Dr. Hughes serves as Medical Director for Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Office of Telemedicine and Medical Director of Pediatric Telemedicine for the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and practices general pediatrics in East Baltimore. After earning an undergraduate degree at Haverford College, Dr. Hughes attended medical school at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and received a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed a residency in pediatrics and served as Chief Resident at Johns Hopkins where she stayed on to complete a healthy equity research fellowship in General Academic Pediatrics. She serves as an expert consultant to the AAMC on the topic of telehealth and healthcare equity. In addition to her work in telemedicine, she is an Epic Physician Builder and co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Patient Family Centered Design (MyChart) committee.