Overview
Dr. Petros Karakousis is a Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has joint appointments in Molecular Microbiology & Immunology and International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His areas of clinical expertise include infectious diseases and tuberculosis. Dr. Karakousis received his undergraduate degree in 1994 from the Johns Hopkins University and his medical degree in 1998 from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He completed residency training in internal medicine in 2001 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. After completing fellowship training in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins, he joined the Department of Medicine faculty in 2005. His research interests include tuberculosis pathogenesis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis persistence and antibiotic tolerance, host-pathogen interactions and host-directed therapies. Dr. Karakousis was named a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2010, and was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2021. He has held numerous leadership positions, including in the Working Group on New TB Drugs of the Stop TB Partnership. He has served on the editorial board of various scientific journals and on numerous NIH study sections, and as a peer reviewer for many international government and private funding agencies.
Dr. Karakousis is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Kaposi Sarcoma. His top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, Myelitis, AIDS Dysmorphic Syndrome, and AIDS Dementia Complex.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 133 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 1 article in the study of Kaposi Sarcoma.
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Locations
1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
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.
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Eric Engels is an Infectious Disease provider in Washington, Washington, D.c.. Dr. Engels is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Kaposi Sarcoma. His top areas of expertise are Kaposi Sarcoma, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, and Mononucleosis.
National Cancer Institute
Irini Sereti is an Infectious Disease provider in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Sereti is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Kaposi Sarcoma. Her top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, Kaposi Sarcoma, Sepsis, Mycobacterium Avium Complex Infections, and Colonoscopy.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Dr. Richard Moore is recognized for mentorship of medical students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty in HIV/AIDS Research. Winner of the David M. Levine Mentorship Awards in the General Internal Medicine Department, he is an expert in pharmacoepidemiology, clinical epidemiology, and health services research. Now serving as the Director of the Moore Clinic for HIV Care, which began in 1984, he has influenced the careers of young scholars not only in General Internal Medicine, but also in the Infectious Disease Division. His colleagues and mentees praise him for his accessibility, his patience, his scientific candor, his instinct for compelling research, his insight, and his abilities as a teacher and editor. Dr. Moore has authored 129 original manuscripts, 24 chapters, reviews and letters. For his medical degree he attended Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where he also completed his Internship and Residency in the Department of Medicine. A fellowship, completed at Johns Hopkins University, Department of Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, was followed by a Masters of Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Moore is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Kaposi Sarcoma. His top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, Sepsis, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis, and Gastrostomy.
Areas of Expertise
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- Distinguished
- HIV/AIDSDr. Karakousis isDistinguished. Learn about HIV/AIDS.
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- AIDS Dementia ComplexDr. Karakousis isAdvanced. Learn about AIDS Dementia Complex.
- AIDS Dysmorphic SyndromeDr. Karakousis isAdvanced. Learn about AIDS Dysmorphic Syndrome.
- Hepatitis CDr. Karakousis isAdvanced. Learn about Hepatitis C.
- MyelitisDr. Karakousis isAdvanced. Learn about Myelitis.
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- COVID-19Dr. Karakousis isExperienced. Learn about COVID-19.
- HepatitisDr. Karakousis isExperienced. Learn about Hepatitis.
- Hepatitis BDr. Karakousis isExperienced. Learn about Hepatitis B.
- Kaposi SarcomaDr. Karakousis isExperienced. Learn about Kaposi Sarcoma.
- Mycobacterium Avium Complex InfectionsDr. Karakousis isExperienced. Learn about Mycobacterium Avium Complex Infections.
- NeurosyphilisDr. Karakousis isExperienced. Learn about Neurosyphilis.