Dr. Robin Avery is an infectious disease physician who joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2012, with two decades of experience in transplant infectious disease. She is a past chair of the American Society of Transplantation (AST) Infectious Disease Community of Practice, was a co-editor of the first edition of the AST ID Guidelines, and serves on a Guidelines Committee for the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) on immunizations in the immunocompromised host. She was the founding head of the Transplant Infectious Disease Section at the Cleveland Clinic and served as the founding director of the Cleveland Clinic Transplant ID Special Fellowship, authoring a curriculum that served as the basis for curricula later endorsed by the AST and IDSA. Her clinical and research interests include pre-transplant donor and recipient evaluation, and prevention and treatment of post-transplant infections, particularly transplant-associated viruses, viral load monitoring, novel therapies for CMV, hypogammaglobulinemia, immunizations, and strategies for safer living post-transplant. She has a strong interest in patient education and co-authored the script for a video designed to educate patients on decreasing post-transplant infection risks. Dr. Avery is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. Her top areas of expertise are Cytomegalic Inclusion Disease, Cytomegalovirus Infection, COVID-19, and Sepsis.

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

Bisma Zulfiqar is a primary care provider, practicing in Family Medicine in Elkridge, Maryland. Dr. Zulfiqar is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. Her top areas of expertise are Nocardiosis and Pulmonary Nocardiosis.

Dr. Michael T. Melia is an Associate Professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include general infectious diseases, HIV and Lyme disease. He serves as the Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program. After receiving his medical degree from the Georgetown University School of Medicine, Dr. Melia completed his internal medicine residency, infectious diseases fellowship, and chief medical residency at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2008. Dr. Melia's academic and research interests center around medical education and coaching in medicine. He is the current Chair of the IDSA Medical Education Community of Practice and is a past Chair of the IDSA Training Program Directors' Committee. In 2015, Dr. Melia was recognized with the Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Award from the Institute for Excellence in Education at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Melia is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. His top areas of expertise are Lyme Disease, Hepatitis C, Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis, and HIV/AIDS.

Dr. Maryam Keshtkar Jahromi is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her area of clinical expertise is infectious diseases. Dr. Keshtkar Jahromi is a hospitalist at Johns Hopkins Howard County Medical Center. Dr. Keshtkar Jahromi earned her M.D. at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Iran. She completed an infectious diseases residency at Iran’s Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and an internal medicine residency at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore. She performed a fellowship in infectious diseases at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Lab Website Maryam Jahromi Lab The Maryam Jahromi Lab researches infectious diseases such as influenza, tuberculosis, endocarditis, viral hemorrhagic fevers, brucellosis, Clostridium difficile and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. We are particularly interested in the impact of the influenza vaccine on systemic inflammation. Recent areas of focus include the relationship between influenza vaccination and cardiovascular outcomes, the emergence of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Iran, and prospects for vaccines and therapies for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. Dr. Jahromi is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. Her top areas of expertise are Togaviridae Disease, Cryptococcosis, Western Equine Encephalitis, and Viral Hemorrhagic Fever.

Olivia Kates is an Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Kates is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. Her top areas of expertise are COVID-19, Diphtheria, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and Listeriosis.

Dr. Yukari Manabe is a Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Medicine with secondary appointments in the Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of International Health and the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Immunology. Dr. Manabe began her career working on the basic science aspects of tuberculosis (TB) immunopathogenesis in comparative animal models of infection, particularly latency, reactivation, and immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in the rabbit model within the Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research. In 2007, she was seconded to the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) at Makerere College of Health Sciences as the Associate Medical Laboratory Director of the College of American Pathologists certified Makerere University-Johns Hopkins University Clinical Core Lab to study antiretroviral associated TB and IRIS. She then became the Head of Research at the IDI in 2008 until 2012 where she built research capacity and infrastructure to train Ugandan investigators. Since returning to Hopkins, she has become the PI of the Johns Hopkins POC STD Center (U54 funded through NIH) which is part of the newly formed Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases. The Center develops new diagnostics, funds development for point-of-care diagnostics, evaluates (validation and verification) new technology, and performs pre-clinical studies to accelerate the development of infectious disease assays (STIs, TB, acute febrile illness, HIV, syphilis, viral hepatitis). Dr. Manabe is particularly interested in rapid, point-of-care infectious disease diagnostics suitable for the resource-limited settings particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Her research has focused on accuracy testing of various rapid, point-of-care diagnostics for HIV and related infectious diseases of clinical importance in SSA. Studies have ranged from evaluations of performance accuracy through clinical implementation science studies on the patient-centered outcomes and impactful use of new rapid diagnostics. Dr. Manabe obtained her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. After completing both her residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins Hospital, she joined the faculty in 1999. Dr. Manabe is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. Her top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, Cryptococcosis, Gonorrhea, Meningitis, and Tissue Biopsy.

James Ley is an Infectious Disease provider in Elkton, Maryland. Dr. Ley has been practicing medicine for over 39 years and is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. His top areas of expertise are Cellulitis, Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia, COVID-19, and Osteomyelitis.

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 Nocardiosis. His top areas of expertise are HIV/AIDS, Myelitis, AIDS Dysmorphic Syndrome, and AIDS Dementia Complex.

Dr. Christopher K. Lippincott is an infectious diseases specialist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the Clinical Director for the Johns Hopkins Center for Nontuberculous Mycobacteria and Bronchiectasis. He is an expert in the care of patients with mycobacterial infections (NTM and tuberculosis), HIV/AIDS, Lyme disease, and general infectious diseases. He provides teaching to medical students, residents and fellows at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Lippincott earned his M.D. at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He completed his residency at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and infectious diseases fellowship at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. He also earned a Master of Public Health in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2013. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University in 2015, Dr. Lippincott practiced infectious diseases internationally for Medecins Sans Frontieres (Abkhazia, Georgia) and Right to Care (Johannesburg, South Africa). Dr. Lippincott’s research interests include mycobacterial infections (NTM and tuberculosis) and bronchiectasis. Dr. Lippincott is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. His top areas of expertise are Swimming Pool Granuloma, Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease, Osteomyelitis, and Osteomyelitis in Children.

Shmuel Shoham, M.D. is Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Shoham has over 20 years of experience in management of patients with invasive infections, and is the author or co-author of over 100 original articles, book chapters and topic reviews. He is a nationally recognized expert in infectious diseases of immunocompromised patients and his research explores diagnosis, prevention and treatment of infections in such patients. Dr. Shoham serves as a reviewer and expert consultant to multiple journals, professional societies, hospitals and government agencies in the US and numerous countries abroad. He is a member of professional guideline committees for the American Society of Transplantation (AST), the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/Invasive Fungal Infections Cooperative Group and Infectious Diseases Mycoses Study Group (EORTC/MSG) and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). Dr. Shoham is the recipient of numerous awards including the American College of Physicians' (Washington, DC Chapter) laureate award, their highest honor. Dr. Shoham received his medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA) and medical residency and infectious diseases fellowship training at Boston University School of Medicine (Boston, MA). Dr. Shoham is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. His top areas of expertise are Meningitis, Cryptococcosis, Cytomegalovirus Infection, and Cytomegalic Inclusion Disease.

Steven Holland is an Infectious Disease provider in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Holland is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. His top areas of expertise are Coccidioidomycosis, Mycobacterium Avium Complex Infections, Disseminated Tuberculosis, Common Variable Immune Deficiency, and Endoscopy.

Dana Blyth is an Infectious Disease provider in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Blyth is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. Her top areas of expertise are Nocardiosis, Sepsis, Pseudomonas Stutzeri Infections, and Yellow Fever.

Kapil Saharia is an Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Saharia is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. His top areas of expertise are Cytomegalic Inclusion Disease, Cytomegalovirus Infection, Myelitis, and HIV/AIDS.

Jennifer Husson is an Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Husson is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. Her top areas of expertise are Hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, and Myelitis.

Kambayanda Chengappa is an Infectious Disease provider in Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Chengappa is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. Her top areas of expertise are Osteomyelitis, Strep Throat, Bacterial Gastroenteritis, and Pneumococcal Meningitis.

Ellen Yang is an Infectious Disease provider in Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Yang is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. Her top areas of expertise are Lymphangitis, Strep Throat, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), and Osteomyelitis.

Edwin Yu is an Infectious Disease provider in Clinton, Maryland. Dr. Yu is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. His top areas of expertise are Coccidioidomycosis, Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease, Cytomegalovirus Infection, and Cytomegalic Inclusion Disease. Dr. Yu is currently accepting new patients.

Ryan Arnold is an Infectious Disease provider in Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Arnold is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. His top areas of expertise are Osteomyelitis, Osteomyelitis in Children, Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), and Bacterial Gastroenteritis. Dr. Arnold is currently accepting new patients.

Aliya Rehman is a primary care provider, practicing in Internal Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Rehman is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. Her top areas of expertise are Pyomyositis, Heart Murmurs, Pulmonary Nocardiosis, and Nocardiosis. Dr. Rehman is currently accepting new patients.