Overview
Dr. Deborah Persaud is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins Children's Center. She holds joint appointments in international health and molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. A clinician and researcher specializing in the study and treatment of HIV-1 infection in children, she directs the pediatric infectious diseases fellowship program at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. Dr. Persaud received her B.S. in chemistry from York College in New York. A 1985 graduate of the New York University School of Medicine, she trained in pediatrics at Babies Hospital/Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, where she was chief resident. She was an infectious disease fellow, an Aaron Diamond postdoctoral research fellow and a faculty member at New York University. She joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1997, following a visiting lectureship at the Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya. Her research interests include HIV/AIDS drug development and mother-to-child HIV transmission. Dr. Persaud is the scientific chair of the HIV CURE Scientific Committee of the International Maternal, Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) group. She was awarded the prestigious Elizabeth Glaser Scientist Award for her HIV research and was recognized by Nature magazine in 2013 as one of “Ten People Who Mattered This Year.” She was recognized by Time magazine as among the “100 Most Influential People of 2013” for her pediatric HIV treatment research.
Dr. Persaud is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C). Her top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, Sepsis, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), and Pneumocystis Jiroveci Pneumonia.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 87 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 2 articles in the study of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C).
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Locations
Rubenstein BLDG Lower Level, 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.
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Areas of Expertise
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- Distinguished
- HIV/AIDSDr. Persaud isDistinguished. Learn about HIV/AIDS.
- Advanced
- SepsisDr. Persaud isAdvanced. Learn about Sepsis.
- Experienced
- Infantile NeutropeniaDr. Persaud isExperienced. Learn about Infantile Neutropenia.
- Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)
- Pneumocystis Jiroveci PneumoniaDr. Persaud isExperienced. Learn about Pneumocystis Jiroveci Pneumonia.