Charlotte Sumner
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Office
(410) 955-9441
Fax (410) 955-6402 601 North Caroline Street Floor 5 Baltimore, MD 21287
About
Charlotte Sumner
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.
Primary Specialty
Neurologist
Practice
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Gender
Female
Accepting New Patients
Degrees
Medical Doctor
Office Name
Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center
Languages
English
Services
Charlotte Sumner provides neurology services in Baltimore, MD. A Neurologist is a physician who diagnoses, treats, and manages disorders, disease, and injuries to the nervous system. This includes such areas as the brain, spinal cord, nerves and muscles.
Please call Charlotte Sumner at (410) 955-9441 to schedule an appointment in Baltimore, MD or to get more information.
Please call Charlotte Sumner at (410) 955-9441 to schedule an appointment in Baltimore, MD or to get more information.
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