Note: This essay contains spoilers for Avatar: The Way of Water. There’s little I love more than surprise neurology in mainstream media. One such surprise occurred recently when one of the main characters in Avatar: The Way of Water has a seizure. Seizures are the proverbial bread and butter of pediatric neurology, and while…
Author: April Sharp
Dr. Sharp is a pediatric neurologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and Developmental Medicine at The Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. Her clinical practice focuses on neurological injury and the long-term developmental consequences of critical illness in infants with a special focus on congenital heart disease. She has completed additional training in health humanities and is also a member of the hospital ethics committee.
Parkland Speaks: What It Means to Survive
April Sharp // Gun violence is a national epidemic and public health crisis. You can’t turn on the TV or scroll through social media these days without news of another mass shooting. In Baltimore, where I’ve lived for the past decade, shootings and homicides are so common that many don’t even make the news. In…
Ode on a Greek Letter
April Sharp // The fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet is currently in the spotlight, but for all the wrong reasons. On November 26th, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.529 as a variant of concern and gave it the label Omicron. The use of the Greek alphabet to label variants…