Name: Charlotte Jane Sumner, MD
Address: 601 North Caroline Street Floor 5, Baltimore, MD, 21287, US
Telephone: (410) 955-9441

General Description

Dr. Charlotte Sumner is a Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Sumner cares for patients with genetically-mediated neuromuscular diseases. Her practice is notable for a focus on individuals with inherited neuromuscular disorders of peripheral nerves and motor neurons, including spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease. She co-directs the Johns Hopkins Muscular Dystrophy Association Care Center, the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), and the Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) clinics, which deliver multidisciplinary clinical care, engage in international natural history studies, and provide cutting edge therapeutics.Dr. Sumner’s research focuses on developing treatments for degenerative disorders of motor neurons and peripheral nerves. Her laboratory uses human tissues and induced pluripotent cell lines, mouse models and cultured cells to characterize disease mechanisms and develop treatments.Dr. Charlotte Sumner received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine following undergraduate studies at Princeton University. She completed internal medicine internship and neurology residency at the University of California San Francisco, after which she returned to the east coast for a neuromuscular fellowship at Johns Hopkins and a neurogenetics fellowship in the Neurogenetics Branch at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. She joined the neurology faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2006.

Location & Map

Charlotte Jane Sumner, MD

601 North Caroline Street Floor 5 Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Baltimore, MD 21287

(410) 955-9441

Driving Directions

Charlotte Jane Sumner, MD

Neurologist in Baltimore

601 North Caroline Street Floor 5 Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center Baltimore MD, 21287

(410) 955-9441

General Description

Location & Map

Alexander Testino, MD

Julie Yi, MD

Payam Mohassel, MD

Michael D. Kornberg, MD

Jean Luc Rolland, MD