Alessandra Angelino

MD, MPH, FAAP

Dr. Alessandra Angelino joined Johns Hopkins and the Center for Indigenous Health in 2023. As an undergraduate, she majored in International Health at Georgetown University and had the opportunity to work in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community in Australia. This experience inspired her passion for Indigenous health, health equity, and public health. Dr. Angelino earned an MPH in Global Health at the University of Washington. She formalized connections with American Indian communities and national Indigenous organizations, resulting in research and advocacy related to Two Spirit and gender diverse youth and adolescents. She created the “Celebrating Our Magic Toolkit” which has been utilized globally as a tool for Indigenous Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ youth, parents, and healthcare providers. Dr. Angelino completed her Pediatrics Residency at the University of North Carolina. She continued working with American Indian communities, the Indian Health Service, and The Fenway Institute to create curricula and national guidelines related to Indigenous gender diverse youth.

Her research and publications center on intersectionality, cultural connection and mental health outcomes, and community based participatory research. In the advocacy space, she is a liaison on the AAP’s Committee on Native American Child Health (CONACH) and serves to increase visibility for Indigenous youth and adolescents. Dr. Angelino is excited for her Adolescent Medicine Fellowship and work at the Center to continue clinical, advocacy, and policy work focused on Indigenous youth and adolescents, gender diverse youth, and health equity.

Outside of work, Alessandra enjoys cooking, swimming, hiking, and yoga.

Dr. Michelle Iandiorio

Faculty

Michelle Iandiorio, MD, received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York and her medical degree at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. Michelle completed a residency in internal medicine, fellowship in infectious disease and the New Mexico Education Scholars Program at the University of New Mexico’s School of Medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has provided specialty primary care to people with HIV in New Mexico since 2004 and has served as Medical Director of UNM Truman Health Services since Spring 2019. She is a professor of internal medicine at the University of New Mexico in the Division of Infectious Diseases. She is the current Clinical Director for the South Central AIDS Education and Training Center.