Overview
Dr. Allison L. Agwu, MD, ScM, FAAP, FIDSA is Professor of pediatric and adult infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her clinical interests include HIV/AIDS and infectious disease. Dr. Agwu earned her medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She completed a residency in pediatrics and internal medicine at Case Western Reserve University (University Hospitals of Cleveland/ Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital), and a combined fellowship in pediatric and adult infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Agwu's clinical and research interests focuses on children, adolescents, and young adults who are at-risk or living with HIV and their families. Clinically, she provides inpatient and outpatient pediatric infectious diseases' consultations and leads the Pediatric Adolescent HIV/AIDS Program, which provides multidisciplinary for those living with or affected by HIV. Further, she leads the young adult transition clinic, the Accessing Care Early (ACE) Clinic. Both programs are longstanding Ryan White Federal Grant-funded programs. Her overarching research goal is to decipher, address, and minimize disparities in treatment and outcomes for those living with HIV. Toward this goal, she oversees her own independent, longstanding, federally funded clinical research program and serves as principal investigator of the Johns Hopkins sites of the International Maternal, Pediatric, and Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) Network and the Adolescent Trials' Network (ATN). Her research interests include optimizing outcomes for youth at-risk for and living with HIV, management and treatment strategies, and minimizing disparities in the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and outcomes. Other special interests include epidemiologic approaches to HIV, drug resistance, and clinical trials. She is a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Agwu is Chair of the HIV Medicine Association.
Dr. Agwu is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Chlamydia. Her top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and COVID-19.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 132 peer reviewed articles and participating in 6 clinical trials. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 2 articles in the study of Chlamydia.
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Locations
200 North Wolfe Street, Rubenstein BLDG Lower Level, Rubenstein BLDG Lower Level, Baltimore, MD 21287
200 North Wolfe Street, Building 1, Baltimore, MD 21287
1717 East Monument Street, Park Building, Ground Level, Baltimore, MD 21287
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Agwu has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
6 Clinical Trials
Areas of Expertise
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- Elite
- HIV/AIDSDr. Agwu isElite. Learn about HIV/AIDS.
- Advanced
- ChlamydiaDr. Agwu isAdvanced. Learn about Chlamydia.
- GonorrheaDr. Agwu isAdvanced. Learn about Gonorrhea.
- Experienced
- AIDS Dementia ComplexDr. Agwu isExperienced. Learn about AIDS Dementia Complex.
- AIDS Dysmorphic SyndromeDr. Agwu isExperienced. Learn about AIDS Dysmorphic Syndrome.
- COVID-19Dr. Agwu isExperienced. Learn about COVID-19.
- HepatitisDr. Agwu isExperienced. Learn about Hepatitis.
- MyelitisDr. Agwu isExperienced. Learn about Myelitis.
- PneumoniaDr. Agwu isExperienced. Learn about Pneumonia.