John Baddley is an Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Baddley is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Cryptococcosis, Shingles, Sepsis, and Febrile Neutropenia.

Dr. Jun is a pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine physician. He is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep-disordered breathing, and in the care of critically ill patients in the Medical ICU. He is a member of the Sleep Fellowship Program Evaluation and Clinical Competency Committee and provides teaching to medical students and residents at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Jun is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Cerebral Hypoxia, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome (OHS), and Central Sleep Apnea.

Dr. Yarmus is a Professor of Medicine and Oncology and the director of Interventional Pulmonology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as well as the Vice Chair of Medicine for Strategy and Finance. He is an expert in the minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer and he leads the Interventional Pulmonary research program at Johns Hopkins with research investigating innovative minimally invasive device development and early-stage bronchoscopic treatments. He also has extensive experience in the minimally invasive management of malignant airway obstruction, complex airway management, pleural diseases and symptom relief with minimally invasive procedures such as indwelling pleural catheters and pleurodesis. Dr. Yarmus is a member of the Fleischner Society and a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Thoracic Society. Dr. Yarmus is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Pleural Effusion, Lung Nodules, Lymphofollicular Hyperplasia, Endoscopy, and Advanced Bronchoscopy.

Dr. Cosgrove is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Disease (ID) at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and has a joint appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is the Director of Research for the ID Fellowship Program and PI of the T32 training grant that supports ID fellow training. She serves as the Director of the Department of Antimicrobial Stewardship and an Associate Hospital Epidemiologist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Cosgrove’s research interests include the epidemiology and outcomes of antimicrobial resistance, the development of tools and programs to promote the rational use of antimicrobials, the prevention of hospital-acquired infections, and the epidemiology and management of S. aureus bacteremia. Early in her career, she recognized the critical need to study antimicrobial stewardship strategies and has led a series of outcomes studies over the past 20 years that have defined the practice of antimicrobial stewardship in the United States. Her recent research focuses on strategies for implementation of antimicrobial stewardship activities across all healthcare settings via a large, multi-center project including hospitals, long-term care facilities and ambulatory practices funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and approaches to improve how antibiotics are given via a randomized trial to compare intravenous and oral therapy for Gram negative bacteremia funded by PCORI. She is the PI of the Johns Hopkins Prevention Epicenter, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded program that integrates antimicrobial stewardship, healthcare epidemiology, human factors engineering, data science, and implementation science to address knowledge gaps and develop strategies to optimize patient safety by preventing transmission of pathogens and improving antibiotic use in diverse healthcare settings and patient populations. She is a past voting member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria. She is a Past President of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology’s Board of Directors. Dr. Cosgrove received her undergraduate degree from Columbia College, her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, and her master of science degree in epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her postgraduate training in internal medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and underwent subsequent training in ID at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Cosgrove is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Sepsis, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), Pneumonia, and Pseudomonas Stutzeri Infections.

Dr. Buescher is a pulmonary critical care physician. He has been deeply involved in clinical teaching of both medical students, interns, residents and fellows throughout his career. He is the director of the Medical/Surgical Critical Care Units at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital as well as MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital. He is president of a large community private practice pulmonary and critical group (Pulmonary and Critical Care Associates of Baltimore) He serves at Hopkins on the part-time clinical faculty. Research Summary Dr. Buescher is involved in multiple clinical research projects. Dr. Buescher is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Sarcoidosis, Neurosarcoidosis, Lung Metastases, Endoscopy, and Gastrostomy.

Semenawit Burka is a primary care provider, practicing in Cardiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Burka is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Pericarditis, Acute Kidney Failure, High Cholesterol, and Coronary Heart Disease.

Dr. Lee is a specialist in Interventional Pulmonary and serves as the Wang Interventional Pulmonary Fellowship Director. His areas of clinical expertise include interventional pulmonology, pleural disease, minimal invasive diagnostics and lung cancer at Johns Hopkins. He also has extensive experience in the minimally invasive management of malignant airway obstruction, complex airway management and difficulty airways. In addition, he specializes in the diagnosis and management of pleural diseases and symptom relief with minimally invasive procedures. He is a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and the Johns Hopkins Master of Education for Health Professionals. Dr. Lee is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Pleural Effusion, Lung Nodules, Lymphofollicular Hyperplasia, Endoscopy, and Advanced Bronchoscopy.

Lisa Maragakis, M.D., M.P.H., FSHEA, FIDSA is a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Maragakis is the Senior Director of Infection Prevention, for The Johns Hopkins Health System and the Hospital Epidemiologist for The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In these roles, she is responsible for the conceptualization, planning, implementation, and development of the Johns Hopkins Health System's infection control and prevention program. Her research interests are the epidemiology, prevention and control of healthcare-acquired infections and antimicrobial-resistant gram-negative bacilli. Dr. Maragakis serves as the Executive Director of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Biocontainment Unit and as Incident Commander for the Johns Hopkins Medicine COVID-19 response. She also serves as the IDSA Co-Chair for the 2022 Update of the Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, and as Co-Chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). Dr. Maragakis is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), Ebola Virus Disease, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, and Bone Marrow Aspiration.

Dr. Bradley C. Strunk is an instructor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His area of clinical expertise is internal medicine. Dr. Strunk is a hospitalist at Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center. Dr. Strunk earned his M.D. at Johns Hopkins. He completed his residency at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Strunk is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Sickle Cell Disease, Renovascular Hypertension, Necrosis, Endoscopy, and Ureteroscopy.

Dr. Putcha is a pulmonary and critical care physician. She is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of lung disease (specifically obstructive lung diseases such as COPD and asthma), and in the care of critically ill patients in the Medical ICU. She is a member of the Lung Research Conference Planning Committee and provides teaching to medical students and residents at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Putcha is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Emphysema, Cerebral Hypoxia, and Asthma.

Dr. Ivonne M. Pena is an instructor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise is internal medicine. A hospitalist, Dr. Pena is a member of the Collaborative Inpatient Medicine Service at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Pena earned her M.D. at Universidad Autonoma De Guadalajara Facultad de Medicina in Mexico. She completed her residency at Roanoke Memorial Hospitals. Dr. Pena is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Familial Neurocardiogenic Syncope, Orthostatic Hypotension, Interstitial Nephritis, Sepsis, and Gastrostomy.

William F. Wright, D.O., M.P.H, Assistant Professor of Medicine, completed medical training residency in internal medicine and adult infectious diseases fellowship at Pennylvania State University Medical School. He pursued further training in Clinical Pathology/Medical Microbiology at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven (2009) and completed his Master in Public Health (2007) at Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia. His research interests include fever of unknown origin (FUO), antimicrobial resistance and therapeutic discoveries, molecular mechanisms of resistance, and the impact of diagnostic clinical microbiology on the practice of infectious diseases. He currently serves as clinical director for the inpatient infectious diseases consult services and services for the management of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. His outpatient clinical practice focuses on general infectious diseases, infections in burn patients, infections in immunocompromised patients, and travel-related infections. He primarily sees patients at Johns Hopkins Greenspring Station, Johns Hopkins Bayview Outpatient offices, and also attends on the inpatient infectious disease consult service at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Wright is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Osteomyelitis, Osteomyelitis in Children, Meningitis, and Endocarditis.

Dr. Li Hua is a hospitalist at Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center. Dr. Hua only sees patients who are in the hospital, she does not have outpatient clinic appointments. Dr. Hua is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. Her top areas of expertise are Sickle Cell Disease, Sepsis, Ogilvie Syndrome, Hip Replacement, and Gastrostomy.

Andrew Hughes is a Pulmonary Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Hughes is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Pulmonary Fibrosis, Saddle Pulmonary Embolism, Pneumonia, and Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia.

Dr. Liu is a pulmonary physician with additional expertise in allergy and immunology. He is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with severe asthma with a focus on developing new treatments for severe disease that has failed to respond to standard therapies. Dr. Liu is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Eosinophilic Asthma, Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia, Eosinophilic Pneumonia, Simple Pulmonary Eosinophilia, and Gastrostomy.

Dr. Chen practices Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. His primary area of interest is sarcoidosis, and he has extensive experience in the diagnosis and treatment of sarcoidosis in all of its forms, and the management of consequences of this systemic disease. The Sarcoidosis Clinic often serves to coordinate management of patients with multi-organ involvement with sarcoidosis, and to this end Dr. Chen actively maintains clinical and research collaborations with Cardiology, Cardiovascular Nuclear Medicine, Neurology, and Ophthalmology. Additionally, Dr. Chen participates as a Physician Champion in the Johns Hopkins Health System Epic project to improve the safety and quality of care of critically ill patients through optimization of the electronic medical record. His work involves developing systems-based approaches to complex management issues, including sepsis and severe alcohol withdrawal. Dr. Chen is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Sarcoidosis, Neurosarcoidosis, Lung Metastases, and Acute Interstitial Pneumonia.

Mitchell Schwartz is a Pulmonary Medicine provider in Towson, Maryland. Dr. Schwartz is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Lung Metastases, Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia, Atypical Pneumonia, Neurosarcoidosis, and Gastrostomy.

Saiyad Sarkar is an Intensive Care Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Sarkar is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Lung Cancer, Lung Nodules, Pleural Effusion, Advanced Bronchoscopy, and Endoscopy.

John Morrissey is an Intensive Care Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Morrissey is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Pneumonia, COVID-19, Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia, Atypical Pneumonia, and Gastrostomy.

Suresh Basnet is a Geriatrics provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Basnet is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia. His top areas of expertise are Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Lung Metastases, Pneumonia, Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), and Thrombectomy.