryland legislation to create a Medical Director for Child Welfare and to reduce sexual abuse and misconduct in schools. She has also served for many years as Co-Chair of the Maryland AAP Committee on Child Maltreatment and Foster Care.

Dr. Lane performs medical evaluations for suspected maltreatment at the Center for Hope, the University of Maryland Medical Center, and the Howard County Child Advocacy Center.

Mutiat Tolu Onigbanjo, MD, FAAP, is a general pediatrician at the University of Maryland. She also serves as the medical director of UM Pediatrics at Midtown. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology from Princeton University. She attended medical school at George Washington University School of Medicine and completed her pediatric and chief residency at Columbia University. Upon finishing residency, she moved to the DC/Maryland area and worked at a Federally Qualified Health Center providing medical care to an underserved immigrant population. In 2016, she joined the faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She focuses on providing general pediatric care to children from birth through age 21. She also cares for newborns in the newborn nursery and teaches medical students and pediatric residents. She enjoys caring for patients and teaching the next generation of physicians. Tolu is dedicated to advocating for pediatric patients in Baltimore and beyond and is committed to creating a network of physicians to help ensure the needs of our community is met. She lives with her husband and two young children in Howard County. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, cooking, and attending her kids’ soccer games.

Christine Saba, MD, FAAP, completed medical school at Eastern Virginia Medical School, followed by a residency at Georgetown University Medical Center. Prior to entering medical school, she cared for pediatric patients as the first Senior Clinical Pharmacist in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital after completion of the first pediatric pharmacy program at MCV hospital in Richmond. After residency she initially worked for a group practice; since 2000, has been in solo practice, and has been very involved in what it takes to manage and run a practice through 20+years of the evolving changes in Medicine. She has lived in Montgomery County since 1969.

Christine has a passion to advocate for the well-being of children and those families who have no voice to say what their children need by working with her colleagues in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. She feels pediatricians have come together during this COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with the increased awareness of what needs to evolve to address the discrepancies of care and social biases that exist in human beings, pediatricians can have huge impact.

Kristi Machemer, MD, FAAP, received her medical degree from University of Illinois at Chicago and attended residency at University of Minnesota. She completed a pediatric fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology/BMT at Duke University. After several years in the hematology/oncology world, she returned to her first love, general pediatrics.

She is a pediatrician and owner of Waldorf Pediatrics. Her special interests include mental health including care for children with anxiety, depression, ADHD, ODD and ASD. She also serves in the AAP Mental Health and SODBP primary care committees. Her passion is to include mental health care in the medical home.

She lives with her husband and two children in Charles county. She is fortunate to be studying classical ballet and enjoys dancing with her kids. She loves taking classes in Sumi-E brush painting.

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