Petros Karakousis
Experienced in Nocardiosis
Experienced in Nocardiosis
1800 Orleans Street, 
Baltimore, MD 

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.

Residency
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Internal Medicine, 2001
Specialties
Infectious Disease
Licenses
Internal Medicine in MD
Board Certifications
American Board Of Internal Medicine
Fellowships
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, 2005
Languages Spoken
English
German
Greek
Russian
Spanish
Gender
Male

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Locations

The Johns Hopkins Hospital
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.


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