
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 Nocardiosis. 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.
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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 Health Care & Surgery Center - Green Spring Station, Lutherville
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 a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. Her top areas of expertise are Cytomegalic Inclusion Disease, Cytomegalovirus Infection, COVID-19, and Sepsis.
Infectious Diseases Physicians, Inc.
Mark Delman is an Infectious Disease provider in Sterling, Virginia. Dr. Delman is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. His top areas of expertise are Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia, Pneumonia, Lymphangitis, and Osteomyelitis. Dr. Delman is currently accepting new patients.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
John Baddley is an Infectious Disease provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Baddley is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Nocardiosis. His top areas of expertise are Cryptococcosis, Shingles, Sepsis, and Febrile Neutropenia.
Areas of Expertise
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- Distinguished
- HIV/AIDSDr. Karakousis isDistinguished. Learn about HIV/AIDS.
- Advanced
- 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.
- Experienced
- 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.

